[permaculture] Permaculture Designers Manual - What the F$%K are you talking about
Toby Hemenway
toby at patternliteracy.com
Tue Nov 17 14:17:04 EST 2009
>
> Permaculture Cooperative wrote:
>> 1. Group Effort: the Designers Manual is a group effort manuscript was
>> written and edited by Bill's x-wife: Reny Mia Slay. It was illustrated by
>> Andrew Jeeves.
Come on. Claiming that Reny wrote the DM is ridiculous. If Bill dictated
parts and wrote the others, as I am told by people with Bill at the
time, then he wrote it. Reny helped out, but you can bet that what she
knew about permaculture, she learned from Bill.
Lotsa good stuff in that post--particularly about trying to use the DM
as a recipe book, its lack of references, and Bill's general
impossibility to work with--but plenty of exaggerated nonsense in it
too. Take that post with large grains of salt.
Toby
http://patternliteracy.com
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