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  • From: Katherine Steele <kat@steelemoon.com>
  • To: Permalist <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] New Permaculture ListServ
  • Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:11:35 -0800

Hello All-

Please join us in forming a new international permaculture list serv.
This list is for the open and supportive sharing of permaculture related information worldwide. The intention is to cross pollinate and create mutually beneficial and supportive relationships between the members of the list and to support and learn about their individual and community-based permaculture related endeavors. These may including design, community building, farming, education, built environment, policy, arts, food production, activism, politics, economics, land use, etc...

We ask that the following guidelines for communication be followed...

--respectful use of non-violent communication
--a spirit of curiosity and exploration
--a willingess to agree to disagree
--write in "I" statements and avoid broad sweeping sterotypes
--open hearted sharing

We're hoping to create the conditions for support here, really want to avoid negativity and keep in line with one of Bill's principles "attitude matters".

Let's Get Positive:
It doesn't matter where you are, or what you are doing; a positive attitude is an essential starting point for any further action. So Permaculture invites people to look at what is abundant in their lives and surroundings, and to use that abundance to meet other needs. Permaculture is also positive in a systems sense; Permaculturists alter the function of a system to better meet their needs by adding elements to the system, and increasing its complexity, rather than trying to suppress or eliminate parts of the system. The elimination strategy is fundamentally doomed to failure; look at the resistance of insects, rabbits, bacteria, and so on to all our sophisticated "…icides". ...
After being an active participant in the 1960s protest and flower power movements, Bill Mollison saw that they did not work, and says specifically that he planned to use positivism as the basis for Permaculture. Permaculture is overwhelmingly concerned with what is realistic and observable and logical and tested. Permaculture is a philosophy, as well as a theory, as well as a guide to practice.
--by Warwick Rowell

If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of please do join in!

SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://openpermaculture.org/mailman/listinfo/ permaculture_openpermaculture.org

Thanks
~Kat Steele
http://www.urbanpermacultureguild.org





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