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  • From: Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Hi
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:56:29 -0600

I'm so busy that I don't know if I already did this or not, so if I did, forgive my repetition. I learned about Permaculture in the first Whole Earth Catalog in maybe 1971 or 72. In 2001, I attended Earth Activist Training with Starhawk and Penny Livingston in a recycled prison camp in Cazaderro, CA, where I got my design certificate. At the time I was in BA year at New College of California North Bay in Santa Rosa. I got a BA in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community with emphasis on Environmental Art and Education. Then I got a MA and MFA in Writing and Consciousness from New College of California in San Francisco. A novel is at work on me. I'm a sixth-generation Texan, so I moved from Sonoma County, CA in August to Austin. I'm interested in Urban Permaculture but don't know how it works after Peak Oil and possibly the demise of the pollinators. I get really outraged when I get it that the biotech thugs are at war with biodiversity, our hope for a sustainable future, in my opinion. In my inquiry into Colony Collapse Disorder, I've stumbled upon Horizontal Gene Flow, where GMO genes cross species barriers. A Bt gene, for example, migrates into the bacteria in a bee's gut, and that bee has a depressed immune system. It's like it has AIDS. I'm super outraged at this, and I'm at work on getting a Pollinator Protection Act taken up and passed into law by Congress to stop this nonsense while there still might be time. I'm encouraged to hear on this listserv that the 95% figure for the disappearance of feral pollinators may have been overstated. I overstate myself a lot, too, so I know how that goes. So I was glad to find this listserv. What led me to it was a post about Colony Collapse Disorder. I welcome any and all help with the PPA. Thanks.

Tommy Tolson



  • [permaculture] Hi, Tommy Tolson, 03/30/2007

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