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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> Allright folks.
>
> Here's the vision, as promised.
>
> *Please* take the time to read it and respond - this is a discussion that 
> must be had early on.  We ought to establish our vision and high-level 
> goals, and I present the following as a part of this discussion.
>
> .l.a...v.i.s.i.o.n.
>
> I understand Permaculture as a systems science, seeking to weave 
> meaningful relationships between system components in order to create 
> self-regulating and regenerative systems.  System components may be 
> plants – woven together to create guilds, people/organizations – woven 
> together to create communities, or otherwise.  Basically, Permaculture to 
> me is a form of ‘Biomimicry,’ applying the principles of inherently-
> sustainable ecosystems (waste-as-resource, stacking functions, etc.) to 
> potentially all realms of human activity (although it has thus far been 
> primarily focused on those which satisfy basic human needs). 
Snip snip snippidy snip

Great stuff, things are become clearer and I think I could
see a way in which things could work together.
Attached is quick picture of a posible top level
graphical interface and below are the some of the topics
discussed on the permaculture mailing list, the number is how
many posts there were under that subject.

     53 where you from?
     39 Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review
     36 creating online plant database
     23 For the survival thread...
     21 Where are you from?
     20 Yeomans Keyline Plow Use
     20 Worms
     19 the hydrogen argument
     19 planting bamboo over septic field
     18 Out of Control
     18 (Fwd) Interview with Bill Mollison Part Two
     17 Permaculture wiki & wikipedia
     17 Killer Coke
     17 Black Locusts, more....
     16 aquaponics
     16 Ferrocement Building Project
     15 Worms eat my crap?
     15 Reed bed filtered swimming pool
     15 Re:The American view of the world
     15 RE: Major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
     15 Biogas digester plans

With a bit of thought and a lot of discussion
we can try to put these into some sort of graph structure.
With each node as a specific topic.

     53 where you from?
                Probably under a "people and places" topic
                with links to various projects around the world.

     39 Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review
                Under a "pros and cons of permaculture" topic

     36 creating online plant database
                Under a "resources" topic

     23 For the survival thread...
                Under "pros and cons"

     21 Where are you from?

     20 Yeomans Keyline Plow Use
                Under Design->water systems
                and drylands
                and tools

     20 Worms
                under animals
                under soil
                under compost

     19 the hydrogen argument
                under pros and cons
                under energy

     19 planting bamboo over septic field
                under plants->bamboo
                under compost

After a lot of work organising we could probably come up with
a network representing much of permaculture.
A touch graph type interface could make it fairly quick to
navigate to the particular topic of interest.

In each topic we could have:
        links to wiki pages
        links to mailing list discussions
        links to plant database
        links to other resources, videos
        links to other websites
        links to a google search

The yemoans keyline plough is an interesting example.
Few people not in the know will have heard about this
so they will not search directly for it, however
they may be introduced to the topic if they browse to
a water systems topic.

        Anyway just thoughts

                Rich

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