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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Industrial Ecology for the Disbelievers
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:17:00 -0600

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> Stephanie Gerson wrote:
> > ANOTHER REMINDER:
> >
> > LAWRENCE WROTE (A WHILE AGO AND SORRY I COMPLETELY
> > DE-CONTEXTUALIZED): "Just get people started expounding on their
> > favorite plants and their favorite gardening and farming
> > topics..."
>
> I was talking about getting people/piw users motivated to create
> and upload PLANT AND RELATIONSHIPS information. You have to get
> them interested in DOING that. They are not going to be out there
> waiting in the wings to do your bidding at your pleasure when you
> snap fingers and say OK folks time to get busy and send us all your
> data. Don't you get it? Its a two way street. Everyone needs to
> derive something for themselves out of this project.

Well, I think the content provided by PFAF is a huge incentive to
contribute. It's useful now. As I've said before, my inspiration for
working on all this came from lurking on the permaculture list where
people did expound on their favorite ideas. Great info that promptly
got lost. Hmm, if only there was a way to save and index all that
info...




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