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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 11:13:14 -0600

Stephanie Gerson writes:
> JUST SO FOLKS KNOW:
>
> "- Job II -
> A fancy front end transforming this data with a GBI or something
> else represents a step beyond, a whole other project for HG,
> something funding should be procured for separately.
>
> I say this because Job I seems to be such an immense project, the
> heart of HG, without which Job II (which could be farmed out to
> some other entity) cannot be accomplished."
>
> JOB II *IS* AT THE HEART OF HG, AND PART OF WHAT WE RECEIVED
> FUNDING FOR. (DID ANYONE NOTICE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN JIM
> FOURNIER'S INVOLVEMENT WITH PLANETWORK AND HG'S MISSION???) I'D
> ALSO ENCOURAGE US TO PLEASE STOP SEPARATING MESSAGE FROM MEDIUM.
> HG WILL BE VALUABLE NOT ONLY FOR ITS CONTENT, BUT ALSO FOR THE WAY
> CONTENT IS PRESENTED - A MODEL TOOL FOR SYSTEMS THINKING AND
> EDUCATION. AND THE LATTER WILL NOT BE SEPARATED AND FARMED OUT TO
> SOME OTHER ENTITY, THAT SUGGESTION MAKES ME ;(

I like all of these ideas, but sometimes I doubt if we have the
collective ability to pull all of that off. Creating design and
technological breakthroughs is not always easy ya know. I'm willing
to try though and wonder if anyone has thought about content and
editing systems in terms of permaculture design.

--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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