permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:43:05 -0700, Toby Hemenway
<hemenway@jeffnet.org> wrote:

>................... It also doesn't speak to learning styles.
>If we'd been locked into a single curriculum, the marvelous innovations in
>how the material is presented--which to me are at least as significant as
>the material itself--might not have evolved. A curriculum checklist could
>fossilize permaculture. Much of the ecology taught in Pc courses is already
>outmoded, dating from the 1970s: the stability of nature, "everything is
>connected to everything else," and much more. It needs to evolve.

Do a Google websearch on to see how the science of ecology has evolved
over the years:

emergy
conservation ecology
sustainable ecosystems
adaptive ecology
ecological engineering
constructed wetlands



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