permaculture

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

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:16:41 -0500 (EST), "S.K. Harrison"
<skh23ca@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>> From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr."
>
>> Start with an interest in permaculture; collect
>> literature and learn, synthesize and put it to 
>> work in one's life; go online and collect more 
>> information (mostly free), learn even more, 
>> gain expertise. Seems many tens of thousands of
>> people are doing this every year.
>
>This begs the question, How many people are *not*
>doing this every year?
>
>(We have over 6 billion people on this planet, so
>even 1,000,000, to take an arbitrary number,
>represents only a minute fraction of the total
>population--by my calculator, approximately
>0.0002% of the population of the planet.)

Maybe a billion or two are doing intense permaculture but
either not labelling it as such or at all or calling it something else
:-)



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