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  • From: Steve Diver <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Back from India; Back on-line
  • Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:29:49 -0600 (CST)

Greetings fellow permanent culture advocates:

After a 2-month trip to India to study agriculture/permaculture,
I am back in the Ozarks and slowly returning to Western-style
living which now includes email.

The mental shift from Eastern mind and village living to
Western mind and industrial living perhaps never
re-integrates the way it was before...this perspective helps
you see thins in a new light, and hopefully you can retain
some of this and act and speak in new and positive ways.

Permaculture is a historical fact in India, which parallels
China in terms of thousands of years of permanent
agriculture = permanent culture.

However, permanent culture in modern India is struggling...
as it is across the world but especially in the two-thirds
world which has suffered dominant cultural invasions and
consequent extraction of resources, coupled with population
explosions, and so many other complex factors.

As time allows, I will post a selection of resources
such as books and networks in India that I came aross and
found useful.

The Permaculture FAQ is due for a Spring update. If
you have any revisions or additions, please send them to my
new email address:

Steve Diver
Fayetteville, AR
steved@ncatark.uark.edu




  • Back from India; Back on-line, Steve Diver, 03/04/1997

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