permaculture

["April Sampson-Kelly" <askpv@ozemail.com.au>]

I agree with Jack, usually do (doesn't mean its automatic :>)
my sectors here on my little lot are:

• cool breezes, that seem to run up the road and wrap around the pub to me, bringing
  all the smells and autumn leaves
• privacy sector (people passing used to be able to see us sitting on the back steps!)
• public sector - allows people to see my methods and teach by example
• air and noise pollution sector from passing cars
• fire - the village was ringed with fire 20 odd years ago so no sense drawing in
  a full ring of fire sector there. but i do live next to the firebrigade so maybe i
  could exclude that small area as safe.
• weed infestation source - the creek fills with invasive seed and tubers each downpour and
  is therefore a sector of energy/energy needed
• drunkards and holligans sector coming over from the pub next door and across the creek - have done
  minor damage such as knocking over the bee hives, dropping bottles, breaking glass, stealing lemons, jumping
  on the kids trampoline, chasing ducks and chickens.
• solar sector/window in limited from about 10am to 4pm in winter as i am in a valley near a mountain
• foxes and dogs most likely to approach from pub and creek side
• cold south winds from windy gully in winter deflected by windbreak and firebrigade
• water flow from uphill is also a factor here should my neighbours take to using poisons in a bigger way.
• as jack noted there have been VALUABLE invisible economic energy sectors
  i can't illustrate such as funds for the site from teaching and
• funds/LETS money for helpers in the garden
• friends and students exchanging ideas and plants and seeds and demolition materials etc.

I spent 3 full-time years defining and redefining terms in permaculture,

YES I would teach sectors as natural energy areas.

but now, for me, I build my own definitions

and keep enhancing my observation with openess to new ideas and revelations.

April

 

 

Leisure Coast Permaculture Visions

International Permaculture Teaching Project

specialising in distance learning.

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~askpv

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:owner-permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of Jack Rowe
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 1998 15:46
> To: UNC Perm List; Envirolink Perm List
> Subject: Re: What's a sector?
>
>
> Since no list can ever define all possible examples of a concept on all
> possible levels (infinite universe and all), I agree that sun, wind, rain,
> fire, etc are merely examples; also that the social dimension does in fact
> include sectors, or 'directions' from which energy customarily flows,
> including money, land access, even information.
>
> In conceptualizing, it seems best to define concepts as flexibly as
> possible, in order to create as much freedom as possible. It would be
> unecessarily limiting to restrict any term to a single dimension -- better
> to explore all the applications of an idea than to tie it to firmly to a
> single level of action... 'beginner's mind', and 'In chaos lies great
> opportunity for imposing creative order'... might as well start with ample
> amounts of chaos for plenty of elbow room!
>
> Jack
>
> Question Reality
>