permaculture

["keller" <ak.and.ak@on-line.de>]

Title: Re: Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review

Toby, thanks for this. This has made some things much clearer for me also. I am beginning to see a line of argumentation that I could use.

 

I love this mailing list!

 

I think what I am planning in Cameroon might actually be in the right direction : a library with books about all the different relevant special technologies + a permaculture design course that will give some people the necessary orientation to (learn to) apply and integrate these technologies into working systems.

 

Andreas

----- Original Message -----

From: Toby Hemenway

To: permaculture

Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:28 AM

Subject: Re: Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review

Russ at pacedge@magna.com.au wrote:

a consultant to the Australian government's AusAID - from the CGIAR - once described permaculture to a meeting as 'a technology with no role in development assistance'

And there's a big part of the problem: the view that permaculture is a technology on the same level as, say, solar panels or growing row crops. When people start to understand that Pc is not a technique but a

 

(snip)

 

 

I realize I'm answering my own question here; believe me, I didn't have these ideas before people started responding to my post; that group mind is at work. Until that great day when there are a bunch of successful farms designed by people with permaculture certificates, I think we can justify using data from agroforestry, natural building, AT, aquaculture, etc. But that still means doing the library research to collect the data. Putting that together would be a real service.

Toby    
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