permaculture

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Felicity Wright <flickwright@ozemail.com.au>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>

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> I spent three years researching, developing and then undertaking a major
> research project to gain a better understanding of small, indigenous
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> now all been published in two volumes and is recognised as the
> benchmark. What we were trying to assess, and to a degree 'measure' was

Can you give us the title? Or do you think it is irrelevant for the topics
discussed here?

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> designers and participants. No PC system will work if it is 'set up' by
> visiting designers and handed over but not 'owned' by the stakeholders
> who are responsible for maintaining and harvesting - this is true for PC
> in third and fourth world countries or the middle class hobby farmer
> from Melbourne who gets a PC design done. Part of the PC process needs
> to be cultivation of stakeholder involvement.

I think in a pc system, the user/inhabitant of that sistem is part of it.
The inhabitant's actions are an integral part of the whole system, so they
have to understand their role in it.

Andreas