permaculture

["Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>]

In 1997 Dan Earle posted a note about "A Permaculture Primer" 
that he and some colleagues developed after attending a Permaculture 
Design Course.  It was an excellent resource which I put into my 
traveling workshop notebook. 
http://csf.colorado.edu/bioregional/apr97/0026.html

Also noted in 1997 at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/InterGarden/permaculture/mailarchives/permacult
ure-info/msg00059.html

That was when he was teaching Landscape Architecture at Louisiana 
State University.  However, the web link has been dead for some 
time.... though I wouldn't throw it away in hopes of finding it once 
again. 
http://hueylong.cadgis.lsu.edu/lhin/visitor/html/primer/ 

But Google is a powerful web research tool, and I found thru 
an online LSU newsletter that Dan retired and moved to Nova 
Scotia where he has web page talking about his current land + 
building projects, AND it contains the wonderful Permaculture Primer. 

A Permaculture Primer
By Dan Earle and Sue Hutchins
http://home.klis.com/~chebogue/PermacultureIndex.html

It was interesting to learn he taught Landscape Architecture, which 
provides some insight to the creative way the material is organized.

Someone may have posted this updated web link, which I missed, 
so this notice may be a duplicate.  I'm just excited to find this 
once again, so here it is in case you have "not" seen it.   

Steve Diver

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Introduction from:

A Permaculture Primer 
By Dan Earle and Sue Hutchins
http://home.klis.com/~chebogue/PermacultureIndex.html

In July of 1995 we took a Permaculture course sponsored by the
Institute of Bioregional Studies at the Ovens' Natural Park in Nova
Scotia. The two week event was choreographed and informed by Michael
Pilarski and Garry Lean, our primary instructors. The learning
experience spilled over into all hours of the day as students,
instructors, park owners, and guests interacted with and synergized
each others' energies. At the end of the two weeks we had gained a new
perspective on our lives, many new friends and a wealth of notes and
references.

It is the latter, the volumes of notes and references, that this web
site attacks. Quite frankly, we were stuffed-full! We had just been
through the equivalent of two college courses in two weeks and were
suffering from information overload. We gave the material some
incubation time and came back to it. We finally decided that the
material could be organized into the five major areas around which
this Primer is organized. 

The Principles -- which are the big ideas guiding decisions and 
helping in evaluation of design alternatives. 

The Components -- which are the physical and social elements placed 
in the design to accomplish its purpose. 

The Concepts -- which are those ideas that guide placement of 
components to meet the principles. 

The Associated Movements -- which are other areas of interest having 
information that may inform our decision making. 

The Resources --which are publications, organizations and other 
information sources.

We have found this arrangement useful for consolidating our notes and
thoughts, developing a filing system for material we collect, and
dealing with the diversity of permaculture information. This web site
is an update and expansion of our 1995 draft. It contains revisions of
our original note material and new information we have developed since
the course. 
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