permaculture

["Scott Hitchins" <ScottH@wcig.org.au>]

Many thanks to those who replied to slightly tongue-in-cheek enquiry about 
"Enviro' Barbie". While the enquiry itself wasn't phrased particularly 
seriously, my interest certainly is serious and I'd be interested in feedback 
from the group about raising and providing for a child in a sustainable 
manner.  Extending the vegie patch was easy (I only had to move three 
established trees). Extending your values and philosophy on life to a child 
seems as though it may require moving heaven and earth (which wouldn't leave 
room for the worm farm). I'm determined that my Japanese-Australian daughter 
will have an understanding of both her cultures and how we can reduce our 
impact on the environment.  For those of you who are thinking that this has 
no place in this forum: How can we call any of the systems that we design 
"sustainable" if they don't continue past our own generation? I'd be 
interested to hear both practical and philosophical responses.

At least Love is sustainable (unless you apply too much manure)
Scott Hitchins
    
-----Original Message-----
>From: Marsha Hanzi [mailto:hanzibra@svn.com.br]
>Sent: Monday, 7 October 2002 5:00 PM
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [permaculture] Ecological Barbies and the modern Venus...


>Hello Scott,

>As mother of three daughters now grown, I have some ideas about what Barbie
>represents.  She is the American ideal of feminine beauty, imposed on us
>since the 40´s.  Our modern Venus, so to say.  She has been the model of
>blond blue-eyed  hour-glass ( today less so- she has changed dimensions over
>time) ideal of beauty which has made life unhappy for millions of American
>women over the years ( i.e. those who do not conform to this
>ideal)...Incredible as it may seem, she is very popular here in Brazil
> although there is now a  mullata version on the market).  The richer a
>woman is, the more she looks like B arbie-- artificially thin thanks to
>surgery, long blond hair thanks to shampoos and dyes, really like the
>doll....

>So this question of Barbie is deep and has a lot to do with our image of the
>feminine ideal and the sad impulse to make everybody look alike...



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