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  • From: "Anne Schwarz" <sennaflight@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 21
  • Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:15:46 -0500

"Terrific article I have kept the link to called 1491, from the Atlantic
March 2002.  Have actually suggested on this list before."

http://www.house.gov/cannon/Wilderness/1491ThePristineMyth1.htm

Coincidentally, this is where I got my MHC statistic that has caused such a stir. She's right, it is a terrific article The most interesting thing is the notion that the Amerindians might have created the Amazon. Talk about permaculture.
Anne Schwarz



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Today's Topics:

1. Creating A Life Together (Keith Johnson)
2. Re: A Pattern Language (available from Pc Activist)
(Keith Johnson)
3. Re: MHC and PC-GGGGreat article, disease, population in
America in 1491 (Treesa Jane Rogerson)
4. traveling (Treesa Jane Rogerson)


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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:12:15 -0500
From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Creating A Life Together
To: undisclosed-recipients@happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu:
<keith@permacultureactivist.net>
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Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional
Community
(http://www.permacultureactivist.net/LifeTogether/CreatingaLifeTogether.html),
by Diana Leafe Christian, editor of Communities Magazine, foreword by
Patch Adams. 2003 New Society Publishers, 272 pp. $23 (available from
Permaculture Activist, May 2003). "Creating a Life Together is an
overview of the process of forming new ecovillages and intentional
communities, gleaned from founders of dozens of successful communities
in North America formed since the early '90s. This is what they did, and
what you can do, to create your community dream. It attempts to distill
their hard experience into solid advice on getting started as a group,
creating vision documents, decision-making and governance, agreements
and policies, buying and financing land, communication and process, and
selecting people to join you. It's what works, what doesn't work, and
how not to reinvent the wheel. This information is not only for people
forming new communities - whether or not you already own your land. It
can also be valuable for those of you thinking about joining community
one day - since you, too, will need to know what works. And it's also
for those of you already living in community, since you can only benefit
from knowing what others have done in similar circumstances. "

"A great deal of research and trial-and-error has been assembled here,
and every potential ecovillager should read it. This book will be an
essential guide and manual for the many Permaculture graduates who live
in communities or design for them." --Bill Mollison

"Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the
planet is our number one need--and this is the right book at the right
time. Creating a Life Together will be instrumental in the ecovillage
courses I teach. I can't wait to tell people about it." --Hildur
Jackson, cofounder, Global Ecovillage Network (GEN); co-editor,
Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People.

"A really valuable resource for anyone thinking about intentional
community. I wish I had it years ago." -- Starhawk, author of Webs of
Power, The Spiral Dance, and The Fifth Sacred Thing -- and committed
communitarian.

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:27:21 -0500
From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Re: A Pattern Language (available from Pc
Activist)
To: "T. Gray Shaw" <tgray@westberkeley.com>, Permaculture ibiblio
<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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When you can order a thousand books at a time, you can charge whatever
you want for it. Notice all the disappearing independently owned
bookstores. The megastores are killing communities and the "pattern
language" of local culture. Meanwhile, if our book business dies, so
might the Permaculture Activist magazine. You're free to invest in that
if you choose. Unless you prefer to "stand strong together" and support
those who are struggling to serve you.
Keith

T. Gray Shaw wrote:

>Hi Keith,
>
>News flash: Amazon sells it for $45.50.
>
>>Good news! We just added Christopher Alexander's (et.al.) monumental
>>>work, A Pattern Language, to our booklist.
>>
>When we build walls and borders from fear and hate and gun
>The hatred turns around and strikes at everyone
>But when we stand strong together and let love and joy its will
>Misfortune can't defeat us, it makes us stronger still
> - Dan Bern, "Oklahoma"
>
>



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:24 -0800
From: "Treesa Jane Rogerson" <treemail@cruzio.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] MHC and PC-GGGGreat article, disease,
population in America in 1491
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <002801c2ee92$dcadd190$0464f93f@treesage>
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Terrific article I have kept the link to called 1491, from the Atlantic March 2002. Have actually suggested on this list before.

www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/mann.htm




Treesa Rogerson, M.A.

Lands Alive : Ecology By Design

treemail@yahoo.com
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From: Marimike6@cs.com
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] MHC and PC


In a message dated 3/19/2003 10:32:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, rmhoward@omninet.net.au writes:

Measles flourishes in conditions of extreme poverty like refugee camps or following wars. It is one of the diseases that people are expecting to crop up in the expected refigees in Iraq. In 1891 the small newly established town of Broomehill in Western Australia had it's first show Agricultural Show - a great success for the otherwise remote commuinty on the eastern edge of the high rainfall area of the south west. An unfortunate consequence was the ferocity f the inffluenza epidemic that killed several people in the white community (none of whom had been in the area for more than thirty years). The effect of influenza on the black community was not noticed.

Whooping cough spreads explosively through communities being very infectious when the herd immunity from the previous epidemic is reduced. These affects have nothing to do with race, ethnicity or any other distinguishing feature of the people involved. They are function of the environmental factors such as population density, health, nutrition and hygeine and the dynamics of herd resistance (that is the percentage of teh population immune at a particular time. Genetic variability is irrelevant.



Dear Bob--

You're very right-- herd immunity and individual immunity are central to the spread of infectious disease. As it is true, however, that mothers can confer an immunity to their infants, would you know how they can do that if "genetic variability is irrelevant'? Would it be through the colostrum? How is the immune system primed to identify pathogens the child will encounter once born, if not through some sort of genetic mechanism? I'm asking because I don't know.

Today's world is so well mixed that I think it would be very hard to find a virgin population with no immunity to the usual worldwide diseases, like the flu. In 1891 this would have been much less so. Most influenzas are incubated in the pig and duck-tending populations of southeast Asia, so it may have been that the Australians had periodically been exposed to the flu where the Anglo colonists may not have been at the time. That's just a speculation.

But what I've seen for a fact is that back in the 1960's when Americans showed up in odd parts of rural Mexico and Latin America, the more isolated Indian populations would die like flies if you brought a cold in with you-- they had never been exposed before. This was a hazard one had to be very aware of when travelling off the path. Not only out of concern for their health-- if you caused the deaths of a number of children and old folks in an isolated area, your own health was highly at risk.

I'm proposing a truce. My observation originally was not that white men have superior genes and thus shed disease more easily-- it was that people from the Eurasian continent colonized the rest of the world, and brought the diseases to which they had some degree of immunity with them. These diseases killed a lot of people before the New World populations also achieved equilibrium with them-- some as late as the 1960's, some perhaps still today. These Europeans-- coincidentally white people-- carried weed seeds unwittingly, in the holds of their ships and the seams of their boots. So in time, the American field and roadside came to look much like that of England. Newfoundland, for instance, never had many wildflowers before the Irish showed up, because it didn't have bees. Now it's quite colorful in the spring, although the bees still don't look entirely comfortable there.

The striking fact is that weeds have hardly ever gone in the other direction. American volunteer species taking hold on the European continent are quite rare, and hardly ever spread aggressively enough to be a nuisance. I wonder why.

Peace, Brother.....

Mike Elvin








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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:50:15 -0800
From: "Treesa Jane Rogerson" <treemail@cruzio.com>
Subject: [permaculture] traveling
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Given the state of it all, I am still planning on traveling much of Europe and Asia this summer, starting from Germany and Czech Republic. This will be an open-ended trip depending on what I find, and cash I have. It can be many months.

I wish to stay with people and help them on their projects, land, etc., like WWOOF. I would like to spend time in Asia as well-- Thailand, Vietnam, where the WWOOF is not available (to my knowledge).

If anyone has any friends, people on projects I can plug in on, ideas, please write back. I arrive in Europe in the beginning of August.

Thank you.

Treesa



Treesa Rogerson, M.A.

Lands Alive : Ecology By Design

treemail@yahoo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Johnson
To: undisclosed-recipients@happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu :
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:12 PM
Subject: [permaculture] Creating A Life Together


Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community (http://www.permacultureactivist.net/LifeTogether/CreatingaLifeTogether.html), by Diana Leafe Christian, editor of Communities Magazine, foreword by Patch Adams. 2003 New Society Publishers, 272 pp. $23 (available from Permaculture Activist, May 2003). "Creating a Life Together is an overview of the process of forming new ecovillages and intentional communities, gleaned from founders of dozens of successful communities in North America formed since the early '90s. This is what they did, and what you can do, to create your community dream. It attempts to distill their hard experience into solid advice on getting started as a group, creating vision documents, decision-making and governance, agreements and policies, buying and financing land, communication and process, and selecting people to join you. It's what works, what doesn't work, and how not to reinvent the wheel. This information is not only
for people forming new communities - whether or not you already own your land. It can also be valuable for those of you thinking about joining community one day - since you, too, will need to know what works. And it's also for those of you already living in community, since you can only benefit from knowing what others have done in similar circumstances. "

"A great deal of research and trial-and-error has been assembled here, and every potential ecovillager should read it. This book will be an essential guide and manual for the many Permaculture graduates who live in communities or design for them." --Bill Mollison

"Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the planet is our number one need--and this is the right book at the right time. Creating a Life Together will be instrumental in the ecovillage courses I teach. I can't wait to tell people about it." --Hildur Jackson, cofounder, Global Ecovillage Network (GEN); co-editor, Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People.

"A really valuable resource for anyone thinking about intentional community. I wish I had it years ago." -- Starhawk, author of Webs of Power, The Spiral Dance, and The Fifth Sacred Thing -- and committed communitarian.



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