permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

I'd like to add my recommendation of this excellent trilogy. 
Thought-provoking, stimulating, educational, and HIGHLY entertaining.
Keith

> Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy
>
> Re: Russ Grayson's - "A contemporary SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, has produced 
> a compilation of ecotopian writing that is currently in the bookshops - sorry, don't 
> recall the title. He wrote the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) which, 
> while in the SF genre, explore the terraformation of the planet to make it habitable 
> for humankind."
>
> I heartily endorse Robinson's Mars series. Though within a SF framework, these books introduce many concepts of alternative economic systems, alternative community structures,and decision making processes. Alternative monetary/currency/barter systems. Extensively examines the many different forms of ecopolitics. 
>
> Though these works are obviously fictional, they have been exhaustively 
> researched and based on actual systems/idealogies. These books gave me many 
> weeks of internet research as I followed up on various, sometimes obscure 
> idealogies mentioned within the story. And if all that wasn't enough, they 
> are a damn good read for the story alone. Good long-distance travel reading 
> material.
>
> Gaiden
>