Hello, George and John et al.
many thanks for your pointers, I was sure there had
to be more that just Bill's book out there that was translated in
Spanish.
I'll look into all these sources, and please if you
(George) get your hands on more stuff on your travels to Mexico it would be
great knowing about.
At some stage I'll probably (and hopefully) be able
to have a good listing of permaculture publications in spanish published on
our
web site for anyone to consult.
Many thanks again
Antonio
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Subject: RE: [permaculture] Spanish
docs
Hi Rick and Antonio and others,
multi-purpose
trees I find the following to be an excellent source of in-depth
information about multi-purpose trees in "mexican" Spanish. Besides info on
pretty much everything you need to know :) about the trees, it also lists
common names, which are many, even within Mexico, reflecting the number of
indigenous groups and languages. http://www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/info_especies/arboles/doctos/indice_especies.html
Nitrogen
fixers NFTA also has much information in Spanish, http://www.winrock.org/forestry/factpub/SPFACTSH.HTM
Permaculture and eco-construction I was talking to
Alejandra Caballero just last night (emergency call about cracks in my mud
floor) and she said her "Acercamiento a la Permacultura" book is out of print
yet again. She'd love to find help in re-printing it, as well as her update of
her manual on strawbale building. (without any commercial interests on her
part). (directly speaking to Antonio's comment.) She does still have a video
on strawbale building. She was ok with my sending her email so here goes:
sanisidro@turbotlax.com.mx
The people with tierramor (Holger and
Marina) basically took over Skye's iniciative of getting basic permaculture
design stuff translated into Spanish - as he abandoned us for Brazil :)
See www.tierra.mor.org/permacultura/permacultura.htm
La Casa Ecológica Autosuficiente (para climas templado y frio - I
think another was written for climas cálidos húmedos). Armando Deffis Caso,
Mexico City. Another one that architects seems to like a lot is the Arquiteco
Descalzo.- but it has gone to that great
library-of-loaned-and-not-replaced-books-in-the-sky, so don't have more
info.
Gardening, Agriculture
Cristian Geradon wrote
"Agroecología" - a booklet published by Promoción del Desarrollo Popular (PDP)
in Mexico City, which also has two manuals on double digging gardening. One on
soils and fertilization, other on the technique and companion planting. "El
Huerto Biológico" by Claude Aubert in Barcelona to be the best (any chance
this is the same as "Tu Huerto Biológico"?) overall for gardening, although
limited (for me) by its temperate climate bent.
There's also the book
Agroecología published by UCDavis by Miguel Algiers? something like that. NOT
a how-to manual, very good on explaining the why-fors of sustainable
agriculture. (Christian's manual is a super-condensation appropriate for
non-academics.)
Soil and water conservation Her brother José
has a nice manual on soil and water conservation, especially for farming on
those marginal slopes of which we have so many here, including a bit on how to
compost, foliar sprays, etc. His work email:
casfa@prodigy.net.mx
Composting I've seen zillions of manuals
on composting, but just saw a new one which was really artfully done from
Guanjuato...
Env educ for groups with social critique, gender
perspective Andrea García de la Rosa and I wrote a series of short
manuals for group work on: worm composting, water, soil, household cleaners
(etc) and solid waste with a gender perspective. Besides basic statistics on
the state of water and soil, it suggests groups exercises for reflecting on
social/environmental issues. Also out of print!! and not great quality
stuff.
Stoves. Ianto Evans has a great book on
wood-conserving stoves. Estufas para Ahorrar combustible
Ecological
sanitation (i.e., sanitation which follows nature's way of recycling)
César Añorve (CITA) and I (Espacio de Salud) share a website. All questions
regarding hardware should go to César. My work has been focused on the
educational/follow-up work within the communities (see the link to "clean
water, healthy communities). http://www.laneta.apc.org/esac/activities.htm But there
are two books published by the Swedes in English and Spanish: Ecological
Sanitation and Closing the Cicle: Ecol. San for Food Security. These you can
request in spanish for free from
sarar@laneta.apc.org
Bioregionalism
Laura Kuri just
edited (wrote?) an anthology? compilation? something like that.
Alternative economies (e.g., trueque, barter, LETS
stuff) see PDP again..
Not sure what help this is, but please
holler if wanting more information. A few of us will be giving a design course
here in Cuernavaca starting in January, and will be looking for more
materials. But meanwhile, I still rely by far on English texts. Great news to
hear that the Introduction book has been re-translated, I found the other less
than helpful as well.
And "the Troje" we hope will develop into some
kind of demonstration farm.
Too bad you didn't ask me this question
when you were here, Rick!, I would have taken you to my house to see all this
stuff!!
Take care, george
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