permaculture

[Katherine Steele <kat@steelemoon.com>]

Hello All-

Please join us in forming a new international permaculture list serv.
This list is for the open and supportive sharing of permaculture  
related information worldwide. The intention is to cross pollinate and  
create mutually beneficial and supportive relationships between the  
members of the list and to support and learn about their individual and  
community-based permaculture related endeavors.  These may including  
design, community building, farming, education, built environment,  
policy, arts, food production, activism, politics, economics, land use,  
etc...

We ask that the following guidelines for communication be followed...

--respectful use of non-violent communication
--a spirit of curiosity and exploration
--a willingess to agree to disagree
--write in "I" statements and avoid broad sweeping sterotypes
--open hearted sharing

We're hoping to create the conditions for support here, really want to  
avoid negativity and  keep in line with one of Bill's principles  
"attitude matters".

Let's Get Positive:
 It doesn't matter where you are, or what you are doing; a positive  
attitude is an essential starting point for any further action. So  
Permaculture invites people to look at what is abundant in their lives  
and surroundings, and to use that abundance to meet other needs.  
Permaculture is also positive in a systems sense; Permaculturists alter  
the function of a system to better meet their needs by adding elements  
to the system, and increasing its complexity, rather than trying to  
suppress or eliminate parts of the system. The elimination strategy is  
fundamentally doomed to failure; look at the resistance of insects,  
rabbits, bacteria, and so on to all our sophisticated "…icides". ...
After being an active participant in the 1960s protest and flower power  
movements, Bill Mollison saw that they did not work, and says  
specifically that he planned to use positivism as the basis for  
Permaculture. Permaculture is overwhelmingly concerned with what is  
realistic and observable and logical and tested. Permaculture is a  
philosophy, as well as a theory, as well as a guide to practice.
--by Warwick Rowell

 If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of please do  
join in!

SUBSCRIBE HERE:   
http://openpermaculture.org/mailman/listinfo/ 
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Thanks
~Kat Steele
http://www.urbanpermacultureguild.org