permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

souscayrous wrote:

> Hello Lawrence, I'd be careful about defining Permaculture too grandly and
> certainly as an umbrella concept that 'uses' other concepts and practices.
> On what does pc stand to take such a broad perspective that it can include
> speculative science fiction concepts that have nothing to do with any
> current sustainable practice, or natural agriculture, which specifically
> rejects such 'use' (instrumentalist) conceptualisation?
>
> This is in no way intended to denigrate Robert who is doing, day in and day
> out, an enormous amount of work toward a sustainable future.
>
> Jamie
> Souscayrous

Hello Jamie:

I used the term terraforming loosely as a reference to a process rather than 
where it was carried out.
I had in mind permaculture systems design and installation on a grand scale, i.e. big single site projects, as with the 
Sahara Project. It is a good intellectual exercise to think of ways to farm on the moon, though, and even, in the event 
of cataclysmic climatic or geophysical events on Earth rendering human habitation here untenable, reach other planetary 
systems hosting somewhere within, Earthlike environments, favorable to life as we know it, and devise ways to farm on 
one or more of them. This seems to me to be reality rather than fantasy. I have always enjoyed fantasy and science 
fiction. Its a good escape from time to time.

I am especially interested in converting difficult or infertile soil into 
productive, well-tilthed farm soil,
using whatever mechanical means necessary within a strategy that allows Nature to take over the process over time with 
less and less human intervention (that's when really good hand tools enter the picture; I am working on several designs
to produce and share with others interested, to try in different climates and 
soil conditions).

LL