permaculture

[Loren Davidson <listmail@lorendavidson.com>]

> At 7:22 PM -0800 12/23/06, John Fritz wrote:
> The following is my first draft of a petition to The Mother Earth 
> News (MEN) for and update to their March/April 1980 story about the 
> methods of Jean Pain, in his use of forest thicket compost.

I have a better idea.

Rather than presenting them with a heavily legalese-oriented document 
full of "whereas" and such, *write* the update to that article and 
submit it to them, along with a cover letter saying "I've heard from 
X number of people who say they'll buy the issue this comes out in if 
you publish this."

This will work better for the following reasons:

1) They need good content, and if you provide it for them, you get 
brownie points.

2) They need to sell magazines in order to stay in business; some 
assurances that this article will help sell magazines will give you 
brownie points.

3) Nobody likes being confronted with legalese in an attempt to force 
them to write on a particular topic.

4) If you write the article, you get the article you want by someone 
who knows the subject matter, rather than getting a 
hastily-researched hack by someone who may have no love for or 
expertise in the subject.

Trying the petition thing is, IMO, like shouting at your corn to grow 
bigger with more ears. It pays no attention at all to what the corn 
wants and needs in order to do that.

Just a thought,

Loren
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