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  • From: "Tom Golodik" <t.golodik@verizon.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Final Draft of Mother Earth News Petition
  • Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:52:48 -0500

Feel free to use my name and email in your "petition" to MEN. I am interested in additional information about Jean Pain's techniques.

Tom Golodik



----- Original Message ----- From: "John Fritz" <johnfritz77@yahoo.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: <JohnFritz77@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:01 AM
Subject: [permaculture] Final Draft of Mother Earth News Petition


Dear Group,

The following is my final draft of the "petition" to the Mother Earth News (MEN). It is actually an informal request asking that MEN publish an update to it's March/April 1980 article on the work of Jean Pain and his "forest thicket compost" methods.

By replying to this email I will assume that you are giving me permission to send your email address to MEN in the context of this request, only. No other use of your email address will be employed by me.

Thanks for your interest. John Fritz.

Dear Mother Earth News,

A number of participants in a Permaculture yahoogroup that I belong to, would like to see a MEN update to its' March/April 1980 article about the work of Jean Pain. We feel that widespread knowledge about Jean Pain's forest thicket compost methods would help advance rural economies; support the healing of our forests; increase the productivity of our gardens; and empower rural self-reliance by providing local, inexpensive fuel (methane gas)for space heating, water, and cooking.

We encourage MEN to publish an update to it's March/April 1980 story, especially concerning details that would enable easy replication of Pain's methods and how this could offset dwindling natural gas supplies for rural homesteads.

Please see the link below to an article in the Permaculture Activist about Pain's work. Hopefully MEN's researchers could expand on the article and provide the "nuts and bolts" of implementing a forest thicket compost system for Another Kind of Energy.

Sincerely, John Fritz.

Another Kind of Energy
by Peter Bane

Copyright Nov. 2000, Permaculture Activist magazine.



Let's look at Jean Pain's methods and try to assess what sort of legacy
he has left us as we enter the 21st century.

The rest of the story:
http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html

P.S. Also, check out: http://www.jean-pain.com/ , though the link for English is not working. Perhaps MEN could use it's influence to get the English link working?



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