permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

> From: "Will Hooker" <will_hooker@ncsu.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: permaculture giant speaking
> 
>  David is the 'brains' behind the permaculture
> movement, 

The Designer's Manual and Bill's lectures suggest that Bill has a brain or
two of his own. 

David stayed with me for a few days on his last North America tour, and I
asked him about the writing of Permaculture One--in essence, how much of it
was his and how much was Bill's. There's been tension between David and Bill
at times, but David answered in a way that gave utterly full credit to Bill,
was as un-gossipy and even-handed a description of their collaboration as I
can imagine any human giving, and showed me that without both of them, there
would be no permaculture. I hold David's statement as an exemplar when I'm
trying to speak mindfully and fairly. If he can do it, we should be able to.

Toby 


On 2/3/07 7:01 PM, "Scott Pittman"  wrote:

> There seems to be a little unseemly creep of bashing Bill Mollison in order
> to give David Holmgrin his just due, which I find extremely unhelpful as
> well as as bit unkind.