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  • From: kevin s <k.skvorak@verizon.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] re Invisible Structures or Hidden Structures Information
  • Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:34:28 -0500



I have been observing this issue of 'invisible structures' in the Culture of Permaculture for awhile, and have come to the conclusion that as of yet it remains pretty seriously under-explored for most PC practitioners and designers. an area filled yet with opportunities one could say!

while i hesitate to make the claim that "Permaculture" as a movement has yet to seriously embrace this field of work, (heck, i guess i just made it!) there are a lot of examples out there of course: collectives, coops, commutarian groups, local currencies, barter and freecycle networks, solari groups, etc etc.

here in New York we are creating a Community Land Trust that we hope will provide an important service in creating opportunities for equitable access to the land for local sustainable food production, housing, and the like outside of the destructive pressures of the machine of global finance and debt. we think a paradigm shift (wherever possible) in land tenure is also a part of the solution that Permaculture embodies.

i am wondering if it is an unfortunate legacy of some of the Personality traits and priorities of Bill M. that has left this 'hole' in the movement as yet? it always seemed to me that the ideas around "invisible structures" in the original curriculum seem kind of perfunctorily added on....and so often on the last day

or am i mistaken here? i mean this in the most compassionate way possible- but was Bill known to have worked well in collective horizontal arrangements etc?? and has this left a mark on the "traditions" and "personalities" of Permaculture since then? (pls don't take this as Bill bashing as that is not my point- more about "Individualism" as a value.)

I would love to see more efforts in capital "P" Permaculture to seriously transcend the paradigms of commercialism and commodification if at all possible; embodying Permaculture in it's practice so to speak.

We feel a Community Land Trust is an effort at this.

I am wondering, not so much about a list of resources for a pamphlet, but what other practical efforts and designs are actually in the works out there?

best,
kevin






Phil Vergamini <Phil@inetserv.com>

As part of the educational component of the Permaculture
Credit Union, we are planning to put together a handout/brochure that
will hopefully explain what Invisible Structures or Hidden Structures
mean to the Pc community. ......... There doesn't
seem to me to be a lot of information available but I may not be
looking in the right places.

Thanks much-

-Phil




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