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  • From: "Healing Hawk" <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] small cooking woodstove
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:39:16 -0500

Heating and cooking with wood is not ecologically supported. In
California's mild climate, passive solar design, especially using cob and
strawbale construction, should result in a home you can heat with a small
thermostatically controlled electric heater that might come on once an hour
or so. Buy or make green power.

Humans now have to reforest Earth to contain atmospheric carbon rather than
going the other way. I'm saddened when "permaculturalists" don't have
control of the basic systems theory that Bill and David so carefully
articulate in their books.

Designing so that we have to heat with wood is one of Bill's "type one"
errors. So is designing a cob/strawbale house without passive solar. This
is why there is a long observation stage in Permaculture design. Einstein
said the solution doesn't come from the consciousness that created the
problem.

Permaculture is about saving what remains of Earth's life support system and
designing to reclaim that which was foolishly squandered supporting
parasitic human lifestyles. Permaculture is not about making humans
comfortable in parasitic lifestyles that continue to harm the biosphere.
Heating with wood is parasitic, i.e., taking without giving back.

Humans do not possess the power to replace the manifold ecological services
provided by a single tree. As a general rule, don't cut trees. As a
general rule, make symbiotic choices. As a general rule, purge the idea of
human dominion over nature before starting the observation phase of design.


Tommy Tolson
Austin, TX





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