permaculture

[Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

This email is not about the on-going debate regarding intellectual 
property and the Design Manual, although it does spin off from that 
conversation.  I was struck by this comment in Ossi's email:

> However, my experience from eastern India is that people
> who are fluent enough to read english and have access to land are rare
> and people generally have no access to internet, especially if living
> outside of monetary economy. 

Is access to land required to practice permaculture design?  Couldn't we 
do permaculture designs for e.g. students that live in dormitories, or 
urban dwellers of high rise apartment buildings?  Perhaps such designs 
would need to pay more attention to invisible structures and community 
development than a design for someone in a rural area with 5 or more 
acres at their disposal, but the majority of the world's population 
either is now or will soon be urban, and many of those folks will not 
have direct access to land.

Bob Waldrop
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

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