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  • From: Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Is access to land required to practice permaculture design? was Re: Intellectual property
  • Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:47:57 -0600

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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