permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

> Permaculture Cooperative wrote:
> > 1. Group Effort: the Designers Manual is a group effort manuscript was
> > written and edited by Bill's x-wife: Reny Mia Slay. It was illustrated by
> > Andrew Jeeves. 
Come on. Claiming that Reny wrote the DM is ridiculous. If Bill dictated 
parts and wrote the others, as I am told by people with Bill at the 
time, then he wrote it. Reny helped out, but you can bet that what she 
knew about permaculture, she learned from Bill.

Lotsa good stuff in that post--particularly about trying to use the DM 
as a recipe book, its lack of references, and Bill's general 
impossibility to work with--but plenty of exaggerated nonsense in it 
too. Take that post with large grains of salt.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com