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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture Designers Manual - What the F$%K are you talking about
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:17:04 -0800


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







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