permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

Andrew McSwain wrote:

> In the mean time I think that it's even better still to take this group and
> create a wiki or something.. some sort of collaborative database that takes
> all of the rediscovered regional folk-knowledge and ingenious techniques and
> compiles them in one place that anyone in the world can easily access and
> draw from.
>
>  If someone hasn't already done it, we should do it within the month.
> Websites are cheap to run and wiki's don't consume a lot of bandwidth. This
> could be up in a month easily.
>
> Does anyone here have experience with wikis and social networking
> technologies?

Several attempt to create an interactive online permaculture database
have resulted in the creation of http://permaculture.info,
a MediaWiki installation, same software that runs the Wikipedia.

There is a lot of information there already and I am personally 
interested in helping to put this project back on in focus, fuel up and 
head where the tracks may lead.

Scott Pittman wrote:
> And what is a national conference if not centralized??
>
> I think that the example of carbon offsets and pumping money into 
banks to
> create jobs are both examples of how our culture scams us into 
participation
> in a game of making the top earners in this culture stay on top.
>
> That we could easily set up a website with database for the whole 
world to
> access in a month is a total pipedream. And I mean a pop the magic dragon
> pipedream.
>
> And to then ask for someone else to step up to the plate and create this
> dream is beyond the pale.

Of course, this has already been done, except that it is a wiki and not 
a database (which would take a long time to set up):

http://permaculture.info