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[Dick Pierce <dickpiercedesigns@gmail.com>]

Great questions - quantiative answers with sources would be most valuable to
me and I expect many of us. Please keep this thread public and, Andrew, it
would be a great service if you could publish a list of the answers after
you've received them.

Thanks for starting this - it is what I love to read and participate in on
this listserve. Gracias.

Dick Pierce
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Millison <amillison@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm putting together a funding proposal for a State agency who are
> requesting Permaculture training for their staff.
>
> I need to include data in the proposal with *verifiable sources*. Some
> examples of the types of statements I'd like to clarify and back up are:
>
> * Intensive garden agriculture is X% more productive per unit of area than
> conventional mechanized field cropping and require X% less
> energy/water/dollars to maintain.
>
> * A building with proper passive solar orientation requires X% less energy
> to heat and cool than a building not oriented for passive solar.
>
> * A community with gathering areas/central plaza has X% less crime than a
> neighborhood without gathering areas.
>
> * A community planted with useful street trees can produce X$ of economic
> value per unit area versus a street planted in non-useful species.
>
> Does anyone out there have sources for useful data to make
> Permaculture-supporting statements? I'd really appreciate any input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Millison
> www.beaverstatepermaculture.com
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