permaculture

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

(Attention: Chris Watkins, Rich Morris, Scott Pittman, Dick Pierce, Bob 
Waldrop and Paul, Matt, Jedd, negiliblek, Christophe, Sean, Lonnie, 
Richard, and others from the pcdb list and earlier discussions.]

[What an oddyssey it has been for permaculture.info ...:LL]

After over a year, maybe more, of being offline due to hosting problems, 
the Permaculture Wiki, permaculture.info, is now back online and ready 
to accomodate anyone interested in continuing the work they started 
there and/or begin new work. ibiblio is hosting our site and we owe them 
much gratitude for this.

We need contributors and mid-level admins. Hope we get a flood of 
volunteers. I am not sure how to proceed with building a core 
development group or a community of registered contributors; suggestions 
welcome about this aspect of the project.

There is a separate mailing list for a development team. It is:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/pcdb

Project example:
A group could create an ethics in permaculture section to be referred to 
as the Ethics In Permaculture FAQ (frequently asked questions). List 
users interested in this could be referred to this document-in-progress 
instead of reinventing the ethics wheel, instead, giving it a turn,
a revolution to stir the pot.

Guild discussion in this list? Post highlights in the Guilds section of 
permaculture.info wiki.

The site runs in MediaWiki and is referred to as the Permaculture 
Information Web on the main page. This is not a fixed name for the 
wiki., just a convenient description.

http://www.permaculture.info
Hosted by ibiblio
PERMACULTURE.INFO

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The Permaculture Information Web is a collaborative project to provide a 
comprehensive resource of permaculture related information. This wiki 
uses a precise language to describe the different parts of human habitat 
and that language is used to categorize the articles in this wiki. This 
narrative identifies the categories and shows how they fit together. 
Follow links to start exploring the content.

If your just joining, here's author guidance. For more information the 
category system go to page type.
Quick Jump Table

PEOPLE - organizations | members

THINGS - elements | guilds | built structures | patterns

IDEAS - core concepts | environmental context | zones | techniques | 
tools | Peak Oil

RESOURCES - book reviews | public documents | online resources | design 
review | blogs | Discussion Groups | Permaculture Wikis

PLACES - all locations | ecoregions | permaculture sites | farming
Category Index
Overview

        In this wiki, community members are using principles of 
permaculture design to build a base of knowledge for designing human 
habitats.

        The living parts of these habitats are made of elements; things 
like apple trees, chickens and dandelions. Groups of elements that 
interact in a beneficial way are organized into guilds. A guild is 
defined by a few core elements that define that guilds character.

        One or more guilds guilds can be associated with built 
structures as suited to a particular location to create a pattern. For 
example, a hayfield, mulch, a chicken tractor, chicken forage plant 
guilds, fencing, and a compost system may combine into a chicken forage 
garden system, where chickens and materials are moved around to achieve 
a particular economy and diverse yield. patterns, built structures, and 
even elements are associated with the zones that describe the proximity 
to our homes and paths of travel.

        These patterns are tuned to local context, described by 
hydrology, soils, and landscape setting. designs must be attuned to the 
creations of nature as well as the natural disturbance regimes that 
dominate landscapes. Techniques and tools are used to evaluate and 
construct these patterns.

        Ecological design and permaculture work are done by 
organizations and groups that are doing work on specific sites or have 
online resources. These sites are distributed across many lands, and are 
similar patterns occur within the natural provinces of the earth called 
ecoregions.

        On this site people share ideas as well as online resources, 
books, documents, and their designs