permaculture

[Scott Vlaun <scott@moosepondarts.com>]

I agree with Scott P.

Our biggest challenges ahead will not be in designing, building and  
maintaining holistic physical systems to supply our needs on a  
bioregional basis, although there is much to be done. We basically  
know how to do it, at least in areas where all historical knowledge is  
not erased and people have access to education.

Our biggest challenge is to shift the cultural paradigm to make  
working toward bioregional self reliance an acceptable, worthwhile,  
and rewarding pursuit for generations to come. The visible and  
invisible are inseparable. In my mind, to begin to compartmentalize  
defeats the beauty of permaculture.

I hope everyone will hang in there and be tolerant of the rants and  
opinions of others or simply ignore and follow the threads that  
resonate with your path.

In peace and solidarity,

Scott

P.S. We are all completely distracted around here with trying to keep  
a huge casino from being built in our community before it sucks the  
life out of it. If anyone has any experience, please pass it along. It  
seems like Pc is sometimes fighting against colossal class one errors.




Scott Vlaun Moose Pond Arts+Ecology Design Solutions for a Sustainable  
Future
450 Main Street, Studio 2, Norway, Maine 04268 • 207-739-2409

> How about this. A new forum: permaculture, ethics & politics or
> pep@lists.ibiblio.org
> Anyone interested?
>
> Scott replies:
>
> The problem is that ethics are at the core of permaculture design.   
> You
> can't have permaculture without the ethics.  It is what sets  
> permaculture
> apart from all other design and methodologies; it requires that we  
> question
> every action in the environment including our interaction with people.
>
> So I wouldn't be for separating the forums into one that only  
> discusses
> methodology (visible structures) and one that discusses the invisible
> (social, legal, and financial).  Permaculture is a "whole system"  
> approach
> to design and teaching and can't be divided into compartments', or
> specialties.
>
> My thoughts,
>
>
>
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