permaculture

[Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com>]

Feral-ness is spreading! At the Northwest permaculture convergence  
last month and again at the Inland Permaculture Conference in Spokane  
last weekend there were feral creatures seen on the contradance floor  
and demonstrating their arts in workshops; napping flint, scraping  
hides and tanning with brains, forging tools on absurdly heavy anvils  
and smoking up the place with coke fires.

If we don't stop them soon they may escape the sinking raft and become  
like the uplanders who founded Battakin, Hovenweep and Mesa Verde  
after the Chacoan collapse. Then where would we be? ;-)

At the end, the Chacoan elites were left with no one to hoe their corn  
and eventually turned to cannibalism before starving. Unfortunately,  
the other sites fell to similar ills in succeeding centuries as  
climate change of the 13th century went against them. Many sites are  
littered with human bones cracked open to extract the marrow.

On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Lawrence London wrote:

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