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[Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>]

Hi Robyn,

thanks for the thoughtful response. 

Love

Michael Pilarski

--- On Sun, 1/29/12, Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au> wrote:

From: Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] History of Permaculture in North America
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012, 1:35 PM

Hi Michael

Great idea.

The authors in 'Permaculture Pioneers' were given a standard set of questions 
to answer as their chapters and i think that has really given important 
guidance for the content. (Mine is actually a direct transcript of a phone 
interview where i answered the questions verbally - it was during a 
particularly busy period in my life when i didn't have time to write)

 You might consider doing something similar to help folk put their personal 
and bioregional stories together. It helps  give a framework and focus - 
otherwise many of us would have had great difficulty know where to start and 
and when to stop. We were also given length constraints of minimum - max 
number of words 

Important to document our his/herstories

Robyn

On 29/01/2012, at 8:39 PM, Michael Pilarski wrote:

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> 
> The History of the Permaculture Movement in North America
> 
>  
> 
> A book proposal by Michael Pilarski
> 
>  
> 
> I am proposing a group effort to produce a permaculture
> history for the US and Canada. Initially I can think of three major parts:
> 
> 1) Stories by permaculture elders. Their own history and
> their perspective on permaculture history.
> 
> 2) Histories of individual bioregions by collaborating
> authors who have been involved with the permaculture movement in their
> bioregion all along. 
> 
> 3) Youtube interviews with permaculturists about pc history.
> This of course can be open-ended and continuing
> 
> Sections 1 and 2 can be published as an in-print book and as
> an on-line book as well.  There can
> be on an on-line forum dedicated to updating the history as more people 
> want to
> contribute to the effort.  
> 
>  
> 
> WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT??
> 
> It is possible that someone else may be working on such a
> book already. Please let me know if so. 
> Have any bioregional histories been published? Or started?   
> 
>  
> 
> For my own part I will compile a history of permaculture for
> two bioregions; the Maritime Pacific Northwest (Cascadia) and the Inland
> Pacific Northwest (Columbiana). I can do a first draft and float it to my 
> peer
> groups for comments, changes, additions, perspectives, etc. I have been
> involved in permaculture in both bioregions continuously since 1981. For 
> some
> years I published a regional paper called the Pacific Northwest Permaculture
> News & Gossip. I recall that Peter Bane, in the Permaculture Activist, once
> referred to me as "perhaps the biggest permaculture gossip in the USA."
> Flattering at the time, but that was some years ago and I am sadly out of 
> touch
> with developments in most other bioregions. 
> 
>  
> 
> Here are some bioregions which have a strong permaculture
> history. I am not listing all the bioregions here and of course each of 
> these
> has subset regions within it. Let’s see who answers the call. I am not
> proposing a comprehensive history, nor a concensus viewpoint. But you gotta
> start somewhere. 
> 
> Northeast US
> 
> Mid-Atlantic Region
> 
> Southeast US
> 
> Texas
> 
> Upper Midwest
> 
> Southwest
> 
> Southern California
> 
> Bay Area, California
> 
> Maritime Pacific Northwest
> 
> Inland Pacific Northwest.
> 
> British Columbia, Canada
> 
> Eastern Canada
> 
> Etc, etc.  
> 
>  
> 
> This is an initial attempt to find out who is interested and
> what has already been done. Of course there are voluminous reams of articles
> and publications from the Permaculture Activist, regional pc magazines,
> articles, conference proceedings, the 1998 American Permaculture Directory
> (online at http://www.permaculture.net/apd/index.html), 
> the 1st US permaculture directory by Guy Baldwin in the 1980s, etc,
> etc. 
> 
>  
> 
> Let me know if you are interested and see what kind of team
> we can put together. There is room for varying levels of participation. Who
> would like to be on the coordinating/editing core team?
> 
>  
> 
> Michael Pilarski, 
> 
> Friends of the Trees Society 
> 
> PO Box 826, Tonasket, Washington 98855
> 
> 509-486-4056. Michael@friendsofthetrees.net
> 
>  
> 
> I just had a great time reading “Permaculture Pioneers”
> which is a history of the first 30 years of permaculture in Australia. This 
> is
> a inspiring book and I highly recommend it to all permaculturists no matter
> where they live. Of course unless/until it is translated it can only be 
> read by
> English speakers. The book is composed of articles by 24 leading
> permaculturalists in Australia with an afterword by Stuart B. Hill. It 
> contains
> many insights into the foundations of permaculture.
> 
>  
> 
> “Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the new Frontier”.
> Edited by Kerry Dawfurn and Caroline Smith. Melliodora Publishing, Hepburn,
> Australia. June 2011. Available in the US from Chelsea Green Publishing. 
> $34.95
> retail. Here is the review from Chelsea Green’s website. 
> 
> “Permaculture is much more than
> organic gardening. Arguably it is one of Australia’s greatest intellectual
> exports, having helped people worldwide to design ecologically sustainable
> strategies for their homes, gardens, farms and communities. This book 
> charts a
> history of the first three decades of permaculture, through the personal
> stories of Australian permaculturists. From permaculture co-originator David
> Holmgren, to ABC TV's Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne, the authors
> span the generations and the continent.
> 
> These stories represent the scope,
> depth and diversity of permaculture in Australia and around the world. They
> explore some of the influences on those who have embraced it, record 
> milestones
> and highlight recurring themes. The editors’ contributions and afterword by
> social ecologist Professor Stuart B Hill frame the stories in terms of
> transformation of the inner landscape of our minds and hearts, as the 
> critical
> starting point for the outer change that is needed.
> 
> For those whose lives have been
> changed by permaculture, this book provides a context for articulating and
> celebrating their own stories and experiences. Even more, it invites each of
> us, permaculturists or not, to embrace our power in designing our world out 
> of
> the best in ourselves, for the benefit of the whole earth community.”
> 
>  
> 
> Here is a brief on-line permaculture history from an
> Australian viewpoint. 
> 
> http://pacific-edge.info/a-short-and-incomplete
> -history-of-permaculture/
> 
> 
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