permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/5/2012 5:51 PM, dwoodard@becon.org wrote:
>   This guy sounds a little warped but very useful (which brings back
>   memories):
>
>   
> http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/79854-the-post-apocalypse-survival-machine-nerd-farm
>
>   I'd say a lot of high technology is stuff we need to learn to do
>   without (or more exactly learn not to need), but his approach is
>   interesting.

That may be a popular conclusion but in reality we haven't even begun to
use all the low technology that is available to us or could become 
available to us or is yet to be discovered or invented. I always thought 
that an important aspect of this list would be to locate, identify, 
describe, document, record and preserve all the low technology used by 
all cultures on Earth. BEFORE THEY ALL DISAPPEAR THANKS TO THE 
DESPICABLE MONSANTO & COLLABORATORS & POLITICAL
ALLIES & ECONOMIC EXPLOITERS LIKE THEM, the USA included, fast becoming 
a third world country!

There is some urgency.

Daniel, Felicia Wright, John, Dieter, Larry, Scott and many others know 
about the need for this. I had some silly notion that the online 
permaculture plant & animal guilds database we tried to crank up would 
go global and reach into every pore in every traditional culture on 
Earth. This is why the meaning, substance, purpose and mission of 
permaculture needs to be standardized and documented. Only an informal 
heirarchy is needed to accomplish this, a working group who will 
brainstorm the definition of permaculture and engrave it in stone.
Scott: Will this be attempted in any form at the IPC 13 in Cuba,
along with other pressing matters of business?

LL