permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/28/2012 11:29 PM, paul wheaton wrote:
> > I think Sepp's right. When do we start?
>
> I agree.
>
> We start today.  And we keep going tomorrow.  And the day after.
>
> Things can be made better.  It will just take a lot of hard work.

This challenge is the search for the holy grail of making significant 
change in how people regard their footprint and how they think about 
surviving in their accustomed style on this Earth. Bring low PC tech to 
the people, let them see it, learn it and use it and themselves teach 
others.

I just thought of a brilliant use for Paul and his perma-conspiracy to 
take over the world. Come to North Carolina and inspire these folks!
[maybe my friend Liane is listening :-)]. There are a few hundred 
thousand Carolinian dormant permaculturists waiting to adopt permaculture.

All our collective websites, blogs, lists, forums and wikis amount to a 
huge knowledgebase and much of it is represented by experienced 
practitioners, elders, apprentices and professionals on the path.

I was just pondering the idea of a series of virtual IPC's, linked to 
the real ones, of course. They could be held monthly semi-annualy or 
annually. This could be the online shopping counterpart for permaculture 
gatherings. Shopping online is taking precedence over bricks and mortar 
sales. The potential is enormous. Permaculture gatherings could be held 
online using a variety of off the shelf free resources, sponsored or 
hosted by any existing portals, lists, forums, websites, blogs or wikis. 
If done it would need to be recorded, annotated and made portable. Part 
of it could be done at Permies. Scott has mentioned doing something 
similar though more research oriented.
Appropedia Permaculture could get into the act. This list could act as a 
virtual taxi service, portal-like, with news bulletins and 
announcements. Discussion and topical group meetings should be contained 
in some sort of collection of easy to use online apps with proceedings 
archived for ongoing reference. Gatherings would be held at the same 
site each time. It could be done with a few forums, each with subforums, 
created as needed to host workshop and seminar discussion.
I am sure this could be done and may well already have been by some 
organization. If forums are used how nice it would be to have a chat 
option for each of them that users could select while participating in 
threads, i.e. post a message proposing a chat on some topic or subtopic,
all within that forum, along with the messages that are posted, with
those recorded chat session accessable within the forum along with the 
message archive.

More later. Need a break.

LL