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[Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au>]

Doubt the statement would've been intended as a typo by the writer. 

On 31/12/2012, at 3:26 PM, Nick Ritar wrote:

>> Read Mollison's Permaculture Designer's Manual. This is where it all
>> begins. Lawton is a student of a student of Mollison.
> 
> 
> Geoff Lawton is a student of Mollison...  and he has also regularly
> co-taught with Mollison
> 
> Small point... may just have been a typo :)
> 
> Cheers
> Nick Ritar


Describing Lawton as a student of a student of Bill's is actually correct in 
terms of his initial PDC, which i think was with Lindegger who was Bill's 
student. Lawton later did a refresher PDC with me (I'm also a student of a 
student of Bills) around 1991 before he started teaching.  Both Lawton and 
myself have had unique opportunities to work, co-teach with and be mentored 
by Bill, myself in the mid '80s-early '90s and Geoff from the late '90's, and 
in this respect Bill could be referred to as one of our teachers, but not in 
relationship to our initial PDCs.  Nadia's initial PDC was taught by Sindu, 
Geoff's former partner who also co-created the original Greening the Dessert 
project with him. 

I do notice little details of pc history rewritten here and there by 
different folks in bios, websites etc, not always completely incorrect but 
not always totally correct. 

Just qualifying a small point :)

ciao
Robyn