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  • From: Holger Hieronimi <holger@tierramor.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] The Trouble with Permaculture
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:18:54 -0500

Why Bad? I think this article is a good one, althought it is very critical with some expressions of PC-
the author is not uninformed, since she aparently read though some of the basic literature plus seems to have considerable experience in organic food production...

Its more than clear now that some of the "Mollsionisms" ("The designer becomes a recliner"/ "The problem is the solution"/ etc.) were great vehicles to draw atention back in the 80ies, but also helped to build "cult permaculture" & a cadre of enthusiastic PC illuminates described in the article. No problem...I have been one after my first PDC back in 1996....and I´m happy for that, since this motivated me (in my case) to actually try to establish some systems and realize that not everything works as well in realiity as described th the PC Designers Manual, a greant book but definitly not the "bible" and/or ultimate expression of PC.

Every course of some PC celebrities (Geoff Lawton is one prominent example) adds some more to this number (and I think nobody in thios group wants to qualify him as some body who gives "bad courses"), and its only through a few years of practice "on the ground", establishing designs, getting dirtty, maintainig developing systems, producing food, experiencing how systems actually work and evolve over time in different climates & contexts, that the imaginative power of PC concepts get grounded.

saludos desde Colombia (en este momento)

Holger


El 24/01/14 04:14, permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org escribió:
The Trouble with Permaculture
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-01-23/the-trouble-with-permaculture

a very bad article; Vlad fodder, awful - just to see what the uninformed
are up to

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