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Hello Declan, please, please translate this into English (I know you can) so 
we can get the true meaning of your kind prose.

Thanks,
Scott Pittman

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
> <lakinroe@silcom.com>
>  To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>  Subject: [permaculture] Declan Kennedy about Bill Mollison/facbook 
> translated from German
>  Sent: Sep 25 '16 17:36
>  
>  Declan Kennedy about Bill Mollison/facbook translated from German
>  I am mourning my friend bill mollison.
>  One of the most important approaches to networking environmental measures 
> - from the individual house or smaller settlements to the planning of 
> entire regions - we learned enough - my wife margrit Kennedy and I-1981, 
> and brought him a year later from Australia to Europe. This approach is 
> called " Permaculture " (approximately " Duration-culture ", from the 
> mating of the English words permanent agriculture) and transmits the 
> principles closed ecological cycles in nature on the planning of human 
> settlements. This was the initial spark for us by Bill Mollison, the 1981 
> of us, at the instigation of rudolf doer, had invited to Berlin. Bill 
> Mollison had this ecological concept in the 70 s, along with David Holmgren 
> in Australia, and was developed by his lectures since the early 80 s, more 
> and more followers in the world for it.
>  
>  After about ten years 1982-92 very closely with bill mollison worked 
> together, had our paths began in the early 90 s, but the joy was great, as 
> we are at the beginning of June 2005 In the historic town of montovun in 
> istria, at the 7. International Permaculture meeting once again able to 
> see. I had along with some other participants at the meeting just sepp 
> holzers permaculture project in Austria and was visited with you about 
> ljubljana to istria. Although I bill now for almost 24 years knew and sepp 
> holzer just one day, surprised me the resemblance and at the same time, the 
> contrast between these two men. Similar to the " Agri-Rebels " as a 
> creative practitioners, in her " gardening with nature ", in your 
> discerning bull calf, their tell joy and her charisma, men who are 
> innovative, far-sighted and practically at the same time, as long as the 
> problems Have dedicated themselves to you, until you saw for your 
> respective klimagebiet lasting environmental solutions were found. The 
> contrast was for me in the concentration on his project at holzer that just 
> was 64 years old, while mollison despite his old age, with 78 still the 
> same global openness with which he had over the decades, the we Always knew 
> back on new projects had gotten involved.
>  
>  I would like to now, however, my friendship with bill mollison, of me - 
> especially at the beginning - very generous to share his experience, has a 
> man for a friend, and teacher was an uncomfortable visionary in Canada in 
> 1982 One of the largest and most successful permaculture meetings in North 
> America, founded the motto: "think globally - act locally".
>  Born In 1928 in Australia, he lived from his 15. To 28. Years of age, 
> alone in the Australian Bush, and worked as a trapper, lumberjack, 
> fishermen and bauer - often together or in close neighborly relationship 
> with the indigenous Australians - the Australian indigenous people. From 
> that time he had a wealth of stories, all of you, to which he told, 
> enthusiastic. From the kängeruh-hunting, in which the aborigines with the 
> animals contact recordings and you have given your appreciation, as well as 
> the need for you to kill, to an animal to the hunter, feet. Or from the 
> history with the black swans, the bill was watching and then came to him, 
> and in a circle around him into action. Always there were stories, the man 
> and nature in the deep contact and harmony with each other, showed 
> something in our western civilization barely exists.
>  
>  After Bill found out that this civilization the territories of the 
> Aborigines, more and more destroyed, he began - in order to stop this 
> development-1955 to study again. While still a student, he was a researcher 
> and teacher and began as an environmentalist to participate actively in the 
> environmental policy of his country. He prevented dam projects, fought for 
> the expulsion of nature conservation reserves and stepped on the side of 
> the aboriginal people for their rights.
>  
>  As an optimist, he wanted to restore the garden of Eden - for everyone. He 
> tried beyond the basics for a concept, which is to create not only was open 
> for new information, but also the knowledge about sustainable, organic 
> techniques from all parts of the world was able to integrate.
>  
>  
>  During the campaign against the dam on the Franklin River in Tasmania in 
> the 70 s - he was a lecturer at the university in hobart - he met his later 
> co-Author David Holmgren. They started to discuss why the agriculture of 
> the aborigines had survived the times and why the modern agriculture only a 
> relatively short-term fad would be about what you learn from the aboriginal 
> people and we could be their concepts with new technology and new 
> scientific findings Get in line. They began to experiment, to design and to 
> write. With the help of the Japanese-speaking Aussie Dope Dealer, Andrew 
> Jeeves integrated you the ideas of Masanobu Fukuoka (the one-Straw 
> Revolution, 1975), they took over the key line concept of Ken Yeomans 
> (water for every farm, 1954) and f. H. Kings Observations of the highly 
> productive agricultural concepts of Asia (from farmers of forty centuries - 
> permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan, 1911). It did not create 
> the concept for a permanent country -, water and forestry, which she called 
> "Permaculture" ( Permanent Agriculture).
>  
>  
>  There is no dogma permaculture or fixed borders has but rather a series of 
> basic principles which are applicable to everything, he found always new 
> and more friends like the architects Ian and lecki ord in Melbourne, the 
> engineer and farmer Max Lindegger (designer of Crystal Waters, Permaculture 
> Village, Queensland), or Sonja Wall Man (with their productive wall 
> greenhouse in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and many other 
> people in Australia, Europe and North America. The Permaculture-Design 
> System He has defined and integrated with strands and make links between 
> the separate sciences and areas of classical university departments made it.
>  
>  Now (2016) have over thousands of independent permaculture associations - 
> in almost all languages - all over the world. Now - more than 40 years 
> later - it serves people - with sustainable agriculture, reforestation, 
> Bio-Architecture, environmental education and regional economics and the 
> search for a integrationskonzept. Bill's commitment and enthusiasm advanced 
> continuously the multidisciplinary quality of the concept and made it to a 
> permaculture system, but not always. For me is the most beautiful 
> definition, which comes from bill mollison, " Permaculture is a dance with 
> nature - in which the nature leads."
>  
>  
>  The first book of bill mollison and David Holmgren Permaculture One (1978) 
> was soon thereafter by Bill's permaculture two (1979) and both had 1985 
> each with a circulation of over 100 000 copies. The two books are on my 
> reason in German, Portuguese, French and Italian and there have been 
> translated into the early-to mid-80 s. They are based than manuals very 
> heavily on the experiences in Tasmania and for other climates are only 
> partially transferable. Spanish and French translations followed later by 
> the cooperation with Emilia Hazelip, soon to be the most well-known 
> permaculture teacher on both sides of the pyennéen.
>  
>  However, the principles are as good as transferable and innovative, that 
> you sometimes established concepts of the agriculture and forestry, the 
> settlement water, urban planning and architecture on the head. They are 
> building on the experience in draft holistic ways of life in different 
> cultures and countries on and take little consideration on modern recipes 
> or conventions. For us, and many other messengers you and he is also a new 
> lifestyle.
>  
>  At the first visit in Germany, at the invitation of the students of the 
> faculty of architecture and the British council - both of which I was able 
> to secure the support of his journey and his lecture fee - should be to 
> finance bill at the beginning of may 1981 except in Berlin also lectures in 
> various cities in West - Germany, organized by Rudolf Dornach, keep. Due to 
> exceptional circumstances were the rest of the lectures (PERSCH 
> ING-Deployment-protests Germany far) has been cancelled and bill stayed a 
> whole week - yes 10 days - with us in Berlin-Schlachtensee to guest. He 
> told us every day from morning to evening of his projects and projects in 
> Australia. And since we're both the theme "Ecology" - I'm in the university 
> as a professor of infrastructure in the city - construction and my wife 
> (Margrit) in the context of their work for the International Exhibition 
> (IBA) Berlin 1987-as the main task, heard And we look forward to your 
> attention. Our questions showed bill that, in 1981, we in Europe were very 
> similar problems. From the forests to the climate change, from the 
> poisoning of food to the water wasting what Australia, everything was 
> covered, as well as for us to find. The most important to us, but was with 
> him that we were able to discuss solutions, which also changed slightly to 
> be working with us.
>  
>  It was not only fun but also terrifying when bill facts and details about 
> the global ecological situation we called, until then very fragmented only 
> knew. But his unusual solutions convinced us both. He started with his 
> statements at 9 O ' clock in the morning and I heard at midnight. We had 
> such a thing as a concentrated private 72-Hour Permaculture Designer course 
> - with many practical examples, drawings and graphics. The costs were 
> modest: 2 Packs of cigarettes and a bottle of Irish whiskey per day.
>  
>  We started in 6 by 12 metres large garden and in the woods around the 
> schlachtensee plants, sometimes to observe and to pick in the garden. 
> Margrit was a vegetarian. In the evening we had with bill - the avid meat 
> eaters was - go to a restaurant to lamb or for him to order a steak. In the 
> " Paris bar " in the kantstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he was - 
> as always - a German wine order wanted to him, and the waiter said, 
> slightly embarrassed that they serve only french wine. He called a " Hardy 
> Wallbanger " (Orange juice With vodka). Because even the waiter had to 
> laugh. Such cultural contrast-situations loved bill and somehow she has 
> produced everywhere.
>  
>  We have several times with him to kreuzberg in the rehabilitation of the 
> international architecture exhibition areas dangers, where we both with 
> different groups in the hausbesetzerszene worked. Even though he doesn't 
> generally cities suffer and no good reason for their survival could find, 
> he had immediately creative solutions for the people, who are ready, which 
> is a city-farm or you can build your herbs and vegetables and even wanted 
> to draw (1981). What energy saving and grey So, water recycling in 
> kreuzberg were some interesting models also for to see him, and so it was 
> time for the beginning of a years of intense exchange of ecological 
> knowledge of national borders and continents.
>  In the early 80 s, tried to bill a kind of "Permaculture-Bible" to write. 
> About half of his designer s' manuals (1988) is brilliant, especially the 
> chapter on patterns (pattern) and design (Draft). There is hardly any other 
> book which is the " Multidisciplinary design for life ' so thoroughly 
> treated. Other chapter in the designer s' manual let things in your tended 
> to be desired. It was only in 2009 by Margaret Woods and marlis ortner in 
> Austria translated into German and moved.
>  
>  Another book: Introduction to permaculture, what bill together with reny 
> slash wrote and illustrated by Andrew Jeeves, was published in 1991 and 
> explains permaculture for the first time in a generally understandable kind 
> and systematic approach. It also offers practical experience of many 
> permaculture-activists in Australia and other countries. But above all it 
> is the result of the research carried out by bill mollison and reny slash, 
> in the 90 s with the Australian Permaculture Institute to new south Wales, 
> and were moved there with their work of Marilyn Wade were supported. Also 
> other numerous helpers there experiments with plants, buildings and 
> technical infrastructure, while bill on lecture-travel around the world was 
> on the way.
>  Margrit and I have with the help of many other professionals, permaculture 
> one and two in the second edition edited. A very good successful article 
> with coloured pictures is in the Basel Newspaper (no. 40, p. 10-15) 
> published in 1984 and contains what we ourselves in the environmental 
> planning and building developed and that what we are and from bill mollison 
> David Holmgren to have learned. We thank both still for their ideas, their 
> perseverance and commitment.
>  
>  it was bill and reny, which is the first European Permaculture Design 
> course in jagdschloss glienicke with me as an assistant in the summer of 
> 1982, had offered. Because he was held in English, there were 24 
> participants from 7 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND 2 interested parties from 
> Brazil. Antja - our then 21-Year-old daughter - has the course not only but 
> also participated in the evening, 2-hour repetitorien for the German and 
> Austrian participants. It wasn't for you, just the Australian / Tasmanian 
> accent of Bill's English to understand, particularly because he's half the 
> time by his tobacco pipe articulated.
>  
>  Since then, 7 participants of this course a three-quarters of a year and 
> hit every Saturday at the design concepts, so we worked together in wetz 
> hausen at pig furth the first held in German 2-Week Permaculture Design 
> course (PDC = Permaculture Decign Course) could hold.
>  After that, I started my new career as a " Mr. Permaculture Europe " (East 
> and west) the I with chubby chaser sons ' full support. Except in Germany 
> and Brazil 1982, I have up to 1991 the first and / or two permaculture 
> design courses in Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, the 
> Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, 
> Slovakia and Slovenia. Each of these courses was of Gaia Trust (Hildur & 
> Ross Jackson, even students and joy of bill) in Denmark.
>  
>  1993 were the books of bill mollison over ferment and 1996 another 
> entitled travel in dreams the successes of the first books does not happen 
> again. But the international permaculture movement has now grown - on the 
> basis of the first books and one of many co-Author / inside revised two to 
> three-week designer course. In Europe is the transfer of the concept on 
> northern climates in full swing. She met - in part - on sharp criticism of 
> science and practice because of their unusual theses and methods.
>  
>  I have so much of bill mollison learned and were so enthusiastic about the 
> permaculture-vision that I - as well as many other people, who in the 80 s 
> and early 90 s with this vision had come in contact with - a own 
> permaculture - project wanted to achieve. That is why we have our home in 
> Berlin and our two bodies, I abandoned my professorship at the technical 
> university of Berlin and margrit your job at the international exhibition, 
> and we have to build a ab1985 ecological community involved in lower saxony 
> - the steyerberg lebensgarten. We've got in there in a settlement which has 
> been built in 1939 and renovated two houses on 2.6 hectares of land in the 
> vicinity and a whole series of Permaculture-experiments carried out. 
> Temporarily, I headed the permaculture institute for Europe in life garden. 
> Bill Mollison was so begistert lebensgarten approaches from each year that 
> he at least einal in steyerberg came by - and this is more than 11 years - 
> and always brought a new impulse. As a whole has the thinking in 
> permaculture-Categories Now and I am glad and grateful that I relatively 
> early 1981 with this concept and bill mollison came into contact, and that 
> I had the chance to spread it and For our climate zones to try out.
>  
>  
>  While the work of my wife margrit since the late 80 s, more and more on 
> the introduction of sustainable geldsysteme has shifted, and you with your 
> book "money without interest rates and inflation" nowadays a galeon figure 
> of the money has become reform movement was This work both for you as well 
> as for mollison and me always a part of our implementation of the 
> permaculture-concept. How to create a lasting culture, if it is not a 
> permanent money system? Just the last few months with the crash on the 
> international financial markets and in the global economy - the now even 
> the most pressing environmental problems overshadowed - shows how strong 
> economy and ecology interwoven. In the permaculture "Bible", has bill also 
> a chapter on the monetary system, which is fitted to a large extent on mar 
> grits work to build up.
>  
>  Still smoked and he drank too much and became so sick that he's a couple 
> of times on his travels together is broken - and yet he is 88 years old. It 
> continued more and more to him that he had to see how the ecological 
> situation in the world has been getting worse and worse, and in spite of 
> the ever-increasing permaculture movement on this general trend was nothing 
> to change. Bill has been depressed for a while, what he himself ignored. He 
> felt by many allies abandoned in the last 110 years, because they were when 
> he abandons. In the meantime, however, he had recovered, and his sharp 
> critical attitude which sometimes threatening in cynicism, andall found 
> again. In between, you could have him back in its original joie de vivre. 
> In Istria in June 2005 he came to start with his sarcastic jokes among the 
> younger people in the permaculture movement who didn't know it yet, not 
> very good at - but with his many stories, jokes and living here soon, he 
> found his Rightful place as a co-Founder, distributors and grandfather of 
> permaculture - then he has been for several days celebrated by all those 
> present. All of us, he will be sorely missed.
>  Steyerberg, 25.09.2016
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