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  • From: <scott@permaculture.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Declan Kennedy about Bill Mollison/facbook translated from German
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:22:17 -0600

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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