Subject: [permaculture] "Societal" zonation and "evolution"
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:46:03 -0400
Zonation is such a good tool that I hate to see it blunted by mixing
metaphors. Used as originally conceived, it orders and clarifies the
physical aspects of a site in a way that immediately transfers to another
person. ('Zone 1 is as far as my hose reaches', for example.)
It is most imprecise to speak of society and ideas 'evolving' !
Developing; renewing, growing, changing, disintegrating, maturing, yes.
Even site plans and sites do not evolve, but again are changed, grow, die
out, colonize or are colonized, and so forth.
The essence of PermaCulture is that it is a created order. Permaculture
did not just happen randomly.
Donna Elizabeth
[permaculture] "Societal" zonation and "evolution",
Donna Jones, 04/19/2004