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From: "Toby Hemenway" <toby@patternliteracy.com>
To: "permaculture list" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:44 PM
Subject: [permaculture] Pc and culture links
> I was directed by a friend to a couple of blogs that were discussing an
> article I'd written on urban and rural sustainability, and the
conversation
> there has gone way beyond that topic and has ranged into some interesting
> discussion of where permaculture fits onto society, of whether it is
> sustainable, its relation to earlier cultures, and even whether it can be
> co-opted as just one more way for elites to control people. The people
> writing seem remarkably intelligent and well-read (myself excepted, of
> course!), with no flaming. If this interests you, you should check out
>
>http://anthropik.com/2006/01/urbs-versus-ruralis/
>http://ranprieur.com/index.html
>http://villageblog.blogspirit.com/
> http://villageblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/01/24/attack-is-the-best-form
> -of-defense.html#comments
>
> And also links from those sites. I also recommend
> http://anthropik.com/2005/10/thesis-8-human-societies-are-defined-by-their-f
> ood/
> as it makes it clear why gardening is such a central element of
permaculture
>
> Toby
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