Subject: Re: [permaculture] Why is permaculture more about selling books, DVDs and training courses?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:48:28 -0500
As a permaculture novice, but as a quite experienced community
organizer, radical Green, world changer (tongue-in-cheek since I haven't
done it yet), money hater, happy gardener, former sustainability
adherent (back to 1995 even) and recovered co-houser, I have found this
list and the pemaculturists I have met very helpful.
We all can learn the most from nature and perhaps loved ones around us
who poke and probe around the land and connect with it. This
permaculture list is merely a window into things that we can benefit
from. If there's something on the list that you don't like, go ahead and
express your views but why invest so much of yourself in a crusade?
Everyone is trying to make their time on this planet something they can
be proud of, and if someone gets excited about permaculture AND they
have some small ability to make some money connected to it, I say "power
to them!". I mean, how do you make your living? If you're like me or
everyone Ive ever met, it's a bit of a compromise. (I'm not really
asking; this is rhetorical.). The permaculturists I've met quite a bit
more than they ever get paid for.
Anyone who goes in and out of using the Internet (people like me) always
have the opportunity to learn something (either good or bad) or leave if
we want to. Seriously, with a book or two, a person or two to learn
from, and time out listening to the Earth, we can all get to where we
want to. Don't worry about the state of "permaculture"; the Internet is
NOT part of the "Solution"--actual human, animal, plant and Earth
experience is.
Take care.
JIM POWELL
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JIM POWELL
Madison Environmental Justice Organization
608.240.1485
Re: [permaculture] Why is permaculture more about selling books, DVDs and training courses?,
Jim Powell (Madison Environmental Justice Organization), 06/25/2009