From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] http://www.permaculture.info permaculture.info the Permaculture Wiki is back online!
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:20:20 -0400
(Attention: Chris Watkins, Rich Morris, Scott Pittman, Dick Pierce, Bob
Waldrop and Paul, Matt, Jedd, negiliblek, Christophe, Sean, Lonnie,
Richard, and others from the pcdb list and earlier discussions.]
[What an oddyssey it has been for permaculture.info ...:LL]
After over a year, maybe more, of being offline due to hosting problems,
the Permaculture Wiki, permaculture.info, is now back online and ready
to accomodate anyone interested in continuing the work they started
there and/or begin new work. ibiblio is hosting our site and we owe them
much gratitude for this.
We need contributors and mid-level admins. Hope we get a flood of
volunteers. I am not sure how to proceed with building a core
development group or a community of registered contributors; suggestions
welcome about this aspect of the project.
Project example:
A group could create an ethics in permaculture section to be referred to
as the Ethics In Permaculture FAQ (frequently asked questions). List
users interested in this could be referred to this document-in-progress
instead of reinventing the ethics wheel, instead, giving it a turn,
a revolution to stir the pot.
Guild discussion in this list? Post highlights in the Guilds section of
permaculture.info wiki.
The site runs in MediaWiki and is referred to as the Permaculture
Information Web on the main page. This is not a fixed name for the
wiki., just a convenient description.
The Permaculture Information Web is a collaborative project to provide a
comprehensive resource of permaculture related information. This wiki
uses a precise language to describe the different parts of human habitat
and that language is used to categorize the articles in this wiki. This
narrative identifies the categories and shows how they fit together.
Follow links to start exploring the content.
If your just joining, here's author guidance. For more information the
category system go to page type.
Quick Jump Table
PEOPLE - organizations | members
THINGS - elements | guilds | built structures | patterns
RESOURCES - book reviews | public documents | online resources | design
review | blogs | Discussion Groups | Permaculture Wikis
PLACES - all locations | ecoregions | permaculture sites | farming
Category Index
Overview
In this wiki, community members are using principles of
permaculture design to build a base of knowledge for designing human
habitats.
The living parts of these habitats are made of elements; things
like apple trees, chickens and dandelions. Groups of elements that
interact in a beneficial way are organized into guilds. A guild is
defined by a few core elements that define that guilds character.
One or more guilds guilds can be associated with built
structures as suited to a particular location to create a pattern. For
example, a hayfield, mulch, a chicken tractor, chicken forage plant
guilds, fencing, and a compost system may combine into a chicken forage
garden system, where chickens and materials are moved around to achieve
a particular economy and diverse yield. patterns, built structures, and
even elements are associated with the zones that describe the proximity
to our homes and paths of travel.
These patterns are tuned to local context, described by
hydrology, soils, and landscape setting. designs must be attuned to the
creations of nature as well as the natural disturbance regimes that
dominate landscapes. Techniques and tools are used to evaluate and
construct these patterns.
Ecological design and permaculture work are done by
organizations and groups that are doing work on specific sites or have
online resources. These sites are distributed across many lands, and are
similar patterns occur within the natural provinces of the earth called
ecoregions.
On this site people share ideas as well as online resources,
books, documents, and their designs
[permaculture] http://www.permaculture.info permaculture.info the Permaculture Wiki is back online!,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/07/2010