This comment by Paul Wheaton leaves me totally flabbergasted; the only thing
that I can assume is that his pc
certificate was issued by someone who shouldn't be teaching permaculture.
How is it that you reserve the right to determine what to leave in or out of
the design system called permaculture.
Can you leave out the 0 in the numeric system we use in our entire math and
still call it math? I assume that you
could but what you would be left with wouldn't be math recognized by anyone
but yourself.
This is a major concern of mine: that people use the word permaculture
without giving any thought that it may well
have been conceived and developed by people as a whole system of design.
I think that part of my problem on this list is that I have assumed that we
are all on the same page as far as our
understanding of permaculture is concerned and that is not true at all. Many
on this list think pc is a technique to
grow food or build houses and have no idea that there is a whole underpinning
of ecological science, design process
and ethical rules that underlie all of the techniques.
If this makes you uncomfortable then use another term to describe what you
do, the term permaculture has been
understood and practiced for over 30 years and has been reserved for use by
graduates of the certification course
described by Bill Mollison and laid out in his book "Permaculture A Designer's
Manual" and his teaching. I am
surprised that anyone would take it upon themselves to come up with another
definition unless it was to get a free
ride on someone else's work; which to me is unethical.
If the rules of this list are to deny discussion of what I consider the most
important piece of permaculture then I
suggest we call it something besides permaculture. I would still be very
interested in the conversation but wouldn't
continue to have a conversation under the misapprehension that I am talking
about permaculture when I am really in a
conversation about farming and village technology.
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