Subject: Re: [permaculture] How to Feed 9 Billion People
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:34:38 -0500
On 11/28/2012 11:29 PM, paul wheaton wrote:
I think Sepp's right. When do we start?
I agree.
We start today. And we keep going tomorrow. And the day after.
Things can be made better. It will just take a lot of hard work.
This challenge is the search for the holy grail of making significant
change in how people regard their footprint and how they think about
surviving in their accustomed style on this Earth. Bring low PC tech to
the people, let them see it, learn it and use it and themselves teach
others.
I just thought of a brilliant use for Paul and his perma-conspiracy to
take over the world. Come to North Carolina and inspire these folks!
[maybe my friend Liane is listening :-)]. There are a few hundred
thousand Carolinian dormant permaculturists waiting to adopt permaculture.
All our collective websites, blogs, lists, forums and wikis amount to a
huge knowledgebase and much of it is represented by experienced
practitioners, elders, apprentices and professionals on the path.
I was just pondering the idea of a series of virtual IPC's, linked to
the real ones, of course. They could be held monthly semi-annualy or
annually. This could be the online shopping counterpart for permaculture
gatherings. Shopping online is taking precedence over bricks and mortar
sales. The potential is enormous. Permaculture gatherings could be held
online using a variety of off the shelf free resources, sponsored or
hosted by any existing portals, lists, forums, websites, blogs or wikis.
If done it would need to be recorded, annotated and made portable. Part
of it could be done at Permies. Scott has mentioned doing something
similar though more research oriented.
Appropedia Permaculture could get into the act. This list could act as a
virtual taxi service, portal-like, with news bulletins and
announcements. Discussion and topical group meetings should be contained
in some sort of collection of easy to use online apps with proceedings
archived for ongoing reference. Gatherings would be held at the same
site each time. It could be done with a few forums, each with subforums,
created as needed to host workshop and seminar discussion.
I am sure this could be done and may well already have been by some
organization. If forums are used how nice it would be to have a chat
option for each of them that users could select while participating in
threads, i.e. post a message proposing a chat on some topic or subtopic,
all within that forum, along with the messages that are posted, with
those recorded chat session accessable within the forum along with the
message archive.
More later. Need a break.
LL
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