----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:28
AM
Subject: Re: Pc slammed in Whole Earth
Review
Russ at
pacedge@magna.com.au
wrote:
a consultant to the Australian government's
AusAID - from the CGIAR - once described permaculture to a meeting as 'a
technology with no role in development assistance'
And there's a
big part of the problem: the view that permaculture is a technology on the
same level as, say, solar panels or growing row crops. When people start to
understand that Pc is not a technique but a
(snip)
I realize I'm answering my own question here; believe me, I didn't have
these ideas before people started responding to my post; that group mind is at
work. Until that great day when there are a bunch of successful farms designed
by people with permaculture certificates, I think we can justify using data
from agroforestry, natural building, AT, aquaculture, etc. But that still
means doing the library research to collect the data. Putting that together
would be a real service.
Toby
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