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Re: What Bill says
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: What Bill says
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:28:38 -0400
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LYRIS-86724-526-2001.07.23-00.46.57--hemenway#jeffnet.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <120025@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:43:05 -0700, Toby Hemenway
<hemenway@jeffnet.org> wrote:
>................... It also doesn't speak to learning styles.
>If we'd been locked into a single curriculum, the marvelous innovations in
>how the material is presented--which to me are at least as significant as
>the material itself--might not have evolved. A curriculum checklist could
>fossilize permaculture. Much of the ecology taught in Pc courses is already
>outmoded, dating from the 1970s: the stability of nature, "everything is
>connected to everything else," and much more. It needs to evolve.
Do a Google websearch on to see how the science of ecology has evolved
over the years:
emergy
conservation ecology
sustainable ecosystems
adaptive ecology
ecological engineering
constructed wetlands
L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org