Re: ecovillage and sustainability

Aloha,

> As to Permaculture for me, mush of it is a little too pat ie do a designers
> course and wala, you are a designer?

An apprentice designer, qualified to make mistakes and harvest them... :-)
It's like an introductory survey course in ecological design.  That's how I
view it at present, anyhow.

> It tries to some degree to establish the
> physical then the social,

It really doesn't do more than make a few token remarks on the social, at
least not the original Mollison/Holmgren core curriculum.

No surprise there, the "founders" were one garralous charismatic loner and one
quiet reclusive loner, more or less.  Human relatings were not either of their
specialities.  I am doing bits and pieces here and there to introduce more of
the "social" (human relatings) to permaculture.

> ...Perhaps in this instance is needs a number of
> additional principles grounded in tradiotional practise but which are outside
> of the current land & physical design perspective with all of its
> limitations.

Yes, definitely!


John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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