Re: ecovillage and sustainability
"Poul Emil Tvermoes" <[email protected]> Mon, 10 May 2004 01:06:07 +0000
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Hi John Yes IOdio have to agree re intro focus of the PDC. Interesting comment re permaculture founders, I have met Daidid Holmgren a few times and he seems to be a very down to earth person, so not sure if he was the ""quiet reclusive loner, more or less"". Cheers for now Poul 3 / 39 Carlingford Street Elsternwick Melbourne Victoria Australia 3162 04 3 888 6226 >From: "John Schinnerer" <john-/Gao9/[email protected]> >Reply-To: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Ecobal]ecovillage and sustainability >Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 20:29:41 -0700 (PDT) > >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. > >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 >------------------------------------------ >- Eco-Living - >Design & Technology Services >People - Place - Learning - Integration >john-/Gao9/[email protected] >http://eco-living.net > >------------------------------------------------ >To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: >http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance >------------------------------------------------ ---------- Get Hotmail on your mobile. Click here. ------------------------------------------------ To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance ------------------------------------------------