Re: ecovillage and sustainability

"Poul Emil Tvermoes" <[email protected]> Mon, 10 May 2004 01:06:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.technology.sustainable.ecobalance
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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

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>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

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