tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955900631738632497.post3919162734658825781..comments2023-10-10T16:19:23.502+01:00Comments on Telling the World about Permaculture. From the Permaculture Association.: Permaculture's Next Big StepPermaculture Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736548537309980971noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955900631738632497.post-22855507370505226792015-03-26T05:41:09.790+00:002015-03-26T05:41:09.790+00:00Sepp Holzer one of the greatest permaculture pione...Sepp Holzer one of the greatest permaculture pioneers in Europe!<br /><br /> Holzer Permaculture Tour | AUSTRIA<br /><br />August 24th to September 4th<br />Experience what people call<br />"Paradise on Earth"<br /><br />REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2015<br /><br />TRIP HIGHLIGHTS:<br />* The Krameterhof<br />* The Holzerhof<br />* Edible Communities<br />* Practice and earthworks<br /><br />http://www.holzerpermaculture.us/austria-2015.htmlPermakultur-Wildniskultur Pehamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15520485711529397578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955900631738632497.post-36156115682278304042015-02-20T11:06:35.886+00:002015-02-20T11:06:35.886+00:00Hi Chris,
thank you for your thoughts. Yes, as y...Hi Chris, <br />thank you for your thoughts. Yes, as you fear, a part of this consultation is via the internet. It's a great way to communicate with many people in many places without sending someone on a very long (and carbon intensive!) mission around the world.<br /><br />However, we are also actively engaging people to consult with their countries and regions. Asking them to feed into their local networks, to understand their needs, desires, and challenges. To listen to and understanding their thoughts on what permaculture can achieve, and to communicate this back to us. Much of this communication is face-to-face. It also, critically, helps give voices to those who do not have internet access.<br /><br />I agree, as suggested by Mike Berners-Lee (2010, How Bad are Bananas p161 "Global data centres), that internet communications footprints are reaching the same level of carbon footprint as paper-based ones. This is one part of the multi-faceted challenges to which permaculture may offer solutions. I also strongly believe that sharing knowledge, learning from each other, is a really important part of finding effective and efficient solutions. But it is not up to me. It is up to you, to all of us together, to decide what the future of permaculture might look like. Will it be to enhance local networks? Or strengthen globally? Or both? Or something else entirely? <br /><br />Our commitment in this project is to ensure that we hear the global voice, to really understand what is needed and what can be achieved. If it is that internet communications are a transitional step, then they are a transitional step. You decide.<br /><br />If you are reading this and would like to consult with your country or region, or offer translations to/from your language, please email me on international+coord@permaculture.org.uk or write to me at : Permaculture Association, Hollybush Conservation Centre, Broad Lane, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS5 3BP, UK.<br /><br />Kind regards, <br />Naomi<br />Naomi van der Veldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05573446046293389841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955900631738632497.post-22706961753716125532015-02-14T10:35:05.679+00:002015-02-14T10:35:05.679+00:00'A global consultation is underway.' How?,...'A global consultation is underway.' How?, I wonder. I worry about the Permaculture Movement's growing reliance on the internet. 'Permaculture Online' is surely an oxymoron: sustainable unsustainability? Maybe Permaculture Online is Transitional - we use the internet, with its rapidly redundant devices impossible to make locally, streaming from datacentres goodness knows where on the planet, perhaps taking responsibility for carbon emissions..., just until we've persuaded enough people to re-build self-reliant local economies, but if so who amongst us is making that clear?chrismarshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12812571335242121774noreply@blogger.com