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From london@nuteknet.com Wed Jul 2 09:49:25 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA25968 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA10458 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05926 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:47:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BA4EFE.6C8B@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:52:14 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: [Fwd: Permaculture Design Course CA] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------35D551515438" Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------35D551515438 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------35D551515438 Content-Type: message/news Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: ladybird.oit.unc.edu!fddinewz.oit.unc.edu!unc-cs!news-relay.ncren.net!nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!gatech!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.igc.apc.org!cdp!joed From: Joe Dalsin Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture Subject: Permaculture Design Course CA Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:06:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org Xref: ladybird.oit.unc.edu alt.sustainable.agriculture:982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES WITH BILL MOLLISON AND SCOTT PITTMAN -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Permaculture <-- Permanent AgriCulture / Permanent Culture) The only classes with Bill Mollison in the Northern Hemisphere in 1997! Bill Mollison has announced his retirement from teaching! This may be your last chance to take a course from the creator of Permaculture! Southern California June 16-27, Near Santa Barbara Northern California July 14-25, Near Half Moon Bay This is a two week residential course with 72 hours of instruction. What are some of the things you'll learn in this course? How to: - Turn deserts into prairies within a year or two. - "Read the land" for it's potential. - Design inexpensive, environmentally sound buildings and incorporate them ecologically into the landscape. - Find land to farm in your community for $1 per acre per year. - More than double the yield from your rangeland while increasing soil fertility & the health of your herds. - Avoid disaster; fully and thoroughly check out a piece of land, inventory it's resources and problems before buying it. - Become an Ecological Land Developer and provide as many as three middle class incomes per acre in land based, value added, agricultural enterprises. - Rehabilitate destroyed soils to support limited agriculture in a few months. - Assemble high yield food forests. - Create Oases in drylands-Growing trees without irrigation using only 6 inches of rainfall. - Desalinate salted land What's Special about these Courses? Of course, any time Bill Mollison teaches, the course is special. Other unique aspects are: - Our strong international recruitment, you'll be learning alongside colleagues from other countries. - New material developed since the publication of Permaculture: A Designers' Manual. For instance, detailed information on the nuts and bolts of CSA farming, retirement crops, how to devise your farm/organization's legal structure to avoid paying unnecessary taxes, examples of making a living in ways that don't cause you to compromise your ecological/social values, and Mollison's "Next Phase of Permaculture"-designing whole, "self-building" fully self-sustaining towns. - Invaluable new written handouts, illustrations & resource lists. - Food will be largely organic and purchased or donated directly from the farmers who produce it!!! - Special guest presentations in the evenings. - Scholarships to encourage participation by people of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. - "Trade show" day with suppliers and manufacturers of appropriate tech products which may be relevant to your own projects. - College credit, and PCA credits applied for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check out the Web site at: www.permaculture-institute.org Or write Dave Blume at: dblume@permaculture-institute.org Or write "real" mail to: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture(IIEA) PO Box 620930 Woodside, CA 94062-0930 Tel: 415-365-2993, Fax: 415-355-2241 --------------35D551515438-- From london@nuteknet.com Wed Jul 2 09:52:12 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA26076 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:52:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA11319 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:49:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05959 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:49:40 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BA4F8D.60DE@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:54:37 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: http://www.qpages.com/organic/ Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------11FA62A6F98" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------11FA62A6F98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.qpages.com/organic/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------11FA62A6F98 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Base: "http://www.qpages.com/organic/"


submit a site to the

Organic Gardens Web Ring


 

A web ring is a group of web sites connected through www.webring.org by some simple HTML. This is a free service allowing surfers to visit sites with a common theme by clicking on 'next' or 'previous' links at each web site. This web ring is for sites about organic gardens and gardeners. No commercial sites will be added.

 

To submit your site to the Organic Gardens Web Ring, fill out the information on this page and press the 'Submit Site' button. You will be sent some HTML to paste onto the page of the URL you submitted. After you have done this, send email to JoeT@optima-systems.com and you will soon be added to the ring.

 

Please note that the URL you submit is for the page to which you will add the web ring HTML. This page should be your organic gardening page; it should not be a general 'home page' that has a link to your organic gardening page. This is to reduce confusion for those travelling the web ring.

 

If you have questions about any of this, please send email to the above address. Happy gardening!

 

Site Title:

Site URL:

E-mail:

Password:

Please choose a password. (Don't forget it!)

Keywords:

Enter up to 20 keywords to describe your site.

Description:

Enter a short description of your site.

 


The HTML to paste into your page is below. Your will need to replace YOUR_EMAIL_HERE, YOUR_NAME_HERE, and YOUR_SITEID_HERE appropriately. You will also need to copy the graphic 'orgring.jpg' from this page.

 

<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=640>

<TR>

<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" COLSPAN=2>

<P ALIGN="CENTER">

This <A HREF="http://www.qpages.com/organic/">Organic Gardens Web Ring</A> site is owned by

<A HREF="mailto:YOUR_EMAIL_HERE">

YOUR_NAME_HERE

</A>.</TD>

</TR>

<TR><TD WIDTH="30%" VALIGN="MIDDLE">

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://www.qpages.com/organic/"><IMG SRC="orgring.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=77></A></TD>

<TD WIDTH="70%" VALIGN="MIDDLE">

<P ALIGN="CENTER">[ <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=organicring&id=YOUR_SITEID_HERE&next">NEXT</A> | <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=organicring&id=YOUR_SITEID_HERE&prev">PREVIOUS</A> | <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=organicring&id=YOUR_SITEID_HERE&skip">SKIP</A> | <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=organicring&id=YOUR_SITEID_HERE&next5">NEXT-5</A> | <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=organicring&random">RANDOM</A> ]</P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER">Click <A HREF="http://www.qpages.com/organic/">here</A> for information about joining the ring.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

The HTML should end up looking like this on your page:

 

This Organic Gardens Web Ring site is owned by The Ringmaster.

[ NEXT | PREVIOUS | SKIP | NEXT-5 | RANDOM ]

Click here for information about joining the ring.

 

 

 

--------------11FA62A6F98-- From london@nuteknet.com Thu Jul 3 00:15:14 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA05644 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:15:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA20278 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:12:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.71]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12303 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:13:15 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.71] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BB19EE.647C@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 23:18:06 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Bioponic International Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1E22664053CF" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1E22664053CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.bioponic.com/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------1E22664053CF Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Base: "http://www.bioponic.com/" Bioponic International


 


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    --------------1E22664053CF-- From london@nuteknet.com Thu Jul 3 00:29:24 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA05960 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:29:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA23128 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:26:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.71]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12347 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:27:25 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9i7.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.71] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BB1D40.3BFB@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 23:32:16 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Loren Davidson's Home Page Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------11862F8440CD" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------11862F8440CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.batnet.com/beauty/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------11862F8440CD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Base: "http://www.batnet.com/beauty/" Loren Davidson's Home Page

    Loren Davidson

    Welcome!

    These pages, while using enhancements best viewed by Netscape, should, except for special sections demonstrating fancy Web composition techniques, should be viewable by any browser.

    Some Personal Info:

    Description:
    Tall, dark brown hair, moustache, hazel eyes, wears glasses, kind to animals and wayward humans, often seen smiling, occasionally seen grinning evilly... There's a picture of me from the 1995 Draught Board Xmas party online. I'm in the center in the back, blue & white striped shirt, next to the guy in the Santa hat. It's not one of my best pictures, but it's been scanned.
    Personal Mission Statement:
    I believe that my purpose in this life is to encourage people to come together in a healthy way to live in balance on Mother Earth. To this end, I am learning how to be the type of person I'd want to live with, how to find commonalities with and among other people, and how to take care of this Earth we all share.
    Hobbies, interests:
    Walking, hiking, organic gardening, self-reliance, homebrewing (won a 1995 Bay Area regional competition with an apple mead recipe), Earth spirituality, Strauss waltzes, creating community, alternative/intentional families, reading (science fiction, fantasy, metaphysics, gardening & self-reliance, computers, cereal cartons, instructions...), music (playing and listening), poetry, Monty Python, other weird humor, environmentalism, reading, walks on the beach or in the woods, Net-surfing, reading (Okay....so I like reading!)...some of my random musings are now going online...

    Professional Info:

    I'm a sustainable communities builder in training and organic gardener, who earns money to pay the bills by programming computers. I work with Oracle databases, building client apps for same and for Website accounting, and used to build Websites. Once upon a time, I used to put insolvent businesses out of their misery. Before that, I sold consumer electronics and computer equipment.


    If you're not offended by explicit language, you can read my opinion on the Exon Amendment to the new Telecommunications Reform Act. I am a signer of the Cyberspace Declaration of Independence, and proudly display the new "flag of Cyberspace".


    Current Projects and Interests:

    (links and further content added occasionally)
    • Working on Permaculture-inspired gardening and landscaping projects
    • Creating an intentional community in the Bay Area
    • Harmony Hill - 40 acres of oak woodland in the Sierra foothills
    • Watching and taping Babylon 5 (some of the best SF on TV)
    • These Web pages
    • Learning and experimenting with HTML extensions, CGI scripts and other Web "tweaks"
    • Compiling a list of interesting, useful and merely odd Web links

    For additional information on any of the above projects, or simply to say hello, you can write me at loren@wombat.net.
    Thanks for visiting. This page last modified on 6/12/97, and could use much more modifying. --------------11862F8440CD-- From london@nuteknet.com Thu Jul 3 13:15:14 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA13476 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:15:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA27681 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.23]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA16079 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:13:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.23] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BBD0B8.2FFB@nuteknet.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 12:18:00 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: JONATHAN TOWNE's WEB PAGE Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------3B4310715A5A" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3B4310715A5A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://207.142.110.11:80/tomar/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------3B4310715A5A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Base: "http://207.142.110.11:80/tomar/" JONATHAN TOWNE's WEB PAGE

    WELCOME!

    In the closing years of the 20th century, a singular event occurred that has the potential to enrich lives by providing access to information on demand. The internet as a form of communication is in its infancy, with many bugs to work out(such as making it easy to use for the computer moron, and the matter of speed and capacity.) It's potential to enrich lives and to actually bring people together by creating communities is evidenced by e-mail, newsgroups and chat. It is possible for people to develop talents and express themselves-differently, but effectively through web publishing. This web page is an attempt to facilitate the expression of some of my own creativity. It is also to provide a forum for discussion of some important issues(in my mind!) as we go into the 21st century.

    Because I don't want to spend my time learning fancy programming, you won't find here another cute web page with fancy graphics and embedded java applets. Doing so will lose the message. Technology needs to remain humanistic and accessible, otherwise we are lost. This web page hopefully will reflect an optimistic but responsible portrayal of the future of homo sapiens, a successful if not weedy species on this speck of flotsam on the edge of an ordinary galaxy among billions. I hope to update it, improve it, expand it and above all, learn from it as I explore this new communication tool.


    To describe myself in a thumbnail: I'm employed as an Registered Nurse at a local hospital and live, work and play on a 36 acre farm with my spouse and two kids. We have a low key farming operation, growing our own vegetables, raising cattle, and use our own wood products for heat and building materials. We are organic, using cow manure and purchased minerals, while relying on nature to provide by using nitrogen fixing crops, and green manures. Working in the outdoors is very important to me as are walking in the woods frequently and observing spring woodland wildflowers(I seem to do less of this- regrettably- as time goes by) As you can surmise, the health of the environment is of major concern(the word health ties this into my livelihood-nursing-more later). To balance the budget as a responsibility to the next generation is a trivial act, if in the meantime we leave a toxic environment with its resources denuded, and with its inherent beauty desecrated.

    We belong to an organization, Michigan Land Trustees, from whom we bought this farm, and share many of their values. It seems that a family value that we don't hear much about, is land stewardship. Something else that people are unaware of, is that organic farming-for many crops anyway- is perfectly capable of equivalent yields to chemical farming. With either, management is key. Our backyard.

    Anyway, here are some links:

    • Living on Earth A site from the National Public Radio home page that has a wealth of information concerning environmental issues.
    • Permaculture Resources Permaculture is the conscious design and implementation of landuse which seeks to enhance the inherent productivity of natural ecosystems by selecting appropriate species and varieties and putting them together as they are adapted thereby making them productive for human use that maximizes the efficiency of inputs, be it light, water or nutrients. In this geographical area, such an arrangement may be an open three story forest, with nut and fruit trees for human and livestock use, and edible herbaceous species. It also seeks to put people in the center where intensive gardens and land use would be adjacent to homes and extensive "food forests" would be more remote. Permaculture principles can (and should) be applied by nearly everyone as an advanced form of resource use (remember: reduce, reuse, and recycle).
    • Michigan Land Conservancies and Nature Centers A listing of what's happening in Michigan with regards to conserving land and its appreciation.
    • Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
    • Michigan Organic Growers A serious and venerable institution.
    • Michigan Land Trustees

    Fun at Sleeping Bear Dunes


    My employment at a local hospital provides me with an income, a lot of challenge, and a way of helping people who truly need it. Since much of today's health problems are related to lifestyle choices, many of them ill-informed choices, as health care workers, education is a major component of our work. Of course, this education should have occurred many years earlier than when they are hospitalized. The challenges we face in reducing health care costs, would be much allieved if the necessary education and good life style choices were done early in our lives. In fact, I would venture to say, there would be no healthcare crisis if this were the case.

    A few links related to nursing and medicine:


    With the Voyager missions to the outer planets, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Galileo mission in progress, you would have to have your head in the sand, not to be aware of some of the exciting discoveries in space science and astronomy. A new perspective on our place in the universe that is somewhat humbling can be appreciated by observing the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus (making that planet the nearest thing to hell that I can think of). The possible(probable?) discovery of fossil life from Mars and its implications that we cannot be unique (already 2 examples in this solar system-although a strong argument exists that life may have originated on Mars then migrated to earth via meteoric impact before it went extinct there, since conditions were probably better on Mars during the early epochs of our solar system than on earth for life to evolve). To me this enlightening perspective of our insignificance in the scheme of things makes it all the more important to conserve and protect our planet and its biosphere. The internet is a huge repository of space images including the latest Hubble pictures, where you can see for yourself, these exciting discoveries.

    Some great images:

    Some astronomy links:


    A couple of sites for news and information:

    • NPR National Public radio. This is a fairly large site full of text and real audio files for your perusal. I've been listening to NPR since its inception 20 years ago and there is nothing comparable in the broadcast medium in quality, balance and depth. With real audio streaming technology, you can listen to many past NPR programs while surfing the web(need a 28.8 modem). Their new daily talk shows can hook you!
    • CNN Interactive And then, you have the news in bites for those with short attention spans or if you are just tired.


    Well this is my corner of cyberspace! Whether you want to hurl insults or just say hi, email me tomar@cybersol.com.

    A sugar maple woods in the fall


    You are visitor# since March 29, 1997.


    --------------3B4310715A5A-- From london@nuteknet.com Thu Jul 3 13:16:04 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA13488 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:16:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA27967 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:12:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.23]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA16089 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:14:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9gn.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.23] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BBD0DE.4D7B@nuteknet.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 12:18:38 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: MICHIGAN LAND TRUSTEES Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------27B18730F8" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------27B18730F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://207.142.110.11:80/tomar/MILATRT/INDEX.HTM -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------27B18730F8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="INDEX.HTM" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="INDEX.HTM" Content-Base: "http://207.142.110.11:80/tomar/MILATRT /INDEX.HTM" MICHIGAN LAND TRUSTEES

    What is MLT?

    The MICHIGAN LAND TRUSTEES a non profit 401(c)3 corporation dedicated to preserving the health and vitality of the people-land interface. MLT works out of Southwest Michigan.

    What do you mean by that?

    Everywhere we see the results of wasteful land practices in the name of expedience and short term profits. MLT seeks to examine and improve connections between people and the land and thus enhance personal responsibility for environmental health.

    Examples?

    A land and capital intensive food production system that relies on short term chemical fixes that can result in the loss of small farms, meaningful employment, soil erosion, pollution of ground water and the general wasteful use of fossil fuel resources.

    Another example is forestry which as commonly practiced now, promotes short term expedient profits as a justification of even aged management and clear cutting when mixed aged management and selective cutting have been shown to be the most productive of quality wood and the other forest products that a healthy forest produces.

    So what is the MLT doing about these issues?

    MLT has a 20 year history of promoting stewardship of soil and land resources. In 1978 we acquired through donation, a 36 acre run down farm and started a living-learning homesteading program affiliated with Western Michigan University. Many men and women learned small scale organic farming and self-sufficiency skills, by actually doing it. This program existed in various forms through 1984. Then interest and energy evolved to delving into permaculture.

    Permaculture is the concious design of land and its biota in ways that mimic natural ecosystems and provide the stability, efficiency of resource use, and productivity found in healthy ecosystems. Appropriate productive species and varieties are used along with symbiotic structures that maximize both the "edge effect", and three story woody polycultures, and by assimilating animals-both domestic and wild-to exploit their additive and synergistic productivity. People function as components of this polyculture.

    What other activities has MLT been involved in?

    Many. Although MLT sold the land trust farm in 1994(It is still farmed organically with permaculture principles in mind.), the interests and activities of MLT has been diversified as is the membership and the board of directors. A newsletter is produced 2-4 times a year. The group has been involved, over the years and at present, with community gardens, a LETS program, and Moffa (Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance), among many others. The quarterly meetings of the board are always interesting and stimulating.

    What does membership entail?

    Five or more dollars a year depending on what you can afford. In return you receive a newsletter. Larger donations, of course, may be made to take advantage of our tax free status. Being a land trust we have a special interest in land donations which we can use to further our prime directive. Other avenues of involvement include the contribution of articles to the newsletter and contributing at the board meeting or the annual membership meetings.

    For More:

    Some links to related local organisations:

    We would like to hear from you!

    Michigan Land Trustees, Inc.
    84757 28th St
    Lawton, MI 49065

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    Permaculture:
    Design For Living

    an Interview with Bill Mollison, by Alan AtKisson


    Bill Mollison is a living legend. He's known as the genius of permaculture, "the David Brower of Australia," or a crusty old curmudgeon, depending on the source. But whether it's glowing admiration or sneering dismissal, reaction to Mollison is invariably strong. He is clearly one of the most interesting specimens of the human species - which he has spent years studying from a naturalist's behavioral perspective.

    He passed through Seattle recently with a film crew shooting a documentary about the far-flung successes of permaculture, a radically new (or, some have said, radically old) way of gardening, designing, and living sustainably by cooperating with nature. Ironically, we met in a downtown hotel room - filled with traffic noise - as we stalked a definition of permaculture and considered the eeriness of modern life. For a more detailed exploration, see Mollison's book Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, available for $34.95 (plus $3 shipping) from Permaculture Drylands, PO Box 27371, Tucson, AZ 85726, 602/824-3465.

    Alan: Permaculture is a slippery idea to me. But from what I read, it seems that not even those who actually do permaculture really know what it is.

    Bill: I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

    Alan: Why "eerie"?

    Bill: There's no other book about design for living. Don't you think that's eerie? I mean, how can we possibly expect to survive if we don't design what we're doing to be bearable?

    Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong. For example, if you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

    But then, at least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

    One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.

    Alan: When you say "we," do you mean humans in general, or Western humans especially?

    Bill: Human beings in general. There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.

    But most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation. A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

    Alan: And it's eerie that we don't do it.

    Bill: And that we don't design the garden to assist the house is much more eerie. That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

    Alan: There's an old Chinese expression: "If we don't change our direction, we'll wind up where we are headed."

    Bill: Exactly so. I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to. We're happy to power on to the end - like Mr. Bush. He could have saved more oil than he needed from Iraq, but he preferred to go and "kick ass" - kill people - and use more oil in the process.

    America is an eerie society. It seems to want to live on a dust bowl. But as one of your own Indians said, "If you shit in bed, you'll surely smother in it."

    Alan: Let's get back to permaculture. What's your current best definition of it?

    Bill: You could say it's a rational man's approach to not shitting in his bed.

    But if you're an optimist, you could say it's an attempt to actually create a Garden of Eden. Or, if you're a scientist, you could liken it to a miraculous wardrobe in which you can hang garments of any science or any art and find they're always harmonious with, and in relation to, that which is already hanging there. It's a framework that never ceases to move, but that will accept information from anywhere.

    It's hard to get your mind around it - I can't. I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

    You see, if you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them. We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.

    Alan: This reminds me of John Todd and his work with artificial ecosystem assembly [IC #25].

    Bill: There are lots of words for it these days. But the day I brought out my first book, Permaculture One, there was no word for it, though that's what it means: artificial ecosystem assembly. I would agree with anyone who said that if Permaculture had to be written, I wasn't the person to write it. I'm sure the John Todds and Hunter Lovinses of this world would have done a far better job than I. But it had to be written by somebody sooner or later, and historically it was just bad luck that it was me.

    Alan: How did you come up with the idea of permaculture? What led up to it?

    Bill: I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests. Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.

    I soon got to know my animal fairly well - and I found out that it didn't matter what they were saying. What they were doing was very interesting, but it had no relation whatsoever to either what they were saying, or what questions they could answer about what they were doing. No relationship. Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."

    Then I sort of pulled out for a while in 1972 - I cut a hole in the bush, built a barn and a house and planted a garden - gave up on humanity. I was disgusted with the stupidity of the University, the research institutions, the whole thing.

    When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough. Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.

    Alan: At this point, permaculture is not just a way of designing things - it's a movement. What have you started?

    Bill: Well, anything that's any good is self-perpetuating. I've started something I can no longer understand - it's out of control from the word go. People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

    For example, one of the people I had trained in 1983, Janet McKinsey, disappeared with a friend into the bush - two women with children. They decided they could cut down their needs a lot, and they made a very scientific study of how to do that in their own houses. They've now started something called "Home Options for Preservation of the Environment" - HOPE.

    They point out, for example, that there are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn't matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label - it still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.

    Alan: So would you call what they're doing permaculture as well?

    Bill: Oh, I don't know what you call it. But they got there after a permaculture course. When they first came to town - Benala, in Australia - and lectured, all the women of the town said, "Oh this is marvelous, we'll all do it!" The women started to order these bulk canisters - so then the shops in the town had to change, because they couldn't sell them that other crap anymore. Then the Council had to change, to institute recycling.

    So the women - and women spend the money of society on its goods - examined every item they bought in relation to its energy use and its necessity, and just eliminated those that were energy expensive and unnecessary. Simply by women learning exactly what to buy and how to buy, the whole thing can be brought back to sanity. That's spreading like mad - like every good idea does.

    So my students are constantly amazing me. Here's another story: I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

    Alan: What can they teach the Bushmen that the Bushmen wouldn't already know?

    Bill: Gardening. Because the Bushmen can no longer go with the game, and the game have been killed by the fences put up by the European Commission to grow beef. Just like the Australian Aborigine, 63% of what they used to live off is extinct, and the rest is rare now. You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

    Alan: So permaculture seems to be as much a change in perception as anything else - a change in where one begins to look at things from.

    Bill: I think that's right. For me, having suffered through a Western education, it was a shift from passive learning - you know, "this is how books say things are" - to something active. It's saying (and this is a horrifying thought for university people) that instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

    Now, they may teach sophisticated physics at the university. But they go home to a domestic environment which can only be described as demented in its use of energy. They can't see that, and that blindness is appalling.

    Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?

    Alan: Perhaps because we're so wealthy that we believe we don't have to.

    Bill: Well, I don't call that wealth. You want a definition of wealth from Eskimos, the Inuit? Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

    Alan: If you want to do permaculture, and there isn't a teacher around, where do you start?

    Bill: Just start right where you are.

    Alan: I read somewhere that you've said, "You start with your nose, then your hands ..."

    Bill: "... your back door, your doorstep" - you get all that right, then everything is right. If all that's wrong, nothing can ever be right. Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

    Alan: Doing permaculture seems to be the opposite of abstraction.

    Bill: Oh, I put it another way. I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher. But I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

    When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

    But if you get someone who looks after himself and those around him - like Scott Nearing, or Masanobu Fukuoka - that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.

    Alan: Everything you've done suggests that turning around and going another direction is really not that hard.

    Bill: I think mine is a very rich life. I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on. I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

    Alan: Permaculture involves tampering with nature, but how far do you think we should go? Should we be doing genetic engineering, creating hybrids, etc.?

    Bill: The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really. The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor. "Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

    If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death. The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together. We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

    At the same time, anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests. You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

    Alan: How has permaculture been received? What do reviewers say about your books, for example?

    Bill: The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about." We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us. Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

    People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious. If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

    You see, the worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

    Alan: So that's worst from whose perspective?

    Bill: Anybody that wants to extinguish it. It's something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

    Alan: Is it an anarchist movement?

    Bill: No, anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

    Alan: Given all the study you've done of our behavior and your work in spreading permaculture, do you have reason to hope we'll make it as a species?

    Bill: I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

    I would say, use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. But if you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

    If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. And choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

    It's us chickens that are doing it. There's no need for anyone else - we are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. We can do it.


    A Nursery For Inventions

    The Swedish Institute for Social Inventions (abbreviated to SISU in Swedish) is a private foundation for the promotion of good social inventions. One of our important emerging areas of activity is a "nursery" where a few social inventions are given shelter until they can be "planted out" as independent organizations.

    The first plant was, appropriately, permaculture. Member Peter Norrthon had heard and read a lot about permaculture, and he wanted help to introduce it in Sweden. A SISU group has worked to this end for about two years now. It has organized a number of courses and meetings and has published information about permaculture and ecological living.

    The roots of permaculture are now well established in Sweden, and soon it should be time for planting out. SISU has also contributed to introducing permaculture in Poland, and currently has a permaculture project beginning in Israel.

    SISU is linked to another not-for-profit association, called SUS, with members in all parts of Sweden plus a few in other countries. SISU publishes a magazine for SUS, bladSUSet, which appears about five times a year. Each issue also appears in summary in English.

    For more information about our "nursery," our "Inventors' Day" celebrations, or our publications, write to us at Peter Myndes Backe 12:5, S-118 46 Stockholm, Sweden, or contact us at tel. (46) 8772 4587; fax (46) 8642 2641; or by electronic mail through Peacenet (pns:mmehlmann). A membership/subscription for twelve months is 150 Sw kronor.

    - Marilyn Mehlmann

    Marilyn Mehlmann is the founder and director of the Swedish Institute for Social Inventions.

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    AFRICA

    PC Trust of Botswana
    Dorothy Ndaba, Willem Boers & Russell Clark
    Privat Bag 47, Serowe, Botswana
    Ph: int+267 431 463
    Fax: int+267 431 463
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

    Forces of Light Kudzo Agbeve
    PO Box B - 15, Tema, Ghana
    codes 1,5.

    FIOH / WWOOF (The Future In Our Hands)Ghana
    Ebeneser Nortey-Mensah
    PO Box 154, Trade Fair Site 1a, Accra, Ghana
    Ph: int+(23321) 712939
    Fax: int+(23321) 712220
    codes 8,9,12,13,15.

    PC Network - Malawi
    June M Walker
    Thanthwe, PO Box 46, Monkey Bay, Malawi
    Ph: int+ (265) 587 656
    Fax: int+ (265) 587 656 phone first
    codes not specified

    David Paul
    Post Office Box 2815, Blantyre, Malawi
    Ph: int+(265) 620 677
    Fax: int+(265) 634 067
    codes 1,2,3.

    PC In Action
    Jeremy Burnham
    PO Box 235, Noordhoek Cape 7985, South Africa
    Ph: int +(27) 21 789 1818
    Fax: int + (27) 21 789 2031
    codes 1,2,3,4,7,8.

    Tholego Development Project
    Paul Cohen
    PO Box 1668, Rustenburg, North West 0300, South Africa
    Ph:int+0142 25322
    Fax: Int+0142 27090
    email: vildev@icon.co.2A
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,14.
    codes not specified

    Permaculture Villager
    Box 319, Irene 1675, Gauteng, South Africa
    Ph: int+ 012 631 415
    Fax: int+012 667 2770
    codes not specified

    Mlawula Nature Reserve
    Community Outreach Officer
    PO Box 312, Simunye, Swaziland
    Ph: int+ 268 38885
    Fax: int+ 268 61875
    codes 1,3.

    National Trust Commission.
    National Environ. Education Programme
    Jessenia Lopez or Julie Cairelli
    PO Box 100, Lobamba, Swaziland
    Ph: int+ (0)9 268 61178 & 61151
    Fax: int+ (0) 268 61875
    codes 1,3,4.

    PASA
    Box 68929, Bryanston 2021, South Africa
    codes not specified

    PC Association of Sth Africa
    Jeremy Burnham
    22 Aronby Ct, 42 Hopkins Rd, Yeoville 2198, South Africa
    codes not specified

    Tanzania Organisation of PC Promoters
    Mr Rwechungura
    Box 9421, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Ph: 246 4 7431471
    codes 1,3.

    PC Association of Uganda
    Stanley Ndekera
    Po Box 2581, Kampala, Uganda
    Ph: int+ (256) 41 231 47?
    Fax: int+ (256) 41 255 408
    codes 1,4,5,6,15.

    Nkayi Rural District Council (Dept of Sust. Agr.)
    Preacherd Donga
    PO Box 20, Nkayi, Zimbabwe
    codes not specified

    Pelum
    John Wilson
    Box CY 301, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
    Ph: int+ (263) 4 792 223 & (263) 4 794 470
    Fax: int+ (263) 4 723 056
    codes not specified

    Kuyamamurana Store
    Ernest Mhungu
    Post Bag 778, Kadoma, Zimbabwe
    codes not specified

    Zimbabwe Institute fo PC (ZIP) & Fambidzanai Training Centre
    Mrs CS Mgwerume
    PO Box 8515, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
    Ph: int+ (263) 4 397 037 & 726911
    Fax int+ (263) 4 726 911
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,14.


    ASIA

    Moudubi Health & Agricultural Development Project
    Main Akbar Hussein
    House #122, Road #13/A, Dahnmandi R/A, Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
    Ph: int+ 880 02 313 623
    Fax: int+ 880 02 813 095
    codes 1,2,4,6,8.

    Community Health & Development Program
    Omar Faruque
    I.T.W.A. Building, PO Galachipa, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
    Ph: int+ 880 441 2770 242
    Fax: int+ 880 02 813095 att: CHDP
    codes 1,4,5,6,8.

    Pitchandikulam Forest
    Joss Brooks and Anita Truchanas
    PO Box 605 101, Auroville, Tamil Nardu, India
    Ph: int+ 91 413862290, +91 413862365
    Fax: int+ 91 413 862274 alt 91 41338132
    joss@ilauro.frlht.ernet.in
    codes not specified

    Biorama Trust
    C.R. Ramanathaa Ganapathipalayam
    Post Udumalpet Taluk, Tamil Nadu, 642122, India
    Ph: int+ 91 04252 23136
    codes 1,2,4.

    Coastal Development Planning Centre
    Mihir R. Bhatt
    25 Vasundhara Colony, Gulbai Jkrd, Ahmedabad, Gujurat State, 380006, India
    Ph: int+ 91 79 656 8421
    Ph: int+ 91 79 642 0056
    codes 1,2,4,6,7.

    PC Association of India
    Dr Venkat
    117, East Marredpalli, Secunderabad, A.p 500026, India
    codes 1,3,4,7.

    Self Employed Womens' Association (SEWA)
    Reema Nanavaty
    SEWA Reception Centre, opp Lok Manya Tilka, Baug Bhadra, Ahmedabad,
    Gujarat 380 001, India
    Ph: int+ 91 79 5320 477 or 5320 444
    Fax: int+ 91 79 5320 446
    SewaMahila@axcess.net.in
    codes not specified

    Centre for Education & Documentation
    John D'Soura
    3 Suleman Chambers, 4 Battery Street, Bombay 400039, India
    Ph: int+ 91 022 202 0079 or 285 1156
    admin@cedbom.ilbom.ernet.in
    codes 1,8,9.

    E.L.A. Ashram (Ecology Learning Action) Shyamananda and Yoga Ratna
    Atma Darshan Yogashram
    589 10th Cross, 7th Block, Jayanagar West' Bangalore, 560082, India
    Ph: int+ 91 80 663 9490
    codes1,3,7,13,14.

    Jajarkot PC Programme
    Chris Evans & Khadga B. Regmi
    PO Box 10908, Kathmandu, Nepal
    Ph: int+ 977 1 225 277
    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    Nepal Community Support Group (NECOS)
    Prasad Chhetry
    GPO Box 3724 Thapathali, Katmandu,Nepal
    Ph: int+ 977 01 213 827
    Fax: int+ 977 01 225 277
    codes not specified

    Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Nepal(INSAN)
    Badri N Dahal
    GPO Box 6716 Tangal, Kathmandu, Nepal
    Ph: int+ 977 1 422 482
    Fax: int+ 977 1 524 509 Attn. INSAN
    codes not specified

    Vacvina , PC Research & Training Dept
    Nguyen Van Gia, Nguyen Van Man
    C2B-Thanh Cong Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Ph: int+ 844 345 216
    Fax: int+ 844 353144
    codes 1,3,4,6.

    PC Asia Ltd
    Chris Lonsdale
    I/F No 63 Tai Wan New Village, Lamma Island DD3, Hong Kong
    Ph: int+ 852 891 9298
    Fax: int+ 852 982 1452
    Permacul@HIL.Super.Net
    codes not specified


    ISRAEL

    The Green Kibbutz Group
    Jan Martin Bang
    Kibbutz Gezer, CN Shimshon 99786, Israel
    Ph: int+ 972 8 9270 646
    Fax: 972 8 9270 736
    codes not specified



    AUSTRALIA

    New South Wales

    PC Institute
    Marlyn Wade
    PO Box 1, Tyalgum, NSW 2484, Australia
    Ph: 066 793 442
    Fax: 066 793 567
    perminst@peg.apc.org
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,8.

    PC International Ltd
    PO Box 6039, Sth Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
    Ph: (066) 220 020
    Fax: (066) 220 579
    pcjournal@peg.apc.org
    http://www.nor.com.au/environment/perma
    1,2,3,5,7,8,9.

    Permaculture Inner West
    Bobbie Faucett
    23 Essex Street, Marrickville, NSW 2204
    Phone: 02 9560 3972
    Catagories: 4,7,11,13

    Trevallyn Permaculture Centre
    June Andersen
    PO Box 22
    Paterson
    NSW 2421
    Phone: 049 389 528
    Email: june.andersen@hunter.link.net.au
    Catagories: 2,3,4,5,6,12.

    Permaculture North
    David and Christina Leese
    10 Darley Street
    Neutral Bay 2089
    Phone: 02 9955 7590
    Catagories: 1,7,11, 13

    Permaculture Central Coast
    14 Branga Avenue, Copacobana NSW 2251
    Phone: 043 682 802
    Codes: 1,7,11,13

    APACE (Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment)
    Russ Grayson, Peter Vail, Donnella Bryce, Lisa McMurray
    Development NGO using permaculture
    UTS, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
    Phone: 02 330 2554 Fax: 02 330 2611
    Email: pacedge@magna.com.au/ peterv@acslink.net.au
    Codes 1,2,7,8,10,11,13,1

    Hunter Permaculture
    PO Box 1022, Newcastle 2300

    Bodalla Permaculture
    Lot 16, Waincourt Road, Eurobodalla NSW 2545.
    Phone: 044 735 392

    Permaculture Association Far Western NSW
    PO Box 406, Broken Hill NSW 2880.
    Phone: 080 877 992

    Manning Bioregional Association
    Tony Dove
    PO Box 720, Taree, NSW 2430, Australia
    Ph/Fax: (065) 565 120
    codes 1,7.

    Permaculture Blue Mountains
    Supapon Raffan
    Phone: 047 823 506
    1,3,4,5,10,11,13

    PC Sydney Association
    PO Box 350, Marrickville,
    NSW 2204. Phone 02 9560 3972 (Bobbie).
    codes1,4,7,8,9.

    PC Education (Nimbin)
    Robyn Francis
    PO Box 379, Nimbin, NSW 2480, Australia
    Ph/Fax: 066 891 755
    1,2,3,4,5,9

    PC Southern Highlands
    Ralph Long
    18 Gibraltar Rd, Mittagong, NSW 2575, Australia
    Ph: (048) 712 467
    codes1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,14.

    Cornucopia PC Nursery Mullumbimby
    Hector Hill andJulian Hartman
    PO Box 793, Mullumbimby, NSW 2482, Australia
    Ph: (066) 843 811
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,9.

    Seed Savers Network
    Michael & Jude Fanton
    Po Box 975, Byron Bay, NSW 2481, Australia
    Ph/Fax: (066) 856 624
    codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8.

    PC Tamworth
    Tony Vlatko
    87 Crown St, Tamworth, NSW 2340, Australia
    Ph: (067) 659 175
    Fax: (067) 668 099
    codes 1,2,3,4,5.

    PC Solutions
    James Travis
    62 Monkittee St, Braidwood, NSW 2622, Australia
    Ph: (048)-422-602
    codes1,2,3,4,5.

    PACIFIC EDGE PERMACULTURE
    Russ Grayson & Fiona Campbell
    PO Box 446 Kogarah , NSW 2217, Australia
    Ph: 02 9588 6931
    pacedge@magna.com.au
    codes 1,2,4,5,7.

    PC Dryland
    Mark Courtman
    PO Box 631, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia
    Ph: 068 423 110
    codes 1,2,3.

    Holy Goat Ranch Inc.
    Bernie Jordan-Petry
    HGR, Dorroughby, Dorroughby NSW 2480, Australia
    Ph: 066 895 344
    codes1,2,3,4,5,11.

    PC Hills to Hawkesbury
    Suite1, Level 1, 33 Windsor Rd, Kellyville, NSW 2155, Australia
    PH: (02) 629 3773, Fax:6292146
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,7.

    Riverina PC Group
    Martin & Sandie Ducker
    26 Mimosa Street, Coolamon, NSW 2701, Australia
    Ph: 069 273512
    codes 1,2,4,5,7.

    South Coast PC
    John Champagne
    "Westbrook", Hawks Head Rd, Brogo, NSW 2550, Australia
    Ph: 064 927 306
    codes 1,2,5.

    Leisure Coast Permaculture Visions
    April Sampson-Kelly
    280 Cordeaux Rd. Mt Kembla 2526
    askpv@ozemail.com.au

    ACT
    Perm Curlies
    Dennis Argall
    PO Box 3534, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia
    Ph: (06)-288-2958
    Fax: (06)-288-2958
    No codes specified

    Permaculture ACT
    c/- Mike Smith
    10/6 Antis St, Phillip, ACT 2606, Australia
    Ph: (06) 269 0425
    codes not specified

    NT
    PC Lifestyle Assoc. NT Inc.
    Carolyne Wilkinson
    GPO Box 2997, NSW Australia
    Ph: 089 832 308
    codes not specified

    Tangentyere Council, Landcare Unit
    Andy Kenyon
    PO Box 8070, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia
    Ph: (089) 524800
    Fax: (089) 523185
    codes 1

    Top End PC Group
    Roger Curtis
    PO Box 937, Katherine, NT 0851, Australia
    Ph: (089) 723 839
    Fax: (089) 723 100
    codes 1,3,8.

    Queensland
    Morag Gamble,
    107 Victoria Street, Windsor, Qld 4030.
    Phone: 07 3857 8775.
    Email: syzygy@mailbox.uq.edu.au

    PC Consultancy (QLD), Eco-Logical Solutions Ltd. & Nascimanere
    Max O Lindegger
    59 Crystal Waters, MS 16 Crystal Waters, QLD 4552, Australia
    Ph: 74 944 741
    Fax: 74 944 578
    ecosol@peg.apc.org
    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    PC Noosa
    Geoff Lawton
    Cooroy Butter Factory, Maple St, Cooroy, QLD 4563, Australia
    Ph: (074) 425 029
    Fax: (074) 425 030

    Green Harvest
    Jeff Michaels & Frances Lang
    Lot 52, Crystal Waters PC Village, MS 16 Maleny, QLD 4552, Australia
    Ph: 074 944 676
    Fax: 074 944 578
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9.

    Edible Landscapes Nursery (PC Nursery)
    Mal McKenna
    37 Bangalla St, Auchenflower ,QLD 4066, Australia
    Ph: 07 870 3872
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,9.

    Crystal Waters PC Village
    Co-op Clerk
    Kilcoy Lane, MS 16 Maleny, 4552, Australia
    Ph: 074 94 4620
    .Fax: 074 94 4690 (b/h)
    codes1,2,3,4,5

    Earthcare Enterprises
    Robin Clayfield & Skye & Friends
    Lot 58 Crystal, Waters, MS 16 Maleny, QLD 4552, Australia
    Ph: 074 944 707 or 944 666
    codes 2,3,4,5,6,8,9.

    Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
    Max O Lindegger
    59 Crystal Waters, Maleny, Qld 4552, Australia
    Ph: (074) 944 741
    Pax: (074) 944 578
    ecosol@peg.apc.org
    Codes not specified

    PC Patterns
    Ms Lyn Cameron
    11 Wighton St, Sandgate, QLD 4017, Australia
    Ph: 07 369 3399
    codes 2,4.

    PC Townsville Inc.
    John Weil
    Po Box 290, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia
    Ph: 077 780 118
    codes 1,3,7,8.

    Sapote Grove PC Demonstration Farm
    Jill & John Weil
    PO Box 5712, Townsville , QLD 4810
    Ph: 077 780 118
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,9,12.

    PC Institute of Central QLD
    Andre Soares
    PO Box 478, Yeppoon, QLD 4703, Australia
    Ph: 079 336 719
    codes not specified

    Victoria
    Permaculture Melbourne
    PO Box 2408, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia.
    Ph/Fax; (03) 9853 6828
    codesnot specified

    Noel Blencowe, CERES, 8-10 Lee Street, Brunswick East Vic
    3057. Phone: 03 9387 2609. Fax: 03 9381 1844.
    Codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,10,11,13,15

    PC Two Bays
    Dianne Orr
    1 Melaleuca Rd, Mt Martha, VIC 3934, Australia
    Ph: 059 751 303
    Codes not specified

    PC Chiltern
    Vries Gravestein
    RMB 1130, Chiltern, VIC 3683, Australia
    Ph: 057 261 596
    codes1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9.

    "The Green Team",
    P.G. A. N. c/-Kate & Greg
    The Community House, 6 Derby St, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia
    Ph: 03 537 1648 or 03 481 4452
    Fax: 03 481 8209
    adamt@peg.pegasus.oz.au
    codes not specified

    Earthcare PC
    Graeme George
    "Blackwood" 35 Deering Ave, Healesville, Vic 3777, Australia
    Ph: (059) 625 070
    codes1,2,3,4,5,8,9.

    Permaculture Melbourne
    PO Box 2408, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia.
    Ph/Fax; (03) 9853 6828
    codesnot specified

    Goldfield's Pals (PC & Landcarers)
    Judy Munro and Joy Finch
    PO Box 793, Castlemaine, Vic 3450, Australia
    Ph: 054 705 040
    Fax: 054 705 040
    codes 1,7,14.

    Mountain District PC Group
    Jane Scott
    30 Sunnyside Tce, Emerald Vic 3782, Australia
    Ph: 059 686 120 or (059) 681 769
    codes1,2,3,4,5,8.

    Holmgren Design Services
    David Holmgren & Su Dennett
    16 Fourteenth St, Hepburn, VIC 3461, Australia
    Ph: 053 483 636
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,8.

    PC Geelong Inc & PC Design Collective
    Peter Lockyer
    12 Union St, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
    Australia
    Ph: 052 297 361
    Fax: 052 297 151
    codes not specified

    PC Education and Design Systems
    Rick & Naomi Coleman
    RMB 2302, Bass Hwy, Leongatha South, VIC 3953, Australia
    Ph: 056 643 301
    codes not specified


    South Australia


    Ed Wilby,
    Salisbury High School, Farley Grove,
    Salisbury North SA 5108.
    Phone: 08 258 1077. Fax: 08 250 0834.
    Email: ewilby@peg.apc.org

    PC Network in South Australia
    Sue Carver
    1st Floor, 155 Pine St,c/- Global Education Centre, Adelaide, S.A. 5000, Australia
    Ph: 08 277 6056
    Fax: 08 303 4374 att. Sue Carver
    codes 1,7.

    Western Australia
    Candlelight Farm
    Ross & Jenny Mars
    100 Falls Rd, Hovea, WA 6071, Australia
    Ph: 09 295 4627
    Fax: 09 295 4627
    ross@mars.eepo.dialix.oz.au
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,7.

    PC Association of WA
    The Convenor
    PO Box 430, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia
    Ph: 09 417 2274
    Fax: 09 295 4627
    pat@dare.eepo.dialix.oz.au
    No codes specified

    Yilgarn Traders
    Julie Firth & Iain Stewart
    Lot 12 David Rd, Waggrakine, nr Geraldton, WA 6530, Australia
    Ph: (099) 381 628
    codes 2,3,5,6,7.

    Living Waters PC Foundation
    Dave Coleman, K Martin
    RMB 1495, Mt Shadforth Rd, Denmark, WA 6333, Australia
    Ph: (098) 482 171
    Fax: (098) 482 291
    codes1,2,4,5,6,8,9.

    Boranup PC
    Peter & Joanne Dorrington
    c/ Post Office, Witchcliffe, WA 6286, Australia
    Ph/Fax: 097 573 541
    codes ,2,3,5.

    Tasmania
    Tasmania Organic Dynamic Producers Co-op. Ltd.
    PO box 351, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
    Ph/Fax: (002) 971 773
    codes not specified

    Australian City Farms, Community Gardens and Enterprise Centres
    Contacts: ACT, Tasmania - Darren Phillips, Symbioun Australia, 2nd
    Floor, 158 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000.
    Phone/ fax: 002 248 767 Email: darrenp@netspace.net.au


    NEW ZEALAND

    PC Hokianga
    Miriam & Jim Tyler
    Taheke Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand
    Ph: int+ (64) 09 401 4882
    codes 3,4,5,8.

    Tui Community
    Robyn McCurdy
    Tui Community, Wainui Bay, RDI Takaka, NZ 7172, Aotearoa, NZ
    Ph: int+ (64) 3 525 9654
    Fax: int+ (64) 3 525 8659
    codes 2,5.

    Duncan and Judy Smith
    "Pooh Corner", Rural Bag 7417, Gisborne, New Zealand
    Ph: int+ (64) 06 867 0372
    codes not specified


    SOUTH AMERICA

    Pc Allyu Verde
    Gao Klaus
    Lot 2, Casilla, Cochabamba, 5279, Bolivia
    Ph: int+ (591) 0411 2605
    codes 1,2,3,4,9.

    Instituto Gaucho de Permacultura
    Sitio Pe na Terra, Lomba Grande, Novo Hamburgo, Pe RS, 93 490 000, Brazil
    Ph: int+ (55) 51 596 11 14
    Fax: int+ (55) 1 596 11 14
    code 1

    Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia
    Marsha Hanzi
    Condiminio Aguas Finas QELU, Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, CEP 42700-000, Brazil
    Ph: int+ (55) 713 78 2676
    Fax: int+ (55) 713 78 2676
    Codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9.

    Permacultura America Latina
    Amad Ali Sharif
    Casilla 17-07-9833, Quito, Ecuador
    Ph: int+ (593) 256 8661,3,13,15.


    CENTRAL AMERICA

    Fundacion Augusto C Sandino (FACS)
    Apdo. 2458, Managua 5, Nicaragua
    Ph: int+ 505 2 74773 &505 2 75706
    Fax: int+505 2 675670
    facs@nicarao.apc.org
    codes 1,4,7

    Cesta
    Carlos Canos & Silva Flores
    APDO 3065, San Salvador, El Salvador
    503 26 6903

    Permacultura El Salvador
    Juan Nelson Rojas
    Apdo Postal 68, Centro di Gobierno, San Salvador, El Salvador
    Ph: int+ 503 260 888
    Fax: int+ 503 260 888
    cebes@nicarao.apc.org

    N.W. Mexican PC Institute
    Jose Ramon Valdes
    Hotel American Colonial, Guaymas Sonora, Mexico

    PC de Mexico/Mexico City
    Blanca Domingues
    APDO Postal #21, 140 Mexico City, 04000 D, Mexico
    codes not specified

    Mexican PC
    Keith Burnett
    APDO 27 San Miguel de Allende, GTO 37700, Mexico
    Ph: int+ 52 415 21598
    Fax: int+ 52 415 20026
    codes 2,4,5,6,8,9.

    New Moon Foundation
    Valerie Nadeau
    Apdo 1296, Oaxaca, OAX 68000, Mexico
    Ph: int+ 52 951 7 5755
    Fax: Int+ 52 951 7 5755
    codes 1,3,4.

    Grupo Para el Desarollo Integral de La Habana
    Elio Guevara & Mario Coyula
    Calle 28 #113, e/ 1ra. y 3ra, Miramar Cuidad de La Habana, Cuba
    Ph/Fax: int+ (537) 33 2661
    gdic@tinored.cu
    codes not specified

    The Green Team, Permacultura de Australia
    Luis Sanchez
    Santa Fe Community, Havana, Cuba
    Ph: int+ 53 7 33 1788
    Fax: int+ 53 7 33 1788 ring first
    gtcuba@tinored.cu


    NORTH AMERICA

    Institute for Bioregional Studies
    Phil Ferraro, Director
    449 University Avenue Suite 126, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, C1A 8K3, Canada
    Ph: int+ 1 (902) 892 9578
    pferraro@peinet.pe.ca
    codes not specified

    The Permaculture Activist
    Peter Bane
    PO Box 1209, Black Mountain, North Carolina, NC 28711, U.S.A.
    Ph/Fax:1 704 683 4946
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10.

    Yankee PC & Elfin PC
    Dan Hemenway & Cynthia Baxter Hemenway
    7781 Lenox Ave, Jacksonville, Florida 32221, U.S.A.
    codes not specified

    Central Rocky Mt Permaculture Ins. (CRMPI)
    PO Box 631, Basalt, Colorado, 81621, USA
    Ph/Fax: 1 303 927 4158
    email 103070.2364@compuserve.com
    codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    HAPI (High Altitude Permaculture Institute)
    Sandy Cruz
    PO Box 238 Ward, Colorado, 80481, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 (303) 459 3494
    codes 1,2,3,4,8.

    Friends of the Trees Society (Permaculture)
    Michael Pilarski
    PO Box, 4469, Bellingham, WA, 98227, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 360 738 4972
    Fax: int+ 1 360 738 4972
    trees@pacificrim.net
    codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8.

    Portland Permaculture Implementation Group PPIG
    Rick Valley
    PO Box 8691, Portland, OR 97286-0291, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 (503) 774 6353
    codes not specified

    Forestcare Co
    Curtin Mitchell
    PO Box 27, Lorane, Oregon, 97451, U.S.A.
    codes 1,3,4,8.

    P/C Drylands Institute
    Vicki Marvick
    PO Box 133, Pearce, Arizona, AZ 85725, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 602 824 3465
    Fax: int+ 1 602 924 3452
    codes not specified

    Design Works Consult. & Urban Perm. Demo Site
    Dan Dorsey
    221 E Linden, Tucson, Arizona 85705, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 602 624 8030
    codes 1,2,4,5.

    Permaculture Drylands
    Greg Peterson
    6750 N 13th Pl, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 602 279 3713
    Fax: int+ 1 602 279 1874
    codes not specified

    Permaculture Resources
    Beth Lambert
    PO Box 65, Califon, New Jersey, NJ 07830, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 908 689 6955
    Fax: int+ 1 908 689 6941
    codes 7,8,9.

    Gap Mountain Pc
    Doug Clayton
    50 bullard Rd Jaffrey, New Hampshire, NH 03452, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 (606) 532 7321
    codes 2,3,8.

    Rodale Institute
    Bill Landesman
    611 Siegfriedale Road, Kutztown, PA, 19530, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 610 683 1458
    Fax: int+ 1 610 683 8548
    r6831459@postoffice.ptd.net
    codes not specified

    Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute
    Kirby Fry
    Route 1, Box 210-A, Glen Rose, Texas, 76043, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 817 897 9402
    Fax: int+ 1 817 897 3785
    72530.1353@compuserve.com
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6.

    Eastern PC Teachers Ass. (EPTA)
    Matthew Arnsberger
    Rt.4 Box 169, Louisa, VA 23093, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 (540) 894 5126
    Fax: int+ 1 (540) 894 4112
    twinoaks@mcimail.com
    codes 1,2,3,4,5.

    Twin Oaks Community
    attn. Mathew Arnsberger
    Rt 4 Box 169, Louisa, VA 23093, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 (540) 894 5126
    Fax: int+ 1 (540) 894 4112
    twinoaks@mcimail.com
    codes not specified

    Flowering Tree PC Inst.
    PO Box 4302, Fairview, NM 87533, USA.
    Ph: int+1 505 753 6590P

    Sol y Sombra Foundation Thomas Mack
    4018 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, USA
    Ph: int+ 1 (505) 982 2752
    Fax: int+ 1 (505) 982 9201
    macksys@roadrunner.com
    codes not specified



    Hawaii

    Maui P/C Institute & Harmonious Earth Research
    Marianne Scott
    PO Box 1805, Kihei, Hawaii, HI 96753, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 808 879 0930
    codes 1,2,3,4,5.

    Permaculture Hawai'i
    Po Box 5167, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, HI, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 808 929 9028

    Permanent Argriculture Resources
    Craig Elevitch & Kim Wilkinson
    PO Box, 428, Holualoa, Hawaii
    HI 96725, U.S.A.
    Ph: int+ 1 808 326 4670
    Fax: int+ 1 808 324 4129
    agroforester@igc.org
    codes 1,2,4,5,6,7.

    Future Forests Nursery
    Kim Wilkinson
    (see Source Ecosystems address above)]
    codes 1,14.



    EUROPE

    Economic Evolution, Projekt Laban Art Und Viefalt
    Georg Parlow
    Roemerstr. 1 KGC3, Zurndorf, A-2424, Austria
    Ph: int+ 43 (0)2147 23 93 55
    Fax: int+ 43 (0)2147 23 93 40
    codes 2,7,8

    PermaKultur Austria
    Andreas Infuhr
    c/o Inst.F & Landschaftsflege- Uni fur Bodenkultur
    Peter Jordan- Str 82 Wein A 1190, Austria
    Ph: int+ 43 147654 3489/3480
    Fax: int+ 0043 1 47654 3486
    freiaum@mail.boku.ac.at
    codes not specified

    Semailles
    C/- Rudolf Koechli
    Les Hayettes 126, 6920 Wellim, Belgium
    codes not specified

    Rhizomes
    Kali de Keyser
    592 Avenue Dolez, Bruxelles, 1180, Belgium
    Ph: int+ (32) 374 66 90 or 732 77 20
    Ph: int+ (32) 02 732 77 20
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8.

    Marek Petrivalsky
    Lazecka' 46, 772 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
    codes not specified

    Gaia Trust
    Hamish Stewart
    Skyumvej 101, DK 7752 Snedsted, Denmark
    Ph: int+ 45 97 93 6655
    Fax: int+ 45 97 93 66 77
    hamish@gaia.org
    codes 1,5,6,7


    Permaculture Institute of Europe
    Istegade 79, 1650 Kobenhavn V, Denmark
    Ph: int+ 45 31315694
    Fax: int+ 45 3325 7179
    codes not specified


    Permakulturgruppen 1 Denmark
    Tony Andersen & Inga Axelsen
    Istdgade 79, 1650 Copenhagen V, Denmark
    Ph: int+ 45 3325 7079 or +45 3131 5694
    Fax: int+ 45 3325 7179
    codes 2,8.

    Kolding Hojskole (Global Gardener Education)
    Jesper Saxgren
    Skovvangen 18, 6000 Kolding, Denmark
    Ph: int+ 45 75 53 0600
    Fax: int+ 45 75 50 8210
    1,2,3,4,5,6.

    PC for Renewable Energy
    Eric Tybirk
    P.O. Box 208, DK-7760 Hurup Thy, Denmark
    Ph: int+ 45 97 95 6600
    Fax: int+ 45 97 95 6565
    fcenergy@inet.unic.dk
    codes not specified

    Permanent Publications
    Tim Harland
    Hyden House Ltd, Little Hyden lane, Clanfield, Hampshire, PO 8 ORU England
    Ph: int+ 44 705 596 500
    Fax: int+ 44 705 595 834
    codes 1,6,7,8

    Earth Village Network
    Persh Hannah Sassoon
    6 Edinburgh Crescent, Leamington Spa, CV 313LL, U.K.
    Ph: int+ 44(0) 1926 424480
    Ph: int+ 44 (0) 1926 882457
    earthvill@compunication.nl
    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    Designed Visions (The Star Trading System)
    Jane Hera
    8 Helen Rd, Oxford OX2 0DE, England
    Ph: int+ 441 865 721922
    Fax: int+ 441 865 244412
    heraford@gn.apc.org
    codes,5,7,8.

    PC Association of Britain
    Steve Jones, Sue Cameron, Rachael banks
    PO Box 1, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ110LH, England
    Ph: int+ 44 6547 12188
    gn.pcbritain
    codes not specified

    Carapa
    C/- Olivier
    Chateua de Vaugran, F30480 Cendras, France
    Ph: 33 663 04342
    codes 1,4

    PC Pyrenees
    Emilia Hazelip
    B.P. 217, Limoux F-11300, France
    Ph: Fax: int+ 33 68 31 51 11
    codes not specified

    PC Inst Germany
    Prof Declan Kennedy
    Ginsterweg, 4-5, Steyerberg, D-31595 Germany
    Ph: int+ 49 5764 2158
    Fax: int+ 49 5764 2368
    dkennedy@lebensgarten.gaia.org
    codes 1,2,4,5

    Permakultur-Germany
    Michael Worseg
    Brandenburgerstr 6, Neuss, D-41462, Germany
    Ph/Fax: int+ 49 2131 541 763

    Richard Webb & Associates
    Dr. Richard Webb
    "Springfields", 3 Hollybrook Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
    Ph: int+ 353 1 286 6154
    Fax: int+ 353 1 286 6990
    codes 2,4,5,7.

    Irish PC Worknet
    Marcus McCabe
    Corrany, Roslea, County Fermonaghan, Northern Ireland
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,14.

    De Waard Edible Landscapes
    Fransje de Waard
    Po Box 93108, 1090 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Ph/Fax: int+ 31 299 684 227
    fransje@x34all.nl
    codes 2,4,8.

    Earth Village Network
    Sarah & Ishi Crosby
    Maasstraat 168, 7417 AM, Deventer, The Netherlands
    Ph: int+ 31 05706 633 628, c/o Erikh@box.nl
    WWW:http://intouch.info.nl/evn/
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    PC Center Gaia
    Ishi & Sarah Crosby
    Schoterlandse weg 22, Katlijk Freisland JG 8455 , The Netherlands
    Ph: int+ 31 (

    Norsk Permakulturforening
    Ingvald Erga
    Erga Gard, 4343 Orre, Norway
    Ph: int+ 47 5142 8122
    codes 1,4,5.

    Norwegian PC Association
    Marianne Leisner & Frederica Miller
    GAIA NESODDEN, Gamle Bomansvikvei 42, 1450 Nesoddtangen, Norway
    Ph/Fax: int+ 47 669 60459
    codes 1,2,4,5.

    Scottish PC
    Graham Bell, Derek Mackenzie-Hook, Dr Nancy Woodhead
    c/ Earthward, Tweed Horizons, Newtown St Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 0SG Scotland
    Ph: int+ 44 1835 822122
    Fax: int+ 44 1835 822199
    GrahamBell@earthward.scotborders.co.uk
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

    Finca La Mohea
    Ruth Bond
    Genalguacil, Malaga 29492, Spain
    Ph: int+ 34 (9)5 215 2012
    fax: int+ 34 (9)5 215 2031
    codes 1,2,3,4,5,9.

    Galeria Arte Elemental
    Luciano Furcas & Shena Lamb
    Calle Merced 33, 11391 Facinas, Cadiz, Spain
    Ph: int+ 34 (9)56 687 044
    Fax: int+ 34 (9)56 687 193
    codes 1,2,3,4,6,8.

    Permaculture Sweden
    Bertil Thermaenius
    Hoglandstorget 9, Bromma, Sweden 16140
    Ph/Fax: int+ 46 (0)8 260 775 & 260745
    1,2,4,5,7,8,14

    The Pacific

    Kastom Garden Project
    Tony Jansen
    DES, Box 556, Honiara, Solomon Islands.
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    Permaculture: A Language for Gardeners
    by Peter Bane

    The Hawaiian people have a phrase in their language which expresses deep understanding of their place on the earth, "ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono." It translates into English as, "the life of the land is preserved in righteousness." This feeling of deep gardening is the sensibility we must invoke to describe Permaculture or "permanent culture."

    Permaculture is a nation without borders and with no government. It can be found on every inhabited continent among peoples as diverse as Tswana herders in Southern Africa, apartment dwellers in London and Sydney, desert ranchers in Arizona, jungle settlers in Colombia, communitarians in northern Germany, and subsistence villagers in Nepal. More than a form of organic gardening, permaculture is a whole system of design for the creation of sustainable human habitats. It is about culture; the use of tools in our adaptation to the world around us, and what that means in the post-industrial era.

    Traditional peoples around the earth have known the limits and the languages of their places. But along with biological diversity, these unique human adaptations are being rapidly lost at the frontier of economic globalization. Human beings everywhere on earth are becoming increasingly dependent upon and subject to centralized systems of production and control. The consequences of this colonizing process are pollution, desertification, poverty, famine, tyranny, and genocide. To move beyond the destructiveness of our present culture, which is based on continuing war and industrial capitalism, we must recover and propagate knowledge and ecological linkages that sustain living systems: air, water, and soil. We must reclaim the lands we inhabit as we learn again to feed, clothe, house, heal, and educate ourselves and our children.

    Permaculture is an ethical approach to land use and economics based on:
    - Care for the Earth, its air, water, forests, soils, plants, and animals;
    - Care for people, who need not only the things of the earth, but each other; and
    - Care for Community, through limiting our own consumption and population, and the distribution of that which is surplus to our own needs.

    In the words of Australian ecologist Bill Mollison, co-author (with David Holmgren) of the permaculture concept, "Permaculture is the design of sustainable human habitats. It is the design of cultivated ecosystems where we work with, not against nature. It uses the naturally inherent qualities of plants and animals, including humans, combined with the natural characteristics of landscape to create sustainable, low-maintenance, and productive agricultures for both city and country using the smallest practical area." Permaculture empowers us to recreate living systems out of the devastation of modern life.

    How do we do it?

    By observing patterns in nature and in traditional farming and building systems we derive the principles which guide permaculture design. To these principles we add the insights of modern science, concoct a set of stories which convey these essential understandings and begin repeating them to our friends. You do the same. The effect is inspiring and contagious.

    Because everything is connected to everything else and everything must go somewhere, you cannot just do one thing and there is no free lunch. Remember that everything gardens and "Nature knows best." With that introduction to ecology, you are now ready to learn permaculture.

    A rough dozen principles can help us to design sustainable systems:

    1. Relative beneficial location. Put elements of the system near other things with which they can have beneficial relationships. Link rain barrels to roofs, and kitchens to gardens by bringing them close together. If carrots love tomatoes, plant them together; let the beans climb on (and fertilize) the corn.

    2. Multi-functional elements. Make sure that everything in the system has at least three functions. In this way space and cost is saved while yields are increased.

    3. Redundancy. Make sure every important function (like water, warmth, food, and income) is supported by multiple elements.

    4. Energy-efficient planning. Place elements in zones of decreasing access and intensity of use radiating outward from the center of activity (the home). Analyze outside influences (sun, wind, weather, pollution, wildlife, views) on a site by sectors, and let that guide your placement of elements also. Take account of gravity by allowing elements to flow through the landscape from high elevation to low.

    5. Biological resources. Choose elements which are self-propagating, self-healing, and which can be disposed of without toxic residues. Living systems build real wealth. Prefer wood to steel, bamboo to aluminum, worms to rototillers, legumes to chemical fertilizer, trees to air-conditioners, and chickens to bug spray.

    6. Energy cycling and recycling. Energy flows and materials cycle in ecosystems. Keep nutrients, water, heat, genetic material, money, and other valuable resources in close circulation. Harvest your own garden seed and begin to adapt plants for the microclimate of your back yard. Water coming in as rain can be collected, rather than drained away. If filtered, drunk or washed with, it then flows out as greywater and urine from the household. Instead of dumping it into sewers or septic tanks where it can pollute, clean it on site with plants, harvest mulch material from the artifical wetland, use the cleaned water for fish habitat, and then irrigate crops with the pondwater.

    7. Revalue appropriate traditional technology. Plants were our first medicines; they are still our best health insurance. Grow herbs in your garden and learn to use them in tinctures, teas, poultices, and salves. The corn straw broom is still superior to any plastic whatyamacallit ever made. Masonry stoves are the best way to use wood for heating. Unglazed clay pots (called ollas in Spanish) sunk into the ground and filled with water are the most efficient way to irrigate gardens in drylands. Mud (earth) is a healthy, low-cost building material available almost everywhere.

    8. Stack yields in both time and space. All ecosystems evolve toward greater complexity over time. Lawnmowers waste energy and cause pollution trying to prevent this from happening. Go with the flow instead. Plant perennial crops with different maturities and different heights all at once. The forest yields at crown, mid-level, near the ground, and under the ground. The 7-layered, 4-dimensional polyculture garden can do the same. Annual vegetables succeed to berries to tree fruits and nuts as the garden matures.

    9. Maximize edge in cultivated systems. Use all the in-between spaces. Edge is