From london@calypso-2.oit.unc.eduSun Jan 1 21:59:07 1995 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 20:58:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Information on the sustag-principles mailing list. Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 15:43:42 -0500 From: Cyronwode@aol.com Subject: revised announcement Dear folks at alt.sustainable.agriculture, A while ago the creation of a new mailing list, sustag-prinicples, was announced. The list has grown to include more than 80 members and is a lively forum for the discussion of the philosophical principles that inform gardening and the move toward sustainable agriculture. Discussions in sustag-principles cover a wide array of topics, including latent geometrical order in the biological world; sacred geometry; symbolic and religious considerations in agriculture (e.g. culture-specific crop row orientation schemes, culture-specific astro-calendrical beliefs about planting times, and surveys of ancient and contemporary harvest festivals and ceremonies); the geometric principles underlying Permaculture, Bio-Dynamic, Biointensive, and Organic Gardening design ( e.g. mandala gardens, rectangular block gardens, walled raised-bed gardens, etc.); sacred architecture; the history of religious and Freemasonic iconography in architecture and garden design; the history and construction of labyrinths, garden follies, garden grottoes, topiary, and other forms of symbolic landscaping; geomancy; feng shui; relationships between architecture and music; celestial observatory sites; and sacred site tourism. Those familiar with the Permauclture Design work of Bill Mollison, the Bio-Dynamic Agriculture principles of Rudolf Steiner, and the French Intensive Market Garden methods taught by the late Alan Chadwick will recognize the eclecticism of this approach, which seeks to integrate agriculture into the wider sphere of cultural life. If this is of interest to you, the address is: sustag-principles@ces.ncsu.edu if you wish to SUBSCRIBE to this mailing list, please send e-mail to almanac@.ces.ncsu.edu with the message: subscribe sustag-principles If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE from this mailing list, send e-mail to almanac@ces.ncsu.edu with the message: unsubscribe sustag-principles If for any reason either of these procedures fails to work, please contact the reigning dean of the mailing list, Larry London: london@sunSITE.unc.edu