Christopher Alexander’s Neglected Challenge to Permaculture
Consider the opening statements of what are possibly the two most prominent definitions of permaculture: Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious d...
Consider the opening statements of what are possibly the two most prominent definitions of permaculture: Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious d...
Here I want go deeper into the idea of identifying and addressing weak links toward making permaculture stronger. This idea is the seed of this entire project. ...
In response to my recent post A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part One, which prompted a delightful assortment of comments (thanks all!), Dave ...
Prefix: This post gets to the same point as the previous one in a different way. Just getting crystal clear on the nature of this weak link in permaculture in i...
Here I want to propose a first weak link of permaculture in its design system sense. This weak link is the neglect of design process in permaculture literature,...
Here I list known (to me) practitioners of permaculture actively doing the work of making permaculture stronger by at the least assessing & articulating wea...
So I feel that the scene is about set, and that I can nearly launch into some of the substance, the content I have in mind to get the ball rolling here. But fir...
I thought I’d put a little more thought into articulating the space in which I would like to see this project exist. First, here’s a draft statement of purpose ...
I should say a little more about the overall approach that defines making permaculture stronger as a project. I am calling it a weak-link analysis of permacultu...
About six months back I had a dream in which I was talking to my friend and colleague Adam Grubb. I was telling him I had some things I wanted to get off my che...