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...
Author: Dan Palmer
Weak Link Analysis Revisited, the Permaculture Tree (take three), and a Confession.
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. ...
Adding a Layer to the Design Framework
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 ...
A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part Two
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...
A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part One
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,...
Good folk already Making Permaculture Stronger
Here I list known (to me) practitioners of permaculture actively doing the work of making permaculture stronger by at the least assessing & articulating wea...
A bit more context
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...
Setting a vision & some themes/rules of play for this project
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 ...
Weak Link Analysis – What is it?
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...
The First Post
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...