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Christopher Alexander’s Neglected Challenge to Permaculture

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 42 Comments

Consider the opening statements of what are possibly the two most prominent definitions of permaculture: Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious d...

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Weak Link Analysis Revisited, the Permaculture Tree (take three), and a Confession.

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 10 Comments

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. ...

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Adding a Layer to the Design Framework

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 15 Comments

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 ...

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A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part Two

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 5 Comments

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...

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A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part One

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 19 Comments

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,...

Acknowledging others

Good folk already Making Permaculture Stronger

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 11 Comments

Here I list known (to me) practitioners of permaculture actively doing the work of making permaculture stronger by at the least assessing & articulating wea...

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A bit more context

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 7 Comments

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...

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Setting a vision & some themes/rules of play for this project

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Dan Palmer

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 ...

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Weak Link Analysis – What is it?

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Dan Palmer / 1 Comment

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...

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The First Post

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Dan Palmer

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...

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I really applaud Dave (Hursthouse) and especially Dan Palmer for initiating this and holding up the mirror and saying ‘hey guys, look at yourselves. Look at what you’re saying. Look at what you’re teaching. Look at what you’re doing. Is that really the best you can do?’ And so some of us older ones in the beginning were a little bit confronted by it, but once we embraced the process, it’s been really exciting, and I think that it will make permaculture stronger

Trish Allen

I’m really fascinated by the stuff that Dan Palmer is doing at the moment about permaculture and Christopher Alexander’s stuff… he has a website called making permaculture stronger …which I’d really recommend listeners to have a look at. … It’s very interesting stuff – I love Christopher Alexander’s work and it was brilliant to see someone take the time to try and piece the two together

Rob Hopkins
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Dan Palmers podcast, interviews, musings, rants, research and writing are all making permaculture stronger for me. My understanding is constantly evolving through your work. And since I am a part of the permaculture community, indeed permaculture is getting stronger (better, more complete, able to evolve deeper understanding, etc….) every step  of the way.

Bill Houghton

I can’t recommend this podcast enough… thanks so much for your efforts.. there is so much refreshing content.. I sometimes get a bit tired of of some of the way permaculture is going.. but this just brilliant.. thanks to all involved to those of you not… have a listen x

Matt Swarbrick

I think Alexander’s concept is much closer to how permaculturists actually design, by starting with something that is already a whole and then differentiating and integrating additional factors into it. The issue is mostly that our language has not caught up to our practice. Thanks, Dan, for the inspiration. I always enjoy revising my thinking to more accurately bring theory and practice into better congruency.

The Late Toby Hemenway
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I think that starting your quest for improving permaculture in the realm of design process is a brilliant place to start, because so much flows from that.  So much.

Dave Jacke
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A very close colleague, Dan Palmer, what he’s done with the blog Making Permaculture stronger, focusing on design process, I think his work is incredibly fundamental…

David Holmgren

I am heartened by the conversations you’re starting internationally Dan around making permaculture stronger

Hannah Maloney
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making permaculture stronger, I think it’s a really great initiative..

Darren J. Doherty
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design process… is the core of permaculture, and it’s been a bit of a mystery, a black box… I think there’s a lot of lessons that can be learned from the previous decades of design practice to make permaculture stronger

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