[Pil-pc-oceania] ppp - a practical science

[tamara griffiths]

Permaculture is, in its essence, a design science of practical solutions to 
the world's problems.

Practical solutions.

To things like droughts and floods and the army in Aboriginal communities. 
To food miles, to hunger.

Permaculture is a practical science, not a political one.

Most of us "live using permaculture principles" alot of us use Bill's 
designer manual to guide us in our design and growing endeavours.
How about we the techniques in it as the basis of party principles?

Bill has mentioned one policy to me - that we reaforest all seaward slopes. 
That doesn't sound too contentious. And he has put forwards trompes to solve 
peak oil - a good idea to me...

policy...my own thoughts...please be gentle...

maybe permaculture should be used to rescue the Murray Darling? Swales, 
repatterning the farms of irrigators, reaforestation, the environment as a 
legitimate user of water...

And maybe we should have all houses as solar passive? with Govt assistance 
to do so

How about all people on any land must build soil?

How about an aim to have all farmers and all disadvantaged people in 
Australia do a PDC by 2017?

How about all permaculturists be given 50K to get their farms and houses 
working sooner  (there are all sorts of assistance schemes happening at the 
moment- ongoing ones - this could be a one off) (and could be in place of 
water tank assistance etc)

maybe very disadvantage people like in Aboriginal communities should be 
given every assistance required to implement their permaculture designs?

Certainly in the recent announcement of a 15 person panel to take care of 
the review and implementation of water infrastructure in Victoria a 
permaculturist should be included?

As for the complexity of a political party, if we form, we need a couple of 
office bearers (about two or three) and that is it. I've been part of a 
small party before - the Your Voice Party- and that functioned pretty simply 
to get Richard Frankland elected. It doesn't need to be hard.

I am certainly not trying to fragment permaculturists, and to be perfectly 
honest, I don't think Bill is either.

Kind regards,
Tamara

Tamara Griffiths
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nothing." Edmund Burke

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