[Pil-pc-oceania] Jims Permaculture & Permablitz

[Laurence Gaffney]

The Melbourne Age has an article on Permablitz. The article is available at:-
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/blitzing-the-burbs/2007/07/16/1184559700758.html

The Website for the Permablitz people is:- 
http://www.permablitz.net/

There appears to be parallels between the Permablitz approach & the Business proposed by Jims Permaculture.

There is potential for these approaches to provide a "net gain" for Permaculture.

I think however that a fundamental Permaculture Principle appears to have been largely circumvented in these ventures. And that is the Principle that Holmgren puts first. i.e. OBSERVE AND INTERACT.
Mollison on Page 1 of Introduction to Permaculture describes the philosophy of Permaculture as "......protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labour". 

Blitzing and Makeovers are not terms that encapsulate this principle & philosophy for me.

The specific activities in which these groups engage (or intend to engage in the case of Jims Permaculture) are generally desirable ones. If Principle One could play a much greater role in guiding these activities then the connection with Permaculture would become more apparent for me.

Laurence Gaffney  
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