[Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture Trade (Resource) Directory

[Deb Guildner]

Thanks Graham,

I just sent this response to another teacher:
FYI:

"The idea about forwarding a questionnaire to the teachers so they can 
forward it to the students is more diplomatic I think.

Former students usually have formed a sort of warm bond with teachers, and 
would probably appreciate the renewed contact anyway...

Thanks again for the response....
it'll be a shorter directory without them.
Teaching contacts are first on the agenda."

[Responding to:
"Hi Deb,

I'm not sure that anybody would be willing to pass-on lists as this is 
probably against privacy rules. We have always told students that we would 
not give out contacts and we don't.

You may need to use lists and ask for people to come forward. Word of mouth 
is not a bad way.

cheers"]

(Glasnost, perestroika, but most of all, diplomacy!!)

Cheers
Deb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graeme George - Earthcare Permaculture" <earthcarepc at virtual.net.au>
To: "permacultue discussion list" 
<pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture Trade (Resource) Directory


> Deb
>
> Permaculture Melbourne, has for several years now, maintained just such
> a list of practitioners amongst our membership as a Services Directory,
> published in our bi-monthly newsletter Permaculture Information Exchange
> (PIE).
>
> This can be viewed online at
> http://www.permaculturemelbourne.org.au/marketplace.html.
>
> regards
>
> Graeme
>
> Deb Guildner wrote:
>> Permaculture Trade Resource Directory
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am getting some great feedback off-list from interested parties, so 
>> thanks
>> for these encouraging remarks, and for registering your interest (and 
>> your
>> details).
>>
>> The concept is barely conceived (oops!), so I am now wondering what 
>> format
>> the directory may take.
>> Doubtless there will also be a CD version to stand alongside a hardcopy
>> version. (Worry not, Australia has more than enough plantation timber to
>> supply doemestic needs plus some exports: learned that on the Tarkine
>> trail!).
>>
>> A practitioner's register is certainly one way to go;  and it makes me
>> wonder if there exists somewhere lists of everyone who has done a PC 
>> design
>> course in Australia....as it would be a possible way of contacting 
>> graduates
>> and asking if they have any skills they would like to market, via the PC
>> trade directory.
>> If anyone has kept lists of those people they have taught, and would like 
>> to
>> either:
>> (a) forward such lists, or
>> (b) contact those on the list and forward this email to them,
>> that would be much appreciated, as perhaps that is a step in the right
>> direction. Warning: If you are a prolific teacher, expect to be 
>> contacted!
>> (If I can find you).
>> I suppose also, that a basic questionnaire for previous course 
>> participants
>> re skills, specialialisations and  interests, etc etc might be in order 
>> to
>> facilitate the process.
>>
>> Secondly, to compile a list of categories - chapter headings, if you 
>> like -
>> of the types of services that people might expect or require of a ready
>> reference style trade directory. (The directory would need updating every
>> couple of years or so)..
>>
>> Beyond practitioner's names and qualification/contact details (latter 
>> need
>> not be exhaustive or even necessary, depending on service/s offered), is 
>> the
>> need for listing specific services (and products) which together form the
>> whole concept of permanent-culture.   Eg  teaching (of course), small 
>> block
>> designing, five acres, broadacres, nurseries/plant resources, solar power
>> suppliers, water storage and filters/drip irrigation installers,
>> retrofitting specialists, bushfood resources, organic pest control,
>> organic/integrated weed control, design for domestic animals incl 
>> poultry,
>> aquaculture, fire control, earth sheltered housing, soft low growing 
>> lawns
>> requiring only motorless mowers, low rainfall designs, cold climate 
>> designs,
>> tropical, endangered local native plant suppliers etc etc. If your'e
>> proficient at any of these (or other useful topics) then please post your
>> skills to this list.
>>
>> If you can think of anything else at all, please send it on!
>>
>> Over the next several months, I will post emails to this list of one
>> category at a time, to enable people to focus on specific services and
>> concepts, and take time to perhaps contact people they know of who
>> specialise in certain areas (they don't have to necessarily be teaching) 
>> and
>> ask if they would like to contribute or be a part of the directory.
>>
>> The directory will have multiple appendices, and a comprehensive index. 
>> You
>> can lead a human to sustainability, but it's best to give them a darn 
>> good
>> roadmap!
>> Bioregional sub-directories will be included. I would especially like to
>> hear from people involved in activities on a bioregional level.
>>
>> That's all for now.
>>
>> Please give me FEEDBACK...or all you'll get is ......a 'Book about
>> Mushrooms', by Fungus the Bogeyman.
>>
>> Cheers for now, Billbo's and brass monkeys!
>>
>> Deb
>> PO Box 3312, Norwood SA 5067
>> 0432 887 512
>> bocor at bigbutton.com.au
>> "people's permaculture pop-tart"
>>
>>
>>
>
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