[Pil-pc-oceania] Jim's Permaculture

[pacific-edge]

This is surely an interesting development further illustrating the
mainstreaming of Permaculture.

POSITIVES:
* mainstreams Permaculture, which is where we want it to be, don't we?
* makes Permaculture acceptable and available to householders through an
established landscape services franchise
* provides income stream so practitioneers can build it into their income
stream
* partnership with Southern Cross Permaculture Institute signals of validity
of model and surety of its credibility.


NEGATIVES:
* perpetuates Permaculture as gardening due to focus of franchise as
landscaping business .


INTERESTING:
* vaguelly reminescent of notion of Permaculture as consultantcy service at
start of design system's history
* new economic model for Permaculture - interesting to see how it goes
* don't know if it's possible within the franchising model, but would it be
possibilities to partner with energy auditor/technology/building designers
to retrofit buildings and with water auditors and retrofitters to make
buildings/gardens water efficient.


Just a few preliminary thoughts.

...Russ Grayson


On 29/6/07 12:19 PM, "Andrew Rettig" <eatgreens at gmail.com> wrote:

>An interesting development by 'Jim'.
 
>Permaculture Franchise Business?
 
>http://www.jimspermaculture.com.au/
><mailto:pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
> http://www.jimspermaculture.com.au