[Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture People's Party

[permaculture at apollobay.org.au]

For those who don't know about this, there's a campaign to start a
permaculture political party "Permaculture People's Party" (PPP)

The campaign is being driven by Tamara Griffiths (from Bunyip) with support
from Bill Mollison.

To join, download a form at:

http://www.aec.gov.au/pdf/party_reg/handbook/political_parties_reg_handbook_
2005_app05.pdf
Party name is Permaculture People's Party.

Send it to:

Bill Mollison
31 Rulla Road
Sisters Creek
Tasmania 7325

There's a discussion on this at:
http://forums.permaculture.org.au/ftopic4895-0-asc-30.php

I've joined.  I think it's about time permaculture set up a political
party.  We need more permies in politics.  I'd like to see a PPP candidate
in each seat, and on each voting card... that would really permeate
permaculture into the main stream... and disintegrate the perception of
permaculture just being about gardening.

Cheers!

Fern 



Original Message:
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From: pacific-edge info at pacific-edge.info
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:41:09 +1000
To: pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org
Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] Jim's Permaculture


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

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