[Pil-pc-oceania] no more National Pc Day

[ian lillington]

Hi everybody, 

I always like Jedd's insight, thanks Jedd for the comment below.

While there have been dozens of posts on this, what I am missing is a report of other
issues of substance that were on the agenda at APC 9, such as whether PIL would convert
into Permaculture Australia, and other items that are central to whether permaculture
gets onto the national sustainability radar. 

I have organised convergences and conferences in the past, and I greatly appreciate the
work done by the organisers.  I was able to be there for the public days, but not the
convergence as such.  The wonderful organisers are no doubt getting back to the rest of
their lives.  Can we have less on national permaculture day and more reports on what
happened, what action groups have been set up, etc.

Thanks

Ian Lillington



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Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] National Pc Day

 My thoughts.

 Birthdays - bad.  Inherently one-sided, for starters.  Makes us
 sound like looneys for seconds.

 Seasons - doesn't scale to the rest of planet.  QED short-sighted.

 Equinox - a good album by JMJ, but as a date it doesn't work
 (it shifts by as much as three days, depending on year and where
 you happen to be on the planet at the time).  Plus of course it isn't
 really an equinox (the sun is not a single point of zero dimensions).
 And it makes us sound like artists rather than practitioners of a
 design methodology.

 To expand on that point - if we believe a design science is truly
 scalable across the globe and across disciplines, we should not
 even be considering targetting a day that has an arbitrary meaning
 for one seventh(?) of the world's population who may happen to
 be gardeners.

 I've read pretty much this entire thread .. but I'm still wondering
 what the point and/or goal of this day / week is? 

 cheers,
 Jedd.
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