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

[Kerry Dawborn]

I'd like to hear more about other APC9 stuff too - since I was only able 
to be there for day one!

kerry

ian lillington wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org
> [mailto:pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org] On Behalf Of jedd
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:42 PM
> To: permacultue discussion list
> 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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