[Pil-pc-oceania] National P-Day

[RussGrayson]

On 29/3/08 9:36 AM, "Janet Millington" <miltech at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Re the National Permaculture Day
> Thanks for the responses and I can see your reasoning.  I would like to
> press my case a little further.
> I was hoping to have a national Permaculture Day and not a National
> Permaculture Garden Day.

Agreed. If we stick just to gardening then we lose the potential support of
thousands of people who do not garden, those who would like to but do not
have the opportunity or those who are intrested in sustanability but not in
gardening. We cannot afford to throw away support just because people do not
garden.
 
> I know that every weekend in September is filled with activities, festivals,
> fetes and so on here, and a more serious look at all the aspects of
> Permaculture may be overlooked for the more established and fun things.  May
> is slow here in comparison.

True Janet. There are so many eco-fairs, eco-music festivals and
eco-this-and-that public events that it is easy to unknowingly schedule
events only to find inadvertant competition for people's attention because
of a conflict of events.

May is still relatively warm in Sydney though gardens are getting a little
bare but it is often quite cold in Tasmania. Perhaps it is the same in that
outlier of Tasmania known as southern Victoria.

Sydney... early Autumn would be a good time, before people rip out their
late season summer annual veges and their gardens still look somewhat
luxuriant.

I'm curious about what themes people think Annual P-Day could hang from.
Energy/water efficient housing is already the focus of an annual day of
tours around here and, were that to become a focus, would the organisers of
that daay become a little angry?

Were this idea to go ahead, is it worth negotiating a limited set of simple
ideas on this listserv around permaculture? Like... key messages that we
could all select from to deliver in various ways.
 
...Russ