[Pil-pc-oceania] Writers wanted - Permaculture water book

[Darren Doherty]

G'day,
No I'm stuck to the screen today organising courses & work schedules down
here at Dalpura....also hunting around for my next toy: a seed box and Baker
Boot assembly to put onto my Keyline Plow so I can do single pass
subsoiling, pasture sowing and compost tea application.....that should
reduce the dust you mention!

As for proceeding I suspect that we should have a conversation off this
forum and work out what you want exactly.

Lets go from there....

Daz

2008/5/1 RussGrayson <info at pacific-edge.info>:

> What an amazingly rapid response Darren! I thought you would be out in the
> mud and dust of farmer's fields, not stuck in front of a screen like me.
>
> Thanks. How do you want to proceed?
>
> ...Russ
>
>
> On 1/5/08 3:48 PM, "Darren Doherty" <permaculture.biz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > G'day,
> > I'll put my hand up for the Keyline bit!
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Darren Doherty
> >
> > 2008/5/1 RussGrayson <info at pacific-edge.info>:
> >
> >> BACKGROUND
> >> At the APC9 session on water, the decision was made to gather some of
> the
> >> ideas presented and developed it into a book that would be put online
> as a
> >> downloadable pdf file. I found that I had been volunteered to edit this
> >> volume.
> >>
> >> The notes made by particpants at the conference have proven useful
> >> although
> >> partial, and the need for additional material is obvious.
> >>
> >> The technologies and ideas canvassed in the sessions include the tried
> and
> >> proven, such as home rainwater tanks, to the rural, such as the Keyline
> >> system of farm water management and irrigation. Although these are
> known
> >> and
> >> no longer new, some even receiving government financial incentives to
> >> install, they have a rightful place in any volume on water in
> >> permaculture.
> >>
> >> WHAT'S NEEDED NOW
> >> What we need now is material specifically on the permaculture
> management
> >> of
> >> water. This would include ideas, technoligies and associated things, as
> >> well
> >> as how these relate to whatever the permaculture attitude to the use of
> >> water might be.
> >>
> >> Specifically, we need volunteers (this is a zero budget work) to write
> >> credible, factual material on the following:
> >>
> >> 1. Permaculture and water in humid landscapes.
> >>
> >> Humid landscapes can be regarded as those in which water readily flows
> and
> >> collects in water bodies (streams, lakes etc). That is,
> >> climates/landcapes/geographies in which water is plentiful and,
> usually,
> >> in
> >> excess of human needs.
> >>
> >> 2. Permaculture and semi-arid/arid landscapes.
> >>
> >> These are landforms in which water is usually in deficit and there is
> >> little
> >> excess to collect in permanent waterways and lakes.
> >>
> >> 3. The Keyline system of farm water management.
> >>
> >> This would answer questions such as:
> >> - What is the Keyline system?
> >> - Why it is superior to other water harvesting/ storage/irrigaton
> systems
> >> (assuming that it is)?
> >> - How does it work? Ie. How is the decision made as to where to site
> farm
> >> dams and diversion channels? How is water reticulated to crops? On what
> >> types of landscapes does it work?
> >> Is is applicable elsewhere than farms?
> >> Other relevant points about Keyline.
> >>
> >> A practitioner or someone who has carefully studied the system would
> >> perhaps
> >> be the most approariate to produce material on it.
> >>
> >> 3. Other approaches to farm water management.
> >>
> >> POINTS 1 & 2
> >> Regarding points 1 & 2 above, what would prove useful to readers is how
> >> and
> >> why permaculture might take a different approach to water management in
> >> these landscapes than other water users.
> >>
> >> Does permaculture have something unique to its approach to water
> >> harvesting,
> >> storage and use, and why?
> >>
> >> NEEDS
> >> All of the information produced needs to comply with a number of
> criteria.
> >> This is because what appears in print will reflect on permaculture and
> how
> >> readers regard the design system.
> >>
> >> Thus:
> >> 1. Information produced by volunteer writers must be credible, not
> >> fanciful
> >> or magical thinking.
> >>
> >> 2. There must be acceptable scientific/technical knowledge underlaying
> >> what
> >> is written. Ie. It must be verifiable in some way.
> >>
> >> 3. It must be written in ordinary, simple English so that it is
> >> understandable to nontechnical readers. Formula of mathematicaal
> >> information
> >> might be included provided there is also an explanation understandable
> to
> >> the nontechnically-trained accompanying it.
> >>
> >> INTERESTED?
> >> Don't be put off if you do not see yourself as a writer. I will edit
> copy
> >> and return it to writers for their approval. It may be changed slightly
> >> (though not the meaning) to comply with the book's style.
> >>
> >> Timeline is within a couple months.
> >>
> >> If you have other ideas on what such a book might include, let's know.
> >>
> >> I think this will be a useful permaculture product and it is a way for
> >> those
> >> of us with some knowledge of how the design system deals with water can
> >> make
> >> a useful contribution, not only to the public but to the design system
> >> itself.
> >>
> >> How about it?
> >>
> >>
> >> ...Russ Grayson
> >>
> >> PIL Board of Directors
> >> info at pacific-edge.info
> >> www.pacific-edge.info
> >> 0414 065 203
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Darren J. Doherty
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