The following is what I posted in a thread titled "Permaculture Should Profit" on the Permies.com forum"Until you posted, Milton, I thought I was going to have to be the one to raise that question: What is profit ( Read more... )

Tomorrow?! I'm leaving tomorrow for Minnesota, for two intense weeks of developing myself as an educator. The setting: Audubon Center of the North Woods, in Sandstone, MN. Dave Jacke leading the course, with Kay Cafasso, Ethan Roland and others ( Read more... )

It seems there's been some invisible motion in the past few days. Over the past few years I've wondered, often aloud, whether there were permaculturists doing anything in Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, and finally I've started to hear some feedback about long-term projects, as well as this ( Read more... )

I have several rants stored up. Who knows what order they'll come out, but here's number one, inspired by Colin Beavan's blog entry and its follow-up ( Read more... )

Yesterday's forum on homelessness was both more and less than I'd hoped for. Daniel was extremely well-spoken at first, but devolved into single-mindedness. There was no opportunity for people other than the experts to speak, but they did each know something, a couple of them quite a lot. I got contact info for several, as well as several city ( Read more... )

It's been a while, and I'd forgotten to post--it's almost week-old news:

Lakota Unilaterally Withdraw from all US Treaties - Declare Sovereign Nation StatusIn Ashland life, I'm discovering that nearly anyone with anything to say is over forty, and boy do they have something to say! I'm attending a meeting at one o'clock of permaculturists ( Read more... )