Permaculture is like Native American agriculture

[MrJuicemon]

Permaculture is a design ethic. Its new, but in its application it borrows from studies on traditional systems. Even if it looks like permaculture it isn't necessarily so.

[dailydols]

heart of "terra preta" ?

[dailydols]

@dailydols heard of "terra preta" ? :-D

[patamaracillo]

i agree with littlelumpos.... it's my understanding from the history courses i took... that the hunter-gathering/horticulture are waaay less labor-intensive and healthier for the environment (i.e. better) than what most consider to be agriculture... i'm not saying anything negative about the tribes of the NW, only that a move toward full-on agriculture simply does not imply progress...

[sookiestackhouse2u]

Nice work, Heidi .... 

[littlelumpos]

Nice video. My only suggestion is to examine your language (both Ms. Bohan and the author of the video description). "Advanced," "primitive," "beyond" - all of these terms are steeped in cultural meaning, conflating everything old with "simplicity," i.e. backwardness, and everything new with "progress," i.e. improvement. Hunter-gatherer lifestyles were, and are, rich in both complexity and value.

[ahnamay]

Excellent info--thanks, Heidi and Paul!

[vention4wh]

As the Europeans moved west they found a mostly empty land because the plagues of Europe swept the land clear of people and left it open for settlement. Guess you could say that our diseases did most of the conquering of this land, and the carriers inherited it afterward.

[GetMeThere1]

Oh...everybody thinks Indians were so great. Heck, they probably filled THEIR dumps up with megatons of petro-plastics and industrial chemicals TOO! ;)

[hbohan08]

Great stuff Paul, thank you!