Excellent Resources! I would say the top 5-6 should be more-or-less the same for most established Permies... There is also lots of great new stuff (Ben Falk, Richard Perkins, Jean Martin Fortier though not all formally 'Permaculture', JMF) I would also wish to include Mycelium Running By Paul Stamets and Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy since fungi is like an entire continent of potential only just getting discovered in the modern world and embraced by the Permaculture Community. Barefoot Architect and the Earthship Trilogy could be great for Zones 0 to 3 as well as A Pattern Language for community/city planning. I could go all night.... WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BOOK CLUB! If anyone wanted to hear info from any of my library I can check the relevant chapters and either read out the appropriate section, write a post or take a picture of the best section. Literate Anarchist Unite! Dislexikz Untie!
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Book club!!!
I have pdfs of most of these books that could facilitate a book club!
Im not always sure how freedom of information and intellectual property fit into permaculture, so feel free to berate me and I might do a post about it.
on having a Club: Yeay, I always enjoy sharing a connection with others.
on collecting and sharing books: 100% behind it. I've been trying to acquire all the books I remember having read on .pdf It's coming along nicely, though far from being complete. But at least the ones I mentioned in this post I do have, and don't mind sharing if there is interest. I also have a bunch I have NOT read, such as A Pattern Language which I've been trying to get around to for quite a while now.
on having a book club / reading circle: It sounds awesome to read something, chapter by chapter, and discuss it with other minds. I'm a bit uncertain if I can go through with it, on the other hand, it would be so rewarding that I'd probably make the time. It also depends on the book. :-)
Ditto, maybe we see each other for coffee and compare notes ;) Someday, would be great! In the meantime, we should probably behave ourselves publicly.
Right, you've felt it, @ecoknowme. This post is either too broad or not inclusive enough. I realized that when I got to the part about the food forestry books. And indeed, there is another post in the making, about some more specialized ones on fungi, fermentation, earth-works, construction, and invisible structures. In fact, all my previous book reviews could also fit in quite comfortably.
we should just do a skype call and record us talking about our favorite books! Some day, by wire or walk, we'll share a coffee, mate, mead or yarn someday, my friend.
sounds like a great way to spend time "together".
I just dunno how to do the recordy stuff, but we could even just take pictures and summize a brainstorm.. show an example of interconnection and collaboration thanks to Steemit. I probably never would have encountered you otherwise!
Oh, we could do a book-club so simply: decide what to read, give each member a chapter and a deadline, and each one of us writes a post about it. Then all other add their comments. Sure, it's not as fancy as recording a video-conference, but it can be done with minimal effort and flexible times.
First I would like to be able to make the books available though. There are files online or videos to review But, for example, My copy of Radical Mycology is this massive beast not everyone would be into, or could get easily in some parts of the world. Maybe we just encourage everyone to do reviews of What books they have and hope for some cross pollination of ideas? The video conference idea does sound like a nightmare... too many variables, I'm probably better off blithering into a 'podcast' then everyone can retort. Will do some research...
That's why it's important to pick a good book all of us would be into, and focus on one chapter at a time. But I feel that organically we're headed into that direction anyway. Book reviews are well liked post here (at least in my experience), and even book lists like this one. For example, @frugallady just posted one of hers, almost at the same time as I did mine.