I went to the website and found it to be not up-front about the fees and
charges. I take this as a bad sign. There's a lot of text of the
salesmanship variety, and that's not too impressive to me either.
Permaculture may be the greatest thing that's come along, but without
detailed information it's hard to judge. I ran into the guy who started it
in the late 1960's or early 1970's at big conference in Los Angeles, and
came away from that encounter a bit uneasy about the guy. I don't know why
these folks are timid about revealing the details, but maybe it's because
they want me to pay for them? How much and what, exactly, do I get? How much
additional training will I need, and how much will that cost me? In other
words, what's the end-cost and the end-product?
WT
PS: A restoration ecologist of some repute once accused me of "keeping
secrets." I told him that I didn't have any secrets and that my approach to
ecosystem restoration and integration with human systems was not rocket
science but required enough knowledge of the constituent disciplines to
enable one to know what one didn't know and to avoid doing that. I invited
him for coffee and asked him to ask away and I would not hold back any
secrets from him. I told him I would be willing to follow up, but he never
called back. The more one knows about the details, the better one can be at
the art and science of ecosystem restoration, but I think I could convey
most of the details required to carry out the concept in a few hours. The
biggest problem seems to be the agronomic/horticultural concepts that many
seem to believe are relevant to ecosystem restoration makes my approach seem
so counterintuitive that they simply don't believe it. Now that it is
apparently ok to post a call for participants in seminars, etc., maybe I
should "institute" one and see how many takers I could get for how much
money . . .
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