{"id":44518,"date":"2019-03-16T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44518"},"modified":"2019-03-16T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:30:46","slug":"david-holmgren-a-baby-boomers-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44518","title":{"rendered":"David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers\u2019 Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers\u2019 Apology<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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There are days, though all too scarce, when very nice surprises come my way. Case in point: yesterday I received a mail from David Holmgren after a long period of radio silence. Australia\u2019s David is one of the fathers of permaculture, along with Bill Mollison, for those few who don\u2019t know him. They first started writing about the concept in the 1970s and never stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave calls himself \u201cpermaculture co-originator\u201d these days. Hmm. Someone says: \u201cone of the pioneers of modern ecological thinking\u201d. That\u2019s better. No doubt there. These guys taught many many thousands of people how to be self-sufficient. Permaculture is a simple but intricate approach to making sure that the life in your garden or backyard, and thereby your own life, moves towards balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My face to face history with David is limited, we spent some time together on two occasions only, I think, in 2012 a day at his home (farm) in Australia and in 2015 -a week- in Penguin, Tasmania at a permaculture conference where the Automatic Earth\u2019s Nicole Foss was one of the key speakers along with Dave. Still, despite the limited time together I see him as a good and dear friend, simply because he\u2019s such a kind and gracious and wise man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his mail, David asked if I would publish this article, which he originally posted on his own site just yesterday under the name \u201cThe Apology: From Baby Boomers To The Handicapped Generations\u201d<\/strong>. I went for a shorter title (it\u2019s just our format), but of course I will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave has been an avid reader of the Automatic Earth for the past 11 years, we sort of keep his feet on the ground when they\u2019re not planted and soaking in that same ground:\u00a0\u201cReading TAE has helped me keep up to date..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers\u2019 Apology There are days, though all too scarce, when very nice surprises come my way. Case in point: yesterday I received a mail from David Holmgren after a long period of radio silence. Australia\u2019s David is one of the fathers of permaculture, along with Bill Mollison, for those few who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[6191,41,1801,16334,112,24684,162,15648,10983,263,13835,24685,622,13924,5177,24686],"class_list":["post-44518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-atm","tag-australia","tag-baby-boomers","tag-benefits","tag-carbon","tag-climate-strike","tag-consumption","tag-counterculture","tag-david-holmgren","tag-energy","tag-generations","tag-indigenous","tag-permaculture","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518\/revisions\/44519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}