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The word "permaculture" can be used by anybody adhering to the ethics and principles expressed herein. The only restriction on use is that of teaching; only graduates of a Permaculture Institute can teach "permaculture", and they adhere to agreed-on curriculae developed by the College of Graduates of the Institutes of Permaculture.
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CONVENTIONS USED
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References and Abbreviations: Minor references are given in the text, and those useful to chapter contents only are located at the close of those chapters. Key references are assembled at the close of the book, and are superscripted as numbers in the text.
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Seasons and Directions: So that the text and figures are useful and readable in both hemispheres, I have used the word "sun-side" or "sunwards", and "shade-side" or "polewards" rather than south and north, and converted months to seasons as below:
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Used Northern Southern
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Here Hemisphere Hemisphere
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Summer early June December
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mid July January
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late August February
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Autumn early September March
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mid October April
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late November May
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Winter early December June
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mid January July
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late February August
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Spring early March September
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mid April October
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late May November
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These may be further refined by the use of the "first week of...". For the same reason, the symbol:
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One hopes this prevents the problem of all those good North Americans wandering on the north face of their hills, looking for the sun, poised dangerously upside-down on the Earth as they are.
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION
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Material in this work can be fairly easily accessed in these ways: chapter and section contents are listen in the Table of Contents. Main subjects are listed in the Index. There is a list of the common and Latin names of plants used in the text located in the Appendix is a glossary of terms used; some few words are recently coined or (like "permaculture") are the conceit of the author.
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To forestall needless correspondence, subscription to the International Permaculture Journal (113 Enmore Rd, Enmore, NSW 2042, Australia) gives information on permaculture themes, reviews recent publications, gives news of events, publishes a directory of permaculture centres, and has a host of other useful data. Further resources are also listed in the Appendix.
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