An article about permaculture and Action Learning. The original article is here. Please feel free to edit and adapt this version as a discussion document. Sometimes it seems that there are as many definitions of permaculture as there are permaculturists- this is a good and healthy thing- it’s important that permaculture is a living, evolving and changing body of thought, not a dead and static set of rules and prescriptions (in fact in one sense 'Permaculture' is anything but 'Permanent'!!!). One thing that sets permaculture apart from many other contemporary disciplines is it’s tendency to avoid the artificial divisions between 'academics' and 'doers'- Not always the norm in our fragmented culture where specialists and experts insist on separating left and right brain thinking but never ge