Disseminating Permaculture: Milestones

Two of my social media outlets for disseminating permaculture appear to be nearing new milestones. London Permaculture Flickr is nearing 2 million page impressions (with 26 thousand + photos), while @LondonPrmcultr is approaching 3 thousand followers (and 3 thousand tweets).

The race is on to see which is met first. It's difficult to quantify the value(s) of this outreach, but I feel that just normalising the word 'permaculture' and/or provoking interest in it is a useful yield.

Today The Co-operative picked up one of my tweets promoting permaculture ethics for the co-op, which was nice.

Should @TheCooperative care for the earth, care for people and share fairly? #haveyoursay
— London Permaculture (@LondonPrmcultr) February 24, 2014

@JanvierUK @LondonPrmcultr @jameslbeane @CQuin @CarolReay1 You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Have Your Say" http://t.co/egPfgShbTs
— The Co-operative (@TheCooperative) February 25, 2014

London Permaculture Flickr Site

The  London Permaculture Flickr Site is one of my major engagements with permaculture. I have used it as a tool of record, communication and dissemination of permaculture and I have used permaculture theory and practice in its development and maintenance.

I consider this to be work in 'Art, Media, Culture and Communications', one of the areas in which the Diploma essential criteria presents as suitable for a demonstrable application of permaculture in work and projects. The Diploma Guidelines describe 'Art, Media, Culture and Communications' as:

"Creating or operating publications or audio-visual and mixed media aids to communication and education in the permaculture community. Written, creative, artistic or cultural work that develops the public's understanding of permaculture."


History of the London Permaculture Flickr Site

On 12th March 2007 I set up a free account on the photo sharing website Flickr, my aim in doing so was to share photos I had taken of of permaculture activity around London during and subsequent to my PDC in Autumn 2006.

It seemed to me that there was actually a lot going on but it was largely invisible to those outside the groups engaged in that activity. I thought that making visible this activity might do much to increase the interest in, and the acceptance of, permaculture approaches and manifestations.