RIS+Research+Design+Grid


 * **Aims** || **Questions** || **Data collection** || **Emerging arguments** || **Literatures** ||
 * Generate knowledge about permaculture || What is permaculture? How is it different from agriculture? How broad is it? Where is the term used? || Read literature about permaculture from those who teach and practice it

Interview those who practice it. I already have an email from a man who is trying to practice permaculture on Whidbey island in Washington state. I got to visit! || Permaculture is necessary for sustained human life on earth

More TBA || Many options available from the permaculture blog, as well as various books on the subject: //Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual//, etc. ||
 * Generate knowledge about feminism and its relationship to the environment and permaculture || What is the history of eco feminism and its relationship to the environment/ environmental activism? Are women active in the permaculture movement? || Ecofeminist articles, as well as possibly tie in some things about earth-based or goddess-based religions because they are intertwined. || Claims that ecofeminism is essentialist, that it is not inclusive, it is classist || I found a great article full of references to ecofeminist articles: Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism ||
 * Make connections between alternative medicine, permaculture/green design, and feminism/women || Is alternative medicine related to permaculture and green design? || Read books about alternative medicine, journals || Alternative medicine is better for the body and for the earth than chemical pharmaceuticals || Books about alternative medicine, journals ||