00431 Acknowledgments

My life involves many people and you find them here and there in these pages. I would like to acknowledge my intellectual debts and influences relative to this book: However, I do so with some trepidation because inevitably when you make a list like this, it is easy to forget someone.

Dan and Cynthia Hemenway, from whom I learned permaculture design and received a Certificate of Permaculture Design, and with whom I have participated in the Elfin Permaculture Online Permaculture Design Course since 2005.

Vinay Gupta, permaculture thinker and polymath, correspondent and incorrigible encourager, creator of the Unplugged concept. He is always excited about something, in a very good way.

The Sisters of St. Benedict, Red Plains Monastery, Oklahoma City, and their experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, which I walked in their company in 1994-95.

Dr. Stuart Hill, of Australia, for concepts related to social ecology and the process of transformative change

Catharine Austin Fitts, permaculture thinker and financial professional, for many concepts relating to financial permaculture and local economics.

Dr. John Ikerd, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, for his work on economic sustainability.

Dr. Gene Sharp, founder and senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution, for permission to include his Methods of Non-Violent Action.

Ray Barnes, for art for the cover and other decorations, view some of his work at http://www.pixeltrope.net/raybarnes/.

Lucas Gonsalez, for reading and helping find some textual issues, and general encouragement.

Jay Springett, for the illustrations relating to the Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps.

My housemates Sean, Renay, and Jonathan, who have put up with my experiments in sustainable living and exhortations for more years than should be counted. They heard all the exhortations herein first.

My grandparents, John and Opal Cassidy and Glen and Dovie Waldrop, from whom I learned, at an early age, about the importance of frugality.

Any mistakes, problems, ignorances, errors, and stupidities herein are, alas, all my fault and my fault alone.