Hi Amanda. The PRI forums in Oz are pretty busy. permies in the States is really active.

g'day manda,

i visit sometimes, this used to be a fairly active group but of later years has dropped away some wrong influences came in this does not encourage new players. pri in australia is farely active need care to tread there though, it is going away from the grass roots level of influence more into a religion of sorts.

the permacutlure group in the US come across friendly enough they have a steady imput of threads no political alignment or religious type following encouraged.

i put my thoughts into an essay which was written so long ago i can't remember when, so issues been around for along time. many i used to know othes now not in any permaculture discussion groups. the news group just stopped functioning.

len

Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page