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PERMACULTURE
This forum exists for individuals and groups interested in the study and practice of permaculture. It will be a useful resource for consultants, designers, writers and teachers of this discipline,
conceived and stewarded by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and enhanced by a growing global community, offering their knowledge, skills and experience.
The first step is to educate and energize those who want to provide for themselves, live sensibly, live sustainably and
renewably using systems that regenerate themselves. We should grow our own food, some or all of it and
provide for others seeking high quality nutrition, those who can grow their own and those who can not, by donation,
sales, barter, consumer coop and marketing coop. A society's worth can be measured by how well it takes care of those
in need and those who can not take care of themselves. This is the essence of the permaculture third ethic.
Natural biointensive gardening and permaculture go hand in hand and provide the starting point, activities that generate
interest easily and fill a need. Permaculture will prove to be a useful resource offering gardening, homesteading and farming knowledge and methods as a means of achieving good health, self-sufficiency and independence. It can be practiced actively at home, throughout communities
and bioregions by offering design tools for ecologically-oriented land use systems with integrated elements for synergy, sustainability,
regeneration and enhanced nature-compatible human habitat. Integrating permaculture into one's lifestyle
can lead to self sufficiency, independence, lifestyle efficiency, taking responsibility for your own health and well-being,
practicing medical self-help, personal sovereignty, active participation in all categories of local networking
and community building and local renewable energy, water conservation and land stewardship projects.
United States Permaculture Directory
Wikipedia permaculture entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
"Permaculture is a design system which aims to create sustainable
human habitats by following nature's patterns."
Definitions of Permaculture
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Fukuoka san's comment in an interview where Fukuoka san, Bill Mollison and Wes Jackson were present:
"The confusion started when humans ate the Fruit of Knowledge. Adam and Eve were thrown away from the Garden of Eden.
The only way to get back is to throw away the knowledge! Just become foolish like a bird or baby."
Commons Thinking
Commons Thinking
Justin Kenrick The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, Arran Stibbe.
Supported by University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts: Sustainability Network.
"Commons Thinking: the ability to envisage and enable a viable futur through connected action,"
Justin Kenrick, University of Glasgow, and PEDAL Portobello Transition Town
"What is Commons Thinking?
The Commons are life-sustaining or life-enhancing resources and services that have not
been divided up and assigned a monetary value in the global economy but instead are shared
freely among members of a community or group. They range from the air we breath, pollination
provided by bees, land that provides food for gathering and sharing rather than selling,
to words of comfort given freely and willingly rather than at an hourly rate.
Pitted against the Commons, however, are the forces of Enclosure, which attempt
to appropriate, own and sell resources that were once freely accessible, often breaking
up communities and displacing people in the process. Commons regimes are communities
which resist these forces and meet people's needs primarily or significantly through the
Commons rather than through monetary exchange, existing both in the forests of the Amazon
and in the last remaining tight-knit local communities in cities around the world...
This chapter aims to describe one important skill for rebuilding political, community and
personal resilience."
Click for pdf download of the full chapter 'Commons Thinking' from the
Handbook for Sustainability Literacy
-- portal to an expanding global network of landtech pioneers --
ecolandtech: designing ecological land use systems with integrated elements for synergy, sustainability,
regeneration and enhanced nature-compatible human habitat
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