permaculture

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

> think about their politics in light 
> of all that permaculture has to teach us about 
> human culture and its place in the natural 
> ecology.
Thanks Bob -- I use permaculture principles as a kind of whole systems 
analysis frequently in my political practice.  Human associations are 
species with inputs and outputs and processes.  Political design 
involves creating linkages that create beneficial interactions between 
human associations.  Stack cultural functions, assess cultural waste.. 
invest the surplus cultural energy.  If we think we can place our human 
culture in its right relationship to the earth without taming our 
bestial tendancies toward each other then we are sadly mistaken.
Paul Cereghino