permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

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Nicholas Roberts nicholas at themediasociety.org
Thu Dec 11 08:28:38 EST 2008

also, I imagine there are plenty of farmers who would prefer to be working
for a permaculture cooperative equivalent of Monsanto... a kind of global
seed and agricultural cooperative

think a democratic, large organisation, efficient and very well run

you might be interested in what the head of the MIT Sloan business school
has to say about the corporate form... to me it sounds a lot like Chomsky

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBM4D3MrMo

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMLTGXff5Y&feature=channel_page

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0tHfxe0qg

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ANDaWFLcDcQ
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Exactly. We need that now, yesterday. Market opportunities are getting 
coopted by
unscrupulour greedy entrepreneurial interests operating in most cases locally
but with interest in expanding their turnkey "systems" (scams) nationally.

I have to compete with them in the marketplace.

We need, as I have stated several times in this list,
a national (how about global for those who can export, why not?) farmer-owned, farmer-run + permaculturist-owned, 
permaculturist-run production, marketing and distribution network comprised of nodes making up local networks
which overlap making up regional networks which together form your national 
network.
This may, in some respects, be a socialistic system but in reality it is just a practical one that works and gets the 
job done and keeps on doing that. This group would contain anyone with a product or service to sell. It would serve the 
needs of writers, mechanics, consultants, cooks, healthcare professionals and farmers equally well. It is a system that 
is one size to fit all. The power of the web, the telephone networks, personal media and wireless electronic 
communication devices and GIS could be brought to bear to make this work efficiently and effectively.


LFLondon