permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Andrew Millison wrote:

> His idea is that these [armies] are the most
> powerful and logistically functional human organizations on the Planet, why
> not put them to good use as consciousness shifts to Earth healing?

Very true. One of the best events at Scott's course with the Guard was when 
we did hands on, and the army crew was assigned to move a huge pile of earth 
that a mis-used bulldozer had shoved around, smooth it, and plant it. The 
troops worked faster, more efficiently, and with more team spirit than any 
group of permies I've ever seen. They got done in half the time allotted, and 
then without being asked, repaired the fence the dozer had trashed, set it 
back up, and then asked for more to do. Then the Hopi students came over and 
sowed seeds over it all. 

We could learn a lot about teamwork and spirit from them all.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com