permaculture

[<scott@permaculture.org>]

I thought you would never ask!!


>  On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:52 PM, <scott@permaculture.org> wrote:
>  
>  >  Life is not "just" about how to sharpen colters to get cleaner planting
>  > rows, nor how to make maple syrup it is also about how to deal  with 
> greed,
>  >
>  
>  Reality check: I have no clue as to how to deal with greed. Do you? Please
>  enlightn us. I am tired of tilting at windmills when I need to be totally
>  occupied with survival.
>  Seriously. No pi in the sky for me. No religion and no politics either.
>  Just survival and when I have made progress then I will gladly help others.

One  way to stop greed is to develop systems that do not reward greed.  One 
of the best models I know of is the Mondragon Co-op system in the Basque 
country of Spain.  This is a system that does not allow anyone in the co-op 
make more than six times the pay of the lowest paid co-op member.  Guess 
what?  If the ceo wants to make more money he has to find a way to see that 
the lowest paid also makes more money.  The worker owned co-ops are starting 
to appear in the US particularly in Ohio and they are keeping jobs in the 
community  and operating based on the second and third ethics of permaculture.
>  
>  
>  > how to share resources and information and much much more.
>  >
>  
>  EX ACT LY. By all means share resources and information and whatever else
>  we feel incluned to share. This is what I have been promoting in this list
>  from its start in 1992.
>  
>  Ah, the psychology behind getting people to follow a cause. Try luring them
>  with the food you have taught them to raise for themselves and their
>  grateful neighbors in the communities they helped build. Do it now, before
>  all humanity of engulfed in the war machine and full bkown corporate
>  domination using the war machine to gain its objectives, just like in the
>  Hollywood movies, like Blade Runner.
>  
>  How about a balance between posts on dealing with greed versus ethics and
>  concentrated permaculture design and site construction. With the latter
>  comes POWER to people. With the former, who knows but lots of energy
>  expended in the process until one wakes up to the fact that there is no
>  food on the table or clean water to drink. Do the math. Count the hours
>  spent on implementation of good permaculture design and the benefits
>  derived from such. There needs to be a balance and I will promote that to
>  the end of my days and my legacy will continue that after I am gone. Look
>  objectively at a balance between awareness and adoption of the permaculture
>  ethics as you have defined them and pure nuts and bolts Earth-based
>  permaculture design living on a site where that design has been created.
>  
>  LL
>  

I am not sure I understand your dichotomy between ethics and greed.  You 
solve greed by following the ethics... 


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