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[Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net>]

Here's the table of contents of the Invisible Structures section of my 
ebook on urban permaculture.  If this looks interesting, you can buy the 
whole ebook for $1.99 at http://www.ipermie.net. (You can buy a pdf 
format at the site, or follow links to ebook superstores like Amazon 
kindle, Apple iStore, etc to buy versions suitable for other ereader 
platforms.)

Bob Waldrop, Okie City


 Section 1: Invisible Structures

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick 
society. /Jiddu Krishnamurti/

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may 
be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. /Blaise Pascal/

*Section List of Chapters*

*01011 Invisible Structure Basics* <#ref_01011>
Structures, systems, religions, organizations, political and economic 
systems, all the "software" that makes human societies work. We move 
towards creating a society where it is easier to care for people, care 
for the planet, and have a care for the future.

*01021 Invisible structures for urban and college permaculture* <#ref_01021>
The special circumstances involving invisible structures of urban and 
college/university situations.

*01031 Design issues in our urban realities* <#ref_01031>
The importance of local governments. 18 urban design imperatives. 
Problems of cities.

*01041 Invisible Structure Toolbox* <#ref_01041>
14 interesting permaculture design tools useful in urban areas.

*01051 Zones in Invisible Structures* <#ref_01051>
Memes, habits/behaviors, structures, systems, communities, cultures, 
peoples, species. Eight zones for permaculture work.

*01061 Observations About Invisible Structures* <#ref_01061>
Invisible structures have consequences. Changing invisible structures 
has consequences. Be careful! The problem of unintended consequences.

*01071 Succession and Invisible Structures* <#ref_01071>
Memetic evidence of damaged cultural ecologies, first, second, and third 
order change agents.

*01081 Extended Families, Groups, Organizations* <#ref_01081>
The utility and importance of voluntary cooperation and kinship bonds.

*01091 Open Source Resistance and the Occupy Movement* <#ref_01091>
Replicating lessons from the Occupy movement.

*01101 Community Permaculture Projects* <#ref_01101>
Ideas for community permaculture projects in cities and on campus.

*01111 The problem of rent-seeking* <#ref_01111>
What happens when invisible structures corrupt and go bad.

*01121 Structures of Control and Liberation* <#ref_01121>
Memes of control and liberation. How those in control stay in power and 
how they oppress the rest of us. The importance of self-fulfilling 
prophecies.

*01131 War, peace, and justice* <#ref_01131>
Laying the foundation for a future of peace with justice.

*01141 The Melbourne Principles* <#ref_01141>
Ten principles for sustainable cities, adopted in 2002.

*01151 The Methods of Nonviolent Action* <#ref_01151>
From the Albert Einstein Institution, by Dr. Gene Sharp, 198 ideas for 
nonviolent action. Used here with permission of the author..

*01161 Social Justice and the Oppression of the Poor* <#ref_01161>
More on invisible structures gone wrong. How modern societies oppress 
the poor and profit from it.

*01171 Invisible Structure Inventory* <#ref_01171>
The beginning of an inventory of your involvement with invisible 
structures and your first thoughts on necessary evolutions in invisible 
structures.

*01181 Invisible Structure Design Issues* <#ref_01181>
Two design challenges to get you started.

*01191 Additional resources for Invisible Structures* <#ref_01191>





On 7/15/2016 7:32 PM, scott@permaculture.org wrote:
> 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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