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[<scott@permaculture.org>]

Thanks Bob Waldrop this should keep people happy for a minute or two....

>  -------Original Message-------
> 
>  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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