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  • From: Rhonda Baird <rk.baird@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture Invisible Structures
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:57:07 -0400

This looks wonderful, Bob. Thank you for making the contribution.
-rhonda baird
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:47 PM, Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net> wrote:
>
> 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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