I'm good with the "nodal/internodal" aspect of living arrangements you refer to, but I'm also thinking about all the urban homeless that could be placed in abandoned homes and encouraged to grow resilient food forests around themselves, without the expense of demolition. The money supporting shelters and soup kitchens could be repurposed for city services (and permaculture instruction) to support this new group of now-productive citizens. When we start talking about paradigm shifting, I guess I want to see it go all the way. Maybe that's greedy of me, but boy do we desperately need new ways of thinking in the food department.
Is there support for organic cultural methodologies at least?
Either way, I'm awfully excited about Detroit. And if it weren't so damned cold I might even move there to join in the fun!
Tripp
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
--- On Tue, 3/9/10, trevor william johnson <john2116@msu.edu> wrote:
From: trevor william johnson <john2116@msu.edu>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Detroit making history again
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:27 PM
I live near and work in detroit and have spoken with some city
officials regarding this plan. Their point of view is that it is too
expensive to offer mass city services like trash pickup and maintain
utilities for small clusters of houses that are spread out. Their
plan to repurpose the land to green space (many uses fall under this
category like agriculture, parks etc.)
I personally feel this is a good plan. Concentrate human settlements
and use the surrounding land to supply food and other ag. related
products to the city and surrounding areas. I would love others
perspectives and i will bring them to my contacts in the city.
Trevor
On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Tripp Tibbetts wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/ap_on_bi_ge/us_downsizing_detroit
This is a situation in desperate need of some permacultural
thought. Hundreds of millions of dollars of federal aid to raze
buildings and return the land to agricultural production? Sounds
kind of old school to me.
Tripp
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
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