singular_me
31st March 2014, 06:33 AM
Nature finds her balance in self-organized/randomn diversity, and it is what permaculture is all about. Knowing about companion planting to avoid many pests and soil depletion, working along with environment, etc. The most compelling is that when permaculture is implemented, the maintenance is minimalistic as plants self-regulate themselves.
Permaculture is a modern concept of ancient indigenous traditions. Organic monoculture is too a deception as soil depletion cannot be avoided in the long run: more and more organic fertilizers are needed all of which requires more labor, in short until the dead end becomes obvious.
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Historically planted to mark borders and help maintain moisture and nutrients in soil, this ancient technology has been used successfully over the past decade to clean up toxic waste and prevent erosion in dozens of countries. This is just one of thousands of examples—medical, social, and ecological—of indigenous science solving contemporary problems.
Indigenous solutions like these are being brought forward through a system called permaculture. The concept of permaculture was developed in the 1970s by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, whose work focused on perennial farming practices that make use of nature’s patterns and relationships....
Guillermo Vasquez, a Nahuat and Mayan activist, leads Indigenous Permaculture, an organization that is partnering with Pine Ridge residents to develop a local food security project using ecological design principles. The organization is a cooperative of indigenous groups, including Nahuat, Lakota, Shuar, and Maya, as well as non-Native people. Its mission is to share indigenous farming practices and apply environmentally and culturally appropriate technology, in ways that build capacity within the community. .................more
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/indigenous-science
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system." - Bill Mollison [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/29/147668557/seattles-first-urban-food-forest-will-be-free-to-forage
3/29/2014
"Control the oil and you control nations. Control the food and you control people," --Henry Kissinger (quoted in Michael Pollen's Omnivore's Dilemma)
We need to mark a new Independence Day. This day would entail a celebration of our movement away from corporate rule. It would also mark an anniversary of our coming to consciousness that we don't need corporations. We have the power to support ourselves! WE can create jobs within our community, keeping the precious little money flowing locally rather than being syphoned off. What we need is a system composed of cooperatives, which, as the term signifies, means cooperation more so than competition and survival of the fittest, which is the motto of corporations.
This move towards cooperatives is more about a mindset than it is business model. Of course, so is the corporate system. The difference is the corporate system is about making a profit for shareholders whereas the cooperatives entail a working together of people within a community to meet the needs of that community.
Our governance, as well as our behavior, should operate in relation to the community as well as the rest of the planet. "Act local, think global" is a good motto. In ancient cultures, this dictum amounted to thinking through the results of a decision seven generations into the future. In our modern corporate system, we consider a five-year plan as long-term.
Within that five-year business plan, the goal is gaining a profit of what amounts to being a meaningless accumulation of dollars, which is nothing more or less than on and offs in a computer memory bank. It's an illusion. The way to increase profits is to add ever more zeros=offs after your one=on. Revealing this illusion is the beginning of our not being beholden to bought-and-sold bureaucrats masquerading as leaders who are, in essence, rapists of the planet and our Souls. These Souls include those of our children.
....................
Towards a Corporate Independence: Creating a Food Forest in Seattle
Nature does not work on standardization. She works on diversification. Variety increases the chance of the survival of the ecosystem. Standardization makes us at risk for a disease attacking a particular crop, which then could result in a serious diminishment of food for our human mouths. Variety in how we act towards the planet is imperative to survival. Thus there are gardening and farming methods that move beyond the monoculture cropping of standardized farms and into systems that mimic Nature in terms of producing variety.
One of the organizations that foster this natural process is the Beacon Food Forest of Seattle, Washington. The goal of this food forest is to design, plant and grow an edible urban forest garden that inspires the community to gather together, grow their own food and rehabilitate their local ecosystem.
Not only is the program about growing food and being ecologically sustainable, it is about people bonding together in getting their needs met. Could this mean the beginning of our moving away from states of alienation to that of belonging? On a deeper level, the program helps the community to become less reliant on corporations as well as the government. It empowers people in the community. In some ways, the program illustrates psychiatrist Eric Fromm's thesis put forth in Escape from Freedom that we have surrendered our freedom over to governments and corporations. Why do we escape?
more
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Towards-a-Corporate-Indepe-by-Burl-Hall-Community_Corporate_Corporate-Accountability_Corporate-Corruption-Crime-140329-477.html
Beacon Food Forest : A Community Permaculture Project
http://www.beaconfoodforest.org/
Beacon Food Forest | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/beaconfoodforest
Permaculture is a modern concept of ancient indigenous traditions. Organic monoculture is too a deception as soil depletion cannot be avoided in the long run: more and more organic fertilizers are needed all of which requires more labor, in short until the dead end becomes obvious.
-------------------------------
Historically planted to mark borders and help maintain moisture and nutrients in soil, this ancient technology has been used successfully over the past decade to clean up toxic waste and prevent erosion in dozens of countries. This is just one of thousands of examples—medical, social, and ecological—of indigenous science solving contemporary problems.
Indigenous solutions like these are being brought forward through a system called permaculture. The concept of permaculture was developed in the 1970s by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, whose work focused on perennial farming practices that make use of nature’s patterns and relationships....
Guillermo Vasquez, a Nahuat and Mayan activist, leads Indigenous Permaculture, an organization that is partnering with Pine Ridge residents to develop a local food security project using ecological design principles. The organization is a cooperative of indigenous groups, including Nahuat, Lakota, Shuar, and Maya, as well as non-Native people. Its mission is to share indigenous farming practices and apply environmentally and culturally appropriate technology, in ways that build capacity within the community. .................more
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/indigenous-science
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system." - Bill Mollison [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/29/147668557/seattles-first-urban-food-forest-will-be-free-to-forage
3/29/2014
"Control the oil and you control nations. Control the food and you control people," --Henry Kissinger (quoted in Michael Pollen's Omnivore's Dilemma)
We need to mark a new Independence Day. This day would entail a celebration of our movement away from corporate rule. It would also mark an anniversary of our coming to consciousness that we don't need corporations. We have the power to support ourselves! WE can create jobs within our community, keeping the precious little money flowing locally rather than being syphoned off. What we need is a system composed of cooperatives, which, as the term signifies, means cooperation more so than competition and survival of the fittest, which is the motto of corporations.
This move towards cooperatives is more about a mindset than it is business model. Of course, so is the corporate system. The difference is the corporate system is about making a profit for shareholders whereas the cooperatives entail a working together of people within a community to meet the needs of that community.
Our governance, as well as our behavior, should operate in relation to the community as well as the rest of the planet. "Act local, think global" is a good motto. In ancient cultures, this dictum amounted to thinking through the results of a decision seven generations into the future. In our modern corporate system, we consider a five-year plan as long-term.
Within that five-year business plan, the goal is gaining a profit of what amounts to being a meaningless accumulation of dollars, which is nothing more or less than on and offs in a computer memory bank. It's an illusion. The way to increase profits is to add ever more zeros=offs after your one=on. Revealing this illusion is the beginning of our not being beholden to bought-and-sold bureaucrats masquerading as leaders who are, in essence, rapists of the planet and our Souls. These Souls include those of our children.
....................
Towards a Corporate Independence: Creating a Food Forest in Seattle
Nature does not work on standardization. She works on diversification. Variety increases the chance of the survival of the ecosystem. Standardization makes us at risk for a disease attacking a particular crop, which then could result in a serious diminishment of food for our human mouths. Variety in how we act towards the planet is imperative to survival. Thus there are gardening and farming methods that move beyond the monoculture cropping of standardized farms and into systems that mimic Nature in terms of producing variety.
One of the organizations that foster this natural process is the Beacon Food Forest of Seattle, Washington. The goal of this food forest is to design, plant and grow an edible urban forest garden that inspires the community to gather together, grow their own food and rehabilitate their local ecosystem.
Not only is the program about growing food and being ecologically sustainable, it is about people bonding together in getting their needs met. Could this mean the beginning of our moving away from states of alienation to that of belonging? On a deeper level, the program helps the community to become less reliant on corporations as well as the government. It empowers people in the community. In some ways, the program illustrates psychiatrist Eric Fromm's thesis put forth in Escape from Freedom that we have surrendered our freedom over to governments and corporations. Why do we escape?
more
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Towards-a-Corporate-Indepe-by-Burl-Hall-Community_Corporate_Corporate-Accountability_Corporate-Corruption-Crime-140329-477.html
Beacon Food Forest : A Community Permaculture Project
http://www.beaconfoodforest.org/
Beacon Food Forest | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/beaconfoodforest