Hey all, i am giving a talk at the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness: Plants and consciousness conference next month. My talk is on the power of permaculture/natural systems education to change how we think and relate to the world.
I know that I became much more interested in reducing the resources I used (especially because there were so many new ways to do it that were so easy and graceful!), in building community around me, and in spreading the word about this discipline. I have much anecdotal information based on my own experience but I want other voices included as well.
I would love to hear your stories of how exploring permaculture affected you!
If you are willing to share please email me. Let me know if it's okay to use your name or not.
Thanks!
Joan
"There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."