[Lapg] how has permaculture transformed your life?

[Joan Stevens]

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." 



- Bill Mollison 
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