Designing the economic landscape for drought

As economic instability, born out of flawed and corrupt policies, sweeps across the world, communities can come together and re-think how they do business.

Drought proofing the economic landscape parallels drought proofing natural landscapes. Keyline design and Permaculture offer us patterns that can be mimicked to optimize the effective use of scare capital to keep a community vibrant in tough economic times:


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In this video Andy Langford outlines a Financial Permaculture strategy for designing local economic systems to catch and store capital, mimicking the well documented success of the keyline design system to catch and store water on a landscape. By creating economies that catch and store energy, and built the "tilth" of their community, we can build a solid base to support the growth of diverse and resilient human society working with the natural world.