This video shows the interactive, participatory design process to create a sustainable business ecology as a part of a community transition process in the town of Hohenwald, TN. This safe phenomenon is happening all other the world. In fact, the edges being designed and surfed by nearly all my permaculture and regenerative design collegues have a similar theme as we apply permaculture principles and ethics to social and economic design problems to help address injustice and inequality by empowering participation in the local and global economy.
This video, by Byron Palmer seems even fresher in light of the re-embracing of the old paradigm of banking and toxic loaning that Obama seems to be chasing after.
It is, after all, up to us to harness the collective, youthful and vibrant spirit that has changes the USAmerica Administration from Bush to Obama, to continue to push for participatory solutions to the global financial crisis.
Gaia, the Greek earth goddess, has come to symbolize a holistic and integral world view where all of planet earth can be seen as a single sentient being. The first scientific hypothesis to take this view is called the Gaia Hypothesis, created by researcher James Lovelock in the 1960s.
Poiesis is old Greek for creation, and has been translated into English as poetry.
Gaiapoiesis is the ongoing creation of our world. This blog will explore the choices and opportunities, trials and tribulations of creating a just and harmonious planet. Combining the wisdom of the ancient spiritual traditions with the innovations of modern and postmodern science and the stuggles for human rights and social justice, we are collectively creating the world we live in everyday, every moment...
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About Me
Gregory Landua
Permaculture Designer, eco-social entreprenuer and Gaian Actionist.
In Defense of Psuedoscience
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."— Arthur C. Clark
Over the past several months The Farm Ecovillage Training Center h...
Sustainable Living Solutions
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The focus of this eco tour video-pod is on the Ecovillage Training Center, a
learning center for sustainability founded by Albert Bates. The Ecovillage
Tra...
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In the informal time at a recent workshop about Collective Intelligence a
co-attendee expressed the oft spoken view to me that 'most people will not
make s...
Economic Projections for Ecological Agriculture
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Over the past 2 years I've been developing an economic design tool for ecological agriculture enterprises.It creates ten to fifty-year profit and loss projec...
Sacred Commerce
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It is more than coincidence that two books with the title Sacred Commerce
have been released at nearly the same time, and also at the time of this
emerging...
Farmer's Market Report for the FPC
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Here's the link to a Winrock report on Farmers' markets in the mid-atlantic:http://www.winrock.org/agriculture/files/wallacemktrpt.pdfShould be useful for th...
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