I just discovered a new word thanks to this gentleman, Eric Seider. I am too tired now to ponder it any futher, but I believe I believe it is a word that will become very important to me, to human communities and to the earth overall.
And that word is ‘permaculture’. Google it. Read about it. Blog about it. Twitter it. Do whatever you have to so, because its a doozy!
‘Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.’
The Human Community living in hamony with and respect for the earth that is its birthplace and its home. Say no more.
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I think I agree with you about that word and by the end of this new year I hope that it really enters the mainstream lexicon, and then after that I hope the mainstream folk enter in the vast world of permaculture.
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