Here's the part I LOVE. To pay attention requires that we not be asleep behind the wheel, mindlessly running the pointless hamster hoop of a boxed-in life. So permaculture, as I learned it, first asks of us to start with Zone Zero, or our selves. We connect to the life within, aware of our self and our own cycles and patterns of living, of personal growth and its ins and outs. From that place we naturally connect to the people around us, the larger communities and ecologies of which our communities are a part that extend out from there. It's a naturally self-perpetuating approach that seeks always to feed the whole systems which we as individuals make up. Starts with self care, then our families, our houses, our neighborhoods and communities, our towns and the bioregion (a word that means an area of space defined by characteristics in nature, for example the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, instead of a man-made or defined space like a county line) in which we live. It's the formula that describes my life: home is where the heart is. Literally.
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Let's keep it simple, and just start with this:
Permaculture: Three Simple Ethics
- People Care. Care for our selves. We start with our self, to fill the resource of care that we can then share with one another.
- Earth Care. Care for the earth's ecological systems on which all our survival is based.
- Fair Share. Commitment to the practice of giving back to the earth surplus resources. Sustainability is not balancing the amount of resources used, it is actually giving back more than we take.
Nicely stated. Informative. I LIKE.
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