Community
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How to design the commons (Elinor Ostrom explained)
A crash course in the work of political economist Elinor Ostrom, who championed the commons and communal governance as practical…
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Byron Shire Permaculture starts it’s first food forest
The Byron Shire Permaculture Association, which was founded by Geoff Lawton in 2018 has just launched it’s Future Food Forest…
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How to Start a Community Garden
Community gardens have been popping up in urban areas. In some more populated areas or even in food deserts, community…
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Starting a community garden
There are two ways to start a community garden, from the bottom up or the top down. Both approaches work…
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Part 4 – Wise Woman Ways
The final article in this Series compares two ways of interpreting reality. One of them suppresses and sidelines the Wise…
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Part 3 – Wise Woman Ways
In sharing with us the stories of the whales and the trees (see the previous article in this Series), science…
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Part 2 – The Role of the Grandmothers
In the first article in this Series we talked about wise woman ways, growing older, and the healthy maturation of…
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Part 1 – Wise Woman Ways
The “Grandmother Hypothesis,” or Grandmother Effect, is the idea that the presence of grandmothers helping in the care of their…
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The Importance and Complexity of Community
I deeply believe that people are the only critical resource needed by people. We ourselves, if we organise our talents,…
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Permaculture and Death: Part 4
Part 1(1) of this series looked at traditional attitudes towards death, while in parts 2 (2) and 3 we explored…
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House Cows, Golden Eggs, and the True Cost of Cheap Supermarket Food – Part 3 – Updated
In the previous part of this Series we explored how the drive for more and more “golden eggs” in large…
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Community Food Resilience
Never before, in my lifetime, have local food systems and community resilience been so clearly highlighted as being of great…
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