An Open Letter and Plea to the Permaculture Community – Joel Glanzberg
“We have been warned that “the map is not the territory” and then have mistaken the map of permaculture as the territory of permaculture. Living in a materialistic and mechanistic culture we have grabbed onto the stuff and mechanisms of permaculture rather than the essential patterns. Just because we learn about living systems through gardens, forests, and fields, does not mean that is where our art is most fruitfully applied.
So what am I asking of you? Please just think about this. Let it burn out the choked underbrush of your certainty. Watch how it effects how you think, and teach, design, and work. Let it open room to let something new emerge in the sunlit space. While cracks in structures need to be fixed, in nature from splitting seed coats, hatching chicks, or birthing babies or ideas, cracks are the doorways to new life.”
LINK: http://patternmind.org/an-open-letter-and-plea-to-the-permaculture-community/
Regenerative Development: Working with Potential
When we strive to improve the places where we live, we often orient ourselves towards trying to solve problems. This approach locks us into what already exists and keeps us from aligning around what has the potential to come into being. In this video, the members of Regenesis Group talk about the power of working with potential in a place.
