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What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As a developed set of social practices, techniques and ethical norms, permaculture has a lot to say to the world of the commons.\u00a0 This is immediately clear from reading the twelve design principles of permaculture that David Holmgren enumerated in his 2002 book\u00a0Permaculture: Principles and Practices Beyond Sustainability.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0It mentions such principles as \u201ccatch and store energy,\u201d \u201capply self-regulation and accept feedback,\u201d \u201cproduce no waste,\u201d and \u201cdesign from patterns to details.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
My friendship and work with ecological design expert Dave Jacke have only intensified my conviction that permaculturists and commoners need to connect more and learn from each other.\u00a0 The value of such dialogues was brought home to me by a public talk and an all-day workshop that I co-organized with Dave.\u00a0 The events, which in combination we called \u201cReinventing the Commons,\u201d were an opportunity for 35 participants to learn about ecosystem dynamics and the commons, and for Dave and me to learn from each other in public.\u00a0 How might we build better commons by mimicking the principles and patterns of natural ecosystems?<\/p>\n

Dave\u2019s talk on the evening of January 20 was a great introduction to this topic.\u00a0 He started by showing a chart plotting the \u201cindustrial ascent\u201d of human civilization as fueled by cheap fossil fuels, growing populations and profligate pollution and waste. \u00a0(See the yellow line in the chart; based on a diagram originally by David Holmgren (http:\/\/futurescenarios.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Dave\u2019s quick historical overview started with tribal commons in the prehistoric era, a time when people self-organized to obtain enough food and shelter to survive.\u00a0 Societies began to take the shape of feudal commons in Roman and Medieval times, at least in England and Europe.\u00a0 Lords owned the land and claimed privileged access to certain resources of the landscape while allowing commoners to manage other resources themselves.<\/p>\n

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What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons As a developed set of social practices, techniques and ethical norms, permaculture has a lot to say to the world of the commons.\u00a0 This is immediately clear from reading the twelve design principles of permaculture that David Holmgren enumerated in his 2002 book\u00a0Permaculture: Principles and Practices Beyond Sustainability.\u00a0\u00a0It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[152,6551,14833,622,769],"class_list":["post-22851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-commons","tag-david-bollier","tag-david-bollier-blog","tag-permaculture","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22852,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851\/revisions\/22852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}