{"id":54870,"date":"2020-08-30T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54870"},"modified":"2020-08-30T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:05:21","slug":"the-importance-and-complexity-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54870","title":{"rendered":"The Importance and Complexity of Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Importance and Complexity of Community<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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I deeply believe that people are the only critical resource needed by people. We ourselves, if we organise our talents, are sufficient to each other. What is more, we will either survive together or none of us will survive.<\/p>\n

\u2013Bill Mollison, from\u00a0Permaculture: A Designers\u2019 Manual<\/u><\/p>\n

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Community is paramount to permaculture. This is not a practice for isolationists because isolationists can\u2019t change the world in a positive way, and ultimately that is the goal behind every garden, eco-home, and water catchment we build. In fact, the \u201cculture\u201d part of the permaculture term cannot be realised without a social group that shares values, traditions, and practices. In essence, those gardens, homes, and dams are all embodiments of that culture, and without people\u2014that\u2019s plural\u2014to create, utilise, and share the fruits of these efforts, permaculture can\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

While we may be attempting to individually take responsibility for ourselves (and, yes, that\u2019s a wonderful thing to do), it is our collective effort that matters most. If we each live in our own sustainability bubbles, then we are doomed to repeat mistakes, to use more resources, to fear others, to limit our potential\u2026 and that\u2019s not even getting into the basic psychology of person-to-person social interaction, something COVID quarantines have revealed as principal to a happy existence. For better or worse, we need each other.<\/p>\n

Even so, community can be a difficult thing. It\u2019s often wrought with rules and ruling classes. Conflict is inevitable. Belief systems become complex and spiritual: How many versions of Christianity\/Islam\/Judaism exist? How well historically do they all get along within the respective religions and outside of them? Designing sustainable homes, productive landscapes, and water catchment systems is a far easier undertaking than deciphering the mysteries of human interaction. Nevertheless, it\u2019s every bit as important. After all, it is one of the three\u00a0ethics of permaculture<\/a>: People Care.<\/p>\n

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The Importance and Complexity of Community \u00a0Image by\u00a0John Hain\u00a0from\u00a0Pixabay I deeply believe that people are the only critical resource needed by people. We ourselves, if we organise our talents, are sufficient to each other. What is more, we will either survive together or none of us will survive. \u2013Bill Mollison, from\u00a0Permaculture: A Designers\u2019 Manual   […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[2557,11500,9358],"class_list":["post-54870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-community","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54870","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=54870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54871,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54870\/revisions\/54871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}