Comments on: Why Learn Permaculture – for the Children and Ourselves

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:32:28 +0000

Here is a similar book, but in English, The Age of Empathy: http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/empathy/

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:54:08 +0000

I meant human ecology, and Bongard is a behavior ecologist. I wish he could have written something for this blog; it would have been very relevant for permaculture. Anyway, this study is also very relevant for this article: http://www.utviklingsfondet.no/filestore/ViableFuture-web.pdf

By: Douglas

Douglas — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:35:05 +0000

You can achieve a surprising amount of “marketing” by sharing your surplus. My neighbours are typical old style small acreage, they burn instead of mulching etc. But they keep lots of birds, including rare chooks, and some parrots. When my pigeon pea started attracting a dozen King parrots every morning and night, they wanted to know what I was growing & could they have some seed. Similarly, I have been giving away the odd dozen free-range organic eggs, lemon butter or fresh herbs at work whenever I have a surplus, people are amazed at the colour, freshness and taste. This often lead to interesting conversations, and some people start to consider what they can do at home.

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:31:02 +0000

See: http://www.nina.no/Aktuelt/Artikkel/tabid/945/ArticleId/840/Det-biologiske-mennesket-individer-og-samfunn-i-lys-av-evolusjon.aspx

Also within behavior or human biology the scientists have now come to the same conclusion as in permaculture, our societies works best if they are broken down into small, cooperating groups: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/Mollison.htm

In the book above, translated “the biological human”, written by dr.scient. Terje Bongard and prof. dr.philos. Eivin Røskaft, they have come to the conclusion that human biology is tribal, and the only way we can survive as specie is by breaking the huge structures of our societies down into small tribal entities. This is the only way we can work our self out of the environmental crisis, and this is the only way to control human greed.

In fact, Terje Bongard has now become so convinced about this, that he sees it as his mission to make this transformation, giving interviews both in radio and newspapers here in Norway. But for him to success he’ll need to cooperate with the permaculture movement, because we have come to the same conclusion decades ago!

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:37:00 +0000

It’s about leaving “the comfort zone”, entering “the life zone”. Too many are marketing the comforts of the comfort zone; too few are marketing the real life of the life zone. We should become better in marketing; even it’s hard to compete with multinational cooperation’s marketing the comfort zone. But our product is much better, offering true satisfaction and quality of life, the most important gift we can give to our children. This article is an important piece in marketing the deep pleasures of the life zone, thank you!

Here are more resources: http://www.permacultureactivist.net/booksvid/community.htm