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Zen Gardner: "It doesn't take much to dispel darkness. Just turn on the light."

A few months ago, though Zen would give his usual rousing, cheerleading call at the end of his posts, that arousal sometimes felt forced, as if he knew he had to end on a positive note, otherwise people would just give up. He didn’t want that. Who does? Even so, the main thrust of his […]

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Albert Bates: Permaculture offers the new, and needed, 21st Century Ethics

If you recall, I specifically cited the remarks of Albert Bates from the plenary session of the North American Permaculture Convergence as particularly resonant for me. Here he expands on his topic of the eventual “invisibility” of (the ethics of) permaculture, and gives a youtube link to the entire plenary session at the end. Stranded […]

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