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Permaculture is a design science, based on observation, that integrates all human activities into a whole system based on natural patterning and ecology. In a word, Permaculture=Relationship. Penny Livingston

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Articles

(in no particular order)

Art1 Dancing with Systems

by Dana Meadows

Art2 Intervening in Systems

by Dana Meadows

An 'ecological' orientation alone, outside of a critical social framework, is dangerously unstable. The record of fascist ecology shows that under the right conditions such an orientation can quickly lead to barbarism.Art26

Art3 Beyond Greed & Scarcity

by Bernard Lietaer

Art4 The Human Future

by Daniel Quinn

All truth passes through three phases.

First it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently objected to.

Third, it is accepted as obvious.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Art5 A Therapy Issue?

by Kathy Mc Mahon

Art6 Bill Mollison Interview

by Seeds of Change

Art7 Why Bother with PC?

by Ted Trainer

Art8 EMERGY

various links

Art9 Are organizations beset by "demons"?

interview with Scott Peck

"Truth is a state of mind in which there is no contradiction. A person perceives his idea as true because he has heard no contradiction. The less one knows, the easier it is to be dogmatic and to be sure that what one knows is true. We tend to defend dogmatically as true the things we are taught, whereas the things we learn from experience and experiments tend to be properly couched in sometimes-contradictory reality."

(H.T. Odum)

Art10 A new Model of the Mind

developed by 50+ years of action-learning

Art11 Water and Human Evolution

A Dialogue about Science Process?

Art12 Tailhard de Chardin

The Phenomenon of Man

Art13 Being a 'White Ally'

developing anti-racist consciousness

Art14 The Land, A Manifesto

agriculture begets human culture

Art 15 Zeitgeist, The Movie

The Spirit of the Age

I think the thing about ideology that fascinates me so much is how powerfully it functions as a mechanism of social control. I mean, it's so powerful because it makes its home in our brains. When it's like that the dominant classes don't need to point guns or tanks or even threats at the ordinary citizens of the state. It's unnecessary - we'll police ourselves, we'll consent to our own subjugation. Pinky

Art16 Crisis and Revolution

rEvolution in biology and our thinking

Art17 Collective Intelligence

by Francoise Noubel

Art18 Greendale Vision

by Anna Edey

Art19 Education, for what?

by John Taylor Gatto

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. It's about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself, it's a future that we must create through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself. (Andrew Cohen)

Art20 On Genocide

by Juan Santos

Art21 On Sexism

various articles and video

Art22 The Pinky Show

& other brilliant Mythical Designs

Art23 Social Tolerance

by Lisa Rayner

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. Ayn Rand

Art24 After Darwin

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris

Art25 The "WE" Paradigm

or the essence of "PeopleCare"

Art26 on Fascist Ecology

Peter Staudenmaier

Art27 A grain of gold

quotes by HD Thoreau

Art28 Egoism and Objectivism

the phylosophy of Ayn Rand

At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem... Ken Wilber