Organizing Permaculture
What’s that? Focusing on permaculture, is it really possible to talk about a special kind of organizing?
So it seems, and the discussions within the international permaculture network show that these principles are in fact fairly well-developed already.
Let us first have a look at the development of the permaculture concept and its position in global social processes: first regeneration of natural resources by farmers, then habitational strategies, the generation of permanent sociocultural systems, and now finally the development of actual political and social strategies, with LETS and the bioregion concept as the first steps.
As designers of permaculture we constantly confront the barriers that this world sets up for the life of individuals as well as societies, and via our analytical tools and work processes we are able to handle those barriers and suggest solutions that stay within them and push them at the same time.
On a global scale there are by now several projects to document the validity of our concept in relation to natural resources locally, regionally and globally. Now we find that the next barriers for the further development and consolidation of these projects more and more often originate in political and admini-strative processes. It comes as no surprise since these same barriers in principle have brought the present unfortunate environmental and social situation upon us.