Physical Practice
*IF Military & Corrections Communities Make The Permaculture Move!
Utilizing both military and prison populations to establish large permaculture projects in strategic locations around the globe could lead to wide-ranging impacts, encompassing environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Here’s a detailed exploration of the potential outcomes:
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Environmental Impacts
1. Biodiversity Enhancement: Permaculture practices focus on diversity and mimicking natural ecosystems, which could lead to the restoration and enhancement of biodiversity in agricultural areas.
2. Soil Regeneration: Emphasizing organic practices and soil health could result in widespread soil regeneration, combating erosion and degradation while enhancing soil’s carbon sequestration capabilities, crucial for mitigating climate change.
3. Water Conservation: Permaculture often includes water-saving techniques like rainwater harvesting, potentially improving water security and reducing the strain on freshwater ecosystems.
Social Impacts
1. Skill Development and Rehabilitation: Engaging prison populations in permaculture projects could act as rehabilitation, providing valuable skills and purpose. This could help reduce recidivism by offering post-release employment pathways.
2. Community Building: Military and prison populations working on permaculture projects could foster a sense of community and teamwork, helping bridge social gaps and contributing to social cohesion.
3. Food Security: Large-scale permaculture could significantly bolster local food systems, enhancing food security and resilience against market or climate disruptions.
4. Relationship with nature. This improves the soul, the individual, and the community.
Economic Impacts
1. Job Creation: Expanding permaculture projects would create numerous jobs in planning, implementation, and maintenance, stimulating local economies.
2. Sustainable Livelihoods: Permaculture projects can offer sustainable livelihoods in regions facing unemployment or poverty, reducing reliance on unsustainable economic activities.
3. Eco-Tourism: Established permaculture sites could attract eco-tourism, drawing visitors interested in sustainable agriculture and education, and generating additional revenue.
Challenges and Considerations
1. Consent and Autonomy: Using prison populations raises ethical questions, especially regarding consent and compensation. Participation should be voluntary and fairly compensated.
2. Training and Expertise: Large-scale permaculture implementation requires substantial expertise. Comprehensive training programs would be necessary to equip participants with essential knowledge and skills.
3. Long-term Sustainability: These projects need long-term commitment and support from governments, communities, and international organizations to ensure sustainability and integration into local economies and ecosystems.
4. Cultural and Ecological Sensitivity: Projects must be designed with sensitivity to local cultures and ecosystems, ensuring they enhance rather than disrupt local traditions, biodiversity, and ecological balance.
In conclusion, leveraging the labor and skills of military and prison populations for global permaculture efforts could lead to significant environmental restoration, social rehabilitation, and economic benefits. However, successful outcomes depend on ethical, thoughtful planning and execution, focusing on sustainability, consent, and integration with local communities and ecosystems.
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La utilización de poblaciones militares y carcelarias para establecer grandes proyectos de permacultura en lugares estratégicos de todo el mundo podría generar impactos de amplio alcance, que abarquen dimensiones ambientales, sociales y económicas. Aquí hay una exploración detallada de los posibles resultados:
Impactos ambientales
1. Mejora de la biodiversidad: las prácticas de permacultura se centran en la diversidad y en la imitación de los ecosistemas naturales, lo que podría conducir a la restauración y mejora de la biodiversidad en áreas agrícolas.
2. Regeneración del suelo: Hacer hincapié en las prácticas orgánicas y la salud del suelo podría dar como resultado una regeneración generalizada del suelo, combatiendo la erosión y la degradación y al mismo tiempo mejorando la capacidad del suelo para secuestrar carbono, crucial para mitigar el cambio climático.
3. Conservación del agua: La permacultura a menudo incluye técnicas de ahorro de agua, como la recolección de agua de lluvia, lo que potencialmente mejora la seguridad hídrica y reduce la presión sobre los ecosistemas de agua dulce.
Impactos sociales
1. Desarrollo de habilidades y rehabilitación: Involucrar a las poblaciones carcelarias en proyectos de permacultura podría actuar como rehabilitación, proporcionando habilidades y propósitos valiosos. Esto podría ayudar a reducir la reincidencia al ofrecer vías de empleo posteriores a la liberación.
2. Construcción de comunidad: Las poblaciones militares y carcelarias que trabajan en proyectos de permacultura podrían fomentar un sentido de comunidad y trabajo en equipo, ayudando a cerrar las brechas sociales y contribuyendo a la cohesión social.
3. Seguridad alimentaria: la permacultura a gran escala podría reforzar significativamente los sistemas alimentarios locales, mejorando la seguridad alimentaria y la resiliencia frente a las perturbaciones climáticas o del mercado.
4. Relación con la naturaleza. Esto mejora el alma, el individuo y la comunidad.
Impactos económicos
1. Creación de empleo: La expansión de los proyectos de permacultura crearía numerosos puestos de trabajo en planificación, implementación y mantenimiento, estimulando las economías locales.
2. Medios de vida sostenibles: Los proyectos de permacultura pueden ofrecer medios de vida sostenibles en regiones que enfrentan desempleo o pobreza, reduciendo la dependencia de actividades económicas insostenibles.
3. Ecoturismo: Los sitios de permacultura establecidos podrían atraer el ecoturismo, atrayendo visitantes interesados en la agricultura y la educación sostenibles y generando ingresos adicionales.
Desafíos y consideraciones
1. Consentimiento y autonomía: El uso de poblaciones carcelarias plantea cuestiones éticas, especialmente en relación con el consentimiento y la compensación. La participación debe ser voluntaria y remunerada justamente.
2. Capacitación y experiencia: La implementación de la permacultura a gran escala requiere experiencia sustancial. Serían necesarios programas integrales de capacitación para dotar a los participantes de conocimientos y habilidades esenciales.
3. Sostenibilidad a largo plazo: Estos proyectos necesitan compromiso y apoyo a largo plazo de gobiernos, comunidades y organizaciones internacionales para garantizar la sostenibilidad y la integración en las economías y ecosistemas locales.
4. Sensibilidad cultural y ecológica: Los proyectos deben diseñarse teniendo en cuenta las culturas y los ecosistemas locales, garantizando que mejoren, en lugar de alterar, las tradiciones locales, la biodiversidad y el equilibrio ecológico.
En conclusión, aprovechar la mano de obra y las habilidades de las poblaciones militares y carcelarias para los esfuerzos globales de permacultura podría conducir a una restauración ambiental, rehabilitación social y beneficios económicos significativos. Sin embargo, los resultados exitosos dependen de una planificación y ejecución ética y reflexiva, centrándose en la sostenibilidad, el consentimiento y la integración con las comunidades y ecosistemas locales.
Physical Practice
Master Work, Wizard on the Hill, What does the old Kung Fu-er Really Have to Say?
Today I read the work of a dear friend Richard Aliberti, a man I deeply admired, made a few mistakes and regrets with but shared a deep connection with, and the positive times we shared were more than thought-provoking. He writes about Devinci.
Richard and I came from two different ends of life. He made a name for himself as a fine artist, graduating from fine arts school in Boston, Mass. He did bronze work for Bishops there, and his sculptures peppered a large region on the East Coast United States, and so much more. He told me he lived it up for the most part, had a good time, and was paying a bit for that in his later years. I learn now from his book that he came from a warm home of love and appreciation for art and the spiritual side of life.
Two winters back now we had plans for him to come stay with me in Medellin, I had a date for him and everything. We talked twice a week during the month before he slid off the road and died instantly against a tree. Richard loved trees, more than most, and I knew this was a big part of the reason I valued him more than most also.
I was a throw a kid and everything that comes with that, we all know what it ends up being.
I can tell you the highlights of my story are that I was born of a witch who later became the tutor of another witch who destroyed me, using her own innocent child to do it. The child had was to trap me, but if that didn’t work, then she would be the vehicle used to destroy me. I say ‘her own’ because these kids are no longer anything of us ‘used, “targeted parents;’ they have been programmed to be our opposites and the bond has been cut and cauterized and voodood to never re-attach.
The other highlight is I have always been supposed to have been a superstar and while the potential still exists, in fact is almost a certainty, there is no need to write anything in area of fiction here at this time.
Timing is everything in the fight of life.
I wish I could tell my younger self exactly how much skill learning and crafting and refining was required to move the way I do now. Like James Bond, if you are she could only see you would be addicted to it like everyone else who has gotten a glimpse of it.
Filling that personal encyclopedia of moves on top of moves, if one could simply download it, or learn from a dedicated tutor – a blessing of another level. Take it from someone who only lives because of this type of tutelage donated by deep minds across a long drawn-out mission impossible x 1000 timeline.
Lots of scars.
They are the marks or experience a record of the wear. What would be I can’t help to fantasize if I could have gotten in somehow at 13. I actually did better at that age then at this time on the line that I write this.
Physical Practice
Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and traditional practices
The importance of Indigenous knowledge is immense to the advancement of our ecology and agroecology. In Colombia from one of my indigenous mentors I am constantly thinking that if we don’t get certain masters of cultivation into video or teaching platforms soon, too much could be lost in their passing. Many of the indigenous loyally adhere to a cultural separation from the ‘majority modern folk,’ including one mystically master of the finca “mi tia,” who is the best cultivator I know after 13 years across Central and South America intensely focused on nature and alternative agriculture practices.
Physical Practice
California Special Starters List
This list is of easy-to-get seeds/plants,
rosemary rosmarinus officinalis
sage salvia officinalis
lavender lavandula spp
thyme thymus vulgaris
oregano origanum vulgare
basil ocimum basilicum
parsley petroselinum crispum
mint mentha spp
bay laurel laurus nobilis
chives allium schoenoprasum
california sagebrush artemisia californica
white sage salvia apiana
coyote brush baccharis pilularis
manzanita arctostaphylos spp
black sage salvia mellifera
toyon heteromeles arbutifolia
cleveland sage salvia clevelandii
sticky monkey flower mimulus aurantiacus
california fuchsia epilobium canum
yerba santa eriodictyon californicum
echinacea echinacea purpurea
chamomile matricaria chamomilla
feverfew tanacetum parthenium
lemon balm melissa officinalis
california poppy eschscholzia californica
st johns wort hypericum perforatum
valerian valeriana officinalis
yarrow achillea millefolium
comfrey symphytum officinale
marshmallow althaea officinalis
bee balm monarda didyma
mexican bush sage salvia leucantha
purple coneflower echinacea purpurea
russian sage perovskia atriplicifolia
goldenrod solidago spp
butterfly bush buddleja spp
penstemon penstemon spp
california lilac ceanothus spp
milkweed asclepias spp
hummingbird sage salvia spathacea
…..damiana too!
Some ornamental species, that can be mixed in for incredible aesthetics, and provide diversity for the growth of the above;
oleander nerium oleander
rockrose cistus spp
bottlebrush callistemon spp
texas ranger leucophyllum frutescens
lavatera lavatera maritima
pineapple sage salvia elegans
woolly blue curls trichostema lanatum
french lavender lavandula dentata
manzanita dr hurd arctostaphylos manzanita dr hurd
grevillea grevillea spp
buddleja davidii butterfly bush
desert willow chilopsis linearis
purple sage salvia leucophylla
lantana lantana camara
california buckwheat eriogonum fasciculatum
red buckwheat eriogonum grande var rubescens
santolina santolina chamaecyparissus
creeping thyme thymus serpyllum
jerusalem sage phlomis fruticosa
silver bush lupine lupinus albifrons
remember the study of what is there is going to unlock yet another level / world in the game of this life!!
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