Some recent drystone work. A complete strip out and rebuild of this garden retaining wall which failed after only 30 years due to traced stone. All stone reused and we brought in some local fieldstone too.
Super sustainable, beautiful, lasts for generations. What's not to like?
I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up the material infrastructure.
I'm looking for collaborators, please DM me!
Here it is briefly:
We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.
For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.
Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.
*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.
In the end we would have boosted the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 foci for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.
The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward.
OK, let's assume that we manage to raise the money to produce (hardware + software) an infokiosk that will provide public and free access to scientific knowledge about the All-Crisis and grassroots suggestions on how to respond to it.
What functions should such an infokiosk have, standing, for example, somewhere in a shopping mall or in a railway station waiting room?
Please feel free to brainstorm - we throw in any crazy suggestions you like, other people's we don't judge, but we are inspired by them.
Głęboka adaptacja jest jednym z konceptualnych filarów mojego podejścia do Wszechkryzysu. Kolejnym jest perspektywa sukcesji ekologicznej cywilizacji, w sposób erudycyjny zaprezentowana już dekadę temu przez J. M. Greera.
W 2019 spróbowałem połączyć te dwie perspektywy w wielowymiarowy obraz, a kilka dni temu odświeżyłem nieco ten artykuł i opublikowałem go tutaj.
Dotychczasowi władcy i przewodnicy ludzkości zawiedli nas – nieważne, czy z niekompetencji, czy grając dla własnej korzyści. Szansą ludzkości są nowe pokolenia, wychowane w nowy sposób, aby pracowały i zmagały się dla dobra wszystkich. Wtedy,być może, niektórzy przetrwają.
Przyłóżmy się do tego.
Gdzie jak gdzie, ale w fediwersum mam nadzieję znaleźć osoby chętne, aby eksplorować to podejście, poszerzać perspektywę (kolejne książki w kolejce) i na tym budować działania praktyczne.
Jeśli przekonuje Cię ta wizja, odezwij się do mnie, a przede wszystkim - podaj dalej.
Plantain, Yarrow, Calendula, Chamomile, Fennel, and Rose Petals infusing in an oil for a month. The Plantain and Yarrow are foraged from nearby woodland, the Calendula, Chamomile and Fennel from the garden, and rose petals are bought. Once it's infused, I'll make a topical balm with our bees wax. Yay.
Too many people, even here on Mastodon, seem to be in denial about how bad things are likely to get on our current path. I suppose I can understand how they might wish the situation was different, and perhaps some of them aren't psychologically or emotionally ready to handle an honest look at the dire future we face, so they simply avoid it.
But I worry that almost everyone will be unprepared for the collapse of our fragile modern society when it comes.
@breadandcircuses@YaRo thanks again for your posts. I’d never heard of Deep Adaptation before this one. I read the introduction to the original DA paper and I’ve begun to explore the website. Is there a presence on mastodon? #deepadaptation