Agroecology As The Holistic Ecology of People and Planet - Part 2

Evolving local knowledge, local connection, and cooperation is the meaning of indigenous (A degree of vulnerability rather than insulation from feedback loops is also important). Local knowledge lost is a catastrophic loss! The ideal imperative of our time is re-indigenization and empowerment of durable, happy, and productive local cultures whose prosperity is integrally tied to ecological adaptivity and reality.

Renewed and adventurously discovered cultures need to be generationally knowledge multiplying. We should not amplify differences and generational gaps, and we should understand the natural flow of knowledge and where it is typically lost. Our information systems, as the libraries of old, are not a replacement for generationally multiplying knowledge. Our info-technology tools are a catalog of knowledge that, though not necessarily locally relevant, can function as a builder’s toolbox in trial, error, adventure, and brilliance. Another tool is our tie to other individuals and communities around the globe; still another our science and systems of huge productivity turned rabid.

Look at all the tools and points of leverage we have access to. We are in a position to build integrally successful local civilizations and we are the local communities that span the width and depth of the globe.

Ecology functions on excess energy flows not energy creation. The ecosystem is an impossibly efficient energy capture, cycle, and upscale system for multiplying usable-product exponentially through the diverse soft labor of millions of willing creatures, each for their own good and, by apparent design, for the good of the whole.

Nuff-said... as we say. Time to live the adventure and create the future!