Re: ecovillage and sustainability
"John Schinnerer" <john-/Gao9/[email protected]>
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Aloha, > The moderator has touched a key point: Gee, thanks Chris, but I'm not the moderator. List is unmoderated - so y'all behave, OK? ;-) > ...referring to 'traditional villages.' Yea, sure, they are (or were) the > ultimate models for sustainability:... Or perhaps they just had more than enough room to throw their trash without it bumping into someone else's trash. And of course they didn't have any non-biodegradable trash, which probably made it easier, especially for the semi-nomadics. They would for example 'use up' the easily accessible resources of a relatively small area, then move on...by the time they returned to that area it would have naturally regenerated itself. Low population density helps a *lot*. There just weren't enough of them (us) or enough 'high' technology to do the kind of damage we choose to do. > ...they certainly could be "continued into the indefinite future" Well, maybe. We'll never know, since as you say most all have been interrupted by other human systems (and some were perturbed beyond recovery by non-human systems). > but could we say they were "full-featured?" Well, I reckon that depends on what one takes "full-featured" to mean. Whattaya say, list members? What's "full-featured" to you? > Is it possible to integrate selected, appropriate, > 21st century technologies... My working definition of 'appropriate technologies' is 'technologies we can appropriate for ourselves', where 'ourselves' means relatively small groups of people working with locally available, regenerable/renewable resources. Stuff other than that won't last past the end of the fossil-fuel era. > ...into dispersed, tribal social and settlement > patterns? Well, we'll find out...but only if we do. John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design ------------------------------------------ - Eco-Living - Design & Technology Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john-/Gao9/[email protected] http://eco-living.net ------------------------------------------------ To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance ------------------------------------------------