Re: ecovillage and sustainability

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On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 10:08 AM, earthsea wrote:

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>> We need to be open to all ideas and not get caught up ideologies that 
>> create
>> power struggles.
>> Liz
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> I agree, Liz & have had to laugh at how my bristles rise so 
> defensively &
> reflexively when someone who i know nothing about DARES to dismiss
> permaculture or some other pet of mine. Much that needs change can only
> change if we humans drop our reflexive habits.
>
> the thread has been some service tho, for looking for reasonable 
> boundaries
> to the issues-how radical need we be? how tolerant can we afford to be?
> what is sustainablility? has there been an historical modelof
> sustainability? I think JC has raised good points about the actual 
> impact
> of human organization on ecosystems over a very long time-frame.
>
> the value of utopian thought may be the yardstick it provides so we 
> can see
> how far from heaven we are
>
> davidc
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