Community Permaculture Parables: Give People Freedom, Not More Work
Plan Projects that Support Social Structures, instead of Planning Social Structures to Support your Projects That’s a longer way of saying the same thing, for those who aren’t into the whole brevity thing. And I hope that’s you, because it’s taken me a long time to really learn that, so this will be a long post. For me, this was clarified greatly by something I’ve heard both Permaculture originator Bill Mollison and his student Geoff Lawton say in several different ways, to paraphrase: If you build something that demands more time, energy and work from people than they started with, that’s not … Continue reading Community Permaculture Parables: Give People Freedom, Not More Work