有機園芸を越えて持続可能性のためのシステム思考

The question posed to the Occupy movement is, “What are your demands?” Terrorists make demands and since Occupy is not a movement of terrorists, why dignify the inane question by a response that would allow the media and the cynical to pigeonhole the movement? 今では, it should be self-evident that people are hungry to experience life unconstrained by, dependent upon, and unmediated by power structures that deify greed while gorging on our lives, not just upon the blood of an underclass that ekes by but on the elites themselves who are just as surely drained soullessly dry by exploiting others.

The Occupy movement doesn’t have the numbers to singlehandedly create a new, uncorrupted system ex nihilo on its own steam. However, if the movement leverages the support of the American public that supports it, turning their attention towards the question, “What do we create next?", Occupy could create an experiential manifestation of a grounded, integrated vision that is practical, elegant and life-affirming. (More on that subject in a subsequent post.)

Populist and progressive movements have had a self-defeating proclivity to oppose institutional and structural injustice on principle without presenting a substantive alternative that is functional in the real world. It’s not that I can’t sympathize with the seething frustration, resentment, disillusionment, and outrage. After a point though, one has to stop standing against everything and to find something one is willing to proudly stand のために without selling out the vision. Then it’s time to walk the talk. Manifestation of a vision that large is a long haul effort, so expectations of instant gratification will weed out the flaky and the uncommitted until these folks are willing to stop complaining and to grow backbones.

Many of the folks within the Occupy movement have deep resentment towards the institutions that represent corruption but the double bind is that the Occupy movement hasn’t yet created alternative structures that people sympathetic to the movement trust will also be free of graft and corruption. There are standing offers to make donations to Occupy, yet no way to receive those donations. While it could be successfully argued that there hasn’t been a nonprofit that wasn’t corrupted eventually, if the Occupy movement wants to get something done as a matter of practicality, it has no choice but work creatively with the tools of extant institutional structures before it can fundamentally redefine and retool how alternative structures could work. It’s the principle of being the change one wants to see in the world (while not losing your sense of humor).

Like it or not, we all carry the unconscious seeds of the abusive system we’re the products of and without conscious, deep excavation of those tendencies, system replication is almost guaranteed if for no other reason than the unavoidable polarities of being incarnate in a realm of dualities. The embedded cosmic joke is the tendency to become what we oppose. We have a great deal of painful, soul-searching introspection to engage in about the paradigms we bring with us. I will risk drawing progressive activists’ anger, negativity, and criticism because if nothing else, the presence of controversy will hopefully distill into clarity the need to examine the roots of any anger provoked. If I provoke discomfort and anger, it’s because there’s a collective psychic or emotional wound that I have touched.

例えば、, as a microcosmic fractal of the truth that what is in one is in the whole and that what is in the whole is in the one, Occupy has its share of overbloated egos. In L.A., the “leaders” are easy to identify since their fishbowl niche is monopolizing space in front of cameras and microphones speaking on behalf of the whole. The humorous irony lies in the presence of self-appointed leaders in what is supposed to be a leaderless movement. Meanwhile, the self-serving media would love nothing better than a feeding frenzy on the chum of negative stories about Occupy L.A.. The hunger is palpable since most within the camp don’t like those within the media tents. KPFK barely arrived and started broadcasting from the site when was voted off by the general assembly. It was a puzzling decision tactically since KPFK is a sympathetic ally with which Occupy could have cultivated a positive relationship. Goodness knows that Occupy won’t find mainstream media allies. Could you see Fox portraying Occupy in a positive light? Neither can I.

Economic and ecological sustainability integrated seamlessly with inter/intra generational social justice can’t be pasted over our dysfunctional global society like a veneer. We can’t expect that superficial approach to work because the fundamental dysfunctional power dynamics are still in place. Intensive shadow excavation and healing work through brutal self-honesty needs to take place in both the internal and external realms. The absence of any substantive internal work to change consciousness in tandem with attempting to change the external world is one of the major weaknesses of the permaculture, Peak Oil, Occupy, and Transition Town* movements and it’s a reason why many progressive organizations and movements have flailed and are flailing in their efforts to bring about systemic change. Are my standards high? Yes, but so are the stakes, which are unprecedented in global history.

*注: The Transition Town model includes the formation of Heart and Soul committees but I don’t know if many of these subgroups have facilitators that are skilled enough to navigate the deep, sometimes rough, waters of the psyche and collective unconscious, let alone the prowess to help people own motivations that they don’t discuss proudly. Until we own our shadows, our shadows own us. That work is process, not product oriented, so there is no definable terminus.

Among all of the world’s major spiritual traditions, there are precepts for the personal management of Divine power, our lifeforce, that also enhance physical health and emotional well-bein. Violations of those precepts end up costing us spiritually as well as biologically. These precepts are: 1) Live in the present moment, 2) Seek only the truth, 3) Surrender personal will to Divine will, 4) Love is Divine Power, 5) Honor oneself, 6) Honor the whole of life, と 7) All is one. These precepts correspond to the seven chakras of the Vedic scriptures, the seven Christian sacraments, and the Tree of Life of the Kabbalistic tradition. (reference: Caroline Myss)

All is one is apparently one of the truths that sounds fabulous in theory but is hard to live by in practice. Anything that divides unity or violates the sanctity of the whole, such as racism, homophobia, classism, or sexism, is a violation the precept and hence, Divine law. Social, economic and ecological justice are inextricably linked. Abuse and concatenated energetic/spiritual violations are not permissible behaviors that we should turn a blind eye to and deny because what is in the one is in the whole and what is in the whole is in the one. The enemy isn’t “out there”. It never was. The human heart is the portal for both good and evil in the world; intention and choice mediate what we manifest through our creativity.

We live in a global culture that is highly tolerant of abuse in all its myriad forms. Although physical abuse is horrifying in its senselessness, it is a malignant outgrowth of the more prevalent, but hidden, verbal, energetic, 感情の, and psychological forms of abuse, which are often more damaging because the process of non-physical abuse destroys the abused person (or animal, social class, 国, ecosystem, 等) from the inside out. Contrary to popular myth, most abusers do not inflict harm because of mental illness or because they too were victims of abuse. Abusers abuse because they can and because no one holds them accountable for their predatory behavior; the motivations, rooted in self-serving values and attitudes of entitlement, lie in needs for power, domination, and control through their impositions on others rather than the cultivation of authentic power from within. Abuse breaches the surface of public consciousness when it surfaces in a salacious story about incest, pornography, sexual slavery or culmination in murder. This kind of violence will not subside unless and until abuse is no longer tolerated socially or interpersonally. Most abusers feel utterly entitled to behaving as they do and merely cracking down with more punitive laws or extensive punishments on the tiny fraction who are caught in the legal system will not stem the tide abuse victims. The vast majority of abusers are never caught, let alone prosecuted; they simply move on to new victims.

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Rather than use hyperbole for literary effect that would lead you to believe that I’m prone to fabrication, I’m letting the story that the e-mail tells exemplify more social patterns in the extreme to make them obvious.

A few years ago, I volunteered as a consulting garden/landscape professional for the first “Gardens of Gratitude” in Los Angeles. I’d be tempted to rechristen the project-driven event if it wouldn’t be dishonoring the spirit of abundance and sharing that Devin Slavin (a classmate in Ecological Agriculture program at New College of California 1n 2005) wanted the idea of “Gardens of Gratitude” to embody. The intention behind making materials and expertise low and no-cost was to make edible sustainable gardens accessible to low-income folks, not to subsidize the acquisitive greed of the haves (who in all likelihood could afford the materials and services when they wanted to pay for them) at the expense of neglecting the have-nots in areas such as East Santa Monica, Westlake, MacArthur Park, Southcentral, Watts, or Pacoima. The opposite of gratitude isn’t ingratitude, it’s entitlement.

Entitlement is one pervasive manifestation of America’s shadow and it is what St. Teresa of Avila called a “reptile in the soul” according to Caroline Myss. Until you own your shadow aspects, they own you.

From:

To: (e-mail addresses deleted)

Date: Sun, May 3, 2009 1:30:43 PM

Cc: (e-mail addresses deleted)

Subject: Re: Gardens of Gratitude – Thanks for signing up

Greetings Sean & All:

Thank you for welcoming us into the event. Just to let you know, our knowledge is minimal (book-learned permaculture curiosity), and being a corner lot, our blank palette is large and L-shaped. For that day, we’ve segmented off one 12×20 full-sun rectangular section of the yard to work with, and have been doing some sketches.

Our goal is to do this without spending much at all.

Uh-oh. That last sentence was a red flag.

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing when culled from a book without any grounding in experience but anchored to high expectations. The only way that this family could visually achieve the upscale “architectural” results that they strove for would be on the back(と) of whoever was generous and/or foolish enough to subsidize their enterprise. Translated, the first and second paragraphs meant: “We have high expectations shaped by ideas cherry picked from books sans application contexts and we’re hoping to siphon off good quality freebies from whomever and wherever we can get them.”

We’ve acquired some piles of free dirt (about 6 pick-up loads) that my husband has dutifully sifted. We also found some medium-sized rocks to help with berms, since our vision is to create one natural-looking elevated wall to hold in the height, with the elevation sloping down to the sidewalk and some DG pathways.

Hmmm….let’s get this straight. You want a sculpted wall and decomposed granite pathways and you want materials and labor for these features for free? There’s charity and generosity on the one hand, and then there’s milking an event for everything it is worth.

My husband wants a more drought tolerant architectural look–not an obvious food garden, so no overt raised beds. But since we have hardpan, we need to pile on the good stuff… So in our efforts to compromise, I’ll be interspersing any edibles into the schema. I will have a mini tangerine and a loquat onsite for that day, and probably tomatoes. Any other stealth edibles advice is welcome!

Can’t have an obvious food garden in full view of neighbors. It sounds oh-so untidy and low class (God forbid). What will 彼ら think? (Who gives a flying fig as long as the plants are happy and skillfully cared for? A tended, well-loved garden always looks better than a soulless, stiff planting arrangement designed to appease the neighbors and win their approval.)

Here’s where it gets interesting since the subject wanted to mingle plants that have contrasting horticultural requirements. Once established, the tangerine and loquat would probably do just fine among drought tolerant plants as long as the trees were periodically deep soaked, but tomatoes and garden variety (しゃれが意図) edibles would not be getting their needs met among the drought tolerant plants. If the soil were watered frequently enough to satisfy the garden veggies, the drought tolerant plants would eventually succumb to fungal disease and rot. Although the couple in question might stubbornly resist following the advice they claim to want, they would have to pick either the annual edible plant palette or the perennial drought tolerant plants in lieu of conceding garden design to someone who knows what they’re doing.

Also, I think we have some snakey sand bags from Cal-Earth in the garage which can be moulded into low holding walls… TBD. That could be fun to play with!

Here’s our questions to be more ready for the day:

• BASE PREP:

All grass is gone and we’re down to the hard pan. We were thinking we would just pile the new dirt on top of that, with one side bermed, and the other sloping to the sidewalk. (The piles of dirt are a few yards away dumped on the unsolved section of the yard). We read the gardens of gratitude links about Instant No Dig Garden Beds と Double Digging… We were wondering:

     – Can we drill holes into the hard clay to help make more permeable and skip the hard labor? (the carpenter has a pneumatic drill…)

     – Or get out the pick-axes to loosen the hardpan (we’d rather not!!!)

     – Should we have cardboard onsite to place on top of hardpan (as we saw on the Mar Vista Garden tour last week)? Or is that just for lawn-suppression?

     – Any other prep tips we should know about?

I’m not going to comment on what they could have done more specifically about that alleged hardpan because I don’t know enough about their prospective garden site. This family didn’t specifically request a site analysis and I wasn’t about to volunteer one for known takers. Without that site analysis, more specific comments would be conjecture.

それはそうだ, there’s a possibility that lugging in the 6 pickup truckloads of soil and then sifting it (なぜ? To cull stones or remove glass?) on relatively short notice was a waste of effort because these folks were working under the incorrect premise and assumption that they have “bad” soil. I haven’t a clue why this mystifying judgment is prevalent. Los Angeles has buried some of the most fertile agricultural soils in the world under endlessly contiguous miles of asphalt and concrete. It’s not the soil’s fault that it’s been abused for almost a century. Hardpan due to compaction and ignorance is one of the least of the wounds inflicted on this land. If this family had not gotten greedy about availing themselves of freebies and if they had been patient enough to allow sufficient lead time working in tandem with the rhythm of the seasons without compulsively feeding their addiction to instant gratification, it would have been possible to use organic methods to condition that “hardpan” so that the soil would have been workable.

Drilling holes in the soil? I wonder if this carpenter and his wife ever considered that drill bits manufactured for wood aren’t made to bore holes in soil and 2) the inevitability that the drill bits (he’ll go through a lot of them) would strike unseen pebbles and rocks buried in the fill. Oops.

So many people find the idea of prolific, beautiful gardens bursting with color and life alluring and yet they’re not willing to put their backs into the effort of planting and maintaining them. There is no such thing as a free lunch. In spite of the eternal nature of this truth, people look for ways to circumvent the effort if they can’t get someone else to do the hard work for them for free (私は. Gardens of Gratitude volunteers) または, if need be, for cheap. (The quick excuse at the ready is “I don’t have the time” but when you consider how much time is spent watching TV and fiddling around on technological toys and dig deeper, the excuse actually translates to “I don’t have the interest or skills and besides, nature scares me when it’s icky”.) Gardening and landscaping are like so many other life endeavors – you get out of it what you put into it and there are no shortcuts to working with natural systems like gardens, which are human-designed and created pseudoecosystems, but natural systems nonetheless. Nature sets the tone through microclimate, geology, and climate and ultimately calls the dance. Get over it.

Personally, as much as everyone complains about clay, I’d rather work with clayey soil than sand. It takes a lot longer to build up the organic content and create good tilth in a sandy soil that leaks water and nutrients like a sieve.

• COMPOST:

In addition to our acquired topsoil, we need to enrich with compost, right? もしそうなら, should it be in separate piles, or mixed in with the dirt? If mixed, what are the proportions, 等? Where to acquire FREE compost if possible? We saw some sacks available on the Mar Vista Gardens tour, but didn’t note where they were from. Let us know.

• Same for MANURE: how much for our 12×20 space, and where to acquire FREE if possible?

• WOOD CHIPS, 等: Should we have mulch piles on-site ready for spreading at end of the project?

     We’re running out of room. Could that come later? Also, where to acquire FREE if possible. Our official Culver City source seems to have closed…

Again, this family is working under the premise and assumption that they need compost, manure, and wood chips for their allegedly “bad” hardpan soil. How did these folks arrive at their conclusions about what soil amendment materials they need for this landscaping project? What were their assumptions and why did they make them?

Eager about and enamored by the prospect of dabbling in their idea of Permaculture, they didn’t research drought tolerant plants or edibles to determine what those plants need to thrive. By their own admission, they don’t know much of anything about Permaculture or gardening, let alone the horticultural needs of plants. That kind of reading isn’t as sexy as jumping onto the Permaculture trendwagon but the blunt truth is that a lovely garden is not the end result when all the plants are struggling to survive because their needs are not being met. Attractive home gardens and landscapes, especially ones that increase property values in the long-term, are not accidents of short-lived attention, fashionable interest, and design on aesthetic whims. (Hint: Designing a daisy-shaped garden for the sake of designing a daisy-shaped garden without considering the needs of the plants, the mature sizes of the plants, or maintenance is setting yourself up for failure.)

Of the three materials that this family is requesting free source information for, I’d only recommend the wood chips for mulch and I wouldn’t skimp by going for free material unless my back was against the wall. Chipped material can be acquired gratis from a cooperative tree trimming company but since beggars cannot be choosers, the recipient 1) would not be able to specify quantity (you take whatever they give you), 2) cannot request specs on the tree and shrub species in the mix, または 3) expect to have a request for a minimal leaf litter to wood chip ratio honored. If you refuse to compromise on special requests and place conditions on the tree trimmings you are willing to receive, take a number and expect to wait until a tree trimming job that happens to meet your exacting specifications crops up. That wait could take months. If the need for mulch is time-sensitive, it’s best to just pay for it.

The vast majority of tree trimming jobs generate both leafy and woody material in equal proportions. Mix the finely chopped wet green stuff plus the moist woody stuff, leave it in a pile about a cubic yard in volume, and in a few short months you have…TA-DA!…compost! Pure wood chips that are coarsely chopped (私は. pieces 2-4 inches in length) don’t break down as quickly as free tree trimmings and where mulch is concerned, you want that 3 に 4 inch protective layer on top of your soil to last at least a few years as opposed to only several months but no more than a year. Left to its own devices, nature generates its own mulch. It may be minimal or plentiful depending on the ecosystem and plant community, but it’s there.

ちなみに, I didn’t put the word “free” in all caps for emphasis on how cheap and stingy this family was. The text and its formatting is how it appeared in the e-mail verbatim. I kid you not.

• SPRINKLERS:

We have sprinklers which we don’t use, but are still hooked up. We have not retrofitted to any of the low flow dribblers or whatever–don’t have the expertise (My husband is a carpenter, not a plumber). He doesn’t want to use auto sprinkling at all, but go to hose, and says he’s willing to hand-water. I think we need a FREE pro consult on this–If the workings are there, do we want to take advantage and make life easier?

I hope this family actually tested the sprinkler system to check to see whether it still worked. I didn’t offer up my services and don’t know what sucker, um, I mean person…yeah, if anyone, stepped up to the plate to offer professional advice to tailor the irrigation system. The type of retrofit would entirely depend on the type of plants chosen for the project and since the planned plant palette was going to be mixed, you can bet that the results would be as well.

Hand watering is often a good enough option but the system failure often lies in whoever handles the hose. For busy, scattered, distracted suburbanites, the committed intention to hand water the plants wears off in direct proportion to the garden project’s novelty. Remembering to deep water drought tolerant plants on a frequency of once every 2 に 4 週間 (actual frequency depends on time of year, 太陽暴露, 土壌型, and weather) can be another challenge if the irregular ritual of watering doesn’t become a habit. More often than not, people forget. The other challenge with hand watering is that the tops of the plants usually get sprayed, leaving the roots where the water is really needed to slowly dry out after the last of seasonal rains. Few well-intentioned hand waterers bother to check soil moisture below the mulch layer, if one is present.

• THIRSTY TREE:•

Any tree experts out there who can help advise us about our thirsty parkway magnolia which is sending sausage-sized roots up to the surface of the yard, and blasting the sidewalk out of its way in doing so? Since we stopped watering our hardpan, it’s gone wild looking for water. We’re trying to coordinate with L.A. City about sidewalk repair, and hoping to talk to the city arborist, but much redtape and perhaps many moons before we get info there. So if anyone has info here. (This challenge is separate from the 12×20 area delineated for the workday…)

Any info is much appreciated!

Thanx from the Cheapskate Family (surname changed to protect the guilty)

Harry & Virginia & boys

Want to raise some sidewalk, maybe destroy a nearby cement block wall or even a building foundation? Plant a Ficus or a Magnolia tree nearby.

The City of Los Angeles Public Works has a warped interpretation of job security. One department is charged with planting and maintaining trees that destroy infrastructure so that another department charged with infrastructure repairs and periodic rebuilding never runs out of tree related damage to address. Too bad the City is going broke and like other fiscally stretched governmental entities is postponing repairs and maintenance wherever and whenever it can.

The poor magnolia was ill-chosen for its planting location and as a result there is no solution that this family could implement that wouldn’t cost them something. But seeing that spending anything – time, strenuous effort, or money – is almost completely out of the question, there wouldn’t be any point in anyone offering these folks any advice since they wouldn’t be willing to follow it anyway.

If the family whined and complained long and loudly enough to the City’s arborist, a crew might eventually come out, sever and remove the “offending” roots, and then repour concrete slab to patch the sidewalk. The operative word is eventually. The family’s sons will likely have flown the nest by the time L. A. Public Works slogs through their backlog, which even conservative estimates peg at a decade long wait. If that’s a bit much, Public Works suggests that residents take matters into their own hands by paying for a licensed arborist’s services out of pocket on top of a tree permit issued by the city, neither of which, I note for the record, will ever be FREE.

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What patterns did I notice in the landscape trade? 1つは, I observed an addiction to collecting knowledge. Not wisdom – 知識. People can stuff their heads full of the stuff and never apply it for beneficial use. Perhaps feeding this addiction makes people feel like they are accomplishing something even when nothing is manifesting for lack of an investment of real sweat and labor. In Los Angeles, the city of projected dreams, tourists and the rich and privileged (or those who are trying to look that way) flock to idealized simulacra of Los Angeles such as City Walk in Universal City and the Beverly Center. There’s a pattern and principle in nature: "There is no such thing as AWAY.” The social fantasies of Los Angeles are propped invisibly upon the backs of low wage laborers that keep the machinery of the illusion working smoothly. Scratch the plasticized & painted veneers of the simulacra, allow the laborers to find new workplaces that respect their dignity and humanity at healtly wages, strip away nature’s “free” subsidies of water and power, and then ask, “What’s left?"

When some people figured out that I know my stuff, they pumped me for information…and pumped….and pumped….and pumped. They wanted the specifics of “what” connected to the precious mechanics of “how”. Depending on the context, sometimes I’d generously go all out because I genuinely wanted to help. It’s fine once in a while and I like being generous, but only up to a point because I can’t pay my bills with raving complements and thanks others gave me for the help they received. In other contexts when it was socially appropriate to communicate it, I let folks know that sustainable gardening and landscaping was what I did as a pro and then I observed that mouths would run on while pocketbooks would slam shut with the resounding finality of a solid-state walk-in safe. For reasons I haven’t figured out, the West L.A. crowd tended to want as much expertise as they could squeeze out but only for the bare minimum they could get away with paying, if not for free. I’m all for helping people get what they want but not at the price of vampiric exploitation – mine or anyone else’s.

“When you’re good at something, you don’t do it for free.” – The Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight

The annoying and heartbreaking part is that, more often than not, these folks wouldn’t even use the free advice they solicited. What was more astounding is that others wouldn’t even use the advice they DID pay for.

One client in the Big Rock area of Malibu name-dropped and bragged of having hired Rosalind Creasy for a consultation. On the appointed day, Wendy S. and Ms. Creasy went around the property while Rosalind fired off tailored advice off the top of her head. Fast forward 2 に 3 years later when Wendy S. hired me for some specialized labor. As she picked my brains as we made the rounds around the property, I could almost hear her make mental comparisons with Rosalind’s advice. When I gave her the same advice about caring for her forlorn containerized blueberry plants as Rosalind had given her, she piped up to say as much.  Do you see the irony yet? Even after consulting with Rosalind Creasy, Wendy S. still hadn’t used the advice she had been given so many years ago. The client’s windswept and neglected plants were no better off for hearing the advice all over again from me for one reason: it was simply and clearly not a priority to implement the expert advice she had sought. I wish that I could say this experience was singularly unique. It’s one thing to negotiate fees because someone genuinely wants your services, respects what you do, and respects your profession as a source of livelihood. It’s another thing to feed off someone else’s life energy as a symbolic parasite when you don’t respect anyone else’s need to make a living.

The client went through the laundry list of tasks she wanted done around the property. 一言で言えば, she wanted her own private farm & garden worker and at bargain basement wages. Actually, upon reflection what I think she really wanted were the benefits such a worker would confer with all of the romance and bounty that country living on a farm invokes without the hard work, body aches, or the inconvenience of having to get her own hands dirty. When I told her how much it was going to cost at a fair rate, she backpedaled, made excuses for why she couldn’t afford the services, and struggled to save face after I called her on her unrealistic expectations and her hopes to exploit me for cheap, knowledgeable labor. Since this woman wasn’t willing to pay what the job was worth, she was still trying to save face indirectly through an associate long after I dissociated from her.

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する場合の保全, 生物多様性と生息地の保全、非営利団体は、その原因を促進する, they know full well that people tend to relate best to charismatic creatures that fit their subjective standard of “魅力”. 大半は, コウモリは刺激しない ‘awwww, かわいい!’ 要因は同じくらい、彼らは刺激になる ‘ewwwww, どのようにむかつく!'. コウモリは、英雄たちを陰であるため、これは残念だ. 次回は蚊の群れに囲まれている, ちょうどあなたが時間を短縮吸血昆虫をオフにたたくとコウモリがされた場合、屋外を楽しんであなたの隣人を過ごす事になることはバットをホストする可能性がエリアに住んでいる場合ことに注意してください.

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7月28日に, ニューヨークタイムズ紙は公開されて microlendingの上昇についての記事 (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.ニューヨークタイムズ NULLの.com/2010/07/29/business/smallbusiness/29sbiz NULLの.htmlの?のSRC =私&リファレンス=ビジネス). 年間, microlendingは、経済主食が検討されている “開発” 国. (もちろん、, 次の質問は, に発展して何を開発している国?) 次のことを考慮すると、同じことを “構造調整” (名前 “貧困削減成長ファシリティー (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.IMFの NULLの./事実/ PRGFの/エクステンドレジスタ組織/外部/国立公園 NULLの.htmファイル)” しかし、すぐに置き換えられる “拡張クレジットファシリティ”) 世界銀行やアフリカの国際通貨基金と第三世界の国々によって課さは非常に米国のカルマカードに可能性があります, 時間は小さな町やコミュニティのための近付いては、経済的に自分自身を保存することです。.

なぜ? 誰がそれを行います? アメリカの都市 (のhttp://お金 NULLの.CNNの NULLの.com/2010/05/28/news/economy/american_cities_broke NULLの.占い/インデックス NULLの.htmファイル) (ヴァレーオ (のhttp://記事 NULLの.ロサンゼルスタイムズ NULLの.com/2010/jul/27/local/la-me-bell-cuts-20100727/3), ベル, と メイウッド (のhttp://latimesblogs NULLの.ロサンゼルスタイムズ NULLの.com/lanow/2010/06/sheriffs-dept-to-patrol-maywood-whil​​e-city-employees-now-face-lay-offs NULLの.htmlの) まずカリフォルニア州の) と倒産され 州のほとんどは、非常に倒産に近づいている (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.huffingtonpost NULLの.com/2010/06/25/state-budget-crisis-46-st_n_625285 NULLの.htmlの). 痛みを伴うねじれで, 状態は、市や郡の政府への予算削減を渡している (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.huffingtonpost NULLの.com/2010/05/29/states-local-budget-cuts_n_594630 NULLの.htmlの). そう (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.グーグル NULLの.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPcuKLCFev6Vg7ZRNE7asQid3CtAD9GSG7303)私の状態は、財政援助のための連邦政府に控訴している (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.グーグル NULLの.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPcuKLCFev6Vg7ZRNE7asQid3CtAD9GSG7303) 中 国自体が非常によく破産への道を歩んでもよい (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.電信 NULLの.何 NULLの.uk/finance/2943328/US-cou​​ld-be-going-bankrupt NULLの.htmlの). ずっと, DODは説明することができない $8.7 イラクの石油ファンド億円 (のhttp://WWWの NULLの.時間 NULLの.com/time/world/article/0、8599,2006708,00 NULLの.htmlの) と の開始の銀行救済 2009 費用がかかる $4 兆 (のhttp://お金 NULLの.CNNの NULLの.com/2009/01/27/news/bigger NULLの.救済 NULLの.占い/). 明らかにそれは初期ロット以上です $700 露骨な金融クーデター月下旬から銀行への銀の皿に引き渡さ億円 2009. 金の流れの正確な経路が不明瞭かもしれませんが, 私たちの多くは直感的に腐敗や移植も私たちすることができます必ずしも名名場合と泥棒のアドレスを正確に感じる.

暗い経済見通しを十分にいた? あなただけではない. 人々がおいしくしたかったから地元の食材の動きが勢いを増し, より栄養価の高い生鮮食品が、その食べ物が身体の単なる糧を上回っていた. それは魂の食べ物だった. 農民による農民と再接続人’ 市場や農場自身での直接購入. 食品や小規模農家で培った個人的な接続を介して検出された拡張コミュニティの成長という意味を通じ, 土地そのものと再接続の人々. 地元産の食品は、可能であれば, 理由は完全な透明性とは、ローカライズされた融資? なぜ社会は、それ自体に投資する必要が世界で理由はない. なぜコミュニティは、銀行の手に自分の財産をエクスポートするには継続すべきである, 大きな箱店, およびその他の企業や政府機関がこれらのコミュニティを持っていない’ 中心部に最善の利益?

恐怖, 不安, うつ病は心の中にとても多くのアメリカ人の心が、誰もが自分自身を除いて私たちを救うことができます混濁され – は大統領や彼のadmininistration, 確かに議会, 政府の司法を忘れる. 実際には, その無駄の希望をあきらめる 任意の 政治家は自分から私たちを保存することができます. そのpicadilloesと弱さと, 私達の選ばれた者と同様に私たちの残りの部分のいずれかとして人間である. 自分自身を除いては何も、さらに将来の世代と地球の生態系の機会を損なうことなく、社会的、経済的人間のニーズを満たす地域の文化を開発するから私たちを停止することができます。普通の人々は、特別な行為を達成するために呼び出されているとき、我々は、ある時点でいる. あなたの心と良心の確認ダイアログに耳を傾けるか沈黙の両方を実行して、Will?

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作業で、ロサンゼルスは誰と関連者との接触に私たちを持って続けて周り “緑” あだ名, でもそれは彼らを意味する可能性があります. 間違いなく – 社会的にロサンゼルスの多様ながと, それはまだ分離の都市です, パレスチナの村や、米国の南の国境の壁barricading部周囲にイスラエルの壁を露骨に何が建立されている (まだ). 境界線は社会成層を通して具体化され. 人は範囲外のように見える取り扱って迅速に, 頻繁に残酷な, 法執行機関.

金持ちとアメリカの持たざる者の間のギャップは、以上拡大している過去 30 年, 補強 富のはまだ別の大規模な転送 (のhttp://太陽 NULLの.コム/アーカイブ/ missing_money /). アスファルトの上Greenwashは家に色の労働者階級のコミュニティだけで環境にやさしい股関節するために一緒に十分な彼らのがらくたを持っていないという点を駆動するかのように社会経済的アパルトヘイトの概要を説明 (何かいたかのように熱望する).

ケースでは、明白それを行っていない, 技術的な修正プログラムは、人類を保存しないか、または絶滅の危機から他の種を保存する. 海水淡水化は、南カリフォルニアの淡水不足問題を解決できるわけではない. 我々は、我々はすでに手元にあるものに豊かさを認識することを学ぶに局所的に利用可能な材料の使用を行う必要があります.

ファウンダー兼CEOのエコーパーク非営利緑との会談もエコヒップポイントを示す. ホッとした彼女が信じるものの会社で自分自身を見つけるために同情的な聴衆された, 彼女は色の貧しい労働者階級のコミュニティは、値の緑化の値を自分たちの生活理解していないことを嘆いている. 私は色のコミュニティは、実際に自分のレーダーの環境への懸念を持っていると反論, しかし、言い回しが異なっている. 懸念や優先順位が異なる. 場合 “素晴らしい” 白環境関係リベラルと社会進歩は謙虚に注目し、認識されると聞いて、会話の観点からの順序で同じ方法で、誰も使用言語を主張し、一度ではなく、口述に耳を傾け, 彼らは同様に有効な視点が自分のと並行して存在することを学ぶことがあります. これは、緑の運動内の多数の自己陶酔的な虚栄心です – 人への道を消費されていないものに向かって聖人恩着せがましい “緑” 将来の.

But this is the crux of the problem: 過剰の相互接続問題を解決するために, 負債および癌展開に基づくグローバルな経済システム, や環境破壊は異なる結果を得るために異なる考えが伴います。問題は、単に材料品の製造されていない, それは私達がそれらを作っている何をどのよう我々はからそれらを作っているだ. それを有するものがされて、目的の状態を作成するために行ってから切断することを伴います.

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あなたは今まで見た人は、彼らが欲しいものを手に入れる権利カードを再生することがあります? あなたは、あなたがそれを逃れることができると思うときに今までの資格カードをプレイしてください? どのように意識的に誰かを絞って何のために何かを取得しようとすると、約? おいおい, が、それについては正直. はどこまでプッシュした? あなたはどれくらいのものを取ることができる参照してくださいか? あなたが抵抗に遭遇したとき、イライラと怒るか? あなたはあなたが望むものを得ていないときに報復するとして、これまで行ってもか? さらに悪いことに, あなたが適用することで正当化さ感じていましたあなたの選択の “正義” わずかに?

あなたはあなたが誰か他の人を犠牲にしていたものを手に入れるに資格を与えられたことを信じさせた? どのようなあなたの怒りと怒りの背後にある? 経済はほとんどの人が歴史と全世界を生きて覚えている中で最悪の場合ですので機能不全の破砕の影響を感じている, 異化経済システム, DOは、絞り、他の進むべき道だと思う, 今まで以上?

これまでの大衆文化は、吸血鬼とした現在の魅力を何か? それは次のように見えるかもしれません 無関係な発言 出し抜けに質問, しかし、そこに私とのハング分. 吸血鬼は、魅力的なように私たちの意識の顕著な場所がある, セクシーな, 夜の魅惑的な生き物. についての象徴性を考える, しかし. 吸血鬼は、反射を持っている, 私は. 彼らは自分自身を見ることができない. その寄生の存在が明るみに露出を耐えることができない. 彼らは自分自身を維持するための生活を排出する必要があります (そして快く承諾する場合であることに “食品”, すべての方). すべての最悪の, 他人に供給する行為は、プロセスの他の吸血鬼を作る. 大衆文化とメディアは、象徴的な意味のいずれかの物質または画像の有病率の意味を調べることなく吸血鬼の魅力的なセクシーな側面にラッチが.

毎日が実際の生活の吸血鬼は、セクシーされていないとの出会い. あなたは自分の周りされた後、あなたの気持ちでそれらを識別することができます – 排水. (そして、もしあなたが離れて他の人を運転していることに気付きました, おそらくあなたはこれらの吸血動物のいずれかです。) ハングアップは、吸血鬼の周りに十分な長と、おそらくあなたもあなたの胃の病気に感じられるでしょう, 吸血鬼を持っているかに大きく依存 “太字” あなたに. 吸血鬼は、かかるバック多くのリターンを与えていない. 彼らが与える, 彼らはあなたを作るのに十分な提供 知覚 その存在の相互なく、実際. むしろ, 彼らは同じくらいあなたがそれを許す限り取るあなたが出会いの悪化を感じるままに. 吸血鬼はあなたの同意を得て、あなたに供給することができます.

私は現在、ロサンゼルスに住んでいるので、私のビューが偏ってもよい, しかし、建設業界のプロジェクトマネージャーされた新しい知人は、このmegalop0lisは何のために何かを得るために出ている人々の群衆を持っていることに同調. 言い換えれば、, この場所は、吸血鬼の数が多すぎる, あるいは、少なくとも彼らのように振る舞う人々. Yeeech!

どのような穴のような魂に, どのような深い満たされていない必要が, 資格のこの種のドライブ? 私が観察したものから, ほとんど敵意に満ちて危険な吸血鬼が深く基本的な何かが欠けて満たされていない個人です. いくつかの不足の意味と目的の生活の中で. 他の自分自身と自身の人間性の部分よりも何か大きなものへの接続が不足している, 自分の魂の良心、あるいは塊のような.

いくつかの個体は、sh * tsをされるのためにsh * tsをされ, 他の人に腐っているという理由だけで、彼らがすることができます. 吸血鬼のこの安易な種類の人までを使用して、その後でそれを破棄する. 他の吸血鬼, 当該児童性愛者と虐待配偶者として, 目標をグルーミング、一定の期間にわたって、犠牲者を使用する. 他の吸血鬼がある彼らがしている個人への個人的な関係をそらさない心理とリレーショナル障害に最も近い. まだ他の人がコアに吸血鬼されていない, しかしそれらの周りの人に排出され展示行動. 資格の態度は、1つの症状がされ – 問題の吸血鬼の性質についての手掛かり.

他に何か吸血鬼の対処? 彼らは文句を言う. 彼らは不満につながる問題の解決を望んでいない, ではなく、同情と注目. 注目といえば, 彼らはそれをする – すべてが. それはすべてそれらについてです. 吸血鬼はあなたの人生にエネルギーをふんだんにになりたい, 時間, お金, 愛, 専門知識, 等, と、彼らはあなたから必要なものを受ける権利を感じる. 何それは吸血鬼が望んでいることは、価値のあることです, 彼らはそれを取得しない場合は彼または彼女はスペードでそれを望んでいると地獄を引き上げる. 互恵性の平等を忘れても根本的に吸血鬼の観点から存在するため、. あなたは飼料だ. あなたは何を必要とする画像に理解しないの主権者としてのあなたの必要性を養うために存在するため、.

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時にはアイデアは、新たな活力と強さと生まれ変わることができるように戻すこと、その起源に調理する必要があります.

都市/郊外Ecoliteracyは、これらのchoicepointsのいずれかに達している. これは、ワークショップでは、南カリフォルニアで毎月提供されるし続けることはほとんどありません, ワークショップの内容は不適合と不必要ですが、できないので、. 友人が最近、このワークショップでは、先にその時間のかもしれないコメント. それは可能性があります. その後、再び, ワークショップは、存在するため、神のタイミングは、常に上のスポットであるため、, 都市/郊外Ecoliteracyはちょうどそれが今する必要がどこに正しいかもしれない. ワークショップでは、単に別の形式で存在する必要があります.

私はワークショップの参加者の間に新しい社会的なつながりを促進しつつ、彼らが持続可能性は、ルートを取ることができる考​​え方を学ぶワークショップが勢いを増しされることを期待していた. 言い換えれば、, 教育の人々のシステムの考え方は、都市/郊外Ecoliteracyの表向きの目的が、ワークショップの重要な意図の一つである痛んで社会資本を必要に応じて再構築することである.

ここでは、あなたの近所にどのくらいの社会資本を参照してくださいと簡単なテストです. 近所の人の多くは、どうすればあなたが知っている? 近所の人に会って、好き, どのようにうまくいけば、それらを知っているとどれだけ彼らはあなたを知っているか? どのように多くのあなたの子供を見て信頼する? どのように多くの人があなたのがらくたはおなじみのファンを打つならば背中を持っているに依存する可能性が? どのようにあなたの隣人の多くは彼らの背中を持っているあなたに数えることができる? 私たちのほとんどは、我々の隣人を知らない, 一人で彼らを信用せ. トラストは、有無社会資本の尺度である. 心理, 感情の, 物理的安全と健康子どものいる (社会の他の脆弱なメンバー) 自分の地域やその家族、社会資本の別の尺度である.

これは、その材料は、そのロケールに合わせて調整されることもワークショップ形式の固有のデザインの一部だった. 一人ひとりのコミュニティです, 実質的に, 作成したり、向上させる場所の感覚を意図していたユニークなワークショップを開催する. 異種のコミュニティを考慮したワークショップの参加者は、から来ていること, コミュニティに接続され位以内に接地感を作成するワークショップを通じて発生するつもりではなかった. 都ロサンゼルスは遠く広がって. それが真の中心のない場所だ, その度にどこでも、どこにもすべてのことと言われる可能性があります. 対人親和性は、ワークショップ参加者の間に感じられるかもしれませんが, 本格的なコミュニティは、リアルタイムで顔時間なしで育成するのは難しい. それは皆さん、TwitterやFacebookのユーザーを怒らせる可能性があります, しかし、顔の時間の必要性が私たちの集団の社会的現実である. それがどれだけ私たちは社会的存在として、有線しているだ.

最近の関係を悪化として旧クライアントが私を思い出させてと, 私たちは集団で、我々はする必要がある場所とどこに憧れることから長い道のりをオフになっている. 関係なく、ストライプ政治的, 私はその安全性は最愛の友人や家族に拡張できるようにし、安全なことを望んでいない合理的な文字の何人も知っている. 私たちは、信頼にあこがれるそれでも、私たちは、一日私たちを毛皮の私のメッセージと一日をその囲まれている 1) 私たちは安全ではない, 2) 我々は十分ことはない, 3) 我々は十分なことはできません, 4) 我々は狂気の人々と捕食者に囲まれている, と 5) 世界は希少で蔓延している, 熾烈な競争, 絶え間ない脅威, 刻々と現在の危険. あなたが取得する必要があります “それら” 前 “彼ら” あなたを取得, 誰と “彼ら” かもしれない.

これはあなたの子供や孫のすることを正直に世界です? あなた自身のためするこの世界はありますか?

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