The Great Bioregional Design Challenge!
This is by far the GREATEST design challenge of our time… I want to help!
The challenges are many and we only have a limited [window] of opportunity to steer this paradigm shift —> into a favorable position. I will be giving away a FREE set of maps and animations ONCE A MONTH to a community that has their stuff together and could use my maps to plan and coordinate GREAT THINGS! I will be hosting a podcast once a week and inviting guests on that are apart of this human society design challenge. I will be selecting a winner based on the following list of criteria. All the details are located here.
The GOOD news is, ALL of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden! That is as simplistic as it can be. With the aid of nature (a legion of biodiverse life) directly influenced at the individual level!
The truth is, even if we ALL did that overnight, we’d still wake up to chaos. Why? because we didn’t take it far enough! Would we even have the materials to pull it off overnight? As permaculture designers, we have to take it many steps further. We must push far beyond individual / property needs being met, past an ecovillage or an intentional community level (all great things).
We have to design and plan for an infrastructure retooling. In the US, our physical infrastructure is TRASH!!!! Falling apart! Many 3rd world nations have urgent needs for a stable infrastructure as well. The world needs an overhaul! The system at large is riddled with risk and inferior overpriced products… not to mention controlled in away that will NOT bring about favorable changes to say the least.
This is serious. This is doable. But it takes understanding, inspiration, visualization and advocacy for it. So what can we do? work with and showcase the people that get it! A group of people that wish to revitalize a dying town, upgrade their drive by / fly by community and turn it into a destination! A place that they want to raise and school their kids in more traditional ways. We will need to train them to take on the needs of their local community, not desire to take off to the big city to try and scrape by earning a living elsewhere. We need a town that seeks resilience!
Want a middle class!? Wouldn’t THAT be cool? There are HUNDREDS of vital roles that we can all find a part in, in order to complete the bioregional infrastructure matrix. We need a town that thinks sheltering themselves from supply chain disruptions is a worthy effort. We need a special town that hosts regionally sourced seasonal cuisine. We want a town that is serious about buffering themselves from weather extremes and flooding events.
Luckily we have been given a blueprint that highlights the required foundational pillars of how a localized regional community could meet all of it’s own needs! How to form a collaborative network that together would produce and meet all of it’s own needs! That can be found in the Permaculture Designers Manual (p.510) written by Bill Mollison.