Nobody can now deny the rising tide of awareness of an urgent need to change, which has been accelerating rapidly over the past 12 months. Most citizen are coming to accept the reality of climate change, and it's connection to addition droughts, water crises and extreme weather events, and to accept that we all have a role to play in the solution process. A new terminology is infiltrating the media and people's consciousness, terms like Foodmiles, Footprint, Peak Oil, vigor Descent, Relocalisation, Water Security...
What the global situation demands, for any form of sustainable hereafter for humans and most other species inhabiting planet earth, is a major shift in lifestyle, reasoning and expectations in the affluent populations of the world.
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The recently released Wwf Living Planet record 2007 is a humbling reminder that we cannot afford to continue inspiring resources at current levels. If the earth's 3.6 billion citizen lived like the midpoint American, we'd need more than 5 (five) plant earths to support ourselves. If every person lived like the midpoint Australian we'd wish roughly 4 planets.
Our 'western' lifestyle is for real costing the earth. In the past 50 years more resources have been consumed than in the whole history of the human race-that is, over the preceding 200,000 years. Consumerism, economic rationalism and trade for trade's sake have run riot in a world environment conceding and acquiescing to corporate aspirations and global store manipulations, at the charge of the environment and communal justice, particularly over this past decade since the mid-nineties.
The paradigm shift required to live within our footprint will demand that we radically contract into a conserver society, get over our 'Affluenza' quick smart, and embrace frugality as a moral obligation. If we don't get tough on ourselves, the world will get even tougher on us as the consequences of inaction or insufficient operation take their toll.
Empowerment for Shaping a Sustainable Future
The hereafter is most for real in our hands in a more profound way than ever before in history. The most necessary reasoning to direct our actions today, tomorrow and every day thereafter is to make a commitment to being an effective earth-steward and support others in the changes to an earth-friendly lifestyle-we all need to learn to live within our footprint.
This calls for us to effectively re-invent ourselves, and our connection to the world colse to us; in our daily living, in our work, and the myriad interactions we constantly engage in-within our community and community at large.
While there are many small things we can do immediately straight through behavioural adjustments and becoming more aware consumers, the paradigm shift to become an effective agent of convert demands a degree of knowledge, skills, and practical ecological savvy that has been seriously neglected in our study systems. There is so much to learn, and dinky time to waste.
Permaculture Solutions
This is where permaculture has the most to offer the world at present, in empowering citizen with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions, solve problems and produce creative responses in their home, straight through their work, in business, in their community and beyond. The Permaculture (Permanent as in 'sustainable' culture) belief was first expounded by ecologist Bill Mollison and environmental designer David Holmgren in Tasmania, Australia in the mid-seventies.
Permaculture provides 3 decades of global taste at the cutting edge of sustainable living, improvement and design. Drawing on the lessons of history, the best of sustainable original and indigenous wisdoms, it weaves a fresh arrival to eco-literacy, environmental science and communal justice as a practical and realistic produce system for a sustainable future.
At the heart of permaculture's success lies empowerment straight through education. This has largely been straight through the oppressive 2-week or 72+hour program known as the Permaculture produce procedure or Pdc. This procedure covers the A-Z of permaculture produce system and applications for rural and urban environments and lifestyles, and is recognised internationally as the minimum training requirement for permaculture designers and teachers.
It is estimated that over 500,000 citizen have completed the Pdc colse to the world--in all climates and continents--and are effecting profound changes on the local level and straight through national and international organisations. inspiring and empowering, this is a crash procedure in practical eco-literacy and practical strategies to sell out your footprint, produce and produce effective environments, produce systems for survival, and be a catalyst for convert straight through private and community action.
Since 2003 permaculture study in Australia has taken the next step in preparing citizen as shapers and makers of a sustainable hereafter with the introduction of nationally accredited vocational training in sustainable systems produce and community development. The Accredited Permaculture Training(Tm) (Apt) aims to train the new generation of earth-stewards and custodians of the future, the tradespeople and professionals for a post-carbon society.
As a community in transition to a new and uncertain future, we need to pro-actively harness the opportunities this accident presents, to retort in a creative way by embracing convert and taking personal and communal responsibility for the kind of world we bequeath to our children and hereafter generations.
Do Yourself a Favour
The most foremost investment you can make in your personal future, your career, family well-being, to your community, community and the earth that sustains you, is to gain the knowledge, skills and tools to partake intelligently in shaping a hereafter that has a future, and become an effective agent and catalyst for change.
© Robyn Francis 2007 This record can be freely republished with due acknowledgement - please tip off Permaculture study of republishing details info@permaculture.com.au
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