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That’s awesome man! I only started deep diving into permaculture a couple months ago, but it pulled together many things that I had been exploring for a long t
by hosh 6y ago
That’s awesome man!
I only started deep diving into permaculture a couple months ago, but it pulled together many things that I had been exploring for a long time. It was like coming across the keystone piece in a lot of things for me. But it has been chasing me for a while. I had been fascinated by the design diagrams I would see popping up, and finally looked up what this funny word “permaculture” meant.
I think permaculture is the next evolutionary step for our civilizations, even if on the surface, if appears to go backwards. But it is not. It is progressing forward into post-industrial, decentralized practices. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and it was easy to be blind to what “Information Age” meant (globalized control of industry), but I now see what it really enabled is the decentralization of agriculture and industry through the interconnecting web of relationships of people. We finally have the technology that put us on par with the mycellium network, and start understanding — having the lived experience of — network effects of ecology.
It definitely affects how I evaluate tech and startups.
Pretty much, almost every permie I have encountered have this intense optimism and fertile generator of fresh ideas, even with COVID-19 going around the world. I don’t think there are many other groups that are like that. It is good to see :-)
- carapace 6y agoCheers! It sounds like we're on the same wavelength, I see this too as the recognition of a superior nanotechnology that has been optimized over hundreds of millions of years, and a natural (no pun intended) next evolutionary step of our civilization as you say. Have you seen "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 BTW, I joined SharedEarth and messaged some people but haven't heard back from anyone yet. Do you know much about it? It kind of seems like a demo (from a technical POV.) And there's no "contact us" page for it.
- hosh 6y agoI have not seen that youtube video. I have worked with visionary plant teachers and explored consciousness that way, and so the idea of a different kind of cognition outside of a nervous system is not foreign to me. I got the SharedEarth from this podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/permaculture-for-the-future/id1494403834?i=1000466266125 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/permaculture-for-the-f... The host interviewed someone who got 100% of his food from forage or grown, for 1 year. He did not own land, and made deals with landowners to start gardens in their front yard. He was the one that mentioned this side. I had just heard about it a couple days ago as I was making my way through listening to the back episodes of that podcast. Maybe this is another avenue to contribute— contact the operator and see if they need help adding features. My email is talktohosh at gmail if you want to continue this conversation off of HN.