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I hear a lot of push-back and skepticism here about uncontextualized ideas coming from permaculture design, and I have learned to make it clear about the frame,
by hosh 3y ago
I hear a lot of push-back and skepticism here about uncontextualized ideas coming from permaculture design, and I have learned to make it clear about the frame, paradigm, and worldview I am speaking from. A common push-back is about efficiency and scale and confusing it for efficacy.
Going along further down this road, what's a bit of a mind twister is when I assert it's better to approach Kuberenetes like gardening. A lot of the apparent complexity are actually part of the self-healing mechanisms.
As far as Taoist philosophy goes, not everyone buys into that, and there are multiple ways to interpret and approach Taoism. Still, have you ever read a book entitled, "Treatise on Efficacy"?
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- nataliste 3y agoHey, I just want to thank you for the book recommendation. Reading the preface to "A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking"[1] it seems to codify a lot that I've previously thought about. And as a topical aside, I can personally vouch for the practicality of humanure[2] and ph-adjusted urine-capture[3]. They are indeed simpler, scalable, and well within that sweetspot of minimal inputs and maximal outputs, particularly when it comes to fertility. --- 1 - ISBN: 9780824843144 2 - https://humanurehandbook.com/ https://humanurehandbook.com/ 3 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720328308 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
- hosh 3y agoThis one is a bit more tangential (but still related to decomposition by ecological systems), but I think really cool. Have you ever checked out Dr John Todd’s work on ecomachines? (The guy who found a method to break down DDT in 40 days and had worked on a superfund site that had the EPA top 10 pollutants). https://youtu.be/SeQotnmhO5I?si=4DTDGC0FFFGbPZEr https://youtu.be/SeQotnmhO5I?si=4DTDGC0FFFGbPZEr