[Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture Countering Slumburbia - IMPLEMENTATION

[Pat]

On 02/04/2008, at 1:16 PM, nicholas at themediasociety.org wrote:

> Earth Hour is at best is a joke and its failure is popularly  
> recognised beacuse its basically a fraud, its a part of a larger  
> corporate campaign to own the climate change agenda

Nicholas, Earth Hour is symbolic.  Symbols and symbolic gestures have  
great power (like the PM saying 'sorry.'  It is a start, at the very  
least.  When the momentum builds, more and more ordinary people can be  
drawn in and allowed to express themselves.  When all those 'ordinary  
people' take ownership of ideas and actions, like Earth Hour, no  
corporate campaign will be able to take ownership.  People Power.   
This is where permaculture has great potential to facilitate the  
empowerment of those people.  Which, ultimately, can lead to this  
idea....

> in the global South, the majority world, especially in South  
> America, there is a real democratic revolution, people are really  
> participating in democracy and have elected true peoples  
> representatives.

Good communication and the willingness (and freedom) to get involved  
are the keys.  We are so fortunate these days to have such splendid  
tools as e-mail, Skype-type telephony and the internet.

Pat