[Pil-pc-oceania] Elders

[RussGrayson]

Congradualations Fern... well done in this project. What you've
inadvertently done is to take on one of the 12 steps in developing a
resilient community/transition initiative.

In that, what you're doing is what Rob Hopkins (author, The Transition
Handbook) calls 'honouring the elders' , which includes the collection of
oral history focused on how people lived before the age of oil abundance and
publishing it, so all can learn from it.

The following activity is to discuss how the most relevant of those ideas
could be replicated and adapted in contemporary circumstances.

...Russ


On 8/5/08 1:23 PM, "permaculture at apollobay.org.au"
<permaculture at apollobay.org.au> wrote:

> I'm working on a project (with Adam Moore) of audio/visual recording our
> elders in our region.  The "elders" in this case are those who lived in the
> time before the oil age.  They have stories about the area, and how the
> township survived, what materials and tools they used, how they travelled,
> how they supplied food to the area, and what knowledge they can pass down
> to those who have only lived in the age of oil abundance.  There's many
> people in our community; farmers, indigenous elders, those who have lived
> here since birth.  Younger people in the community are interviewing the
> elders that they know well.
> This project has stemmed from the disappointment I felt in not having
> enough stories and no sound recordings of my dad after he passed away
> earlier this year.  The valuable knowledge of our elders shouldn't be
> forgotten and may come to be very useful in the near future.
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