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Allegory of Three Travelers
Written by David Braden in 2018 This links to his blogspot! There are three travelers on a great journey across an endless prairie. In one direction lies a barren and impoverished place. In another direction lies a place of abundance. The first traveler is traveling in great luxury. This traveler is thinking, “I have worked hard…
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Bee Safe Neighborhood
Living Systems Institute is sponsoring the “Bee Safe Neighborhoods” campaign to create living spaces where honeybees and other pollinators can propagate without the effects of toxic chemicals. We encourage people to stop using all poisons so a healthy ecosystem can develop wherein all pests become food for their predators. Elimination of poisons will also decrease…
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Neighborhood Nurseries
Neighborhood Nurseries and learning to save seeds can supply our habitat with plants adapted to our specific climate—for free. The plant propagation nursery is a cooperative effort maintained by LSI, designed to spread the practice of planting habitats (rather than mere gardens) in suburban landscapes. By arranging plants that work together into guilds, we create beautiful…
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Seasonal Chicken Run
Written By David Braden We like to let our chickens out on the land because the greens, bugs and worms they eat make the eggs and meat they produce for us more nutritious. However, if you confine chickens to a piece of ground they will quickly strip it of vegetation and make a mud pit. We…
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Principles of Practical Holism
Written By David Braden 1 – We are all Interconnected . . . one thing is related to another and everything is related to everything else. 2 – The only power in human systems resides in the choice of individuals to maintain a relationship (bridge) and everybody gets to make their own choices. 3 – We are engaged…
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Excerpts from the Scott Bader Company
Compiled and Written By David Braden The following excerpt is from E.F Schumacher’s Good Work, referring to the Scott Bader Commonwealth with which he worked setting up an employee owned company. Of interest for the purposes of community sufficiency technologies is Schumacher’s description of investments in the capacity of the workers to produce for their own consumption: Beginning…
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Be the Change
Written By David Braden The system is a pattern of interactions. To change the system is to change the way you interact. The system is what it is. There is no part of it that is good or bad (1). Every part of it depends on every other part of it. One can change the…
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Growing Our Own: More Than A Lifestyle Choice
Written By David Braden The story of the Reinhabit Cooperative is about a community coming together to find a place for all of its residents to contribute to the well-being of the community. We do that first and foremost by producing our own food. The following ideas form the basis for the services that our gardeners…
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Community Gardening Initiatives
Get involved in community gardening initiatives that foster environmental education and promote sustainable practices. Join Living Systems Institute!