Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for redesigning our social and economic systems to mimic nature's resilience and abundance. 
Practical, innovative, and visually compelling, this book presents actionable and easy-to-understand tools for a compassionate and methodical approach to building better communities. Sidebars and diagrams supplement the text, while case studies illustrate endeavors such as starting a business, launching a social change project, or setting personal goals. Brock suggests ways to engage disempowered communities in a meaningful and authentic way, and draws on eight years of in-depth research and investigation to demonstrate what makes communities work at the most fundamental level. Anyone looking for concrete solutions to many of the social and economic ills that plague our current society will discover a rich resource for growth and change.
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Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for redesigning our social and economic systems to mimic nature's resilience and abundance. 
Practical, innovative, and visually compelling, this book presents actionable and easy-to-understand tools for a compassionate and methodical approach to building better communities. Sidebars and diagrams supplement the text, while case studies illustrate endeavors such as starting a business, launching a social change project, or setting personal goals. Brock suggests ways to engage disempowered communities in a meaningful and authentic way, and draws on eight years of in-depth research and investigation to demonstrate what makes communities work at the most fundamental level. Anyone looking for concrete solutions to many of the social and economic ills that plague our current society will discover a rich resource for growth and change.
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Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

by Adam Brock
Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

by Adam Brock

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Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for redesigning our social and economic systems to mimic nature's resilience and abundance. 
Practical, innovative, and visually compelling, this book presents actionable and easy-to-understand tools for a compassionate and methodical approach to building better communities. Sidebars and diagrams supplement the text, while case studies illustrate endeavors such as starting a business, launching a social change project, or setting personal goals. Brock suggests ways to engage disempowered communities in a meaningful and authentic way, and draws on eight years of in-depth research and investigation to demonstrate what makes communities work at the most fundamental level. Anyone looking for concrete solutions to many of the social and economic ills that plague our current society will discover a rich resource for growth and change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623170646
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 05/30/2017
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Adam Brock is an award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist based in his hometown of Denver, CO. His work lies at the intersection of urban agriculture, sustainable business, and social change. In 2009, Adam co-founded The GrowHaus, a food justice nonprofit, and served as its Director of Operations until 2014. He is active in the local and national permaculture communities, serving on the board of the Denver Permaculture Guild and organizing committee of the inaugural North American Permaculture Convergence. He has been a TEDxMileHigh speaker, a contributor and guest editor of Permaculture Design Magazine (formerly Permaculture Activist), and serves on Denver's Sustainable Food Policy Council.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Permaculture and Pattern Literacy xvii

How to Use this Book xxv

Part 1 Vision for a Permanent Culture 1

1 The Long Game 5

2 Biophilia 8

3 Interdependent Communities 11

4 Commoning 15

5 The Right Size 23

6 Relationship Zones 27

7 Subsidiarity 35

8 Dethroning the Antimarkets 39

9 Zones of Autonomy 43

10 Going Home 47

11 The Edge of Change 50

12 Multitudes of Knowing 53

13 Fear Burns Bright, Hope Burns Long 57

14 Design Tool: Creative Process 60

15 Design Tool: Sector and Zone Analyses 68

16 Design Tool: Network Analysis 73

Part 2 Patterns of Justice and Resistance 77

17 Decolonization 81

18 Telling the Story 85

19 Sankofa 90

20 Ritual and Ceremony 93

21 Stewardship 98

22 Humanizing the Other 101

23 Slow Cities 104

24 Citizen Governance 107

25 Infrastructure Commons 113

26 Creative Destruction 116

27 Nonviolent Struggle 121

28 Solidarity 125

29 Arts of Resistance 130

30 Disrobing the Emperor 133

31 Coordinated Noncompliance 136

32 Truth and Reconciliation 140

33 Breaking Bread 143

34 Letting Loose 145

35 Rites of Passage 148

36 Gadugi 151

37 Intimacy through Adversity 157

38 Practicing Grief 159

39 Design Tool: Power Analysis 163

Part 3 Organizations that Live 167

40 Nurtured Networks 171

41 Consensual Hierarchies 174

42 Human Polycultures 177

43 Nemawashi 189

44 Streams of Engagement 193

45 The Right Way to Decide 201

46 Converge and Disperse 207

47 Leadership from Within 211

48 Regenerative Management 216

49 Naming Norms 219

50 Skilled Facilitation 224

51 Circle Dialogue 229

52 The Caucus 234

53 Calling Out, Calling In 236

54 Restorative Justice 240

55 Document the Process 243

56 Measuring Success 245

57 Design Tool: Team Analysis 249

Part 4 Envisioning the Ecommony 251

58 The Gift 255

59 Heirloom Currencies 258

60 Financial Ram Pumps 265

61 Debt Forgiveness 268

62 Household Economies 272

63 Small Business 276

64 Import Substitution 279

65 Regenerative Enterprise 284

66 Xeric Enterprise 288

67 Community-Supported Enterprise 293

68 Employee Ownership 296

69 Dynamic Pricing 299

70 Design Tool: Capital Analysis 303

71 Design Tool: Business Model Canvas 305

Part 5 Training the Sacred Warrior 313

72 Sacred Activism 317

73 Right Livelihood 321

74 Spirals of Abundance 326

75 Know Your Community 329

76 Actions, Not Intentions 333

77 ISites 336

78 Unplugging 341

79 Commitment Pruning 344

80 Reduce the Need to Earn 347

81 Personal Mythology 352

82 Design Tool: Personal Vision 354

Notes 356

Index 367

About the Author 374

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