Howdy!
Guerilla
gardening aside, I am only able to engage in developing
land according to
permaculture principles due to community membership. I'd probably not be able to afford it otherwise. Communities have to make decisions, and that's challenging. Even as an individual, making decisions can be hard. But with regards to my community: Everything has been "smooth-ing sail-ly [sic]" so far, but will it always?
I've seen decision making done on a big scale before. I imagine a lot of you are familiar with Rainbow Gathering/Family. Well the way they decide the next place to meet is by consensus. Everyone who wants to speak can come and a totem is passed around in one direction in a circle so that only one person is speaking at a time and there's an order to the process that ensures everyone will be heard. A gathering is not "organized" but it certainly has
politics, and you can imagine that stuff akin to filibustering happens... and you'd be correct. But so far, with one year as the exception, this process has generated consensus that thousands have stuck too since the early 70's.
Preparing for weather is one thing, but how do you prepare for the human element?
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