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Gevonden in de boekentas van Mauro.

1. tac­tiek waar­bij je een doel dat je niet in één keer kunt be­rei­ken, ge­fa­seerd re­a­li­seert door steeds een deel er­van te ver­we­zen­lij­ken

APPLY SELF REGULATION AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK Every living thing self regulates: when we get hot, we sweat and cool down, ecosystems such as meadows aren’t mowed or covered in pesticides, they look after themselves. Even the planet works as a self regulating organism by keeping the atmosphere’s temperature compatible to life through the complex chemical and physical interaction of plants, minerals, animals, fungi and micro organisms. This equilibrium only faltered when we violently intervened by burning fossil fuels. A healthy system requires minimum outside intervention and is constantly monitoring itself for imbalances, mistakes become signposts, feedback is fundamental. In permaculture it is not a project but a system that one designs, and the implemented design is simply a moment of stillness in a system that is forever in motion. Observation never stops, the better the observation, the more responsive we are to the feedback and so know which changes will make a system more self managed and resilient. An efficient system needs less work or inputs from us, except observation, which brings us back to the very beginning - observe, connect, interact – after all it’s just a question of paying attention.

START SMALL AND LEARN FROM CHANGE In the winter of 1983, a handful of activists escape the city and brave the jungle aiming to “convince” the impoverished mayan peasants of south eastern Mexico that together they can start a revolution. The Chiapan Indians laugh, the activists stop in their tracks and listen. They continue listening for 11 years and their ideas of revolution change. Then on New Year’s day 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement is due to come into force, several thousand masked rebels creep out of the rainforest, take over seven towns and declare war. Twenty four hours later they retreat back to the mountains where they build self managed autonomous municipalities and send out communiqués mixing poetry and propaganda. A new politics is born and the “antiglobalisation” movement blossoms. The Zapatistas as they call themselves don’t want to take over state power but “construct power” from below, they call for “one world made of many worlds”, a multitude of rebellions locally specific yet globally inter-connected. Starting small isn’t just beautiful, it can be unimaginably successful when we learn from our mistakes and take one step at a time.

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