Claire’s 1st Editorial; Printed August 2006 in the Honolulu Advertiser Paper on Oahu
Sustainability is a bandaid and not sexy. The word “sustainability” wreaks of monotony, ongoing near-survival efforts. Sustainability is a limited step in a global picture that is calling for urgent action of a much more tantalizing nature. It is fixing pieces of a broken system; a valiant beginning. —————————————————- We are now in need of great inspiration, solution-oriented design and cooperative action. We need thinking that reflects the reality that we are a global family sharing a planet of infinite potential and finite constraints we need to face and transcend.———————— Permaculture is a term meant to communicate “permanent culture” or “permanent agriculture.” ————————- Permaculture is a solution-oriented design method that can apply to homes, villages, eco-developments, and any size piece of land, islands, imagine, even entire nations. Permaculture turns any environment, be it desert, urban or lush tropics, into a food forest, supplying energy, food, and water, while treating waste as resources, much like nature models for us in every harmonious setting. Our homes can enjoy the same stability and resilience as an ecosystem. ———————————- Permaculture is regeneration. Regeneration is sexy. It is creative energy freely expressed, birds and bees, microbes and fungi, humans as friends and family, all living fully in a synergistic flow. Regeneration inspires blazing good energy and stimulates pleasure, satisfaction, and the joy of living. The planet and our collective wellbeing depend on a new way through. Permaculture offers just such a way that results in abundance, beauty, health and fun along the way. It empowers each of us to be the solution here and now.—————– Claire Kellerman……………………. Huelo, North Shore, Maui, Hawaii
