Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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2/ Because there exists no functional Commons in the USA, community-orcharding hereabouts requires and effects a distinctively American response to an essentially paradigmatic challenge. A foundational regenerative-design principle, in this regard? Go with what you’ve got, dude.

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Quoted by@reggaj 2/3 What we find, of course, as Thoreau observes, is that "Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as our strength."Quoted by@jazzkat @drvandanashiva @yesmagazine We can’t save the Earth without reclaiming the Commons: earthly and human solidarity is ultimately a locally-grounded simultaneity. Meanwhile, USA realpolitik is one great big ‘Keep Out!’ sign. Where have earthworkers found the ‘wiggle room’?