@norman_cal5445 @silvopasturist @PatrickHeizer They are! And yet we found that grounding the ostensibly vast divide between pro-natives and pro-exotics camps in the concrete, local particulars of face-to-face resolution, and universalizing from there, proved a surprisingly gentil turn. Illumination abounded. Peace was made.
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@nick_routledge - Jun 21,2022 2/ Oh, and back in 2007, Lane County, OR, permaculturists and native ecology geeks, in an effort to identify and reconcile the substrative tensions underpinning such larger cultural worldviews, m gathered the only place it can functionally occur - that is, grounded in the local. ... @nick routledge - May 6, 2021 1/ And | want to point at this description of the 2007 Lost Valley Native Plants and Permaculture Conference, the first occasion we believe, in the US at least, that ‘pro-natives’ and ‘pro-exotics’ camps came together to understand one another. Necessarily, a local conversation.
@RizomaSchool @Tao_Orion Here, a fuller description of that conference and, essentially, the transcending power of bio-cultural ecology as an integrative locus for healing and understanding - as distinct from fragmented ideologies and perspectives, and the antagonisms they implicitly represent.
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