Growing a Model Sustainable Campus – University of Massachusetts Permaculture Documentary

Permaculture gardens on campus

By Ryan Harb
RyanHarb.org
Sept 1, 2012

Excerpt:

Many people I talk with are well aware that we live in a time of enormous global transformation. It may feel scary or depressing at times, especially with the constant messages we receive from the media, education system, and our peers about the tragic state of the world. But it is also a time to be extremely hopeful and positive about the direction that we are heading.

We live in a time when there are an unprecedented number of non-for-profit and for-profit organizations whose central mission is ecological, social, financial, and cultural regeneration. More people are working to heal the Earth, and our human-designed systems than ever before in the history of the planet. There is more money and energy being directed into remediation and positive transformation every single day, and this trend is only speeding up. Countless individuals and groups from all over are “waking up” and beginning to shift their ways. How can you not be hopeful?

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