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Creating Community Solutions and Resiliency Through Ecological Planning and Design Creating Community Solutions and Resiliency through Ecological Planning and Design NH Association of Conservation Commissions with Stacey Doll Introductions • Bioregion • Watershed • Direction • Living Species Workshop Overview Resilience /ri’zilyəns/ noun: resilience; plural noun: resiliences 1. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. 2. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Resilient communities are CAPABLE OF BOUNDING BACK from adverse situations. They can do this by ACTIVELY INFLUENCING AND PREPARING for economic, social and environmental change. When times are bad they can call upon the MYRAID OF RESOURCES that make them a healthy community. A high level of social capital means that they have ACESS TO GOOD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS in times of difficulty, and can call upon a wide range of resources. •! Resilience is seen as something bigger than disaster preparedness. •! Resilience-building is seen as an important municipal responsibility, although respondents ascribed different specific activities to it when describing their efforts. •! Citizens want resilience-building actions. - Post Carbon Institute Food Security Independent Energy Sources Water Availability & Local Economy Drinkability Extreme Weather Event Sustainable Preparedness Infrastructure How can we model the concepts for resilient communities? How we would plan and design for resiliency? What would it look like? Permaculture… One Definition of Permaculture “Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison The Origin of Permanent Culture Permanent Agriculture - Coined in King’s 1911 “Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan” - Smith’s 1929 “Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture” - Fukuoka’s “One Straw Revolution” in the 1930s Permaculture is Solution Oriented. Community Leaders ARE Change Agents. Framework for Ecological Design. Guide the Creation of New Ecosystems. Permaculture Ethics Earth Care – Rebuilding Natural Capital Caring for the living soil, forests, rivers and all other life forms People Care – Look After Self, Family & Community Empower ourselves to make better decisions and recognize that greater wisdom lies within a group of people who can work together. Fair Share – Set Limits and Redistribute Surplus Sometimes we need to make hard decisions and consider what enough is. By finding the right balance in our own lives we provide positive examples for others, so that they can find their own balance. Permaculture Principles Principle 1: Observe & Interact “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” Permaculture Principles Principle 2: Catch and Store Energy “Make Hay When the Sun Shines” Permaculture Principles Principle 3: Obtain a Yield “You Can’t Work on an Empty Stomach” Permaculture Principles Principle 4: Apply Self Regulation & Accept Feedback “The Sins of the Fathers are Visited on the Children unto the Seventh Generation ” Permaculture Principles Principle 5: Use & Value Renewable Resources & Services “Let Nature Take Its Course” Permaculture Principles Principle 6: Produce No Waste “Waste Not, Want Not” Permaculture Principles Principle 7: Design from Patterns to Details “Can’t See the Forest for the Trees” Permaculture Principles Principle 8: Integrate Rather Than Segregate “Many Hands Make Light Work” Permaculture Principles Principle 9: Use Small and Slow Solutions “Slow and Steady Wins the Race” Permaculture Principles Principle 10: Use & Value Diversity “Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket” Permaculture Principles Principle 11: Use Edges & Value the Marginal “Don’t Think You are on the Right Track just because it’s a Well-Beaten Path” Permaculture Principles Principle 12: Creatively Use & Respond to Change “Vision is not Seeing Things as They Are but as They Will Be” We need to see our communities as the ecosystems they are and consider how the components of these places could be better integrated. Redefining Prosperity • Bloomington, Indiana “Redefining Prosperity: Energy Descent and Community Resilience” Adopted in 2009 • Recommendations include: – new transportation efforts – creating a centralized composting system – removing and reducing the legal, institutional, and cultural barriers to farming in an ecologically friendly way within and around the city. Miracle on Elmer Avenue TreePeople is an environmental nonprofit that unites the power of trees, people and nature-based solutions to grow a sustainable future for Los Angeles. Simply put, their work is about “helping nature heal our cities”. 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