Money and Nature

Can we rediscover nature as kin, not as commodity, and find ways to incentivise regeneration?

Just remember that you’re standing, on a planet that’s evolving, and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour – Galaxy Song, by Monty Python

Evolving. Now there’s a word that if pondered for a moment, should make your hair stand on end and fill you with wonder.

Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. If all time since then was put on a 24 hour clock, Photosynthesis and oxygen came 2.5 billion years ago ~10:00 am, and Homo Sapiens appeared around 300,000 years ago, at 11:59:56 pm – four seconds before midnight, on the first day of the evolution of planet earth, nature expressed herself in the form of Homo Sapiens.

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https://blog.archanpermaculture.com/p/money-and-nature: Money and Nature

Fast Tracking your Food Forest

What matters to you?

This is how the latest Growing Radicles event began. It was the first in a series of “Fast track your Food Forest” one-day trainings.

Fellow Archan Permaculture founder, James Andrews opened with an Holistic Decision Making exercise that gave space for deepening the context of each person’s why.

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Regenerative food systems, at the end of the industrial food era

The era of centralised, industrialised, corporatised, monocultural food systems is over, it is a failed experiment. This article will show why, then point to ways of creating an abundance of food that simultaneously build vibrant, diverse ecosystems, and a promise of healthy society.

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Looking for land? Can’t afford it?

Home and land ownership in New Zealand is at its lowest rate since 1951 and is expected to fall further. There is evidence of a structural shift—younger people are less likely to achieve home ownership than ever before.

Advertisements by banks on TVNZ, are suggesting that “first home buyers are an endangered species.” Why?

One reason is that in New Zealand, land has increasingly become a commodity, traded on the open market to be bought and sold as an ‘investment’, and not just to New Zealand residents.

Land has been commodified.

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Landshare Communications training

12 people brought their incompetence and courageous commitment, to a day of learning about effective communication. It was August 2024 in Motueka, Land sharing was the context, and the why, was knowing that so many awesome collaborations unravel because of human misunderstandings and failed communications.

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Past articles

Read recent articles on the buy me a coffee page. You can jump to articles about Syntropic Agroforestry, or articles about Communications skills.