Luwek like other Northern Villages were
devastated by the years of Civil Wars, dictatorship leaders, diseases and
corrupt ones up to now are letting us behind; the Soul of the Northern was
lost, the Country side had lost direction and most Villagers had resigned to that
terrible fate to uncertainty. Many right thinking Villagers knew that something
had to be done but they never had the Idea and concept of how they could rescue
this Village from multrinutrition, poverty etc. But on the other hand, life has also
became a mess with the environment-I mean Nature mostly and with generation
that passes by, situation seems not changing.
Above
all, every serious human endeavor will always have a beginning. And many people
have got very good projects in mind but they never get guts to take the first
step to kick start the implementation of those good Ideas and translate them
into Action. Given sorrow that Luwek is going through, hopefully Nyerology is to
give birth to PERMACULTURE NORTH so as to break through Permaculture to make a
change as well as beauty. With nothing
more than my head, hand and the background that accompany me, am hopefully
undertaking the duty to lay the foundation for the struggle that I hope will
lead to increased better Food Variety and economic emancipation which cannot be
congratulated individually but I hope will leave me with no option but to
recognize the day when it all started. Hence herein, PERMACULTURE NORTH is
hopefully to lay the foundation for the struggle that will rescue Luwek and
make her the Pearl of North.
With my little knowledge of observation of
acquaintance with facts, Permaculture is the Art and Science of designing human
beings’ place in the environment. Permaculture design is a system of assembling
conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern that functions to
benefit life in all its forms.
Permaculture taught me
to understand and flash on the pattern that is found in healthy natural
environments. In Permaculture, we work with, rather than against, nature; of
protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless
action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only
one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.
Permaculture Principles;
1. Responsibility for our actions and the outcomes, for what
we leave behind. We should know that it’s our responsibility for our own
existence and that of our children.
2. Cooperation, not competition, is the basis of future
survival.
3. The rules of use of natural resources: Reduce waste,
hence pollution; thoroughly replace lost minerals; do careful energy
accounting.
4. Law of return: whatever we take we must return.
5. Care of the earth, care of the people: Provisions for all
life systems to continue and increase provision for people to access those
resources necessary to their existence.
6. Setting limits to population and consumption.
7. Hey, Permaculture doesn’t shun technology at all. If
technology can help to achieve the desired outcome, go for it.
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8.
One of Birch’s six
principles of natural systems: Our ability to change the face of the earth
increases at a faster rate than our ability to foresee the consequence of
change.
With
Permaculture, everyone can build productive, profitable, sustainable,
cultivated ecosystems, which as well include people, and have the diversity,
stability and resilience of natural ecosystems. To me, without Permaculture, we
shall mess up with the environment and there won’t be possibility of a stable
social order. So go PERMACULTURE NORTH!
