Designed by Dr. Adi Setia, this 5-Module GRADES course, closely engages the themes covered in Chapter 14—STRATEGIES FOR AN ALTERNATIVE NATION—of Bill Mollison’s foundational text for agro-ecological and socio-ecological restoration of the landscape, Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual.
The following 5 Modules, derived from key sections of Chapter 14 of the Manual, outline well-tested and successful socio-economic strategies or invisible structures for positive transformation in the socio-ecological dimensions of communal and societal life. These strategies and structures constitute Social Permaculture, which is concerned with the Design of Beneficial Relationships for establishing resilient Communities of Right Livelihood. Sound, ethical socio-economic relationships are a sine qua non for a thriving community life of belonging and solidarity. The socio-economic strategies presented in this course embody, express and realize in practical terms many of the intellecto-moral and ethico-legal precepts for healthy and sound socio-economic transactional relationships among people grounded in the core ethics of Justice and Magnanimity.
It is greatly hoped that students graduating from this course will have acquired the understanding and commitment to go on to do regular reading and study of alternative people- and community-centered economic and regenerative systems, as well as the appropriate socio-legal structures enabling such systems to function effectively, equitably and thrive across multiple generations, and then eventually to initiate their own enterprises and projects for restoring the Economy of Right Livelihood and the Common Good, aameen!
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