Biodiversity
We protect the environment, regenerate and restore degraded landscapes, care for people through empowerment, community building, and return of the surplus from our efforts into the continued service of Earth Care and People Care.
Ms. Tammy Turner
Biodiversity. How to Reconcile Biological Life and Economic Interests?
There is no possibility of an economy without biological life or biodiversity. The very web of life, from the smallest microbes to the largest organism (fungi!) and mammals, we depend on the biological services of not just individual plants, trees or animals but the ecological and natural systems to which they belong. Economic interests within the current global economic paradigm do not value and cannot value these essential biological services because it is only by their disappearance and conversion into a commodity do they gain value, to the point that clean water and air and healthy soil are becoming increasingly precious by the day. The solution must therefore be one that reasserts the sacredness of life and living systems. This is why as Permaculture practitioners and designers our core ethics are Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share, wherein we not only protect the environment but regenerate and restore degraded landscapes, care for people through empowerment, community building, and return of the surplus from our efforts into the continued service of Earth Care and People Care.
