Greening Our Neighborhood

Permaculturists, like Taoists and Buddhists and Hindus, etc. Consider neighbors extended and respected family, ZeroZone Kin, regardless of zone status near or far, regardless of species, regardless of living or gone or not yet arrived. Dear Neighbors, I make no proud claims of embracing a GREEN lifestyle, making green integrity choices, No claims of wise and sacred ecology or even GREEN party membership. Yet, as a Permaculture Designer and as a hopefully therapeutic more than helplessly threatening parent of hurt children becoming young adults in a growing climate of pathology, Earth GREENS (great rational ecological-economic news services) are among my healthier aspirations. Permaculture Opera speaks part of my journey from our urban capital often slighting a polluted Connecticut River living water artery of enculturing history To this neighborhood where the Yantic and Shetucket Rivers of Norwich become one in the misnomered Thames River whose mouth speaks of New London where once fished Iroquois Pequots Mashantuckets... blue herons, dolphins, bears, eagles.. I am interested in where these Rivers flow from and for, and where they are heading and learn to listen on their banks for their best resiliently ballasting interests in where we have gone and come from, time's nurturing ebb and co-arising flow, and where humane nature is healthy v pathology going, regenerative v degenerative cooperation v too competitive WinWin v WinLose. Perhaps some day in Norwich and New London and Groton we may go and come back again by water taxis, bicycle rickshaws and tricycle grocery carts, horses with and without buggies. Bike and pedestrian only lanes and downtown blocks connecting GREEN EcoSchools with organic community gardens built by PositivEnergy Cooperatives with co-invested political and economic nutritional leaders who graduated from local EcoSchools appropriate to Norwich's diverse historical health faces: As Original river forest habitat, GREEN nature-spirit built environments, will allow, As meadow greened and gardened, grazed and harvested as in our colonial era, As Civil GREEN Rights and Elitist Wrongs underground our freedom railroad and civil war volunteerism would expect respect with cooperative gratitude, As we restore our national health identity after AntiGREENing of Vietnam and MiddleEast and Korea and... So this copy of Permaculture Opera is my signed gift to you, inviting you to share this journey if you neighborly will. And, if you read and care to speak further about these pieces or about a neighborhood Permaculture Design Cooperative or about restoring a therapeutic Norwich ClimateHealth Cooperative composed of those still in PositivEnergy Democracy School and those who have grown out long enough to know we cannot continue with NON-GREEN BusinessAsUsual, Here's my email address, my www.gdill52.com blogsite, open to comments WinWin dialogue, cooperative skill development. Speak with me, invite me to listen to what we might do better together than side-by-side apart.