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=== Transition Town Nomad === | === Transition Town Nomad === | ||
- | A transition town group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. | + | A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. |
- | I go around by bike and scrutinize google.maps for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects. | + | We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local outburst of weed, crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects |
- | http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ | + | We are in Utrecht, the Netherlands, |
- | The manifesto is called "Fight the Google-Jugend", | ||
- | The idea is to hook-up | + | http:// |
- | Have been reading about Colonel Fawcett' | + | Nomadic people do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the kayapo, to randomly name three former nomadic tribes, are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations into the unknown, they are not inconsequentel. It is the duty of the nomad to walk the paths that are their ' |
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+ | TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. Gardening is about productivity and yields; these are not the terms on which TT Nomad is facing the rejected: forests are where the whiches live. | ||
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+ | The rainforest, according to cliche, is the wildest of all possible wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered and crystallized of all possible ecosystems, self-sustaining and self-perpeptuating: | ||
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+ | The Effects of deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) are of direct consequence to every place on earth. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and deforestation is one of it's most important components. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. The most amazing thing is about the speed of deforestation worldwide is that there are still rainforests at all. The rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. We are live, in a sense, in the Amazon, just as we all, in a sense, live on the North-Pole. Rain forest protection is not just about short-term benefits; rainforests are millions of years old, trees are strangers from a different world, and a clear cut area may take 10.000 years to regrow. And that is an optimistic estimate. | ||
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+ | We have been reading about Colonel Fawcett' | ||
+ | Possessions slow the nomad down, anthropologists witnessed tribes slowing down from nomadism to village live in the space of a decade, a process due to the gravitational genus loci of commerce. To be part of a larger economy people need to be able to find you. However, as anthropologists joining tribes on their treks, the nomadic spectacle, the holidays of a former peripatetic people, they have so much more fun while on the road! And not just because it loosens up the relationships between the sexes. |