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Agroecologists therefore collaborate with traditional producers and agroecological movements. Permaculture is one such agroecological movement, with a broad international distribution and a unique approach to system de- sign. Despite a high public profile, permaculture has remained relatively isolated from scientific research. Though the potential contribution of permaculture to agroecological transition is great, it is limited by this isolation from science, as well as from oversimplifying claims, and the lack of a clear definition. Here, we review scientific and popular permaculture literature.

U-theory overview PDF

PDF on Epistemic Communities and Social Movements Transnational Dynamics in the Case of Creative Commons

Simple how to video for creating a multi-paged PDF from multiple documents. I used this to create the Community Booklet on my eportfolio profile.

here is a handy pdf pocket printout of patterns from the public sphere project

interesting PDF from UN on sustainability measurements for cities

Very deep and interesting exploration of the cynefin model

(First test at Group Share) This is a Resource Library I am creating of PDFs and Links related to Permaculture.

Downloadable PDF - "Consistent with views that see leadership emerging from social practices rather than from the external mind, this paper contributes to an emerging movement in leadership studies known as "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P)."

a GOLDMINE of scanned PDF books and other media on subjects such as: community, gardening, energy, media, economics, permaculture...

This report is written for those who run and fund leadership programs that develop and support leadership for social change. It shares many examples of how leaders using network strategies are increasing the impact of social change work. 

PDF critical theories radical pedagogies social education

This is a site for K-12 supposedly but there are some great tools here for teaching (PDF form) - creating design challenges prototypes and more

The purpose of this article is to review the literature dealing with the developmental sequence in small groups, to evaluate this literature as a body, to extrapolate general concepts about group development and to suggest fruitful areas for further research.

An intresting passage from the articel that reminds me also of the permaculture zones: Some cultures do not perceive time as an exclusively linear phenomenon and their time calendars consist of multiple and simultaneously existing time categories such as 'practical time', 'social time', 'religious time', 'dream time', etc. Many Indigenous people and a number of non- Indigenous cultures do not perceive time as linear and describe it as having a 'circular' or 'cyclic' form. According to such a conceptualisation of time, time is perceived as 'static' and the individual person is 'in the centre of time' (i.e. surrounded by concentric 'time circles'). Life events are placed in time along and across the 'time circles' according to their relative importance to the individual and his or her respective community (i.e. more important events are placed closer to the individual and are perceived as being closer in time; unimportant or irrelevant events occupy peripheral time circles, although some of them could have happened very recently according to linear or 'practical' concept time).

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