If I want to keep my finger on the pulse of “trends to watch” in the emerging church, all I need to do is check in on Andrew Jones blog, or his twitter feed. He’s posted an insightful review of an Emerging Church panel discussion at the Christian Book Expo.
How does he keep up on all of this stuff whilst travelling through Europe with his family in a converted truck-RV? I wish I knew!
Andrew twitters about permaculture, and I have to go to wikipedia to get a definition:
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the natural ecologies. It was first developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and their associates during the 1970s in a series of publications. The word permaculture is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture, as well as permanent culture.
OooooooKaaaaay…but why is this important? What are the implications?
From the wikipedia article:
Modern permaculture is a system design tool. It is a way of:
- looking at a whole system or problem;
- observing how the parts relate;
- planning to mend sick systems by applying ideas learnt from long-term sustainable working systems;
- seeing connections between key parts.
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