From Devolution to Evolution: How Can We Right Our Wrongs

For more information, visit the Permaculture website:

http://www.permaculture.org/

In line with Permaculture is Transition Town. Transition Town is about creating communities that are resilient, equitable and sustainable. Indeed, Transition and Permaculture often go hand-in-hand. To learn more about Transition Town, visit:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/about

Transition envelops a deeply democratic way of living. Indeed, in some of these groupings, there is often a focus on decision making via a community consensus technique called Holacracy. The beauty of Holacracy is that it's organic. A group's decision entails a "lets see what happens, tweak what needs to be tweaked and if necessary, revisit the issue."

Rob Kall interviewed Brian Robertson regarding holacracy:

http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Holacracy--Discussing-it-by-Rob-Kall-Bottom-up-Top-Down_Bureaucracy_Hierarchy-Hierarchical_Management-151111-204.html

I personally have been in a group using this method of decision-making. It's great until a "facilitator" decides to return to the old top-down decision making processes.

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