Deep Green and Social

Abstract

Permaculture is a holistic sustainability movement brought to Cuba from Australia in the early 1990s. In addition to a set of twelve design principles that permaculturalists use to organize their houses, backyards, and farms, the movement is grounded upon three main ethical principles: care for the Earth, care for people, and share resources through the recognition of limits to consumption. Using etic analysis of qualitative interviews from the provinces of Havana and Sancti Spíritus, I argue that permaculture in Cuba is a religious movement that is meeting both the spiritual and material needs of individuals. This environmentally engaged religious movement promotes the idea that the Earth is alive and is therefore worthy of reverent care, and this care extends to humans through the growing of food produced within permaculture systems using ecological methods.

Perspectivas para la aplicación de la permacultura en los páramos altoandinos

“…Como aplicaciones prácticas las investigaciones y proyectos relacionados con la permacultura se pueden enumerar: El diseño de hogares totalmente funcionales (Barnett, 2018;Tovbych et al, 2021;Barnett, 2018;Salazar, 2013), Granjas agroturísticas y turismo comunitario (Diquit & Palarca, 2021;Felcis & Felcis, 2021;White, 2018), Huertos, jardines, balcones y aceras urbanas (Brawner, 2015;Caraway, 2020;Concepción et al, 2021;Wolz et al, 2018) LATAM Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Asunción, Paraguay.…”

Regenerative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Framework for Surpassing Sustainability and Attaining Regeneration

“…Regenerative collaboration requires listening of many types: listening via scientific measurements of the natural world's health and human populations' mental and physical health; listening via indigenous and scientific approaches of tending and attending to ecosystems [4,37,38], see also [11,[39][40][41]; listening to plants [4,42]; listening to animals [33,[43][44][45]; (and listening to and meeting human needs [31,32,46,47]. (While dominance approaches forbid listening [11], collaboration requires it as a continual practice.…”