"For our entire lives most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from a thousand or more miles away. Our savings is shipped into distant financial centers and invested by strangers in enterprises run by strangers..."
Given the problems that have come to light with cost-cutting in meat packing centers, contamination in for-profit industrial cattle lots, milk production and tomato operations, of course we are also seeing similar problems with centralized finance, exhibit A being global banking 2007-present.
Just as permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the naturalworld, so to then is financial permaculture an approach to creating resilient, relocalized financial systems.
Solari.com discusses the concept of permaculture as it applies to finance, especially local finance. Learn more:
- "Rethinking Diversification"
- "Financial Permaculture: What is it?" - October 2008 summit in Tennessee
In the video below, local chamber of commerce members and local business owners discuss why "financial permaculture" is important.
