My friend and I started a community compost project that was going to be this beautiful example of circular systems and neighborhood connection, but now we spend all our time managing complaints about smells and educating people about what can't go in the bins. We used to dream about soil building and community resilience and now we just feel like garbage police, and neither of us remembers why we thought this would be fun.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between their vision of elegant regeneration and the messy reality of behavior change has drained the life from their shared work.
“Where Are You with Permaculture and regenerative agriculture?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.