Bioregional Permaculture Collective (class)
nature pace layer · 1993–ongoing
lifespan: 300 yrs
Class card for LM-Dawn federated collectives organized around permaculture design, regenerative agriculture, agroecology, and watershed stewardship. Spans: permaculture guilds (Holmgren/Mollison lineage, 1978+), regenerative agriculture networks (Rodale Institute, Savory HM, Gabe Brown no-till), agroecology federations (La Via Campesina 1993+, IPES-Food, GRAIN), watershed stewardship collectives (water catchment cooperatives, acequia associations), and food-sovereignty networks (Landworkers' Alliance, National Young Farmers Coalition). Distinguishing features versus the rewilding-project-network-class peer: (1) explicitly INTENTIONAL new-nature density — permaculture design is structured human-ecological design, not passive rewilding; (2) agricultural productivity is maintained alongside ecological function, creating food-sovereignty outputs absent from pure rewilding; (3) federation substrate is critical — La Via Campesina reaches ~200M farmer-members globally; permaculture design course (PDC) network operates in >150 countries. Common substrate: seed libraries, permaculture design manuals, agroecological science, indigenous farming knowledge. Motor is absent per LM invariant; coordination emerges from shared practice grammar (the PDC curriculum, holistic management grazing charts, keyline design surveys) rather than from telic Progress narrative. Primary outputs: new_nature_density signal (intentional ecological function embedded in productive land), soil-carbon-sequestered [STUB], food-sovereignty-metrics [STUB], seed-varieties-saved [STUB]. All quantitative state-variable values are [EXTRAP]; framing is [CANON-concept] per Wave-0 LM definitions and Wave-6 framework-native-generators §1.4. [CANON-concept; EXTRAP-LM-values]
Machine type
corporeal
Plasticity
plastic
Substrate
Wave source
wave-6-cross-era-coupling-typology-stub3d
Inputs
- seed_libraries_and_varieties
- permaculture_design_knowledge_base
- indigenous_agroecological_knowledge
- land_access_and_stewardship_tenure
Outputs
- new_nature_density_signal
- soil_carbon_sequestered
- food_sovereignty_outputs
- seed_varieties_saved
Landscape pressures
- industrial_agriculture_consolidation (90% intensity)
- climate_crisis_soil_loss (80% intensity)
- food_sovereignty_political_resurgence (55% intensity)
Intra-era couplings
- mutualistic_coupling Rewilding Project Network (class) · 0.60 EXTRAP
- co_constitutive Mutual-Aid Network at Scale (LM-Dawn class) · 0.45 EXTRAP
Cross-era couplings
- hostile_inheritance Ford Motor System (Fordism, 1908–1980) · 0.75 EXTRAP
- substrate_provision Three-Field Crop Rotation (Carolingian Agrarian) · 0.55 EXTRAP
- substrate_provision Post-Humboldtian Research University (1810) · 0.75
- parasitic_extraction Amazon Commerce Platform (1994) · 0.65 EXTRAP
- substrate_provision Wikipedia (2001) · 0.55 EXTRAP
State variables
Phase snapshots
Notable instances
- La Via Campesina (1993+) (1993) — International peasant movement; ~200M farmer-members across 182 organizations in 81 countries. Founded 1993 Mons, Belgiu…
- Rodale Institute (1947+; Farming Systems Trial 1981+) (1947) — J.I. Rodale's organic farming institute; Farming Systems Trial (FST) since 1981 is longest-running organic vs. conventio…
- Permaculture Research Institute (Holmgren; 2002+) (2002) — David Holmgren and Su Dennett's Melliodora property (Central Victoria, Australia); foundational permaculture design demo…
- Savory Institute / Holistic Management International (1984+) (1984) — Allan Savory's planned grazing / holistic management organization. Regen-ag instance via livestock as keystone species i…
- Agroecology Fund (2014+) (2014) — US-based philanthropic funder; $100M+ committed to agroecology organizations globally. Bridges DM philanthropic capital …
Sources
- Holmgren (2002). Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
- Mollison (1988). Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
- Altieri (1995). Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture
- La Via Campesina (2022). Agroecology and Food Sovereignty (declarations 1993–2022)
- Savory and Butterfield (1999). Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution
- Rao (2024). World Machines — civilizational-era framing