understanding" - Blog - SCOCO Network2024-03-28T22:41:55Zhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/understanding%22“Understanding Redundancy” – A Brief Lesson for Children by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/understanding-redundancy-a-brief-lesson-for-children-by-willi2014-01-13T00:29:57.000Z2014-01-13T00:29:57.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="entry-content clear-fix"><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><img title="" alt="" src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/safe_1.png" /></span></div></div></div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“Understanding Redundancy” – A Brief Lesson for Children by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine</strong></span></p><p>It is important to connect the concepts of resilience and redundancy to grow and share our growing Transition. For this lesson, understand resilience as the ability of a community to become healthy and successful after something bad happens.</p><p></p><p>From Permaculture (<a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles">Primary Principles for Functional Design – #5</a>), redundancy design requires that each part of the any critical social, food or energy system is supported by multiple back-ups. Redundancy protects us when one or more traditional processes or components fail.</p><p></p><p>Redundancy is also about the recovery phase after an emergency as we work together to return our lives to a safe operational place.</p><p></p><p>*******</p><p></p><p><strong>Here are some examples of redundancy:</strong></p><p></p><p>- Back-up life support equipment and staffing plans at relief clinics</p><p>- Building your house on stilts for protection against high water and predators</p><p>- Squirrels saving nuts in multiple locations</p><p>- A Seed Library – preserving different genetic strains to guard against altered / toxic invader seeds</p><p>- Community Food Forest – multiple crops that all supply vitamin, protein or other nutritional needs</p><p>- Solar batteries that support home heating and cooling when traditional power sources fail</p><p>- Teaching multiple tribe members how to lead and teach important skills, including local land design methods, participatory governance and other Post-Chaos Era community needs</p><p></p><p>*******</p><p></p><p><strong>Note</strong>: This lesson is itself is an example of redundancy as the Internet multiplies the available number of sites that kids that can read this work and implement its wisdom.</p></div></div></div></div>