Institute for Bioregional Studies Ltd

Over the years there have been numerous discussions on the Island about starting an intentional, "Eco-community" This webinar might help inspire some actions.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com//the-prince-of-evoluti/ Kropotkin was one of the world's first international celebrities. In England he was known primarily as a brilliant scientist. He studied flocks of migrating birds and mammals, fish schools, and insect societies.... What he found was that competition was virtually nonexistent. Instead, in every nook and cranny of the animal world, he encountered mutual aid. Individuals huddled for warmth, fed one another, and guarded their groups from danger, all seeming to be cogs in a larger cooperative society. "In all the scenes of animal lives which passed before my eyes," Kropotkin wrote, "I saw mutual aid and mutual support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species and its further evolution." For more than 80 yearsuntil about the 1960sKropotkin's ideas on mutual aid played a prominent, critical role in the study of behavior and evolution. And during that same period, the Prince's book-length treatments on ethics, geology, history, and literature had a huge impact not only on those fields but on areas as diverse as city planning, communist ideology, and the modern "green" movement. Kropotkin was not only the first person who clearly demonstrated that cooperation was important among animals, but he was also the first person to forcefully argue that understanding cooperation in animals would shed light on human cooperation, and, indeed would permit science to help promote human cooperation, perhaps saving our species from destroying itself.

https://peterkropotkin.org/mutual-aid-an-alternative-to-po/

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