WHY REGENERATIVE AGRO-ECOLOGY

• NATURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CAPITALIZED
• SELF-SUFFICIENCY MODELING AS FOUND IN NATURE 
• RESILIENCY THROUGH REDUNDANCY THEORY
• STABLITY THROUGH DIVERSITY
• EFFICIENCY THROUGH MUTUALISTIC SYMBIOSIS
• PROFITABLE THROUGH ABUNDANCE HARVEST

• REGENERATIVE BY WAY OF PRIORITIZING LOCALIZING OF FOOD NETWORK
• REDUCES PESTICIDE AND ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF IMPORTED FOOD GOODS
• REDUCES DELETERIOUS  EXTERNALITIES
• SEEKS TO ENHANCE REGIONAL BIODIVERSITY 

EXTRACTIVE VS ECOLOGICAL LAND PLANNING

For thousands of years humanity has struggled to bring Nature under it's control.  Some cultures have come to understand better the wisdom of following natures cycles of harvest and regrowth over attempting to gain ultimate control of Nature.  Others have yet to gain that perspective and remain in an extractive mentality which pushes to use all it's resources to exhaustion.  Regenerative planning seeks to respect the balance where sustainable yield is measured by a system's ability to naturally regenerate after that resource has been depleted for humanities needs.  One needs no look far to find Nature's examples of the consequences of a purely extractive mentality.  There is however, thankfully, an undeniable global push towards a more regenerative thinking paradigm.  

Certainly there still remains a significant contingency of the world's population who remain entrenched in the extractive model.  Whether it be by convenient denial, shackled cultural dogmatism, or simply because they have yet to be educated on the realities of historic human land use patterns or reasons behind historic civilizations greatest collapses, the extractive paradigm is out of necessity an antiquated system which must be challenged.  

To do so requires courage, compassion, humanity, and balanced rational reasoning as the foundation for debate regarding what is the greatest good for the greatest population.  It is a core issue facing all land planners and requires the greatest of consideration as humanity's and millions of Earth's non-human inhabitants long term survival depends upon us to follow the sustainable if not regenerative paradigm path.  We are all land planners with each and every consumer choice we make.  Asking for local products and denying yourself the "guilty pleasure" excuse can and does make a difference as does composting, riding your bike or taking public transportation instead of driving, planting a tree, talking to your neighbors and communicating your values and concerns to your representatives.  Together we all have a responsibility and all play an important part in making this world a better more whole place for the generations to come.