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Seeding and sharing:
Forum Synergies and PREPARE
HANNES LORENZEN AND MICHAEL DOWER
In a permaculture
garden of
sustainable
development
and is. One thing is certain: it is hard to FS logo - a partly open frame and
define. Forum Synergies is something a tree spreading its seeds into the
like an evolving creature of collective countryside? When we started our
intelligence, a network of rural actors, adventure, we did not have or indeed
and a laboratory of methods to reach want any fixed, rigid understanding of
constructive dialogue and action. We sustainable development. We wanted
are like a permaculture garden for to learn from the many exciting ideas,
places and events that have filled the rural innovation, for local democracy initiatives and practices across Europe
pages of this book, you begin to get and mutual aid of engaged citizens and spread these ideas further,
an idea of what Forum Synergies was across Europe. Remember our early beyond our own organisation.
From the different stories of people,
“Forum Synergies is something like an evolving
creature of collective intelligence, a network
of rural actors, and a laboratory of methods
to reach constructive dialogue and action.”
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