Molecular self organization ...

Did you ever read the book the hundredth monkey?  If you haven't you should. The ideas presented are important to the idea of sustainability, or at least the propagation of sustainability.  It is the ahha book that reinforces the idea that you don't have to go out and drag people to your cause if thats not your thing.  You just have to be the change you want to see.  Yea yea I know you've heard it all before, and being a person who needs to see the proof in action or at least explained in scientific terms that make me feel sane i'll give you this quote to ponder.

 "When a large number of molecules congregate in close  proximity, the random motions of the billions and billions of molecules will at some point show a sudden alteration in behavior;  all of them will start to spontaneously synchronize. They begin to move and vibrate together. They begin acting in concert, actively cooperating, and become tightly coupled together into one, interacting whole exhibiting a collective, macroscopically ordered state of being." 
 -The Secret Teachings of Plants, By Stephen Harrod Buhner.


  Of course this book shouts the warning of the examination of things in pieces, remove something from the whole and you screw up the picture.  Though he does say you can go through his book in any order you like, I'm sure he would agree that you should read this book in its entirety. Eventually.
  So onto the point which is stop waiting for a good time to grow that first food plant, make that first loaf of bread, or ferment your first batch of yogurt.  Jump in now, and possibly be the hundredth monkey (or molecule) and I think if you do you may feel the world around you moving toward a  "macroscopically ordered state of being".....
  

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