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=== Transition Town Nomad ===

A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. 

We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ is one inspiration with street-cred and currency but the real motivation for us is the rich field of Amazonian anthropology from classic ethnography to modern ethnobotany to future excavations of the lost garden cities of Xingu. 

Our manifesto is called "Fight the Google-Jugend", which is in art-academic peer-review right now but far from finished.

We will hook-up with the local TT people but the Nomad-principle is applicable everywhere and should appeal to a mindset that is open to less literal more psychogeographically informed vision of what a city can look after the great ecological, population and resource crash.

Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, do not roam free, tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. The nomad instead follows cyclic paths. These paths are their 'home' for as long as the their trek reaffirms them as part of their collective heritage. Over time the nomad can create or amplify (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) useful resources along the trail, aka [[Nomadic Agriculture]]. 

TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. An important part of gardening is about productivity and yields; for TT Nomad these are the wrong terms to describe our vision.  

The rainforest is the wildest of wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered and crystallized of ecosystems: it appears wild because there is so much texture to its order that we mistake the trees for the forest. No land is allowed to the time to go from sandy soil to first forest (do-nothingness the antithesis of the western notion of growth - a divine purpose in need of its own form of atheism)textbook knowledge apart we are ignorant of one of the most fundamental properties of biology.

Deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) has direct consequences for everywhere else in the world. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and rainforest preservation is one of the most important keys to combat it. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation by fire releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York and the rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. From this TT Nomad concludes that we are all, in a sense, living in the Amazon. 

We have been reading about Colonel Fawcett's search for the City of Z in what is now Xingu Park. He went looking for a city that could not exist in the rainforest, TT Nomad goes looking for (and create) the forest that cannot exit in the city. An alternative name would be Transition Town -z (negative zee)
     
Possessions slow the nomad down, anthropologists witnessed tribes slowing down from nomadism to village live in the space of a decade, a process due to the gravitational genus loci of commerce. To be part of a larger economy people need to be able to find you. However, as anthropologists joining tribes on their treks, the nomadic spectacle, the holidays of a former peripatetic people, they have so much more fun while on the road! And not just because it loosens up the relationships between the sexes.