Summary
The Great Turning is a name for “the shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization”. The words are Joanna Macy’s, the writer and Buddhist scholar who made the phrase widely known. She described three dimensions. Holding actions, such as blockades, slow the damage. Analysis of structural causes goes with building alternatives, from co-operatives to community gardens. A shift in consciousness changes how we perceive reality and relate to Earth and each other. None is enough alone.
David Korten says Craig Schindler and Gary Lapid used the phrase first, in the 1980s, and reports Macy’s wish that it be “used by everyone and owned by no one”.
Rationale
Macy files community gardens under structural alternatives and keeps consciousness as a separate dimension. We’d blur that line: Part 2 suggests a garden also works on “our understanding of our relationship to land and ownership”.