'One Garden One Planet' is an experimental method to explore how the science of Conservation Biology is diffused. It takes the study of practical Conservation and examines its Knowledge Management challenges.
Building on the idea to 'Think global, act local', it starts in your Community Garden and connects to other places to show that nature cannot be separated into plots.
The method is a set of principles which assist community leaders to create (or co-design) Creative Commons licensed materials for group use. These explore themes of 'conservation as citizenship'.
This activity therefore is both a local and a global form of agency. It recognises the garden as one ecological continuum (one that is beyond borders).
The Creative Commons aspect specifically references the revived interest in Commoning. It also references the Transition Town movement which uses similar approaches to program group activities.
The method has arisen out of the need to develop Facilitation tools for community garden users who wish to help connect their local concerns for nature with the bigger picture of society, state and planet.
The idea originates from Albion Millennium Green in Forest Hill, South London. The area has a long standing connection with various tea trading dynasties including Horniman, Tetley and Peek. As such it is suitably placed to tell the part of the story of world trade which centers on plant discovery, cultivation and exploitation. The Horniman Museum is a prominet legacy of this tea trade.