PERMATOPIA a graceful end to cheap oil

local, bioregional, global solutions

Permatopia highlights solutions to Peak Oil, Climate Change and ecocide.

The companion website OilEmpire.US is focused on understanding the politics behind these problems that prevent implementation of the solutions.

Road-Scholar.org examines the rush to massively expand highway systems as the world passes Peak Oil, and offers some tools to thwart these plans.

home page
www.oilempire.us
www.road-scholar.org
GreenwashEugene.com

PERMACULTURE
PATTERNS
local, bioregional,
global solutions

permaculture for nine billion

Permatopia dictionary:
permanent place [topia]
permaculture utopia

documents:
Hirsch report
Pentagon climate change study

environmental patterns
dominant paradigm
limited hang out / greenwash
ideal direction
disinformation
philosophy - groups - toxics - food safety - energy - global warming - forest


Permatopia topics

energy
97 quads
conservation for renters
renewable energy
solar power
wind energy
microhydro
biofuels
hydrogen
free energy?

beyond oil?

oil depletion protocol

climate change

Greenwash
carbon neutral isn't

transportation
car culture
highway expansions
100 mpg cars
car sharing
transit & trains
bicycles
internet not jets

food
organic
urban gardening
vegan diets
buy local
solar drying
solar cooking
sprouting
fermentation
Peak Grain
food irradiation
genetic phood
mad cow disease
toxic fertilizers
nutrition

water
rainwater harvesting
graywater
filters, solar distillation
drip irrigation
boycott bottled water
blue gold

shelter:
weatherization
green building
natural building
urban planning

community
consciousness
spiritual resources

money:
community currency
cooperatives
precious metals?

health:
single payer

permaculture:
principles
courses
references

environmental education

waste:
a terrible thing to mind
reuse, not recycle
humanure
waste prevention

forests:
deforestation
clearcuts & climate change
selective forestry
non-timber products

biomimicry

detoxification:
bioremediation
mycoremediation

the end of growth

communication

primitive technology

homesteading

eco-cities

 

THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

A short list of educational centers dedicated to social justice, ecological sanity and skills needed for the "permatopia" type future needed for our survival - this is not intended to be a comprehensive database of these efforts, there are too many for anyone to keep track of.

 

www.schumachercollege.org.uk
"Schumacher College is an international centre for ecological studies based in the beautiful countryside of south-west England. It was founded in 1991 on the conviction that a new vision is needed for society, its values and its relationship to the Earth."

 

Environmental Education in US Colleges - a short list

Antioch College - www.antioch.edu
Yellow Springs, Ohio

Campus Center for Appropriate Technology - www.humboldt.edu/~ccat
Humboldt State University
Arcata, California

Evergreen College - www.evergreen.edu
Olympia, Washington

Goddard College - www.goddard.edu
Plainfield, Vermont

New College - www.newcollege.edu
San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California

Oberlin College - www.oberlin.edu
Oberlin, Ohio

Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Masters of Education program - Leadership in Ecology, Culture & Learning
Masters of Science in Teaching - Center for Science Education

Prescott College - www.prescott.edu
Prescott, Arizona

School Garden Project - www.efn.org/~sgp/
Eugene, Oregon
teaches gardening skills to high school students

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Oregon
Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living - www.uoregon.edu/~casl/
Ecological Design Center - http://edc.uoregon.edu
sponsors of the Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability (HOPES) conference http://hopes.uoregon.edu
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference - www.pielc.org