PERMATOPIA a graceful end to cheap oil

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.

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

Renewable Energy

Energy Park at the Oregon Country Fair
www.efn.org/~enrgpark/

Sol West festival, John Day, OR
www.solwest.org

Sol Fest, Hopland, CA www.solarliving.org

Northwest Energy Education Institute
www.nweei.org sponsors of the Energy Management and Renewable Energy programs at Lane Community College

www.homepower.com - an excellent magazine about renewable energy for non-technical people, published in Ashland, OR

www.removedams.org  (the last chance for salmon)

Rancho Seco nuclear reactor near Sacramento, CA
closed by a democratic vote of the people
multi-megawatt solar panel array in the foreground points toward the future of safe energy

wind farm near Condon, Oregon

No Nukes

www.noradiation.org

www.nirs.org Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a Washington, DC based clearinghouse for safe energy/anti-nuclear power organizing

www.tmia.com Three Mile Island Alert

www.medcom.com cheap geiger counters

www.ki4u.com potassium iodide (something that we will hopefully never need) if you live downwind of a nuclear facility you should consider this, especially if you have small children - another reason to support safe, clean, renewable energy

Primitive Technology

Firemaker - Natural Skills Ancient Technology Native Philosophy
firemaker.org