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
www.forestclimate.org

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

 

Food Growing - urban agriculture

foodnotlawns.com - relocalize food production

 

Solar food cooking and drying

solarcooking.org - cooking, Water Pasteurization, Retained Heat Cooking, Food Drying - translations into several languages

solarfooddryer.com - using solar energy to dry (preserve) food

 

 

Seed Saving

www.seedambassadors.org

 

Local Food

www.energybulletin.net/16978.html

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200783,00.html
The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet
Margon Roosevelt, TIME Magazine
If you live in the town of Athens in southeastern Ohio, there are politically correct reasons not to eat a California strawberry. Think of the pollution and the global warming caused by its transport. Think of the ascendancy of corporate agribusiness over family farms. Think of the loss of nutrients during a weeklong journey from soil to supermarket. But to Barbara Fisher, an Athens cooking teacher, there's a more primal motive for choosing a homegrown variety over the "beautiful, flavorless, plastic" kind shipped from California: "When people bite into ripe strawberries from a local farmer and the sweet juice bursts into their mouths, their eyes roll back into their heads, and they moan."
Fisher is one of more than 1,000 "locavores," self-styled concerned culinary adventurers, who took the pledge last month to eat nothing--or almost nothing--but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home. The movement began last year when four San Francisco-- area foodies designated August 2005 as the first Eat Local Challenge and launched a website, Locavores.com They were inspired by the book Coming Home to Eat, ecologist Gary Paul Nabham's account of his yearlong effort to restrict himself to native foods near his Arizona home. Soon some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile diet, inaugurating their own website, EatLocalChallenge.com This year they upped the ante, moving the test to the less bounteous month of May. "With gas prices spiking, people are concerned about our dependence on petroleum," says Locavores co-founder Jessica Prentice. "Why import apples from New Zealand when we can grow them nearby?"
(4 June 2006)
Related: The 100-mile Convergence - has many links.

 

http://energybulletin.net/4101.html

www.i-sis.org.uk/FTWUCC.php

Published on 21 Jan 2005 by Institute of Science in Society.
Feeding the World under Climate Change
by Edward Goldsmith / ISIS

www.i-sis.org.uk/DreamFarm.php

Dream Farms
Abundantly productive farms with zero input and zero emission powered by waste-gobbling bugs and human ingenuity
Sustainable development is possible

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

 

Compost Tea - for soil and plant health

simplici-tea.com

intlctc.org The International Compost Tea Council

soilfoodweb.com Dr. Elaine Ingham's Compost Tea Brewing Manual

mycorrhizae.com - Mycorrhizal Applications Inc.

 

Vermiculture - worm composting

wormwoman.com

 

Pesticides

beyondpesticides.org - national organization working to end the toxic threat of pesticides and for organic agriculture

pesticide.org - Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides