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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
Greenwash
carbon
neutral isn't
Permatopia
hierarchy of needs
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: clean water
shelter:
weatherization
green building
natural building
urban planning
energy
97 quads
conservation for renters
renewable energy
solar power
wind energy
microhydro
biofuels
hydrogen
free energy?
transportation
car culture
highway expansions
100 mpg cars
car sharing
transit & trains
bicycles
internet not jets
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
related websites:
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Michael Pollan on the Revolutionary Act of Gardening
By Michael Pollan
The New York Times, April 20, 2008
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11675.cfm
"But the act I want to talk about is growing some — even just a
little — of your own food. Rip out your lawn, if you have one, and if
you don't — if you live in a high-rise, or have a yard shrouded in
shade — look into getting a plot in a community garden. Measured
against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign,
I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an
individual can do — to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more
important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to
change the cheap-energy mind.
A great many things happen when you plant a vegetable garden, some of
them directly related to climate change, others indirect but related
nevertheless. ... "
"There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free." --Wendell Berry
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
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