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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
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
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Spiritual Resources:
many flavors, common ingredient
this page is - and probably always will
be - under construction
related pages at oilempire.us
Confucianism
Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will
be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state. Analects
12:2
Buddhism
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Udana-Varga
5,1
Christianity
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so
to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:1
Hinduism
This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have
them do unto you. Mahabharata 5,1517
Islam
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which
he desires for himself. Sunnah
Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire
Law; all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 3id
Taoism
Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain, and your neighbor's loss
as your own loss. Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien
Zoroastrianism
That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever
is not good for itself. Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5
evolution and spirituality
thankgodforevolution.com
Thank God for Evolution! How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd
thegreatstory.org
"Since 2002, TheGreatStory.org has served as an educational tool for those inspired by a sacred telling of the epic of evolution as revealed through mainstream science. It has been a key resource for those working to bridge the divide between science and religion while envisioning a thriving future for all life on Earth."
www.oilempire.us/deep-ecology.html
from 1991
Ram Dass: When I think about where the culture is, what's feeding the
continuity of the culture we're in that denies this reality, the whole
urban power of the intellect kind of preoccupation--will it take incredible
crisis to awaken that consciousness or can you see it seeping in from
the edges?
John Seed: I think the problem with trauma is that at the moment things
seem so precarious for the Earth that if the traumas that we've already
had aren't
sufficient, then I'm afraid that any trauma that would be sufficient would
also be lethal. For instance, the Director General of the United Nations
Environment Program, Dr. Mostafa Tolba, says in his introduction to
World Conservation
Strategy that at the current rate of destruction, "we face by the turn
of this century an environmental catastrophe as complete and as irreversible
as any nuclear holocaust."
And this is echoed by many scientists. So if this is true, that in the next
ten years or so this will take place, it's hard to imagine any trauma sufficient
to turn the huge inertia of this whole way of being around that wouldn't also
just be a death blow to the planet. So then if not that, what can we hope for?
And the only thing is something that I sort of feel ... It seems
I have been evolving on this planet for four thousand million years. I've
looked at the
evidence, and it seems that as a creation myth this has advantages over an
old man with a white beard creating everything six thousand years ago, or
even a turtle with all of this growing on its back. The composition of my blood,
and the relationship of that to the composition of sea water four hundred million
years ago when we left the oceans, the whole growth of the human fetus with
the vestigial tail and the gills, so, so many clues indicate that this is actually
a true story of where we came from. And if that's the case, then I have been
successful through all of that time. That whole road is littered with the bones
of those who couldn't adapt, who couldn't adjust to the crisis of their time,
whatever it was. But somehow I feel like we have this perfect pedigree, and
that we must have some hidden resources that we're not aware of yet. And what
could trigger us off so that we begin to identify with that larger body of
ourselves rather than merely this tunnel vision that we have now, looking only
at this very immediate time? So in the end nothing but a miracle would be of
any use at this time. When you look at the rate of destruction, whether it's
of the rainforest or the ozone layer, the climate, all of these things that
are happening, and if you were to multiply all of the efforts of conservationists
by a factor of ten or even a hundred, it wouldn't be enough. So there's nothing
on the horizon that can help us, you know.
And so then you think well, what kind of a miracle would that be? Well, it
would be a very simple one, really. All that it would need would be for human
beings to wake up one day different than they were the day before and realizing
that this is the end unless we make these changes, and then deciding to make
the change. That doesn't seem like a very likely thing to happen, but on the
other hand the whole road that we've traveled is so littered with miracles
that it's only our strange kind of modern psyche that refuses to see it. I
mean the miracle of being descended from a fish that chose to leave the water
and walk on the land--well, anyone with a pedigree like that, you can't lose
hope.
physics and spirituality
www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp
What is Enlightenment? magazine
Spring–Summer 1997
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
An interview with Amit Goswami
by Craig Hamilton
"An atomic nucleus is about one hundred thousand times smaller than
the
whole atom, and yet it contains almost all of the atom's mass. … This high
density, however, is not the only unusual property of nuclear matter. Being of
the same quantum nature as electrons, the 'nucleons' -- as the protons
and neutrons are often called--respond to their confinement with high velocities,
and since they are squeezed into a much smaller volume [than electrons] their
reaction is all the more violent. They race about in the nucleus with velocities
of about 40,000 miles per second! [about one-fifth the speed of light] Nuclear
matter is thus a form of matter entirely different from anything we experience ‘up
here' in our macroscopic environment. We can, perhaps, picture it best as tiny
drops of an extremely dense liquid which is boiling most fiercely."
-- Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics," New York: Bantam Books (1980,
5th edition), p. 62
interfaith efforts
Judiaism
www.jote.org
Jews of the Earth
www.tikkun.org
Tikkun magazine
Christianity
www.catholicworker.org
The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every
human person.
Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence,
voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled,
hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice,
war, racism, and violence of all forms.
www.godweb.org
Formerly The First Church of Cyberspace, this site has gone through several
phases. Starting in 1994 I set it up as the first congregation to be
organized entirely on the Internet. More recently, I've reconfigured
it as a blog with the realization that God cannot be contained within
any church, whether it is located on the corner of Main and Elm, or here
in cyberspace. God is present in church, of course, but also right here
on the Internet.
www.jonahhouse.org
Community
- Nonviolence - Resistance
www.nacce.org
North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology
www.organicjesus.org
Imagining the Kingdom of God in an age of Less
www.peacepilgrim.net/steps1.htm
Steps Toward Inner Peace by Peace Pilgrim
www.restoringeden.org
Christians
for Environmental Stewardship
Islam
http://62.169.138.193/features/greenjihad_page2822.aspx
Green Futures: the magazine for sustainable futures
Green jihad
You hear ‘Muslim activism’, you immediately think ‘environment’.
No? Fareena Alam and Abdul-Rehman Malik make some crucial connections.
.... For most Muslims, Islam is more than merely a cultural or political
identity. Religion matters – and thus any motivating argument
about environmental activism must have at its core a message drawing
on the
sacred. The spiritual dimension, in other words, is at the heart of ‘Islamic
environmentalism’. Nature is a sacred web of relationships, finely
balanced and resonating with divinely given life. As the Quran says, “The
sun and the moon follow courses precisely reckoned and the stars and
the trees bow themselves in adoration and the heavens, God has raised
them up, and set a balance. Transgress not in the balance.”
Unitarian
Buddhist
Sikh
Pagan
www.pagancluster.org
www.starhawk.org
Native American / First Nation
www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/BasicCtC.html
A Basic Call to Consciousness
The Hau de no sau nee Address to the Western World
Geneva, Switzerland, Autumn 1977
copyright © 1978 by Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation, Via Roseveltown,
NY.
The following comprises a very powerful message given by the Hau de no
sau nee (or traditional Six nations council at Onondaga) also called the
Iroquois Confederacy "to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in September, 1977. The Non-governmental
Organizations had called for papers which describe the conditions of oppression
suffered by Native people under three subject headings, with supportive
oral statements to be given to the commissions. The Hau de no sau nee,
the traditional Six nations council at Onondaga, sent forth three papers
which constitute an abbreviated analysis of Western history, and which
call for a consciousness of the Sacred Web of Life in the Universe."
This was published in Akwesasne Notes in 1978 and sent out on the net
some time ago.
"What is presented here is nothing less audacious than a cosmogony
of the Industrialized World presented by the most politically powerful
and independent non-Western political body surviving in North America.
It is, in a way, the modern world through Pleistocene eyes. . . .
Introduction, and Spiritualism: The Highest Form of Political Consciousness
The Obvious Fact of Our Continuing Existence; Legal History of the Hau
De No Sau Nee
Policies of Oppression in The Name of "Democracy"; Economic
History of the Hau De No Sau Nee
This comprises pages 65-111 of the book, basic call to consciousness,
edited by Akwesasne Notes, published by Book Publishing Company, Summertown,
Tennessee, 38483. First printing 1978, Revised Edition, fourth printing,
1991.
www.rainboweagle.com
Rainbow Eagle - "Native
American Spirituality: A Walk in the Woods" provides
additional American Indian teachings, more Peace Shield teachings, prophecies
of both North and South America, how to get ready for Cosmic Relationships
and Native American principles of Healing.
The Elder Brothers
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