Join Darren Doherty as he goes over Carbon Farming and Keyline Design. Darren shares how to create a landscape that receives water,sequesters carbon and supports livestock and plants. Find out more by visiting www.EarthActionMentor.org
Jan 192012
Jan 182012
Become a Seedsaver. Seeds change at each season when you save them. Because Traditional varieties have generally a wide genetic base they tend to change to some extend they adapt more readily to local conditions then corporately bred seed that have been bred to be uniform. Shot at the Pompidou Centre art gallery.
Michel and Jude Fanton
We are now in Europe attending a range of functions, addressing civil societies and screening “0ur Seeds.
See www.seedsavers.net
Bryon Waibel runs what he believes is the world’s only urban beekeeping store. It’s called Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper and Waibel, who uses the handle 006, does seem to believe that he/ the store/ urban beekeepers are serving a cause.
“It would not surprise me at all if the future of the honeybee itself is in urban beekeeping,” he says, “It would not surprise me at all.”
Source: Fair Companies
Featuring Helen Atthowe, BioDesign Farm, Stevensville, MT. Weed ‘Em and Reap Part 2 was produced by Oregon State University, for more information go to http://www.weedemandreap.org
Biggest Wednesday : Condition Black
Never in the history of surfing has the ocean roared as hard and as full-on as Wednesday the 28th January 1998. All the elements came together to create some of the biggest rideable surf in living history… Footage of 30 to 50ft waves being ridden.
Nov 192011
Meet the Guerrilla Gardeners.
http://www.vimeo.com/31533066Students from Sterling College in Vermont came down to Occupy Wall Street and showed us how to plant and sow seeds anywhere where there is soil. In this short film, they demonstrate how easy it is to grow winter greens and beets right in the parks flower beds, and then speak earnestly and passionately about the importance of farming, and understanding where our food comes from.
Nov 072011
Bihar leaves one exhausted. Before poverty kills, millions brave hopelessness. And yes, that depends on where you are placed in the complex web of caste and exclusion that can be so numbing that one can even forget that one exists in any other form than feeding a parasitical system that runs deep.
It is a place where logic collapses and theories get contradicted in each Dalit village that you spend time in. People are fighting and struggling from one day to another, but if you are not in that fight you can get disoriented very fast with a linear approach.
The Dalit and Mushar communities have been fighting for homestead and agricultural land. Some have gone and even occupied land that should have been allocated to them. But the struggle has just begun. With scores of children displaying varying degrees of malnutrition and several generations living in small cramped huts, these daring mobilisations seem larger than life. So from being farm workers to some becoming share croppers, or as they refer to here as collective farming, and from landless workers to marginal landholders, the change is promising for some. But this is far from euphoria, when you talk to the communities there is visible frustration from not being able to translate the promise of land, as the basic tools and conditions needed for growing their own crop are missing. When you ask what if this does not work, the answer is what you would expect in this state of frustration. Things can’t go back where it were at least in terms of struggle for land and dignity.
by Parvinder Singh
Nov 022011
Poor people and communities of color are the most impacted by the dramatic ecological crises currently facing our planet.
In April of this year, Movement Generation and the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center convened nearly 30 activists and organizers representing various grassroots and social justice organizations from throughout California to participate in a two-week Liberation Permaculture Design Course.
Filmed by Patrick O’Conner of Oaklandsol.org for permaculture.coop
Liberation Permaculture, a framework and design science that invokes the traditional knowledge of land-based peoples, provides organizers with a methodology to resist systems of oppression through building resiliency in our communities. It is a means to prepare oppressed communities for the oncoming environmental disasters while building the world we want and need now.
Come hear these course participants report back about how they are implementing Liberation Permaculture into their organizing work and how it can provide us with a critical framework for the necessary and just transition from a carbon, consumption, and profit-based economy to the participatory and life-affirming, need-based society we envision for the future.
Presentations will be provided by individuals representing Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, Urban Tilth, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Ella Baker Center, Catalyst Project, People Organized to Win Employment Rights, Communities for a Better Environment and others.
Source: Oakland Local
Oct 072011
Food First Executive Director Eric Holt-Giménez talks about “Food Movements Unite!” an upcoming publication from Food First! Books.
http://www.vimeo.com/19417480
This video focuses on phases II and III of the project: the campus-wide garden design and implementation. UMass Amherst transformed a 1/4 grass lawn on campus into a thriving, abundant, permaculture garden during the 2010-2011 academic year. Learn how this student-led project can be easily replicated and spread to other campuses, institutions… any piece of land for that matter. UMass Amherst is one of the first university’s undertaking a project like this, directly on campus, and supplying the food to its dining commons.
Please considering donating to UMass Permaculture! http://umass.edu/give/?a=407 and Press UMass Amherst
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