Activist to Grassroots - Tony Andersen Klimaforum co-founder

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Aug 252010

In Activists to Grassroots, Tony discusses how activists need to start working with grassroots and create a new hybrid radical activist-grassroots persona.

Tony Andersen, co-founder of the Danish civil-society climate justice conference, Klimaforum, gave two talks at Klimaforum09: Activist to Grassroots, and 10 000 Trees: A Practical Strategy for Climate Change.

http://www.vimeo.com/14431560

Tony Andersen, Klimaforum co-founder, gives a presentation and workshop at Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, December 2009 during the COP15 climate circus.

  • THE 1 TON CO2 10.000 TREES PROJECT – overview of the problem and the solution
  • Permaculture – the idea, practice and global and local success
  • Climate Change – the massive catastrophic problem
  • Carbon sink – a new category for locking, permanently ecology as carbon sinks in forest and soil
  • More than 10,000 TREES per. person per. lifetime – a requirement for local-global perennial polycultural replanting
  • Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year – global energy descent and emissions reductions targets
  • The U.N. Climate Conference 2009 / COP 15- the failure of the official process, danger of carbon finance
  • Parallel activist and grassroots Conference – Klimaforum as user-centered permaculture design
  • The Permaculture network – massively expanding a global, democratic, locally-controlled permaculture network

http://permaculture.tv/save-the-planet-with-permaculture-tony-andersen-of-klimaforum09/
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/11/20/klimaforum09-mandate-spectrum-of-coverage/
http://permaculture.tv/10-000-trees-climate-justice/
http://permaculture.tv/?s=tony+andersen
http://permaculture.tv/?s=klimaforum
http://permaculture.tv/permaculture-international-pioneers-klimaforum09/

Evergreen Cooperatives - Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development

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Aug 242010

Hello, Cleveland! Evergreen’s Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development

The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland OH was launched in 2008. Its mission is to stabilize and revitalize six low-income neighborhoods (43,000 residents; median household income of $18,5000) of the Greater University Circle areas of Cleveland, Ohio.

Filmed by Patrick O’Conner of Oaklandsol.org for permaculture.coop

http://www.vimeo.com/14387332

The cooperative development strategy leverages a portion of the multi-billion dollar annual business expenditures (related to procurement and supply-chain) of anchor institutions (such as hospitals and universities) into the surrounding neighborhoods to create new businesses and jobs. The first two Evergreen cooperatives (Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Ohio Cooperative Solar) launched in October 2009; two more businesses are in the pipeline for 2010. The near-term (3 year) goal is to develop an integrated network of 10 cooperatives with approximately 500 worker-owners.

This presentation will focus on three topics: (1) the overall Evergreen strategy and how it is being financed and implemented; (2) building a culture of ownership within the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry; and (3) Evergreen’s approach to governance, patronage, and long-term institutional viability.

Ted Howard is the founding Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative, a research and policy center at the University of Maryland focused on community stabilization and wealth building. He is an architect of the Evergreen Initiative and has been appointed the Cleveland Foundation’s Steven Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice. Medrick Addison is the Operational Supervisor of the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of the first group of worker-owners to join the coop and serves on the senior management team.

Source: usworker.coop

Liberation Permaculture Design Course - California

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Aug 232010

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.

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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

The Love Police

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Aug 192010

‘In Parliament,’ he declared ‘we find the politics of the present; on the streets the politics of the future.’ Tony Benn

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California Greywater Update from Greywater Action Co-Founder Laura Allen

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Aug 182010

Laura Allen, Co-founder of Greywater Action, at a packed Greywater Info Session for the Community of Petaluma, mid-July 2010.Photo Credit:  Ron and Laura Paul of Greywater Marin.

Progress in California Regulation and in Inspection Procedures

Laura Allen, on progress made in California Greywater regulation, on recent Greywater Action strategies and successes, and expectations for the future of greywater usage in California:

http://www.vimeo.com/14249649

Rigorous Greywater Education

Laura Allen describes the remarkable curriculum and installation projects of their 5-day Greywater Installer’s Course, and outlines their 1- and 2-day Greywater Courses, as well:

http://www.vimeo.com/14249207

Register for the upcoming 5-day Greywater Installer’s course, organized by Daily Acts, and to be held in Sebastapol Mon 13 Sept. – Fri 17 Sept.

Students who take the 5-day Greywater Installer’s Course, and who pass the certification exam, and complete the 5th day installation project which Laura describes in the video above, are listed as Level 1 Installers on Greywater Action’s Installer Directory.  I took the 5-day course last month,  in July 2010, and found it to be outstanding preparation to get out in the field, and have already been on my first consultation.  Not bad for an atmospheric scientist who has logged untold hours programming computers, but has rarely picked up a drill!  It’s entirely attributable to Greywater Action’s rigorous teaching methods.

Greywater Resources

Laura Allen describes resources that Greywater Action has developed for Greywater Installers and how to access them:

http://www.vimeo.com/14248937

Many Greywater Action members take an active role in the Greywater Alliance, a wonderful resource to keep both the greywater curious and seasoned greywater installers updated on this rapidly  progressing field.

Greywater system specification table for 4 common greywater systems.  Source:  http://cleanwatercomponents.com/education/greywater

Addressing the unique greywater installer’s needs to (1) merge components from disparate sources, and to (2) purchase single items that may typically only be available in bulk, Laura and her colleagues have created Clean Water Components, a for-profit website that sells pre-packaged, ready-to-use, greywater components.  They also offer complete greywater system maps in PDF format, to be sure you install your greywater systems correctly, as well as other items ranging from ‘how-to’ books to modern indoor composting toilets.

Next up in Greywater:   Branched-Drain Installation Footage/Stills and the most recent Bay Area Greywater Roundtable Footage.

SeedUp! on PeraltaTV

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Aug 182010

The Peralta College systems Merritt College creates a show called SeedUp! which features the Landscape Horticulture and permaculture classes

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Scott Kellogg: The Rise and Fall of the Rhizome Collective

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Aug 102010

Interview with Scott Kellogg, co-author of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide, co-founder of the Rhizome Collective of Austin, Texas

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background and introduction; links between global justice and sustainabilit

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about the Rhizome Collective

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the goals of urban sustainability

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greatest achivements

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why a warehouse?

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who joined the collective ?

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de-centralised, networks of sustainability micro-industries

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the eviction of the Rhizome Collective by the City of Austin

Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles

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Jul 302010

‘The area of lifestyle choice has often been regarded as too subjective, too ideological, too value laden, or simply too intractable to be amenable to policy intervention,’ argues Tim Jackson, author of ‘prosperity without growth’

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The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) have produced a report and this video to look more closely at ideas about sustainable living from around the world and how more of us could achieve them.

Source: UNEP

Permaculture at Peralta College, Alameda County

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Jul 282010

I have enrolled to study Environmental Management and Technology at Merritt College in Oakland in San Francisco Bay Area. Am looking forward greatly to learning from the landscape horticulture (permaculture) and environmental management schools within Merritt itself. I was at the campus earlier in the year and its a great site and facility.

Arrive August the 2nd and start on August 23rd.

Big ups to Chris at the Peralta international education office for his help in navigating the application process.

www.ecomerritt.org and /www.merrittlandhort.com

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