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.
Courtesy of www.Seedsavers.net more videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/seedsavers
Permaculture is a concept pioneered by Australian Bill Mollison and literally means “permanent agriculture”. His model of biological diversity and complementary agricultural practices promotes a sustainable environment via the interplay of natural ecosystems. Permaculture has gained a huge international following with the publication of his book Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future. Permaculture has become the mainstay philosophy of the organic movement. Mollison’s vision, which borrows from Masanobu Fukuoka’s “One Straw Revolution”, intelligently combines the factors of site location, recycling of by-products from farming and forest activities, species diversity and biological succession.
When gourmet and medicinal mushrooms are involved as key organisms in the recycling agricultural and forest by-products, the bio dynamics of permaculture soar to extraordinary levels of productivity. Not only are mushrooms a protein-rich food source for humans, but the by-products of mushrooms cultivation unlock nutrients for other members of the ecological community. The rapid return of nutrients back into the ecosystem boosts the life cycles of plants, animals, insects (bees), and soil microflora.
Source: Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets
Mother Earth News Interview
PLOWBOY: And did all your contact with the wilds have any effect on your perceptions of our modern agricultural system?
MOLLISON: Oh yes! Everything I did, either in research or in fieldwork, indicated that there was something fundamentally wrong with modern farming methods. For instance, every problem I found in commercial agribusiness was actually caused by the industry itself. Usually — when a farmer called in the CSIRO for a consultation — the results of our investigation pointed the finger straight at the grower him- or herself!
As I saw the same situation occur time and time again, I gradually came to the conclusion that most contemporary crop-raisers must be doing things the wrong way. So my last few years with the CSIRO were spent in the forest, observing the plant and animal species on location . . . and there I learned that everything in nature is self -controlled and self -balancing.
You know, a lot of modern thought suggests that the planet — as a living organismic — seeks to protect itself by rejecting any species that causes it harm. For instance, if cattle damage part of the earth, the harmed region will respond by growing thorn bushes and poisonous plants, thus rejecting the animals. Well, I think we — the members of the human race — are perilously close to being rejected by the earth in that same way . . . and quite rightly so, since we’ve created some terrible damage.
Source: Mother Earth News
Welcome to AbolishHumanRentals.org home of the modern abolitionist movement. This site examines the standard employment relationship, the human rental, and shows that it is invalid on inalienable rights grounds. The human rental today manifests itself as the voluntary exchange of personal labor for a salary or wage. A legitimate arrangement requires workplace democracy and worker ownership whenever human labor is involved.
This site is an educational resource that seeks to promote public awareness and understanding of the problems associated with human rentals. Inquiry into the legitimacy of human rentals has long been buried by a barrage of propaganda with the complicity of the economic establishment. Such a fundamental question is notably absent from our education system and ignored by the mass media. These ideas must be revived in public discourse. The theory of inalienable rights is only useful to the extent it is widely known and consistently applied in practice.
Mike Leung of Abolish Human Rentals and the pre-startup (not yet chartered) Worker Cooperative Credit Union talks to Arizmendi Association study group on worker cooperative capital structure
Inalienable rights are based on the already broadly held principle of the non-transferability of responsibility for one’s actions. That principle, taken to its logical conclusion, means the rental of humans have no more legitimacy than their sale.
The issue is not one of coercion, willfully choosing to be rented, or the treatment and compensation of workers. Humans cannot choose to be rented for the same reason people cannot choose to sell themselves into slavery or sell their vote, regardless of their consent or how much they are paid.
The abolition of human rentals will be no small task given their widespread prevalence and firm entrenchment in the economic system. The modern abolitionist movement must begin by destroying the false perception of legitimacy that human rentals currently maintain.
Inalienable rights arguments pose a lethal threat to the practice of renting humans. At stake is nothing less than the employment system, the labor market, and the stock market through which ownership of human rental contracts are exchanged. As with slavery, inalienable rights issues cannot be addressed directly by proponents of human rentals without inviting destruction of the system. There are only two possible responses: Silence in the hope that inalienable rights are never widely understood, or vilification and harassment of the advocates in the event they gain traction. The strategy has thus far been successful in diverting attention from a profound idea and its revolutionary implications.
The alternative to human rentals is universal self employment in democratically managed worker owned businesses, or worker cooperatives. Workplace democracy eliminates the alienation of decision making power, and worker ownership means workers appropriate any resulting profits or losses, thus bearing financial responsibility for their actions.
Activist to Grassroots – Tony Andersen Klimaforum co-founder
In Activists to Grassroots, Tony discusses how activists need to start working with grassroots and create a new hybrid radical activist-grassroots persona.
http://www.vimeo.com/14431560Tony 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.
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/
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Bill Mollison on Mondragon Coop
10 000 Trees
activist to grassroots
strategy of 10 000 Trees
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Roberto Pérez Rivero on the history of Cuban permaculture / permacultura
Hosted by Transition SF, Permaculture Guild, SF Urban Ag Alliance
Organized by Eco Cuba Exchange, Global Exchange
http://www.ecocubaexchange.org
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Permaculture College Australia PCA has been invited to conduct a special part-time Permaculture Design Course in Bellingen and Nambucca Heads in Autumn 2011. The course will be conducted as four 3-day blocks (Fri, Sat, Sun) over 4 months from March to June.
Darren Doherty, RegenAg.com on Robyn Francis
Robyn Francis’s permaculture students speak
Source: Oscar and Lucinda, book by Peter Carey, set in Bellingen
Bellingen and surrounding bioregions have long been a focal point for alternative lifestyle and community. In recent years there has been a resurgence of great sustainability initiatives in the region including Permablitz, a new community garden and Transition Town movement and the community is looking forward to new contingency of Permaculture-trained community activists to build the momentum.
Course Dates and Venues
March 11-13, Bellingen: CWA Hall Church St
April 8-10. Bellingen: CWA Hall Church St
May 6-8, Nambucca Heads: Youthie Centre
June 3-5, Nambucca Heads: Youthie CentreNB This is a 72+ hour, 12-day course. The full course must be attended to qualify for a PDC Certificate of Completion
The local course convenor, Joe Walker, completed a similar PDC conducted by Robyn Francis in Bellingen in 1992 and with fellow permaculturists recognised the need for another course in the area.
For information and details about local logistics of the course please contact Joe Walker 0438 516351
Twenty year old forest garden at Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. Video tour includes successful species and polyculture combinations, and essential elements of Jerome Osentowski’s design.
Source: Eric Toensmeier
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