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APC10 or the Australian Permaculture Convergance 10 is in Cairns September 24-27 2010.

Keynotes Hollywood star and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, Major General Michael Jeffery, former Governor General of Australia, father of permaculture Bill Mollison, Costa of SBS TV’s Costa’s Gardening Odyssey, Mexican sustainability entrepreneur Eugenio Gras, Petra Schneider of IDEP Foundation and many others.

Daryl Hannah and Paul Watson, behind the Steve Irwin
Daryl Hannah and Paul Watson, behind the Sea Shepard ship Steve Irwin


Daryl Hannah's Farm
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Daryl Hannah Interview – Designing the New World from Alexander Mendeluk on Vimeo.


Daryl Hannah in Bladerunner

APC10

About the Convergance

Our chance to get together to discuss Permaculture in depth, improve our skills, share our expertise and explore new interests with like minded peers. We will also discuss issues concerning Permaculture training and the networking required for the movement to maximize its influence and involve Permaculture in initiating powerful change in Australia. By the end of the conference we will have the backbone of a document – a resource for us all to help us manage change.

Our discussions will be more detailed and in depth and will assume you are familiar with the basic principles of Permaculture. This 2 day segment of our 4 day event is aimed at members of the Permaculture community, usually people with a completed Permaculture Design Course(PDC) or recognised equivalent.

Source: APC10

About Daryl

As a video blogging (vlogging) pioneer, Daryl created the sustainable living video blog, and website dhlovelife. www.dhlovelife.com deals with sustainable solutions and features weekly five-minute inspirational video blogs, daily news updates, alerts, community and access to goods and services. Dhlovelife.com has a large avid consistent group of viewers and unique visitors.

Daryl Hannah has been passionate and committed to practicing a low impact lifestyle for over 20 years. From her small footprint, passive and active solar home complete with grey water systems and organic garden, to being an early adaptor of biofuels, Daryl Hannah has been actively spreading the good news of how well it all works and how good it all feels.

Among some of her most memorable films, many have become classics such as Blade Runner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Splash, Roxanne, Steel Magnolias, Wall Street, Grumpy Old Men 1 and 2, as well as the Kill Bill series Vol 1 and 2.

Daryl has worked with Woody Allen, Neil Jordan, Fred Schepisi, Oliver Stone, Robert Altman and John Sayles to name a few. Her first strong impression on audiences came when she was cast as the acrobatic android, Pris in Ridley Scott’s science fiction classic Blade Runner.

Source: APC10, Speakers

Detailed notes on he permaculture concept in the video In Grave Danger of Falling Food by Bill Mollison, from Green Change, Australia

  • (00:00) we haven’t earned the right to go to the stars yet
  • “You wouldn’t welcome anybody who’d laid waste to their house and wanted to live in yours.”
  • some background/bio on Bill Mollison – was once a tree cutter!
  • at one stage, Bill walked away from society “disgusted with the human race”, but he returned after a few weeks, having decided to fight to improve things in a positive way
  • forest as a model of a working system
  • diversity makes the system highly adaptable and at the same time highly productive
  • “If we lose the universities we lose nothing. If we lose the forest we lose everything.”
  • all political systems (and most kings) through history have moved their countries towards desert
  • the ideas behind permaculture arose out of questions that had been asked by people in the 1890s, 1930s, 1960s about why society, with all its tools and resources, keeps falling into holes of its own making
  • permanent agriculture = permanent culture
  • we should build with living resources, not steel and glass

notes continue Green Change

Source: Green Change

“We hope you have enjoyed being a Registered Teacher and found value in being affiliated with the Permaculture Institute. I am writing to you to let you know, effective today, we are discontinuing this service.” Lisa Mollison, Permaculture Institute Director

Tagari Regsitered Teachers Cancellation

While researching a Permaculture Cooperative [blog] [video] in the summer of 2009 we visited Mondragon Cooperative [video] [photos] [blog] and enjoyed a day-tour of the cooperative, which included a factory tour and a lunch, history and business workshop. This video presentation includes an oral history from the days of the founder Don José María Arizmendiarrieta as the oldest farmers son and revolutionary journalist to the modern cooperative. Photos of the cooperative headquarters, the historical museum and the town of Arrasate.

Photo Credits: Kirstie Stramler and Nicholas Roberts

Mondragon boardroom

The oral history if given by Mikel Lezamiz who is the educational director of the Mondragon Cooperatives Corporation, the world’s largest consortium of worker-owned businesses located in the Basque Country of Northern Spain. Lezamiz is one of the most knowledgeable sources on the history and current operations of Mondragon’s 120 worker-owned businesses.

We went to Mondragon to research a Permaculture Cooperative: a global network of sustainability worker cooperatives. The Mondragon Permaculture.TV collection

To jumpstart US job market, turn workers into owners
Many Americans build wealth through their home. Why not through work?

In hard times like these, the co-op model makes sense. After all, public confidence in corporations, banks, and the larger financial system is at low ebb, while unemployment is at its highest level in 25 years. Homeownership, historically a reliable way to build equity, has been rocked by foreclosures. People are looking for other ways to do business and save money.

Many people think of co-ops as the hippie-dippy grocery store that sells organic goods. In fact, a 2009 study by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives found more than 29,000 cooperatives in the US, which make $500 billion in annual revenue, support 83,000 people, and pay $25 billion in wages and benefits. They include national firms such as credit unions, and local businesses such as the Alvarado Street Bakery in Petaluma, Calif., or the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland.

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Bringing Mondragon to America
by Chris Lindstrom on September 09, 2009

These core principles help provide the cooperative members with basic guidelines for working together in a cooperative environment, to commit themselves to personal development, teamwork, participatory management, joint projects, social entrepreneurialism, and finally, corporate excellence. The role of the Management Model is not just to make managers responsible for the success of their cooperative, but how to get workers to take on this responsibility and enthusiasm as well. It is not my impression that they have achieved this 100%, but I think that for an industrial community, they have perhaps set the highest standard for honoring worker rights than any other place in the world. However, this remains only to exist within the Basque region and has not spread in any major way to the multitude of companies that have come under MMC ownership in the past couple years.

The MCC claims that they are being very mindful of the environment by doing things such as reducing their carbon emissions in all of their cooperatives. While, in certain areas they were undoubtedly far ahead of countries such as the US, they were not quite as active in areas of sustainable agriculture. Agricultural production as a commercial sector simply was not as much of a priority as residential goods or the retail of non local food products. So it can be safely said that the MCC is by no means perfect. However, it provides one of the most sophisticated institutional examples of a truly egalitarian and socially just economic system.

Source: Economics of Peace

Mondragón and the United Steelworkers/ New opportunity for the co-op and labor movements?
B Y E R B I N C R O W E L L

Here in the U.S., we have sewn many of the seeds of such a cooperative economy. For example, food co-ops have been partners in the success of worker co-ops Equal Exchange and Alvarado Street Bakery. Food co-ops and others have created loan funds, such as the Cooperative Fund of New England and Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund, that support cross-sector co-op development. We have worker co-ops that have integrated union representation, such as Collective Copies, and examples of multi-stakeholder co-ops, such as Weaver Street Market and FEDCO Co-op Seeds, that bring workers and consumers together within a single enterprise. We have international management training programs such as the St. Mary’s University Master of Management: Co-operatives and Credit Unions, and cross-sector organizations such as the National Cooperative Business Association. And we have a growing awareness that “co-operation among co-ops” is not just a principle but a key competitive advantage.

In this context, the agreement signed by Mondragón and the United Steelworkers is much more than a piece of paper. For unions, it’s a new opportunity to explore the human and economic potential of cooperative ownership, rather than settling for adversarial relationships with capitalist enterprises. For worker co-ops, this may be an opening to deepen solidarity with organized labor through new and innovative structures. And for the cooperative movement as a whole, we have an opportunity to reassess our assumptions about the role of workers, the meaning of membership, and the potential for engaging employees in nonadversarial settings characterized by shared ownership.

Multi-stakeholder co-ops, highlighted by Mondragón’s astonishing success, would seem to offer a promising area for exploration among co-ops in the U.S. These structures contribute a uniquely cooperative approach to labor relations that would strengthen our competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging global economy.

Source: Cooperative Grocer

Mondragon Permaculture with Bill Mollison

In the Mp3 audio of Bill Mollison 1983 PDC (Permaculture Designers Certificate) in Stanley,Tasmania (Geoff Lawton attended) that are available as DVD for sale and on the internet, Bill Mollison talks at length about the Mondragon Cooperative (along with Commonworks etc) as an organisational framework – a natural order of People Care and Fair Share for Earth Care that permaculture projects ought use.

I actually found and listened to these Mp3’s just before we went to Mondragon (such is life!). We really did Build The Road as We Travel (the only book on Mondragon that we saw on tour). Also, re-reading the Permaculture Designers Manual 1988 he has a couple of references again to Mondragon in the Alternative Nation section towards the end of the book.

Source: Permaculture.coop – Notes on Mondragon & Permaculture, GaiaPermaculture.com

Mondragon or Arrasate, the place in the Basque Country
Mondragon Cooperative

An interview with Narsanna Koppula of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives studied permaculture on the first Permaculture Design Certificate taught in India with Bill Mollison and Robyn Francis in 1983

Narsanna Koppula at Klimaforum09

ARANYA AGRICULTURAL ALTERNATIVES

ARANYA is an environment and development organisation, registered under societies act. It is facilitating and providing services to the communities, organisations, government and other national and international agencies since 1999. The ARANYA has a very well experienced professionals with a maximum of 25 years of experience in environment and development sectors.

Narsanna teaching


ARANYA has experience in the following development aspects :

  • SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT
  • PERMACULTURE
  • ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
  • NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
  • WATERSHED PROGRAMME – DWMA
  • WDF WATERSHED – NABARD
  • AP COMMUNITY BASED TANKS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME – I & CAD
  • AP IRRIGATION LIVELIHOODS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT – I & CAD
  • TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – NABARD
  • ENVIRONMENTAL
  • NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME
  • WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
  • UNICEF VILLAGE INTEGRATED PLANNING PROGRAMME
  • WOMEN AND RIGHTS

aranya water

ARANYA- a self-regulating system

ARANYA is a registered organisation under the societies act. ARANYA is a Sanskrit word, which actually means Forest. Ancient Indian mythology considered forest as the homeland for all life forms. The forest is defined as a sustainable energy generating system, performing a vital role in maintaining ecological balance as one of the main ecosystems. ARANYA (The Forest) is also the source and guiding principle of agriculture. It is a self-regulating process, with abilities to sustain the present and the future. Therefore the organization was christened ARANYA AGRICULTURAL ALTERNATIVES (‘ARANYA’) to encapsulate the regeneration philosophy of the age old Indian tradition and culture.

Philosophy of ARANYA

“ARANYA” aims to provide alternative solutions to the present conventional, chemical agricultural practices. Since forest is the motherland for agriculture, ARANYA is committed to follow the philosophy of nature in the agriculture practices which teaches us to generate production without destructing planet earth, where all forms of life can coexist. To achieve sustainable development on the planet, mankind must observe the changes that are taking place in Nature. ARANYA strongly believes that there is only one law in the nature i.e., Nature’s Law, mankind should not extract anything beyond their needs from the nature and also whatever remains unused should be returned to nature, a law which can be stated LAW OF RETURNS to increase ability of sustainable production.

Source: Aranya Agricultural Alternatives

Bill Mollison, co-founder of permaculture on cold climate permaculture

From video series Global Gardener, Bill Mollison (co-popularizer of permaculture ideas with David Holmgren) narrates a four part series exploring successful permaculture strategies in four different climatic contexts around the world

Source: Tagari

Mondragon and Permaculture

In the Mp3 audio of Bill Mollison 1983 PDC (Permaculture Designers Certificate) in Stanley,Tasmania (Geoff Lawton attended) that are available as DVD for sale and on the internet, Bill Mollison talks at length about the Mondragon Cooperative (along with Commonworks etc) as an organisational framework – a natural order of People Care and Fair Share for Earth Care that permaculture projects ought use.

I actually found and listened to these Mp3’s just before we went to Mondragon (such is life!). We really did Build The Road as We Travel (the only book on Mondragon that we saw on tour).

Also, re-reading the Permaculture Designers Manual 1988 he has a couple of references again to Mondragon in the Alternative Nation section towards the end of the book.

Source: Permaculture.coop – Notes on Mondragon & Permaculture, GaiaPermaculture.com

DVD of 1983 Bill Mollison PDC Audio in Mp3 - 47 hours

DVD of 1983 Bill Mollison PDC Audio in Mp3 - 47 hours

by Bill Mollison

* Yes you can still participate in a Bill Mollison, Permaculture Design Course.
* Featuring 47 hours of the Master of Permaculture.
* Professional recording with accompanying diagrams.

In September of 1983 I had a rare opportunity to spend two weeks at a Permaculture Design Course by Bill Mollison. It occurred to me that not everyone had such an opportunity.
In an attempt to make that course available to everyone I took professional recording equipment with me. Much editing later, I present the enthusiast with an audio set which marks a point in history. A time before Permaculture has become a household word.
– Jeff Nugent, editor.

I have owned a set of these recordings for many years. It is a recording of the design course which I actually attended in 1983. They capture Bill in classic form – full of energy, enthusiasm, and passion. As a Permaculture teacher, designer and consultant, working on numerous projects around the world, I have found them to be an invaluable and endless source of reference information and inspiration.

Geoff Lawton


DVD of 47 hours of Mp3, Bill Mollison 1983 PDC

permacultureprinciples

Co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren, presents the design principles as thinking tools that when used together allow us to creatively redesign our environment and our behaviour in a world of less energy and resources.

The full DVD is available from www.holmgren.com.au or www.permacultureprinciples.com

David Holmgren (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is perhaps most well known as co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. Through the spread of permaculture around the world, his environmental principles have exerted a global influence.

Source: David Holmgren, Wikipedia

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fukuoka

Seed balls are a method of propagation widely promoted by Natural Farming innovator Masanobu Fukuoka.

Seed balls are simply seeds mixed with equal proportions of dried compost and clay, formed into small balls, and dried for later sowing.

To make them, simply select the seeds to be used – thick-skinned seeds will need to be scarified, and some seeds need heat or cold to bring them out of dormancy. Legumes will require inoculant if they are to fix nitrogen. Also, for species that can benefit frommycorrhizal relationships, adding the spores of mycorrhizal fungi such as the genus Glomusand/or Rhizopogon, species Gigaspora margarita, and/or Pisolithus tinctorus would be beneficial, though not necessary. [This list is not exhaustive, but these are readily available through Fungi Perfecti.]

Learn how to make seed balls


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