During 2009 Nicholas Roberts and Kirstie Stramler visited permaculture, transition and cooperative sites throughout Australia, California, New York City, Spain, France, England, Scotland and Denmark. An earlier draft of this presentation was given to the Swansea Heads Sustainable Neighbourhood on Saturday, 6th February, 2009. Thanks to Kate Beswick and Tom Toogood
Watch the video documentary Denmark – Winds of Change on YouTube
In two weeks, thousands of political leaders and environmental scientists will meet in Copenhagen for the climate change summit. We ask whether Denmark is the shining green example it seems to be.
The Danes boast that they are one of the greenest nations on earth. They’re the world leader in wind technology, with a third of the wind turbine industry worth tens of billions of dollars. I think theyre beautiful, says Katrine, of the 5 and a half thousand offshore wind turbines she helped to engineer.
We closed those nuclear reactors down, says Katrine, gesturing across the water to Sweden. The Danes proudly proclaim a tough anti-nuclear stance. Yet 8% of Denmarks energy is imported nuclear power. Thats not the only hypocrisy in Danish power politics.
The other issue is the reliance on greenhouse gas emitting coal. We dont have much to brag about, says Tarjei of Greenpeace, two years ago we used more coal per capita than the Chinese. According to Tarjei, Denmarks national carbon targets will only be met by buying offshore credits. Denmarks minister for Climate and Energy is quick to disagree: For many years weve had a CO2 tax – even before Kyoto, she says.
It’s paid for with the highest taxes in the world. And with 37% of Danes cycling to work the intent is there even if Denmark is not quite perfect. Whether the rest of the world will adopt Denmark’s policies remains to be seen, but the green arm-wrestling which will take place here in a few weeks, will surely affect the future of us all.
Produced by ABC Australia, distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Tony Anderson of Klimaforum09 and the International Permaculture Council is interviewed by Nicholas Roberts of Permaculture TV about the 10 000 Trees per lifetime / 1 Tonne C02 per year plan for Planetary Permaculture
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- FULL Video of Interview, Blip.TV
At Climate Camp UK, in London, we kept getting asked “where we going to Copenhagen (for COP15 and to get involved in the network of Climate Justice Action ?”. The answer eventually was “we would like to, if we could afford it and had something serious to do!”. We developed a couple of ideas, one was a Climate Social Forum, in the World Social Forum principles and process.
After a little enquiry was informed there is government funded civil-society forum: Klimaforum09, which sounds rather like the European Social Forum, Malmo 2008 in its left-establishment (vertical-left) support. On the surface its structured like a World Social Forum, but under-the-hood, its a government funded conference for NGO’s, an extension of Nordic soft-power public-diplomacy.
However the Kilmaforum2009’s 9 themes and the attending organisations are right-on and would love to work-out how to go and work on Gaia Permaculture and the Permaculture Worker Cooperative Movementprojects. The Klimaforum2009 creator is a Danish permaculturalist: Tony Anderson. So, its an amazing opportunity, will try to reconnect with Malmo solidarity accommodation types and contact the Nordic permaculture contingent, and the Klimaforum online forum.
One very promising discovery, which could be a lead-in to Gaia Permaculture is the plan developed by Tony Anderson and the Scandanavian Permaculture network for the Øresund Bioregion and the global plan for10 000 trees.
Source: GaiaPermaculture.com
Invite to Klimaforum09
Tony Andersen, organiser of Klimaforum, member of the International Permaculture Council and co-author of the 10000 Trees planetary permaculture plan invites you to Klimaforum09 – Copenhagen 7-18 December 2009
Tony Andersen is
- an organiser of Klimaforum09, with 5000 activists & grassroots attending, 1 million Euro funding
- Copenhagen based Danish architect specialising in cooperative design
- permaculture designer of 25 years, having done work on Øresund Bioregion
- co-author of 10 000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change
- member of International Permaculture Council
Introduction to Klimaforum09
“we dont just work for climate change, we work for systems change”
- welcome to Permaculture TV
- Copenhagen architect practicing democratic, cooperative and participatory design, i.e. empowering users of his house, building and social designs, lead him to permaculture design in the 1980s
- many realised in Brazil at IPC8 (International Permaculture Convergance 8 ) [DVDs] from experience doing global permaculture, realised a global disaster was happening and would get worse
- drew from the global permaculture experience and started to develop a practical response Strategy of 10000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change
- call for grassroots, environmentalists and activists
- COP15 to straighten-out the climate change problems
- Klimaforum09 publicly, officially funded, so invitees could be funded & proper facilities provided, result of 2 years negotiation with Danish government
- Klimaforum09 supported by 20 Danish grassroots environmental groups, 60 international organisations, 5000 attendees, 200+ workshops for 2 weeks
- running parrallel with UN conference
- 80 grassroots projects, working on declaration, pre-conference, editor group, international editing group (12 people), edit & present pre-conference declaration
- 2 days debated in Klimaforum, presented in paper to UN conference
- UN process is “sh%^y”, the outputs “will never work”
- after 18th Dec, make a pre-conference declaration; basic points, directions and trends for future work i.e. 10000 Trees
- avoid the Rio problem, everyone assumed things would work-out, but instead they got worse, and so will maintain a Klimaforum network, to keep-up pressure
- develop strategies for changing attitudes, concludes “we dont just work for climate change, we work for systems change”
10 000 Trees “best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”
“best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”
Tony Andersen of the International Permaculture Council and organiser of Klimaforum09 talks about the global permaculture strategy of 10000 Trees
LESS THAN
1 TON CO2 PER PERSON PER YEAR
MORE THAN
10,000 TREES PER PERSON PER LIFETIME
- One of the grassroots movements, most experienced managing trees, via perennial polyculture, family farms, local people
- international permaculture network strategy
- related to IPCC calculations, to make a huge impact
- also cut down C02 to less than 1 tonne per person per year
- Danish have proved you can change lifestyles without complete disaster impact on lifestyle
- if we can plant 5000-6000 in the next 25 years, we will be close to balance
- oceans, boreal forests are no longer functioning as carbon sinks
- “best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”
10,000 Trees: A Practical Planetary Permaculture Strategy for Climate Change
The characteristics of Permaculture are its ability create projects that provide plenty of food
for the people involved,at the same time that it regenerates the basic natural resources:
soil, water, wind, energy all through – planting systems.
THE 1 TON CO2 10.000 TREES PROJECT……………………………………………………………………………4
Permaculture…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
Climate Change…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5
Carbon sink…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
More than 10,000 TREES pr. person pr. lifetime………………………………………………………………………6
Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year………………………………………………………………………………..7
The U.N. Climate Conference 2009 / COP 15………………………………………………………………………….8
Parallel activist and grassroots Conference………………………………………………………………………………9
The Permaculture network…………………………………………………………………………………………………..10
Source: 10 000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change
Soil Carbon
Tony Andersen of the International Permaculture Council and organiser of Klimaforum09 talks about the global permaculture strategy of 10 000 Trees more on http://www.Klimaforum09.org
Funded by a global carbon tax of 100 Euro per tonne of C02, most of the carbon will be sequestered in the soil around the perennial polyculture, agroecology of the 10 000 Trees planetary permaculture program.
Tony Andersen, Klimaforum09 organiser and member of International Permaculture Council explains the relationship between 10 000 Trees and Soil Carbon.
- 10 000 Trees per person
- 1 tonne of C02 per person per year
- 100 Euro per tonne global Carbon tax
Global Carbon Stocks (Gt C)
Area
( 109 ha)
Vegetation Soil Total Biome
Tropical forest 1,76 212 216 428 Temperate forest 1,04 59 100 159 Boreal forest 1,37 88 471 559 Tropical grassland 2,25 66 264 330 Temperate grassland 1,25 9 295 304 Deserts/semideserts 4,55 8 191 199 Tundra 0,95 6 121 127 Wetlands 0,35 15 225 240 Croplands 1,60 3 128 131
Total 15,12 466 2011 2477
Data & Models of 10 000 Trees
Tony explains the sources of data for the 10 000 Trees program. Many mainstream sources of scientific information, IPCC, Stern etc. Also latest information from academics in Greenland and other Nordic Regions where climate change is a reality NOW.
- 10000 Trees idea comes from IPC4 in Nepal, after IPC8 Brazil decided to develop
- collecting data IPCC, James Hansen, ocean-data from Danish Greenland gulf stream from ’96, ship circumnavigating globe measuring ocean currents
- Greenland, Nuuk, university, collected Arctic data, dying boreal forest, melting permafrost
- followed-up Independent & Guardian newspaper daily monitoring
- Stern Report
More on www.InPermCou.org
International Permaculture Networks
Planetary permaculture networks for 10 000 Trees
- Parallel activist and grassroots Conference: conversation between activists and grassroots “need to work together to implement 10000 Trees”
- existing 200-300 Permaculture Institutes teaching 2-3 Permaculture Designer Courses per year
- in 50 years there will need to be 100 000 such institutes
- need to start now, the situation is getting worse all the time
Transition Networks & Bioregions
Transition Towns Totnes (Transition Network) and Bioregions
- Transition Towns Totnes visit
- Tony lives in slum in Copenhagen and have a rural food system
- they won a Prize in 1996, to develop a bioregional plan for Copenhagen and southern Sweden
- 5 metre sea-level rise is in-built, breakdown of glaciers, poles
- huge resettlement, 1.5 million people
- new traffic systems with no GHG
- basic local food system
- same aspects in this plan as in Transition Towns
- Transition Towns and Bioregional groups are coming to Klimaforum09
- have to make concrete plans within the
- 36 000 peopple Vesterbul area, translated to English, shows you can get below 1 tonne, from 11/12 tonne )6-7 in urban areas) to less to 1
- Scandanavian Permaculture network for the Øresund Bioregion and the global plan for 10 000 trees.
- more information at International Permaculture Council website www.InPermCou.org
Planet Permaculture vs. Gaia Permaculture
Tony explains how the ethics, principles, strategies, techniques and patterns of permaculture can be applied on a local level and scale-up to a planet level permaculture.
He also politely avoids my neologism Gaia Permaculture. lol
- Gaia Permaculture, or Gaia specifically is not used, its too vague
- permaculture interconnects, relates the small project to the global scheme
Tony Andersen - founder of Climateforum09.org
This is the first part of a long interview we made with Tony Andersen, founder and organiser of Klimaforum09 . Nicholas Roberts of Permaculture TV asks Tony the simple question “What is Klimaforum09 (Climateforum09)?
Organiser: “We just had to do something ourselves”
The inspiration for Klimaforum09 originated in Brazil. It has taken two years to develop the idea to its current stage: The establishment of an alternative climate summit.
It is because of the collaborative efforts of many individuals that, parallel to the climate summit in December, Copenhagen will be providing a platform for its residents and the many non-accredited foreign grassroots activists and NGOs visiting the city.
However, Tony Andersen, the former architect and long-time member of the international permaculture network, has played a vital role in the process. He helped come up with the idea and send out the first invitations. He was also responsible for the initial, probing contact with the Danish authorities, the hosts of the fifteenth climate summit.
- The idea came from an international permaculture conference held in Brazil in 2007. We heard reports from Alaska, Australia, Africa, and Greenland that the ecological collapse had already begun. At the same time, we learned that Copenhagen would be hosting COP15, the climate summit at which a replacement would be negotiated for the Kyoto Agreement, which expires in 2012.
- As the Danish representative, I offered to find out whether it would be possible to stage an alternative climate summit. To be blunt, folks doubted that the politicians would make the necessary decisions. The feeling was that we just had to do something ourselves
Source: Organiser: “We just had to do something ourselves”, Climateforum09.org
KlimaForum09
Klimaforum09 is your climate summit, the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference in the Bella Center.
While the UN conference will be a platform for political decision making, Klimaforum09 gathers citizens from all corners of the world to create a socially just and sustainable future.
The idea behind Klimaforum09 is to create an open space, where people, movements and organizations can develop constructive solutions to the climate crisis.
Klimaforum09 is based on the belief that meeting the climate challenge requires more than just new technologies fixes and ‘business as usual’ practices. New ways of thinking, new cultural values, and new ways of organizing society are called for.
Thousands of participants from all continents are expected to take part in Klimaforum09. Special efforts are being made to invite people from regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania who will suffer most from climate change.
The klimaforum09 programme offers a wide variety of workshops, debates, exhibitions, and cultural events focusing on climate change from a global perspective.
Klimaforum09 opens 7 December and ends 18 December. The summit takes place in large, modern facilities at DGI-byen close to the Central Station.
Klimaforum09 is organized by a broad coalition of Danish and international environmental movements and civil society organizations.
Klimaforum09 is free and open to all
Source: Klimaforum09
At Climate Camp UK, in London, we kept getting asked “where we going to Copenhagen (for COP15 and to get involved in the network of Climate Justice Action ?”. The answer eventually was “we would like to, if we could afford it and had something serious to do!”. We developed a couple of ideas, one was a Climate Social Forum, in the World Social Forum principles and process.
After a little enquiry was informed there is government funded civil-society forum: Klimaforum09, which sounds rather like the European Social Forum, Malmo 2008 in its left-establishment (vertical-left) support. On the surface its structured like a World Social Forum, but under-the-hood, its a government funded conference for NGO’s, an extension of Nordic soft-power public-diplomacy.
However the Kilmaforum2009’s 9 themes and the attending organisations are right-on and would love to work-out how to go and work on Gaia Permaculture and the Permaculture Worker Cooperative Movement projects. The Klimaforum2009 creator is a Danish permaculturalist: Tony Anderson. So, its an amazing opportunity, will try to reconnect with Malmo solidarity accommodation types and contact the Nordic permaculture contingent, and the Klimaforum online forum.
Glocalisation of climate
My major unresolved question with solutions, revolves on this reflexive obsession with localisation. It’s a kind of allergic reaction to the Washington Consensus modality of globalisation. Pure localisation just wont work. Globalisation is real; climate, weather, migration of organisms including people, trade etc. We live on a planet with a global climate.
Are we going to localise climate? It's a nonsense.The mindless business mantra of “Think Globally, Act Locally” is largely to blame. Corporations and the rich don’t limit themselves to this, they Think Globally and Act Globally. They Think Locally and Act Locally. Everyone knows the edge between the global and local is the most corrupt level of government, its the place where organised crime operates, dodgy planning occurs, corporations do things, see The Power Elite. Indeed there is a term; Glocalisation
Organisation needs to come from below but continue to the global level. We saw very large worker cooperative industrial democracy at Mondragon: from team to very large groups of 100 000s. It is possible to organise modern, industrial society with democratic decision-making and ownership. We need more highly organised social and economic arrangements. The anarcho-syndicalists also did it in Spain before betrayal by the liberal democracies, Socialists and Communists.
Democracy is a fractal. It can work on all scales and all systems.One very promising discovery, which could be a lead-in to Gaia Permaculture is the plan developed by Tony Anderson and the Scandanavian Permaculture network for the Øresund Bioregion and the global plan for 10 000 trees.
Animals migrate yearly, organisms move. So do people. We need technology, transport, communications etc. While COP15 progresses inside, Kilmaforum09 runs outside. COP15 is top-down, and Kilmaforum09 is bottom-up. But where do they meet ? The place where globalisation meets localisation is where corporations, the rich and the powerful control the present and the future. One of the reasons localisation is so popular is that its is so harmless and diffuses energies away from real political economic change into gardening. As Mollison said, ad nauseum, permaculture is more than a gardening system. Again, keep coming back to Gaia Permaculture wiki project. Me thinks the Rose Room will be good for developing the wiki.
Source: GaiaPermaculture.com
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