A fully featured human settlement, with independent sources of initiative, in which human activities are integrated into the natural environment in a way that is sustainable into the indefinite future.
“What I’m talking about is Carbon-negative habitat. And eco-villages as vehicles for experimentation: food, buildings, energy, livelihoods that are branded carbon-negative. Let’s go beyond thinking of reducing 20 per cent this or five per cent that. Let’s think about 110, 120, 180 per cent changes in some of the things we do.” Albert Bates
Ecovillages are engaged in the transformation of values in four ways that may make the transition to sustainability easier and more graceful: delinking growth from well-being, reconnecting people with the places where they live, affirming indigenous patterns and practices, and offering a holistic and experiential vessel for social experiments, educational methodologies, and transition paths.
Page told Teen Hollywood “It’s about living in a holistic way with the earth and reintegrating our lifestyles with the natural cycles … It was amazing. Anyone at all who has a passion for it can learn about it and use it in their lives in so many different ways … like peeing in a bucket and using it on your compost. Pee is an excellent source of nitrogen.”
Urine and acting like the training is expensive could be not the best way to promote Permaculture to a homemaker demographic — actually, it’s about the worst thing you can do — but at least now, thanks to Ellen “Small” Page, Permaculture was on ELLEN, the most main-stream show in America. Who can do a search analytics for “Permaculture” since this show?
Transcript and film below. Start at 1:15 – 2:52, then skip roller derby promo stuff if you want, then Permie stuff picks up again at 3:15. Watch it all if you want to see the full context.
Excerpted Transcript of Ellen Degeneres Show, interview with Ellen Page, Oct 7, 2009
ED= Ellen Degeneres, Page= Ellen Page
Degeneres talked to Page about her overwhelming fame from the movie ‘Juno’.
Page- . . . I took a little break from it because it was becoming a lot, you know, a lot at once. So, I. . .
ED- Well, that’s smart to take a break.
Page- Yeah
ED- What did ya do?
Page- I went to study permaculture design at an eco-village (Lost Valley Eco-village) in Oregon, outside of Eugene.
ED- What is permaculture? Like getting perms?
Laughter
Page- Yeah it was. . ah. . close. It’s about living more simply, and about living in a holistic way with the earth, and re-integrating our lifestyles with the natural cycles, you know. So I lived on an eco-village for about a month.
ED- Wow! That’s great.
Page- It was amazing
ED- God, that would be a really great thing for us to all be able to do. Do you think that we could?
Page- I was really lucky because I could afford to take time off work, and to pay to go there, and learn this. But any one at all, who has a passion for it, can learn about it and use it in their lives, in so many different ways. From simple ways, to more elaborate ways- like peeing in a bucket, and using it on your compost.
Laugter
Page- Pee is an excellent source of nitrogen
ED- I pee in a bucket here
Page- Yeah, yeah
Laughter
ED- I do. I try to save money in the budget where ever I can.
Laughter
Page- It’s a recession, it’s nice that your doing that.
ED- That’s what I do. . . We just bought a farm.
Page- Oh, wow!
ED- And we are trying to do the same thing, and live off the land, and do every thing we can to simplify. It’s a goal, it’s hard to do. But it would be so great if we would all start treating the earth a little nicer, and using it what it’s for, instead of abusing it.
Page- Well, you would love this, you should check this out.
ED- I would love to. I would love to
Applause. . .
They chat about Page’s new movie ‘Whip it’. . .
ED- Now you need to find a movie where you can pee in a bucket.
laughter
Page- Yeah, your really on this bucket thing
ED- I’m just sayin’. Then you try to do a movie where your encouraging people to learn all the ways to be kinder. I mean, um. yes we would get away from that, you wouldn’t show that on camera. You would be behind a partition or something. . .
laughter
Page- We would have an apparatus, yes.
ED- Yes, you wouldn’t show that. But we all know from this conversation, when that movie comes out, (whispering) she’s peeing in the bucket.
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