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.”

Source: What the Heck Is Permaculture? Linda Buzzell, Huffington Post

Also see: Lost Valley Ecovillage Permaculture Experience of Ellen Page, USA Today: Ellen Page Permaculture, EcoRazzi: Ellen Page Permaculture

Wow. Wow. Wow wow wow!!!!

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?

• Google Newstimeline: Ellen Page Permaculture
• Google Trends: Ellen Page, Permaculture

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.

Source: Whip It – Official Theatrical Trailer, Fox Searchlight, YouTube

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.

. . .more discussion about Page’s new movie. .

end.