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.
Edible City is a documentary film that explores the issues of food justice, security, and sovereignty through a comprehensive view of urban farming in the Bay Area
Hidden between buildings and across networks of backyards, germinating in classrooms and sprouting up in city centers, a grassroots movement is thriving in the Bay Area. Edible City follows the stories of folks who are fighting for sustainability and social justice by doing something revolutionary: growing a local food system.
Taking responsibility for carbon emissions with Carbon Farming.
Darren Doherty, permacutlure designer and teacher from Australia, takes a few minutes to explain “carbon farming” and methods for sequestering carbon in soil while improving topsoil and conditions for healthy plant growth.
Darren working the angles
Permaculture designer and teacher Darren Doherty discusses ways in which permaculture design presents potential solutions to transitioning broad acre agriculture to more regenerative and sustainable forms of production. While much of the permaculture practiced in the states is expressed in smaller scale operations, there is great potential and need to identify strategies for transitioning larger-scale farm operations.
Taranaki Farm is excited to announce its role in the upcoming Keyline & Carbon Farming – 3 Day Workshop being organised by Fusion Farms. Taranaki Farm will play host to world-respected keyline & permaculture designer Darren Doherty as he stages his very popular Keyline course in Central Victoria, Australia, only 65km from Melbourne.
The workshop will be conducted on Taranaki Farm (for the first time). A fully featured demonstration site for keyline design principles, designed by Darren himself. Don’t miss this special chance to learn about keyline and carbon farming inside a complete keyline system that includes earthworks for water harvesting, lock-pipe gravity irrigation, multi-species agroforestry, keyline ploughing, rotational grazing and more…
Compost Tea Injection
Taranaki Farm is also the home of the innovative Compost Tea & Keyline Injection rig recently developed by Ben Falloon and featured on this site. See this setup in person and understand the great potential of this combination for healing degraded land.
An intensive blend of technical & practical sessions targeted at farmers, professional land managers, consultants, permaculture designers, earthmovers, tree-changers, landcare enthusiasts and anyone with a strong interest in sustainable land management, soil creation and finding the keys to reversing climate change.
Whole farm design
Amplified contour cultivation
Water storage in farm dams
Better layout of farm roads
Quick gravity irrigation
Contour strip forests
Subdivision design
Healing Erosion
Solving salinity
Holistic Management
Pasture improvement
and heaps more…
Grants for Farmers
If you are a farmer, indigenous land manager, primary producer or in the immediate family of any of these, you can do this course for free through the FarmReady subsidy scheme. You can read how on the Fusion Farms website.
Unforgettable account of the actuality of parts of daily life for the Palestinians with the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Ethan, a grandson of a Holocaust survivor, describes in detail from his own experience and facts about what is going on in Israel/Palestine.
October 8, 2009 — I have finally made my YouTube debut! As part of Just Peace Mideast’s series of films called “Americans Speak Out About the Middle East,” I speak for 14 minutes about the raw and ugly reality of the Israeli government’s repressive, murderous policies against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It’s impossible to capture the whole nightmare of what millions of Palestinians have been experiencing on a daily basis for decades in just 14 minutes, but this film does a very solid job of breaking down the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into clear and simple terms for the education of ordinary Americans. As the producer describes, “Unforgettable account of the actuality of parts of daily life for the Palestinians with the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Ethan, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, describes in detail from his own experience and facts about what is going on in Israel/Palestine
On a foundation of Christian principles, Salatin has built a farming ecosystem where cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and rabbits interact ecologically in a way that goes beyond conservation.
“What we’re looking at is God’s design, nature’s template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature,” Salatin says.
What that means for Polyface in practical terms is that the cattle graze different areas of pasture every day. Then chickens pick through the same fields, eating bugs and spreading cow manure before clucking back to mobile coops.
The farm’s pigs generate fertilizer by rooting around the floor of the barn, lured by sweet corn into aerating the mix of hay, cow manure, and wood chips. The finished compost is spread on fields. This process not only takes almost nothing out of the environment, it puts nutrients back in.
“We believe that the farm should be building ‘forgiveness’ into the ecosystem,” Salatin says. “What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.”
Salatin concedes that when his father bought the farm in 1962, the family’s initial emphasis on sustainable farming had more to do with environmental concerns than faith convictions. But as the business evolved, Salatin began to see himself situated at a unique place in America’s moral conversation.
“We should at least be asking, Is there a righteous way to farm and an unrighteous way to farm? … The first goal is to at least get people to appreciate that how we farm is a moral question,” he says. “Once you get to that point, then you can actually discuss: What is a moral farm? What is a moral way to raise a chicken?”
How farm animals are treated on the majority of farms today dismays Salatin.
What Americans do to pigs, chickens, and cows speaks ill of the nation’s moral health, he says. “A culture that views its life from such a manipulative, disrespectful stance will soon view its citizens the same way and other cultures the same way. It’s how we respect the least of these that creates a moral-ethical framework.”
Don’t be confused: Salatin is no crunchy-granola transplant to Appalachia. He graduated from archconservative Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., with a degree in English. While he appreciates the “bearded, beaded, braless, Woodstock revolution” set who make up the bulwark of environmentally conscious farming, he’s delighted that half of those coming to visit his farm nowadays are involved in the home-school movement
Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
We produce:
Salad Bar Beef
Pigaerator Pork
Pastured Poultry (Eggs, Broilers, Turkeys)
Forage-Based Rabbits
Forestry Products
We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Writing, speaking, and farm tours offer various message venues.
Experience the satisfaction of knowing your food and your farmer, building community. We are your clean meat connection.
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
At Climate Camp UK, in London, we kept getting asked “where we going to Copenhagen (forCOP15and to get involved in thenetwork 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 aClimate Social Forum, in theWorld Social Forum principlesand process.
After a little enquiry was informed there is government funded civil-society forum:Klimaforum09, which sounds rather like theEuropean Social Forum, Malmo 2008in 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 Nordicsoft-powerpublic-diplomacy.
However the Kilmaforum2009’s9 themesand theattending organisationsare right-on and would love to work-out how to go and work onGaia Permacultureand thePermaculture 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 theØresund Bioregionand the global plan for10 000 trees.
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Earlier this year, we where able to visit Mondragon or Arrasate in Basque and spend time at the Mondragon Cooperative researching a Permaculture worker cooperative.
This slideshow are photos of the town of Arrasate. It’s a wonderful combination of Basque village, modern city and industrial park.
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