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Happy International Permaculture Day 2012! www.permacultureday.info

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International Permaculture Day – is a day where a range of Permaculture events occur across Australia and around the globe. All activities are held on Sunday May 6 unless specified otherwise.

All of us would acknowledge our own work as modest; it is the totality of such modest work that is impressive. Great changes are taking place. Why not join us in the making of a better future.
Ingenio Patet Campus. The field lies open to the intellect.

Bill Mollison
2 May 2012

Jasper Hall is a 16 year old close knit intentional community (est 1995), certified organic (survival) farm (16ha) and accredited permaculture teaching venue. We are in the breathtaking Upper Coopers Creek valley in the Byron Bay hinterland, northern NSW, Australia. Coopers Creek forms the western boundary of the property.

http://www.vimeo.com/19872708

We are a secular and egalitarian community, dedicated to communal living with no direct ideology but encompassing all aspects of global knowledge. We believe in sharing resources as a group rather than traditional models of personal and intellectual ownership.

The land of Jasper Hall has transformed over the last 16 years from a weed infested run down landscape, to (now) a garden of Eden. We have well-established orchards, containing around 60 different species, around 500 fruit trees that bear a great diversity of fruit all year around. We are blessed to live in the sub-tropics where we can grow probably the greatest variety of food in the world. We have some of the best soil in Australia, plenty of rain, great north facing topography, physical seclusion and a creek that never dries, with a beautiful swimming hole (sacred Aboriginal birthing ground) and waterfalls.
Andi Islinger, who started Jasper Hall has had 26 years of intentional community living and has ever since worked on developing replicable models.

The key focus for us are people and communication, these are the foundations for everything else to fall into place. More than 170.000 hours have been gifted to this project.

Over the years 19 buildings have been constructed to accommodate up to 50 people on the 40 acre farm and cater for all activities needed to survive if need be without outside influences.

We are clarifying goals and visions, but hold no dogmas.

All aspects of the development have been meticulously recorded in digital formats, presentations, time lapse, databases, spreadsheets, images and film.
We play, learn and teach various projects that include community development, agriculture (bamboo, orchard, nursery, rainforest rehabilitation), building and technology, maintenance, community & micro-economic business development and multi-media. Activities are based on what is needed by ‘us’ as a community, by mother earth itself and by the wider community. We share most meals which forms a cornerstone of our community vision. We are working towards income sharing opportunities for our members.

We are a community that is working with goals and visions, but without holding any dogmas.

We seek wisdom, strength and financial support to create the foundations for a sustainable replicable venture.

We are always looking for skilled hands on people, experienced in communal living.

Committed, self motivated and with enough time and energy to further our vision in creating long term sustainable communities based on true equality and non ownership models.

Welcome is everyone, especially seasoned, down to earth individuals and families, with practical skills to make this world a better place
Our focus now is to learn from our 16 years experience and translate it into practical wise and long term solutions.
WEBSITE:
Jasper-hall.com
FILMS
vimeo.com/20418773 (2010) 32min
Http://vimeo.com/22318360 (2010) trailer 2 min 30 sec
Http://vimeo.com/16229460 (2003) 16 min
BOOKS
flickr.com (Andi Islinger)

Adam from Permablitz Melbourne shows Sydney how its done!

Adam Grubb founded Permablitz as part of a crew of Melbourne permaculturalists in 2006. Since then, Melbourne Permblitz has delivered many, many successful permablitzes in the greater Melbourne area, and the concept of Permablitz has spread to Sydney, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Canberra, Tasmania, Bega, the Sunshine Coast, California, Montreal, Istanbul and Uganda.

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So what is a Permablitz?

Permablitz (noun): An informal gathering involving a day on which a group of at least two people come together to achieve the following:

- create or add to edible gardens where someone lives
- share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living
- build community networks
- have fun

Permablitzes are free events, open to the public, with free workshops, shared food, where you get some exercise and have a wonderful time. To be defined as a permablitz each event must also be preceded by a permaculture design by a designer with a Permaculture Design Certificate.

The network runs on reciprocity, and in order to qualify for a permablitz you usually need to come to “3 or so” first, although there can be exceptions in this case.

Many thanks to Milkwood for putting on this great free event!
Filmed at Alexandria Park Community Center
Mon, 16 Jan, 2012

Bioversity anthropologist, Pablo Eyzaguirre, talks about the potential of integrated agricultural landscape approaches to reconcile the objectives of agricultural production and nature conservation.

Source: Bioversity International

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He also speaks about how Bioversity International is contributing its knowledge gained from working with smallholder farmers around the world to an international effort to help find solutions, at a time when a consensus is emerging that many our current food system approaches are unsustainable.

A former Aussie soldier and now a commando for the green cause, Steve believes the only future for humankind is a sustainable one. So he’s throwing a group of Gen Y and Zs into his intensive survival boot camp to show them how to tune into nature, not just Twitter.

For more Steve Cran or Green Warrior Permaculture

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Andrew Faust spoke at the Sustainability Forum in an atrium at OWS days after Zucotti Park was evicted.

http://www.vimeo.com/33206215

Andrew Faust Permaculture Designer: HomeBiome.com
Costa Boutsikaris Filmmaker: TerraVisus.com

The Permaculture Credit Union pools the financial resources of people who believe in the ethics of Permaculture – care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly and socially responsible loans and investments.

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The history of financial institutions is one of focus on the bottom line which results in overexploitation of the earth’s resources. Now, an innovative new financial institution – Permaculture Credit Union – has been established to allow its members to share their excess with other members of like mind who would use it for green and sustainable projects. The Permaculture Credit Union is perhaps the leading green credit union in the United States. We welcome new members seeking to deposit their money with a green bank or green credit union, or seeking green loans.

http://www.vimeo.com/12838782

Sources: Jeff Nugent’s audio DVD of the Stanley, Tasmania, Bill Mollison 1983 PDC, In Grave Danger of Falling Food and the permies of occupy-wallstreet.com

Permaculture at Occupy Wall Street

Confrontation of the criminal class responsible for the corporate coup of the US, is vital and long overdue. But there is also a need to take responsibility and design intelligent, local strategies, to prevent the same problems of scale from repeating themselves. The notion of self sufficiency is key. We can only properly protest something, when we have reduced our dependancy on it. Permaculture offers a vast resource of practical solutions for sustainable, self sufficient living. Permies were sure not to miss the exciting opportunity to share their knowledge with those who can use it most.

http://www.occupy-wallstreet.com/permaculture/

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I can’t express how happy it makes me to learn that the implementation of sustainability and permaculture principles is spreading to many Occupy encampments –and spreading with the same momentum as the Occupy Movement itself.

Many of the Occupy encampments have set up committees to analyze their own environmental impact, and conceive of practical solutions. Since Mobile Design Lab first installed a grey water system (more below), sustainability committees in different parts of the country have introduced peddle powered generators, solar panels, bike sharing programs and permaculture workshops. There are also pottery classes, as part of an effort to reduce waste in the form of discarded Styrofoam. There are even long term projects, such as composting and gardening.

What is happening is bigger than Permaculture, even bigger than Sustainability: it is real Democracy. OWS is proving that we, the 99%, are perfectly capable of creating our own, truly democratic systems. We are very efficient when it comes to getting things done, when we decide to take care of business ourselves. We are proving that horizontal organization works great. Change doesn’t need to be squeezed through a hierarchical bottleneck; nor does it need to trickle down to us, we can do it together. Via Permaculture Occupy Wall St & Campus Progress

http://www.vimeo.com/30401811

Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Course 1983

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“Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food’s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal of it….its eh, a shocking situation, it’s just inhuman. It’s what nobody would intend, and somehow what we’ve arrived at, and we arrived at it by the erection of financial structures, totally divorced from resources. So that the fiscal economy has been a runaway system. We’ve gotta tackle that head on. That is, what I’m trying to tell you, it’s no good any longer just being an organic gardener or farmer, we have to be effective financial and political units. And we’re gonna have to face that. Just as it was very hard for us to learn to garden, then hard for us to learn to collect seeds, once the multinationals took over the open-pollinated seed market; we had to become seed growers. Now its very difficult, we have to become bankers.There’s no good trying to pretend we don’t have to. We can run away to the bush, build a mud hut and grow ducks in the garden, it’s not gonna do it. The coals will still be burnt, the land will still be eroded, and the forests will still be cleared for newsprint if we run away to the bush. So, there’s no escape, we’ve just gotta stop running away, stay where we are and start to face up and fight.” 1983 pdc bill mollison

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Courtesy of www.Seedsavers.net more videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/seedsavers

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Permaculture is a concept pioneered by Australian Bill Mollison and literally means “permanent agriculture”. His model of biological diversity and complementary agricultural practices promotes a sustainable environment via the interplay of natural ecosystems. Permaculture has gained a huge international following with the publication of his book Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future. Permaculture has become the mainstay philosophy of the organic movement. Mollison’s vision, which borrows from Masanobu Fukuoka’s “One Straw Revolution”, intelligently combines the factors of site location, recycling of by-products from farming and forest activities, species diversity and biological succession.

When gourmet and medicinal mushrooms are involved as key organisms in the recycling agricultural and forest by-products, the bio dynamics of permaculture soar to extraordinary levels of productivity. Not only are mushrooms a protein-rich food source for humans, but the by-products of mushrooms cultivation unlock nutrients for other members of the ecological community. The rapid return of nutrients back into the ecosystem boosts the life cycles of plants, animals, insects (bees), and soil microflora.

Source: Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets

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Mother Earth News Interview

PLOWBOY: And did all your contact with the wilds have any effect on your perceptions of our modern agricultural system?

MOLLISON: Oh yes! Everything I did, either in research or in fieldwork, indicated that there was something fundamentally wrong with modern farming methods. For instance, every problem I found in commercial agribusiness was actually caused by the industry itself. Usually — when a farmer called in the CSIRO for a consultation — the results of our investigation pointed the finger straight at the grower him- or herself!

As I saw the same situation occur time and time again, I gradually came to the conclusion that most contemporary crop-raisers must be doing things the wrong way. So my last few years with the CSIRO were spent in the forest, observing the plant and animal species on location . . . and there I learned that everything in nature is self -controlled and self -balancing.

You know, a lot of modern thought suggests that the planet — as a living organismic — seeks to protect itself by rejecting any species that causes it harm. For instance, if cattle damage part of the earth, the harmed region will respond by growing thorn bushes and poisonous plants, thus rejecting the animals. Well, I think we — the members of the human race — are perilously close to being rejected by the earth in that same way . . . and quite rightly so, since we’ve created some terrible damage.

Source: Mother Earth News

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