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Power of Perennial Polyculture for Peace

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Aug 152011

Standing on a wall in front of a crowd he said: ‘I lost my son. Blacks, Asians, whites — we all live in the same community.
‘Why do we have to kill one another? Why are we doing this?

More: Telegraph

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Birmingham father Tariq Jahan makes a MOVING PASSIONATE plea for calm after his son is one of 3 men MURDERED during UK RIOTS
It would have been so easy to demand ‘an eye for an eye’ and risk a race war on the riot-torn streets.

But with immense dignity, Tariq Jahan, whose 21-year-old son was mown down and killed in an apparently racist murder in Birmingham, appealed for calm yesterday.
Haroon Jahan was one of three young Men who died after they were thrown into the air ‘like tennis balls’ when they were hit by a car which mounted the pavement at 50mph while they were trying to protect local shops from looters on Tuesday night.

The shocking killings, the worst incident in four nights of rioting across Britain, left the city a tinderbox after it was confirmed that the man arrested on suspicion of murdering the Asians is a black caribbean.

Locals claimed that Afro-Caribbean gangs had been prowling the area, setting light to cars and shouting at Muslims ‘you will burn’ just before the alleged murders.
As racial tensions rose to boiling point with some Muslims calling for ‘retribution’, 45-year-old Mr Jahan — who desperately tried to revive his dying son — urged people NOT to seek revenge.

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Standing on a wall in front of a crowd he said: ‘I lost my son. Blacks, Asians, whites — we all live in the same community.
‘Why do we have to kill one another? Why are we doing this?

Permaculture Transition in Bath UK and Brisbane Australia

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Jul 092011

Watch the full 6 days’ transformation from an ex-flowerbed in Hedgemead Park, Bath, to a beautiful community vegetable garden – ‘Vegmead’ – with the fantastic power of Transition Bath volunteers. A huge thank you to all involved, and be sure to stop by and say hello if you’re passing Hedgemead Park. Source; Transition Bath

Photo: Bathamptoncsa

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Video capturing much of the action from the recent Permablitz in West End on National Permaculture Day 2011. You can see a series of swales being built, a pond for future aquaponics installation, the floating chook shed, taro bog and the first of many raised garden beds being constructed. For more info on permablitz and to see lots of great photos from the day be sure to visit the Permablitz Brisbane website: http://blitzbrisbane.org

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Survive and Thrive - Stroudco - local food hub system

Posted by permaculturetv at 5:45 pm cooperation, democracy, food, money, people, permaculture No Responses » Tagged with: , , , , ,
Aug 192010

This Survive & Thrive film is one of 4 case studies telling the stories of rural social and community enterprises across South West England. Survive & Thrive helps rural community and social enterprises to build better businesses, make more money, and achieve better social and environmental impacts through training, events and learning from others.

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Survive & Thrive is a project of the Development Trusts Association in the South West, funded by Capacitybuilders until 2011, and is one of four social enterpise programmes co-ordinated by RISE; the voice for South West Social Enterprise.

Stroudco provides local people with a new way of linking with local producers to buy good food and drink at fair prices for consumers and producers.

Localisation as privatisation - Cameron's Big Society

Posted by permaculturetv at 5:29 am climate change, cooperation, permaculture No Responses » Tagged with: , , , , ,
Jul 152010

If you replace the word ‘localism’ with ‘privatisation’, it is not that different in some ways from the Thatcher government’s agenda.

Cameron Big Society
Image: Political Scrapbook

I do however have some problems with this new localism agenda. As I listened to Blond’s talk, I thought, well is it actually true that we live in a country with not much society, that society has now disassociated? I remember just before the election hearing Eddie Izzard, who had just run all around the country, doing 50-something marathons for charity. He said he didn’t believe in ‘Broken Britain’.. everywhere he had gone people were much more community focused than he had expected. My experience from visiting Transition initiatives is that community is there, everywhere, sometimes more obvious than other places, but the point is that community will organise when it wants to, it doesn’t need permission from government.

In the short film at the top of this post, Cameron says “I don’t believe that civil society springs up of its own accord”. Well there are thousands of community organisations around the country, run mostly by volunteers, Transition initiatives, Low Carbon Communities, Greening groups and so on, none of them waited for permission from government. They certainly sprang up of their own accord. What matters is for the State to offer such projects meaningful support, and to remove the obstacles strewn in their paths.

Of course the cynic might point out that the reason for the Big Society is the sweeping cuts in public spending that are only just beginning. If you replace the word ‘localism’ with ‘privatisation’, it is not that different in some ways from the Thatcher government’s agenda. There is a challenge within it around what people are actually capable of doing in their spare time. Working full time, and also running a school? Working, managing a family, looking after an ailing relative, and running a Community Land Trust? Of course there are incredible people out there who do that, but it will have its limits unless people are supported in other ways too.

Source: Rob Hopkins, transitionculture.org

Urbal = Urban + Rural - Urbal.TV

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Jul 142010

Urbal = Urban + Rural, but in the opposite direction to Rurban

The Urbal Fix is a necessarily holistic urban sustainability concept, (Bliss 2010).


Explains why Tom decided to embark upon this journey


Explores the context of Global Warming, Peak Oil (and other resources) and the Financial Crisis
NOTE United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently predicting a 4 degree rise


The change agenda is stalled at the lights – how can we move forward?


Theory: Can cities offer a solution?
(an old idea from Ebenezer Howard, pre motor car, meets a new idea from Viljoen and Bohn, CPULs, and The Urbal Fix is born)


Solutions: Proof that change is viable
(urban food production, biomimicry, biodiversity/sequestration, micro climates, psychology and wellbeing,
active / sustainable travel / shopping, local power generation, SUDs, water and more – this is quite long so maybe watch it later if you’re in a hurry)


Action: How do we make it happen?
(who, what, when, where and how – make sure to watch this one)

Sid Punks permaculture garden - UK

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May 192010

Hi my name is Sid, i’m the founder member and drummer of Day-Glo punk band Rubella Ballet.

I decided this spring to pull up all the paving stones in my garden and make some permanant raised beds out of them so we can try growing some normal vegetables like tomatoes, sweet corn, carrots, cauliflower and onions but we wanted to try growing some rare Incan vegetables as they pythochemicals in them that have anti cancer properties, plants like Amaranthus that are packed with vitamins A, B12 B6 when eaten raw like purple sprouting broccoli, along with red white Quinoa which is a great source of protein and exploding hedgehogs which are great in salads, as you can see at the end of the film it all grew more than I thought which was awesome and we are still reaping the benefits of some of it like the mass of tomatoes which have really tasted like tomatoes and the three months of mixed leaf salad, Roquette and baby red and yellow chard that costs so much at the supermarkets as well as all the herbs that I use all the thyme. We’ve had loads of yellow courgettes up and till now and loads of basil, wild, Thai and giant basil which gardener claim is really difficult, so smashed that myth. Some of the stuff I planted needed more room to grow and others plants needed more nurturing or something but all had no pesticides of any description.

Source: Birmingham Gardens

Grow your own revolution UK

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Apr 042010

Plans to bring under-used and uncared for land back into use so that local communities and keen would-be fruit and vegetable growers have somewhere to get digging, were announced today by Communities Secretary John Denham and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.

John Denham and Hilary Benn and Global Generation

John Denham and Hilary Benn and Global Generation

There is a huge interest in ‘growing your own’ with people wanting to get more in touch with where their food comes from, as well as staying active and spending more time outdoors.

About 300,000 gardeners in England already have allotments but demand still outstrips supply and the Government is therefore announcing new ways of meeting people’s desire to dig in.

Today, John Denham and Hilary Benn set out a package of measures to help gardeners in the community.

Communities Secretary John Denham said:

“From guerrilla gardeners to community growers there is a real keenness to combine 40′s style frugality and 70′s style good life ethics to meet 21st century demands for healthy living, cheaper meals and locally sourced food. More and more people want to grow their own but their efforts can be held up by a shortage of suitable land.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said:

“It doesn’t matter if you have a large garden or if you live on the 20th floor – we can all have a slice of ‘The Good Life’.

“Community food growing is a great way for people to get involved in the joys and trials of food production – and that is why we want to help more people grow their own and take it home.”

Source: UK Government

Social enterprise in the UK

Posted by niccolo at 3:23 am cooperatives, industry No Responses » Tagged with: ,
Feb 162010

Functioning in the social economy means adapting the needs of traditional business and maintaining the principles of efficient operations. Excellence for Social Economic Development, a not-for-profit worker co-operative, and Envirowarm, a social economy business, discuss the issues involved.

To view the entire video go to www.businessandlearningconnections.co.uk

Robot, I am Not - Permaculture Feature Video

Posted by niccolo at 7:08 pm climate change, permaculture, transition No Responses » Tagged with: , , ,
Jan 192010

Unfortunately so much of the dialogue around peak oil centers on “Collapse” or “Decline” but the more I learn about permaculture, the more I think the future has potential to be better than our current one. A reason for optimism indeed. This ~48 minute film is a fantastic way to spend an evening or a great introduction to the concepts and the promise of the design science of permaculture.

Source: jritchie blog

Polar Bears - Plane Stupid - SHOCKING IMAGES

Posted by niccolo at 7:38 pm climate change, culture, industry, permaculture.tv, transition No Responses » Tagged with: , , , , ,
Nov 232009

We have a problem. We’re flying too much, and it’s changing the earth’s climate. Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change. But instead of doing anything about it, the Government is planning more flights and larger airports.

Source: Plane Stupid

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