Permaculture Green Practices
Green Best Policy & Practices
"Grass Roots": Back to the Beginnings of Permaculture Practices
The roots, Australia, Tasmania, the 1960s, 70s, where 'down to earth people' started up and grew hardy...
Self-sufficiency folks, the greens (and Green Party), dreamers, shapers and planters...
Holy moly, there's Bill Mollison ...
The permaculture system is designed for self-sufficiency without heavy annual input of energy beyond that available as manpower in the community which it is intended to serve (family, farm, village, town). Initial establishment energy is not intended to be greater than for annuals raised under the bio-dynamic system.
After establishment, the energy functions turn to control (pruning, cutting) and gathering-storage functions.
Unlike agribusiness, the aim is to distribute, rather than concentrate, the season of yield. Unlike commercial operations, the aim is to diversify product rather than to simplify it. Unlike crop farming, the aim is to produce stable self-regulating systems (as in some pastures, some forests) and, unlike any other system, the aim is to select species to suit all niches and to buffer short and long term climatic change by the selection of species at either end of the hot-cold, wet-dry tolerance limits for the area selected.
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International Ecological Resilience: Permaculture in Action
April 23, 2022
Concord Hall, 1407 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA (Masks are optional) & Simultaneous webcast to IWC YouTube http://www.worldculture.org/ - https://www.youtube.com/user/iwcinsantabarbara/live
Presenter: Warren Brush
In honor of Earth Day, Warren Brush, a global resilience design consultant, educator, lecturer and storyteller, and co-founder of Wilderness Youth Project and Quail Springs Permaculture in Cuyama, California, will share his experiences working with international organizations, non-profits, and governments around the world to bring regenerative thinking and design to vulnerable communities around the world. He will talk about his current projects working with the Danish Refugee Council, USAID, and Mercy Corp as well as other international projects, to illuminate how permaculture principles are actually applied in a variety of contexts to solve real-time ecological and social problems in a way that works with nature, not against her. Please come in person to meet Warren. Please bring your questions. There will be time for discussion at the end of his presentation.
2021
Permaculture Design Magazine - 30 years Practicing in the Fields
Eco-Regeneration, Broadscale Farming Systems, Agroforestry, Home Garden Design and Community Action
2020
Permaculture360
All Around the World, Region-to-Region, Watershed-to-Watershed
Observation - one of the greatest permaculture principles -- Matt Powers
Perma in the Orchard
Perma in Florida
Pete Kanaris GreenDreams in Lake Wales video
Pete Kanaris GreenDreams - Sandhill Farm, Spring Hill - Nursery Expansion video
Permaculture & Sustainability
Permaculture Principles / Pathways / Intro
Open Permaculture / Open Permaculture Magazine
PermaDesign / Harvest the Rain - Nate Downey
Perma fundamentals - via Facebook
Permaculture explained - Facebook vid
Regenerative Leadership Institute
- Permaculture is a word originally coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s that has now grown into a worldwide green sustainability movement.
Permaculture Pioneers: stories from the new frontier
This book charts a history of the first three decades of permaculture, through the personal stories of Australian permaculturists. From permaculture co-originator David Holmgren, to ABC TV’s Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne, the authors span the generations and the continents.
Enjoy a light-hearted Permaculture romp with Dancing Rabbit (2018)
‘Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. People, their buildings and the ways in which they organise themselves are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent or sustainable agriculture has evolved to one of permanent or sustainable culture.
- Insights with David Holmgren -- https://youtu.be/JUA0204Ddcs
Revising Permaculture with David Holmgren
The Permaculture Podcast
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Bill Mollison: On the Birth of a Global Movement
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Permaculture for Our Times
2015/16
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Permaculture Plant Database
The Natural Capital™ Plant Database is a repository of temperate climate plant information for ecological design...
- As of January, 2016, the data includes contributions from 2822 users from 70 countries.
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TreePeople Community Initiatives
"California confronts historic drought"...
Keeping trees alive in a drought ... Permaculture tips & techniques
The following radio interview with astute words of advice from our GreenPolicy friend, Andy Lipkis is well worth tuning in...
Andy draws from his permaculture experience and water savings ideas to propose a resilient water plan and rain harvesting as a key water saving tactic.
Take a look at some of Andy and his water harvesting friends' recommendations and share models that work... how Southern California is reaching out and using Australian green best practices for water savings in the face of historic drought and recent mandatory water cuts throughout California.
Australians also have been confronting historic drought conditions and TreePeople's team are pointing out ways the Aussie "Land of Oz" (and origins of Permaculture and the Green Party) is among world leaders in water saving and smart water usage practices... Water conservation lessons from AU...
Sharing Green Best Practices
Of course, permaculture practices have roots in Aussie land in the person of Bill Mollison.
Climate change impacts, whether Australia or southwest US, are real and the water crisis brought on by drought in California continues to impact greatly. Look at what Altadena is doing in California as another model to capture and save water.
Their Foothill MWD water department collaborated with Hey!Tanks LA and TreePeople to develop a cistern rebate program. Kudos. Going the right direction in the foothills/headwaters of what used to be the LA River and the streams that in the olden days would replenish the LA basin aquifer and resupply (perma-supply in a cycle) the water being drawn out by LA's water wells (which are a considerable percentage of the Los Angeles water supply.)
There are ideas in the works to revitalize the LA River watershed but right now let's talk Cisterns.
Cisterns Above- and Below-Ground
- Cisterns sound ugly, but they don't have to be ugly-looking... Cisterns over the ages
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Rain Barrels for Rain Gardens, Backyard/Frontyard/Sideyard, Rainwater-on-Demand
- Rain barrels to catch roof-runoff can be very handy tool in helping maintain hardy landscaping.
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Speaking of water saving approaches and sustainability initiatives, there's a program in LA to replace the turf of water-hungry lawns with water-conserving perma-practice 'lawns', i.e., nextgen earth-scaping... http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lawn-rebate-explainer-20150416-story.html
The DWP program to switch is up to $3.75 a square foot that the LA Dept. of Water & Power will give homeowners to rip out their turf, that old-fashioned look, and replace it with hardy, drought-tolerant plants.
The US EPA is increasingly focusing on water conservation and water saving.
As California confronts its historic drought, the water savings ideas of permaculture practice become more and more important."Water's valuable in the Golden State!"
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Take a look at Nate Downey's recent PermaDesign book -- Harvest the Rain. Nate is one of the vital voices advancing permaculture practices in the US. Also, check out Brad Lancaster's very popular Rain Harvesting book. Friends and Bioneers -- Nate Downey, Brad Lancaster, Andy Lipkis... permaculture-visionaries at work!
Global greening is happening, permaculture practices are a future to follow...
Practice permaculture in our times:
Water saving, rain harvesting, water storage systems, conservation and smart water usage makes great sense -- the time has come to be water smart
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References
Permaculture: A Designers Manual
Harvest the Rain: Landscapes for a Changing World
David Holmgren on permaculture, books at Amazon
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
"Restoration Agriculture" Video
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Permaculture: Build Your Edible and Sustainable Garden
The Resilient Farm and Homestead
Rainwater Harvesting - Brad Lancaster
Since the early 1980’s when it was first developed by Permaculture Co-originator Bill Mollison, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have taken this training, though the Regrarians version is widely regarded as being one of the best going around for its no-nonsense & practical approach. Our 15 day residential or ‘weekend a month’ experience has attendees involved in a wide range of practicums, presentations & self-learning experiences. The Regrarians PDC is putting ‘Design’ back into Permaculture, and has attendees complete a minimum of 6 design exercises in order to iron out common mistakes and provide open feedback, including that of one the world’s acknowledged Permaculture masters and their guest trainers. Located on real project sites this PDC has a track record of changing people’s lives in a positive, practical and pragmatic way.
Resources
Regenerative Permaculture / UK
Permaculture Guild Ecovillage Project / on Facebook
Permaculture News / Permaculture Research Institute - Twitter
Don't treat soil like 'dirt': The soil is home to a large proportion of the world's biodiversity
File:Water for the Recovery of the Climate A New Water Paradigm.pdf
- Steve Schmidt (2012) -- Congrats to our PermaDesign team
- A roofwater runoff perma-app -- http://permadesign.com/calculator/
- I've never seen the term 'perma-app' before, I just made it up ;-
- And note to self dot dot dot, it's time to develop an easily accessible/useable database of perma-related apps
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