Permaculture in a Global Context
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Permaculture in a Global Context
Southern Vermont Permaculture Design CourseJune-August 2011
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DEFINING THE PROBLEM
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DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the resources available to future generations.
• Meeting human needs is currently concentrating wealth, power, and freedom in the hands of few.
• Our ability to effectively respond is highly constrained by disconnection. Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
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CLIMATE DISRUPTION
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DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the resources available to future generations.
• Meeting human needs is currently concentrating wealth, power, and freedom in the hands of few.
• Our ability to effectively respond is highly constrained by disconnection. Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
•Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the resources available to future generations.
•Our ability to effectively respond is highly constrained by disconnection.
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Hubbert
“Stategic Significance of America’s Oil Shale Resource” March 2004Offices of DASPR, NPOSR and US Department of Energy
PEAK PETROLEUM
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PEAK PETROLEUM
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“The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious
shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.”--The Guardian, April 11, 2010
Source: Wikipedia
PEAK PETROLEUM
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"Crude oil output reaches an undulating plateau of around 68-69 mb/d, by 2020,
but never regains its all-time peak of 70mb/day reached in 2006." —International Energy Agency
Source: Wikipedia
PEAK PETROLEUM
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Fuel by type
“The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity
could disappear within two years and there could be serious
shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and
political impact.”
--The Guardian, April 11, 2010
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Center for Sustainabile Systems, University of Michigan. 2009. “U.S. Food System Factsheet.” Pub. No. CSS01-06
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“The real issue of our time is how we make a graceful and ethical descent from the energy peak.”
~ David Holmgren
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DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the resources available to future generations.
• Meeting human needs is currently hyperconcentrating wealth, power, and freedom.
• Our ability to effectively respond is highly constrained by disconnection.
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GLOBAL WEALTH DISTRIBUTION:2015 Projection
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DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the health of the planet.
• Meeting human needs is currently decreasing the resources available to future generations.
• Meeting human needs is currently hyperconcentrating wealth, power, and freedom.
• Our ability to effectively respond is highly constrained by disconnection.
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Photo by Alamy. Source: guardian.co.uk
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FEEDBACK LOOPS
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FEEDBACK LOOPSTragedy of the Commons/Vicious
Cycle
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FEEDBACK LOOPSTragedy of the Commons/Vicious
Cycle
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PERMACULTURE:
--meeting human needs while increasing ecological and social health.
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PERMACULTURE:
--meeting human needs while increasing ecological and social health.
--ecosystem mimicry through conscious design.
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PERMACULTURE:
--meeting human needs while increasing ecological and social health.
--ecosystem mimicry through conscious design.
--meeting human needs while increasing ecological and social health.
--ecosystem mimicry through conscious design.
--rebuilding resilient local economies that embody the above.
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THE PERMACULTURE PIE
perennial vegetables
coppice woodcrafts & biomass
composting & compost tea
biochar/terra preta
apiculture
aquaculture
edible forest gardening
mycoscaping
bioremediation
earthworks
keyline
natural buildinggreen architecture
management-intensive grazing
alternativecurrencies
agroforestry
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History of Permaculture
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History of Permaculture - Predecessors
J. Russell Smith & Tree Crops - 1930’s
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Masanobu Fukuoka & Natural Farming - 1930’s & 40’s
History of Permaculture - Predecessors
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P. A. Yeomans & Keyline Water Planning - 1950’s
History of Permaculture - Predecessors
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History of Permaculture
Later Work of Bill Mollison
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History of Permaculture
Later Work of David Holmgren
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History of Permaculture
Penny Livingston
Some Prominent Teachers in North America
Dave Jacke
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Ancient Roots
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Tropical Agroforestry Worldwide
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Tending the Wild Across North America
“The New World is in fact a very old world.” -- Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild
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Coppice: Traditional European Agroforestry
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
www.primaryagriculture.com
“Over 50% of Russia’s agricultural output [is] coming from family garden-plots...” -- Family Gardens:
Russia’s Primary Agriculture, Dr. Leonid Sharaskin
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
Victory Gardens in the US and Britain
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
Transition Towns & Initiatives
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Urban Placemaking & City Repair
Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
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Global ProblemsLocal Solutions
Gaia University International
www.gaiauniversity.orgwww.gaianortheast.org