[permaculture] Developing a permaculture pre-design process for collapse
Robert Waldrop
bwaldrop at cox.net
Fri Oct 3 15:56:13 EDT 2008
Here is some information surplus to share.
We are conducting a series of workshops in the
Oklahoma City area to look at the challenges we
would face in the event of a collapse of the food,
economic, and energy production and distribution
infrastructures. The goal is to eventually
produce a detailed contingency plan for the area
to respond to such a situation.
One of the lessons of the Katrina/Gustav episodes
is that a plan can make the difference between a
disaster and a manageable situation. In the
absence of an adequate plan, emergent responses
may make a bad situation even worse (as happened
with Katrina). My idea is that permies should
"get there the firstest with the mostest" in the
event of collapse, and thus perhaps be able to
head of more authoritarian responses.
But that requires a plan, and "while the disaster
unfolds" is the worst time to develop a plan.
"The time to build the cellar is before the
tornado hits."
Our first planning workshop was held September 20,
2008.
I have established a web page to collect the
accumulating resources we are developing and make
them available to folks elsewhere who may decide
to conduct a similar planning process for their
areas.
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/okcmutual.htm .
The brainstorming charts that we developed at our
workshop are at
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/brainstorm.htm .
My presenter's outline is at
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/sept20outline.htm .
Please feel free to pass this information on to
others who can use it.
I am also available to facilitate such workshops
in other areas. Contact me in private email about
this, at bwaldrop at cox.net .
Bob Waldrop
Barking Frogs Permaculture
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
www.bobwaldrop.net
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