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[Olive Tree <olivetrii@yahoo.com>]

 Are you hungry for more local food?
Are you concerned about climate change?
Don't despair ... take action!
  
 
Join the
2008 SPRING ANNUAL
Community Gardens
CYCLEbration
Sunday May 11 in communities everywhere:
A moving Mother's Day celebration for
local agriculture and Mother  Earth!


 
 Can changing the way we eat really help cut climate change? Yes!  Every time 
we buy corporate food trucked thousands of miles or burn oil driving to 
Walmart, we feed the insane system of industrial agriculture that’s a 
leading cause of greenhouse gas pollution and global warming. But with simple 
steps such as supporting local sustainable farmers,  growing more of our own 
food, and riding bikes, we can eat and feel better, build healthy carbon-rich 
soil and cleaner air, and slash the food miles cooking Earth’s climate!
 
 What else can you do?


 1) Join the Community Gardens CYCLEbration! On May 11 nationally (or another 
day in your community) organize a free bicycle tour of local organic farms 
and gardens. Use the artwork at http://cyclebration.wordpress.com to 
publicize your event. Encourage community members to grow your local food 
revolution by sharing land, labor, seeds and knowledge.  End the ride with a 
community potluck, film screening, or discussion. Be creative and have fun!

2) Celebrate the Women's Garden Cycles Bike Tour! In 2007, three women 
embarked on a three-month-long bicycle journey to tour and document 
food-producing garden projects from Washington DC to Montreal and back again. 
Their inspiring film about the Women's Garden Cycles Bike Tour will be 
launched this May. Inspire yourself and others by watching it. Present the 
Women's Garden Cycles documentary film premier in your community and visit 
http://womensgardencycles.wordpress.com to see the film trailer!

Please contact cyclebration@gmail.com
for more information and to get involved...

... and please forward this widely! 
       
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I like your post.? the emphasis must be on community and mutual support. I 
look forward to the day when I don't hear the racket of power tools from 
neighbors gardens. the cacaphony of mowers, blowers, weedwackers and other 
gasoline powered attacks on nature.


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From: Scott Pittman <scott@permaculture.org>
To: 'permaculture' <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 5:56 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] what about lubrication?



For my money the sooner this fuel collapse happens the better! Imagine
living within our own bioregion, coastal fishing with sail boats, the
incredible quiet, getting to know our community and learning how to support
each other.  I think that Gaia will heave a great sigh of relief and that we
as small mites on the body of Gaia will find our very small place in the
scheme of things and join in that sigh.

I remember many years ago there was a blackout in NYC and the stories that
derived from that 2 or 3 day period had mostly to do with sitting on the
stoop and meeting your neighbors, seeing the stars for the first time, an
amazing lessening of stress, people walking and bicycling to work.  Most
work couldn't happen without the electrical energy to drive the industry.
Anything above eight floors was not useable.

I find it very difficult to buy into this bunker mentality that brays about
taking care of ones self and nuclear family and to hell with everyone else.
This thought process leads to arms, violence, and fear - none of which leads
to sustainability.  I find that if I classify people as "fat, lazy and dumb"
it is so much easier for me to feel superior, and more deserving.  Most
billionaires probable have their own adjectives for the working class that
allows them to justify their hogging the trough of the commons. 

Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org
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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:18 PM
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On 3/4/08 1:27 AM, "lbsaltzman@aol.com" <lbsaltzman@aol.com> wrote:

> But once again --
> without cheap oil, there is no possible way to feed the current
> population of humans, probably not even half. You forget that most of
> our cropland has been thoroughly poisoned with chemicals that will no
> longer be available. Another substantial portion of cropland requires
> irrigation and their source of water is rapidly drying up.

I think the Cuba experience most relevant here - over 11 million people on a
small island suddenly deprived of fuel, ag fertilisers and chemicals, and
the 80% of their food which was imported. There was hunger until the gardens
started producing but no-one died of starvation - largely due to the food
rations for staples and the natural neighbourliness and generosity of the
population. 
Cuba largely feeds itself from small organic farms and urban agriculture -
still imports around half its rice and cooking oil.
I think the intellectuals have forgotten food production existed before
modern fossil fuel agriculture - we need to contract to small scale farming
and localised food production to feed ourselves. And yes, the days of cheap
food are coming to an end.
Water will be a big issue, but a lot of water is wasted in commodity farming
and food processing. A family can produce most of their vegies in a small
garden using only household waste water - the permaculture kitchen garden
programs in semi-arid India are living evidence of this.

Ciao
Robyn


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