permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

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@cox.net .

Bob Waldrop
Barking Frogs Permaculture
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
www.bobwaldrop.net