permaculture

["Jeff Hine" <jhi@post.com>]

Wow, you are an energetic soul! Good luck to all your work, we need you. 
-Jeff

Nicholas Roberts wrote:
> hi all
>
> below are some notes, on some big, long-term projects, that I am going
> to focus on over the next few years... ...  I am especially focussing
> on where I perceive gaps in the permaculture community worldwide, the
> global problems that we face, and areas that I think I have expertise
> and interest
>
> I am heading to Robyn's Nimbin early in January and will be using the
> library there and consulting Robyn and other permaculturalists
> regarding a collection of project ideas.. perhaps also spending time
> with Jude and Michel at Seedsavers...
>
> the projects below...
>
> 1. Permaculture.Tv - a web video editorial, educational and marketing
> website - a prototype was online, but its been down for a week - I ran
> out of money - and hope to get in online ASAP... this project ran for
> about a month and was generally well received... have interest from
> Chile, USA, Australia, Africa, to continue this.. participate etc
>
> 2. Permaculture Cooperative - a global permaculture cooperative for
> all producers and workers doing permaculture.. Permaculture.TV will be
> a cooperative project.. and it seems that a unified marketing project
> for permaculturealists producers, educators, workers, designers; the
> entire spectrum of permaculture producers could greatly benefit from a
> global cooperative... start to compete against the global
> multinational corporations.. I had some inetrest from Sweden, NYC and
> San Francisco regarding this.. I would suggest that the main activites
> of the Permaculture cooperative be marketing *online via an ecommerce
> website*, the Permaculture.TV video website. Also education, activism,
> lobbying and research and development project streams be developed
>
> 3. Permaculture Workers Cooperative - a workers coop that does
> permaculture farming and work of various kinds... decentralised urban
> farming, permablitzes/permabees, permaculture maintainence etc ...
> this is Tom's social and economic justice permaculture
>
> 4. Permaculture Hostels - permaculture plus WWOOF youth hostel network
> ... personally I think this is a no-brainers, and should be easy..
> cant understand why they dont already exist... you could combine PDC,
> WWOOFing, permaculture farming, local and global youth hostelling
> etc,.. disadvantgaed youth, global tourists, perhaps out bush,,...
>
> 5. Permaculture Design Tools - there have been a number of requests on
> the email lists  *especially from the US for a computer based design
> tool for permaculture farmers, designers, educators etc... I see this
> as a software application like an existing computer-based farm design
> tool, that is open sourced, and perhaps is linked and/or creates a web
> database - perhaps like a wikipedia system - that contains data on
> tools, species, landforms, market data, polucultures etc...
>
> 6. Gaia Permaculture - how do we globalise the local solutions ?
> perhaps using the above Design Tools, cooperative, etc? how does
> permaculture help with geo-engineering, abrupt and extreme climate
> change, global justice? militarisation ? multinational corporations
> and a disembodied elite ? fair trade etc ? ? ?
>
> 7. Permaculture Law : what would a Permaculture Law introduced into
> Australian parliament look like ? what would it say ? how do we write
> one >? how would it work if every country on earth promoted such
> permaculture law's ? who would be the enemies of such laws ? how would
> the lobbying proceed etc
>
> personally, I've just applied to Southern Cross university *Lismore*
> to study Environmental Science *Land Resource Management* by distance
> education - and am also hoping to get into Robyn's APT accredited
> Permaculture design course.... perhaps exchanging my IT/internet
> skills for some course fees
>
> I am looking at working on the above projects as Masters
> Thesis/projects, overseas study type projects.. basically I am looking
> a the above inter-related collection of projects and being something
> like 5 years work for me in a role as a creative driector, research
> and project consultant ... kind of like a designer, but more focussed
> obn the busienss analysis and product design.. also structuring the
> project and getting the first couple of versions out the dooor
>
> as you know, I've had a pretty decent career in IT/internet/media and
> am fairly confident about the above projects... it will take time...
> and they are big, complex global projects...but these are the problems
> that we have
>
> the main bottlenecks for me,
> 1. getting some personal permaculture, i.e. a stable place to live and
> work.  stable lifestyle... etc
> 2. putting some framework and structure around this R and D
> 3. developing an editorial, marketing, communciations etc strategy
> i.e. who is the enemy? how outspoken should one be against say
> corporations, governments ? etc
> 4. funding... not so much getting it, but more, who and why ? and with
> what obligations implicit and explicit
> 5. organisational : I favor global and local cooperatives
>
> peace and love
>
> -N
>   




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