permaculture

[Koreen Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

We are on our yearly pilgrimage to Pine Ridge reservation to plant trees and 
other seeds and gardens of all kinds. We will be planting 500 windbreak trees 
(about 1/4 that are edible tilia - linden - trees) donated by National 
Wildlife Foundation, and up to 100 fruit and nut trees in 6-7 locations. We 
are headed up with two cars and eight people from Florida, graduates or 
future PDC students of ours and another graduate will be flying up. Pine 
Ridge is part of the free internship program we're providing to people who 
want more in depth experience. We also send people to other projects, and 
accept people from other areas. This is a 100% volunteer project, no one is 
getting paid. I've been doing this since 2009 and involved on the reservation 
since 2005. We are really excited to be working with this team that is going 
up;  lots of great skill sets amongst this crowd!  We have a Kickstarter 
campaign going that we wanted to let you know about - any amount
 really helps! We make it go very, very far. It took a long time for 
kickstarter to get us through the approval process which is why it's so last 
minute. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/892430421/permablitz-for-pine-ridge-reservation-2013


Many of the people on the rez have it rough. Their houses are often not 
insulated well; organic, fresh food can only be found in Rapid City which is 
100 or more miles away for many on the rez; life span is only 49 years for 
Lakota male; diabetes and heart disease are epidemic with more than 1/2 adult 
Lakota with diabetes; unemployment is 80% or more; many other problems. But 
yet there are numerous positive things happening on the reservation and we 
are working to support those things and provide more energy to existing 
momentum there (working with what is there, rather than against it).  

We can use many tools, wheelbarrows, and other equipment for people who want 
to garden and plant fruit trees. There will be many who will learn during 
this process. We're taking up plants and cuttings, including aloe which 
people can put in their kitchens and can't be found locally, and perennial 
greens they can grow indoors and have some freshness even in winter. 

We are integrating systems wherever possible -we will be installing a couple 
of bee hives for a Lakota beekeeper and looking for numerous ways to 
integrate that, planting wind breaks around orchards, and taking many steps 
to create good soils that can support the life there very well, working with 
the characteristics of the land to create water capture in a number of ways.  
 

We'll be using a number of drylands water catchment techniques, working with 
every tool we can to capture water - one of the top reasons for tree failure 
there is drought and we want to create systems that can go in with watering 
by truck a few times per year so we can plant thousands of trees in a way 
that they will survive even if something happens sometimes and the truck does 
not make it. We have continued to interview orchardists and others who have 
experience with edibles in harsh environments - anybody that wants to share 
stories and data, we are grateful. We'd like to plant thousands of perennial 
edibles on the reservation over the next few years and then do it on other 
rez's, or help others to do it by sharing info, resources, etc. 

So please consider donating and sharing this with others who might be 
interested. $25 will sponsor a tree (and we'll let you know where we plant 
it), but any amount will be greatly appreciated and used well. 

We are taking donations of goods - we have listed our needs on our permablitz 
facebook page at: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/permablitzpineridge/doc/491988147514969/
We can always use native plant seeds and starts (though must be in season, or 
fall seeds are ok too), especially edibles. 

Address to mail stuff is: Ogalala-Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitilization 
Initaitive (or OLCERI), HC 66 Box 21
Chadron, NE 69337-9601. If you don't want to do Kickstarter but would still 
like to contribute, you can do so via our partner non-profit, Earth Learning 
at:  http://www.permacultureguild.us/category/donate/
 
Koreen Brennan

www.growpermaculture.com
www.facebook.com/growpermaculturenow
www.meetup.com/sustainable-urban-agriculture-coalition
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Not sure why this is a subject for this group except as a forewarning!  It
certainly has an amped up GMO quality about it!  Shivers my timbers!!
Scott

"The real proof of intelligence is demonstrating that you understand
how to integrate living systems together so that everybody's life is
improved in the whole food web. The landscapes are littered with
burned out farms and burned out rivers and burned out oceans -- that
is not any display of intelligence. Pay your farmworkers fair wages,
regardless of their species, and grow brains instead of chemical
industry fortunes." -- Lion Kunz

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Subject: [permaculture] Cities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And
3-D Printers | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Cities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And 3-D Printers

Written by: Chris
Arkenberg<http://www.fastcoexist.com/users/chris-arkenberg>

As scientists make huge strides in robotics, natural building materials,
and new construction methods, our urban architecture could take on a much
different form than the rigid construction we're used to.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681891/cities-of-the-future-built-by-drones-bact
eria-and-3-d-printers

"Innovations emerging across the disciplines of additive manufacturing,
synthetic biology, swarm robotics, and architecture suggest a future
scenario when buildings may be designed using libraries of biological
templates and constructed with biosynthetic materials able to sense and
adapt to their conditions. Construction itself may be handled by bacterial
printers and swarms of mechanical assemblers.

Tools like Project Cyborg make possible a deeper exploration of biomimicry
through the precise manipulation of matter. David Benjamin and his Columbia
Living Architecture Lab explore ways to integrate biology into
architecture. Their recent work investigates bacterial manufacturing--the
genetic modification of bacteria to create durable materials. Envisioning a
future where bacterial colonies are designed to print novel materials at
scale, they see buildings wrapped in seamless, responsive, bio-electronic
envelopes."
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