To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Developing a permaculture pre-design process for collapse
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:56:13 -0500
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.