Lake Road to Copenhagen

2009 Permaculture
Cooperative R&D
Australia
Lake Rd, Newcastle,
Australia
Tom Toogood
Toogood’s open-garden day
Toogood’s eco-social garden
Maryland Gaia House
Gaia, open-house day
Croation Club community
gardens
Croation Club, Islington
Croation Club
Permaculture College
Australia
Djangbung Gardens
Robyn Francis, Nimbin
Sustainable Homes,
Armidale
Transition Towns, Armidale
 USA
• California
– LosAngeles
– SanFrancisco
• New York
California
Transition Los Angeles
Botanic Gardens, Los
Angeles
LA Botanic Garden
Permaculture/Organics, LA
Botanic
Cactus Roof Gardens, Getty
Museum, Los Angeles
Santa Monica Markets
Laguna Beach, Orange
County
Portland, Oregon
San Francisco
Local resistance
Cycling Culture San
Francisco
Antique Small Cars
New Small Cars
Zipcar – internet-hire-car
Electric Vehicle
Parking station, San
Francisco
Community Garden, San
Francisco
Argonne Community, School
Garden
Womans Building, The
Mission
Street Art, The Mission
Grafitti?, The Mission
Grafitti?, The Mission
Street art, San Francisco
Coastal Forest, Marin
County
Coastal forest, Marin County
Green & Tonic
Berkeley Farmers Market
David Cody, San Francisco
Permaculture Guild
Mandela Foods worker-coop,
Oakland
Greenstreets, Manhattan
Vertical Gardens, Bioneers
Vertical Gardens, Bioneers
Times Square, Manhattan
Brooklyn Markets
Brooklyn Botanic organic
garden
Brooklyn community
gardens
Brooklyn, community
gardens
Brooklyn, community
gardens
The Village, Manhatten
Free Permaculture, Riverside
Church, Manhatten
Totnes, UK
World HQ Transition
Movement
(Not) transition (grumpy)
pilgrim
Schumacher College
Basque Country
Pays-Basque village garden
Mondragon
Mondragon or Arrasate in
Basque
 Mondragon Cooperative
• Mondragon Cooperative largest
worker-cooperative in world
• 120 worker-cooperatives
• 100 000 plus worker-owners
• Global enterprise
• Started by Catholic priest
• Global corporation making consumer
goods
Mondragon tour
Arrasate
Arrasate
Fagor
Moldcam
Mondragon Grafitti
Grafitti artists, Mondragon
Basque Independence
Save the Nature
Catalonia
Barcelona University
Grafitti, Barcelona
Barcelona graffiti
Barcelona graffiti
Barcelona Bikes
Spain
Celtis Australis, the tree
Madrid Organic Royal
Botanic
Organic tomato, Madrid
Don Quixote: tilting at
windmills
53% Spanish Energy from
Wind
Olive oil, monoculture
Industrial Greenhouses
Industrial greenhouse
Copenhagen, Denmark

Klimaforum09, the Peoples

Summit
41% Copenhagen
commuters cycle
 Klimaforum09
• does not just work for climate
change, it works for systems change
• a forum where activists start working
with grassroots
• network for activists/grassroots
• practical actions meet radical actions
Tony Andersen, Activist to
Grassroots
Tony Andersen, 10 000
Trees
 10 000 Trees Strategy

A Practical Strategy for Climate

Change
1 TON CO2 / 10.000 TREES
PROJECT
Permaculture
Climate change
Carbon sink in ecology: trees,
mostly soil
More 10,000 TREES / person /
lifetime
Less 1 TON CO2 / person / year
Failing U.N. Climate Conference
process
Parallel activist/grassroots
 2 Aspects
Planetary Global Energy
Permaforestry Descent
10 000 Trees per 1 ton C02 quota
person per person per
Global re- year
afforestation 100 Euro Carbon
project tax after 1st ton
Perennial 100 Euro tax pays
polyculture for planetary
Agroecology permaforestry
 Permaculture
Permaculture - the idea, practice
and global and local success
Ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair
Share
Perennial Polyculture i.e. food
forests, ecological argriculture,
organic
 "On one level, permaculture deals with plants, animals,
buildings, infrastructures (water, energy, communications).
However, permaculture is not about these elements
themselves, but rather about the relationships we can
create between them by the way we place them in the
landscape."
 Climate Change
Climate Change - the massive
catastrophic problem
Climate change is real, probably
worse IPCC
Carbon Finance is dangerous
Climate change denial is universal
Coal is the worst source, and must
be stopped
 Carbon sink
Carbon sink - a new category for
locking, permanently ecology as
carbon sinks in forest and soil
New global land-use category is
Carbon Sink
Local perennial polyculture,
ecological agriculture scales to
global solution
 Less than 1 TON CO2 pr.
person pr. year
Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr.
year - global energy descent and
emissions reductions targets
1 tonne per lifeyear (per person) quota
of carbon emissions, after which a
carbon tax
carbon tax of 100 euro per tonne
all companies and international
transport pay 100 euro per tonne
carbon markets & carbon trading
U.N. Climate Conference
2009
failure of the official process
danger of carbon finance
 Permaculture network
The Permaculture network -
massively expanding a global,
democratic, locally-controlled
permaculture network
Expand from 500 global institutes to
thousands
 100 Euro / Ton Carbon
Tax
carbon tax of 100 Euro per tonne
all companies and international
transport pay 100 euro per tonne i.e.
no quota
carbon markets & carbon trading
are stopped
carbon tax spent on perennial
polyculture (permaculture) style
forestry programs
 Permaforestry
carbon tax spent on perennial
polyculture (permaculture) style
forestry programs
perennial polyculture and soil become
carbon sinks
local permaculture groups implement
10 000 trees program, expanding
existing permaculture institutes from a
few hundred into the 10s of thousands
if 5000-7000 trees can be planted per
person in the next 25 years we can
stablise extreme climate change
Soil & Tree Carbon Sinks
best means to take C02 (GHG) from
the atmosphere is not technical
means, it is trees
Most carbon is sequestered
(trapped) in soil, partly in trees
 Resources
10 000 Trees at
Permaculture.TV

http://permaculture.tv/?s=10+000+tree

International Permaculture
Council
http://www.inpermcou.org/
Climate Circus Copenhagen
Size of 1 Tonne C02
Sustainability Market
Climate social circuit
Permakltur Denmark stall
Permaculture America
Latina
Juan, El Salvador pioneer
Cuban permaculture
Narsana, Indian permaculture
pioneer
Walter, IPC9
India water permaculture
pioneer
Chavez, communist
dictator?
FOE International chief
Brazilian permaculture
Copenhagen streets
 Contacts

• Nicholas Roberts & Kirstie Stramler

• Permaculture Cooperative
• permaculturecoop@gmail.com
• News.permaculture.coop
• PermacultureGroups.org
• www.Permaculture.TV