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Permaculture
Cooperation to
Save the World
Transition to Permaculture
through Cooperation
Overview
• Context
• Permaculture
• Related
• Cooperation
• Cooperatives
• Ideas
• Solutions
• Contacts
“Permaculture is more
than a gardening
system”
Bill Mollison
“perennial polyculture
vs annual
monoculture”
3 Ethics
• Earth Care
• Fair Share
• People Care
Context
State of the local & global
Global Change
http://www.agassessment.org/
Conservation Refugees
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/anthropocene.ht
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Anthropogenic_biomes
Wilderness? 10% more
than 48 hrs
• Earth Care
• Fair Share
• People Care
Holmgren’s 12 Design
Principles
1. Observe and interact
2. Catch and store energy
3. Obtain a yield
4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback
5. Use and value renewable resources and
services
6. Produce no waste
7. Design from patterns to details
8. Integrate rather than segregate
9. Use small and slow solutions
10.Use and value diversity
11.Use edges and value the marginal
12.Creatively use and respond to change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture#Holmgren.27s_12_design_princi
Permaculture Flower
http://permacultureprinciples.com/flower.php
Home Gardens
School Gardens
Community Gardens
Sustainable Homes,
Armidale
Transition Towns,
Armidale
Village Homes, Davis
http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/
LA
Botanic:Permaculture/Or
ganics
Permaculture Guilds &
Groups
http://www.permaculture-sf.org/
http://www.18thandrhodeisland.org/
Accredited Permaculture
Training
http://permaculture.com.au/online/
Seed Savers Networks
Farmers Markets
Mandela Foods worker-
coop, Oakland
Free Permaculture
Riverside Church,
Manhattan
Street Culture
Prince Charles
Permaculture Patron
• “What is so deeply
impressive is the
practical way in which
the Institute
demonstrates how
genuine sustainability
can be achieved by
applying the principles
it has developed.”
• HRH Prince Charles
Permablitz
• started April 2006 as
collaboration between
permaculture students and
a South American
community group in the
South-Eastern suburbs of
Melbourne, Australia.
• 40 permablitzes
• international reputation
successful tool fast-tracking
suburbs towards
sustainability
PermaBlitz
Broad-Acre Permaculture
• Darren Doherty
• Fellow travellers
• Natural Sequence
Farming of Peter
Andrews
• Allan Yeomans of
Keyline
• Agroecology
• Sustainable
Agriculture
• Ecological Agriculture
Carbon Farming
Keyline and Carbon
Farming
http://www.agassessment.org/
Vitalsigns WorldWatch: Organic Agriculture
Related
Concurrent movements
Natural Sequence
Farming
• Peter Andrews
• Australian Story (most popular ever)
• Of Droughts and Flooding Rains
• Right As Rain
Major-General Jeffery &
Peter Andrews
“Major-General Jeffery hopes
that within a decade a third
of Australia's farmers - and
eventually all - will have
stopped using artificial
fertilisers, dramatically
boosted vegetation species,
substantially reduced or
ceased irrigation and Image: Carbon Coalition
adopted a more holistic,
natural approach to farm
management.”
http://www.nsfarming.com/Principles/principles2.ht
World HQ Transition
Movement
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-f
Transition Towns Totnes
• Transition Towns
movement has
evolved into
Transition
Movement
• Transition
Initiatives exist in
rural
areas, villages,
towns and cities.
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-f
(Not) transition (grumpy)
pilgrim
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-f
Schumacher College
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-f
Transition Culture
• “Transition is determinedly inclusive
and non-blaming, arguing that a
successful transition through peak oil
and climate change will by necessity be
about a bringing together of individuals
and organisations, rather than a
continued fracturing and antagonising.”
http://permaculture.tv/cuba-permaculture-power-roberto-perez-climate-change
Narsana, Indian
permaculture pioneer
http://permaculture.tv/india-permaculture-pioneer-narsanna-koppula-of-aran
Walter, IPC9 Organiser
http://permaculture.tv/africa-permaculture-report-klimaforum09/
Padma, India water
permaculture pioneer
http://permaculture.tv/indian-permaculture-report-klimaforum09/
Brazilian permaculture
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
Permaforestry
Tony Andersen, 10 000
Trees
10 000 Trees Strategy
Wikipedia: Biological_interaction
Lynn Margulis
• Theory of symbiotic relationships
driving evolution
• “ believes that proponents of the
standard theory "wallow in their
zoological, capitalistic, competitive,
cost-benefit interpretation of
Darwin”
• Cooperation is greater than
competition - coevolution
• Gaia Theory colloboration with
James Lovelock
• Endosymbiosis / Symbiogensis
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/margulis/
Elinor Ostrom
• Nobel Prize for
Economics 2009
for "her analysis
of economic
governance,
especially
the commons“
http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/
Peer to Peer Foundation
http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives
Homebrew Industrial
Revolution
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/
Riversimple
http://www.riversimple.com
Open Source Ecology
• Open Source Ecology
use permaculture
and
digital fabrication
together to "
evolve to freedom
."
http://www.openfarmtech.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/
OpenFarm Tech
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=LifeTrac
Farmer to Farmer
Movement
http://globalsustainabilitycorps.org/
Permaculture America
Latina
Social Movements
• Permaculture Movement
• Carbon Farming
• Organic Gardening & Farming Movement
• Keyline & Natural Sequence Farming
• Environmental Movement
• Transition Movement
• Climate (Global) Justice Movement
• Social Justice Movement
• Cooperative Movement
• Indigenous & Peasant Movements
• Open-source & Free Culture Movement
Cooperatives
Why not the default?
International
Cooperative Alliance
http://www.ica.coop/coop/statistics.html
Statement of
Cooperative Identity
1. Voluntary and Open Membership
2. Democratic Member Control
3. Member Economic Participation
4. Autonomy and Independence
5. Education, Training and Information
6. Co-operation among Co-operatives
7. Concern for Community
http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html
The Co-operative Group
UK
• UK consumer
cooperative
• Hybrid consumer society
• Direct descendent of
Rochdale Pioneers
• 4.5 million members
• 123 000 employees
• food, travel, banking,
insurance, pharmacy,
funeral, legal services,
investments, online
shop, electrical and beds
(trains?)
Totnes Pound
http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/totnespound/home/howitworks
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
COOPERATIVES WITHIN
MONDRAGON
•INDUSTRIAL 87
•CREDIT 1
•CONSUMER 1
•AGRICULTURAL 4
•EDUCATION 8
•RESEARCH 13
•SERVICES 6
MIKEL LEZAMIZ
Mondragon Cooperative
GENERAL
SUPREME BOARD
ASSEMBLY
ACCOUNTING WATCHDOG
AUDITORS COMMITEE
GOVERNING
RUNNING BOARD COUNCIL
GENERAL
EXECUTIVE BOARD
MANAGER
MANAGEMENT
COUNCIL
MIKEL LEZAMIZ
Structure in MONDRAGON
CONGRESS
Permanent Council
GENERAL COUNCIL
INDUSTRIAL GROUP
Automotive
Components
Construction
Industrial Equipment
Domestic Appliances
Engineering and Capital Goods
Machine-Tools
COOP COOP
COOP COOP
COOP
COOP COOP
RESEARCH AND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
EDUCATIONAL
FINANCIAL
MIKEL LEZAMIZ
Mondragon Coop Tour
Arrasate
Arrasate
Caja Laboral
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=623
Worker Coop Credit Union Brent Emerson
Proposal Mike Leung
Worker Cooperative
Employment
Entrepreneurial Startup/Expa
Activities nd
Worker
Coops
Loans
Credit
Union
Deposits Deposits
http://www.pcuonline.org/
Radical Routes
• Radical Routes is a network
of radical co-ops whose
members are committed to
working for positive social
change. The network is
made up mainly of housing
co-ops of various sizes
(none with more than 16
members), a few workers
co-ops and a couple of
social centres.
http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/
Rootstock
• Rootstock is the ethical investment arm
of Radical Routes. By investing your
money in Rootstock you can financially
support the setting up of grassroots co-
operative projects, enabling people to
take control of their own housing, work
and social life.
http://www.rootstock.org.uk/
Green Worker
Cooperatives
• GREEN WORKER
COOPERATIVES is a
South Bronx-based
organization
dedicated to
incubating worker-
owned and
environmentally
friendly
cooperatives in the
South Bronx.
http://greenworker.coop/
Suggestions
What can be done?
Appropriate Technology
http://www.aprovecho.net/pg/gallery4.htm
http://www.appropedia.org
Community Development
Cooperatives
• “Set up the many simple cooperatives enabling all
the unemployed, homeless, bored, retired, people
to get into the community gardens etc. that would
enable them to start producing many of the basic
things they need. Can we set up co-ops to run a
bakery, bike repair shop, home help service,
insulating operation, clothes making and repairing
operation…. ” Dr Ted Trainer
http://pacific-edge.info/the-trainer-papers-1/
New Commons Design
Principles
Ostrom identifies eight “design principles” of stable local
common pool resource management [4]
http://www.malenycu.com.au/
http://www.pcuonline.org/
http://www.australianethical.com.a
Rural Broad Acre
Permaculture Coop
http://www.celdf.org/Ordinances/RightsofNatureOrdinance/tabid/133/Defa
Cooperative
Development
• Cooperative reform and resurgence in UK
(Tories & Labor), Australia (NSW leading)
Derived http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=623
Industrial Symbiosis
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Kalundborg,_Denmark
LifeBox TM
The Life Box™ was
invented by Paul
Stamets, mycologist,
author and founder
of
Fungi Perfecti®, LLC
. The Life
Box™ suite of
products builds upon
the synergy of fungi
and plants by
infusing spores and
http://www.lifeboxcompany.com/
Seedballs
http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2007/07/
http://kidskorps.org/2009/03/27/590/
Events
What can be done?
Coop Fortnight, UK
http://www.thereisanalternative.coop/
APC10 - Australasian
Permaculture Convergence
• Cairns, September 2010
http://apc10.org/
Fair Share Festival,
Newcastle
TBD, Coming soon
possibly
Permaculture
Cooperative
Transition to Permaculture via Cooperation
Products
• Permaculture.TV – videos
• News.Permaculture.Coop - news
• PermacultureGroups – groups
Planned
• Permacultura.coop – Spanish &Portugese
Contacts