This document discusses permaculture and climate change solutions. It proposes a "10,000 Trees" planetary permaculture strategy to address climate change through increasing carbon sinks like trees and soil. Permaculture is presented as a movement working on sustainability through cooperation and design principles like earth care, fair share, and people care. Related movements discussed include transition towns, natural sequence farming, and organic farming. The document outlines permaculture applications in areas like urban food, schools, and broad-acre farming as well as permaculture networks and institutions around the world.

1. Permaculture Cooperation:
Climate Change & Peak Debt
Transition to Permaculture through
Cooperation

2. “Permaculture is more than
a gardening system”
Bill Mollison

3. 3 Ethics
• Earth Care
• Fair Share
• People Care

4. “perennial polyculture vs
annual monoculture”

5. Context
State of the local & global

6. Global Change
“Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure”

7. US Environment Concerns: Gallup
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126560/Americans-Global-Warming-Concerns-
Continue-Drop.aspx

8. Upper Hunter Valley Environment
http://www.hvrf.com.au/pages/design/links/uploaded/UpperHunterEn
vironmentalAttitudesPaper2008-09v2_000.pdf

9. Corporate Climate Coup
• David F Noble, historian of science
• Corporate Denial Campaign: Greenhouse
Mafia
• Corporate Climate Traders: Carbon Finance
• Climate Justice Movement: Klimaforum, Via
Campesina, Permaculture networks, Transition
Network etc
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-corporate-climate-coup-by-david-f-noble
http://permaculture.tv/?s=corporate+climate+coup

10. System: Planet Earth
• Neo-liberal globalisation
• Multinational Corporations
• Industrial Mass-Consumerism
• Financial “Markets”, “Free Trade” “Free
Markets”
• World Trade Organisation, International
Monetary Fund
• World Bank (Carbon Finance)
• United Nations (Security Council, UNESCO,
IPCC, IAKTD etc)

11. Anthropocene
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/anthropocene.htm
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Anthropogenic_biomes

12. Geoengineering
• We are doing it now
• But badly
• Lots of BIG Science/Big Tech/BIG Business
schemes i.e. mirrors in space, algae in ocean,
artificial or GMO trees
• The best means to take C02 out of the air is
not technical means, but trees (and soil)
• Industrial Biochar Consortium
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020477130457418152
2575503150.html

13. Human Welfare and Ecological
Footprints

14. Limits to Growth
• Peak Population
• Peak Oil
• Peak Coal
• Peak Soil
• Peak Water
• Peak Moment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

15. Environmental Refugees
http://www.agassessment.org/

16. Wilderness? 10% more than 48 hrs
Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility.

17. Conservation Refugees
“indigenous tribal peoples, like endangered species, are being driven to
extinction. Their languages are swiftly dying and we're losing a huge
resource in their invaluable knowledge derived from millennia in their
respective homelands. Environmentalists, determined to preserve
biological systems and entities, should now be equally driven to
preserve aboriginal cultures.”
Conservation Refugees

18. Peak Debt
Debt-based economies

19. What is Peak Debt?
• Hubbert Peak in debt
• Economies from individuals, households,
national economies
• Point where the ability to repay to
interest/fees etc beyond the income of the
debtor
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peak-debt.asp

20. Plutonomy
• Ajay Kapur, 2006, global strategist Citigroup,
defined six factors create and maintain
plutonomy:
1. business-friendly government and tax policies
2. increasingly complex financial systems
3. control of the rule of law
4. globalization
5. technology changes
6. patent protection
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/01/08/plutonomics/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Plutonomy

21. Tax Havens
• Too many tax havens
• Used by corporations & individuals to avoid
paying any tax
• International elite profit from the global local,
but never pay back except in philantro-
capitalism
• Fund drugs, crime, slavery, war, profiteering,
specualation
• Mainstream and accessible

22. Shadow Banking
• “the whole alphabet soup of levered up non-
bank investment conduits, vehicles, and
structures.”
• June 2008 speech, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner, then President and CEO of the NY Federal
Reserve Bank, described the growing importance of
the shadow banking system.. lending through the
shadow banking system slightly exceeded lending via
the traditional banking system based on outstanding
balances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banking_system

23. Only the Super Rich Can Save Us
• Ralph Nader “novel”
• At best calling-out the
plutocrats to share
some load
• At worst a sell-out
fantasy
http://onlythesuperrich.org/

24. Financialisation
• Financialisation vs. Investment
• % of finance in real production has declined
• % of finance in speculation has increased
• Financialisation of household mortgages
• Financialisation of atmosphere under carbon
trading (ETS etc)
• Financialisation of ecosystems

25. Capitalism vs. Corporatocracy
• Free markets for the poor, socialism for the
rich
• “George Bush started as a social conservative
and ended as a conservative socialist”
• Ronald Reagan create the biggest government
in US history, that continues
http://busharchive.froomkin.com/BL2008101701408_pf.htm

26. War and other Luxuries
• Luxury economy, fashionable consumption
• Created wants vs. real needs
• War is the ultimate luxury item

27. Disaster Capitalism
• Naomi Klein author “No Logo”, “Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”
• Iraq, AfPak, New Orleans, Russia
• Complex of military, private security and
logistics contractors
• More private military (mercenaries) in AfPak %
than in Iraq under Bush
• Foreign Aid
• Now Haiti

28. Futures
What could we expect ?

29. Revenge of Gaia
• Environmental War Economy
• Miitarization of climate change, Disaster
Capitalism, Green Zones
• Mega-cities, wilderness, “countryside”
• Sudden, violent climate change & megadeath,
mass-extinction with probable world war
(resource wars, environmental refugees)
• Gaia Bible and a New Eden
• James Lovelock “Revenge of Gaia”

30. McGaia
• Carbon farming (“soft” organics)
• Genetically modified organisms + “organics”
• Second Green Revolution
• Corporate industrial perennial polyculture
• Corporations, Employees and Consumers vs.
cooperative farmer & industrial ecology
• Social, genetic and geo-engineering
• Push advertising
McGaia
http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP179.pdf
Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

31. Re-Generative Gaia
Coevolution NOT Competition / Commons &
Cooperative based
• Democratic Carbon
• Planetary permaforestry
• Global energy convergance
– Global North Energy Descent
– Global South Energy Ascent
• 10 000 Trees: Strategy for Climate Change
• Small Organic Farmers Cooling the Planet
• Ag Assessment, IAKTD

32. Permaculture
State of the movement

33. Permaculture ?
• “permanent agriculture”
• “permanent culture”
• Utopian ideal
• Open global design
system
• Sustainability framework Mollison, Holmgren, Cran (APC9)
• Social movement
• International network
• Accredited Permaculture
Training (AUS)
• FarmReady (AUS)

34. Permaculture Movement
• Klimaforum09 Copenhagen
• IPC9 Africa
• APC10 Cairns
• 4000 sites (Ethan Roland)
• 500 institutes (Tony
Andersen)
• Transition Movement
• Education via schools,
technical colleges,
universities (global)
• Subsidies for farmers (AUS)
Bill Mollison “Senior Australian of the Year 2010 – National Finalist”

35. System Change Not Climate
Change
• Klimaforum09 slogan
• “we don’t work for climate change, we work
for systems change”
• Klimaforum Declaration delivered by El
Salvadorian (former Australian immigre) Juan

36. Planetary Permaculture
• Democratic Industrial Ecology
• Nested Common Pool Resources
• Democratic Work & Communities
• Planetary Permaforestry (global ecological
agriculture)
• Perennial Polyculture
• Social, peer-peer, cooperative, coeveolution
• Open manufacturing & food

37. Transition
• The Rocky Road to Real Transition
• Combination of Resilience & Resistance
Strategies
• New Sustainability Paradigm
• Democratic, Participation in Ongoing
Planetary Design

38. Permaculture: 3 Ethics & 12 Principles

39. 3 Ethics
•Earth Care
•Fair Share
•People Care

40. 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_principles

41. Permaculture Flower
http://permacultureprinciples.com/flower.php

42. Home Gardens

43. School Gardens

44. Community Gardens

45. Sustainable Homes, Armidale

46. Transition Towns, Armidale

47. Village Homes, Davis
http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/

48. LA Botanic:Permaculture/Organics

49. Permaculture Guilds & Groups
http://www.permaculture-sf.org/
http://www.18thandrhodeisland.org/

50. Accredited Permaculture Training
http://permaculture.com.au/online/

51. Seed Savers Networks

52. Farmers Markets

53. Mandela Foods worker-coop, Oakland

54. Free Permaculture
Riverside Church, Manhattan

55. Street Culture

56. 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

57. 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

58. Urban Food
• Wall Street Journal
• Gates Foundation
• Detroit
• US Social Forum

59. Broad-Acre Permaculture
• Darren Doherty
• Fellow travellers
• Natural Sequence
Farming of Peter
Andrews
• Allan Yeomans of
Keyline
• Agroecology
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Ecological Agriculture

60. Carbon Farming

61. Keyline and Carbon Farming
Fusion Farms, VIC

62. Commonwealth Policy
• Liberal-National Policy
• Labor Party Policy
• Carbon Sequestration
Payments to Farmers
for Soil and Plant
(Ecology)

63. Regenerative Agriculture
• Joe Salatin
• Darren Doherty
• others
• AUS/NZ
• FarmReady
• Milkwood, Felix etc
http://www.regenag.com

64. Organic Farming
• International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements “relies on ecological processes
rather than the use of inputs.”
• Oceania, with some 12.1 million hectares, has
more than one third of the land being farmed
organically, most of which is in Australia
Vital Signs: Organic Agriculture

65. Organic vs GMO Farming
• More than three
times as much
land is devoted to
genetically
modified crops
than organics
• Less than 1
percent of the
world’s
agricultural land
is now managed
organically.3
http://www.agassessment.org/
Vitalsigns WorldWatch: Organic Agriculture

66. Related
Movements
Concurrent movements

67. Natural Sequence Farming
• Peter Andrews
• Australian Story (most popular ever)
• Of Droughts and Flooding Rains
• Right As Rain

68. 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, Image: Carbon Coalition
substantially reduced or
ceased irrigation and
adopted a more holistic,
natural approach to farm
management.” 2009, Sydney Morning Herald

69. Natural Sequence Farming Principles
• Natural sequences can be harnessed
• A farming system founded on working with
nature
• Maximum natural outcomes with minimum
financial and manufactured inputs
• NSF can be applied to Grazing
• NSF can be applied to Agriculture
• Sustainable Landscape Outcomes under Natural
Sequence Farming
http://www.nsfarming.com/Principles/principles2.html

70. World HQ Transition Movement
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-fame/

71. 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-fame/

72. (Not) transition (grumpy) pilgrim
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-fame/

73. Schumacher College
http://permaculture.tv/photos-of-totnes-of-transition-towns-totnes-fame/

74. 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.”
Transition Culture response to Trapese

75. The Rocky Road to a Real Transition
• “One of the aspects of their
critique of Transition is that
it shies away from directly
confronting what they see
as being the enemy. Their
starting point can be
summed up in the sentence
“it is fundamentally
important to identify and
name the cenemies in the
battle to make a real
Transition””
• Transition Culture response
to Trapese

76. Next Generaration Permaculture
Institutions, Sectors, Systems & Industries
• Urban & Rural Food
• Town Planning (TTT?)
• Cities (TTT?)
• Organisations ?
• Manufacturing ?
• Government ?
• Politics ?
• Trade ?
• Education ?
• Barter?
http://www.symbiosis.dk/industrial-symbiosis.aspx

77. Copenhagen, Denmark
Klimaforum09, the Peoples Summit

78. Climate Circus Copenhagen

79. Sustainability Market

80. Climate social circuit

81. Permakultur Denmark stall

82. Cuban permaculture
http://permaculture.tv/cuba-permaculture-power-roberto-perez-climate-change-before-peak-oil/

83. Narsana, Indian permaculture pioneer
http://permaculture.tv/india-permaculture-pioneer-narsanna-koppula-of-aranya/

84. Walter, IPC9 Organiser
http://permaculture.tv/africa-permaculture-report-klimaforum09/

85. Padma, India water permaculture
pioneer
http://permaculture.tv/indian-permaculture-report-klimaforum09/

86. Brazilian permaculture

87. 41% Copenhagen commuters cycle

88. 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

89. Permaforestry

90. “10 000 Trees” Planetary
Permaculture Strategy
A Practical Strategy for Climate Change

91. Tony Andersen, 10 000 Trees

92. Planetary Permaculture “10 000 Trees”
Strategy
 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 conference
Klimaforum
 International permaculture network

93. 2 Aspects of 10 000 Trees
 Planetary  Global Energy Descent
Permaforestry  1 ton C02 quota per
 10 000 Trees per person per year
person  100 Euro Carbon tax
 Global re-afforestation after 1st ton
project  100 Euro tax pays for
 Perennial polyculture planetary
 Agroecology permaforestry
 Food sovereignty
 Ecological agriculture

94. 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

95. 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

96. Cooperation
more powerful than competition

97. Informal Cooperation
• Movements
• Informal economy
• Community economics
• Household sector
• Gift economy
• Barter economy
• Clubs
• Associations
• Special Events
• Church

98. Formal Cooperation
• Incorporated • Consumer Cooperatives
Cooperatives • Producer Cooperatives
• Mutual Societies • Housing Cooperatives
• Building Societies • Rural Cooperatives
• Incorporated • Worker Cooperatives
Associations • Marketing Cooperatives
• Industrial & Provident • Social Cooperatives
Societies
• School Cooperatives
• Hybrid Cooperatives

99. Cooperation
• Mutualism is an interaction
between two or more
species, where both
species derive a mutual
benefit
• Similar interactions within
a species are known as co-
operation
• mutualism has historically
received less attention
than other interactions
such as predation
Wikipedia: Biological_interaction

100. 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/

101. Elinor Ostrom
• Nobel Prize for
Economics 2009
for "her analysis
of economic
governance,
especially the
commons“
Nobel Prize lecture
Photo: Arizona State University

102. Nobel for Ostrom on Commons
• “by showing how common resources—
forests, fisheries, oil fieldsor grazing lands, can be
managed successfully by the people who use them,
rather than by governments or private companies”.
Ostrom’s work in this regard,
challenged conventional wisdom, showing that
common resources can be successfully managed
without government regulation or privatization ”
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Ostrom

103. Commons
Old Commons New Commons
• Fisheries • Internet
• Forests • Knowledge
• Atmosphere • Wikipedia
• Grazing lands
http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/

104. Donella Mathews
•Limits to Growth 1972
•12 Leverage Points to
Intervene in a System
•Systems Thinking: A
Primer
•Sustainability Institute
•Global Village Report
(if the world was 100
people)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows

105. 12 Leverage Points (12-9)
• 12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as
subsidies, taxes, standards)
• 11. The size of buffers and other stabilizing
stocks, relative to their flows
• 10. Structure of material stocks and flows
(such as transport network, population age
structures)
• 9. Length of delays, relative to the rate of
system changes

106. 12 Leverage Points (8-5)
• 8. Strength of negative feedback loops,
relative to the effect they are trying to correct
against
• 7. Gain around driving positive feedback loops
• 6. Structure of information flow (who does
and does not have access to what kinds of
information)
• 5. Rules of the system (such as incentives,
punishment, constraints)

107. 12 Leverage Points (4-1)
• 4. Power to add, change, evolve, or self-
organize system structure
• 3. Goal of the system
• 2. Mindset or paradigm that the system — its
goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters —
arises out of
• 1. Power to transcend paradigms

108. Peer to Peer Foundation
http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives

109. Homebrew Industrial Revolution
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/

110. Riversimple
http://www.riversimple.com

111. 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/

112. OpenFarm Tech
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=LifeTrac

113. Farmer to Farmer Movement
Juan N. Rojas, Presidente, Instituto de Permacultura de El Salvador

114. Global Sustainability Corps
http://globalsustainabilitycorps.org/

115. Permaculture America Latina

116. 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

117. Cooperatives
Why not the default?

118. Cooperatives vs. Corporations
Corporations Cooperatives
• Dominant human institution • Damaged human institution
• Any industry • Any Industry
• Tyrannical • Democratic
• Wage Slave • Member-owner
• Manager Surveillance • Worker-Management
• Agency Problems • Capitalisation Problems
• Legal amplification • Legal deprecation
• State subsidies • State dis-incentives

119. International Cooperative Alliance
http://www.ica.coop/coop/statistics.html

120. 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

121. 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?)

122. Totnes Pound
http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/totnespound/home/howitworks

123. Mondragon

124. Mondragon or Arrasate in Basque

125. 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

126. COOPERATIVES WITHIN
MONDRAGON
•INDUSTRIAL 87
•CREDIT 1
•CONSUMER 1
•AGRICULTURAL 4
•EDUCATION 8
•RESEARCH 13
•SERVICES 6
•TOTAL 120 cooperatives
MIKEL LEZAMIZ www.mondragon.coop

127. MONDRAGON CO-OPERATIVES
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
SALES 9.638M 10406M 11.859M 13.390 M 16 300 M
euros
euro
INTERNATIONAL 2.555M 2.699M 54% 57% 58%
SALES BY
INDUSTRIES
INVESTMENT 836M 784M 1.081M 1.243 M 2 800 M euro
euros
PERSONNEL 68.625 70.884 78.455 83.601 100 000
NET PROFITS 411M 502M 545M 677 M 792 M euro
euros
MIKEL LEZAMIZ www.mondragon.coop

128. Mondragon Cooperative
GENERAL
SUPREME BOARD
ASSEMBLY
ACCOUNTING WATCHDOG
AUDITORS COMMITEE
GOVERNING
RUNNING BOARD COUNCIL
SOCIAL COUNCIL ADVISING BOARD
GENERAL
EXECUTIVE BOARD
MANAGER
MANAGEMENT
COUNCIL
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT
MANAGER MANAGER MANAGER MANAGER MANAGER
A B C D E
MIKEL LEZAMIZ www.mondragon.coop

129. Structure in MONDRAGON
CONGRESS
Permanent Council
GENERAL COUNCIL
INDUSTRIAL GROUP
Automotive
FINANCIAL GROUP
Components
Construction
Industrial Equipment
Domestic Appliances
Engineering and Capital Goods
Machine-Tools
Training and Research Centres
MIKEL LEZAMIZ www.mondragon.coop

130. Mondragon Framework
COOP COOP
COOP COOP
COOP
COOP COOP
RESEARCH AND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
EDUCATIONAL
FINANCIAL
MIKEL LEZAMIZ www.mondragon.coop

131. Mondragon Coop Tour

132. Arrasate

133. Arrasate

134. Caja Laboral
Caja Laboral’s profit after tax for 2009 came to
56.5 million euros, which is 43.8% down on
the figure posted in 2008.

135. Fagor

136. Mondragon Grafitti

137. Grafitti artists, Mondragon

138. Basque Independence

139. Save the Nature

140. Emilia-Romagna
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=623

141. Worker Coop Credit Union Brent Emerson
Proposal Mike Leung
Worker Cooperative
Employment
Entrepreneurial Startup/Expand
Activities Worker Coops
Loans
Credit
Union
Deposits Deposits
Grassroots Support for Established Worker
Worker Cooperatives Cooperatives

142. Permaculture Credit Union
• The Permaculture Credit Union pools the financial
resources of people who believe in the ethics of
Permaculture - care of the earth, care of people,
and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of
both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly
and socially responsible loans and investments.
http://www.pcuonline.org/

143. 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/

144. 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/

145. 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/

146. New Economics Cooperatives
• Former head of New Economics Foundation now
head of Cooperative Group
• Interested in new economy cooperatives such as
open-source software communities
• Co-op Fortnight
• Transition Movement links

147. UK Cooperatives
• Tories Policy to • UK Labour Party to
allow/facilitate public make “mutualism” a key
service agencies to to election staretgy,
“privatise” and become platform etc
worker-cooperatives or
employee-owned
agencies within a
service network

148. Suggestions
What can be done?

149. 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/

150. New Commons Design Principles
Ostrom identifies eight “design principles” of stable local common
pool resource management [4]
1. Clearly defined boundaries
2. Local rules for giving and taking of commons
3. Collective decision-making process
4. Effective monitoring accountable to users
5. Scale of sanctions for violating resource community rules
6. Conflict resolution cheap and easy to access
7. Self-determination of community recognized by higher-level
authorities;
8. organization in the form of multiple layers of nested
enterprises, with small local commons at the base level.
Source: Wikipedia

151. Democratic Carbon
• What would happen if
we made the entire
Carbon Cycle
democratic? Not
political, but
democratic. Not just the
science, but the
industry too, the
business of energy (oil,
gas) and agriculture
(food and fibre) ?
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/climatewar/blog/2009/11/30/democratic
-carbon-carbon-dictatorship-the-climate-circus/

152. Permaculture Credit Unions
• Why not a PCU in
every town ?
• If farmers get carbon
credits why not
households?
• Can local credit unions
establish special funds http://www.rootstock.org.uk/
? http://www.malenycu.com.au/
http://www.pcuonline.org/
http://www.australianethical.com.au/

153. Rural Broad Acre Permaculture Coop
• A broad-acre and rural permaculture cooperative
• Technical, financial, legal assistance for members
• Pool resources for Keyline, Earthworks, perennial
polyculture
http://www.permacultureusa.org/2009/12/03/sustainable-land-management-
course/

154. Rights of Nature
• Ecosystems have rights “Suits brought to enforce
• People have rights as those rights shall be
part of ecosystems filed in the name of the
• Ecuadors Constitution natural communities or
ecosystem whose rights
• Bolivia holding climate have been violated.”
summit in April to
declare a Universal
Declaration of Natural
Rights World People's Conference on Climate Change
and the Rights of Mother Earth
http://www.celdf.org/Ordinances/RightsofNatureOrdinance/tabid/133/Default.aspx

155. Cooperative Development
• Cooperative reform and resurgence in UK (Tories
& Labor), Australia (NSW leading)
• Change: Cooperatives have to adapt or die.
• Challenge: The modern global economy is hard.
• Capital: To grow and compete, co-ops
need funds, and laws financing innovations.
• Clusters: Clustering cooperative development
increases synergy, solidarity and reciprocity
Derived http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=623

156. Industrial Symbiosis
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Kalundborg,_Denmark

157. Climate Change: 12 Leverages
• 12. Constants: Carbon Tax, • 6. Information flow: Democratic
Carbon Price government, science & media,
• 11. Buffers: Carbon independent internet
Sequestration • 5. System Rules: Emissions
• 10. Structures: Carbon Sink (10k Standards, Pollution Laws,
Trees) Polluter Pays, Rights of Nature
• 9. Delays: Energy Descent Global • 4. Power Change: Direct &
North Radical Democracy
• 8. Negative Feedback: Climate • 3. Goal: Climate Justice (10k
Movement, Environmental Trees)
Protection Agencies, Natures • 2. Mindset or paradigm:
Rights Litigation Planetary Permaculture
• 7. Positive feedback: Carbon • 1. Power to transcend paradigms:
Farming, Permaforestry Great Transition

158. Peak Debt: 12 Leverage Points
• 12. Constants: Corporate • 6. Information flow: Total
Tax, Tobin Tax Cost Ownership of Debt
• 11. Buffers: Capital • 5. System Rules: Usury
Reserves Laws, Regulations
• 10. Structures: Social • 4. Power Change: Close Tax
Finance Havens, Shutdown Shadow
• 9. Delays: Less Banking
Consumption, Slow Money • 3. Goal: Democratic Finance
• 8. Negative Feedback: Tobin • 2. Mindset or paradigm:
Tax, Financial Regulation Hierarchy of Needs
• 7. Positive feedback: Credit • 1. Power to transcend
Unions, Mutuals paradigms: Human and
Ecological Growth

159. Planet Permaculture: 12 Leverages
• 12. Constants: Permaculture • 6. Information flow: Media
Index Ecology
• 11. Buffers: Permaculture Free • 5. System Rules: Permaculture
Zones Law
• 10. Structures: Permaculture • 4. Power Change: Direct &
Commons Radical Democracy
• 8. Negative Feedback: Popular • 3. Goal: Planet Permaculture
Inquiries, Citizen Juries • 2. Mindset or paradigm:
• 9. Delays: Long termism Regenerative Gaia
• 8. Negative feedback: • 1. Power to transcend paradigms:
Permaculture planning laws & Transition to Permaculture via
regulations Cooperation
• 7. Positive feedback: Democratic
Permaculture Networks

160. Events
What can be done?

161. Coop Fortnight, UK
http://www.thereisanalternative.coop/

162. APC10 - Australasian Permaculture
Convergence
• Cairns, September 2010
• Practical pathways to
stepping up permaculture
learning in local
communities around
Australasia.
• We'll learn what's working
effectively and why.
http://apc10.org/

163. Fair Share Festival, Newcastle
TBD, Coming soon
possibly

164. Permaculture Cooperative
Transition to Permaculture via Cooperation
Products
• Permaculture.TV – videos
• News.Permaculture.Coop - news
• PermacultureGroups – groups
Planned
• Permacultura.coop – Spanish &Portugese

165. Contacts
• Nicholas Roberts & Kirstie Stramler
• Permaculture Cooperative
• permaculturecoop@gmail.com
• News.permaculture.coop
• PermacultureGroups.org
• www.Permaculture.TV