We celebrate International PermaCulture Day 2014, with a bilingual talk (in English & Spanish) that takes an integral perspective on this year's topic: Food Freedom. See www.bit.ly/IPD2014 for program, links & video

1. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that
liberates the planet
3) Food that
liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be
enslaved by
addictions
5) How to free our
meals & economies
from the
Multinationals
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2. Stella & Jose
Coordinator & tutor of
www.IntegralPermaCulture.org
+ Founder member of
www.8thLife.net
Administrator & IT support of
www.IntegralPermaCulture.org
Coordinator animal systems in
www.8thLife.net

3. Health Warning
this presentation could seriously
improve your health
BUT it might also annoy some
people a lot
as we question several
"permaculture holy legumes"
(it turns out cows are, infact, scientifically significant)
so open mind required!

4. To DO Permaculture:
"Start at the end of
your nose!"
so POINTING OUR
NOSES in the right
direction (= what mental
models we use, NOT
recepies!)
turns out to be
really, REALLY
important

5. "Integral" means we point our nose to ALL 4
quadrants, not just the usual external 2
excellent
design
takes good
note of
these,
the internal
quadrants
or
'invisibles'
but ...
we still tend
to think &
design with
'things':
externals,
& rarely join
them up very
well
(designing
larger
systems)

6. COMPONENTS
Site
Energy
Social
Abstract
Technologies, connexions,
structures, …
Legal aids, people, culture,
beliefs, commerce, finance, ...
Time, data, ethics, patterns,
values, motivations, ...
Water, land, climate, plants, soil, ...
DESIGN
is the beneficial asociation
of all of these types of components
The 4 quadrants map
onto the 4 design
components which
DEFINE permaculture
design
& usually we
under-estimate
these, the
"internal
quadrants"
we note that MANY design
errors are due to not taking
into account ALL types of
components
hence the need for
a more Integral
PermaCulture

7. System
(how the whole works,
dynamic)
Physical
(description of its
components)
Inner life
of the frog
(it's subjective
experience)
Social Life
("Frog's Culture",
Life Cycle)

8. • The Via Campesina Movement
• Basic Re-Connecting
• Types of Organic Agriculture
• Some Specific Foods
• Feeding the World
an integral exploration
M3.7 Food Sovereignty
slides + more up at www.bit.ly/RationalFood

9. Food Freedom?
Brandy Agerbeck
1) Food
freedom
of other
species
2) Food
that
liberates
the planet
3) Food
that
liberates
the human
mind &
body
4) How not
to be
enslaved by
addictions
5) How to free our meals
& economies from the Multinationals
0) Question
Holy
Legumes

10. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food
freedom of
other
species
2) Food that liberates
the planet
3) Food that liberates
the human mind &
body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our
meals & economies from
the Multinationals
1

11. 2,014
a.c.
3,000,000
b.c.
Historical Model
from "Ishmael"
by Daniel Quinn
8,000
b.c.
Takers
Leavers
From Class 1.10 of the PDC+++ : Mental models of the Destructo-Culture
"the Civilized"
"the Indigenous"
Where & when humans
started to trespass on
the food freedom
of others

12. the cradle of our
civilization, or
fertile crescent
The Sumerian civilization evolved in this region aprox. 6,000
b.C., built canal systems & the first cities in the world
are Agriculture
AND
Civilization a
type1 error?

13. Cain & Abel
Leavers
Takers
from "Ishmael"
by Daniel Quinn
(Integral PC
pre-Text)

14. Cain & Abel tell the story of the bloody beginnings of civilization
- powered by agriculture
the
Caucasians
(whites >
'the mark of
Cain)
met the
Sumerians
(sheperds)
& killed
+ absorbed
them
Cain
Abel

15. Cain & Abel
Civilized
People
Leavers
Takers
Native
People
370 Million People Face the Threat of Extinction
- And Nobody Is Talking About It
"Any way of life that
perceives the world
around them
as consisting of resources
and not beings
and communities
to enter into these
reciprocal relationships
with, is going to destroy
its land base." Jensen

16. another story FROM
THE LEAVERS p.o.w.
The Garden of Eden
- there was a time
when (even the
Takers) lived
in peace &
harmony with
Nature ...
it involves
TWO
sacred
TREES &
us dis-
pleasing
God
from "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)

17. the Tree of Good & Evil
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread...
... with painful labor you will give birth to children
& your husband will rule over you.

18. only the Gods
can eat
of the
Tree of
Knowledge
... & have it
work for them
in order to
know
what
shall live
& what
shall die
the Tree of Good & Evil
or "the Tree of Knowledge"

19. the Tree of Good & Evil
or "the Tree of Knowledge"
"if you eat
of this tree
you will
surely die"
= re-designing
entire eco-
systems is a
FATAL mistake
We don't have
the right to
grow the food
we "like"
to the exclusion
of anything
else

20. But ...
... there were
TWO
Mythical Trees
in the Garden of
Eden
& the other one
was ... The Tree of Life

21. the Tree of Life
It was last seen
in the garden
of Eden
and its fruit
was
immortality.
It shared a place in
the middle of the
garden
with the tree of
knowledge.

22. or the tree
of
BioDiversity
or
the Web of
Life
(Eve = Life)
the Tree of Life

23. Both these trees (& these stories)
warn AGAINST doing agriculture
DON'T eat of
the Tree of
Knowledge (of
Good & Evil),
but DO eat of
the Tree of
Life if you want
to be immortal
(sustainable)
= FOOD FREEDOM
for everyone
+ stop killing your brother Abel
& stop ruling over Eve >> Integral PC has a lot to say about this too

24. Our Creation Myth is deeply anthopocentric
from "Ishmael"by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)
Humans are not
the centre of
Creation ... so
'food freedom'
should mean
'food freedom
for ALL species'
- especially to
Permies!

25. "There is nothing fundamentally
defective in humans!
If you are given to represent a story that puts you in harmony with
the world, you will live in harmony with the world.
But if you are given a story to represent that puts you in
conflict with the world, as yours does, you will live in
conflict with the world.
If you are given a story to represent in which humans are the lords of the world,
humans will act as lords of the world ... if the world is an enemy to be
conquered, you will conquer it like an enemy, & one day this enemy
will inevitably lie bleeding at your feet, as we see it does at the
moment."
from "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)
We need to re-design stories, in order to REALLY re-design societies

26. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of other
species
2) Food
that
liberates
the planet
3) Food that liberates
the human mind &
body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals
2

27. Climate change started with agriculture
Anthropogenic climate change is not something new
but it is now the most catastrophic & urgent emergency we face
together with its associated collapse of vital ecosystems.
200 species PER DAY are becoming extinct due to civilization.
Agriculture is estimated
to be the direct driver
for around 80% of
deforestation
worldwide.
April Becomes
1st Month
With CO2 Levels
Above 400 PPM

28. Derrick Jensen:
"It's often said that the ability to recognize patterns is
one of the signs of intelligence. So, I'm going to list a
pattern here, and let's see if we can recognize it in less
than five or six thousand years.
When you think of the plains and hillsides of Iraq, is
the first thing that you think of normally cedar forests
so thick that sunlight never touches the ground?
That's how they were.
The first written myth of this culture is Gilgamesh
going in and deforesting those hills to make cities.
When you think of the Arabian peninsula, is the first
thing that you think of oak forest? That's what it
used to be. Let's move a little bit west, and you get
the cedars of Lebanon. They still have one on their flag.
Plato was commenting on how deforestation was
destroying the springs and rivers in Greece.
And I'm sure that those in power said, Well, we need
to study it a little bit longer first, to make sure there's
a connection.
Greece was heavily forested, Italy was heavily forested,
North Africa was heavily forested."

29. www.bit.ly/ReversingClimateChange
we need VIABLE solutions
for climate change
that work FAST enough
on a global scale
... & this one has MAJOR
implications for the
kind of diet that is
most sustainable

30. holistic grazing in
HALF the
degraded
grasslands can
take us back to
PRE-INDUSTRIAL
levels of CO2
in about a decade
whilst feeding people &
restoring ecosystems (=
feeding lots more species too)

31. herbivores do this
Mexico

32. Tractors, irrigation + lots of labour inputs (quicker, smaller scale)
mainly herbivores did this - with few labor inputs

33. Yet when most of us
think of "Food
Freedom", or 'doing
permaculture', we think
of gardens & forest
gardens.
We think of growing
vegetables, not
breeding animals.
Teaching that
vegetarianism is
more sustainable,
& that we could
feed all the
starving people
with the grains
we feed cattle ...
is very misleading,
naive & possibly
also quite
dangerous.

34. before 1492 - est. 60,000,000 bison
free in N.America, feeding themselves,
preserving ecosystems
today - 90,000,000 cows, captive in
industrial conditions, fed by petrol,
destroying ecosystems
50million slaughtered in
1800s

35. So... we can produce great quantities
of very high quality foods for humans
whist massively improving soil fertility
restoring biodiversity,
improving water cycles,
& trapping a lot of CO2

36. & about consumption (if we want real justice)
Live simply so that others can simply live
also means -
providing animals with the best life we can
honoring the animals we eat by eating all parts of them,
harvesting the wild foods that our soils want to grow,
preserving and preparing food with traditional methods
+ eating only what we need (not our addictions)
& making our metabolism more efficient
Lots more on this in part 2 of this conference

37. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that
liberates the planet
........................................
3) Food that
liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be
enslaved by
addictions
5) How to free our
meals & economies
from the
Multinationals

38. More in the Integral Permaculture
Designers' Manual online
www.PermaCultureScience.org
& lots of Integral
PermaCulture
Courses in the
Academy's web
www.IntegralPermaCulture.org

39. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that liberates
the planet
3) Food that
liberates the
human mind
& body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals
3
See you next week at the same time for part2 !