Transformation of traditional village into eco-villageRamesh Bhandari
We have defined eco-village as a rural human settlement with all members committed to sustainably manage locally available natural resources with integrated comprehensive human right based approach to meet their social, spiritual, psychological, physical (including technological) and economic needs without any negative impact on natural ecosystems, resources, climate and health. Ecovillage thus addresses the social, spiritual or cultural, ecological and techno-economic discrepancies and instabilities through sustainable community based structures, practices and concepts from holistic right based perspectives.
Ecovillage has social, physical, spiritual or cultural and ecological (including techno-economic) structures or systems. Each system has subsystems that interact with each other.
http://worecnepal.org
Transformation of traditional village into eco-villageRamesh Bhandari
We have defined eco-village as a rural human settlement with all members committed to sustainably manage locally available natural resources with integrated comprehensive human right based approach to meet their social, spiritual, psychological, physical (including technological) and economic needs without any negative impact on natural ecosystems, resources, climate and health. Ecovillage thus addresses the social, spiritual or cultural, ecological and techno-economic discrepancies and instabilities through sustainable community based structures, practices and concepts from holistic right based perspectives.
Ecovillage has social, physical, spiritual or cultural and ecological (including techno-economic) structures or systems. Each system has subsystems that interact with each other.
http://worecnepal.org
What is Consumer?
What is Waste product?
What are the problems and causes of consumerism and waste product?
How to solve these problems?
The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
A Landscape Architect by training, Rupert has worked across a wide range of disciplines including Strategic Planning, Masterplanning & Urban Design focusing on the strategic importance of Landscape and the City. As an Associate Director at Atkins, he is responsible for developing new design approaches to Landscape, Ecology & Creating Healthy Cities.
In this talk Rupert explores trends in urban agriculture as well as propose some thoughts on new possible directions this might develop. Rapid urbanization has led our cities to have a dysfunctional relationship with the environment. What new safe agricultural industries will emerge from this new urban economy.
Homeless shelters are temporary residences of desperation for homeless people which seek to protect vulnerable populations from the often devastating effects of homelessness while simultaneously reducing the environmental impact on the community. They are similar to but distinguishable from various types of emergency shelters, which are typically operated for specific circumstances and populations - fleeing natural disasters or abusive social circumstances. Extreme variants of "normal" weather create problems similar to disaster management scenarios, and are handled with warming centers, which typically operate for short duration during adverse weather.
Subsidies…it’s a word looming around daily on the news, but not many Americans understand what it exactly means for them. This infographic allows you to get a better understanding of what YOUR subsidy may be.
What is Consumer?
What is Waste product?
What are the problems and causes of consumerism and waste product?
How to solve these problems?
The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
A Landscape Architect by training, Rupert has worked across a wide range of disciplines including Strategic Planning, Masterplanning & Urban Design focusing on the strategic importance of Landscape and the City. As an Associate Director at Atkins, he is responsible for developing new design approaches to Landscape, Ecology & Creating Healthy Cities.
In this talk Rupert explores trends in urban agriculture as well as propose some thoughts on new possible directions this might develop. Rapid urbanization has led our cities to have a dysfunctional relationship with the environment. What new safe agricultural industries will emerge from this new urban economy.
Homeless shelters are temporary residences of desperation for homeless people which seek to protect vulnerable populations from the often devastating effects of homelessness while simultaneously reducing the environmental impact on the community. They are similar to but distinguishable from various types of emergency shelters, which are typically operated for specific circumstances and populations - fleeing natural disasters or abusive social circumstances. Extreme variants of "normal" weather create problems similar to disaster management scenarios, and are handled with warming centers, which typically operate for short duration during adverse weather.
Subsidies…it’s a word looming around daily on the news, but not many Americans understand what it exactly means for them. This infographic allows you to get a better understanding of what YOUR subsidy may be.
The slide discuss with various topics of Blue Brain and its features. It also covers, WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?, WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN?,FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN, BRAIN SIMULATION, CURRENT RESEARCH WORK, ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGE, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS..
This seminar discus about BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY. its EVOlUTION,TERMS USED IN BITCOIN,MINING,AQUIRING, BITCOIN, HOW TO STORE BITCOINS, TYPES OF WALLET, HOW BITCOIN ACTUALLY WORKS, TRANSACTION .
The seminar discus about affective computing. and emotion based computing,its objectives,components of emotion, psychological theories of emotion, A-V-S emotional model, Electroencephlography (EEG),
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The seminar will help you to study about 3D optical data storage, what is data recording,what is its process, comparisons with holographic data storage and its issues etc.
This seminar slide will give you the ideas how much the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is important gaming and what hard work should do for movements of other persons in a game.
313Michael Reynolds is a maverick in the constructioni.docxgilbertkpeters11344
313
M
ichael Reynolds is a maverick in the construction
industry. Based in Taos, New Mexico, Reynolds
builds homes that embody many of the principles of
sustainability. The walls, for example, are constructed of
used automobile tires that otherwise would have ended up
in landfills. The recycled tires are packed with dirt from the
construction site, using a local resource. They’re laid on top
of one another like bricks to build thick walls. Cement
Foundations of a
Sustainable Energy
System: Conservation
and Renewable Energy
Energy Conservation: Foundation of a
Sustainable Energy System
Renewable Energy Sources
Is a Renewable Energy Supply System
Possible?
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-1: Air France Pledges Cuts in Carbon
Emissions
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-2: Reinventing the Automobile
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-3: Greensburg, Kansas Goes Green
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-4: A Solar Giant Grows Taller
Viewpoint: Bird Kills from Commercial
Wind Farms: Fact or Fiction?
Point/Counterpoint: The Debate over
Hydrogen Energy
15.3
15.2
15.1
CHAPTER OUTLINE
CHAPTER 15
I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.
What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to
wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
—Thomas Edison
314 PART IV. Resource Issues:
Solution
s for a Sustainable Society
stucco or earthen plaster is then applied to the tire
walls, creating an appealing design (FIGURE 15-1a).
Reynolds’s houses, called Earthships, are generally
built into the sides of hills, taking advantage of
the Earth to shelter the house from summer heat
and winter cold. With their thick walls and well-
insulated ceilings, Earthships are heated by the
sun and are extremely energy efficient. They stay
cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Reynolds’s homes are designed with interior
planters that line the south wall, permitting resi-
dents to grow a variety of vegetables year round
(FIGURE 15-1b). The plants are watered with waste-
water from sinks and showers—commonly called
gray water. In his most recent designs, Reynolds has
devised a system to capture nutrients from toilet
water. The waste is fed into specially lined out-
door planters, where it is broken down by bacte-
ria and other microorganisms. The nutrients are
used by plants growing in the planters.
Besides being heated by the sun, Reynolds’s
homes generate their own electricity from sunlight
and are equipped with efficient lighting systems
and appliances. His homes even capture and purify
rainwater and snowmelt off the roof for cooking,
drinking, bathing, washing dishes, and other uses.
Earthships are designed for self-sufficiency and
environmental responsibility. They are unlike con-
ventional homes, which Reynolds likens to pa-
tients in intensive care units that depend on outside
support in the form of food, water, and energy.
FIGURE 15-1 A house for all seasons. Radial, that is. (a) Architect and
builder Michael Reynolds .
Local Food for Sustainable Communities
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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Urban Agriculture on the Rooftop Manual ~ Cornell University
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
This is a presentation made on June 5 to spread awareness to live sustain-ably without going crazy for luxurious life that makes you lazy and unhealthy.
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Ecosystems are the "natural capital" of our economy and our world, providing valuable goods and services, but as consumption grows along with populations and their spending power, many ecosystems are struggling to keep pace.
Sustainable Greenhouse Production Wgga February 2009Steven Newman
This presentation was delivered at the February 2009 meeting of the Wyoming Groundskeepers and Growers Association Shortcourse and Trade Show in Casper, Wyoming.
l̂̂̂ î;The environmental revolution has been almost.docxSHIVA101531
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The environmental revolution has been almost
three decades in the making, and it has changed for-
ever how companies do business. In the 1960s and
1970s, corporations were in a state of denial regard-
ing their impact on the environment. Then a series
of highly visible ecological problems created a
groundswell of support for strict government regu-
lation. In the United States, Lake Erie was dead. In
Europe, the Rhine was on fire. In Japan, people were
dying of mercury poisoning.
Today many companies have accepted their re-
sponsibility to do no harm to the environment.
Products and production processes are becoming
cleaner; and where sueh change is under way, the
environment is on the mend. In the industrialized
nations, more and more companies are "going
green" as they realize that they can reduce pollu-
tion and increase profits simultaneously. We have
come a long way.
fer to as its carrying capacity. Increasingly, the
scourges of the late twentieth century-depleted
farmland, fisheries, and forests,- choking urban pol-
lution,- poverty; infectious disease; and migration-
are spilling over geopolitical borders. The simple
fact is this: in meeting our needs, we are destroying
the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
The roots of the problem-explosive population
growth and rapid economic development in the
emerging economies - are political and social issues
that exceed the mandate and the capabilities of any
corporation. At the same time, corporations are the
only organizations with the resources, the technol-
ogy, the global reach, and, ultimately, the motiva-
tion to achieve sustainability.
It is easy to state the case in the negative: faced
with impoverished customers, degraded environ-
ments, failing political systems, and unraveling
societies, it will be increasingly difficult for cor-
Strateqies for a Sustainable World
But the distance we've traveled will seem small
when, in 30 years, we look hack at the 1990s. Be-
yond greening lies an enormous challenge-and an
enormous opportunity. The challenge is to develop
a sustainable global economy: an economy that the
planet is capable of supporting indefinitely. Al-
though we may be approaching ecological recovery
in the developed world, the planet as a whole re-
mains on an unsustainable course. Those who
think that sustainability is only a matter of pollu-
tion control are missing the bigger picture. Even if
all the companies in the developed world were to
achieve zero emissions by the year 2000, the earth
would still be stressed beyond what biologists re-
porations to do business. But the positive case is
even more powerful. The more we learn about the
challenges of sustainability, the clearer it is that we
are poised at the threshold of a historic moment
in which many of the world's industries may be
transformed.
To date, the business logic for greening has been
largely operational or technical: bottom-up pollu-
tion-prevention programs have saved companies
S ...
Prepare a 4-6 page analysis by answering the questions below. Be s.docxChantellPantoja184
Prepare a 4-6 page analysis by answering the questions below. Be sure to cite your references using APA format.
For this assignment, you should use the information in the textbook and the information found on the official government website: www.bea.gov/index.htm
Based on the information contained in the textbook and on the Web site above, answer the following questions:
1. What does gross domestic product (GDP) tell us? How did GDP change from 2008? What caused these changes? What is real GDP? What was real GDP in 2008 and has it changed since 2008?
2. What was national income (NI) for 2008? What does national income tell us? What is the difference between GDP and NI? How has NI changed since 2008? What caused these changes?
3. What was disposable income (DI) for 2009? What does disposable income consist of? How did DI change from 2008? What caused these changes?
4. Does GDP measure the well-being of society? Why or why not?
5. What was GDP in 2008 (sometimes called GSP) for your state? How does your state rate when compared to other states?
313
M
ichael Reynolds is a maverick in the construction
industry. Based in Taos, New Mexico, Reynolds
builds homes that embody many of the principles of
sustainability. The walls, for example, are constructed of
used automobile tires that otherwise would have ended up
in landfills. The recycled tires are packed with dirt from the
construction site, using a local resource. They’re laid on top
of one another like bricks to build thick walls. Cement
Foundations of a
Sustainable Energy
System: Conservation
and Renewable Energy
Energy Conservation: Foundation of a
Sustainable Energy System
Renewable Energy Sources
Is a Renewable Energy Supply System
Possible?
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-1: Air France Pledges Cuts in Carbon
Emissions
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-2: Reinventing the Automobile
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-3: Greensburg, Kansas Goes Green
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
15-4: A Solar Giant Grows Taller
Viewpoint: Bird Kills from Commercial
Wind Farms: Fact or Fiction?
Point/Counterpoint: The Debate over
Hydrogen Energy
15.3
15.2
15.1
CHAPTER OUTLINE
CHAPTER 15
I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.
What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to
wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
—Thomas Edison
314 PART IV. Resource Issues:
Solution
s for a Sustainable Society
stucco or earthen plaster is then applied to the tire
walls, creating an appealing design (FIGURE 15-1a).
Reynolds’s houses, called Earthships, are generally
built into the sides of hills, taking advantage of
the Earth to shelter the house from summer heat
and winter cold. With their thick walls and well-
insulated ceilings, Earthships are heated by the
sun and are extremely energy efficient. They stay
cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Reynolds’s homes are designed with interior
planters that line the south wall, permitting resi-
dents to grow a.
Global greening deserts trillion trees initiative climate emergency peace bu...AmzadHosen3
Europe's and the world's first vertical farming startup for threatened or endangered tree species as well as important crops or plants develops further concepts for energy
and resource-saving species conservation, climate and environmental protection. Botanical gardens, national parks and nature reserves are invited to join the Greening Deserts
Species Rescue CES-RPP, Greening Camps and the Trillion Trees Initiative and related projects. The climate emergency and global greening program and projects to save species, restore biodiversity and ecosystems need international support - especially for the ongoing peace process.
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Length: 30 minutes
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- Which features are provided by Grafana?
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
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The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
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Attacks on counties – USA
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In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
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1. Reprinted from the Newsletter of the
CSIRO Sustainability Network, Update
49, 31 March 2005 pp 1- 9. See:
www.bml.csiro.au/SNnewsletters.htm
CSIRO
SUSTAINABILITY NETWORK
Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability
David Holmgren1
, co-originator with Bill Mollison of the Permaculture
concept,2
is an innovative environmental design consultant based at
Hepburn Springs in central Victoria, where he maintains one of
Australia’s best-known permaculture demonstration sites. David has
written several books, conducted numerous workshops and courses on
sustainable living, and developed several properties himself using
permaculture principles. The following feature is adapted from a public
lecture given at the Aldinga Arts EcoVillage in Adelaide in January
2005. You can check David’s website at: www.holmgren.com.au and
contact him at: holmgren@netconnect.com.au.
The suburbs of our Australian cities have, in the main, become sterile wastelands, lacking in
any true spirit of community, impoverished of local resources, and filled with fearful people
whose daily efforts are focussed elsewhere. What has happened to the Australian “suburban
dream”?
To find the foundation of the so-called ‘suburban dream’ and the reasons why it has proved
illusory, we need to look back to the post World War II economic boom of the 1950s. At that
time, Australia was riding high on the sheep’s back, with wool prices around $2.40 per kg,
and there was also cheap and abundant fossil fuel and timber. Furthermore, the government
of the period provided widespread war-service housing, low-interest loans, and substantial
public infrastructure such as roads and utilities to facilitate suburban growth.
The typical ‘baby-boom’ family of the 1950s lived on a single income of around $50-$100 per
week, with a housewife and three children at home. These home owners, who had grown up
through the “Great Depression” and wartime hardships, had an ethos of proud self-reliance
and domestic frugality, reinforced by their wartime experiences. Many suburban ‘back yards’
had an actively worked vegetable garden and one to a few productive fruit trees. Produce
swapping and home preserving of seasonal surpluses were common. And this was also the
heyday of several great consumer icons – the FJ Holden car, the Victa lawnmower, and the
Hills Hoist clothesline.
But there were problems with the suburban dream and the resulting rush of young families to
“nappy valleys” on the city fringes, notably “urban sprawl”. As the suburbs spread, they
displaced important agricultural activities such as the market gardening and dairy farming that
formerly provided fresh foods with minimal need for transport. Not only did public
infrastructure become increasingly poorly used, but the disproportionate rush to build roads
and sell more Australian cars led to a general decline in the use of public transport – leading
1
See David’s previous feature “What is Sustainability?”, Update 31, pp 6-12, at:
www.bml.csiro.au/SNnewsletters.htm
2
‘Permaculture’ is a system of “consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships
found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. It is a vision
of permanent (sustainable) human culture based on permanent (sustainable agriculture). See: David Holmgren
(2002) Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability, Holmgren Design Services –
www.holmgren.com.au – ISBN: 0646418440
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2. eventually to the phenomenon we see today, that our suburbs are designed for cars not
people.
Along with “sprawl” has developed an increasingly dysfunctional economic situation. We see
speculative inflation of land values, capital invested unproductively, declining household
(non-monetary) production of food and “backyard industry”, and a massive rise of consumer
addiction based on rising household debt.
Large areas of our cities have become “dormitory suburbs”. The average household size is
declining while ever-larger homes are increasingly empty during the working day. Their blind
windows look out onto streets empty of people (but all too often filled with cars). There is an
alienating lack of community resulting, ultimately, in increased crime and fear.
The conventional responses to this situation are familiar to us all. The first is a change of
planning regulations to encourage increasing density, promoting smaller housing blocks in
new developments, dual occupancy infill development, and medium-density redevelopment
of older areas.
Residents themselves have responded independently in various ways through their lifestyles.
The renovation obsession is frequently directed at producing more high-value house space at
the expense of the ‘back yard’. Then there is a mobile lifestyle and semi-abandonment of
home, when eating out and leisure activities elsewhere compound the daily absence during
work hours. There is also the move to get rid of garden maintenance and commuting by
moving to inner-city apartment living; and, at the other end of the scale is the “super-suburb”
response of moving to a rural-residential or hobby-farm property beyond the new suburban
fringe.
In recent years, as we have become more aware of the negative effects of our high-impact
lifestyles, a number of environmental responses have also been introduced – such as
building insulation, energy-efficiency requirements, improvements to public transport,
conservation of urban green space, and more water-sensitive urban design. We have barely
scratched the surface, however, of the profound improvements that the application of
permaculture principles and strategies could deliver for the sustainability and liveability of
today’s suburbs – for example:
Food security based on gardening: Food security through retention of horticultural
production within and close to cities, has barely been on the agenda, while home gardening
is largely ignored as irrelevant to the sustainability debate. For many of today’s urban
residents, where food comes from beyond the supermarket is barely on their radar. We are
still fixated on the high-density European-style city that gets its food from somewhere else.
Most are unaware of different patterns of urban living such as those of Japan, China and
other Asian countries where cities have traditionally contained interspersed gardens and rice
paddies. If food is produced in distant places, its supply is more vulnerable to risks (such as
increased transport costs) that we cannot control. For urban residents aware of the fragility
of the food supply system, home gardening is a practical activity that can provide much of the
fresh food of a family, and also bias the diet away from over-consumption of animal protein
and towards vegetables and fruit. Even when the level of production is small, the seasonal
garden maintains the skills necessary to produce food and passes those skills on to the next
generation.
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3. Better health through a culture of home food consumption:
Consumption of genuinely fresh fruits and vegetables from a
local garden (Fig. 1) can underpin good health and combat the
current obesity epidemic. In the same way that wood warms
you twice – once when you split it and once when you burn it –
garden produce keeps you healthy when you grow it and also
when you consume it.
Economy through home food production and food
preservation: Growing food at home and preserving seasonal
surpluses bypasses the so-called “value-adding” processes of
the commercial food chains, and means food is much less
expensive – a principle readily understood by families of the
Great Depression and WWII years.
Firewood for sustainable and ethical energy: The
permaculture strategy of burning waste wood from landscaping
and building for space heating, water heating and cooking allows urban residents to be more
energy self reliant, while keeping a valuable resource from going to landfill (to generate
greenhouse-intensive methane) or into inefficient, noisy, fossil-fuel-driven chippers and
mulchers. How many of us realise that our cities are actually big forests? The expanding
areas of new plantations and natural regeneration within or near cities all need continuous
thinning to reduce fire hazard and improve timber and ecological values. With careful
management and better eduction, there is much valuable wood that could be saved for fuel.
Wood has a high energy density, is greenhouse-gas neutral, and can readily be made
available as smokeless charcoal for city use. With maximum pollution occurring through
smoke emission right at the point of use (cf. distant coal-fired power stations), there is a
useful negative feedback that controls user behaviour.
Figure 1
Passive solar design combined with thermally efficient natural materials: Building with
rammed earth, mud brick, recycled timber and salvaged joinery, for example, greatly reduces
the embodied energy of a dwelling while providing ‘character’ to designs and thermal mass to
control temperature fluctualtions. This is in contrast to the conventional regulatory emphasis
on energy efficiency through insulation alone. Unfortunately, this emphasis often leads to
suppression of real innovation even while it “raises the floor” for
lowest performance.Figure 2
Retrofitting attached greenhouses to existing homes: An
attached greenhouse can help capture warmth from the sun while
extending the garden growing season.
Water harvesting and natural wastewater treatment: In many
coastal areas of Australia (where the greatest proportion of us
live), the rain that falls on the roof should, if used innovatively, be
sufficient for at least the majority of home uses, including
gardening. Rainwater harvesting can be supplemented by
treatment of greywater (from the bathroom, laundry, and kitchen)
e.g., through, gravel reed beds (Fig. 2), for subsequent use in the
garden. Even blackwater (from the toilet) can be treated and re-
used on site in some circumstances, or a waterless composting
toilet can be installed to ensure water goes to more productive
uses. Closing the nutrient cycle, from human waste to fertile, food-
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4. producing soil is, in the longer term, one of the most critical factors in the sustainability of
urban populations.
Animals in productive garden ecosystems: Hens and ducks are excellent components of
a sustainable suburban garden system and can significantly expand the range and value of
foods produced at home. They deal with various types of food waste and pests such as
insects and slugs, while their manure adds natural fertiliser to the soil.
Reclaiming the streets: Making greater use of our public space – most notably our streets
for walking and cycling – reduces the costs of
transport, enhances knowledge of the local
area, and contributes to better community. The
more we expand these uses, the more the
destructive uses of public space (such as
excessive car traffic and vandalism) are
gradually displaced. It is high time residents
reclaimed their suburban streets for people.
They should again be available for children to
play and safely learn their cycling skills (Fig. 3).
Figure 3
Creative recycling: Making creative use of
discarded goods and wastes is a classic
permaculture strategy that is far more innovative and
productive than most industrial recycling systems,
such as smashing and melting down bottles. My own
16-year-old son, for example, built himself a fully
functional recumbent bicycle from “rubbish” (Fig. 4).
We have a shortage of innovative skills, not
materials. Creative re-use and re-manufacture could
greatly extend the lifecycle of many consumer goods.
City farms and community gardens: Cooperative gardening and farming of city open
spaces (Fig. 5) allows these productive activities to move beyond backyard scale, opening up
a further range of possibilities for food production
and community engagement.
Figure 4
Figure 5
New ways of trading: Locally based trading
systems retain the energy of participants within the
local community, rather than draining it away to
some different location. LETS systems3
are a good
example, some of which may also have associated
local currency or tokens for ease of exchange.
Local exchange systems allow citizens to wrest
back some control of their economic wellbeing from
the increasingly unstable, national and global
monetary systems.
3
LETS is an acronym for Local Energy Transfer System, or Local Employment Trading System. It provides a
simple mechanism for a group of people to exchange goods and services without needing conventional money
to do so. LETS does not require a two-way barter-type trade. It records each one-way transaction, and leaves
both participants to spend or earn enough to balance that trade another time.
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9. contact with neighbours and start to barter. Review your material needs and reduce
consumption. Share your home – by bringing a family member back or taking in a lodger, for
example. Creatively and positively work around regulatory impediments, aiming to help
change them in the longer term. Pay off your debts. Work from home. And above all, retrofit
your home for your own sustainable future, not for speculative monetary gain.
In an energy-descent world, self-reliance represents real opportunities for early adopters of a
permaculture life style:
• Rises in oil prices will flow through to all natural products (food, timber, etc);
• Higher commodity prices will be a stimulus for self-reliance and organic farming;
• Local products will be more competitive than imports;
• Repair, retrofitting, and recycling will all be more competitive than new replacement;
• There will be rising demand for permaculture as life-skills eduction; and
• There will be a resurgence of community life, ethics and values.
There are, however, some real hazards for the greater community in the energy-descent
scenario. For example, perverse subsidies and “head-in-the-sand” policies could distort
necessary market adjustments (e.g., the end of fuel tax combined with production subsidies
to agribusiness). There is a real danger that fascist-style politics could see minorities and
those providing for themselves as being to blame for declining social conditions. Sudden
economic and environmental shocks could conceivably lead to social collapse, removing
even the security necessary for local food production. We need to understand the energy-
descent pathway ahead, act to ensure our own longer-term resource security, and keep
ourselves informed about the viewpoints and approaches of the greater national and global
communities around us.
Resources for understanding and dealing with energy peak and descent:
Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas – www.peakoil.net
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg. New
Society Publishers 2003. ISBN: 0865714827 [For a summary, see page 20 in “Other
Information & Resources” later in this Update.]
Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren. Holmgren
Design Services 2002 – www.holmgren.com.au – ISBN: 0646418440
Video Interview of David Holmgren by Adam Fenderson –
www.globalpublicmedia.com/interviews/106
Documentary Film: “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American
Dream.” www.endofsuburbia.com
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