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• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: RegenAG BioFertile Farms   1 day, 5 hours ago · View

  A howto video on making biofertile treatments for farms from RegenAG.com

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jOUK0yj9zs

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Ugandan Community Sustainability Specialists alias Green Warriors – Steve Cran   1 day, 18 hours ago · View

  I’m alive and I’m back training the next batch of Community Sustainability Specialists (alias Green Warriors). I’ve been back in Uganda for almost 2 weeks now after repairing my body in Australia form the ravages of malaria, typhoid and a lung infection. It’s amazing how fast your body caves in once your immune system is compromised. The [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Australian Permaculture Convergance 10 – Organisers speak   2 days, 5 hours ago · View

  Anne, Kim and Georgie explain Australian Permaculture Convergance 10 which starts this weekend with a 2 week Permaculture Design Certificate delivered by Darren Doherty
  

  Keynotes will be given by Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Daryl Hannah, Major General Michael Jeffery, Costa’s Gardening Odyssey, David Holmgren, Darren Doherty etc etc

  more information at http://apc10.org and [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Stop the greening of bigotry – take the pledge today!   2 days, 12 hours ago · View

  Anti-immigration, population control and environmentalism ? Source: Climate and Capitalism
  

  We, the undersigned environmental leaders and activists, pledge that: We will embrace diversity and reject racism as we confront the serious environmental challenges before us. We will not adopt the message that immigrants are the cause of environmental problems. We will actively support the human and civil rights [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Is your life a co-creative abundant adventure or an unfair struggle?   4 days, 19 hours ago · View

  A fully featured human settlement, with independent sources of initiative, in which human activities are integrated into the natural environment in a way that is sustainable into the indefinite future.
  

  “What I’m talking about is Carbon-negative habitat. And eco-villages as vehicles for experimentation: food, buildings, energy, livelihoods that are branded carbon-negative. Let’s go beyond thinking of reducing [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Cartoon Confessions of an Economic Hitman   6 days, 19 hours ago · View

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ An animated interview of John Perkins , author of ‘ HoodWinked‘ and ‘ Confessions Of An Economic Hitman ‘ Copyright of the audio belongs to John Perkins. For more visit http://www.studiojoho.com email info@studiojoho.com According to his book, Perkins’ function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Economic Populism from Texan Jim Hightower   1 week, 4 days ago · View

  The rooster crows but the hen delivers says Jim Hightower , author of Swim Against the Current: Worker Cooperatives and a New, Deeply Democratic Model for This Country
  

  Texas populist, commentator, and author Jim Hightower has a few words of wisdom for us: Question authority, trust your values, seek alternatives, break away, stand up for your beliefs, and swim against [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Activist to Grassroots – Tony Andersen Klimaforum co-founder   1 week, 4 days ago · View

  In Activists to Grassroots, Tony discusses how activists need to start working with grassroots and create a new hybrid radical activist-grassroots persona.
  

  Tony Andersen, co-founder of the Danish civil-society climate justice conference, Klimaforum, gave two talks at Klimaforum09: Activist to Grassroots, and 10 000 Trees: A Practical Strategy for Climate Change .

  Tony Andersen, Klimaforum co-founder, gives a presentation and [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Evergreen Cooperatives – Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development   1 week, 5 days ago · View

  Hello, Cleveland! Evergreen’s Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development
  

  The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland OH was launched in 2008. Its mission is to stabilize and revitalize six low-income neighborhoods (43,000 residents; median household income of $18,5000) of the Greater University Circle areas of Cleveland, Ohio.

  Filmed by Patrick O’Conner of Oaklandsol.org for permaculture.coop http://vimeo.com/14387332 The cooperative development strategy leverages [...]

• permaculturetv wrote a new blog post: Liberation Permaculture Design Course – California   2 weeks ago · View

  Poor people and communities of color are the most impacted by the dramatic ecological crises currently facing our planet.
  

  In April of this year, Movement Generation and the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center convened nearly 30 activists and organizers representing various grassroots and social justice organizations from throughout California to participate in a two-week Liberation Permaculture Design Course.

  Filmed [...]