Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists

Peak Moment 143: Asking "wouldn't it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?" Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate world after reading the book "Your Money or Your Life". As educators on sustainability and resource depletion, permaculture and social justice, they soon learned of Peak Oil. Pam initiated bringing a Peak Oil resolution to the Portland City Council, who passed it unanimously in 2006 and set up a citizen task force to make recommendations for city action. See a bit of the permaculture farm Pam and Joe are creating in residential Portland, cultivating fruit trees, vegetables and compost, rainwater catchment, and innovative neighborhood cooperation. If every city were full of such projects, maybe they really could feed themselves! (www.portlandpermaculture.com)

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

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• permaculture
• peak
• oil
• energy
• gardening
• community

[marchbabymimi]

Wonderful video! Do they happen to have a website where we could see more of the gardens/chickens, etc.?

Also, please consider visiting Eliot Coleman in Maine, if you come to the East Coast. He grows food year round.  Also Harvey Ussery of the Modern Homestead in VA. Thanks!!

[peakmoment]

Thanks for asking -- we usually put our guests' websites at the end of the description but missed this one! (Now added). portlandpermaculture (dot) com.

Thanks for the suggestions on the others -- I'll add 'em to our wish list.

[btigtime2]

Localizm is the way to go in every part of life... Local Government, Local Food, Local Business. Gobal anything is impossable to maintain for only a short amount of time.

"Take the sidewalks out" (9:57) no take out the streets...

[peakmoment]

That's just what Jan Lundberg (culturechange-dot-org) advocates -- depaving the streets. Do a makeover of suburbia~

[racinkc]

build food forests

[aprilspl]

I like your vision of food trees everywhere

n_n

[ekkar]

oh there are chickens. nevermind.

[ekkar]

what no chickens?!

[peakmoment]

Thanks so much for your comment! That's what we hope to do with our Peak Moment Conversations -- and we welcome everybody's suggestions and ideas for the topics they'd like to see us cover (even suggest people and projects). ~Janaia (host)