Peak Oil Meets Permaculture: part 1

Kriscan speaks with permaculture designer Ethan Roland of appleseedpermaculture.com to learn what permaculture is and how it can be an effective solution to the problem of Peak Oil.

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Education

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• peakoil
• Peak
• Oil
• permaculture
• appleseedpermaculture
• ethan
• roland
• regenerative
• sustainable
• fossil
• fuel
• depletion
• farming

[permalove1]

Thank you for pointing out that permaculture (and really ANY workable solution) is about regeneration, not just sustainability.

Peace and love.

[OGdank13]

i thought he was going to say sustain ourselves instead of worrying about what we cant control

[thegoodfestival]

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Peace Is On The Increase!

[dustyloup]

this is why we need communities that integrate the skills of various people because not everyone can be a permaculture specialist, but they could organize a car sharing plan or cook organic food. and it doesn't have to be a bunch of "hippies" it can be a group of people trying to stay afloat during these hard times.

[carolinacricket]

For the Permaculture movement the most important assets are the people and the land. The government does not directly tax people, but they do directly tax land-property tax. What is the permaculture doing to lower property tax so if one does want to live completely off the land they can do so?

With property taxes the way they are now it limits many people from living a healing permaculture life...especially for young people who have little money to begin with.

[ciphro]

You are wrong, their is enough food to feed the entire world WITHIN THE US. And the entire worlds human population could fit into Jacksonville Florida!

[Glargl]

However, overpopulated third world countries are hardly sustainable either. Look at Kenya for instance. It's living off its remaining firewood. That'll be gone in a generation or so and then the dry savannah/desert takes over. We all need to consume much less and confine ourselves to 1 child per couple - or better yet none.

[SubtUtiles]

if the ecological footprint of every human was like that of an average person from Burkina Faso, there could be 23 billion humans on the planet. Which population would you start eliminating? If we removed the 20% of the richest population, the ecological footprint would be divided by 5, whereas if "we got rid" of the 80% of the poorer countries, the footprint on the planet would be down by just 15%.

[jrb258]

Overpopulation is the main problem and is rarely addressed by the environmental community. It is time to wakeup and stop reproducing, because no amount of green washing will solve the ecological crisis facing society.

[99thDimension]

Sounds like Hippie thinking, were do I sign up:). FYI if you got all the people in the world to stand together it would be a 50 mile by 50 mile square.