[Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture Countering Slumburbia

[nicholas at themediasociety.org]

hi Kerry

just to clarify: I am talking aboout the stressed new outer suburbs.. the heartland of un-sustainable living.. .

not the inner city urban elite or the super-annuated semi-retirees in the affluent, leafy, older suburbs. 

and the problem is way bigger than housing affordability, we are facing potentially a New Great Depression, I wish I was overstating it, but I am not

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html
http://news.google.com.au/news?q=new+great+depression&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

something like 30% of Australians do not have mortgages and so cannot understand the stress, but the majority are heaviliy indebted, at record levels

the question is, will progressive movements such as permaculture get active and provide solutions 

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/klein

in my view, the only one actually calling for anything like this was Bill Mollison's call for a New Politics, once again, he leads

I'd suggest a week of Permaculture Action, an Australian PermaBlitz, declare it Permaculture Blitz Week (or something) and focus squarely at the suburban, indebted poor

Howard's battlers

-N


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