[Pil-pc-oceania] Permaculture Countering Slumburbia - SUGGESTION

[Daniel Rossi]

On 02/04/2008, at 11:51 AM, nicholas at themediasociety.org wrote:
>
> local Permaculture groups from affluent suburbs make greater efforts  
> to reach-out to poorer neiggborhoods
> stronger advocacy of suburban community gardens and application of  
> permaculture principals
> more local permaculture activism in the suburbs
> I've registered a collection of domains, and been doing research  
> into business models and technology.
>
> Permaculture.TV - online video of permaculture
Two ways you could go about this,

- have the domain pointed to a youtube page so it's provided for you,  
you just need to design the page template. The only problem with you  
tube is that the quality is pretty terrible, bad video encoding and  
the audio is sometimes really compressed and hard to hear.

- develop your own and copy and paste the youtube video player tags  
into the page.

- develop your own, implementing a free flash player and have the  
video download from a web server or incorporate a proper flash  
streaming platform which I have the resources to supply and it can  
also do live video conference streaming. Can build a you tube type  
upload service to convert to flv and mpeg4. The only problem here is  
storage space and bandwidth costs.

> PermacultureGroups.org - a local permaculture groups social network
Do you mean video conferences , online e-learning, online live  
presentations, video chat ?


> SustainabilityCommons.org - a creative commons of sustainabilty  
> resources
I really like the idea behind this one

SustainabilityCommons.org

I am very much into creative commons music, so it could follow the  
similar lines of that. Maybe an ad-hoc wiki-pedia but dedicated to  
permi stuff sharing of information because information should be free  
really. While studying at the moment some of the the resources I would  
personally like to have in one spot is very much about plant charts  
and databases, their needs, companions, and I could probably help jot  
some things down about their medicinal uses.

Other resources that could go here of course is innovative products to  
retrofit homes for energy efficiency, water, DIY corners, Howtos,  
stuff like that. Of course the demos and howto videos could probably  
be incorporated in the .TV idea.

> I've actually collected about 150 domains, but these are the most  
> relevant
>
> perhaps we could simply declare Permaculture Week by a mass day of  
> Permaculture Action, an Australian Permaculture Blitz. Its a lot  
> more powerful and meaningful than Earth Hour.

Here here. 
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