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

[nicholas at themediasociety.org]

hi again

in regards to how Permaculture can help the poor, stressed,
unsustainable suburbs, lets turn it around. How can it fail to help ?
its hard to think of ways that it cant. 

David Holmgren has written about retrofitting the suburbs, the PermaBlitz guys do good work, The End of Subrubia has ideas. I linked to some YouTube videos of each source from the prototype website www.EcoBurb.TV

new
suburbs, need to be planned eco-suburbs, like Village Homes (I am
sorry, I just havent seen anything as comprehensive or established  in
Australia , I am not counting Crystal Waters or the Nimbin villages)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes
I had a snippet of Global Gardener of Bill Mollison at Village Homes in Davis on EcoBurb.Tv, but its been removed from YouTube

> Permaculture.TV - online video of permaculture

the
technology and making the content are not a problem: mobile phones,
digital cameras and digital video are cheap and everywhere

hosting is cheap if not free: 

www.EcoBurb.TV
is a prototype that I built in a day that allows a user to upload
various video formats and also link to YouTube videos. I use
DotNetNuke, a .NET content management system. 

there is also www.EngageMedia.org
which is a Plone based activist site with a tinner open source feature
set similar to YouTube. PermacultureInternational.org is Plone, so
theoretically could be upgraded.  
http://www.engagemedia.org/tech
http://blog.plumi.org/

and then there is the obvious cross-posting potential to YouTube and the other web video sites

I
also like what these folks are doing at The Open Planning Project - if
you tag a YouTube video StreetFilms it will display on see http://youtube.com/results?search_query=streetfilms&search=Search it shows up here http://www.streetfilms.org/

> PermacultureGroups.org - a local permaculture groups social network

I
mean and online and offline social network: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube,
and a dedicated WWW  presence, again I like the Open Planning Projects
system 

I am talking to the people at The Open Planning Project about getting hosted by them
http://www.nycstreets.org/

you can see my profile is shared, the system can handle hosting activist sites
http://www.nycstreets.org/people/niccolo/profile 
http://www.openplans.org/people/niccolo/profile

the source code is Plone, so theoretically the www.permacultureinternational.org
site could be upgraded to this feature set. However I do like the
network effects of being hosted , the cross-fertilisation is difficult
to measure but very large and very real

> SustainabilityCommons.org - a creative commons of sustainabilty

> resources

I really like the idea behind this one

SustainabilityCommons.org

I've been talking to the good folks at the Creative Commons Australia,
hosted by QUT, they are running a Creative Commons Clinic. have a look
at ccMixter and www.artsoftware.org

I
havent had much to do with them, other than attending a class and
chatting after, but the links they gave me led to the ScienceCommons
project, which led to the NeuroCommons. Which led me to a server that
is being used to aggregate and make sense of very many data types. 

semantic web
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuoso_Universal_Server

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLink_Data_Spaces

Earth Hour is at best is a joke and its failure is popularly recognised
beacuse its basically a fraud, its a part of a larger corporate
campaign to own the climate change agenda
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12771

again,
Permaculture Week or Day should be a week of direct action in the poor,
stressed, out-suburbs, as Bill said at APC9, we need a new politics and
we need to re-invigorate the radical and activist roots, otherwise we
are just cheap service providers or hobbyists

in the global South, the majority world, especially in South America, there is a real democratic revolution, people are really participating in democracy and have elected true peoples representatives. In Australia, the US and UK we live alienated, atomised lives and we need the internet to connect. The mainstream media wants to divert and distract and divide. Our low-intensity democracy is a public relations excercise. The same people who sell us toothpaste sell us politicians. 

imho

-N
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