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About Permaculture
About Helder Valente
What where Helder Valente Master Diploma projects?
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Could i get a permaculture consultancy or some private classes with Helder?
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O que é Permacultura?
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Entrevista Jornal Publico 2011
Helder Valente e a Permacultura em Portugal?
Onde se podem encontrar livros?
Entrevista Jornal Publico 2011
What is the New School Permaculture?
What is the New School Permaculture?
The New School Permaculture is a non formal school with the vision to create harmonious social and ecological learning environments.
Our Mission is to focus our energy on researching and developing sustainable educational methods to inspire active elements of change in this world.
With landscape care and social harmony courses the New School Permaculture will explore with its students how can we create more inner power to face the global chalenges, what are our limiting patterns and how to create a transformation wen we are losing our personal energy, into a more inspired and positive way of living.
The intention with our courses is to empower our students so that they become more connected with their dreams and passions and more aware about how to create beneficial connections that will contribute to our local and global dreams.
By the end of this experience we hope to find together models that we can use for our inner transitions, the way we make decisions, how to manage people with different opinions, integrating our needs and the needs of others and designing for sustainable social energy systems in our communities.
Helder Valente has been traveling the world in several continents and climates learning and sharing about positive solutions for the chalenges humanity is facing.
In this last years Helder has been designing many gardens and food forests, finished his permaculture diploma with the british permaculture association and is part of the european permaculture teachers partnership.
A big part of the work developed has been towards education for children and handicap, people in developing countries like Haiti, polititians in europe and indigenous communities like in the andes with Quechua people or the amazon jungle with the Shipibo populations.
In this last years Helder has been designing many gardens and food forests, finished his permaculture diploma with the british permaculture association and is part of the european permaculture teachers partnership.
A big part of the work developed has been towards education for children and handicap, people in developing countries like Haiti, polititians in europe and indigenous communities like in the andes with Quechua people or the amazon jungle with the Shipibo populations.
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Vandana Shiva and Geoff Lawton Talk about free seeds
2 Giants of environmental activism chating on skype about the next steps towards the new paradigm
Permaculture in Occupy Wall Street
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Course 1983
“Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food’s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal of it….its eh, a shocking situation, it’s just inhuman. It’s what nobody would intend, and somehow what we’ve arrived at, and we arrived at it by the erection of financial structures, totally divorced from resources. So that the fiscal economy has been a runaway system. We’ve gotta tackle that head on. That is, what I’m trying to tell you, it’s no good any longer just being an organic gardener or farmer, we have to be effective financial and political units. And we’re gonna have to face that. Just as it was very hard for us to learn to garden, then hard for us to learn to collect seeds, once the multinationals took over the open-pollinated seed market; we had to become seed growers. Now its very difficult, we have to become bankers.There’s no good trying to pretend we don’t have to. We can run away to the bush, build a mud hut and grow ducks in the garden, it’s not gonna do it. The coals will still be burnt, the land will still be eroded, and the forests will still be cleared for newsprint if we run away to the bush. So, there’s no escape, we’ve just gotta stop running away, stay where we are and start to face up and fight.”
MOBILE DESIGN LAB AT OWS from ONE PACK PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.
Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Course 1983
“Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food’s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal of it….its eh, a shocking situation, it’s just inhuman. It’s what nobody would intend, and somehow what we’ve arrived at, and we arrived at it by the erection of financial structures, totally divorced from resources. So that the fiscal economy has been a runaway system. We’ve gotta tackle that head on. That is, what I’m trying to tell you, it’s no good any longer just being an organic gardener or farmer, we have to be effective financial and political units. And we’re gonna have to face that. Just as it was very hard for us to learn to garden, then hard for us to learn to collect seeds, once the multinationals took over the open-pollinated seed market; we had to become seed growers. Now its very difficult, we have to become bankers.There’s no good trying to pretend we don’t have to. We can run away to the bush, build a mud hut and grow ducks in the garden, it’s not gonna do it. The coals will still be burnt, the land will still be eroded, and the forests will still be cleared for newsprint if we run away to the bush. So, there’s no escape, we’ve just gotta stop running away, stay where we are and start to face up and fight.”
Guardião da floresta amazonica foi morto...
Zé Claudio Ribeiro, foi assassinado junto com sua esposa, Maria do Espirito Santo, quando voltava para casa, no Assentamento Agroextrativista Praia Alta Piranheira, em Nova Ipixuna, no sul do Pará.
José Claudio Ribeiro era castanheiro e vivia da extração de castanhas e outras frutas na floresta. O lugar onde morava é protegido por lei e o corte de árvores, ilegal. Assim, Zé Claudio negava-se a negociar as árvores com os madereiros da região. A pressão era grande: muita gente já tinha abandonado o assentamento e vendido, ilegalmente, as terras. Zé Claudio denunciava os crimes e, por isso, as ameaças eram constantes. Sua palestra no TEDxAmazônia conta exatamente essa história. Num trecho, ele diz: “A mesma coisa que fizeram no Acre com Chico Mendes, querem fazer comigo”. E fizeram. Vale rever a palestra:
A polícia chegou por volta do meio dia, despreparada para proteger o local do crime para a perícia, segundo a Comissão Pastoral da Terra. Zé Claudio e Maria do Espírito Santo estavam com medo e iriam denunciar as ameaças. Agora, essa é a nossa missão: não permitir que o crime caia na impunidade. Pedimos que comunidade TED se mobilize para que esta notícia seja espalhada.
fonte TED
José Claudio Ribeiro era castanheiro e vivia da extração de castanhas e outras frutas na floresta. O lugar onde morava é protegido por lei e o corte de árvores, ilegal. Assim, Zé Claudio negava-se a negociar as árvores com os madereiros da região. A pressão era grande: muita gente já tinha abandonado o assentamento e vendido, ilegalmente, as terras. Zé Claudio denunciava os crimes e, por isso, as ameaças eram constantes. Sua palestra no TEDxAmazônia conta exatamente essa história. Num trecho, ele diz: “A mesma coisa que fizeram no Acre com Chico Mendes, querem fazer comigo”. E fizeram. Vale rever a palestra:
A polícia chegou por volta do meio dia, despreparada para proteger o local do crime para a perícia, segundo a Comissão Pastoral da Terra. Zé Claudio e Maria do Espírito Santo estavam com medo e iriam denunciar as ameaças. Agora, essa é a nossa missão: não permitir que o crime caia na impunidade. Pedimos que comunidade TED se mobilize para que esta notícia seja espalhada.
fonte TED
Permaculture and Paganism an Interview with Starhawk
Starhawk was generous with her time while she was here in Madison a month ago. She granted me two interviews, the first about Palestine and the second — which I will begin to post today now that I’m back from my vacation — about permaculture. For those of you who don’t know her, Starhawk is the best-known Wiccan author alive today. She’s published eleven books, including The Spiral Dance, which introduced many of us to Wicca. From the beginning of her career, she’s been very involved as an activist, and since the 1990s she’s been most active in promoting permaculture.
Star came to permaculture as a natural outgrowth of her Paganism. After many years in the Goddess movement — where we declared that the Earth was a sacred, living organism that manifests Herself in the cycles of birth, growth, death, and regeneration that occur in all of nature, including our own human culture — Star discovered permaculture. She soon realized it was a practical application of her spiritual path.
Permaculture began as a way to imitate the relationships found in nature in order to design human communities and agricultural systems. As Star tells us in this interview, two Australians — Bill Mollison and David Holmgren — discovered many of the principles of permaculture while studying the Tasmanian rainforest. Their interest began when they started to ask questions like “Why is the rainforest thriving when no one is pruning it, spraying it for bugs, or fertilizing the soil? How does it care for itself? And why couldn’t we grow food for humans in the same way that the rainforest provides for itself?”
According to Star, Bill and David developed a set of ethics and principles based on what they discovered about natural systems. The ethics are quite straightforward: 1) Care for the Earth, 2) Care for people, and 3) Care for the future a) by sharing the surplus, b) by returning what you have to the land, and c) by limiting your consumption. These ethics guide the way permaculture implements its principles and creates and designs its systems.
According to Starhawk, permaculture’s many principles derive from one overarching understanding, namely that we should look at systems and relationships rather than at separate, isolated objects. This is also the core of Pagan philosophy and indigenous spirituality. For example, the Lakota say “Ho mitakuye oyasin,” meaning “all our relations,” a saying that indicates many times a day that we are a part of an interconnected whole. Within the Goddess movement, we also view life as a set of relationships. It’s our relationship with the natural world that sustains our lives, and it’s the relationships within nature that sustain the biodiversity, abundance, and beauty in our world.
Permaculture’s principles can be easily deduced, according to Starhawk, if you ask a few basic questions: For example, where are things in relationship to each other? If systems are designed to create the right relationships, Star told me, it saves a lot of energy, a lot of material, and a lot of human effort. So, for instance, if you catch water high enough up in your landscape, you won’t need to pump it. Or if you place your garden near your house, you will be able to tend it as you walk through it during the course of your day. And if you place those plants that need the most tending closest to your house, you’ll notice their needs and take care of them in a timely maner. One of the sayings of the permaculture movement is that if your woodpile is between the house and the outhouse, you’ll be able to bring in a few sticks at a time and never have to burden yourself with the heavy task of fetching wood.
Another good question from the perspective of permaculture is when things happen in relation to each other. Using the example of a garden again, you need to prepare the ground first, before you plant any seeds. Then the seeds can take root and thrive. This principle doesn’t just apply to gardens, Star told me, but is a sound economic standard as well. We need businesses to become rooted in our communities and become responsible to them. We desperately need these moral values at this time in history as a counter to climate change and to the oppressive aspects of globalization. Local institutions will not deplete our energy resources as quickly as those located far away. And instead of extracting wealth for shareholders who live someplace else, our businesses will be accountable and serve the needs of their own communities and provide a decent livelihood for the people work for them.
Another permaculture principle Starhawk talked about is catching and storing energy. The sun showers us everyday with energy, and if we can catch it, store it, and reuse it, that provides us with abundance. We can capture sunlight with solar panels, but we can also absorb it in the plants we grow and eat. This principle can also be translated into an economic concept. It’s easy to see that it’s not the number of dollars that come into a community that generates wealth, but how often they recirculate before they leave the area.
In nature, there’s no waste, Starhawk went on to say. When one thing dies, it feeds another. In fact, even one creature’s excretions can become another creature’s resource. Permaculture has developed a corollary to this natural principle, namely that pollution is an unused resource. Star’s example highlighted this concept. Sewage can be a tremendous pollutant, she said, but when dealt with properly, it can become a great source of nutrients. Millions of children die every year from water contaminated by sewage, but in reality, it’s not hard to deal with human waste. It’s only dangerous when it’s flushed away in water that then can’t be used for other purposes. Star tells her students that there’s nothing easier than building a composting toilet that can turn that lethal substance into a natural fertilizer that can then help grow crops or trees. What’s so interesting is that when we start to learn these things, we realize that there’s a cycle of destruction that we can turn around, creating a cycle of regeneration and rebuilding instead. “The problem is the solution,” Star said, quoting another permaculture saying.
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