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Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of other species
2) Food that liberates the planet
3) Food that liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
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Stella & Jose
Coordinator & tutor of www.IntegralPermaCulture.org
+ Founder member of www.8thLife.net
Administrator & IT support of www.IntegralPermaCulture.orgCoordinator animal systems in
www.8thLife.net
Health Warning
this presentation could seriously improve your health
BUT it might also annoy some people a lot
as we question several "permaculture holy
legumes"(it turns out cows are, infact, scientifically significant)
so open mind required!
To DO Permaculture:"Start at the end of your
nose!"
so POINTING OUR NOSES in the right
direction (= what mental models we use, NOT
recepies!)
turns out to be really, REALLY
important
"Integral" means we point our nose to ALL 4 quadrants, not just the usual external 2
excellent design
takes good note of these,
the internal quadrants
or 'invisibles'
but ...
we still tend to think &
design with 'things':
externals,
& rarely join them up very
well
(designing larger
systems)
COMPONENTS
Site
Energy
Social
Abstract
Technologies, connexions, structures, …
Legal aids, people, culture, beliefs, commerce, finance, ...
Time, data, ethics, patterns,values, motivations, ...
Water, land, climate, plants, soil, ...
DESIGNis the beneficial asociation
of all of these types of components
The 4 quadrants map onto the 4 design
components which DEFINE permaculture
design
& usually we under-estimate
these, the "internal
quadrants"
we note that MANY design errors are due to not taking into account ALL types of
components
hence the need for a more Integral PermaCulture
System(how the whole works,
dynamic)
Physical(description of its
components)
Inner life of the frog
(it's subjectiveexperience)
Social Life("Frog's Culture",
Life Cycle)
• The Via Campesina Movement
• Basic Re-Connecting
• Types of Organic Agriculture
• Some Specific Foods
• Feeding the World
an integral exploration
M3.7 Food Sovereignty
slides + more up at www.bit.ly/RationalFood
Food Freedom?
Brandy Agerbeck
1) Food freedom of other species
2) Food that
liberates the planet
3) Food that
liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies from the Multinationals
0) Question
Holy Legumes
Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that liberates the planet
3) Food that liberates the human mind & body
4) How not to be enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies from
the Multinationals
1
2,014 a.c.
3,000,000 b.c.
Historical Modelfrom "Ishmael"
by Daniel Quinn
8,000b.c.
Takers
Leavers
From Class 1.10 of the PDC+++ : Mental models of the Destructo-Culture
"the Civilized"
"the Indigenous"
Where & when humans
started to trespass onthe food freedom
of others
the cradle of our civilization, orfertile crescent
The Sumerian civilization evolved in this region aprox. 6,000 b.C., built canal systems & the first cities in the world
are Agriculture AND
Civilization a type1 error?
Cain & Abel
Leavers
Takers
from "Ishmael"by Daniel Quinn
(Integral PC pre-Text)
Cain & Abel tell the story of the bloody beginnings of civilization - powered by agriculture
the Caucasians
(whites > 'the mark of
Cain)
met the Sumerians (sheperds)
& killed + absorbed
them
Cain
Abel
Cain & Abel
Civilized People
Leavers
Takers
Native People
370 Million People Face the Threat of Extinction - And Nobody Is Talking About It
"Any way of life that perceives the world
around them as consisting of
resources and not beings
and communities to enter into these
reciprocal relationships with, is going to
destroy its land base." Jensen
another story FROM THE LEAVERS p.o.w.
The Garden of Eden- there was a time
when (even the Takers) lived
in peace & harmony with Nature ...
it involves TWO
sacred TREES & us
dis-pleasing
God
from "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)
the Tree of Good & Evil
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread...... with painful labor you will give birth to children
& your husband will rule over you.
only the Gods
can eat of the Tree of
Knowledge
... & have it work for them
in order to know
what shall live
& what shall die
the Tree of Good & Evilor "the Tree of Knowledge"
the Tree of Good & Evilor "the Tree of Knowledge"
"if you eat of this tree you will
surely die"
= re-designing entire eco-
systems is a FATAL mistake
We don't have the right to
grow the food we "like"
to the exclusion of
anything else
But ...
... there were TWO
Mythical Trees in the Garden of
Eden
& the other one was ... The Tree of Life
the Tree of LifeIt was last seen in the garden
of Eden and its fruit
was immortality.
It shared a place in the middle of the
garden with the tree of
knowledge.
or the tree of
BioDiversityor
the Web of Life
(Eve = Life)
the Tree of Life
Both these trees (& these stories) warn AGAINST doing agriculture
DON'T eat of the Tree of Knowledge (of Good &
Evil),
but DO eat of the Tree of Life if you want
to be immortal (sustainable)
= FOOD FREEDOM for
everyone+ stop killing your brother Abel & stop ruling over Eve >> Integral PC has a lot to say about this too
Our Creation Myth is deeply anthopocentricfrom "Ishmael"by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)
Humans are not the centre of Creation ...
so 'food freedom'
should mean 'food freedom
for ALL species' - especially to
Permies!
"There is nothing fundamentally defective in
humans!
If you are given to represent a story that puts you in harmony with the world, you will live in harmony with
the world. But if you are given a story to represent that puts you in conflict with the world, as yours does, you
will live in conflict with the world. If you are given a story to represent in which humans are the lords of
the world, humans will act as lords of the world ... if the world is an enemy to be conquered, you will conquer it like an
enemy, & one day this enemy will inevitably lie bleeding at
your feet, as we see it does at the moment."
from "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (Integral PC pre-Text)
We need to re-design stories, in order to REALLY re-design societies
Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of other species
2) Food that
liberates the planet
3) Food that liberates the human mind & body
4) How not to be enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
2
Climate change started with agriculture
Anthropogenic climate change is not something new
but it is now the most catastrophic & urgent emergency we face
together with its associated collapse of vital ecosystems.
200 species PER DAY are becoming extinct due to civilization.
Agriculture is estimated to be the
direct driver for around 80% of deforestation
worldwide.
April Becomes 1st Month
With CO2 Levels Above 400 PPM
Derrick Jensen:
"It's often said that the ability to recognize patterns is one of the signs of intelligence. So, I'm going to list a
pattern here, and let's see if we can recognize it in less than five or six thousand years.
When you think of the plains and hillsides of Iraq, is the first thing that you think of normally cedar forests so
thick that sunlight never touches the ground? That's how they were.
The first written myth of this culture is Gilgamesh going in and deforesting those hills to make cities.
When you think of the Arabian peninsula, is the first thing that you think of oak forest? That's what it
used to be. Let's move a little bit west, and you get the cedars of Lebanon. They still have one on their
flag.
Plato was commenting on how deforestation was destroying the springs and rivers in Greece.
And I'm sure that those in power said, Well, we need to study it a little bit longer first, to make sure there's a
connection.
Greece was heavily forested, Italy was heavily forested, North Africa was heavily forested."
www.bit.ly/ReversingClimateChange
we need VIABLE solutions for climate change
that work FAST enoughon a global scale
... & this one has MAJORimplications for the kind of diet that is most sustainable
holistic grazing in HALF the degraded
grasslands can take us back to PRE-INDUSTRIAL
levels of CO2in about a decade
whilst feeding people & restoring ecosystems (= feeding lots more species
too)
herbivores do this
Mexico
Tractors, irrigation + lots of labour inputs (quicker, smaller scale)
mainly herbivores did this - with few labor inputs
Yet when most of us think of "Food
Freedom", or 'doing permaculture', we think
of gardens & forest gardens.
We think of growing vegetables, not
breeding animals.
Teaching that vegetarianism is
more sustainable, & that we could
feed all the starving people with the grains
we feed cattle ... is very
misleading, naive & possibly also
quite dangerous.
before 1492 - est. 60,000,000 bison free in N.America, feeding themselves,
preserving ecosystems
today - 90,000,000 cows, captive in industrial conditions, fed by petrol,
destroying ecosystems50million slaughtered
in 1800s
So... we can produce great quantities of very high quality foods for humans
whist massively improving soil fertility restoring biodiversity,
improving water cycles, & trapping a lot of CO2
& about consumption (if we want real justice)
Live simply so that others can simply live also means -
providing animals with the best life we can
honoring the animals we eat by eating all parts of them,
harvesting the wild foods that our soils want to grow,
preserving and preparing food with traditional methods
+ eating only what we need (not our addictions)
& making our metabolism more efficient
Lots more on this in part 2 of this conference
Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of other species
2) Food that liberates the planet
........................................
3) Food that liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
More in the Integral Permaculture Designers'
Manual online
www.PermaCultureScience.org
& lots of Integral PermaCulture Courses in the Academy's web
www.IntegralPermaCulture.org
Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of other species
2) Food that liberates the planet
3) Food that
liberates the human
mind & body
4) How not to be enslaved by addictions
5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
3
See you next week at the same time for part2 !