Lake Road to Copenhagen 2009 Permaculture Cooperative R&D
Mondragon Cooperative
• Mondragon Cooperative largest worker-cooperative in world
• 120 worker-cooperatives• 100 000 plus worker-owners• Global enterprise• Started by Catholic priest• Global corporation making consumer goods
Klimaforum09
• does not just work for climate change, it works for systems change
• a forum where activists start working with grassroots
• network for activists/grassroots• practical actions meet radical actions
1 TON CO2 / 10.000 TREES PROJECT
Permaculture Climate change Carbon sink in ecology: trees, mostly soil More 10,000 TREES / person / lifetime Less 1 TON CO2 / person / year Failing U.N. Climate Conference process Parallel activist/grassroots conference
Klimaforum International permaculture network
2 Aspects
Planetary Permaforestry
10 000 Trees per person
Global re-afforestation project
Perennial polyculture Agroecology Food sovereignty Ecological agriculture
Global Energy Descent 1 ton C02 quota per
person per year 100 Euro Carbon tax
after 1st ton 100 Euro tax pays for
planetary permaforestry
Permaculture
Permaculture - the idea, practice and global and local success
Ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share Perennial Polyculture i.e. food forests,
ecological argriculture, organic "On one level, permaculture deals with plants, animals, buildings,
infrastructures (water, energy, communications). However, permaculture is not about these elements themselves, but rather about the relationships we can create between them by the way we place them in the landscape."
– founder Bill Mollison, 1991.Introduction to Permaculture” (p. 1).
Climate Change
Climate Change - the massive catastrophic problem
Climate change is real, probably worse IPCC Carbon Finance is dangerous Climate change denial is universal Coal is the worst source, and must be stopped
Carbon sink
Carbon sink - a new category for locking, permanently ecology as carbon sinks in forest and soil
New global land-use category is Carbon Sink Local perennial polyculture, ecological
agirculture scales to global solution
Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year
Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year - global energy descent and emissions reductions targets
1 tonne per lifeyear (per person) quota of carbon emissions, after which a carbon tax
carbon tax of 100 euro per tonne all companies and international transport pay
100 euro per tonne carbon markets & carbon trading are stopped
Permaculture network
The Permaculture network - massively expanding a global, democratic, locally-controlled permaculture network
Expand from 500 global institutes to thousands
100 Euro / Ton Carbon Tax
carbon tax of 100 Euro per tonne all companies and international transport pay
100 euro per tonne i.e. no quota carbon markets & carbon trading are stopped carbon tax spent on perennial polyculture
(permaculture) style forestry programs
Permaforestry
carbon tax spent on perennial polyculture (permaculture) style forestry programs
perennial polyculture and soil become carbon sinks
local permaculture groups implement 10 000 trees program, expanding existing permaculture institutes from a few hundred into the 10s of thousands
if 5000-7000 trees can be planted per person in the next 25 years we can stablise extreme climate change
Soil & Tree Carbon Sinks
best means to take C02 (GHG) from the atmosphere is not technical means, it is trees
Most carbon is sequestered (trapped) in soil, partly in trees
Resources
10 000 Trees at Permaculture.TV
http://permaculture.tv/?s=10+000+trees International Permaculture Council
http://www.inpermcou.org/
Contacts
• Nicholas Roberts & Kirstie Stramler• Permaculture Cooperative• [email protected] • News.permaculture.coop • PermacultureGroups.org• www.Permaculture.TV