PermacultureTV

From Nicholas Carrs, Roughtype blog, “Let them eat Tweet”

 Does Twitter dumb us down or simply reveal our innate goofiness? That's
the question that's been flittering about my skullcage after reading
Gideon Rachman's column
on the popular microblogging service in yesterday’s Financial Times. In
reviewing John McCain’s vigorous tweet stream, Rachman observes that
“some of the senator’s tweets make him sound like a peasant.” He quotes
one: “Meeting with Dr Kissinger – the smartest man in the world.”

At the San Francisco Green Drinks a month back, we managed a little stealth marketing and had this Tweet broadcast to the crowd. Seemingly dominated by green marketing (green wash?) types, suits looking for the next clean-tech start-up and some genuine green drinkers. It had more of a dating feel about the event. With a lot of networking, instead of work-netting (as Mollison said).

An unexplored feature is an integration between Livestream (http://livestream.com/permaculturetv) and Twitter. I am guessing this will Tweet whenever a live program is run from within Livestream.

Interestingly, Twitter, has become a real source of traffic to the Permaculture TV website.

I am not sure why and have only started using it. http://twitter.com/PermacultureTV

For me, I am becoming more interested in deeper and longer production efforts, and larger cycles than a constant stream of instant messages, whether via MSN IM, Skype, Facebook or whatever.

One of the main design features of the OpenCore code, running this open planning website, is the lack of noise. It isn’t designed for noise, buzz, tweeting etc. It’s good for blogging, wiki and mailing lists (a feature not yet running)

­Its been a long time coming but the the new www.Permaculture.TV website is live: simple, clean, Wordpress with Livestream. 

 “The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children”

Bill Mollison, co-founder of Permaculture, 1990

“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don’t know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.”

Dr David Suzuki geneticist, broadcaster and international environmental advocate

Contact

Nicholas Roberts email nicholas@themediasociety.org

Summary

1. Permaculture.TV will work to creating educational and documentary video that will empower self-help by increasing food security and community resilience in a time of economic and ecological crisis.
2. Permaculture.TV is a website that features online video’s of people making home, school and community gardens around the world.
3. Permaculture.TV is a media cooperative project that uses web video technology to educate the community about grass-roots solutions to sustainability such as gardens in schools, community gardens, home gardens, healthy eating and lifestyles.

About Permaculture

Permaculture is a broad-based and holistic approach that has many applications to all aspects of life. At the heart of permaculture design and practice is a fundamental set of ‘core values’ or ethics which remain constant whatever a person’s situation, whether they are creating systems for town planning or trade; whether the land they care for is only a windowbox or an entire forest. These ‘ethics’ are often summarised as;

• Earthcare – recognising that the Earth is the source of all life (and is possibly itself a living entity- see Gaia theory) and that we recognise and respect that the Earth is our valuable home and we are a part of the Earth, not apart from it.
• Peoplecare – supporting and helping each other to change to ways of living that are not harming ourselves or the planet, and to develop healthy societies.
• Fairshare (or placing limits on consumption) - ensuring that the Earth’s limited resources are utilised in ways that are equitable and wise.

Modern thought about permaculture began with the issue of sustainable food production. It started with the belief that for people to feed themselves sustainably they need to move away from reliance on industrialised agriculture. Where industrial farms use technology powered by fossil fuels (such as gasoline, diesel and natural gas), and each farm specialises in producing high yields of a single crop, permaculture stresses the value of low inputs and diverse crops. The model for this was an abundance of small scale market and home gardens for food production, and a main issue was food miles.