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Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network | 1 Aug 2010 07:09
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Permaculture Credit Union's 10th Anniversary Celeb video Part 1&2


Permaculture Credit Union Celebrates 10th Anniversary Video 1&2
Member-Owned Financial Institution Successfully Blends Responsible 
Business Practices with Sustainable Living Practices

This is a video of the first half of the Permaculture Credit Union's 
10th Anniversary Celebration held May 2010 in Santa Fe, NM. This 
video includes on overview of the activities of the credit union, its 
10th Anniversary initiatives, as well as awards for leading members 
and a children's poster contest.

PART 1
This video will be of most interest to members of the PCU.

http://vimeo.com/12838782

PART 2
The second half of the celebration covering Gunter Pauli's 
presentation on the Blue Economy can be found here: 
http://<http://www.vimeo.com/11765142>vimeo.com/11765142.

Permaculture Credit Union www.pcuonline.org

Permaculture Credit Union Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Member-Owned Financial Institution Successfully Blends Responsible 
Business Practices with Sustainable Living Practices

	Santa Fe, NM - In a financial economy where most consumers 
are worried simply about their money's security, member-owners of 
Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Permaculture Credit Union
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fdnokes | 1 Aug 2010 18:58
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Persistent contrails -- interesting url

Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and ChemtrailsLast season I sent one
email on this topic and an absolute barrage of emails followed: some for, some against, some insisting on censorship.
The secrecy surrounding this issue is a social issue.
The situation  itself is important to those who care about sustainability as it speaks to weather, air and
soil quality.
F

From: Global Research E-Newsletter 
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 7:07 AM
To: fdnokes@... 
Subject: Rady Ananda: Atmospheric Geoengineering - Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails

  
      Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails
      A Review of the "Case Orange" report

      By Rady Ananda

      URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20369

      Global Research, July 30, 2010 

      At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that
"manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy
theory." It is "fully operational" with a solid sixty-year history. Though "hostile" environmental
modification was banned by UN Convention in 1978, its "friendly" use today is being hailed as the new
savior to climate change and to water and food shortages. The military-industrial complex stands poised
to capitalize on controlling the world's weather. 

      "In recent years there has been a decline in the support for weather modification research, and a tendency
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Chris Carnevale | 2 Aug 2010 23:32
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Re: Persistent contrails

Thank you for sharing that information.  Being informed about  
geoengineering is of great importance to those of us interested in  
earth care and people care.

There was a great episode of Democracy Now a couple weeks ago that had  
a prominent geoengineering expert debating with Vandana Shiva about  
the efficacy of geoengineering to curb climate change.  Shiva points  
out that in her agricultural experiments, she found it would be  
possible to curb/sequester 40 percent of current carbon emissions  
simply by transitioning agriculture to organic, regenerative  
practices.  This is the same number that the Rodale Institute came up  
with.  This is the kind of information that needs to be waved in front  
of people's faces so that when they think about responding to climate  
change, they'll automatically think about agriculture rather than  
seeding clouds.

Democracy Now interview: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/8/a_debate_on_geoengineering_vandana_shiva
Rodale report: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/Rodale_Research_Paper-07_30_08.pdf

Chris Carnevale
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 3 Aug 2010 03:14

Fwd: CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM OFFERS POLLINATOR HABITAT INCENTIVES

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Subject: [SANET-MG] CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM OFFERS POLLINATOR 
HABITAT INCENTIVES
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:06:09 -0700
From: Eric Mader <eric@...>
To: SANET-MG@...

For Immediate Release
August 2, 2010

CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM OFFERS POLLINATOR HABITAT INCENTIVES

New rules passed by the USDA now offer incentives for the
establishment of pollinator habitat through the Conservation Reserve
Program (CRP). The limited time program sign-up, which opens today to
new enrollments, provides one of the largest pollinator conservation
opportunities ever in the United States.

The CRP program, first established in 1985, is the largest private
landowner conservation effort in the United States with up to 32
million acres eligible for enrollment through the USDA’s Farm Service
Agency. Program participants take highly erodible land out of crop
production, and establish permanent vegetation to protect topsoil and
provide wildlife cover. Contracts which run 10 to 15 years provide
annual rental payments on enrolled land, and cost-share assistance for
establishing vegetative cover.

New rules which go into effect today offer priority ranking for land
enrollments that include pollinator-friendly wildflowers and shrubs.
Under the current CRP enrollment system, landowners who want to
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 4 Aug 2010 08:37

Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds is no more; gone.


Mars (manufacturer of junk food candy bars) bought Seeds
of Change some years ago. A natural food store manager told me they
offered no seeds to them last year for resale. Last week the goons in
the employ of Mars (possibly from there as well) appeared at Seeds of
Change, told _everyone_ (read: _all_ employees) that they were fired on
the spot and to get their things together and leave the property
immediately. They confiscated their laptops and cellphones, were not
allowed to download their personal data, were watched while emptying
their desks (might take a company ball point pen) then escorted off the
property. The organization is being dismantled and the property will be
sold. No more Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds. A very 
similar scenario unfolded a few years ago at Seed Savers Exchange after 
an internal coup carried out partly by Monsanto surrogates resulted in 
the loss of nearly a life's work by Kent Whealy.

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Jonathan Storvick | 4 Aug 2010 13:37
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Re: Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds is no more; gone.

Is there any documentation for this?  I couldn't find any news links from a
web search.

Cheers,

Jon

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <
venaurafarm@...> wrote:

>
> Mars (manufacturer of junk food candy bars) bought Seeds
> of Change some years ago. A natural food store manager told me they
> offered no seeds to them last year for resale. Last week the goons in
> the employ of Mars (possibly from there as well) appeared at Seeds of
> Change, told _everyone_ (read: _all_ employees) that they were fired on
> the spot and to get their things together and leave the property
> immediately. They confiscated their laptops and cellphones, were not
> allowed to download their personal data, were watched while emptying
> their desks (might take a company ball point pen) then escorted off the
> property. The organization is being dismantled and the property will be
> sold. No more Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds. A very
> similar scenario unfolded a few years ago at Seed Savers Exchange after an
> internal coup carried out partly by Monsanto surrogates resulted in the loss
> of nearly a life's work by Kent Whealy.
>
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Jerome Rigot | 4 Aug 2010 14:46
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Re: Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds is no more; gone.

Hello all,

I had heard that Seeds of Change had been bought a few years back, but they
seem to still be in business.

There are 2 local stores here in the Binghamton area that have the Seeds of
Change display with seeds, and early this year at the NOFA-NY conference,
they were there, I talked to the rep.

Anyway, we'll see what happens.

In any case if you want high quality open-pollinated seeds, check: Baker
Creek Heirloom seeds at http://rareseeds.com/.

Also, check this webpage for links to other seed companies that carry
organic, biodynamic, heirloom and heritage seeds at
http://www.forkandbottle.com/garden/seeds/seedsource.htm.

Jerome
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Barbara Meyer | 4 Aug 2010 20:49
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Re: Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds is no more; gone.

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<http://eatdrinkbetter.com/files/2010/07/Seeds.jpg>Does
Monsanto own Seeds of Change? I hear this question a lot. It shows up on
message boards around the internet. It’s even been passed to me as an email
forward. The quick answer is “No, Monsanto does not own Seeds of Change.”

Why do people keep asking if Monsanto owns Seeds of Change? Consolidation of
agricultural companies in the 1990s and 2000s have kept organic advocates on
their toes looking out for their own interests and right to do business as
they see fit. Particularly relevant to this discussion is Monsanto’s
purchase of Seminis, Inc. (a major vegetable and fruit seed company) in
2005.
Seminis — a major seed company

Seminis, Inc. was formed in 1994 to consolidate several smaller seed
companies and ended up (after several more buyouts with 40% of the U.S. seed
market and 20% of the worldwide seed market – most of that market for
commercial seed varieties, the fruits and vegetables that end up in the
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rafter sass | 5 Aug 2010 02:42

Fwd: On an ethics of permaculture...

Hey folks,

I'm FWDing an email on from Kevin Skvorak, a good permie who it appears has been banned from this list.

Kevin's original email below, then my response follows.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: regeneration CSA <regenerationcsa@...>
> Date: August 4, 2010 7:26:06 PM EDT
> To: "Northeastern Permaculture (List)" <northeasternpermaculture@...>
> Subject: On an ethics of permaculture...
> 
> warm greetings folks,
> 
> So, i am wondering if anyone would like to consider some conversations on the ethical dimensions of
permaculture?   (no pressure!) 
> 
> If you happen to feel so inclined to indulge some of my ponderings, here they are:
> 
> 
> How can we frame in (more) practical ways the ethical principles of permaculture?  How do we analyze and
discuss if we are achieving our goals of earth care, people care, and fair share?  How much of each does it
take? If two out of three of these are embodied in any given project, is this enough to qualify as
permaculture?    
> 
> I want to offer an example or two to help illustrate.
> 
> Recently, Scott Pittman, director of the Permaculture Institute taught some National Guardsmen on
their way to Afghanistan some Permaculture basics.  For me this very tricky, if not perhaps untenable for a
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Ben Martin Horst | 5 Aug 2010 04:15
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Re: Fwd: On an ethics of permaculture...

Rafter--
It seems to me that your question "How is this project helping a community
take control of its own destiny - to self-determine?" is a key measure at
least of the first two ethics. As you mentioned, this must be a
consideration of "Care for People," but it is also implicated in "Care for
the Earth." Earth Care implies the nurturing of self-regenerating ecologies,
where the necessity for human input is minimized -- in other words, respect
for the volition, needs, and desires of those ecologies. Of course, any
objective measure would be nigh impossible. It's an exceedingly subjective
thing to determine whether or to what degree an ecosystem or its constituent
parts are satisfied in their ability to self-determine. But then again, that
may be an implication of permaculture: elements of ecosystems (and
ecosystems themselves) can no longer be regarded as objects to manipulate,
but subjects to converse with. (By "subject" I mean not "a person who is
under the dominion or rule of a sovereign" but "that which thinks, feels,
perceives, intends, etc., as contrasted with the objects of thought,
feeling, etc.")

-Ben

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM, rafter sass <rafter@...>wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I'm FWDing an email on from Kevin Skvorak, a good permie who it appears has
> been banned from this list.
>
> Kevin's original email below, then my response follows.
>
>
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