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Food production where it's really needed.
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=Name=
Food production, and more, where it's really needed.


emergency permaculture, emergency sustainable agriculture
[[Permaculture]] is a set of thinking tools, in particular an awareness of context, threats and opportunities. What we normally think of as permaculture (such as planting gardens and fruit trees) may or may not be appropriate in the weeks after a population is forced to resettle; however the perspectives of permaculture may be valuable throughout the [[emergency management]] process.
it seems to be hitting the top of the list recently
see larahna's WHTC project, the covertible community concept
it's not permaculture at all cos permaculture is "by definition" slow, but i don't really know
it probably doesn't have a name ....yet!!!!!
i think we will eventually need to develop a new "term" for this line of thought
i havent ben hit with inspiration for what to call it yet
we'll have to hit the concept, and it'll hit us back
ESA is all that i've come up with so far
emergency sustainability plan for agriculture
emergency sustainable agriculture?
the ESA plan for region X
the ESA plan for region Y
so it'll be ESA^12 if there are 12 zones


=Concept=
== Potential ==


here is what i see as essential for a convertible community ... a solution that provides
Emergency permaculture may be relevant for:
#. a pre-planned solution to restore (or more likely take) a community to levels of sustainability as quickly as possible
* [[Shelter]], in the short to medium term - look for threats (rain, [[flood]], [[wind]], structures in danger of collapse, electrical wiring...), locations that are safe from those threats, and available resources (materials, natural windbreaks...) that help protect against those threats.
#. a means for working throug the variables that crisis can present like climate, land condition, region
* Food production in the medium term - where populations are resettled in one place for a period of months, there may be a benefit to beginning food production as soon as it is practical, to provide a supplement to diets, activities and a sense of normality for a traumatized population.
#. a kit resonse that provides at least 12 months of planned agriculture and the seeds to correspond
#. monkey proof training to allow crisis stricken people to get their act together and not starve when the rations run out!
#. ensuring that the nutritional optimization of crops is considered. the most nutrient and calories possible


sum-up: a set of physical objects and implementable procedures (for advisors and implementers) that lets people go from crisis to post-crisis effectively, swiftly and practically
There's another notion that could also be called "emergency permaculture": fast forests. Not an emergency for us, in people's usual emergency timeframes, but for the ecosystem. Think years and decades, not days to months to a few years. Should this be another notion, or is it a fractal-ish continuum?
* convertible communities (or spaces) need to be prepared in advance = crisis hits means it's too late to be ordering seed catalogs
* i belive the time is rapidly approaching where "in theory" is not good enough


=Chat (to be digested)=
== Perceptions ==


so, thinking about say a family of 4, or a group of 100, that would mean something you can drop off from a parachute, with a cubic yard of stuff
Efforts to improve the situation in [[temporary settlements]] should not be seen as an acceptance of the current status of people living in such settlements long term, and should not distract from the primary goals, i.e. to return people to their homes where appropriate. It will be important to be very careful of perceptions, by refugee camp residents or outsiders, that they will be expected to stay there long term.  
using available:
* land, with knowledge about how to make the best use of available land, and about what's the best land (aka logical anti-crisis zones, which would not be urban centers), i.e. where do you locate convertible centers?
** FEMA maps
** WHTC is the natural , logical place for a pandemic flu attack in Atlanta, GA. Far enough from coastal weather threats. Close enough to siphon off people from the flu attack. And decent weather for year round growing.
** we'd need many such places, so the criteria for selection + the data (satellite) data = a list of real places
* water
* whatever other natural resources that we can't possibly include in the parachutable box


take that and crunch it and you geet somting like sweet potatoes, peanuts, collard greens, etc...
However, the unfortunate reality is that displaced people, such as refugee camp residents, often do stay in such conditions for years, suffering stress, dangers, and shortages. Attending to the conditions in such settlements is of value to potentially millions of people around the world.
a list of many real places
take that global!
the attack:
* so if the "attack" is present poverty, then it's a matter of acting now
* if the attack is foreseable poverty, as in credit crunch etc, then it's real soon now
* if the attack is panflu, then it's whenever it happens, or now if you want to, or on weekends if you're not sure


WHTC can take (a bit theory being put into practice) 200 families each with about 2500 cash and abilit y to earn $50/month and make them sustainable, and sheltered ... and even throw in health care. $1000 up front ... about $1500 to build ultra cheap housing and $50/month upkeep.
== Outline ==
thats a fix for the ecnoomic crash but minds must change!
i need 200 believers with $1K each! and its a done deal! and really i could do it with 50 believers


one more thing for massive stuff: use available resources and build on that - for example, here we grow bananas, so maybe convert some of that land to other things, be ready to do that
A crisis happens, triggering an immediate response which keeps people alive while preparing the way forward.  The way forward may be a bounce-back if the initial situation was good, but it may be a bounce-forward if the initial situation was bad.  "Good" and "bad" are defined in terms of sustainability and developement.


the payoff is they/you'd be building the booklet for many others, for that price
This page intends to collect the models needed to quickly find the best way forward, using whatever combination of local resources and external help that's most suitable to the particular situation.


the project holds 10 acres in reserve..5 initially used for spiritual wellness stuff and 5 for training but on paper that could support additional crisis only lots!
* What happens? A crisis happens. People stay put in an impoverished and more hostile environment, or move to a new place where they may not be welcome because there's just too many of them/us. It's not unusual for people to stay in refugee camps for several years (citation needed).
you want believers who are not already in another group? could you accept an already formed group?
* What do we have?
like camp pads that tie into the off-grid grid for temporary holding of people
** [http://butteredsidedown.co.uk/scim.html SCIM]
camp pads? extra lots?
** [[Permaculture|permacultural concepts]]
yes not big enough to grow on but able to put up a structure for temp living!
** local haves
think camping pad...20'x20' somthing like that
** some global haves
that's 20x33=around 7x7 meters, i see
** (some global needs, if "the problem is the solution": maybe people could be paid to restore ecosystems.)
not for food growing at all
* What do we need/want?
thats about 20/acre vs. the 1/10 acre lots that an individual or small family would have
** Short term SCIM, with [http://hexayurt.com hexayurt] & infrapak. "Staying alive" & "first do no harm" come before anything else.
still thinking the intensive sub-acreage gardening direction
** These emergency permaculture tools/templates we're developing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis there's a model there, maybe - small village + acres around it
** Long term SCIM/permaculture hope.
so it's containers and seeds and booklet
* What do we do?
maybe print-on-demand booklet, with local satelite data feed in
** SCIM: how is "6 ways to die" is covered now, and what's missing or at clear risk of failing.
with tech..it could be dvd,s or such
** Permacultural assessment done rapidly, with templates, looking at basic 6wtd, basic camp governability, basic contact with the outside world, and little else. Look at what you have with permacultural eyes, maybe taking video and asking for assessment, a la crisiscamp mapping, bringing in historical climate data and all the data for questions asked by permaculture practitioners. Ask for specific stuff from outside, and it's the locals who do the asking. Outside has concentric circles: close regions/countries first if possible. Look at the longer term.
i mean, the whole encyclopedia would be huge, but here? here you do A, B, C.
a friend in religiouscircles did a huge info database that was on cd but if you had internet when you clicked the links it went live online and got you current info..if your were offline it got you archived data from disk
it was like 100,000 pages of info! on 1 disk
http://www.appropedia.org/Global_Food_Swadeshi_Project -- here are all the factors, well, the general factors at least
we need a group of people around this, really
a vision/outline + plug-in modules
this needs heavy thinking
but i think its critical
i am feeling this convertible community/space concept is going to be of vital importance soon
i can look at it from my perspective - work on it as a real thing (which it is)
i think if you take out the threates even ... its still a robust chunk to push through. the threats are the why do it ...
i can "sell" it as a thought experiment: what if we wanted to reach sustainability in 4 months?
+1 month for preparation
i mean, if we want sustainability, why not do that experiment?
well yes .. it's like if crisis were to hit in january ... what's the next planting opportunity and what would you plant
as in "what would it look like?"
but the plan needs to be fluid so if it hit in june ... the same info would be available, just modified for the seasonal change
so no matter when crisis hits, there is a plan and the can covers 12 months..so there is a jan and a feb and march packet, etc
so "season" is one factor, a variable in the model, an input variable that leads to spitting out a specific booklet - 50 pages out of 100000 pages
season/climate
it's planting almanac meets can o seeds!
so, we need to simplify realities and look at a bunch of them, not at a thousand different realities
it will give you planing guides..if you hav ethis soil you need to construct raised beds or use a liner system cause crap will grow in your soil...or greenhouse or.....or....or.... a plan a, b,c
there are only a few zones...so if we start with perhaps the growing zones and move out from there
i'll summarise the aims for our page, maybe over at the emergency-permaculture appropedia page, and then suggest an outline
if we took it from a zone by zone basis. could we pair an almanac planting guide with some intel on the most nutritious efficient mix..something like that
and basic gardening tech...sq ft, key hole, the skills of gardeing and spit out an ondemand guide
outline = why, what, how, what-if ... but with specific terms
why = brief summary of reasons to join in
what = what such a place would look like, how things would work
how = things needed for us to get there
what-if = exploration of other ideas we might want to include in the model
and there's the sense of urgency, yes
i don't fully agree with the "emergency permaculture" term, but that we're using is as a provocation = something you use as a springboard to real ideas


there must be some work done already, on zones
== See also ==
i think zones will reduce the bulk of it
and get it manageable
i guess it looks like a tree: biosphere ... 12 zones ... 12 thousand microzones
most seed guides use about a dozen zones
so i think that's right on
so we need to look for the wide-enough, simple-enough branch level if that makes sense
shouldn't be hard to find out. i hve some seed catalogs
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html
perhaps there is a global chart
but i think that is a good breakdown plan. "usda hardiness zones"
plantings are based on this scale
if you are zone 9 you should plant this and this during these periods
http://www.thegardenersresource.com/hardinesszones.html


if we make sure the zones correspond consistently so a zone 7 in the UK or US...same climate
* [[Permaculture and development]]
 
variables in soil, etc. but similar kits would work
 
i need a global map - and i'll look at the concepts behind the map - you see, in the canary islands there are microclimates
 
consistency
 
i'm sure i'll find it. i can find us and uk pretty easily...i'll probably need to search for each continent
 
well, we'll have to translate hardiness, maybe wikipedia has the translations and look at the concepts behind it, too
 
africa: http://www.plantideas.com/zone/africa.html (need to talk to neighbours in some circumstances)


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topics/2097821:Topic:4635 Emergency Permaculture kits]
* [http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topics/2097821:Topic:4635 Emergency Permaculture kits]
* [http://www.sopermaculture.org/SOPI/Blog/Entries/2011/2/12_The_Power_of_the_Permablitz.html Permablitz] as a model for 1-day design.
* http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Land_Imprinting
* https://medium.com/ted-fellows/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-really-fast-d27df202ba09
* also, fungi and herds and ideas from extreme food under 5-year cloud with no sun on earth
* http://tcpermaculture.com/site/2015/02/20/designing-a-custom-native-plant-list/
* climate analogues
* #FastForests
* @edgeryders @leashless @appropedia #bitcoin @hexayurt


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Revision as of 08:33, 21 February 2015

This page is only a start. Please see Talk:Emergency_permaculture#Emergency_permaculture_workspace for some rough ideas.

Food production, and more, where it's really needed.

Permaculture is a set of thinking tools, in particular an awareness of context, threats and opportunities. What we normally think of as permaculture (such as planting gardens and fruit trees) may or may not be appropriate in the weeks after a population is forced to resettle; however the perspectives of permaculture may be valuable throughout the emergency management process.

Potential

Emergency permaculture may be relevant for:

  • Shelter, in the short to medium term - look for threats (rain, flood, wind, structures in danger of collapse, electrical wiring...), locations that are safe from those threats, and available resources (materials, natural windbreaks...) that help protect against those threats.
  • Food production in the medium term - where populations are resettled in one place for a period of months, there may be a benefit to beginning food production as soon as it is practical, to provide a supplement to diets, activities and a sense of normality for a traumatized population.

There's another notion that could also be called "emergency permaculture": fast forests. Not an emergency for us, in people's usual emergency timeframes, but for the ecosystem. Think years and decades, not days to months to a few years. Should this be another notion, or is it a fractal-ish continuum?

Perceptions

Efforts to improve the situation in temporary settlements should not be seen as an acceptance of the current status of people living in such settlements long term, and should not distract from the primary goals, i.e. to return people to their homes where appropriate. It will be important to be very careful of perceptions, by refugee camp residents or outsiders, that they will be expected to stay there long term.

However, the unfortunate reality is that displaced people, such as refugee camp residents, often do stay in such conditions for years, suffering stress, dangers, and shortages. Attending to the conditions in such settlements is of value to potentially millions of people around the world.

Outline

A crisis happens, triggering an immediate response which keeps people alive while preparing the way forward. The way forward may be a bounce-back if the initial situation was good, but it may be a bounce-forward if the initial situation was bad. "Good" and "bad" are defined in terms of sustainability and developement.

This page intends to collect the models needed to quickly find the best way forward, using whatever combination of local resources and external help that's most suitable to the particular situation.

  • What happens? A crisis happens. People stay put in an impoverished and more hostile environment, or move to a new place where they may not be welcome because there's just too many of them/us. It's not unusual for people to stay in refugee camps for several years (citation needed).
  • What do we have?
    • SCIM
    • permacultural concepts
    • local haves
    • some global haves
    • (some global needs, if "the problem is the solution": maybe people could be paid to restore ecosystems.)
  • What do we need/want?
    • Short term SCIM, with hexayurt & infrapak. "Staying alive" & "first do no harm" come before anything else.
    • These emergency permaculture tools/templates we're developing.
    • Long term SCIM/permaculture hope.
  • What do we do?
    • SCIM: how is "6 ways to die" is covered now, and what's missing or at clear risk of failing.
    • Permacultural assessment done rapidly, with templates, looking at basic 6wtd, basic camp governability, basic contact with the outside world, and little else. Look at what you have with permacultural eyes, maybe taking video and asking for assessment, a la crisiscamp mapping, bringing in historical climate data and all the data for questions asked by permaculture practitioners. Ask for specific stuff from outside, and it's the locals who do the asking. Outside has concentric circles: close regions/countries first if possible. Look at the longer term.

See also

External links

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