1. The document discusses Plentitude Fundamentals by Juliet Schor which outlines 4 concepts: a new allocation of time with less industrial work and more time for social relations and work outside traditional economies; self-provisioning through making, growing, or doing things for oneself including new forms of technology-enabled making; true materialism which takes material resources seriously to appreciate and preserve them; and restoring investments in communities and social bonds. 2. It also mentions permaculture design certification and discusses sustainability and the sustainability revolution through presentations by Lawrence Gamble and topics like signs of spring, renewable energy progress, and electric transportation examples. 3

1. Plentitude Fundamentals
Juliet Schor
1. A New Allocation of Time – less industrial work, more time for
working outside of the BAU economy and for social relations.
2. Self-provision - or make, grow, or do things for oneself. Includes new
forms of hi-tech making.
3. True Materialism – it is only when we take the materiality of the
world seriously that we can appreciate and preserve the resources on
which spending depends.
4. restore investments in one another and our communities. While
social bonds are not typically thought of in economic terms, these
connections, which scholars call social capital, are a form of wealth
that is every bit as important as money or material goods.
Work and spend less, create and connect more.

2. Permaculture Design Certification
The Sustainability Revolution
April, 2015
Lawrence (Lonnie) Gamble, P.E.
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers

3. Signs of Spring:
Arugula is Up in Lonnie’s Greenhouse
Planted on March 9, up by March 15

4. Other Signs of Hope
70% of the world is fed by peasant farmers

6. Obama Solar Quote

8. The Renewable Energy
Revolution is Here
Add stunning progress
Show ad on stealing grease from
Notes

9. Germany
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.
On Sunday, May 11, 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from renewables.
Energiewende, the innovative public policy around renewables has created
400,000 jobs in Germany

12. Solar Potential
Germany vs Iowa
Germany (Berlin): 883 kwh per kw
Total Solar Installed in Germany: 38,359 mw
Iowa (Fairfield): 1300 kwh per kw
Total capacity of the Iowa grid: 10,000 mw

14. Iowa
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
From 5% to 25% in Just 6 Years!
% Iowa Electrical Energy
from Wind
5 Times Increase in Wind Energy Production in 6 years

15. Solar in Iowa - 2004
2 kw

16. Solar in Iowa - 2008
Prairiewoods 10 KW

18. Solar in Iowa - 2012
Sky Factory 54 kw, 79,000 kwh

19. Solar in Iowa - 2014
Farmers Electric Coop
800 kw 1,000,000 kwh

20. Portugal at 58% Renewable Energy
for 2013
(First half of 2013 was 75%)
Pop 10.4 million
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs

21. Kauai
On August 31, 2014, during daytime hours, 57% of
power on Kauai was from renewable sources.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Hawaii)
Once Anahola goes on-line, solar will approach 80%
of the energy demand on some days. At some
times solar output may exceed demand. Kauai is a
laboratory for the world on 100% renewable
energy.

23. Costa Rica 100% Powered by Renewable
Energy for the 1st 75 days of 2015
Pop: 4.8 Million Annual % Renewables: 88%
Renewables allowed a 12% reduction in energy prices
“We are declaring peace with nature,” Costa Rican ambassador Mario Fernández Silva

26. Electric Transportation: Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf Example
Assume 12,000 miles per year
Leaf gets 5.4 miles per kwh, 2300 kwh per year
Cost for electricity at 12 cents (40 cents on Kauai) /kwh:$271
Equivalent cost for gas @$3/gallon: $1200
Cost of PV panels to produce this much annual energy: $1600
Cost of system: $4600
Like having 70 cent per gallon gasoline

27. 11th Hour

28. Sustainability Challenges
2 Degrees Safe Global Temp rise
It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet
It’s time to divest from fossil fuels
5 times more coal, oil, and gas in proven reserves than is safe to burn. We need to leave 80% of
it in the ground.
The fossil fuel industry wakes up every day determined to burn it all.
575 Gigatons of carbon can safely be added to the atmosphere
2795 Gigatons of carbon in proven reserves

32. “We need a persuasive and visionary yes
rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb
2015

33. “Although the problems are
increasingly complex,
the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple”
- Bill Mollison
developer of Permaculture
Design Methodology

34. “We are charged with
designing the future,
not being victims of it”
- R Buckminster Fuller

36. • Mcdonough audio/video - ethics of design,
design as first signal of human intention

37. Oberlin Lewis Center

38. If we get the design right, we get cascading side
benefits
If we get the design wrong, we get cascading
side effects
Sustainable Living:
A New and Better Design for Living
Permaculture:
A system of design for Sustainable Living

39. Consider Design and the Electric Car:
The better car makes the worse city
The surprising sustainability of city living
Going beyond individual initiative
Richard Register
Sustainable Living Department Distinguished Scholar

40. • “I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's
how the universe designs itself.” - Buckminster
Fuller

41. Living Fully Rooted in the Abundant Flows of Natural Systems

42. Permaculture Definition:
A Fertility Cult

43. Permaculture celebrates nature’s
extravagance
Eco-efficiency vs Eco-effectiveness

44. “The stone age didn’t end because we
ran out of stones….” - Saudi Oil
Minister
Economy of Scarcity Economy of Abundance
Nature’s Economy: Ecosystem Services
Man’s Economy

45. Observation and Permaculture Design

48. Permaculture:
• Scan from Wired magazine (or off
internet?)
The design of human habitats that have the stability, diversity, and resilience of
natural ecosystems

49. Other systems of Ecological Design
Natural Step Principles: The Rules of Nature
In order to create a sustainable society, we need to understand that we must operate within
natural laws and principles rather than attempting to overcome them. Scientists agree
on the following non-negotiable facts about the earth:
1. The earth is a closed system with respect to matter. Nothing enters or leaves (aside from
the odd meteor or rocket), which means everything that was here two billion years ago
is still here today. There is no away: matter can change form, but it doesn’t leave.
2. The earth is an open system with respect to energy. In fact, energy from the sun is the
only input into the system. This energy enters our atmosphere and is released back into
space in the form of heat. The sun’s energy drives everything.
3. Life exists in the thin layer around the earth called the biosphere, which is as thin as the
skin of an onion. The biosphere is very fragile – as we’re learning almost daily, and
there is only so much wear and tear it can take. And it is certainly rare. As far as we
know, there’s only one just like it in the entire universe, and the more we learn about it,
the more complex and beautiful it turns out to be.
4. Photosynthetic organisms (plants and some algae) capture the sun’s energy and use it
to power their growth. This growth supports the development of every organism on
earth – in other words, photosynthesis pays the bills.
5. All life on earth depends on complex, self-regulating systems that circulate materials
and energy in closed-loop cycles (Gaia). Slow geological processes move materials
from deep in the earth’s crust (or lithosphere) to the biosphere and back again.
Ecosystems in the biosphere rapidly cycle and recycle nutrients, water and energy from
one organism to the next. Nature works in efficient cycles where nothing is wasted.

50. From Co-op America's statement,
"What we mean when we say 'green'":
“When we use the word 'green,' we're talking about
social and economic justice and environmental
sustainability. The green economy respects workers,
communities and the environment, and uses the planet's
resources carefully. It is built on the belief that every person
has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, earn
fair wages, and live in a thriving community where
residents can secure jobs and put down roots--values we
can all share, regardless of political affiliation. We are
working for a world where everyone has enough, where all
communities are healthy and safe, and where the beauty
and wealth of the Earth is preserved for all generations to
come."

51. Sustainability
Meet the needs of the present without diminishing
opportunities for the future
A world view with a set of supporting infrastructure,
technologies, institutions, ways of relating to each
other and to nature

53. Shallow Vs Deep Sustainability
Shallow Sustainability - Using efficiency and
substitution to ameliorate the effects of the
existing system with doing much to change
the worldview the system is based on.
Motivated primarily by economic value.

54. Deep Sustainability
Efficiency and substitution are in service to
radical redesign based on a worldview that
uses ecology as a metaphor rather than the
machine, holism rather than reductionism,
compliments science with many ways of
knowing, and is grounded in an
experiential and intellectual understanding
of the unity that underlies the surface
diversity of life.

55. Deep Sust Cont’d
• This worldview leads to a society that has an
ethic of regeneration and renewal of human
society and nature. Deep sustainability gives
priority to ethical and social values while
recognizing the necessity of economic
viability.

56. Perennial Philosophy
• The first peace, which is most important, is
that which comes from within the souls of
people when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its
powers, and when they realize that at the
center of the universe dwells the great spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere — it
is within each of us.” Black Elk

57. ““It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into
a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects
all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the
interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating
breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the
world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its
interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until
we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all
reality.” Martin Luther King
“Everything is so intimately connected with every other thing in
creation that it is not possible to distinguish completely the
existence of one from the other. And the influence of one thing
on every other thing is so universal that nothing could be
considered in isolation. We have already mentioned that the
universe reacts to an individual action…Therefore, the great
responsibility of right and wrong lies in the individual him [or
her]self on the level of his [or her] consciousness.”—Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi, from Science of Being and Art of Living p. 219-223

58. David Suzuki
• Suzuki on connectedness

60. TM: The direct experience of the level at which
everything is connected
Permaculture: The intellectual exploration and practical
application of the level at which everything is connection – A
branch of applied Vedic Science

61. Beyond Sustainability to Thrivability:
Permaculture
Permaculture is Deep Sustainability: Radical Redesign for
Regeneration and Renewal - The creation of a new story (assign Korten
audio)

64. Food Production

66. Surya Nagar Farm
Climate responsive buildings

69. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
KWh
Wind and Solar Have Same Annual Output
Monthly Wind and Solar - Fairfield
Wind
Solar

71. Rainwater
Harvesting

72. Vermi (worm)composting sewage
treatment

73. 1956
Beverly, Massachusetts
Passive Solar House

74. 1981

75. 1982-1997 Hampden, Maine
Elements Power Company/Maine Energy Partner
Souadabsacook Stream Hydro Plant
Generated 700,000 - 1,000,000 kwh per year
Passive Solar/Superinsulated * Composting Toilet * Rainwater harvesting * solar hot water * Interior
constructed wetland to treat waste water * Local Lumber * Captured waste heat from generator
*

76. 1985
Hampden, Maine
Superinsulated house,
R-40 double stud walls, R-60 roof

77. 1992 - Carrizo Plains, Ca

78. 1994
Christensen Residence
Sun Valley Idaho

79. • Uncle Elmer
• Dad’s Boat
1957 – The Uncle Elmer

80. 1994 -1998
Harmony
San Diego, California

82. Growing Food in the City
Organic Hydroponics

83. 1996- Present
Hawaii

84. Surya Nagar Farm Hawaii - Kaimu, Big Island

91. This presentation prepared on solar powered computers

93. Green Leadership Hawaii

94. Hawaii 2015
University of Sustainable Living

95. Kauai and UH Manoa Talks

96. Jerry Konanui
The Hawaiian Vandana Shiva

97. Ben katz

98. MUM SL Alumni
Ben Katz and Robbie Fox

101. MUM Guerilla Salad Project 2003
“Grow food around where you live,
then the rest of the landscape can
be returned to wetlands and
wildlands and we will create a
whole new continent for our
grandchildren to explore”
- Bill Mollison

102. MUM Farms

106. Fairfood

107. MUM Farm
Aerial view – MUM greenhouses

110. Future Campus:
SEED Center
Sustainable Education Enterprise Development

111. Sustainability Education and Enterprise
Development (SEED) Center

112. Media/Community Radio

113. Sustainable Living Program
Maharishi University of Management
The first four-year university program in Sustainable Living
Goal: Provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to help
design, build, and maintain sustainable communities.
Established 2003, 110 students enrolled full time in 2008

114. What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is the design of productive human
habitats that mimic the stability, diversity, and
resilience of natural ecosystems. It seeks to
provide a sustainable and secure place for living
things on this earth.
Permaculture is Design

115. Goal of Permaculture
Reverse the CONSUMPTION model
into a CREATION model.
 Build the topsoil while growing bountiful crops
 Produce enough healthy food to feed the world
 Repair Devastated Lands – Regrow Rainforests
 Produce the energy we consume
 Create resilient communities and cities
 Improve everyone's quality of life
 Possibly retard/reverse global warming
We need a change in collective consciousness to make this a
collective vision and a reality
We need a new story

116. Permaculture Education
• Permaculture Design Certification course
– First step toward becoming a permaculture design
professional
– Bill Mollison owns the intellectual property rights
to the word “Permaculture”
– Minimum 72 hours of instruction using a
curriculum based on the Designers Manual
– Just the first step – need to apprentice with
experienced designers.
– Decentralized, self regulating structure

117. Textbook
Course Fee: $65
Inc Book, 3 day field
trip/conference and all
materials/handouts

118. Holmgren’s
Permaculture Flower
Permaculture:
A Connecting Discipline

119. How to organize a community for a positive
desirable transition away from fossil fuels?
Transition Towns Movement
Permaculture Design Applied to Community Organizing
“I believe that a lower-energy, more localized future, in
which we move from being consumers to being
producer/consumers, where food, energy and other
essentials are locally produced, local economies are
strengthened and we have learned to live more within
our means is a step towards something extraordinary,
not a step away from something inherently
irreplaceable.”
—Rob Hopkins
The Transition Handbook

121. David Orr on Human Settlements
I think there are four different models, which are not mutually exclusive. One
would be what Gene Logsdon, in a book called The Contrary Farmer, has proposed.
Rural areas with farms of, say, 20-25 acres would be intensively managed but
basically would provide a second income. Logsdon's model is essentially a down
scaling of the status quo; it's a kind of a mini-farm size.

122. Eliot Coleman, Four Season Farm,
Harborside Maine

125. Lonnie and Eliot C

127. Orr on settlements cont’d
• In the second model, I think we're talking about reinventing
agriculture. This model is based on the European farm village
in which people live in a town that has a vital civic and cultural
life. But farm lands lie outside the village. This model would
be in fact a reinvention of a human community relative to a
particular habitat, involving everything from food production
to marketing. It would certainly be more diverse. You could
imagine land owned collectively or cooperatively with outlets
like local restaurants or direct marketing a variety of products
to urban areas.

130. Register city image

131. Orr on settlements cont’d
A third model involves re-ruralizing cities and moving agriculture in
novel ways into urban areas. Let me give you two different
examples. You can see in virtually every large city, small groups
doing urban gardening. What they've done is to move agriculture
on a small scale into often blighted urban neighborhoods.
Another form is the ecological engineering being developed by John
and Nancy Todd of the Ocean Arks Institute (see Healing
Technologies in this issue). An example would be a city block under
glass in which you use the waste water from local communities as
the input to a series of human-designed ecosystems. While you're
purifying the water, you're using the nutrient stream in the water,
the nitrogen and the phosphorous, to grow trees, fruits, flowers,
various kinds of plants and vegetables, and raise fish.

133. Gillis Growth Grove
Kansas City, Missouri

135. Orr on settlements cont’d
Finally, there's a fourth approach. Paul Shepard, author of The Tender Carnivore and
the Sacred Game, once described reintegrating hunting/gathering zones in and
around cities. These zones work as wildlife corridors and also as places where
people in adjoining towns can hunt and gather. I saw something like this near the
town of Puschino south of Moscow on the banks of the Oka River. There was a
biosphere reserve on the north side of the river, and they kept the river corridor
relatively pristine. People would go out on the weekend with baskets and harvest
the forest: a kind of modern age hunting and gathering.
Three things amazed me. One was how pretty the landscape was; the people there
appreciated the beauty and they kept it beautiful. Second, I was impressed by how
competent they were; the people knew plants and animals. They were natural
historians. The third thing was how productive the land along the river appeared to
be.
That's good land use planning, it's good food policy, it conserves resources and
biological diversity, and it nourishes the spirit.

137. Permaculture Design Considers the Synergistic
Relationship of:
• Agriculture - with an emphasis on perennial systems
• Aquaculture
• Forestry, Forest Gardens, Tree Crops, Agroforestry
• Energy
• Water
• Earthworks
• Buildings and the Built Environment
• Restoration of natural systens
• Urban Design and Planning - Ecocities
• Transportation
• Attitude
• Invisible Structures- economics, access to land, banking and money
systems, right livelihoods, cooperatives, government, education,
commons, intellectual property rights
• Equity and Social Justice
• The beneficial synergies between all of the above

138. Bill Mollison
David Holmgren
1978 1979
1988 2002

139. “The ideal way in which to spend one’s time is in
the perfection of the expression of life, to lead
the most evolved life possible, and to assist in
and celebrate the existence of all life forms other
than humans, for they all come from the same
egg.”
- Bill Mollison

140. Roots of Permaculture
Stout Fukuoka Nearings Fuller

141. George Washington Carver
Developed thousands of new uses for plants,
including soap and ink from peanuts, a building
wall system made from cotton stalks, and 75
products made from pecans.
He wanted farmers in the south to be able to
get all their needs met from the farm without
having to participate in the cash economy.
Carver went to Simpson College in Indianola,
Iowa and graduated from Iowa State.
Carver was born into slavery.

142. • Indigenous Cultures
• Tree Crops - J Russell Smith
• Farmers of 40 Centuries - King
• Sir Albert Howard
• Aldo Leopold
• Henry David Thoreau
• Ghandi
Other work pre-dating Mollison and Holmgren:
A few examples

143. Scott and Helen Nearing

144. “We are charged with
designing the future,
not being victims of it”
- R Buckminster Fuller

145. Inspiration for Designers

146. • “I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's
how the universe designs itself.” - Buckminster
Fuller

147. The Current Generation:
Mcdonough Benyus Lovins Todd

148. Mcdonough Clip
Nature’s operating system /
design principles

149. Wangari Maathai
• Responsible for planting 30 million trees
through the Green Belt Movement
• Saw trees as a way for to help women –
firewood, employment, shelter, supplement
to diet, improving water availability
• Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
• Other accomplishments:
– 6000 tree nurseries operated by women
– Jobs created for 100,000 people
– Educated Kenyan women about family planning,
nutrition, leadership development
"It occurred to me that some of the
problems women talked about were
connected to the land. If you plant trees
you give them firewood. If you plant tree
you give them food…I started out plantin
trees and found myself in the forefront o
fighting for the restoration of democracy
in my country." - Wangari Maathai

150. Youtube link

151. Wes Jackson
(turn up sound)

152. Can we do this?
What is the level of response
needed?
• WW II PREP STATISTCS
• 4 days after Pearl Harbor, auto industry ordered to stop
production of civilian vehicles
– Fuel rationed at 4 gallons per week per car, dropping to 2 gallons in
1944
– 35 mph speed limit, break it and loose your fuel and tire rations
– Backed by marketing campaign
• Military spending
– 1940: 1.9 % of GDP
– 1943: 32% of GDP
– GDP increased by 75%
• Campaigns to reduce meat consumption, for recycling, gardening
• Dramatic increases in the level of taxation
• England transition to feeding itself from backyard gardens in 1
year

153. “It is best to think of this as a revolution, not of
guns, but of consciousness, which will be won
by seizing the key myths, archetypes,
eschatologies, and ecstasies so that life won’t
seem worth living unless one is on the
transforming energy’s side.” Gary Snyder
quoted in Seeing Nature by Paul Krafelpap

154. A New Story
The changes we need to make for sustainability –
stronger, more vibrant communities, rich
social connections, a sense of purpose and
meaning, less industrial work, renewable
energy, ecocities, coproducing and making,
organic local foods, connection to nature and
to our own inner being - are also the changes
we need to create a better world, the world of
our best dreams and aspirations.

155. “But in the end, the question is not, 'How do we use
nature to serve our interests' It's 'How can we use
humans to serve nature's interest?' Now, as a designer, I
find that question really interesting” William McDonough
“In higher states of consciousness, individual desire
becomes spontaneously aligned with the need of nature,
the need of the time”