{"id":303,"date":"2009-10-18T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2009-11-01T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T16:23:45","slug":"permaculture-and-climate-change-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?page_id=303","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture and Climate Change in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculture is not about sheet mulching, or organic gardening.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Permaculture is a sensitive process for designing sustainable systems for living.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is based on a collection of the new and old experience of huge numbers of people, all over the world, but it is more than the collection.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is about how each item in this collection, be it a technique, a species, or a piece of knowledge, can be placed in relation to another to make the system more resilient and better able to meet the needs of the people within it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Permaculture is about careful, prolonged and thoughtful observation, rather than prolonged and thoughtless labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculturists see the issue of global warming firstly from a systems perspective, and then from a practical, regional and local perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Systems theory (Beer, Forrester) has contributed much to the way we see our world. It emphasises the interrelationships between the elements of a system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Before a systems perspective was possible we looked at individual parts of the system from the perspective of say, physics, chemistry, or biology.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>These frameworks have lead to detailed but incomplete views of the world. \u201cOckham\u2019s razor can be a dangerous weapon in Biology.\u201d (Williams 1991).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Systems theory attempts to look at the features of the system as a whole and to identify which factors, internal and external, impact on its stability or vulnerability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">A systems view is often difficult.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is not easy to lift one\u2019s intellectual sights to the scales of time and space required.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>One of the major contributions over the last fifteen years has been that of the Gaia Theory, which advances the view \u201cthe earth is alive\u201d, rather than \u201clife exists on earth\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">This Gaian perspective requires a real stretch.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Firstly we need to think in geological time spans, where a million years is a terribly short time interval.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We need to think about the movement of tectonic plates as short term, and the slow cycling of (comparatively) molten rocks underneath these plates as one of the key recycling systems of the planet &#8211; geology becomes planet physiology!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Secondly we need to trace the connections between bacteria and cells, and the planet wide system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Thirdly, and probably the most difficult, we need to see ourselves as minor actors in this system, and subject to its influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Lets look at how systems behave.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Systems are very stable &#8211; through a series of complex interrelationships, they maintain a wide range of conditions at equilibrium, or between stable limits.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>For example, despite the Sun\u2019s radiation output increasing by 30% since the earth was formed, the atmosphere, the biosphere and the rocks and oceans of the earth have interacted in such a way as to preserve the earth\u2019s average temperature around 20 degrees Celsius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">But when the stable point moves closer to the limits of the system, the oscillations around those (moving) average values become greater and greater.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The stabilising mechanisms are not as sensitive, or as well timed, and so the system \u201chunts\u201d &#8211; it oscillates around the mean without settling to it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The commonest example we know is a sick child\u2019s fluctuating fever and chill.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Another is the air-conditioned office that has poor placement of thermostats vis a vis the north facing panes of glass &#8211; it is a frustrating experience as you cycle from too cold to too hot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">With this fairly straightforward idea, we can start to explore the dense field of fact, interpretation, prediction, and criticism that makes up the burgeoning field of Climate Change.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Present discussions about climate change and the greenhouse effect at least seem to agree on history, so let\u2019s start from there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">About 145,000 years ago the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was 190 ppm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Over the next 5000 years, that is, quite rapidly, it rose to 300 ppm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Then it slowly dropped back to 190 ppm 20,000 years ago.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The CO2 concentration has risen back to 275 ppm over the last 20,000 years.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Looking at more recent history, from a level of 280 ppm in 1840, the concentration of CO2 has risen to 345 ppm today.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(W.C.R.P.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1990. 10,15.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6pt; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">[Admin note: rather than reproduce the graphs here, the reader will probably want to consult the latest data directly.\u00a0 Here are a number of graphs from varying sources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chartsgraphs.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/23\/co2-emission-trends\/\">A graph from 1870 to 2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofscience.org\/assets\/documents\/FoS%20Pre-industrial%20CO2.pdf\">Paper on 1000 years to reverse Co2 levels impact on climate,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofscience.org\/assets\/documents\/FoS%20Pre-industrial%20CO2.pdf\">Friends of Science<\/a>, \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2009\/01\/30\/co2-temperatures-and-ice-ages\/\">Watts up with that,<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnautreview.org.au\/CA25734E0016A131\/WebObj\/D0841990Responsetoissuepaper3-DrGuyLeBlancSmith\/$File\/D08%2041990%20Response%20to%20issue%20paper%203%20-%20Dr%20Guy%20LeBlanc%20Smith.pdf\">for a contrary view<\/a>;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org\/pages\/references2.html\">world view of global warming<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">So, in the last 150 years, the concentration has changed as much as it did over 5000 years, way back, and already the concentration exceeds previously known levels by 20%.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is also agreed that if today we could stop all CO2 emissions, levels would continue to rise for about another 50 years; let\u2019s conservatively say to about 360 ppm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>As well, it is agreed that CFCs and other industrial gases (Methane, CFCs, N2O and Ozone) (Main. No date. 3, 9) contribute to Greenhouse effects much more potently that CO2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Yet the intense and expensive world-wide discussions about greenhouse effects are about what climate changes will occur if we double 1900 levels of CO2 in the atmosphere &#8211; from 300 ppm to 600 ppm. (W.C.R.P. 1990. 19) , or is it 350 to double to 700 by 2025?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Working Group 2, 1990. 1).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We already have enough data to judge that the system is reaching the limits of its control mechanisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">What happens when systems reach the limit of their control mechanisms?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We know that volcanoes and meteorites have had effects on climate that are much more devastating than the change we are talking about.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>One of the heartening things about the Gaian analysis of the Earth\u2019s life story is to discover that the balances can restabilise from these massive, unpredictable events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">This ability to restabilise is much more than balance. I use the term poise &#8211; which implies a momentary imbalance from which recovery is possible, like a skier at the edge of a curve.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This adaptability reveals another principle of systems dynamics.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A system will not survive if the disturbing events consistently occur closer together in time than it takes the system to adapt to the last<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>change.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>For example, people can have their mental and physical health substantially reduced by a number of small changes in their daily lives, if they occur all at once, or fairly quickly one after another.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Most murders are done by a close relation, at the end of a holiday period&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">So a crucial question to ask is will the system have time to recover its stability, or are there other factors which might push it into catastrophe? (Postle 1980).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This question is much more important than the detail of the exact amount of CO2, and what causes it, and arguments about whether temperatures might rise 1 or 2*C.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We must take a broader view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Greenhouse effects are primarily the result of many industrial processes, many of which involve burning fossil fuels (Main.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Undated 9).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Without going into the fine detail, we can see that increasingly rapid removal of tree cover is also pushing vegetative control systems of the planet to the limit.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A recent composite satellite photo of the globe without clouds impressed us all.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>But did we see the huge swathe of pale yellow desert across North Africa, the Middle East, and right across southern Asia to the Chinese coast?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>If we saw it, did we connect with the fact that as recently as 3000 years ago much of that area was under dense and complex forest systems?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Just using our eyes shows us the impact increased reflectivity has on what was previously a more stable system, without further statistics about desertification, and the subsequent drought and famine.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Hare 1985. 19 &#8211; 27)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">So far we have identified two system wide impacts of increasing human population and our associated industrial and agricultural systems.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>At a more human scale, we see world wide the impacts of urbanisation and pollution, and the social and health breakdowns that result.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A systems perspective would classify these too as signs of system overload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">It is not being alarmist, but rather pragmatic, to suggest that we humans are placing the life system of the planet under threat. If the Gaian perspective is correct, then our threat is one that will be easily dealt with.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>One of the design features of any system is an ability to remove and isolate subsystems that go out of control, and threaten the whole system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The living earth has repeatedly and systematically eliminated threats to its existence &#8211; even if they are its own creatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">From the limited evidence given above, it is reasonable to conclude that the human species is under threat from its own reproductive and productive behaviour.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>\u201cHumanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment .. \u201c was the opening phrase of the statement by the world\u2019s governments from Toronto.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>But this incomplete experiment on man, by man, of increasing industrialisation, population, and urbanisation has been taking place over about 15000 years &#8211; what can we do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculture can be described as a contraction of both permanent agriculture, or permanent culture.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Its focus is designing, setting up and maintaining systems for living that are sustainable in the long term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Some of the major principles of permaculture that relate to solving our multi-faceted impact on the planet include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 14.15pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">In Permaculture we design a property in terms of zones.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Zone 0 is the centre of activity; here we focus on energy conservation, temperature mediation, efficient use of space, and meeting the needs of the residents.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Zone 1 is the area immediately around the building.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We come here once or twice every day for domestic needs and to manage it very intensively.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Zone 2 has small domestic stock and orchards.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>As it is larger, we will have less intense use of resources, and spend less management time here.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Zone 3, further out again, contains our major crops, forage systems, and water storages.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Zone 4 is a semi-managed semi-wild area of forest, natural pastures, and some wildlife yields.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Zone 5 is the wilderness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">[diagram to be inserted here]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">One aim is to minimise the amount of time and resources we expend moving ourselves and equipment and crops between Zone 0 and elsewhere.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This will maximise both our yield and our free time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>But the fundamental aim of Permaculture is to design Zones 1,2,3, and 4 to meet our needs in the smallest space possible, so we can maximise the wilderness.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This is because the complex Zone 5 system of forest, savannah, swamp or desert can look after itself better that we could ever hope to, and because it provides incredibly complex buffers for our activities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We need to leave wilderness alone so we can observe it, and learn to approach its subtlety and sophistication in the inner zones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Few such wilderness areas are left, and these are increasingly under threat &#8211; another danger sign at a systematic level.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is very clear that any biological systems\u2019 stability depends on the diversity of species, niches and structures in that system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This diversity provides the system with mechanisms for feedback, balance and control which are characterised by varying degrees of coarseness and sensitivity; for example, there are two sets of mechanisms controlling climate, a fast one in the atmosphere, and a much slower one in the ocean depths (W.C.R.P. 1990 21).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We further destroy our land and the huge variety of life forms it contains at our peril.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">To successfully manage the negative impacts of industrialisation, desertification, urbanisation and over population, we need to apply the idea of zones to our towns, our cities, and our trading and financial patterns.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We must redesign our systems of production and distribution so that the vast majority of human needs are met locally, from their bio-region.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Young 1991, 89)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">One of the major problems we face is the excessive flow of resources from many different country areas into the cities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Increasingly our resources are expended in huge transport and trade infrastructures to maintain these cities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We need to set up urban farms &#8211; we can no longer afford the middle class demonstration of our social superiority by tending useless lawns and decorative parks and gardens &#8211; we need edible landscapes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The reframing of city life so transport needs are minimised and more easily met by mass transit systems is imperative.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Trebling parking fees to pay for free public transport would be a start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">We are under increasing pressure to free up our markets to international trade, and to become more internationally competitive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This argument is based on several assumptions which are systematically incorrect.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is also interesting that most of the advancers of the argument are those who are currently dominant in world trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Firstly, as soon as I have to trade, I am no longer in a free market.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>If the crop is rotting, or the bank wants its money, I must sell now. At whatever price I can get. The fundamental definition of<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>free market is that there are many buyers and many sellers and all are free to trade.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Permaculture systems make sure that there are many subsistence and cash crops.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Farm income is not dependent on just one crop, and family survival is not as dependent on farm income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Another incorrect assumption is that present levels of international transport will continue.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>International trade will be dramatically reduced when we start to pay the real price of oil in our transportation systems &#8211; very few items will be transported more than a couple of hundred kilometres.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The systematically ridiculous situation of it being \u201ceconomic\u201d to have Jumbo jets flying fresh vegetables around the world each day will stop, with what is an ominously new term in economics &#8211; a \u201cdead cat bounce\u201d &#8211; straight down, and with no prospect of recovery, ever.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The more we limit our purchases of items from distant sources the better, if only to minimise the eventual shock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Systematically, the resilience of a system is decreased by taking resources from a weak area to feed up a rich area. Yet we continue to act on the limited economic assumption that we are better off by investing our savings for the highest returns wherever they are available on the world capital market.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Practically, you will have more control, more say, less worry (and more fun) from an investment in the local high street that you would have over one in Taiwan. You might even create a local job, and increase the local market for your own products or services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">This leads back to a less formal proposition of Permaculture design:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 14.15pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Start at the back door, now.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">We can always do something today, in our own individual way.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Focusing on our local community and neighbourhood can be a good start.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Until we change our own habits and perspectives, we cannot expect others to do so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>We must first set up sustainable practices in our homes, before extending our care to larger areas, using only the genuine surpluses we generate from this first step. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">These small steps to what will end up as massive social change must become part of our lives soon. The dispassionate technical language of the many reports does not give this enough clarity or emphasis.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A better example is the local report which explores some of the social changes needed, because \u201c.. the actual levels of Greenhouse gases must be expected to eventually increase well beyond a doubling unless comprehensive international changes take place in the many processes which produce these gases.\u201d (Main undated 10)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">How do Permaculture ideas relate to the effect of climate change on agricultural practices, those \u201chuman activities most sensitive to climate changes\u201d (Henderson-Sellers &amp; Blogg 1989 133), and whose effects cascade throughout the social and economic structure of Australia?. (Henderson-Sellers &amp; Blogg 1989 150) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The Zone analysis and planning outline above is about managing energy within the system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Another aim of Permaculture design is<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 14.15pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Control and utilise the external energies coming into the system.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculture acknowledges our dependence on the natural world, and uses many methods found in nature to moderate the extremes of broad climatic variations.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>If climate variations increase due to the stresses we are placing on the system, Permaculture designed agricultural systems will cope more easily with the variation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 14.15pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculture designs for catastrophe.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">It is not sensible now to rely on drought relief and flood relief programs from Government.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>If these climatic variations increase substantially, it is going to be even less sensible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">So Permaculture dams have a \u201cdouble depth\u201d section somewhere, to preserve aquatic life, and provide emergency water during drought.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Spillways and floodways are wide, planted, and maintained.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Tree belts minimise the impact of wind, pests, cold, frost, and fire.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Some of the many tree belts are specifically designed with many edible species as emergency fodder for stock and native animals as well as people.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Roads, dams, and fireproof trees and shrubs are positioned to decrease the probability of fire getting to the house.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Cropping methods, dams, swales and banks, houses and sheds are designed to cope with flash floods and intense storms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Slopes are never denuded, and extra mulches minimise run-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The \u201cGreenhouse\u201d (doubling only) predictions for Southwest W.A.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>provide an imperative for the change from broad-acre, mainly monocultural systems.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>In summary, the models predict warmer winters in the south, and cooler summers in the North.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Summer rainfalls will increase by 50%, and extend further south as the monsoon penetrates further.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The Southwest will be drier by 20%, with less frequent, less predictable, but heavier falls.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Main 1990).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Tropical cyclones will increase in intensity considerably, and extend further south.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Other wind speeds will drop.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Main undated 10)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">I disagree with Main that \u201cThese changes will not become noticeable in the daily life of most West Australians until they occur in some combination ..\u201d &#8211; they will always occur in combination, and there are large areas of our agriculturally dependant system that are precariously balanced on the predictability of winter rain onset and duration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">To cope with this less predictable environment, we need to intensify and extend rotational systems for soil building, develop alley cropping methods, establish thousands of miles of multi-functional multi-storey tree and shrub belts, and importantly to develop better water control systems (Ayling 1990.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>43, Sharp 1988 9-14, etc etc).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>But mainly we need to allow large tracts of the most vulnerable land to return to native systems which we occasionally forage or graze.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Huge increases in the area of Zone 5 makes sense at an individual level as well as at the system level.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The more intensive management required by truly sustainable production systems will mean that we cannot resource the present large areas.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>More intensive management with fewer imported resources will provide more income, so we will need to crop less area anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">As well as ameliorating the effects of climate variations,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 14.15pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Permaculture designs create more extreme micro-climates.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">For example, careful placement of shrub and tree belts can create or displace frost zones on the side of hills.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Shelter belts, slope and sun traps can allow the growth of tropical fruits well south of Perth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Well designed swales can gather and retain water for trees species requiring double the local rainfall. A series of keyline dams can allow sheet irrigation of crops on the slope below.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Water masses can modify local temperatures.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Low sun reflected off water can be used to ripen crops.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Trees and surface plants can substantially reduce dam evaporation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Designers use sector, slope, edge, aspect, and elevation to provide widely varying microclimates, which allow growth of substantially different varieties and species from those considered \u201cnormal\u201d in an area.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The ability to grow different species decreases our dependence on specialised locally adapted varieties.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>This decreases our economic vulnerability to substantial climatic (or market) changes that make one crop impossible to grow economically, consistently.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The natural selection of appropriate specimens of a species in a number of different micro-climate niches will allow nature to do the analytical work for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">There are many different techniques, species, and methods of Permaculture that are relevant to the tasks of prevention, mitigation, adaptation and utilization we face in dealing with climate change (Henderson-Sellers &amp; Blogg pp 182 &#8211; 189).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Many more techniques will emerge from careful observation of the results of our design efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">But the most valuable contribution of Permaculture will be based on its starting point, which is to ask \u201cHow little do we need?\u201d rather than \u201cHow much do we want?\u201d.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Permaculture goes on to provide many positive ways of meeting those needs that will \u201callow us all to exist without the wholesale collapse of biological systems\u201d (Mollison 1991 v).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ayling, G.P. (Ed) 1990<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">One reason why our crops and pastures are not achieving maximum yields.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Journal of Agriculture. Vol 31, No 2 W.A. Department of Agriculture<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Beer, Stafford<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1979 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The Heart of the Enterprise <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">John Wiley and Sons<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">and also \u201cThe Brain of the Firm\u201d, \u201cPlatform for Change\u201d A seminal thinker about systems and society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Bierbaum,Nena (Ed)<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1991 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Towards Ecological Sustainability<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Flinders<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> University of South Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Forrester, Jay W.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Systems Dynamics <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">(which led to the Club of Rome Report)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Hare, F. Kenneth<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1985 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Climate variations, drought and desertification <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">World Meteorological Organisation<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Henderson-Sellers, Ann and I, Russell<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1989 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The Greenhouse Effect <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">N.S.W.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> University<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Lovelock, James E.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1979 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Gaia &#8211; A New Look at Life on Earth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Oxford<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> University<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> Press<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Main<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">, Prof<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A. R.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1990 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Public Lecture: The Greenhouse Effect for Friends of the Earth <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Church of England Hall, Nedlands<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Main<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">, Prof<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A.R.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>undated<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">(Chairman) W.A. Greenhouse Coordination Council No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> date <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Addressing the Greenhouse Effect <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Environmental Protection Authority Perth W.A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Mollison, Bill, with Slay, Reny Mia 1991 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Introduction to Permaculture <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Tagari Publications Tyalgum Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Sharp, Christine <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">What is Green Development?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Towards a Strategy for Creative Economic Development <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Small Tree Farm, Balingup<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Thompson, William Irwin.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Ed)<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1987 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Gaia &#8211; A Way of Knowing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Political Implications of the New Biology <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Lindisfarne<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Williams, Robyn <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ockham\u2019s Razor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">ABC Radio, 21 July, 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">W.C.R.P.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1990<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Global Climate Change <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">World Meteorological Organisation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">International Council of Scientific Unions<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Working Group 2 &#8211; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Policymakers\u2019 Summary of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Young, John<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>1991 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Sustaining the Earth <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 14.15pt; text-indent: -14.15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The Past Present and Future of the Green Revolution <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">N.S.W.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> University<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">c 1994, 1997. 2004 Rowell Consulting Services Pty Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">This article first appeared in Environment WA, in 1991<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Century Schoolbook&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Tms Rmn&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Warwick Rowell is a management educator and consultant, writer, and permaculture designer. He can be contacted at warwick.rowell@cardou7.dreamhosters.combigpond.com or 0447 994 885. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permaculture is not about sheet mulching, or organic gardening. Permaculture is a sensitive process for designing sustainable systems for living. It is based on a collection of the new and old experience of huge numbers of people, all over the world, but it is more than the collection. 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