Permaculture San Francisco

Problem: Working with the "Gardeing Angels" (an association of primarily southern-born African American elders who plant flowers and vegetable and fruit gardens) the seniors and teens of the Detroit Summer organic gardening project have cleaned up vacent lots, turning them into thriving gardens, and built greenhouses out of recycled materials. The partnership not only creates a training ground for future community leaders, it also builds transgenerational relationships so that all age groups are inves...

Action: Detroit Summer is a multicultural, intergenerational, youth movement to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. Their main objective is to foster youth initiative through community beautification projects, visioning workshops, and intergenerational dialogues.   Services offered by the project: Learning how to make urban land hospitibale to growing vegetables, fruits, flowers Cultivation skills Learn what it takes to be a local farmer Community growth and com...

Problem: Grace Lee Boggs foi uma figura muito importante no projeto permacultura. Em suas próprias palavras, ela expressa que, ao produzir seu próprio alimento, podemos também começar a restaurar nossa sagrado conexto com a Terra e o conceito de responsabilidade que é tão central para a manutenção de nossa humanidade. Ao longo dos últimos dois séculos, esta conexão e este conceito se perderam na medida que agricultures e trabalhadores saíram do campo para as cidades devido à mecanização da agricultura...

Action: Detroit Summer é um movimento multicultural e intergeracional conduzido por jovens, para reconstruir, redefinir e revitalizar Detroit de baixo para cima. O principal objetivo do projeto de murais é fomentar a iniciativa de jovens através de projetos de embelezamento comunitário, oficinas e diálogo entre gerações.     Serviços oferecidos pelo Projeto:   Colaboração com um agrônomo e agricultores em Detroit. Cursos sobre solos; cursos sobre como plantar, assuntos relacionados à agricu...

Problem: Help bring about federal standards for safety assessments of genetically engineered foods. Background: The haphazard and negligent agency regulation of biotechnology has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. Unsuspecting consumers are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks. A number of studies over the past decade have revealed that genetically engineered foods ca...

Action: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has repeatedly introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all GE foods; the other, The Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act, would require mandatory, pre-market safety testing of GE foods.

Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...

Problem: BRIEF: Concentration of wealth, corporate domination, war, poverty, hunger, environmental devastation.   From Website:   Common good banks are designed to save the world from corporate domination and give control back to the people.   Here's how (follow links for details): Establish community-based democratic economic systems, as a seed for the world of our dreams Community Division, a nearly independent local common good bank, with investment priorities and distribution of...

Problem: The Problem Arizona’s juvenile corrections system, behavioral health services, and educational environments are lacking successful programs to meet the needs for at-risk or challenged youth across all ethnic groups. It is likely that this situation can be applied nationally. Patterns of abuse continue to plague our society in growing numbers. Emotionally and physically jailed juveniles are simply not available to learn coping skills that help them survive and thrive as community member...

Action: The Solution The analogy of taking a fish out of a dirty fish tank, cleaning it off, and throwing it back in with expectations of survival and success applies here. We need more than a clean fish tank, we need a new aquarium. Spectrum Academy is that new aquarium, equipped to meet the needs of habilitating at-hope youth with skill and precision for the 21st Century, by harvesting historical values and restoring cultural and traditional foundations. 21st Century youth need 21st Century ...

Problem: humanity needs to revitalize its agriculture, while preserving the environment and enhancing human and ecological health.

Action: presents an introduction to biodynamic gardening/farming.

Problem: Due to excessive manipulation of the honeybees, humanity has decimated their populations.  The disappearance of the bees has far-reaching effects, for both the natural world and humanity.

Action: To return the bee populations, humanity must begin by studying overviews of the problem, versus narrow, reductionist solutions that are incapable of even perceiving the problem.  The Earth Vision project presents one such overview in its article  - Why the Bees are Dying - at http://www.evbooks.net/earth_vision_021.htm Visit the article and explore the many ways we have been interfering with the honeybee hiving process, and exprapolta...