Financial Permaculture

After a few hours of sorting and renaming and uploading files, the documents from the Financial Permaculture Course are now available online. Head on over to the Financial Permaculture Wiki and you’ll see the “Collected Documents” section just after the introduction. I’ve posted the design and support documents for each team, a link to each [...]

November 29th, 2008 | Tags: financialpermaculture08, Resources, wiki | Category: Financial Permaculture | Leave a comment

Cruising around on slideshare.net today, found that if you search ‘Permaculture’  many of the top hits are in fact related to Financial Permaculture!
One of the FPC participants, Thadeus Owen from Michigan, collaborated with Patrick Gibbs of Gaia University to post this awesome slideshow using his learnings from the course in his own bioregion:
Financial Permaculture Overview
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November 26th, 2008 | Tags: ethanappleseed, financialpermaculture08, fpc, gaiau, gaiauniversity, patrickgibbs, Permaculture, slideshare, thaddeusowen | Category: Finance, Financial Permaculture, Food & Farming, Food Co-op, Permaculture | Leave a comment

The final presentations of the Financial Permaculture Course have been posted over at www.slideshare.net!
• H.O.P.E. - Hohenwald Organization for Progressive Enterprise
• Green Village Marketplace
• Hohenwald Green Village Food Center
Check them out along with the business plans on the wiki: www.financialpermaculture.practivist.org.

November 8th, 2008 | Tags: agriculture, Community Kitchen, farm, financialpermaculture08, food, Food & Farming, Hohenwald, incubator, natural building, slideshare, Tennessee, wiki | Category: Community Kitchen, Finance, Financial Permaculture, Food & Farming, Green Building, Tennessee | Leave a comment

with contributions by Greg Landua
Tonight we focused on the Transition Towns movement, which proactively and positively faces the challenges of peak oil and climate change in a de-humanized society. Transition Towns is both an evolving method for collaborative town planning and implementation, and a network of people and towns. We heard from Andy Langford, Albert [...]

October 27th, 2008 | Tags: complimentary currency, financialpermaculture08, Transition Towns | Category: Financial Permaculture, Local Currency, Localization | Comments (2)

A few days ago I blogged about Eric Wagoner’s AWESOME LocallyGrown.net — see the full post here:
http://permaculturedesigns.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html
Today Eric emailed me saying that he had posted his excellent slideshow over on slideshare (which is itself an excellent service) — take a look here: http://www.slideshare.net/ewagoner/locallygrownnet-presentation-presentation/
Go ahead and favorite his slideshow — it only takes 3 ‘favorites’ to [...]

October 27th, 2008 | Tags: ericwaldrop, farmersmarket, farming, financialpermaculture08, georgia, growing, locallygrown, Permaculture, presentation, slideshare | Category: CSA, Financial Permaculture, Food & Farming, Food Co-op, Incubation, Permaculture | Comments (2)

At the Financial Permaculture Course, we’re collaborating with the Hohenwald Chamber of Commerce to support their experimental complementary currency “Chamber Bucks”. A percentage of our course revenue was used to purchase Chamber Bucks that can then be fed back into the financial ecosystem of Hohenwald.
At a geekly blog dinner break at the Buffalo River [...]

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: buffaloriver, chamberbucks, chamberofcommerce, coffee, currency, dollar, ethanappleseed, ethanroland, fiat, financialpermaculture08, Hohenwald, localcurrency, USD, USdollar | Category: Financial Permaculture, Incubation, Learning, Local Currency, Localization | Comments (2)