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Sustainable revolution permaculture in ecovillages, urban farms, and communities worldwide

Urban gardeners. Seed-saving collectives. Intentional communities. Renewable energy innovators and proponents of gift economies. How are these seemingly disparate groups connected? Based on common ethics of sustainable cultures throughout history, the ecological design systems of permaculture is the...

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Main Author: Birnbaum, Juliana, 1974-
Other Authors: Fox, Louis, 1974-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 2014.
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Permaculture > Case studies.
Crops and climate > Case studies.
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Summary:Urban gardeners. Seed-saving collectives. Intentional communities. Renewable energy innovators and proponents of gift economies. How are these seemingly disparate groups connected? Based on common ethics of sustainable cultures throughout history, the ecological design systems of permaculture is the common thread that weaves them into a powerful, potentially revolutionary - or evolutionary - movement. Sustainable Revolution features photographs, interviews, and essays profiling 60 thriving community-based projects in diverse climates across the planet. Contributors include: David Holmgren, Vandana Shiva, Charles Eisenstein, Starhawk, Erik Assadourian, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Albert Bates, and Geoff Lawton.--COVER.
Physical Description:352 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781583946480 (softcover)
1583946489 (softcover)
Author Notes:Trained as a cultural anthropologist and skilled in four languages, Juliana Birnbaum has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe, Japan,Nepal, Costa Rica and Brazil. In 2005 she founded Voices in Solidarity, an initiative that partnered with Ashaninka indigenoustribal leaders from the Brazilian Amazon to support the development ofthe Yorenka tame community-led environmental educational centerfeatured in the book. She has written about ecovillages, native rights,and social justice issues in a variety of newspapers, indigenousjournals, and anthologies including E-The Environmental Magazine,Bridges Journal, El Reportero, The Rising Nepal, World RainforestMovement Bulletin, Quechua Network, and Cultural Survival Quarterly. She was the first graduate of the Cornerstone Doula School, one of themost rigorous natural birth programs in the U.S., focusing on aholistic model of care.She is engaged variously as writer, editor, teacher, midwife assistant and mother when not attempting new yoga poses or learning how togarden.

Louis Fox is a storyteller, strategist, photographer, puppeteer, and filmmaker dedicated to looking at the world as it truly is, while alsoenvisioning it as it could be. Since cofounding Free Range Studios in1999, he's created some of the most successful online cause-marketingcampaigns of all time. His work for clients like AmnestyInternational, the Organic Trade Association, Patagonia, and Greenpeace has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, TheWashington Post, CNN, FOX News, NPR, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt DesignMuseum, The Colbert Report, and Fast Company magazine, which named himone of the fifty most influential social innovators of 2007. As a filmmaker, he has directed and cowritten over a hundred shortlive action and animated films. His projects The Meatrix, GroceryStore Wars, and the on-going Story of Stuff series, have been viewedby more than 60 million people and have garnered top honors at dozensof international film and media festivals.

Juliana Birnbaum, Louis Fox, and their daughters L la and Serenne livein California's San Geronimo Valley and are founding members ofa collective permaculture farm in Costa Rica.

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