The documentary, ‘Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution’ investigates communal-self-reliance and economic-environmental sustainability through permanent (agri)culture or permaculture.
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Sustainability in Los Angeles: Who, What, Where?
The following resource list provides links to Los Angeles based organizations that offer programs that can help to support local, environmentally sustainable economies, including web calendars and share sites.
Capitalist Utopia: Mexico’s “Sustainable Rural Cities”
“We see with the corn and beans we nourish ourselves; with oil palms and pine nuts they plan to produce biofuels to feed the cars and trucks. Do cars have more right to the food of Mother Earth than we do?”
Chumash Legend: Hole in the Blanket
The world covered in a blanket of darkness, the rock, plant, and animal people found through cooperation and council to give thanks for the goodness of Mother Earth and Grandfather Sun, and let the light shine down.
Urban Humanity Revival: Walkable Neighborhoods and Mass Transit
The time is now to invest in walkable neighborhoods accessed by mass transit with opportunities for cultural coming together and societal participation, instead of environmentally-destructive sprawl, cultural intolerance, societal alienation, and personal anonymity.
Rainforest Wilt: Drought in the Amazon Has Long-Term Effects
The Amazon Rainforest experienced a devastating drought in 2010, increasing its emission of greenhouse gases, endangering its role as a global climate balance.
John Cage: Dreaming in Sustained Resonance
“Dream” (1948) was written for Merce Cunningham’s dance, minimal fixed tones of sustained resonance, influenced by Balinese Gamelan and divinations through the I Ching.