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HELP REPAIR THE EARTH AND RESCUE THE FUTURE, BY CREATING A PERMACULTURE LEARNING POSTER!

The poster is to promote the use of permaculture principles in the growing of food forests everywhere possible. This practice will enable employment, increase community resilience to climate change, help end world hunger, and unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, and peaceful purpose. Burnum Burnum

The poster is about living skillfully in the 21st century. Well-placed, it will tirelessly radiate an inspirational and educational influence as a constant reminder, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

“The problems of the world can be solved in a garden”. Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Teacher/Designer

 “If we give some food away it nurtures others for a day. If many learn to grow their own, ‘end world hunger seeds’ are sown.”  Permaculture wisdom

“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet”. David Suzuki

THE VISION:
Within a decade:
•  To have food forests growing on most home yards and school blocks and all other places possible;
•  To assist community resilience to climate change and counteract global warming;
•  To inspire and motivate the wide-spread adoption and use of permaculture principles;
•  To reduce and progressively eliminate global unemployment and hunger.

THE OBJECTIVE: To make the poster an international award-winning work with the descriptions of the graphics translated into many languages, for displaying on classroom walls and other appropriate places in every country.  The poster will reveal the values of the permaculture approach to sustainable living.

Designed to educate and motivate in an enjoyable way, the poster will display a distillation of the world’s best practices for sustainability using the ‘less is more’ principle. The poster is being designed to show people how to create an effect that could last for a thousand years and beyond.

This is an inexpensive production that would assist our human community to live sustainably. We believe that only one generation needs to be positively influenced to think and act more wisely to help improve the world for everyone. 

The poster would probably inspire an increase in digital stories for the internet and public media, showing examples of community participation in successful growing projects. Each subject in the poster will have an internet address for videos, and a learning game is being planned.

* Permaculture is an Australian innovation of sustainable organic agriculture which includes the companion planting of mixed-species trees, with emphasis on fruit and nut trees with under-storeys of vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants using integrated irrigation and minimum-maintenance / maximum-yield principles. It is a design science that provides all the needs of human settlement and leads to a world of sustainable, absolute abundance.

THE POSTER: The poster will be a pictorial story-board print, specifically designed to provide knowledge and motivate action. It will be printed in full colour on size A1 durable semi-gloss card.  At printing it will be score-folded into 8 x A4 panels for placing in an envelope for mailing to anywhere in the world.

POSTER CONTENTS:  Each A4 panel will have a theme with related subjects contained within it.  Each subject will have images with concise text that is easily translatable. Some of the subjects that are being considered for inclusion in the eight panels are:

•  How to establish food and medicine gardens as productive permaculture learning and growing centres in schools, backyards, parks, community gardens, gaols, and rehabilitation facilities. Show how anyone and everyone practicing ‘sense of humus’ composting and permaculture, can help humanity on the path to manifesting sustainable abundance for all;

• How to harvest and eat live and sprouting foods like edible leaves with raw seeds and nuts to help acquire immunity efficiency and attain and maintain vital good health in body and mind. Explain how anti-oxidant and enzyme empowered living foods can be among the most potent preventive and curative medicine available. Hippocrates taught “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food”;

• Produce a diagram capturing a time-line effect showing children saving seeds, planting seedling food trees, and staging the process over ten years comparing sizes, and then project to 40 years.  Show how growing food forests is building valuable natural capital that benefits the Earth and all its inhabitants;

• Highlight the importance of protecting the world’s remaining natural heritage and biodiversity contained in native forests, lakes, rivers and oceans. Show how the growing of mixed species and companion grouped trees, using stone mulch in arid areas, can help stabilise the climate by storing water in accumulating biomass to counteract global warming;

• Promote technologies in renewable energy and conservation systems integrated with ecologically sustainable housing. Descriptions of eco homes and villages. Illustrate retrofitting and building houses with appropriate technologies, using rainwater tanks, solar power, grey water recycling and organic permaculture food gardens in and around each habitat.

•  Principles illustrating the astronomical perspective and humanity’s position in the universe. How to attain and maintain an attitude of healthy thinking and peaceful equanimity; “The universe is my home and the human family is my tribe. The whole Earth is my birthplace and all humans are my brothers and sisters”.  Kahlil Gibran

THE PARTICIPANTS: Initial development of the poster has started with collaboration between the Environment Program of the United Nations Association of Australia (NSW) Inc  ( unaansw.org.au ) and the Earth Repair Foundation ( earthrepair.net ).  Assistance has been provided by members of the Blue Mountains Permaculture Network (wiserearth.org/group/bmp). Other individuals and groups are invited to join in and help.  Permaculturists, educators, artists, technical and IT specialists, video producers, relevant government departments, appropriate UN Agencies, corporations, philanthropists and NGOs, can all participate.

SPONSORSHIP, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION: Please share this information with others. Consider writing a personal letter recommending the concept to your local members of State and Federal parliaments, or to potential sponsors or supporters. Assistance is invited to help fund the production. We are appealing to government, corporate and/or private sponsors, philanthropists and NGOs for assistance. 

ESTIMATED COSTS AND TIMING: The estimated timing and costs for production and implementation are between $200k - $260k and 5-6 months. Details of this cost estimate are available on application.

INVITATION: Participate in the achievable dream of the world made green through people everywhere co-operating to help grow food forests everywhere possible. This will give necessary, productive and honourable employment to increasing numbers of people and help transform our Earth into the abundant garden it has the capability of becoming.

Expressions of interest and offers of assistance to advance this opportunity are invited and welcomed.
Please contact Franklin Scarf at the Earth Repair Foundation, PO Box 503, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW, 2780, AUST
Phone: 02 4782 2625, Fax: 02 4782 9107, Mobile: 0408 267 195,  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it     www.earthrepair.net

   … and on the eighth day we bulldozed it; on the ninth day we repaired it; and on the tenth day we enjoyed it as
         a peaceful paradise garden and everyone lived happily ever after … (author unknown).