Permaculture pre-design for collapse

[BobbyG]

From Running...@yahoogroups.com. Posted yesterday by the director
of Oklahoma Food Co-op. To me this is an example of taking local
leadership on prepping the local people for very hard times ahead.
When no local leadership is being offered by official leadership, it
may be time to take *unofficial* leadership. --b.g.
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As folks here know, we are conducting a series of workshops in the
Oklahoma City area to look at the challenges we would face in the
event of a collapse of the food, economic, and energy production and
distribution infrastructures. The goal is to eventually produce a
detailed contingency plan for the area to respond to such a situation.

One of the lessons of the Katrina/Gustav episodes is that a plan can
make the difference between a disaster and a manageable situation. In
the absence of an adequate plan, emergent responses may make a bad
situation even worse (as happened with Katrina). My idea is that
permies/folks with good ideas should "get there the firstest with the
mostest" in the event of collapse, and thus perhaps be able to head
off more authoritarian responses.

But that requires a plan, and "while the disaster unfolds" is the
worst time to develop a plan. "The time to build the cellar is before
the tornado hits."

Our first planning workshop was held September 20, 2008.

I have established a web page to collect the accumulating resources we
are developing and make them available to folks elsewhere who may
decide to conduct a similar planning process for their areas.

http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/okcmutual.htm .

The brainstorming charts that we developed at our workshop are at
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/brainstorm.htm.

My presenter's outline is at http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/sept20outline.htm
.

Please feel free to pass this information on to others who can use it.

I am also available to facilitate such workshops in other areas.
Contact me in private email about this, at bwal...@cox.net .

Bob Waldrop
Barking Frogs Permaculture
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
www.bobwaldrop.net

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