Financial Permaculture 2010

During the 2009 Financial Permaculture course, Eric Toensmeier of Perennial Solutions consulting presented two excellent talks on community economic development and perennial agriculture enterprise ideas. View the slideshows below (wonderfully hosted by http://slideshare.net) and download them at the Financial Permaculture Slideshare space. Nuestras Raices: A Model for Financial Permaculture View more documents from financialpermaculture. Carbon Farming Enterprises at [...]

Financial Permaculture Workshop 2009 View more presentations from Center for Holistic Ecology.

Click here to view graph of potential Financial-Permaculture-Network Friday, during the Financial Permaculture Open Space Sessions, I worked with Jeff Burns on ‘On-Going Collaboration/Networking.  I put together this Graphic to summarize our conversation.  I then ran the idea past Ethan Roland and Patrick Gibbs about setting up an on-line forum or utilizing a current forum and [...]

Wednesday afternoon we had a panel discussion on Risk Management and Relocalization.  Here is a mindmap of points I gleaned from the panels comments.

Please view these two mind maps I created while listening to two talks by Catherine Austin Fitts.  The left map was from a talk Wednesday, by CAF on Mapping Financial Ecosystems, and on the right is a map from a talk Thursday, by CAF on Design Methodology for Mapping.

Jason Eaton just presented two proposals for local economic re-design. Here are his slideshows from slideshare. Local Economy Action Plan 2008 View more presentations from financialpermaculture. Middlebury Solari: A Proposal View more presentations from financialpermaculture.

Spiral Dynamics - tool for effective market analysis Greg Landua gave an overview of Spiral Dynamics.  There are different social memes (see chart) that each of us and our communities foster.  In different situations and under varying circumstances we exhibit different memes.  This pattern represents itself through individuals, groups, communities, nations and globally. If you know where [...]

The first session during the 2009 Financial Permaculture Course was a quick introduction to Transition Culture.  Albert Bates summarized the steps to become a Transition Town. Transition Culture Website Transition Wiki Transition US Click here to download Albert’s talk. In his talk he shared that, the TTT project started in late 2005 with an intensive program [...]

When the organizers of the Financial Permaculture Course convened on how we’d outline the structure of the event, we all agreed that we needed to start the event with a session on COMMUNICATION and Community Development Tools.  We designed the session for the first day so that it would set the stage for effective group [...]

Eric Toensmeier, Co-Author of Edible Forest Gardening Volume One and Two lead the Gaia University Green Businesses through a discussion about what Financial Permaculture is. This discussion will become deeper as we explore financial permaculture (or permaculture finance as some of us more accurately describe things) and participatory business planing through the rest of the week. The [...]

We’re here this morning at a pre-session for Financial Permaculture. The actual event begins at 2 pm. We started this pre-session out by creating an agenda, asking people to sponsor agenda items and set a time frame for the session. Agenda: Check-in’s, Business Confessions, Defining Financial Permaculture, Documentation, Goals for the week.  I or someone will [...]

Summer 2009, an abundance of rainfall to report. All catchment systems full. This is the true and real analogy for my work with local green business development. In this report I’m going to cover the cornucopia of new action: Transition Hohenwald, New Green Staff and Interns, Permaculture Certification Series, Green Evening Cafe, New Local Green [...]

This year the Financial Permaculture Institute is offering a certification in Financial Permaculture. We’re designing the certification with participatory feed back from professionals from the world of Permaculture, Community Development, Higher Education, Green Business and Finance. Read Jennifer’s perspective on the certificate here.

On June 6th, 2009 Hohenwald held a Transition Celebration. Hohenwald is now the 25th official Transition Town in the United States. The event featured local food and music. Global Village Institute Director Albert Bates, Vice Mayor Dustin Flowers, State Representative Joey Hensley and Chamber President Elect Debbie Landers spoke on Green Business and the local [...]