Undergrowth #2 > TERRA POETICA

In the early 21st century the War on Terror was a billion dollar spectacle conceived by the military- entertainment complex which served to distract humanity from the more wide-spread and dangerous War On Terra

In the human zoo we stand somewhere between monoculture and wilderness shaping our mental ecologies from the debris of empire + revolution

resisting the fictions broadcast by crude television satellites and saturated by tabloid media

on the street poetic terrorists paint the rumour of some new indigenous struggle

earth magicians retrofit the urban ecology

new paradigms mingle with archaic lores in the interzones of the information war

we are all natives remembering the language of Terra Poetica

undergrowth 2

terra poetica

3-8 editorial

10 the story so far tim parish

11 my darling race damien huxtable

12 zone one tom civil

14 land of the long white sock graham st john

24 the tree by lou smith

26 in earths defense jo fairley

36 tree totem and oracle excerpts by tim parish

38 world war 3 rak razam

44 you are walking words by tim parish

47 whose land are you on nick chesterfield

56 andreas anatomy damien huxtable

58 freedom words by rak razam

62 the city i miles allinson

71 -81 wildlife street art gallery words tim parish

84 creating permanent culture david holmgren interview by adam grubb

96 pantheist astronomy tim parish

98 credits

The story so farSpaceship earth was hurtling through the stars shadow like it knew destiny was its friend On the surface its passengers were playing the game of life and evolution blindly inventing reality through their senses witnessing time and calling it namesSpirits like tourists passed through the suns gaze and drank the liquor of their dreams before deciding on the dedication of rein-carnation again This time it was to be A small big bang passes like orgasm and yin seduces yang once more The train doors open every heartbeat All aboardNine moon cycles later pain of motherhood christens a grand entrance into the biodome of physicality Love is automatic as instinct Growth as natural as decayMany years later the newcomer begins to learn the local dialect It is brainwashed with the spell of alphabet and vocabulary Sys-tem begins to structure the organism but imagination fights back sometimeshellip

Last episode our central character was deep within his phase of global planetary citizenry awakening Everything became apart of this cause and affect

He realized Basic psychology maps the emergence of minds relationship to the cosmos starting from egocentric child and pro-gressing to shaman elf avatar A walk down the street illustrates that many do not evolve this far Decades on the planet creates a sense of home and recognizing patterns in the plan Politics becomes a matter of education Philosophy a code of conduct Religion a fanatical cause Civilisation a myth amongst barely evolved apes Freedom an ideal worth living up to Art a worthy pastime Future rescue a purpose Love an answer and a question in itself

The city of fold up cafes of ultrastylish coffee drinkers and cobbled uneven edges where my bike refuses to go This is a time of war they say The words chase round narrow bends catapult me into a state of uneasy queasi-ness I remember months ago stealing headlines from a newsstand They declared in bold black font the war on terror and the pursuit of freedom Buzzwords for the wealthy and their hidden agendas The headlines are silent now or they proclaim Aserial Elvis Madness whatever the fuck that means but hey it keeps the masses happy I return home pissed The city is still Strange for a city As I roll a cigarette I look across at my neighbours twenty floors of life in an architectural monstrosity and watch the synchronising blue of tv screens flashing morse code into the black of night

Tom Civil

I walk the narrow streets my heart thumping an omnipotent street-light casting shadows across the piss soaked alleyway of non-existent doorways and nauseating corners where you know yoursquoll find a fit or two or three

Is this the city I know

matter vs spirit

OK so I arrived back in Brisbanal after a 5 week adventure in the south east of the continent

And if yoursquoll permit Irsquoll wind back to late DecemberhellipIt began with a Space Tribe interlude out the back of Tabulam for

Summer Solstice Not a particularly memorable event but it was almost free and wasnrsquot a bad way to start a journey Except for one

element - the Vanstone (my Dadrsquos old Ford Spectron) In the afternoon fol-lowing the party I headed towards Tenterfield and was soon forced off the Bruxner Highway in sweltering heat with fuel line concerns

Irsquove come to realise that therersquos no true route across this country without ordeal by motor vehicle

Cursing over a hot engine in the baking sun hoping for a CDMA signal scoping the road ahead

for shade if another radiator hose splits - the summer just wouldnrsquot be the same OK the mobile

phone is a new addition to my rig but when the Vanstone (so called since the old girl can be

quite a bitch) took a turn for the worse 70 Kms short of Parkes I was happy to have it around

So when the NRMA put me up at the Henry Parkes Motor Inn I started making a

few internal inquiries Should I have been riding the beast beyond its natural life

Would the mechanic unblock my radiator by tomorrow afternoon Would I make

it to mumrsquos for Christmas Was this the same motel where Meaghan Morris once

stayed I went to sleep with the uncanny sensation that I hadnrsquot left home yet

Near midnight the following day I made Geelong

But let me tell you a tale about bogans They arenrsquot what they used to be I drove to ConFest with Callum on New Years (after wersquod realised that he I and the Donker brothers had travelled there for the first time one decade prior - when hersquod leaped into the main fire blistered his arse and had his corduroy trousers mailed home co DTE) Irsquod been on holiday from ConFest for several years It was disappointing when compared to the early years of the post Cas amp Lance Era with its radical-almost-any-thing-goes atmospherics the mounting authenticity war over mu-sic and the techno-feral And it was hot and dry - outback NSW - 45 degrees most days - we camped in a tinderbox But some-thing pulled me and Callum back Hersquos been writing the great Australian bogan novel or so he says (and probably will) And at an event downstream from the Yob incursions of the mid-to-late nineties he copped plenty of material

Back then mates with fortified eskies would navigate the Murray on board monikered motor boats (lsquoKrak-A-Fatrsquo was my favour-ite) disembarking upon the ConFest beach head stumbling inland onto a New Yearrsquos Eve from which there would be no return With fire manipulated in dizzying displays torsos naked and gesticulating in the guttering light and the abject feral looming out of the night theyrsquod belly-whack upon a smooth surface of tat-tooed skin and body piercings - a can of VB in one hand a falafel clutched in the other

Hardly And what does it speak of ConFest That it has long become a normalised mall-ised com-munitas where a kind of radical acquiescence occupies the menu - and this constitutes the lsquoalterna-tive lifestylersquo that is cautiously nurtured by the eventrsquos current guardians - a swarm of bloated albeit shrinking naturists (the lsquoConFest Negator Tribersquo or lsquoCNTsrsquo as Kurt Svendsen had them so eloquent-ly acronymated) Yet since this cultural telos seems to mark the point where the Self-spirituality of the New Age meets the sobering realities of the suburbs where the expressive and individualistic drive of the new spiritual Seeker interfaces with the expressionless communion of working class tradition I cannot but grant the blue collar hippy (the Skippy) an intriguing spectacle

The bush carnivalesque was at once ter-rifying and fascinating And all the shrewd-ness bravado and cockwise gambit of the Great Aussie Legend wasnrsquot going to earn points (let alone score them a root) on this bend of the river Yet by the next morning or the morning after or the one after that when lone strangers had lost their mates strayed from the paths of predictability copped some mud smiles and random acts of kindness they got closer to the Other theyrsquod feared yet desired Next year theyrsquod be in a sarong down by the Art Vil-lage on acid and they might even have done a workshop

And so it came to pass that the Yobbo flaneur made transit to the New Age Bogan But on the prowl for a Reiki massage and a mull this was an uncertain transit Displaying the hallmarks of an aggregated cultural shift itrsquos difficult to determine exactly where I want to be cynical Will it make an impact on the climate of fear and prejudice that con-stitutes our national (and global) mood

From scorched outback NSW to cool-temperate rainforest I was happy to leave Deniliquin behind for a seven day trek operated by Geco in the rainforests of East Gippsland This was a key node on the tour My van was happy with the prospect of a week long rest in the Goongerah Campground where having made the long haul out to and up the Bonang Highway without mechanical misshap I was greet-ed by my old friend Laurie Not long after that I was surprised to find myself in the company of the theatrical-activist Rusty Far Eye whorsquod become lsquocustodianrsquo of the Peace Bus (in a new paint job) I quickly knew this thing was gonna get interesting

In a series of walks over the next week it was an unforgetable journey With 50 others from the southern edges of Errinundra Plateau to the site of the lsquoHistoric Goolengook Fortrsquo I experienced rainforest sites of significance ancient Mountain Plum Pine Sassafras towering Slender Tree Ferns and the majestic Goolengook River - the site of the worlds longest running forest blockade where the infamous fortress (complete with rampart moat tunnels and drawbridge) had been constructed to protect the forest and its guardians from the desperate lsquomenfolkrsquo of Orbost The fort was busted in Mach 2002

A nascent exercise in eco-tourism this was no mere adventure tour through exhilarating country but guided through scheduled coupes logging breaches and failed regrowth by those who know the terrain and the score it was a potted his-tory of blockading in that region and a sombre reminder of the remaining threat to country Out there telling stories were committed to my Sony Digital Voice Recorder

Near Sassafrass Basin on day three of this feral safari I was treated to an unexpected turn of events Near our camp at dusk in a logged coupe just off the road a giant granite egg rock was found on a stump skirted by two trees on either side Ever get the feeling someonersquos been there before and you wish they hadnrsquot Who said forestry workers are bereft of aesthetic sensibilities Wersquod located a log-loaderrsquos tag ndash an effort at lsquogetting uprsquo in the regrowth to use graff slang The trees might have represented goal posts and the rock a Sherrin sailing through But my inter-pretation of redneck sculpture was amateur speculation Irsquod need confirmation from the proper cultural authorities down at the DSE

post The fact that some of the finest people Irsquove ever met had been occupying forests and mounting blockades around the edges of the Errinundra National Park for up to a decade defending our natural heritage was worth celebrating And thatrsquos what was on the cards So when the walk was over I stumbled into Gecorsquos 10 year anniversary party A decade of heritage defence and a Morato-rium on logging in Goolengook for the present - time to absail down from the tree-sits

Having placed a front wheel in a hole in Jamiersquos paddock down the valley (and at that stage panicking over my misplaced voice recorder) I paced the final leg of the walk 6-8 km up the Bonang Highway to GECO HQ It was after midnight and the newly renovated Centre was swarming with old warriors and ablaze with a revived anarcho-punk aesthetic When Steve Herman told me someone found my recorder and I hadnrsquot lost all my interviews after all I produced a bottle of Lauriersquos blackberry wine from my backpack and joined the party

Many stories were recounted embellished and crooned that night but perhaps none as clear and emphatic as that by MCee Izzy laying down activist anthems and some of the latest Combat Wombat material With Monkey Marc at the wheels Tony Spanos once told me that the Labrats were the Bonnie and Clyde of Australian activism

I parked up at Jamie and Lauriersquos place down the valley for a few nights of lsquoTVrsquo - a large window in the living room facing out over the Goongerah valley - screening my favourite movie the Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo Following a walk-in action and banner-drop down a coupe at Black Hole Keith (a sculp-tor with an urge to paint forest conflict scenes like some kind of embedded battle correspondent) came on board as we lurched back to Melbourne I soon found myself out at Mt Waverley where a small banner action on the head office of Paperlinx (of Reflex fame) was in progress Sean Marlor had just completed his third Cycle for Old Growth this time around Tasmania and so I helped score favourable honks from passing motorists In one of the most memorable events of the couple of hours I was there a prize winning Ugly Australian a great beer-gut in a blue singlet decided to stop and chal-

The Goongerah Environment Centre Office that shack in the mountains north of Victoriarsquos tidy timber town had been an appropriate place to arrive in my transition from ConFest to the forests since that old director of the lsquowine cask theatrersquo John Francis Flynn has been hauling hippies and urban punks out to those parts fresh from ConFest for around a decade I used to wonder from where all those gorgeous young vegan girls would appear Of course they were emanating from Flynnyrsquos beard

John lsquoend of storyrsquo Flynn That truck of his has been importing a steady cargo of freaks and anarchists out that way for 10 years And in defence of old growth woodchipped for a few cents a tonne theyrsquod exported a defiant message back to the city lsquoold growth - fucken oathrsquo scrawled from pillar to

lenge Sean on a number of issues Now Sean handled this brilliantly And so deaf and defeated in argument the beer-gut attempted to tackle me on another mat-ter - that it was his footpath upon which I stood and that I should remove myself and the banner from it He and his mate (in matching blue singlet though a few kegs short of a gut) were soon led off by a secu-rity officer looking to keep the day inci-dent-free But the irony of the circumstance wasnrsquot lost on me If I was to follow our heavy singletrsquos logic I could stake a claim for a greater ownership of that footpath given the high likelihood of my greater income tax contribu-tion per annum Good thing that kind of lsquologicrsquo never made any sense to me

Rainbow Serpent Festival over Australia Day weekend was an enjoyable conclusion to my adventures in the south Over 4500 present I wasnrsquot up for much gate work this time round (and Richard has been fine tuning that process) but the bivouac with the boys on a peninsula of the northern gully was grand despite the all-night sonic broadsides from our neighbours (a sizeable contingent of tribal trance-heads from Cairns) across the gully Over the years RSF has been a primary port of call on my RampR (research and relaxation) schedule and becoming a favoured international trance festival ndash near my hometown no less ndash why wouldnrsquot it be The festival is an absorbing experience building on Exodus for its healing modalitiesspiritualworkshop com-ponent The Opening Ceremony with Krusty and Antara was uplifting I was impressed by much of the music ndash especially that pumping out of the market stage Robin Mutoidrsquos techno-organic gateway and flame towers provided a great backdrop for fire art that went beyond anything Irsquove seen And there were antics unlooked for ndash like the fishermen (one of whom turned out to be Mouse who Irsquod met on the Geco Walk) showing off freshly netted catches

The Country Fire Authority Now therersquos a curious presence grown out of proportion to the event The sight of hardened Raglan fire officers toting clipboards and exchanging data down by the Chai Tent and the freak circus is an amus-ing sight But an Australian summer dance floor wouldnrsquot be the same without a tanker pumping water on annihilated occupants in the late morn-ing session transforming the floor into a mud plane rejuvenating waning gesticulants and rendering barefoot contact with the clay a sen-sual and therapeutic experience Though Irsquom not sure the latter together with the Psychedelic Iron John experience that eventually transpired on the Monday afternoon is in the CFArsquos service provi-sion contract After a brief interlude back at my Mumrsquos in Gee-long attempting to erase the doof clay from my exterior I was back on the road home

But not until I stopped briefly at my Dadrsquos at Coomba Park on the North Central Coast ndash a place where the Aussie Legend archetype re-appearing throughout my adventure would return with a vengeance It was the old boyrsquos 65th birthday Mercifully hersquod had the big gathering last week ndash in junction with what he called a ldquopiss off partyrdquo for fellow State Emergency Service workers retiring and heading off round the continent with their wives and caravans in tow In fact minus the wife thatrsquos the old manrsquos idea too Nearly ready to ldquorock and rollrdquo he reckoned as I was taken through his own vessel a two wheeler decked out with mod cons I can see him now under the annex of his twelve-volt RSL parked up on freshly mown lawns in other parts of the country Just himhellipand Big Col Elliot Around Wallace Lake from Forster in The Great Lakes Shire this is National Party heartland So bugger the motel rooms when Aussie retirees from The Land of the Long White Sock will drag their mod cons their pride and their preju-dice all round the country

And so my summer adventure wasnrsquot going to be complete without my encounter with Richard Edwards apparently of MohawkWelsh ancestry a proud veteran of the VietnamCambodia war a fellow SES officer a Mason and Dadrsquos neighbour You see Richo knows the score and in his seasoned view having done many ldquohard daysrsquo workrdquo (such as firing on the enemy and suffering their payload in return I suppose) hersquos in a legitimate position to hold an opinion ndash the right opin-ion or so he would have it He fought for the freedoms I enjoy ndash like sitting in a comfortable office at a university or so he would have it That John Howardrsquos posturing poses a greater threat to the safety of Australians than does Indonesia is not an opinion worth arguing in the home of the King Gee drill shorts and the Holden Statesman That those he once fought were lsquoenemiesrsquo whose character had been manufactured to suit the interests of Empire and that Australiarsquos deputised and illegitimate role in that war has been replicated in more recent times was a train of thought wisely kept to myself After all it was Dadrsquos birthday While I am not indebted to this ldquofreedom-fighterrdquo for the rights I have as an Australian citizen it is the actions of his father who may very well have fought for the annihilating jouissance I experienced with my Japanese friends on a CFA-approved dance floor near Beaufort that I respectfully remember And with that thought I broke into a smileand another Carlton Draught

Fantasising about how Richo might look in a sarong fingering a chillum by the Murray I stole for home

The End

words by lou smith

the quiet destruction of the natural world is the nar-rative of our time A story that needs to be told and retold in ways to compelling to ignore

In Earthrsquos Defence

Sheaves of rainforest palm fronds litter the ground

The body we found is stripped of flesh blue and bloating eyelids are peeled awayThere are no birds only engorged hairless animalsThe choking roar of machineryRain

I have never spoken your tongueBut I see you burningI see lsquowar to end all warrsquosrdquo written in deaths inksoldiers wrapping the dead as paper empty of words cover you

i emerge desperate like a flame for oxygenthe poisoned quoll has poisoned the goshawk

tanks charred black and silentwait

by Jo Fairley

Dolcie stood at the gate her hands rolled her third Champion Ruby cigarette as the tanks filed past their large and obtuse forms silhouetted against the dawn bluish light at Ferntree

She pulled her black cap down over her face stilted with a look of incredulity Men piled out and surveyed the scene weaponry loadedsoldiers working for an empire with a pyramid for its head whorsquos owners sign papers of war and spout ver-bose propaganda yet never carry weapons themselves

She waited for the familiar noise the far cry of fear and pain the screech of structures of beauty falling at a quickened pace the deafening silence that always fol-lowed Corpses laid on the ground skin flayed open and peeling revealing wounds that trickled with honeyed blood announcing a war a war on the earthhellip

Terraism Terrorism Eco-Terrorism

Ecocide is the killing of an ecosystem which includes consuming it and using it to feed some other process or system - wwwenclyclopediathefreedictionarycomecocide

A War on Terra is occurring Only 5 of native forests remain in Australia and endangered flora and fauna continue to grow like a childrsquos Christmas wish list We look on as finite and irreplaceable fuel resources such as coal oil and natural gas are used up with reck-less abandon War is perpetrated when tropical rain forests which help clean the air and regulate climate are rapidly stripped away - they will be completely eradicated within 50 years if the current rate of deforestation continues And the most violent testament to war is seen in our race towards atomic bomb technol-ogy which has the capacity to wipe out the human species and destroy the planet upon which we live War all around us in the human and the natural ecology War the color of our coral turning ghost white in the sky clouded with ominous grey pollution

The War on Terra stems from our dangerously anthropocentric worldview under the misguided belief that human needs and interests are of greater over-riding moral and philosophical importance than all other life This began in the 17th century when scientists and philosophers began to think of and portray the earth as a machine an organism that can be broken into segmented parts and analysed adapted repaired and even replaced ndash a clockwork universe Science has since evolved to become the universal religion dominating all forms of intellectual discovery into the natural world - yet this has come at a great cost We do not engage with a holistic view of nature but rather a utili-tarian view that enables us to see paddocks of gold coins seas of the finest tuna forests of quality toilet paper and terrorists amongst the trees

Yet are not nearly all governments responsible for acts of terrorism in relation to force or violence against persons or property of the civilian population Are not giant multinational organisations also criminals and terrorists due to their insatiable growth that continues to lead to violence displacement and even death to native populations Why isnrsquot terrorism against the earth which is committed with such continual ferocity seen as terrorist activity If governments and multinationals are not seen as violent then are violence and terror only terms that are subjectively used to discriminate and quieten civil unrest and disorder Now in a time of lsquoterroristrsquo frenzy which is wreaking fear and paranoia on a global scale is the term lsquoterroristrsquo going to continue be exploited and used on all who hold a placard in defence to the saturation of lies inequality and injustices that plague our earth Well thatrsquos what happened to Future Rescue

We who engage in non-violent direct action are not the

creators of tension We merely bring to the surface the hidden

tension that is already alive We bring it out in the open

where it can be seen and dealt with Injustice must be

exposed with all the tension its exposure creates to the

light of human conscience before it can be cured

- Martin

Luther King Jr

WErsquoRE CHEEKYwwwfuturerescueorg

Future Rescue began in 2000 as a skill share group of forest activists which were based in Melbourne Our philosophy was one of Non Violent Direct Action and we promoted skills to engage citizens in constructive civil disobedience The collective was an eclectic mix of students workers and artists who were opposed to the current environmental situation in Victoria yet who didnrsquot want to be affiliated to any mainstream membership based environmental organisation We did not conduct blockades as a single cell nor did we participate in any form of action as a unified front but rather held skill shares to allow individuals to feel empowered to act upon

She wore a large kidney shaped burn marka symbol of the scars in earthrsquos defense A burn from the exhaust pipe of a tank she was attempting to stop that momentarily did stop till once she was unchained from the machinery the tank continued down the veined corridor of trees

1 k down the road was the red Subaru itrsquos engine running A yellow sticker plastered to its windscreen announced itrsquos newly labeled illegality The car was loaded with four adults a small boy and a black and white Kelpie that barked at passing cars wildlife and street signs

Terror From Latin To frightenWhat is eco-terrorism Eco terrorism is a term used to describe activists and revolutionaries committing lsquocrimesrsquo in the service of ecological integrity and to prevent the process of ecocide occurring The term has accredited a political currency and is used to vilify environmentalists in mainstream media According to the FBI the crime must have the characteristics of terrorism as defined asTerrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government the civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives

- FBI Terrorist Research and Analytical Centre Terrorism in the United States 1994

there emotive response to the current political climate Skill shares were diverse events with workshops ranging from tree climbing and tripod construction all the way through to knitting clowning and sustainable bush survival skills As a collective we obtained funding from grant applications and fundraising but did not act or take orders from any organisation that allocated funding

ldquoA SECRET group of militant professional greenies is being used as ldquohired gunsrdquo to lead protests across the country Sunday Herald Sun investigations revealed the commando-style organisation known as Future Rescue has been contracted to lead several recent protestsrdquo - Nick Papps Herald Sun Jan 20th 2002

In the beginning of 2002 Herald Sun journalist Nick Papps arrived at a blockade in the Thompson Catch-ment in the Central Highlands of Melbourne to write an article The blockade was stopping the construc-tion of a road that would allow for the destruction of several of Melbournersquos water catchment coupes and the spectacular mountain ash forest Papps arrived and obtained an interview with Gavin McFadgen from the Wilderness Society and then climbed the enor-mous eucalypt to sit in the tree sit for a photo shoot A few days later the Herald Sun reported on the pres-ence of the blockade with an article entitled ldquoEnviro Commandorsquosrdquo This article went on to make inflated and ridiculous claims that Melbourne based Future Rescue was a militant network of highly trained green commandoes The article vilified Future Rescue and created a mythological cloud that was simply errone-

Civil disobedience is a form of law breaking employed to demonstrate

the injustice or unfairness of a particular law and indulged in

deliberately to focus attention on the allegedly undesirable law

- Blacks Law Dictionary Sixth Edition page 245

ous We waited with baited breaths for the interrogation of the collective yet nothing seemed to eventuate For a while there were no further lies or negative publicity and we started to believe the article was merely a one off We were wrong

In March 2002 the furore erupted again this time in connection with vandalism and destruction of four million dollars worth of logging machinery in Tasmania With the identity of the culprits unknown blame and fierce allegations began Paul Lennon Deputy Tasmanian Premiere at the time was on the case to pinpoint the suspects He immediately spoke on the 730 report about the Herald Sun article and subsequently stated that ldquothis elite and highly trained group of terrorists had been involved in specialist direct action against logging operations in Victoriardquo and could have been in Tasmania during the time of the vandalism This was the first description of Future Rescue as a terrorist organisation It had through exaggeration gone from a group of lsquomilitant greenies used as hired gunsrsquo to become a terrorist organisation as spouted by Paul Lennon

ldquoI would say to Paul Lennon that he needs to do a bit more research than rely on one article in the Herald Sunrsquorsquo - Amelia Young Future Rescue spokesperson

Media pounced trying to find a spokesperson or member of future rescue to interrogate phone calls from media poured into The Wilderness Society to get a direct contact for the group Our household was inundated with pleas from media and internal discussions of whether to front the accusations or to dissolve instantaneously A high level of fractions formed in the group on what course of action to take Amelia Young (Meels) as a spokesperson for Future Rescue decided with support of those collective members present in Melbourne to speak on the 730 report as well as to numerous radio programs refuting claims of Future

Rescue being a terrorist organisation or having links to the vandalism and sabotage of the Tasmanian logging machinery

ldquoFuture Rescue is about a philosophy of non-violence at all times Engaging in the sort of behaviour that destroys machinery or seeks

to engage in a disrespectful manner towards workers police government and other parties that are involved in

the forest debate is not advocatedrdquo - Amelia Young 730 report Broadcast

19032002

After the furore died down a long drawn out meeting decided to disband the group close the bank account and any affiliated individual names attached to the group Fear of being interrogated of having stigmas and unwanted media attention attached to the grouprsquos future activities was a fierce and undesired reality The group could always be thrust into the spotlight To get some perspective Future Rescue is but one small group in Victoria which has had ongoing forest blockades for the past ten years Other states such as Western Australia New South Wales and Tasmania also continue protest movements that involve direct action to prevent the destruction of our native forests In comparison to other regions of the world eco-terrorism in Australia is very scant there has however been a number of cases of large scale logging machinery vandalism yet with an intriguing explanation Bob Burton is a consultant to environmental groups Hersquos investigated hoaxes attributed to conservation-ists and vandalism of logging machinery and says ldquoIn

ev idence before an Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Victoria a CIB officer revealed under cross-examination that of 12 instances of damage to machinery up until 1997 therersquod been six prosecutions and

that was either other contractors general vandalism or in one case it was the wife of a contractor getting back at her husbandrdquo Eco terror-ism is not really an applicable terminology for civil disobedience in Australia and this term is different to activities performed on a global scale in the name of earthrsquos defence by various organisations

Dolcie fixated her gaze on the patches of forest that lined the roadsmall and mostly monoculture trees planted last harvest struggling for the limited sunshine Behind large expanses of old growth untouched since the arrival of the white man Giraffe sized myrtlesand ferns scattered between dogwoods and strands of sassafraswith its musty smell and silvery hair a crowned peak of regalityholding secrets of a time lost and unknownThey arrived at the environment centre the car doors opened to allow the spillage of passengers belongings and defeated faces painted with the defeat that no dissent or civil disobedience can the stop the war machinehellipLater as Dolcie approached the fringe of the cityher body tensedas the dense bushland slowly gave wayto endless paddocks and suburban sprawl old growth trees to skyscrapersendless elephant vines to power lines and billboardscontoured valleys and meandering streams into channelled waterways decorated with coloured pieces of rubbish and algal blooms Dusk was fading to night as the cityrsquos lights bloomed a neon haze that never allowed for darkness

Dolcie was in a land where the sky was always the colour of an off TV The human race enclosed into a system a ferrous wheelwhich melts freedomand spawns industrialism The city smelt pungently of car exhausturine and

most potent of all human exhaustion and apathy When she arrived at her friendrsquos squat in Northcoteshe knew she couldnrsquot wait to return return to the earth

We are unapologetic advocates for the natural world

Earth First wwwearthfirstjournalorg

Take for instance Earth First which was founded in 1979 in response to a ldquole-thargic compromising and increasingly corporate environmental communityrdquo Earth First is not an organisation but a movement that utilises multiple tac-tics ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience It does not advocate sabotage ecotage or any form of violence as they believe this reduces public support and alliances with workers and the community Yet nor does it condone this activity

Monkey Wrench thiswwwearthliberationfrontcom

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was founded in Brighton England in 1992 out of members of Earth First who refused to abandon criminal acts as a tactic of civil disobedience The Earth Liberation Front has become ldquoan international underground movement consisting of autonomous groupsrdquo It is also the FBIrsquos number one domestic terrorist network The definitions of ELFrsquos activities have included civil disobedience civil disorder economic sabotage (ecotage) and the often-occurring definition of eco-terrorism ldquoELF has carried out dozens of

ent worth They maintain that all natural things have intrinsic value and its value cannot be politicized or seen as a mere capitalist resource We as humans have rejected the notion of holism which is the belief that the natural world can only be understood in its totality and not through segmentation

Civil disobedience is the inher-ent right of a citizen Criminal disobedience can lead to violence and anarchy but civil disobedience never will Every state puts down criminal disobedience by force It perishes if it does not But to put down civil disobedience is an attempt to imprison conscience GHANDI

When the Earth Liberation Front diverged from Earth First they decided to concentrate their direct action in the form of lsquoecotagersquo ELF believes ecotage which is sabotage in defence of nature is the most effective form of eco defence direct action as it directly inflicts economic damage on those capitalist machines that are profiting and exploiting the earth The theory being that by making the destruction of life and cost of industrialisation more expensive in economic terms it becomes an unsustainable project and costs more than it is worth therefore slowing or halting habitat destruction

ELF has lsquostrict non-violencersquo guidelines that are used in performing direct actions This includes the need to take all necessary precaution against harming any animal human and non human On the Earth Liberation Frontrsquos website spokesperson Pete Spina addresses the

ldquoDevelopment = Destruction

Stop raping naturerdquo

The ELFs are angry

definition of violence explaining that their actions are only targeted to inanimate objects and are therefore not violent acts Property is not life though it is the blood which Capitalism feeds on As Mahatma Gandhi said when asked if it was violent to blow up a train that was used in the occupation of India - ldquoif it was not a passenger train then the action was not violentrdquo

ELF has since formation performed and claimed responsibility via the Internet for numerous crimes including the arson of a meat packing plant the release of four hundred horses 171 minks and ferrets and numerous accounts of vandalism to construction machinery development sites and houses On October 19 1998 in Colorado ELF performed an act of ecotage that was hailed as ldquothe largest act of eco-terrorism in US historyrdquo This involved arson to three buildings and four ski lifts all burnt to ash with an estimate cost of 12-24 million dollars The reason for the ecotage was that the largest ski resort in the US - lsquoVailrsquo - was expanding 885 acres into the nationrsquos last threatened Lynx habitat

The overzealous use of the world lsquoterroristrsquo to refer to anyone who is directly opposed to destructive government policies around the world is a crime against the people We must speak up now lest the lingua franca of terror define and control us all Itrsquos not the future that needs rescuing itrsquos we the people

The night air was clammy against Dolciersquos bare arms as she surveyed the scenethirty meters above ground The creek bubbled below her a cacophony of night noises and creatures stirring into harvest She was siting on a triangular aluminium platform covered in thick netting swaying gently in the night wind

The sit was attached to a branch above by a polyprop and at ground level to a log loader By moonlight the machinery at night cast great shadows onto the upheaved earth they seemed like sleeping beasts so peaceful and docile

She looked up through the crown of the great old shinning gum to the stars the lanterns of the night

And for now the earth was quiet

And at peace

All quotes on Earth First Are taken from their website wwwearthfirstjournalorgAll quotes on Earth Liberation Front are from their website wwwearthliberationfrontcomFuture Rescue has re-emerged and is conducting skill shares over this winter in Melbournewwwfuturerescueorg

Rak Razam

At the midnight beat the Renegade Poundwave soundsystem started layering the tekno vibe A crew of psyberdadists were swarming over the urban TAZ like spiders running from a fire dressed in the finest black gorilla skins overlaid with Safari suits wide lapels and flares grey oversized paws and feet - all the better to dance in I suppose Irsquod heard of them before - the ACID RADICALS Guerilla Ontologists whose dancefloor mantra was ldquoThe Love of Art Shall Save the Earthrdquo If those kulture jammers were in on this Reclaim the Streets gig then things were really going to get interesting ldquoThis isnrsquot just a demonstrationrdquo one of the gorillas said handing me a leaflet with a black furry paw ldquoItrsquos an international conspiracy to liberate the media through acts of guerilla information warfare Have fun - and donrsquot forget to smile for the camerasrdquo And with that he was off cartwheeling across the street and camping it up with the other pleazure terrorists

ldquoOkay Run this by me again Just what the fuck are we doing here about to get our heads bustedrdquo

Krusty smiled and passed the joint ldquoWhat wersquore practising here is freestyle liberationist anar-chist politics TAZ style Or if thatrsquos too much for you think of it this way mate World War Three is a party Elongating bass and heavy combat tekno sounds Apocalypse Now sampled in on a dark psy-trance warscaperdquo he said exhal-ing a thin stream of smoke in the cold night air ldquoNow crsquomon I dunno about you but Irsquom here to dancerdquo

Itrsquos just after midnight May 1st M1 Day The real old skool crowd have bought

their kids and even a few wrinklies to the Doof-In reclaiming the street for the peo-

ple and their right to party Says the nation-states are fighting a hostile takeover

from the corporate barons and the people of the global ghetto are caught in the

crossfire Isnrsquot it always the way When the New World Orderrsquos top nations band

together as trading partners to push globalization as a means of economic rationali-

zation putting corporate concerns above those of the people and the planet well

fuck it somethingrsquos got to give Wersquore going to fight for our right to party Except

that these urban blitzkrieg doofs have been building every month and drawing

heavy fire from the NATO POLs ever since Paris S21 Fuck I lost some good

friends at that one

And yrsquoknow no matter what anyone said later I still reckon we couldrsquove got away with tonight yrsquoknow if the party hadnrsquotrsquove been next to the McDonalds The Repetitive Beats Squad are real friendly with the CORPS yeh that was our one mistake Dozens of gherkins stuck to the giant golden arches like birdshit as the crowd cut loose on the concrete dancefloor a wild energy rippling through And then Irsquom lost in the dance a whirling dervish caught in the MIX as sonic big top sounds break the night and ripping tekno wails drill into my head and

ldquoWersquove got One Tribe on line in Ottawa

ldquoDream Collective in SFrdquo

ldquoVibe Tribe is still alive in Sydneyrdquo

ldquoEquinox is in the House Tokyordquo

ldquoJa Spirit Zone Germanyrdquo

ldquoConfirm Xperiment from Belgrade We have joined forces for a co-pro-duction tekno peace party in simultaneous net-linkage against the war on the people While our leaderships are engaged in violent reactions

we will be undermining their war by dancing together in peace We aim to raise global awareness that all tribes can dance together as onerdquo

Irsquom riding in sounds that shouldnrsquot even exist rupturing into a higher phreakquencygt harmonic transmissions downloading Itrsquos the sound of a nu generation neo-tek Music so good it has to be illegal And up there on the decks theyrsquore transmitting the party in live streaming footage to other renegades all across the globe power to the people right on

Which is when the cops came and told us to turn down the music their style The NATO POLs were bunched together like insects in their new blueblack riot gear cybernetic facemasks and aerogel padded armour thick enough to stop a bazooka at close range and easily able to withstand a few hundred BPMs of pure unadulterated neo-tek Suddenly they broke ranks and scattered across the concrete terrain in perfect motion to the beat making way for the real hi-tek crowd control the RCCVs You could hear that tankrsquos droning bass hum-mmmmmm before it even turned the corner It was about the size of a mid-range automobile with a matt black polymer coating that absorbed all light Any kinetic force directed against it slid off like butter in a teflon frypan And man could it sing - ultra high vibrational waves rang out and hit us in our tracks We were caught in a sonic web that rattled down into the bones and emptied your bowels at the same time guaranteed The shit was hitting the fan man and blood feces paradigms and chunks of the ceiling were all going into hyper-drive as it fell Around us the musik was building to a climax cutting through the mayhem like flashing dreamlit memories of a night drowned in sound all the dancers down on the ground busted

ldquoI canrsquot help but feel invigorated with love and venom at the

state of the worldrdquo Krusty shouted as a blue stormtrooperrsquos

baton appeared out of nowhere and crashed down hard

on his head Blood and shit and shit and blood the POLs

played for keeps Me I remember the good old days when

all the cops did was steal the keys from your generator

Then a silent NATO POL ground a padded knee into my

back and cuffed me automatic speech software broadcast-

ing my revised MIRANDA-CORP rights in coded pulses over

And then a guy in a gorilla safari suit covered in shit and piss and blood looked over at me and smiled

ldquoGreat party or whatrdquo he laughed

his armourrsquos DOLBY tm sound speakers His boots were dark with that new polymer shine and the wickedest monster treads Irsquod ever seen Theyrsquod be perfect to dance in I thought

You are walking

Your ears are wearing sound muffleramps Subtle orb like earphones that fit softly into your lobes playing audio from your mobilersquos in built digital radio The street is a motion graphic to this soundtrack of electronic beats chosen by dj anonymous in another country Every surface is a media Business signage and graffiti artistry decorate the avenue Logos and neon attractors steal your involuntary visioning On the pavement chalk drawn poetry talks of earth beneath the concrete Clothes of all fashioning float past carrying words and phrases Faces blend Pretty girls and busy consumers Homies in groups and hippies on bikes Corporate uniforms and homeless rags waiting for trams Midriffs and piercings Multiculture and monoculture side by side A million dimensions interacting in the form of in-dividuals pass by like strings of culture personified Brainstems and memories inhabiting bodies over lifetimes Organ-isms of intelligence You are one too Immersed in human ecology

Drifting amoeba in the ocean AwashThe brisk innercity streetscape passes as if chromakeyed in through your movies car window Sunglass shields pro-tection from uncomfortable eye contact in morning light after late night recovery from lack of sleeptime You are navigating human traffic and commercial push media On screen data billboards connect you to the sphere everywhere Digital text displayed teleprompter style updates your mindspace to the latest newsfeed nov-elty Three minute cycles of newsbytes Fast food informa-tion no nutritious thoughtYour in pocket micro-phone keeps you mobile but con-nected to the satellites orbit A network of voices at the end of numbers You look at its video-display empty of message or tv it sits on its GPS screensaver visualizing coordinates of your geo-position in case you ever happen to feel losthellip

Last night you surfed codeworlds of binary a sea of information You are still there even as you walk Your mind is still wading through the data it downloaded via retina scans from cathode screen to synapse node Memory sorted internally Your con-sciousness floating in and out of thought overflows Virtual reality travels with you even away from the machines that were made to host it

They say time is shortened with every space conquered Speed is power Information is weaponry for and against your intellect Love is healing But time is shorter and shorter Hypercapitalism stole it We bought it back not even realizing the swindle Eager for experiences sold to us as commodity Hungry for distractions from our real work life There are so many jobs to do on this planet The ones that are worthless are paid The ones that seem meaningful only voluntary Is that inevitable

Now you are in body in clothes travelling pavement in the physi-cality The world is pressing up against your bubble sliding off and around Light curls You pass through it elsewhere caught up in stories and mediabytes of another land Another world of earthlings A war fought in your countries name Collective dis-embodied representation of your region community and history A political entity armed with votes and military firepower Led by a man you didnrsquot vote for and whose regime you fight with every act of evolution lsquoThe Dirty Warrsquo they call it in the mainstream feedlinks propoganda voice for the Empire But every war is dirty Thatrsquos another reality Mediation separates but also trans-port you there

Camerarsquos owned by corporate journalist copyrights send you 3D video feed from the reality tv show they made about invasion and promoted like an action movie premiere Tanks and Metal birds have become the stars of the spectacle performance The machin-ery of warfare overtakes the debate as to whether or why they must be used at all Last month the world came together against this and it didnrsquot change anything Now all the protests seem hol-low I heard someone call it lsquocompassion fatiguersquo as the audience sits back in to its role In the marketplace of novelty the machinery of atrocity has become commonplace Another headline amidst celebrity gossip and sporting persona soundbytes But you donrsquot want to be desensitized to reality You want to be conscious even though it hurts

Today the ink is still drying on the paper that will describe it Blood is still being spilt but you canrsquot see it You know it is hap-pening but must concentrate on the here and now as well Money is short Your hungry stomach calls for work and concentration In the back of your mind you remember your father is sick dying of cancersticks abusive You want to be with him too but canrsquot put your life on hold either You are missing the luxury of your loverrsquos limbs She is elsewhere too An absence of gravity Leaves you groundless

Suddenly the idea of tears escape you You rub dry eyelids and forehead like you are trying to push out the thoughts Tiring of this uncomfortable feeling Somehow you are implicated and you donrsquot like it So you erect shields against these thoughts to concentrate The now The here You project a psychic bubble to protect you from the constancy of overload from the barrage of

the information feed from your own thoughts and ditractions You desensitize yourself Train your eyes to ignoreBut in doing so you miss the sub-lime details toohellip

You donrsquot want to just walk through this avenue of spectacle for the sake of it but that is all it seems to want you to do Billboard big brothers donrsquot encourage our spiritual selves Why would they

You keep walking From every angle information hits you like distraction from the places you need to be in your mindfulness You balloon your psychic bubble Toughened with experience and resolve Push these thoughts away from the forefront of minds eye

Trying to find a direction

A purpose for this journey of time besides the process of aging

The clearmind--

i know how they feel

Another day in the corporate heart of the Matrix Nothing but grey suits grey skies and grey lives all around Face downcast Irsquom trying to maintain my little bubble of reality scanning the concrete for a sign of life surrounded by Niketown the big Visi-screens ordering conformity and hordes of wageslaves trying to remember the last time they had real fun a glimmer of hope a dream of what was before Then I see it ndash the smallest Eu-calypt seedling less than a finger-length high poking through a crack in the concrete I stand in the middle of the pavement smiling trying to protect this little fella and all it represents No matter how much the greedy society digs bulldozes concretes poisons and covers this ancient earth with petrochemicals the seed bank is strong Like the Law that runs through every part of this Land it will always be here until the ancient rocks are no more It is our strength our truth our knowledge our wisdom our power and the spirit of the Ancestors as it has been since the beginning And now it is breaking through the concrete to go on teaching the true essence of this Land Respect

By Nick Chesterfield

In the town of my ldquobirthrdquo - the spiritrsquos entry into this body - lies the place of some of my Ancestors the Kaurna mob To them this was Tandarn-yangga ndash Red Kangaroo dreaming a place where the Kaurna lived loved and hosted big gatherings with people from all over Today itrsquos called Adelaide Walking with a big old piece of gnarled snowgum through Tandarnyangga I begin to feel in my heart the powerful weapon in our arsenal to fight for what is right on our planet Certain events have forced me into situations where I and the people I walk with get called (and occasionally charged as) terrorists by the terrorists themselves But in

ldquoLanding of Captain Cook at Botany Bay 1770rdquo E Phillips Fox - 1902

my place of Truth I know as a war-rior in the tradition of non-violence in our Land that I am a Terra-ist one of many that fight for the Earth not against it And the fight-back of our country has just begun in ways that cannot be fathomed by those that refuse to look Our Land has been so damaged by 216 years of whitefella mismanagement that all the elements that have been messed with are now messing with

the mess-makers Chop down the forests ndash well you donrsquot get any rain You also donrsquot grow any food you donrsquot operate mines and your artificial construct of an economy collapses You learn to recognise who your Mama is or you get sent to your room without any dinner until you eat some humble pie In fact yoursquod better hope she doesnrsquot pull out the wooden spoon

This Land is facing an imminent if temporary ecological collapse yet it doesnrsquot have to be this way One look at the current situation facing the planet makes you wonder if those who control the whitefella system have ever listened to anyone but themselves if they are actually capable of understanding the Lands they think they conquer Time after time by demonstrating their arrogance they are in fact demonstrating their own weaknesses Yet in old times and still today in this Land of 500 Sovereign Aboriginal nations we have a

system that cares for the future ndash the Law

Traditional Law has a complex kinship sys-tem of which I can only just touch on here To quote a strong grandmother Aunty Wad-jularbinna ldquoIf the Ocean were made of ink it would run dry trying to write down The Sys-temrdquo The System of Law governs everything in the

universe and shows how everything will inter-act and how we must maintain that balance In our system the complexity of intertwined forces are such that humans must not interfere even at the smallest level Our system recognises that we have a special place in the scheme of things ndash most of us have cognitive capacity but we must be one with the Land around us We can never have dominion over what we are a part of

It also provides an understanding of the inter-connectedness of all things extending to all life in this Land not just human life It shows you that the lizard over there is your brother that big old red gum is your grandfather that river your grandmother your sister the dingo the mountain your mother The kangaroo and emu are not just symbols but family It shows you the whole Land is your family whom you must protect and look after but which also looks after you gives you strength and sustenance and guides you in where you walk because your family loves you It is about understanding this connection on deeper levels

We can never change the Law as it is not ours to change ndash it has been handed down from the beginning to the first ancestors to walk the Land Even if you donrsquot want to notice the Law is strong Law is the air the fire the water the sky it is all around Law has not been ldquoswept away by the tide of historyrdquo it will be paramount as long as the rocks exist Understanding and practicing the Law is really quite simple This system is under-pinned by three basic principles respect for our Mother Earth respect for one another and not

taking more than one needs By following this Law we have the keys to humanityrsquos survival on Planet Earth

I must put this discussion into some cultural context however At the time of invasion there were over 500 distinct and sovereign Aboriginal nations in this Land not one homogenous Blackfella Every one had a different language customs and interpreta-tions of local and regional peculiarities and needs but the 500 nations were united by a commonality of Law song lines kinship and language relations Each mob had its own ways of passing on knowledge

The Aboriginal map of Australia shows over 500 nations on this land

It is a whitefella myth that there were no permanent non-verbal forms of communication in Aboriginal societies All around us were paintings artefacts etchings and other signs that were used to communicate in addition to the non-verbal first person ways and to record events and places Still the written word is a poor means of communicating Law and I donrsquot have an ocean of ink of my disposal There is significance about the way that understanding is transmitted To transmit something orally one is told the story word for word If one hasnrsquot learnt to tell the true story more stories arenrsquot told until they

are learned properly If the wrong story is told one can cop a flogging so one learns to tell the right story This eliminates semiotic degradation and ensures the message is passed on intact in a Land where ecosystems move in millennial cycles Our word is our deed We cannot make new Law and we have to honour any agreement entered into Language relates to the Land around us and the word forms are particular to the Land forms Western culture canrsquot understand this indigenous language as the spirit of the Land IS the language Land is connection Land is where we come from it is what we go back to and it is from where our knowledge our unbreakable Law comes from

This is the fundamental difference between the proper way of this Land and the duplicitous hypocrisy of the whitefella system Written law can be changed bent manipulated loopholed pigeonholed bastardised and corrupted by whoever holds the biggest pen Pieces of paper get lost (ever tried to find the receipt for the purchase of Melbourne Mr John Batman) and new ones get made up out of thin air ndash like the ldquoAustralianrdquo constitution Australia does not even legally exist never has and never will until people in this Land today become mature enough to deal with 216 years of lies Since 1788 the three crucial documents ndash treaty declaration of war andor bill of sale (amp receipt) that make annexation of a territory legal ndash under their written law ndash have never been drawn up They are so proud of their writing ndash yet they cannot even sign a treaty Writing in the sand Nothing exists

The whitefella calls our Law lsquolorersquo yet theyrsquore the ones been telling stories we been telling our Law Whitefella laws are made to suit the rulers of the day and the dictates of the moment A personrsquos deed becomes the piece of paper it is written on not the spoken word in the original utterance Pieces of paper which one day somebody says is worth X are suddenly worth zero With a thousand pieces of paper conflicting with a million others there is no certainty no consistency no clarity This is why the whitefella became known across all the Lands as the one that spoke with the forked tongue His word is worthless not worth the paper it is written on Much better to write your word truth knowledge - your Law in the Land that never changes on the wind in the trees and call of the birds in the seasons across the millennia It ensures a future when the Land knows to take the humansrsquo word

As I become closer to my Ancestors of this Land I become bound by their Law I am bound to not recognise the Law of the invader and tend to get cases chucked out of court when I plead ldquoNo Jurisdictionrdquo ldquoPlease show me the foundation documents that prove your system exists Mr Prosecu-tor ndash oh you donrsquot have them ndash what a pity seeya (and give us back our Kangaroo and Emu you pack of thieves)rdquo They cannot force me to vote in an election nor can they force me to pay tax to a system that does not legally exist I am one of the many who contributes to the community in tangible ways so I certainly earn my (very modest) keep The spirit that runs through onersquos veins is powerful when one realises there is nothing that a government and corporation can do to harm the Law not even kill-ing a person will help their cause The Dreamtime is a wonderful thing

The historical bark petition from the people of Arnhem kland and the somwhat less creative Com-monwealth Govtrsquos Aboriginal Land Rights Act

Of course as with everyone the Law was always in my being ndash it is a case of re-membering to come back to being a part of something Re-membering helps me to exercise true Response-ability ndash having the ability to have the appropriate response to Law Still I cannot reveal all aspects of Law that I know as it is not appropriate for a mixed audience And until I know the whole I cannot begin to say more than I am meant to I am not a Lawman and even if I was I could not talk about it unless I was with others of the same level We have strong penalties for those who break the Law even in ignorance of it It is usually something to make you remember not to do it again like a spear through your leg In some mobs including my own if a child is misbehaving seriously they may be pushed into an antrsquos nest after two warnings The child learns instantly what is acceptable behaviour

Kevin Buzzacot an elder of the Arabunna people of Lake Eyre region stands his ground in opposition to the Breverly Uranium Mine

To most whitefellas some aspects of Law may seem harsh and spearings are seen as barbaric (this from a culture that has enslaved half the planet) However it is there for a reason The old people understand that time is not linear it is all around us all the time We are not here just for ourselves - our spirit has come into our bodies so that we can maintain the Land in the strongest and most correct way possible When we die we - the current collection of flesh blood and spirit and knowledge - cease to exist The spirit that creates us survives and goes back to the Source taking the experience back to the Dreamtime If we commit a minor crime usually a flogging or ritual spear-ing is in order and that is it ndash punishment done get on with your life If we commit a crime that removes our right to walk with fellow humans we are sent back to the Source by the end of a spear so that spirit will come back in a form that will walk the right way This is not an act of hate but of great love It is sending something back so it can do a better job next time It is understanding that death is not something to be feared Life does not end with the body it is absorbed back into the All

The Dreamtime is all around us It is before us it is after us it is alongside us It is in an infinite number of dimensions everywhere all the time (the old people knew about multiple universe theory a long time before anybody heard the term ldquoquantum physicsrdquo) Nowadays ndash finally ndash the top physicists and other scientists have realised where the knowledge lies ldquoThe closer one gets to finding an all encompassing theory of Everything the closer we must acknowledge our reliance on traditional Law from indigenous peoplesrdquo was a comment by Nobel prize winner Dr Michio Kaku former US chief nuclear physicist (and now peace activist) at an international peace confer-ence last year in Melbourne 3D is boring people ndash try infinD instead

All the knowledge being ldquodiscoveredrdquo by Western science is not new as any elder from any indigenous culture on Earth will tell you Elders might also tell you where the oldest of the old mob come from at a time when many archaeological discoveries are also continually re-writ-ing whitefella ldquounderstandingrdquo of our origins (ldquoOut of Africardquo is just another theory made up by lazy Europeans who couldnrsquot be bothered travelling too far and couldnrsquot be bothered asking the locals where they came from) Indigenous creation stories tell of the unity of all things and have a constant motif of seven stars known by whitefellas as Pleiades (it is also known as kristos in pre-Athenian Greek ndash the Source) However this is womenrsquos business so as a man I cannot tell you more on this one This time around I have the wrong set of fixtures to tell that story even though I know it from another time

Today there are so many whitefellas and more of good heart and spirit that I dare say the majority of people reading this fit into that category We share the pain and shame of the history of genocide and some of us share the experience of dispossession from other Lands (by the same people) Many of us can also identify our blood heritage from the old time in this Land More and more are coming out every day unsurprisingly considering that over 70 per cent of Aussies who had family here before 1940 are said to have Aboriginal blood Those who wanted genocide werenrsquot very good at it ndash they shouldnrsquot have slept with the women if they wanted it to work ndash and they failed to take into account the Land around them

Irati Wanti is the name of the campaign to prevent a nuclear waste dump in the central desert of South Australiafor more info see wwwiratwantiorg

life like the tracker We see our allies at every step and we know how to recognise those with whom we must walk With every small piece of work in the fight for justice the Land connects with us and puts together all those little bits that make up the whole We understand we are never alone and connect to the true power of what we are all fighting for ndash the Earth our mother which is infinitely stronger than anything capitalism can ever even manufacture Understanding the Dreamtime we understand that we cannot lose because we have already realised a better world

A seed is breaking through a crack in the concrete

The Law is all around us

Always was and Always Will Be

It is not about saying whitefellas themselves are evil it is just the whitefella system Our Elders do not engage in and forbid racism ndash they recognise spirit within all people not by the colour of their skin We do not want to have people kicked out of the country all we are saying is you have to start listening to the old country We want people to be brothers and sisters walking together in this Land All of us who are fighting for genuine self-determination white and black are truly starting to walk together We are engaging in the pursuit of truth not just window-dressing whitefella feel-good ldquoreconciliationrdquo As Aunty Isabel Coe once said ldquoReconciliation implies there was a marriage If there was one it must have been a shotgun marriage because we were never invitedrdquo

We need to all together start addressing the fundamental lies behind the invasion and colonisation and the funda-mental reality behind any chance of living into the future We need a return to traditional Law with real justice so that we can walk the Land with knowledge and wisdom The question now is ndash are whitefellas ready to swallow some of their self-importance to ensure all of humanity can walk together through that door of Survival Our old mob can do it but do whitefellas want to embrace the future or are they going to continue destroying it Do you not want to experience the real world You are also the children of the ancestors of this Land if one goes back far enough Isnrsquot it time to start acting like family

By knowing and understanding the ways of the Land on which we walk by knowing our Ancestors of this Land we begin to know ourselves We know how to recognise the signs all around for the journey we must take through

one side of melbourne city 2004

ldquoListen man you seem like a solid kinda guy ndash can I come in and talk to you for a bit My lips are going numb and Irsquom starting to peak yrsquoknow Therersquos these am-maaaazzzing shapes when I close my eyes and if I donrsquot keep talking

I think my mouth might melt awayhellip Is that okay Listenhelliprdquo

Itrsquos raining itrsquos pouring the Old Man is snor-ing and fireworks are exploding in acid trails in the

dark pyrotechnic flares from the world outside the car The ldquochildrenrdquo are gyrating and dancing and jesuspaghetti Itrsquos really pouring down thunder and lightning and all things frightening - wersquore being played like kids in the rain lsquoBout all it does here on the Big Island this time of year rains and nurtures Ya gotta be protected mind you hailstones bounce off these new full body envirosuits like rubber balls - yoursquoll be battered black and blue without them At least it stops the normal folk coming out into these jungles ndash apart from those bloody annoying extreme weather tourists in their rented Kevlar armour a thin exoskeleton between them and nature Itrsquos funny because humanity itself is just the latest in a long line of fashions that the planet has been trying on after all Irsquove heard it said that the plants invented us higher mammals to carry around their seeds

by Rak Razam

freedom

with Old Lady Gaia and more to do with the pow- dered shrooms I took when the rain started falling in perfect staccato bullets outside with my envirosuit all nice and warm and the smell of wet socks creeping up from the floor Kaleidoscoping mandalas and imagery melts through my brain pulling me along with it becoming me becoming ithellip

ldquoAre you still with me man Look like yoursquore dozing off there Shit sorry Irsquom a rude sonofabitch some-times arenrsquot I My namersquos Nathan but if itrsquos drugs yoursquore after then yoursquod probably know me better as Freedom I donrsquot go by that handle much anymore too many people in the Rainbow Family were getting to know me yeah Spent six months in prison in Oregon because of that gig but hey you live and learn Just another prisoner of war I guessrdquo

ldquoWhatrsquos that You only do chips eh Get high on data all that stuff Fucking crazy if you ask me but itrsquos your head dude you can jack whatever you want into it eh thatrsquos what wersquore all fighting for out here Me I like the oldskool stuff homegrown by the planethellip Did you know lsquoplanetrsquo means wanderer Or that the

and burrs more efficiently which is perfectly ironic con-sidering what wersquore doing to the plants these days isnrsquot it

Itrsquos hard to remem-ber when yoursquore out here dancing in the jungle that therersquos a War On even harder to remember what itrsquos really about or why it all started Though at the mo-ment thatrsquos probably less to do

plot wersquove all lost is the land you dig I can tell you do yoursquore a pretty solid kinda guy Did I say that alreadyrdquo Mitrochondria cells glistening in the ether pulsing with life

mixing with the Black Madonna statue on the dashboard Starfish Sets overlapping Liquid sky and other worlds pushing out of my head to become real jewels

In the wheelyhome next to us bedspreaded Urban Disco Ferals are passed out along the walls - the whoosh of breaking bulbs and laughter mixes with the rain Itrsquos probably the shrooms talking but it feels like therersquos something going on a power struggle between two opposing forces Yin and Yang Control and Kaos Makes me think of my Grand-daddy and his old tv set classic analogue model back in the days of culture war Cantankerous old bastard he was He loved that old tv show Get Smarts something like that with hidden doors slamming to-gether one after another invisible panels sliding into new configurations walls lifting Rubiking shifting colour and here I am right now trapped in my own Cone of Silence melting in my little beshroomed bub-ble Itrsquos all so comical isnrsquot it A War on Drugs A War on Chemicals and Plants A War on Evolution and a War on Change Who the fuck gave them the right to say I canrsquot change my state of mind as often as I change fashion Itrsquos all Kontrol versus Kaos - the GAME

ldquoAnyway back on the farm my Granddaddy used to bitch and moan about the government Old Man Snoring he called it and he should know ndash he fought in two Gulf Wars to keep us in our way of life For all the good it did in the end Got corrupted by power Grandaddy said No government wants to give up the reins and they tried everything to keep kontrol even changing the human race force us away from the plants and the connection they had given us One Nation under God dying and imprisoned estranged from the planet If yoursquove ever seen those new black ops helicopters buzzing through the sky like vultures heat-sensing

lsquoillicitrsquo crops and spraying the earth with GM pesticides people too then maybe yoursquod believe him Donrsquot have them round your way yet Donrsquot worry you willrdquo

ldquoIrsquom not trying to make out Irsquove got all the answers here dude no siree Irsquove only read eight books print ones that is but people tell me things yrsquoknow and I piece stuff together Like this dude I gave some DMT to that was just growing on my lawn He called it ldquoDominator Culturerdquo Oh he had lots of interesting stuff to say

Like how the body of a nomadic tribesman was found in the Austrian Alps when the peaks all started to melt The guy had traces of psilocybin mushrooms and can-nabis on him can you believe it Even the cavemen par-tied And apparently while the Egyptians are famous for in-venting beer theyrsquore less well-known for

their cocaine habits though traces have been found on mummi-fied Pharaohs as offerings to get high in the next life I tell ya man one thing Irsquove learned out here in the jungles is that plants are part of the original religious sacrament Like peyote and the Indians Rastas and their herb the British and their tea itrsquos medicine for the people isnrsquot itrdquo

ldquoHey thanks for listening to me rant man itrsquos pretty wet out there Yoursquore beautiful you know that No you really are I feel like I want to share all this with you tell you my deepest secretsrdquo

God this is so - sopure

ldquoNggghhuuhhhhellip whoah itrsquos coming on pretty strong now can you hear it Can you hear the voice Itrsquos speaking to me right now bet-ter than television it is a direct line to the Sourcehellip Holy shiiiitttthellip I feel like I have to channel it donrsquot mind the crap Irsquom spouting it just feels good to make words to feel the sound do you mindrdquo

ldquoItrsquos saying something about the Earthhellip like my momma like she loves mehellip Shersquos alive yrsquonow no doubt about ithellip Alive and tun-ing us in back to the green nipple to the right way of doing things Shit shersquos none too pleased with what most of her lilrsquo children have been doing lately either A hard rainrsquos gonna fall ndash but whatrsquos new Itrsquos been raining for as long as I can remember washing away the old world Time is coming dude but for now I think I might just dance in the rain and let go of kontrol get down and dirty in the kaos let it heal me Are you coming Um do you think you could like hold my hand Irsquom really mashedhelliprdquo

ldquoYoursquore in the wrong car dude Piss offrdquo

And then it suddenly occurs to me that Maxwell Smart was the perfect double agent in Control because he was pure Kaos too bumbling stumbling kaos thatrsquos how he always succeeded And Irsquom trapped here in my Shroom of Silence looking out at the rain and everythingrsquos getting lighter and turning inwards like at liftoff invisible veils falling backwards into a warm space something set-tles behind my eyes balloons out and fills my head like fairy floss just as a Neotek trak builds on the Ethernet connection wersquore all plugged into angels wings butterfly soft notes brushing against each other and Irsquom cocooned in bliss and help meIrsquom melting melting into

Therersquos a war on alrightAnd Irsquove just been conscripted

Car parks have always struck me as the saddest of places

Returning from cinemas with our eyes attuned to the process of perceiving a two dimensional image we are struck by the presence of the third dimension by the real Everything is heightened We become characters and directors ourselves Sites are wonderful with their own ex-istence the very strangeness of life is powerfully apparent

Entering the car park in this state is like stepping inside a dream The car park is how the city dreams of a desert The stairwells smell of concrete and piss The air buzzes with fluorescent light We are suddenly disorientated by the similarity of this place to itself or to a memory by an empty sense of deacutejagrave vu Foreign noises echo as if some-one else is dreaming them in a sleep nearby

The car park does not welcome pedestrians They are naked there less than naked They are non-entities almost invisible and vulnerable in the dim light As a pedestrian the car park is a non-space We go to the car park to put our skin back on to remember ourselves as separate and distinct again Moving across it by foot is to exist with no agency

What place has dream in todayrsquos city and what part might it play within this particular landscape I am interested in art objects that might act as dream pieces as if that distinction between dreaming and waking has suddenly been upset To dream is to sense the possible

My intention is to create an art that seeks to empower the footed individual the human being within the city That we have created for ourselves a system of living wholly inhospita-ble to our own humanity a home for ourselves from which we are each intrinsically alienated is the most massive indictment of capitalism and of all its protectors and cowards those ldquomen

I wake up dreaming of a new artto live by

The car park seems to me a landscape particularly sym-bolic of the cityrsquos intentions

Art is life remembering magic It is being It is activism It is ritual and prayer It is play It is the first word It is the antidote It is futile There is only the dull hum of air-conditioning units without it

Our job is to find the wonder

The city is the site of our collective dreaming the soup of popular conspiracy We must dream it alive again Places of memory are being replaced by replicas 7-11rsquos identicals These are dead spaces Places in which it is impossible to believe in anythingI choose beyond fashion to believe

Car parks appear to me as examples of these new dead spaces I am shocked within them Such a cold beauty

I wish for an art whose explicit job is to enliven space

Firstly to be a great beholder We must begin with thisThe only revolution left is the desire to perceive differently

In the city we lack a sense of orientation and a sure-ness of instinct We are numb to the subtle We are dazed and bombarded drawn irreversibly in There is to be no answer no response We are not required or permitted to speak though we are constantly spoken to Our movement is directed along lines of con-sumption

Therefore we must remember our bodies our move-ments in space where we are Our voices and our dreams The sense that places us in space creates us We must remember We must seek tirelessly an alter-native We must imagine existence other than the one imposed upon us Every excuse is a death

We are each here to fill our own small silence with dancing

we are so lonely together

because birds are our only animals and they require nothing of us

except for those thingswhich left behind on tables in the spilling wind

we have alreadyforgotten





I propose an art that calls to the human condition directly where it is most under threat in the cities An art that is disruptive interventionist disobe-dient which speaks back Which creates rather than kills space Which cuts holes in the fabric of a cityrsquos given reality which lets light in Which proposes difference confronts the death march of economic progress which denies commodifi-cation Which is transitory and transformative

Objects are powerful containers If the red plastic Coke chairs could speak they would scream My objects are intended to act as beacons in the dark

The doorrsquos place in surrealist painting is signifi-cant It stands alone in a desolate dreamscape It is transition opportunity travel transcend-ence mystery It invites and forbids conceals and protects It stands between the inside and the outside between public and private It seems to me symbolic not only of the way the city by its very nature forbids and accepts but also of the transition necessary in order to step from the banal to the magical The city is so full of rooms Who knows what goes on in them all They are the rooms of the mind too each a dream waiting to be stepped into

This project is only to dream small moments of life and to breath them tentatively into existence Moments of life or magic the opportunity for an unconditioned or unexpected thought the pres-ence of the moment a feeling of loss or mys-tery the unknown the inexplicable the random the useless the beautiful the human the space instead of a car

Art cannot change the world But we cannot live without it It has the eternal job of protecting tomorrow Art testi-fies against complacency Art is the process of imaging the away forward a way of proceeding and a way of receiving

I am for an art that can heal which must Art is the final re-ligion before both art and religion are finally eclipsed by life itself All other religions are conclusions Art is never final never known it is the reaching for something ungraspable It arrives forever

Art is dream The function of its objects adhere to a separate system It values ambiguous ulterior qualities It is perhaps the most human of under-takings It cherishes confusion because what is most essential is the incred-ible mystery at the centre of which we all stand As in theatre the art I want creates the space to dream

Art dignifies that lonely exhilarated cry into the void

It is sad that those who take most from art are those that make it This given we should encourage all to become makers The artist is not the divine among us but the divine within us all We are all free to choose it some with greater difficulty than others Art is the divine gasp which propels the hard climb toward an unreachable peak

This has all been said before What does it matter if I say it again the sun rises everyday and yet it matters each time no less I believe in these words and in the actions which must spring forth from them It is enough and only enough that the words anyone uses and the actions which these words compel into being are believed in

All art says the same thing More or less Who knows what that thing is It if for each of us to ordain what is holy

We are all guilty of deceit Art is the opposite of that

Everything is rewritten in the face of unavoid-able systems In writing again we proclaim the dignity of our own revolution We wake and wake and wake The dire condition of Capital-ism awakens new resistances with a greater urgency we insist upon life

Art keeps answering from the dark

In the future urban archeologists will peel back the layers of dust and rubble that cover their cities abandoned slums to find a museum of guerilla art galler-ies walls covered in post-modern cave paintings by the young natives of the landscape

My friend Liam once told me he saw graffiti as the natural organic growth of the city ecology Artists obey a bio-logical imperative of their society The images that appear on the walls are as impossible to prevent as the weeds which grow through the cracks in the pavement In fact to Liam tagging was the weeds ndash or at least from a botani-cal perspective This only meant they were the first species to take over soil ripe for plant life The base level of the eco-system After the first generation has grown and died creating compost richer nutrients more complex ideas other species also begin to take hold Larger plants Trees Eventually the ecology is complex enough to feed itself The weeds are still there but you donrsquot notice them as much because the jungle is too overwhelming

Once you begin to look at the city in context of the human ecology its hard not to lose respect for certain laws which would prevent us from using its largest untapped media ndash the walls pavement and other surfaces ndash as canvas for our art works Most street artists find it quite easy to point to whatever crude billboard message is taking up the bright lit skyline above us and ask the question why should they be able to say that in public and I cant ever be heard We live in colonised space Who owns the streets if not its citizens

the best artists carry an energy with them that is a chaos magic they leave a debris of half finished yet perfectly finished creations all loose and playful Uncollectable yet price-less Prolific as thought Ego dissolves and we become conduits Ideas move through us It becomes natural as breathing Instinctive as dreaming And the walls of the cityrsquos urban ghetto culture we call home relaxes into the role of canvas which they bless upon it

the victimless crimes of imagination

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permanent

culture ADAM GRUBB from Melbourne Indymedia interviews DAVID HOLMGREN co-originator of Permaculture on the future of agriculture oil peak and how an energy descent culture might look

Adam Grubb Could you please give us your definition of permaculture and tell us a little bit about your role in its creation and evolution

DHgt Permaculture is a design system for sustainable living and land use It came out of awareness about the limits of resources especially the energy crises of the 1970rsquos It started looking at the redesign of agriculture using ecological principles but it extended out from that to the redesign of the whole of society using those principals The founda-tion text was lsquoPermaculture Onersquo which was published in 1978 a joint work between Bill Mollison and myself when I was a student in environmental design in Tasmania Since then permaculture has spread around the world as a grassroots movement of activists and designers teachers and land managers - both gardeners and farmers Itrsquos also connected into a very broad range of sustainable alternatives in sustainable building alternative cur-rency ideas eco-villages ndash many diverse areasThe biggest development of permaculture applications was then Bill Mollisonrsquos Design-ers Manual which he published in 1988 And then more recently my new book - Perma-culture Principles ndash has taken those ideas to a broader frame of reference away from just land management to practical issues dealing with the underlying links to resource limits especially energy peak

What exactly is the lsquoenergy peakrsquo What do you mean when you employ that phrase

DHgt Well my understanding of that comes from both an awareness of the ideas of limits to non-renewable resources and the early predictions on some of those especially the Club of Rome limits to growth report in 1972 Which in a way has gone down in public intellectual mythology as being failed you know - that they got it wrong ndash when in fact it was remark-ably on track But more recently the work of Colin Campbell and other retired independent oil geologists identified the fact that the numbers behind oil - arguably the most important set of numbers in the world are in fact largely garbage They discovered that once yoursquore half-way through a resource the decline in the availability means that is the most critical point not when you run out The critical peak that wersquore reaching now is in relation to whatrsquos called conventional oil Further peaks are to come in world gas supplies that are the really important ones Generally an energy peak is a cluster of different resources that peak and then decline

What kind of role does your vision of permaculture play in that scenario

DHgt Well permaculture as Irsquove said in the book ndash in a world of con-stantly rising energy and resultant affluence permaculture is always going to be restricted to a small number of people who are committed to those ideals which have some sort of ethical or moral pursuit Itrsquos always going to be a fringe thing Whereas in a world of decreasing energy permaculture provides the best available framework for redesigning the whole way we think the way we act and the way we design new strate-gies It doesnrsquot mean to say that everyonersquos going to have a vegetable garden or some other permaculture technique But the thinking behind permaculture is really based on this idea of reducing that energy avail-ability and how you work with that in a creative way That requires a complete overturning of a lot of our inherited culture

What about within the broader environmental movement ndash do you have a problem getting this awareness about limits to growth back in that arena

DHgt Well a lot of the current environmental activism is based on a bedrock foundation of the limits of climate and the Greenhouse effect

what is the meaning of finite

also blind spots that come with that awareness Greenhouse has meant that there has perhaps been an over focus on fossil fuels being a bad thing a primitive form of energy that we need to get past Whereas what the insights relating to energy peak say is that no fossil fuels are an incredibly good source of energy but wersquove wasted it To some extent theyrsquore mutually reinforcing arguments and in other ways itrsquos also a difference The need to recognise the way in which fossil fuels are really the power that create the good and the bad things in society is really important

What do you imagine for the future of suburbia

DHgt I think itrsquos a mixed message There tends to be a view that suburban development - spread out cities ndash is a product of the motorcar and cheap energy And although thatrsquos true the suburban land-scapes are no denser in human settlement than some of the denser agricultural landscapes in the world Now admittedly people living in those suburbs consume far more resources in total than people who lived in those densely settled agricultural landscapes Somewhere like the Red River Delta in Vietnam has a higher density of people living more or less totally self sufficient off that land than say Australian suburbs Of course theyrsquore very special environments theyrsquore all fed by integrated water systems itrsquos fertile flat land but similarly we can look at our suburbs and say they are an infrastruc-ture Our cities water system has the biggest articulated agricultural landscapes in Australia So the water is there We have an infrastructure of hard surfaces that actually harvests storm water which is seen as a problem at the moment which allows augmentation of natural rainfall to direct that water into the remaining areas that are potentially productive Wersquove got mostly individual houses that can be retrofitted to have solar access because theyrsquore generally set far enough back from neighbouring houses to get that Now that might involve cutting down a lot of gum trees in those leafy suburbs but therersquos a lot of ways in which the suburbs can be incrementally retrofitted in an energy descent world

One of the things I think a lot of the urban planners miss is that they assume that any future frame-work will be driven by public policy and forward planning and design Whereas I think given the speed with which we are approaching this energy descent world and the paucity of any serious con-sideration of planning or even awareness of it we have to take as part of the equation that the adap-tive strategies will not happen by some big sensible long range planning approach but will happen just organically and incrementally by people just doing things in response to immediate conditions In practical terms what that really means is that big suburban houses that have one to three people living in them mostly not present will actually re-adapt to have people work from home Home based busi-nesses and retrofitted garages with workshops and people making things even with food production in them will increase The street which is a dead place at the moment in suburbia

will again become an active space because people will be present rather than commuting away Now that recreation of active urban life will be not that much different to what existed into my childhood in the 1950s Itrsquos not that radical a thing to envisage suburban life where there are larger house-holds ndash whether thatrsquos a family or shared households So Irsquom quite optimistic about how the suburbs can adapt

You talk about how the top down approach isnrsquot going to solve our problems but do you see any problems stopping the spread of permaculture

DHgt Whether these solutions actually spread under a label of permaculture or not is less significant than their spread itself But the impediments are in many different forms We can see in the global economy at the moment with the established powers in corporations which are struggling to position themselves as to how to deal with the energy descent Now that may not take the form of a corporate plan worked out in the boardroom but I think somehow therersquos an understand-ing in some circles that the current game is a short lived one

A lot of the big forces that are driving world politics and the global economy at the moment are very much reflecting energy descent Essentially the global war on terrorism ndash as Donald Rumsfeld said lsquoldquothe war that will never end in our lifetimesrdquo ndash is in fact their version of how to deal with energy descent Theyrsquore trying to gather all the key productive zones under their complete control The idea that the society as a whole is completely ignorant of this is wrong But it may not express itself in the ways we would expect If you look at the drift towards fascism thatrsquos everywhere in the world at the moment that seeks to find blame or causes for un-fortunate circumstances as being the responsibility of some other group ndash that is actually a classic response of established authority when itrsquos caught with itrsquos pants down

Whether we describe that as a conscious conspiracy if you like or whether itrsquos a natural organic response to energy descent is playing out in front of our eyes now That is actually the biggest threat to the perma-culture industry now We have an opportunity to positively engage with energy descent and to learn and to change as wersquove done in the past

Could you talk about the idea under permaculture of energy accounting

DHgt One of the very influences on permaculture in the beginning was the work of Howard Odum I dedicated my new book ndash Permaculture Principles and Pathways to Sustainability to his memory He died in 2002 Around the world therersquos a whole network of people whorsquove taken his ideas of energy accounting called lsquoemergyrsquo ndash embodied en-ergy Itrsquos a particular method of measuring the energy that it takes to make something whether itrsquos a built thing or a living thing Whatever it is therersquos actually a currency with which we can measure the human and natural worlds This idea has got quite a long history though past at-tempts havenrsquot quite worked as energy itself and the ways of measuring the embodied energy in things have been more complicated

A lump of wood and a book can both be put into a fire They both have the same amount of energy given of but commonsense tells us thatrsquos a poor use of a book We have in us an energetic commonsense which comes from a peasant grounded-ness connected to nature which perma-culture is trying to recreate because wersquove mostly lost it We actually have this energy hierarchy in our heads of energy quality and embodied energy We understand that a lot of work one way or another went into making the book

As energy descent becomes a public issue one of the big questions that emerges is how do you measure this economic or social process against that one Is it worth putting resources into that or this Now if we think

the current discussions about public policy priorities are complicated - thatrsquos nothing compared to what happens when energy becomes scarcer Then it becomes really important yoursquore not wasting resources putting them into a process which is actually a blind alley You need forms of accounting that can compare very very different things Some of the current attempts at energy accounting like the triple bottom line are actually a joke Theyrsquore an insult to children even in terms of their intellectual content because they try and compare vague abstractions of social and environmental values against a completely financial body which is actually doing the work So yoursquove got

CERES The Centre for Education and Research into Environmental Strategies in Brunswick Melbourne is a permaculture model for sub-urban food produciton (and it serves fine coffee)

two hierarchical levels ndash one compares with qualitative things and the other is internal to a system like the accounts of a corporation and yet most of the environmental and social values that will be listed in triple bottom line accounting will be actually external to the organization You cannot add it up

Accounting is not an answer but it gives some guidance because we can look at other systems that do work and use these accounting methods as a crosscheck on our commonsense What we find generally is that using energy accounting permaculture strategies come up trumps as the most envi-ronmental strategy A study was done in Britain some years ago on recycled paper They concluded it was easier to just put paper in an energy efficient furnace and use it for fuel rather than recycle it Elements of that are true looking at a whole lifecycle process Ironically using the permaculture strategy of using the paper as a sheet mulch technique to establish a food garden is probably light years ahead of either of those options

Apart from energy accounting systems ecology under Odumrsquos development of it provides a big picture top down view of systems Whether theyrsquore national economy and environment or a region It provides a holistic framework to understand whatrsquos happening in any scale of human society or na-ture rather than a reductionist view which tries to pull things apart into their components to study the bits That reductionist view has dominated sci-ence has got to the point where itrsquos creating more blindness than insight The balance of that the more holistic ways of looking at things - of which sys-tems theory is the greatest example within the scientific tradition has had enormous benefits in the systems of cybernetics and the computer revolution yet the thinking behind it is virtually absent within public discussion We need to see how things link together what are the important flows and energy storages etc and how we can use an energy circuit language which describes things from a farm scale to a global scale That way we can examine an ecosystem or an economy in the same way down to a biological scale

Instead of thinking of a tree as just an organism we can think of it as a set of productive units which are the leaves the infrastructure which is the heart-wood of the tree that holds everything up and the tree becomes a habitat for other things and living beings Systems theory doesnrsquot necessarily divide things into the convenient compartments that wersquore used to thinking of A forest can be seen as an interconnectedness of roots as one shared system and the canopy as another Leaves dropping down into a stream add to the nutrient flows Fish migrate up and are eaten by animals and those nutrients go out into the forest Systems theory connects us back also to indigenous and traditional peasant peoples connected with nature - their ways of under-standing things Systems Theory while itrsquos an incredible abstraction of maths and science actually brings up more insights into the ways indigenous people think

What do you think the world will look like in twenty or thirty years

DHgt Well wersquore actually in a change phase now which is so multileveled and inherently chaotic ndash our understandings of chaos theory and ecologi-cal change that suggest wersquore at this big turnover point where things can go in many different directions all at once What we should expect is that the pattern of the world becoming more globalised will continue into the future But we can also expect a counterflow of things starting to become localised and differentiated to different outcomes in different places At the moment the globalising forces tend to take the same set of economic solutions and ideological values and methods of production of agriculture and living and try to apply them everywhere in the world So therersquos a conformity of mono-

which is in parallel to the catastrophic loss of biodiversity

But counter to that as energy descent consolidates the globalised flow of genetic material - plants animals and people from all over the world in a particular place responding to a particular set of social and economic environmental and political circumstances They are forced to develop systems which are less subject to global buffering or counterflow from elsewhere so they go their own path What that means is wersquoll have everything from paradise to hell simultaneously in different places that are not necessarily predictable You can see that in the breakdown of the nation state and itrsquos power from autonomous communities to feudal warlords The pace at which that emerges will be variable ndash a lot of these things exist in the world already but we have a very affluent reality view of what the world will be like in the future What most people are really asking is what will the world be like for the billion or so middle class consumers of the world

Sometimes people assume that engine of change has been a straight acceleration even in the last thirty years But thirty years ago there were the signs of this energy slowdown When I was a child it was the general assumption that supersonic air travel was just around the corner ndash and it was in the form of the Concord Well thatrsquos now being taken out of service ndash it never made a profit Wersquove already reached some energy peaks Things like the computer revolution have enabled all these other ways for that technological engine to keep driving forward The possibility is that some of those will continue to accelerate in the next thirty years depending on the state of the world economy and a lot of things which arenrsquot to do with hard numbers or facts but concern faith Already the world economy may be largely an article of faith Itrsquos like a thing projected out over the precipice by the collec-tive belief of everyone

After the 1987 stockmarket crash Ronald Reagan ndash the most powerful man in the world said in an amazing naiumlve insight ldquoThere wonrsquot be an economic collapse as long as people believe there wonrsquotrdquo People can bring the whole house of cards down just by losing faith That underlies the inherent unpredictability of things Itrsquos not just when does this resource run out etc Itrsquos to do with the people at some extent prefiguring what is actually hap-pening through their awareness and their unconscious They start to withdraw individually and collectively their support for systems Historians might end up looking back post energy descent and argue whether it all could have continued if people had of kept the faith That notion of collapse and having to rebuild can happen at any multiple scales So something that looks like a collapse at one scale is just a small adaptive creative move when you step back If you look at the decline of the Roman Empire it didnrsquot go in a cataclysmic bang like other civi-lisations It went in a slow rundown and a lot of the knowledge and systems of value managed to be condense repackaged and held on to because that process of wind down into the Dark Ages was gradual

DHgt Over the last thirty years starting with the babyboomers and the generations since people have actu-ally taken a different pathway to maximising material gain In the process of going against whatrsquos in peoples apparent economic self interest people have explored all sorts of different ways of living skills and travel and have built up this great collection of experience In an energy descent world of tougher conditions most of that will go into the dustbin of history But parts of it actually represent new ways of doing things that you canrsquot predict which bits will be useful We can see this in the revival of traditional skills like blacksmithing which is a skill bas e that is important in a low energy society These types of skills have come out of middle class affluence that may be seeds of new ways of doing things

How will the energy peak affect those people and environments

DHgt Well for people very much on the treadmill the social limits to affluence will become apparent Clive Hamiltonrsquos book lsquoGrowth Fetishrsquo talks about this People are driven mad by the total continuous drive to consume and the hollowness of this sort of existence the lack of community and identity In an energy descent world a lot of those destructive behaviours are just set aside because therersquos more important things to do At the extreme itrsquos like what happens in a society where therersquos a natural disaster Community is re-discovered people set aside their differences and get working on the fundamentals A lot of the angst about alienation and intractable problems evaporate For a lot of people I think this would be an enormous relief Most people canrsquot get off the treadmill because of peer pressure and individual and collective addiction in society Sometimes people want to change but they need a crisis that affects their peers so they can all change together

Do you see some large scale planetary crisis actually occurring in the near future

DHgt Well therersquos the lsquodie offrsquo scenario ndash which as a wake up call to the species is useful and canrsquot be dis-counted A large catastrophic drop in populations like bigger versions of what happened in Europe with the Black Plague could be likely through infectious diseases The evidence points to a re-emergence of infec-tious diseases and mutation of new strains so the possibility of a die off is there but it gets confabulated In the same way in the Third World now AIDS in Africa could be seen as a die off scenario but if you step back to look at previous wipe offs through history those things on the bigger scale are relatively hiccups The die off scenario is actually the whole end to the development of intensive settled agriculture civilisation and industrialisation What goes with that is a enormous drop in human population in a relatively short time

and loss of technology back to possibly a hunter gatherer type of organization with a much depleted resource level and without the capacity to use the resources we have now There would be a complete regrowth of wild nature and the cycle starts again but without the possibility of using fossil fuels

But even that is not the end of the human story Fossil fuels represent hundreds of millions of years of stored energy ndash effectively the surplus of the abundance of Gaia as a self organising organism on terrestrial surfaces You could say that now wersquove dug it all out again in a way wersquove done naturersquos task for it ndash humanityrsquos task is now over Wersquove put it all back into the atmosphere recycled all the biological elements and nature can now use that to develop to a higher level of energy Thatrsquos at the God level perhaps thatrsquos for the earth to decide anyway We canrsquot do anything about that wersquore not God wersquore not Gaia yet wersquore understanding systems at a scale which are well above our capacity to have any influence over We just have to worry about what it means to be human and to continue to attempt to live out that story

That night meditating on the Goddess temple silent but strong he felt her love like benign radiation given free as the sunlight passed on from her father the sun He saw her precious metals hidden by long retired demigods of time like gifts for our symbiotic evolution Machines like broth-ers of utility tireless slaves of our creation Minerals multi-plied by Mind making us all billionaires entrusted with her treasure Altruistic materialism natural and pantheist ndash an essential piece of the nativity play we were casting

These are maps torn softly from the ether translated in visions of shaman poets to language code describe secret webs hidden + beautifully uncivilized outside of aesthetic tourism self contained and interdependent Oblivious as the clouds journey through reservoir and storm drain Revolutionary as solar winds curving atmospheric sunset aflame feeding the clean meal of productivity everyday Retrofit suburbs of permaculture born futurist dead as the past foetal in its infancy awoken and broadcasting the sound of acoustic ecology bandwidth increasing naturally protest of lifestyle evolving like modern pagans trading song for the right to be alive

Mystic as a leaf

Chaos fingerprint fallen and scattered carpet

Grounding me

undergrowth 2terra poeticaedited by timparish and rak razam editorialundergrowthorgart director tim parish verb studios artundergrowthorgweb design by pierce jamesart credits1 earth mandala by Gerhard3 satellite imagery by NASA 4 bulldozer suburbia kath sou5 lets dance tom civil7 retaliation rachel peachey10 tree poem tim parish11 photo kath sou12 excerpt from zone one by tom civil13 14 haunted (detail) paul kalemba1617 confest photos phoebe barton 18192021 journey photos by graham st john19 fortress Goolengook tony hastings

23 i miss the forest painting by tim parish24 the tree by lou smith25 a sense of urgency rachel peachey29 photo charlotte mccabe32-33 echo photo by tim parish 34 images from earth liberation front website36 tree totem and oracle excerpts by tim parish38 lsquosame lawrsquo by alted42 war illustration by halska serefine masash43 breathe stefan duscio44 photo by allie richmond52 uncle kev photo by bilbo55 no jobs on a dead planet art by dom and gav photo by tim5657 fertility dollhalska serefine masash + illustration58 freedom words by rak razam 62 the city i art and words by miles allinson71 -81 wildlife words by tim parish images from melbourne streets and empty shows wwwemptyshoworg

except 72 in a time of decay by rachel peachey84 creating permanent culture david holmgren interview by adam grubb diagrams reprinted from lsquopermaculture principles and pathways beyond sustainabilityrsquo by david holmgren8589 suburban photos by kath sou86 exodus tim parish92 dusk paul kalemba98 mask photo by rachel peacheypantheist words by tim101 one manrsquos terrorist illustration by tim parish102 from ground level rachel peachey

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