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Best practices for sustainably abundant cities.
This channel rejects the broken formula that sustainability = personal austerity.
Instead, it shows how, in a fast-urbanizing world, well-designed cities can provide a vastly better quality of life for all residents while healing the planet. All without even looking weird.
Edenicity is:
🌻 permaculture urbanism.
🚴🏽 a template for Edenic cities.
🚇 a measure of economic + ecological abundance.
This channel rejects the broken formula that sustainability = personal austerity.
Instead, it shows how, in a fast-urbanizing world, well-designed cities can provide a vastly better quality of life for all residents while healing the planet. All without even looking weird.
Edenicity is:
🌻 permaculture urbanism.
🚴🏽 a template for Edenic cities.
🚇 a measure of economic + ecological abundance.
The Fall of Rome—A Permaculture Urbanist Perspective
What does the fall of Rome have to do with permaculture urbanism?
Turning to my trusty copy of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, a 2012 book by David R. Montgomery, I found some striking clues to the challenges we’re facing now.
Rome began with sophisticated, layered food systems. Early Roman farmers interplanted crops like olives, grapes, cereals, and fodder in ways that protected the soil and boosted fertility (much like modern permaculture).
But as the Republic grew, it became more dependent on plantation agriculture and slavery. These prioritized short-term gains over long-term sustainability, leading to a gradual, though massive, collapse of soil fertility that hastened the Empire’s downfall.
In today’s episode, I explore how these ancient mistakes echo through history and how we’re now repeating them with breathtaking speed on vastly larger scales.
The basic problem, per Montgomery and the ancient scholars he quotes: plantations and slavery break our life-to-life connection with the soil.
Large-scale mechanized agriculture amplifies this disconnect, having destroyed more soil since World War II than the entire area of China and India combined.
Of course this threatens the global food supply.
Worse, a 2018 global biomass inventory published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that modern land use has already wiped out half the life on Earth.
All of which is why, in a world where more than half of us live in cities and the urban population is growing by 200,000 people a day, Edenicity strives not just to include urban food production, but to make it the jewel of urban design and culture.
Edenicity is permaculture urbanism. Learn more at youtube.com/@edenicity
What’s your city’s edenicity? www.edenicity.com/equiz.html
Membership: www.patreon.com/edenicity
Reference Design at www.edenicity.com/
Books - Please support your local public library, which may have free copies for you to borrow. As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions for purchases made through the following links at no additional cost to you.
David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2012) amzn.to/3U1p1ff
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1965) amzn.to/4cxPoRj
Online Sources
Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo, The biomass distribution on Earth, PNAS June 19, 2018 115 (25) 6506-6511; first published May 21, 2018. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
GRAIN.org, Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland, May 28, 2014. grain.org/en/article/4952-hungry-for-land
Roger LeB. Hooke and José F. Martín-Duque, Land transformation by humans: A review. GSA Today, Vol 22 #12, Dec 2012, pp 4-10. rock.geosociety.org/net/gsatoday/archive/22/12/article/i1052-5173-22-12-4.htm
United Nations urbanization forecast, 2018. www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html
Image credits
Garry Olsh, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norbert_Wiener.png
TH-cam stills and book covers by the creators cited above. Images by Kev Polk, as cited above, public domain, or courtesy of Pexels.
Written and presented by Kev Polk.
#FallOfRome #AncientRomanAgriculture #PermacultureUrbanism
Turning to my trusty copy of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, a 2012 book by David R. Montgomery, I found some striking clues to the challenges we’re facing now.
Rome began with sophisticated, layered food systems. Early Roman farmers interplanted crops like olives, grapes, cereals, and fodder in ways that protected the soil and boosted fertility (much like modern permaculture).
But as the Republic grew, it became more dependent on plantation agriculture and slavery. These prioritized short-term gains over long-term sustainability, leading to a gradual, though massive, collapse of soil fertility that hastened the Empire’s downfall.
In today’s episode, I explore how these ancient mistakes echo through history and how we’re now repeating them with breathtaking speed on vastly larger scales.
The basic problem, per Montgomery and the ancient scholars he quotes: plantations and slavery break our life-to-life connection with the soil.
Large-scale mechanized agriculture amplifies this disconnect, having destroyed more soil since World War II than the entire area of China and India combined.
Of course this threatens the global food supply.
Worse, a 2018 global biomass inventory published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that modern land use has already wiped out half the life on Earth.
All of which is why, in a world where more than half of us live in cities and the urban population is growing by 200,000 people a day, Edenicity strives not just to include urban food production, but to make it the jewel of urban design and culture.
Edenicity is permaculture urbanism. Learn more at youtube.com/@edenicity
What’s your city’s edenicity? www.edenicity.com/equiz.html
Membership: www.patreon.com/edenicity
Reference Design at www.edenicity.com/
Books - Please support your local public library, which may have free copies for you to borrow. As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions for purchases made through the following links at no additional cost to you.
David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2012) amzn.to/3U1p1ff
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1965) amzn.to/4cxPoRj
Online Sources
Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo, The biomass distribution on Earth, PNAS June 19, 2018 115 (25) 6506-6511; first published May 21, 2018. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
GRAIN.org, Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland, May 28, 2014. grain.org/en/article/4952-hungry-for-land
Roger LeB. Hooke and José F. Martín-Duque, Land transformation by humans: A review. GSA Today, Vol 22 #12, Dec 2012, pp 4-10. rock.geosociety.org/net/gsatoday/archive/22/12/article/i1052-5173-22-12-4.htm
United Nations urbanization forecast, 2018. www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html
Image credits
Garry Olsh, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norbert_Wiener.png
TH-cam stills and book covers by the creators cited above. Images by Kev Polk, as cited above, public domain, or courtesy of Pexels.
Written and presented by Kev Polk.
#FallOfRome #AncientRomanAgriculture #PermacultureUrbanism
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SW Lower MICHIGAN 👌
Don’t come to Indiana please 😂
One foot per season seems well reasoned. Based on last time was 3’/season.
Sudden sea level rise. Real.
Bring back the beavers, whose damming activities promote watershed resiliency, resisting wildfires and providing refuges to animals during them. th-cam.com/video/39CWo2Qk7TM/w-d-xo.html
With a car you could have found a nice paying job and earned 80k per year for 18 years. So you lost quite a bit.
I just rode 34 miles on my craigslist bicycle that I got for $50. It's a vintage road bike converted to single speed and after tuning it, it costed me $200 in total. 34 miles is literal driving distance 😂.
Impressive correlation examples, wonder if the dot connecting pursued conclusions, is supported by statistical relevance. I am with you in spirit of the need for fairness but can't help but be skeptical that this does not take, Correlation does not imply causation, into the assessment of the possible factors. Outlining logical fallacies; in the premise of your argument sets it up for having your model looked at critically, by the same rules. To be clear, it is statistically clear that immigration into the U.S. is proven to be beneficial to the nation and standard of living, as a whole. Singapore, is a damn weird example. When I lived there in my childhood, it was joked it was Disneyland with the Death Penalty. This referring to its stand alone authoritarianism and clear problem with human and political rights.
Im fine with anybody migrating except republicans
All these people buying homes in Florida, or places with no water like all the areas supplied by Colorado water basin, are in for a rude awakening. Over there growing grass in places like Arizona.
I wish more people realized what a blessing it would be to live in a city free of cars
Regarding doing more with infrastructure...have you heard of anyone trying to combine electrical infrastructure with automated delivery? I picture electrical poles (with tracks in between) running reusable totes to our homes for delivering smaller items or take out food. I'm also curious what you think about transportation with less land print like ski lifts. I'd love to see you critique real world examples of your ideas.
If asked friends if they need errand this is more money
Climate doomer’s never fail to make me laugh.
ALL SOURCES MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO Early Edenicity reference design based on Carfree Cities by J. H. Crawford: www.patreon.com/posts/early-edenicity-110071559?Link& Current Reference Design: www.edenicity.com/ Edenicity is permaculture urbanism. Learn more at youtube.com/@edenicity What’s your city’s edenicity? www.edenicity.com/equiz.html Membership: www.patreon.com/edenicity Books (As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions for purchases made through these links) J. H. Crawford, Carfree Cities (2000) amzn.to/3Wp38ZC (2002) amzn.to/4d1Mmp5 Online Sources www.carfree.com/ www.carfree.com/cft/b4place/Large/b4place_6.jpg www.b4place.com/
Car free cities would be so quiet and peaceful
agreed, highrises and elevators are perfectly fine. it is mostly about the people in the building. IF they are community minded people it is great. if they are curmudgeon ... there is less hope of it being a nice environment.
Hey! I can't find the Car free Cities Edenized new reference design. I would really appreciate if you could provide the link for it so that I can observe it properly?.
See pinned comment.
@@edenicity thankyou very much
What would be great would be to see a 3D computer model of a Edenity plan applied to a existing city. Take a section of a city somewhere in the world; Boston, Brisbane, Glasgow wherever, show its geography and how the Edenicity villages/ towns/ cities plan would apply to that space. With that it would be easy to see how different distances, areas & spaces are affected by bays, hills, rivers, bridges, protected spaces, bottlenecks and so forth. :)
I would love to do this with the right rendering partner.
airports?
They are mostly located out of cities anyways
This narrative is the ultimate ongoing self-appointed justification for destroying other people's industrial activity. Whether it be individuals, companies, industries, governments or regions - ANYONE can be targeted for economic siege warfare. Meanwhile the main perpetrators of the industrial process and ALL THE WAYS it could be slightly improved but it never is - THEY ARE ALWAYS EXEMPT - and they also fund this entire political agenda. Figure that one out! Can you? Do the thoughts that people are even allowed to say out loud on YT ALLOW FOR PEOPLE to figure this stuff out? I wonder. The bots don't seem to be waking up - they are still towing the company line. Dear God - tell me all this banality on YT are bots - TELL ME THIS ISN'T GEN Z - omg. OMFG. NOOOOOOOO!
Just lower the maximum speed limit to 25 mph in all of the county and the cities, except for expressways ( 40 mph ) and freeways ( 55 mph ). This would make biking and walking easy, safe and fun. Other, more enjoyable, conditions would arise without further coercion. OR You could wait until you can have all your own way, instead of trusting the public to design and build along heathy guidelines. OR & PS The replies insist on making these more technical or more "perfect". Edencity : Know Your Audience! Americans intensely dislike and distrust "Solutions" being imposef on them. If you want change, then it has to done in a pragmatic fashion. Not from preconceived theories concerning morality or politics or economics or anything else. Technocrats are disliked by many Democrats and hated by most Republicans. So, wise up!
My City brought down the mpg 5mph in the city and half the cars are following that, but the other half are still going at the old speeds or faster, sadly. Wonder if more policing would help or if there is a better option.
@@hamletgordillo2560 The better option would be to electronically govern them, with new speeds only being set when the car has gone below the speed so it doesn't get caught up and glitchy where roads overlap. This would be something pretty easy to implement in most newer cars, and old ones will eventually age out.
@@hamletgordillo2560 my city has the exact same problem! From what I can tell it's mainly down to the design of the roads. On one of the main arterials the city dropped the speed limit to 25, but did absolutely nothing to change the road's layout (three or four highway-sized lanes in either direction), so it feels laughably slow to do the limit and most people go 10-15 over anyway. In the Netherlands, if a city wants to lower speeds, they'll redesign the street with narrower lanes, trees close to the road, and raised crosswalks that force drivers to slow down and pay more attention. Not everyone knows what it's like to be on the roads outside of an expensive steel cage, so most people just drive at whatever speed they feel comfortable on a given road, whether that speed is safe for nearby pedestrians and cyclists or not. Changing the design of the street to be safer whenever they need to be torn up for maintenance (every 20-30 years) would be a much more cost-effective way to lower speeds than overburdening our police forces with traffic duty or dystopian government surveillance/control of vehicles IMHO.
Also, depends on where you live, and the type of work you do. As an electrician and an avid cyclist, I’m not combining the two and hauling around loads of tools.
Saving and making are not the same
Surely they will go to hell. Hell is the promesse we've made to our children. We're all going !
All the recommendations he's making for cities to retain populations is basically the anathema of conservative politics, which in the USA is mainly centred in departure areas.
I do not think that Edenicity is reliant on new train tech. The current one is more than enough. A mixture of high speed, long-range trains, and slow short-range trams could remove the majority of metro traffic. Edenicity should definitely start with one building complex at a time. Adding the amenities like schools, hospitals, grocery stores, etc. would add complexities but will make the whole system run more efficiently.
But people still going to vote for Trump and drive V8 because that's what "American Freedom" is 💩
So much confusion
Loop and hyper loop are just nonsense. He came up with the damn rebranded tunnels just to prevent money going to high speed rail (a proven tech).
Why is every clown in here making it political. It's happening and not even Democrats are doing anything about it so stfu.
we really need to ramp up our economy to start overdemanding and overproducing in order to induct an order of magnitude more people
I think that for a new construction, GEOTHERMAL heat pump is the best long term system of climatisation.
What is wrong with Edenicity ?🤔 The DESIGN of the building. 🏢 I'm sorry but it's not engaging at all.☹️ Non important detail ? NO. It changes everything. Nobody wants to live again in those "cages à lapins" (rabbit cages), as we call them in France. 🙏🏻 Please, take a little time to watch 👀 some TH-cam videos from "THE AESTHETIC CITY" (for example : "How to make cities beautiful again" th-cam.com/video/h0kXax4qLgU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dEZLtUy1M9KGzl9H, or this one about the way architecture is taught : th-cam.com/video/syQMTZyzqcg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J-v08Zqd00REUbkk ), ... and then 🙏🏻 please consider improving your design with CLASSICAL FACADES. It could drasticaly change the DESIDERABILITY of your project. Sorry for my english, and good luck for your project. It is great. 👍
Great points. Good information. Thank you for the in depth analysis of these issues and providing your perspective on realistic solutions to resolve these issues.
This is the vibe
good luck getting people out of their cars
Just turn the oil taps off
@@TheEsseboydo you want a turnip truck revolution?
@@jackiepie7423 Good luck, people are lazy
Yet another great video, keeping the essentials, while opening up discussion points based on a realistic "project management" kind of view of the vision (maybe in "plan vs vision" terms, a bridge between the plan, as it is now, to the vision - which just says why anyone should bother with this.) In a more abstract view, this explores the fact that your plan is four-dimensional, not, just flat or 3-D, and fixed in space. The time dimension is important, and this gives some great thoughts along those lines. Even from a "vision" ("why-go" is maybe a less pompous phrase for that) point of view, there needs to be some kind of examination of how things fold out in time. I also like the realistic "backpedal room". There's some extent in a plan like this that you can "reverse time" if need be, just by planning for reversions that might just be necessary, just because life has a tendency to be like that. Anyway, thanks once again.
Hyper loop already exists, they're called subway systems. Don't have transport dependant on a failing platform (tesla)
I love it! I think Ventum-style urban wind turbines would synergize really well with a system like this, help provide power at night and during the less sunny but more breezy winter months.
I think strategic use of radiative cooling panels could be really beneficial to lowering the usage of air conditioning and helping to cool outdoor spaces along with trees and lightened pavement. I think hyperloop is a complete non-starter.
Appreciated hearing your thoughts on this important topic.
High speed trains in vacuum tunnels go back to at least the early 70s. Musk didn't dream up anything.
You’ve done so well with your previous videos that I haven’t had much to comment. This one is no exception. However I will chime in here. The idea of building anything to its final form in perfect execution is a fallacy that keeps us from trusting our cities & our governments from engaging with the residents, especially those I call the “professional citizens” in an authentic way to incrementally & iteratively improve our built environment while reducing risk & strengthening the outcomes, in the process & at the “end”.
I couldn't agree more!
Trump and Musk are the exact opposite of who we should look to when it comes to designing a better future for real communities of real people. That said, you're absolutely right that we need to be willing to experiment more with ideas of permaculture and sustainability, and at a much larger scale. We need to focus on all the methods that have been proven to work and keep all these ideas modular and adaptable to the needs of each location. No single method or system will work in every scenario, and true "utopia" is not possible. The best we can do is to never stop trying to improve what we have, and always be willing to give up conveniences if it means building something better instead. Thank you for what you're doing with these projects, and I truly hope the momentum and support keeps spreading far and wide!
The vacuum train tunnel concept was not dreamed up by Elon Musk and has been with us since before he was born. Gerard O'Neill was using it in his book 2081 which was a futurist book from the year I was born (1981) and he didn't invent it either.
Yeah, O'Neill even signed my copy of 2081 back in the day. Don't have it handy anymore due to several moves, but as I recall, O'Neill's was was a maglev vactrain, not exactly Musk's low-pressure air bearing pod with a compressor in the front. It's easy to lump the two together, since both would use a linear electric motor. Anyway, you are correct, vacuum/magnetic tube trains are an old concept. See the 3 corrections that flashed up in the 10 seconds following 7:50, and for more detail, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop#Historical_related_concepts
It's been around for over 100 years now with the first patent being awarded to Robert Goddard posthumously in 1950. When the US made it's first little dabbles into High Speed Rail starting under Johnson, there were attempts to push through vacuum trains that were luckily unsuccessful.
The example you gave of how roads are constantly being re-worked is a good way to explain why it's important to have a budget set aside for testing ideas at a large-scale and pivoting if necessary.
I am seeing city planning starting to change here in the pacific northwest.
Jordan Peterson loves to poke in fields in which he has no expertise but somehow thinks he is the one 🤣
I get worried when people start pushing for "affordable housing" because it generally translates to stacking apartments. Buying a home is the single greatest contributor to a household's wealth. If you stop building houses and switch to apartments then it makes houses dramatically more expensive - making the city poorer in the long run. On top of that, if you subsidize this "affordable housing" effort then it attracts the sort of folks who want to be subsidized and drives away the folks who are forced to do the subsidizing.
Why does everyone continue to assume that anything anyone in government ever does is ever anything other than a grift and a con job. IT IS ALWAYS GRIFTING AND CON JOBS - all of it. All the stuff you like - was a con job. All the stuff you hate - was a con job. All of it. Every policy. Every new law passed. Every regulation - is the game being further rigged. You will know that you are unrigging something when people are being assassinated, having random heart attacks, being accused of racism... etc.
change your miss informative title then from make me TO SAVED ME bicycle no car man because this is what you are talking about