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well-produced permaculture educational videos for city/government officials?

 
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anybody know of good video(s) made for city/govt. officials to help educate them to not be concerned/non-permitting, but rather supportive/encouraging about the potential benefits to less understood permacultural/eco/decentralized technologies/setups**?  of course the content would include how such permaculture technologies/setups would not be done in the right, responsible way, and how to avoid that (one example of a main tenet of permaculture is to slowly catch/sink water in the landscape, but also, depending on the land, if too much is caught, it may lead to unstable, dangerous land, and toward a landslide (like here or here)), and content would be on conflicting topics such as:

*compost/dry toilets and waste/used (gray and black) water
*rocket stoves, and other setups that could pose a fire risk
*nature-based landscaping (such as depaving, curb cutting like rainwater harvesting guru Brad Lancaster speaks on here)
*good, safe water provision

**when done in smart, responsible ways, which can be a bigger IF unless there's solid community education to be smart and responsible in changing to radically different ways than they're used to

(wasn't sure if i should post this here, "science and research", or "permaculture voices")
 
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Anything that teaches government people to allow us all to do more permaculture stuff is a good thing in my opinion.  Maybe they'd be less strict with regulations and permits if they were exposed to such educational videos.
 
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Riona Abhainn wrote:Anything that teaches government people to allow us all to do more permaculture stuff is a good thing in my opinion.  Maybe they'd be less strict with regulations and permits if they were exposed to such educational videos.



This!  I wish there were such an animal though if these videos existed my thoughts would be how do we encourage these government people to watch them?
 
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note: an example is getting UL (Underwriters Laboratories) listing / standards-approval for Sky's Liberator (hear beginning of the Liberator section of the Free Heat movie)
 
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hi I don't know if you are still interested, but series from Oregon State University Ecampus

would be helpfull as it is part of open university courses, so its both accessible and acredited, so it can be easier for more bureaucratic people to engage with these type of content perhaps and build trust, good luck,
 
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