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Circles & Cycles- Newsletter!                                           Summer 09 
                                                                
Register- Now!
LA Permaculture Design Course
Early Registration Discount continues until September 4th for the LA Permaculture Design Course- the training program that is leading the way to the (R)Evolution!

Register with a friend and save an additional 10%!

Already a PDC graduate? Take the course again as a refresher for 50% off!

Time to- See!

lambsquarters
Lambsquarters
Chenopodium album

Permaculture Design reminds us to see everything as a potential resource.

With that in mind, look at Lambsquarters, a wild cousin of quinoa disparaged as a weed. One serving of steamed greens provides an enormous amount of vitamins and minerals- like a so-called superfood...

And, it's a fast-growing, self-seeding, drought-tolerant plant. Who wouldn't want all their vegetables to act this way?

Use in recipes wherever you would use cooked greens and you'll find it's delicious. Kathryn's favorite is using Lambsquarters instead of Spinach in Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie). Email us if you'd like the recipe...

Take Action- Now!
Plastic Straws
Are for Suckers!


plastic straws are for suckers
The next time you order a drink while out (remember water counts, too!) just say "No plastic straw, please!".

Can you imagine what a difference that will make?

Join the No Plastic Straws Facebook group and help us spread the word:

No Plastic Straws, Please

Time to- Listen!

Evolve or Die
Evolve or Die, the title track of the latest album from our friend Tawny Ellis, is a poignant yet hopeful call to action- a reminder that the world is made by each one of us- and it's never too late to change it by changing what we do...

Download it here on cdbaby.com. Listen, be inspired- and then go do something different for real change!

Need ideas? Check out Larry Santoyo's article:
"Top Permaculture Things You Can Do Right Now to Make a Difference"
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Call for- Support!

Gabriel Howearth
As some of you may know, Gabriel Howearth, one of the great pioneers of the seed-saving, heirloom species, non-GMO, bio-diversity movement, is recovering from a life-threatening illness.

If you are able, please consider making a donation to support his therapy needs and recovery. Email him (seeds.forever@gmail.com) for instructions; tax-deductable contributions may also be made- and join the Friends of Gabriel Howearth Facebook group too.

Big Thanks To Our Featured Supporter:

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Thanks to Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping's founder, Ken Foster, for his dedicated assistance coordinating and teaching at EarthFlow's permaculture design courses in Santa Cruz, CA.

Congratulations on once again being voted Metro Santa Cruz's Best Landscaper!



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Check out our new promotional video produced by DonatWald Company and Applecart Productions. Many thanks to Lucas Donat for making this project possible; thanks also to Lauren Bon, Metabolic Studio, Project Butterfly and very special appreciation to Marta Perry and our permaculture students who shared their time and energy to help us make this video.

Swan Song- for The Lawn!
Lawn into Gardens

Swan Song for Your Lawn
Thank you Pat & John Allen for filming our Swan Song project in Ojai!

Our Swan Song for the Lawn program is turning lawns into gardens throughout the  LA area- from resource-consuming to resource-producing-and the transformation happens in just in one day!

Check out these photos:
Zoe Carter shares her pictures of our Encino Swan Song from March.
If you're on Facebook, visit these links:
Angelo Venturelli's photos of our Burbank Swan Song in April.
Midori Takata documented our July Culver City Swan Song.
Elizabeth Zampolli's photos of our August Santa Monica Swan Song.

Permaculture- Coast to Coast!
Join us for the Back-to-the-City Movement

City Permaculture:
Los Angeles, CA Permaculture Design Course Series
First Weekend of each Month: October '09- March '10
EcoUrbanism is the Future of Sustainability...Our cities embody the greatest concentration of the social, intellectual and physical resources needed to create a sustainable system! Join us for our 8th annual course to learn how to put them to good use...
Early Registration Discount ends September 4th!

Brooklyn, NY Permaculture Weekend Workshops
September 19 & 20 and 26 & 27
Critical Thinking and Application, Beyond Cob & Compost
The House of Tiny Egos welcomes Larry Santoyo back to teach another series of permaculture workshops geared to the urban dweller. The second weekend is advanced design-featuring analytical and strategic applications to adapt and survive the 5 boroughs and beyond. Attendance at the first weekend workshop -or another previous course in permaculture- is required for the second workshop.

Suburban Permaculture:
Orange County, CA Permaculture Design Course Series
Second Weekend of each Month: November '09- April '10
Join us for Orange County's first permaculture design certificate course! See how suburbia is being redesigned now to be a part of a sustainable system. Course held in cooperation with the Terra Foundation, Earthroots Field School and the County of Orange.

Huntington Beach, CA Introduction to Permaculture
September 4, 2009  Huntington Beach Central Library
Introduction to Permaculture's Principles and Practices
Councilwoman Jill Hardy and former Mayor Debbie Cook present a free evening lecture at 7pm at the HB Library with Larry Santoyo.

Permaculture- for Humanity!
Larry Santoyo interviewed by Peak Moment

Peak Moment video Interview
Check out this video interview (27 min)

See why we need to act now not out of fear for the future, but out of love for the present- and how permaculture design can be applied to any field of human endeavor...

Course- Highlights!
 San Luis Obispo:
We returned to Four Elements Farm in June for another great Two Week Design Course. Toby Hemenway joined us as guest instructor, Joe Bullock made a surprise appearance, Travis Semmes of Mobile Solar Power brought one of his transportable solar generators to class, Tony Kelly of Morro Bay Bees  gave a presentation on topbar beekeeping (and later returned to bring the farm its own topbar hives!), Ken Foster came by, Mikel Robertson of Green Goods gave a tour of his handbuilt cob and earthbag home and Caroline Duell of Elemental Herbs spoke about her experience creating an ethical organic body products business.  Want more? Check out student Derek Leong's slideshow of the course here.

Santa Cruz: Thanks to the Trout Gulch crew for hosting our 2cnd annual PDC. In addition to being a talented group of artists and animators, they're also working together at their site to test and implement a variety of natural building materials and techniques.
As the course wrapped up, students decided to continue their work together by starting a micro-loan program. Opportunities to learn about animals and permaculture in the broad landscape continue at the property of one of the class members as well.

Los Angeles:
Beyond the Garden
... We've seen a dramatic increase in the design team projects moving from the theoretical to the actual: teams worked on greening the Ritz Carlton in Marina del Rey, designed ways for schools and their local communities to collaborate on improving their local environment, consulted with a neighborhood burger joint on greening its operations and developed a business plan for a salvage boutique and designers guild for local economic opportunities.  Eric Knutzen of HomeGrown Evolution and Ferris Kawar of Greenopia stopped by for a visit as well as Autumn and Lisa from the Echo Park Time Bank -a project we're proud to say was inspired by one of our Design Course graduates.

The current session culminates in September. We're pleased to have started a new collaboration with Project Butterfly which hosted our first 2 weekends, thrilled to hold class at the Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale (a site that was a project for one of our past class design teams) and appreciate returning once again to FarmLab for our class finale.

Coming this October we'll start the new session at the Heaven on Earth Holistic Healing Center near Hollywood. Hope to see you there!

The Permaculture Institute & The Center for Pattern Literacy...
As always, EarthFlow works in close collaboration with Scott Pittman of The Permaculture Institute and Toby Hemenway of The Center for Pattern Literacy... this year, we completed another broad-scale permaculture course at Wind River Ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico as well as urban courses in Portland and in Seattle.

It's About- Our Handprint!

"I don't think it's about a carbon footprint. I think it's about our handprint, what we do with that carbon that we're using. What do you build? What do you teach? What do you do, you know? It's about getting out there and doing something."
 
It's Not Your Carbon Footprint, It's Your Handprint
Read the rest of Natural Building Network's Ashley Aymond's interview with Larry Santoyo.

Build- A Tiny House!
If you missed the Tiny House Building Workshop with Peter King at Four Elements Farm this spring, you may have another chance coming up. Email Ryan Rich to let him know you're interested in learning how to build one of these mini-homes in just one weekend.

EarthFlow Network- Books!

New Gaia's GardenAuthor (and senior instructor for EarthFlow), Toby Hemenway has just released the new edition of Gaia's Garden: A Home-Scale Guide to Permaculture, complete with permaculture site designs, a new chapter on urban applications of Permaculture and lots of new color photos (including several of Larry's garden designs).

Order on earthflow's Book page.



Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies
We're pleased to announce that friend and EarthFlow alumnus, landscape architect Owen Dell has recently released Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies- filled with sustainable insiders' how-to's...but more importantly, it's filled with how-not-to's!

Check Owen's schedule to hear him speak at a town near you...and then order his book on our Book page (earthflow.com/books.php)!


Invasion Biology
David Theodoropoulos, respected ethnobotanist and author of Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience, spoketo last season's Santa Cruz PDC on how the violent responses that have emerged over the years to 'combat' plants considered'foreign invaders' illustrate how cultural viewpoints can affect problem solving...
Though currently out of print, order a copy of this book from David's website: dtheo.org

See also Toby Hemenway's article on the 'invasive plant' that has claimed more than 80 million US acres...


Newsletter Editor: Kathryn Ellen                  news@earthflow.com

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