Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, email: margie@sbpermaculture.org
SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:
Eco-Villages and the Global Future
Evening Lecture Sat, Oct 14, 7:30 pm, 2006
Workshop, Sunday, Oct 15, 10 -4pm
Location: Santa Barbara City College
At the Environmental Summit in Rio in 1992, leading politicians
from all over the world laid down principles for a sustainable
lifestyle in the 21st century.
What will promote and initiate this hopeful future?
The Eco-village movement has been at the forefront of an effort to
design human settlements in a way that could transform our
lives. Based on ecological design, they say yes to a
positive future, while considering the possibility of less resources to
maintain our present over-consumptive lifestyles.
Join Professor Declan Kennedy
(www.declan.de) as
he defines and explores the concept of Eco-villages and the
Eco-village movement. An exuberant man in his seventies, Prof
Kennedy has had many careers, beginning with dance and choreography,
making the leap to architectecture and urban planning, then incorporating
permaculture & Eco-village design into his life’s
work.
An Eco-Village is a human-scale, full-featured settlement, in
which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world
in a way that is supportive of healthy human development and can be
successfully continued into the indefinite future. Eco-Village design
is based mainly on permaculture principles and is a way of thinking to
create an abundant future. By conscious design, we can build homes and
buildings that conserve natural resources, make agriculture ecologically
sound, reforest the planet and restore community life in rural and urban
areas
Prof. Kennedy is an
Irish architect, urban planner, permaculture designer and ecologist,
co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe and of the Global
Eco-Village Network (GEN). He has been teaching and practicing
ecological urban design since 1972 and permaculture for the past 20 years
and was Professor of Urban Design and Infrastructure at the Architectural
Department of the Technical University of Berlin. He served as
Secretariat to the United Nations for the Global Ecovillage Network
(GEN). His present activities include working on the urban design
for the first full-fledged ecological settlement in Ireland, and most
recently assisting the Gaia University
(www.gaiauniversity.org)
in establishing its international advisory board. He lives with his
wife Margrit Kennedy, in Steyerberg Germany, at Lebensgarten, an
eco-village they helped co-found in 1985.
The evening lecture takes place Saturday, Oct 14, 7:30pm, at
the Santa Barbara City College West Campus, in the Fe Bland
Auditorium, 721 Cliff Drive. Cost is $10/$5 students, no
reservations are needed. For more information, please call (805)
962-2571, email, margie@sbpermaculture.org, or visit
www.sbpermaculture.org.
Sponsors: Santa Permaculture Network, Santa Barbara
Ecological Education Coalition SBCC Adult Education Series(SBEEC), SB
City College Students for Sustainability, Hopedance Media,
and For the Future.
- ***Workshop, Sun Oct 15, 10am-4 pm, $30/$20 Students,
Location, SB City College Earth & Biological Science Building
(EBS), Room, 309, East Campus, 721 Cliff Dr, Santa Barbara.
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet@silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees, we
must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous