Hi Everyone-
It is our unexpected good luck to have permaculture teacher &
designer Jenny Pell here from Port Townsend, Washington.
Brought to Santa Barbara by the students of the ESLP program (education
for sustainable living program) at UCSB for an evening lecture on
Thursday, May 18, Jenny will also be doing a workshop at the Monte Vista
Elementary School Orchard Garden on Saturday, May 20,
10am-2pm, on
Fruit Tree Guilds. Please see below for details and more
information about Jenny and her work.
Larry Santoyo's Permaculture Design course continues in Santa
Barbara, with two weekends a month for 6 weeks. For those of
you who missed the first two weekends in May, it is possible to take
individual classes in June and July. This is the first
Permaculture Design Course ever to be held in Santa Barbara, and for
those of us attending so far, pretty exciting and challenging course
work, and a pleasure to be learning from Larry, one of the most
accomplished permaculture designer/teachers in the country. Come
take advantage of this opportunity to learn from one of the best, who
will challenge you to think beyond all your preconceived ideas about
permaculture and many other things. More course information
below.
Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century: How to Change
the Paradigm of Emergency Disaster Relief & Development to a Model of
Life Affirming Assistance is the big event for Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network this year on June 30, July 1, 2. As the
title suggests, it tackles a huge subject. As Americans we have
often thought of emergency relief in terms of sending aid to other
countries, after Hurricane Katrina we also see a need to know how to
respond in a better way to our own natural disasters. Natural
disasters, wars, famines, how does the human family respond to each
others needs during these stressful times? What new models can we
create to assist each other better? Come listen to those who
have been doing this work for many years with permaculture as a
tool---with not only immediate emergency relief, but longer term recovery
and development efforts, and land care strategies that permaculture can
provide. Geoff Lawton, Nadia Abu Yahia and Andrew Jones are the key
speakers, please see below for bios and more info about the event.
We are looking for people interested in hosting some of the speakers
and others attending, contact us if you'd like to join in the fun,
have a guest from another part of the world.
The recent booktour with Brad Lancaster in Southern California and
the workshop in Santa Barbara was a huge success. His newly
published book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Vol. 1, is now
available at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden bookstore, and Vol. 2
will be available sometime this Fall.
Hope to see you at one of these great events soon-
Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
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Schedule & Events Info/ MAY/JUNE 2006:
(lot's of dense material, go to event number you are interested
in)
1. Jenny Pell Lecture & Workshop
2. Permaculture Design Course in Santa Barbara with Larry Santoyo
3. Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century Lecture &
Workshop
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1.)
Thurs May 18, 7pm Lecture & Slide Show
with Jenny Pell
"Permaculture: Successful Implementations
of Sustainable Living"
ISLA VISTA THEATER 970 Embarcadero Del Norte Goleta, CA 93117
ESLP Student Organization at UC Santa Barbara have sponsored the
event.
Sat May 20, 10am-2pm Workshop
"Planting Fruit Tree Guilds" with Jenny Pell
(no cost, $5-10 donation for plants gladly accepted, or bring a plant to
share)
Monte Vista Elementary School at the Orchard Garden, 730 North Hope
Avenue, Santa Barbara (Mountain Side off of State St)
This will be a 4 hour workshop on Hands on Planting of Fruit Tree Guilds
(planting plants that nurture, protect from and attracts insect, co-exist
together in mutual interactions with the fruit trees, plants are planted
around the fruit trees).
Contact Margie Bushman 805-962-2571 margie@sbpermaculture.org
Monte Vista Orchard Garden created in March 2005 with the help of Common
Vision Fruit Tree Planting Caravan
(www.commonvision.org)
and the Santa Barbara Permaculture Guild members, parents and children
and inspired by teacher Judy Sims , over 20 fruit trees and understory of
plants, annual, perennial has flourish over the year as many groups have
assisted the garden, it is an ongoing experiment on planting Orchard
Gardens at Schools to create wild and cultivated food growing areas in
public spaces, come help and observe.
Permaculture speaks of guilds as associations of mutually beneficial
plants. In cultivating annual plants, people usually talk about
"companion planting", but the concept of "plant
guild" takes the concept up a notch or two. Guilds are an area of
on-going research and observation in permaculture, and a lot of
experimentation is going on.
Jenny Pell, President of The Wilder Institute, Next Generation
Permaculture, will be presenting a slide show and lecture about their
exciting and dynamic permaculture work in the Pacific NW, Central
America, and Hawaii. Jenny's latest project in Nicaragua was teaching a
comprehensive hands-on design intensive for single mothers and children
which included building potable water filters, plant propagation, making
infusions and tinctures from medicinal plants, women's health, zone one
design, grey water guilds, ecoliteracy, art, and music. Currently Jenny
is working on expanding local agricultural solutions and local
self-sufficiency initiatives in her hometown of Port Townsend, WA, and
has launched a "Permaculture All-Stars Edible Plant Nursery and
Horticultural Workshop Series" in a broadscale effort to bring more
cultivated diversity, and more permaculture skills into her community.
For more information about The Wilder Institute please visit
www.permaculturenow.com.
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2.)
First and Second Weekends of May June & July 2006
Permaculture Design Course Series with Larry Santoyo in Santa
Barbara
"Creating the Conditions for Sustainability to Happen
How to Organize for Sustainable Community Development"
For anyone serious about creating a sustainable community
lifestyle.
This workshop is designed for community activists, students, teachers,
gardeners, homeowners, design professionals and anyone serious about
creating a sustainable community lifestyle.
Earthen Understanding & Activism
Permaculture Solutions in the time of Peak-Oil/Energy Decline
Community Food Security
Designing a Home Ecosystem
Deep Ecology
Sustainable Local Economics
Celebration!
With Experienced Instructors and Beautiful Venues in and around Santa
Barbara.
Carpooling from San Luis Obispo...
Reserve your space now -see below
Contact us ASAP for work-trades and payment plans
DATES: Two weekends a month for three months
FIRST & SECOND WEEKENDS OF: May, June & July 2006
PART ONE May 6 & 7 and 13 & 14, 2006
Fire, Water, Earth & Air... New Ecology and Indicators of
Sustainability:
Introduction to Permaculture and Natural Pattern Understanding
PART TWO June 3 & 4 and 10 & 11, 2006
Food, Water, Shelter & Energy... Earth-Friendly Techniques:
Sustainable Resource Management, Building the Home Ecosystem.
PART THREE July 1 & 2 and 8 & 9, 2006
Creating Community... Eco-Urbanism and Eco-Economics:
EcoVillage Design and Community Celebration
Plus -Community Celebration with the infamous Trade and Talent
show!
Six Weekend Permaculture Intensive Features:
HANDS ON LEARNING, NEW & EXPANDED CURRICULUM
LOCATIONS -Venues will take us in and around Santa Barbara
EXPERIENCED TEACHING TEAM
Join the finest gatherings of veteran Permaculture Teachers, renowned
Designers and internationally acclaimed Educators and Leaders in the
Worldwide Sustainability Movement.
Teaching Team is led by:
LARRY SANTOYO, Director, EarthFlow Design Works.
With very special guest instructors including:
TOBY HEMENWAY, Author, Gaia's Garden
SCOTT PITTMAN, Director, The Permaculture Institute
-PLUS other local experts and guest speakers...
Art Ludwig, infamous grey water expert, author and designer, Oasis
Designs. Owen Dell, Landscape Architect and TV personality -County
Landscape & Design, Garden Wise Guys. Warren Brush, Co-Founder, Quail
Springs Learning Oasis
-More...
TUITION COSTS-
$90.00 per day
$175.00 per weekend
$950.00 for all six weekends
Some payment plans and work-trades are still available.
contact: worktrade@earthflow.com
Materials and other fees may apply.
TO REGISTER & FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
805.459.0452
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3.)
Fri June 30 7pm Lecture
Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century
Geoff Lawton, from Australia, keynote speaker
Location: Fe Bland Auditorium Santa Barbara City College West Campus $15
Sat & Sun July 1 & 2, Workshop with
Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and Andrew Jones including Panels discussions
on Rebuilding Local Economies with Fair Trade Companies and Local
Residents who went to help in New Orleans and more
Cost $160 Two Days , $90 per day or (Payments before June 1 - $120)
Student $120
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum (BC Forum) Santa
Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Dr Santa Barbara, CA
93109-2394
For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
margie@sbpermaculture.org,
805-962-2571,
www.sbpermaculture.org
go to upcoming events.
Checks made to Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, PO Box. 92156 Santa Barbara Ca 93190
Guest Speakers:
Nadia Abu Yahia (Lawton) was born in the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan. She learned traditional ways of land use from her father, an expert farmer and herbal healer of Palestinian, Bedouin descent. She later went on to complete her permaculture diploma in design, education and site development and has recently become a registered permaculture teacher.
Andrew Jones Australian has a background in ecology, permaculture, humanitarian aid and international development. Past 15 years has worked in a humanitarian aid and development context in the Middle East , the Pacific, Asia , Europe and the United States . With CARE International, the International Rescue Committee, Counterpart International and SurfAid International., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Macedonia and Albania , and with the United Nations Environment Program most recently in Indonesia in a post-tsunami recovery context. (www.fullcirclellc.com) .
Geoff Lawton one of the world's foremost experts in “permaculture,” providing consulting, designing, teaching and project implementation for clients that include private individuals, groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, non-government organizations and multi-national companies. Lawton has served clients in 17 different countries, including Jordan , Iraq , Egypt , USA , Mexico , Macedonia , Vietnam , Costa Rica , Brazil , Ecuador , Peru , England , Denmark , Australia and the South Pacific. Permaculture Research Institute (www.permaculture.org.au ).
QUOTES:
Aid is a necessary but delicate affair; some forms of aid can produce
dependency, facilitate further inequities in a society, destroy or impair
cultural values, decrease the yields of the environment, upset balance
nutritional habits, or actually destroy sustainable local ecologies or
agricultural systems.
Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Manual
Overseas experience has shown that every dollar spent on disaster mitigation helps to save three dollars in later disaster response and recovery. Indonesian experience shows a bigger ratio of around 7 to 1. Overseas experience has also shown that it takes a community between four to twenty years to recover from a major disaster, depending largely on its level of preparedness.
Yayasan Indonesian Development of Education and Permaculture Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM) Kit
www.idepfoundation.org
War is a serious destroyer of sustainability and social coherence, and the genocide which followed the war in Cambodia further reduced sustainability. Bombing destroyed natural resources, cultivated areas and cultural heritage. .
War also reduces the ability of a country to withstand undesirable foreign influences....Foreign and disinterested world monetary organizations direct fiscal policy and reconstruction with no regard to sustainable outcomes, and blame the country for its poverty or inability to cope with their decisions. Sustainability finds itself in crisis and crisis requires relief.
"Sustainability in a Worn Torn Nation" Permaculture Projects in Cambodia, Rosemary Morrow , Hopedance Magazine
In the aid context when things are really rough you get the sense that despair is almost a luxury that you can’t afford because certainly the people around you for the most part are not wallowing in self-pity. They’re getting on with their lives and doing their best. It’s remarkable and humbling to work with people who are the focus of natural disasters or war and conflict because what you often see is an extremely high degree of dignity.
Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century Conference
I think the paradigm of aid and development is going to change drastically in the 21st century, because it needs to. Partly what we’re dealing with, the reality of aid and development as it’s currently practiced in broad senses is partly a result of having these massive global imbalances in wealth distribution, technological resources, and trade benefits.
Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century Conference
So I think that homegrown aid and regionally-based aid and networks between people are going to be the things that really grow and thrive as we’re coming into a network age. I think that the ability for people to connect and work together as equals is of huge importance because that’s actually going to be the most effective way of working with folks who are in situations of stress and facing challenges.
Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century Conference
For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571, www.sbpermaculture.org
Checks made to Santa Barbara Permaculture Network PO Box. 92156 Santa Barbara Ca 93190
Event Co-sponsors:
SBCC Environmental Horticulture Dept, Environmental Studies Program Santa Barbara City College, Nutiva, Hopedance Media and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet@silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org
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