hey, this is exciting, the scholarship crowdfunding
campaign for the International Permaculture Convergence is within $2100
of it's goal!
in honor of Earth Day, anybody want to pitch in with $10 to $20
donations, take this over the top? or more of course if you
feel inspired?
(more money = more scholarships)
Remember Julious Piti from Chikukwa Ecological Land Trust
in Zimbabwe we brought to Santa Barbara City College a couple of years
ago, whose permaculture center grows enough food for 8000 in the
Chimanimani communal lands without any outside aid? And when
Zimbabwe struggled through an economic crash a few years ago, Chikukwa
helped to feed those driving from the capital city of Harare! These
are the designers who normally never travel, or have a chance to meet
with other permaculturists to strategize with work & projects on a
face to face basis.
We only have until 7am our time tomorrow to
accomplish.
Our Santa Barbara permaculture community has
sponsored some outstanding people in the past, can we do it
again?
you may feel your dollars should stay local, but truly, we are a global
community, and all the small and beautiful projects at home won't mean a
thing if the rest of the doesn't shift some of it's negative practices,
and permaculturists everywhere are leading the way.
$10-$20 dollars, so small an amount, but with so much
potential...
Donate with PayPal:
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships
Donate with your Credit Card:
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9
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even if you can't go....there is a way to support our
grassroots PC movement, good work is being done everywhere, shifting,
shaping, tweaking, another world is possible...
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Hello global permaculture community! and our Santa Barbara home
community...
IPC-UK organizers have started a Permaculture CROWDFUNDER campaign to
help get people from across the world to the 12th International
Permaculture Convergence (IPCUK) in the United Kingdom & London,
hosted by the Permaculture Association of Britain. (thank you
Permaculture Association!)
Always exciting to see all the projects and work of Permaculture
practitioners from around the world. For past International
Permaculture Convergences (IPC's) a valiant effort was made by
individuals and local permaculture associations to help provide
scholarships for those from cash poor, but incredibly skill rich
countries to attend. Now we want to amp up the scholarship
effort, make it even more inclusive with larger representation than ever
for this convergence and setting the model for future convergences, so we
ask your help.
Already there are over 60 great scholarship applications for IPC-UK and
with this crowdfunder organizers want to support as many nations as
possible to be present.
Please consider the value Permaculture has made to your life and be
generous with your gift, knowing these IPC's are truly the bedrock
on which the Permaculture movement we take for granted was
built. With early permaculturists meeting every two years to
strategize on how to take permaculture out to the world, when it was
still a basically unknown word and concept. Wow, when you think
about it, without them, permaculture may have remained an essentially
localized Australian phenomenon, a big loss for the rest of the world and
us.
It is a heroic job for a local permaculture association to host one of
these IPC'c, it's like throwing a party for the world! So let's
all join in and help with the scholarship part, get a big and wide
group of really smart permaculture people together to network, build
partnerships, share innovative permaculture thinking and designs,
other worlds are possible. We have a future in front of us that
needs ALL the creative minds of permaculture global permaculture
community, no one left out for lack of funds.
with gratitude for open hearts & pocket books,
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, & members of
Friends of the International Permaculture Convergences Nonprofit
donate by April 17 deadline:
Donate with PayPal:
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships
Donate with your Credit Card:
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9
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https://ipcuk.events/
If you want to hear about plans
for 12 International Permaculture Conference/Convergence Sept 2015
with Andy Goldring of the Permaculture Association (Britain) follow this
link:
https://www.mixcloud.com/21stCenturyPermaculture/29thmarch2015/
History of IPCs
IPC1 Rowlands, New
South Wales, Australia, 1984
IPC2 Breitenbush Hot Springs & Olympia in the NW of the USA, 1986
IPC3 Christchurch, New Zealand, 1988
IPC4 Nepal, 1991
IPC5 Copenhagen, Denmark and Gerlesborg, Sweden, 1993
IPC6 Perth, Australia, 1996
IPC7 Croatia organized in cooperation with Danish Association/European
Permaculture Institute, 2005
IPC8 Brasil, Permacultura America Latina, 2007
IPC9 Malawi, 2009
IPC10 Jordan, 2011
IPC11 Cuba, 2013
upcoming:
IPC12 United Kingdom, 2015
IPC13 India, 2017
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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