[Sdpg] San DiegoCa Toby Hemenway Author Gaia's Garden Sat Oct 27 and Sun Oct 27 Slidse Show and Talk

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Gaia's Garden: A Talk on Home-Scale Permaculture
by author Toby Hemenway
with introductory remarks on "Peace & Permaculture"
by Marcia Boruta, San Diego Economic Conversion & Permaculture Center

Saturday, October 27, 2001, 2:00 p.m.
First Church of the Brethren
3850 Westgate Place, San Diego
AND
Sunday, October 28, 2001, 3:00 p.m.
Coastal Sage Gardening
3685 Voltaire Street, Ocean Beach

Could gardening be the path to world peace?  That's not the topic of Toby
Hemenway's new gardening book, "Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale
Permaculture," but between the lines is a plea for less consumption and
more self-reliance, a practice that could ultimately reduce our need for
the rest of the world's natural resources (including land, water, and oil).


"A major premise of this book is that our own yards can allow us to reduce
our incessant pressure on the planet's health....Every bit of food, every
scrap of lumber, each medicinal herb or other human product that comes from
an urban yard means that one less chunk of land outside the cities needs to
be denuded of native plants and developed for human use....Our yards, city
parks, curbsides, even parking lots and office courtyards could be lush,
productive, and attractive landscapes that aid nature while yielding much
for us as well, instead of being the grassy emptinesses that they are. This
book shows how to do this, using techniques and examples devised by the
pioneers of the sustainable-landscaping movement."

Toby Hemenway is a former geneticist and associate editor of The
Permaculture Activist, North America's leading journal of ecological
design.  His book was published this year by Chelsea Green Publishing and
will be available for sale ($24.95) at the local events (you can preview
the book on the web site at www.chelseagreen.com/Garden/GaiasGarden.htm).

Toby Hemenway's stop in San Diego is part of a southern California book
tour co-sponsored by the South Coast Permaculture Guild (a network of
permaculture organizations from Santa Cruz to San Diego), HopeDance
Magazine, and The Permaculture Activist. The San Diego events are
co-sponsored by the San Diego Economic Conversion & Permaculture Center,
the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, Coastal Sage Gardening, and the
Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Cooperative.

Suggested donation: $10 (or what you can afford)

Info & RSVP: (619) 298-8879 or sdecc at igc.org
San Diego Economic Conversion & Permaculture Center