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Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, email:
margie@sbpermaculture.org
SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:
Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the
21st Century:
How to Change the Paradigm of Emergency Disaster Relief &
Development
to a Model of Life Affirming Assistance
3 Day Conference
Evening Lecture with Geoff Lawton, Friday, June 30
Workshop July 1 & July 2, 2006
Santa Barbara City College West Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium
As
Americans we have often thought of emergency disaster 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 other’s needs during these overwhelmingly
stressful times? What new models can we create to assist each other
better?
Join
renowned permaculture teachers and international aid workers Geoff
Lawton, Nadia Abu Yahia, and Andrew Jones, on July 1 and
July 2, 2006, as they share their experiences working around the
globe in recent disaster zones and longer term refugee camps, existing
from circumstances the world may have already forgotten.
The model
of aid permaculture has to offer is vastly different from conventional
aid, it includes long term development, land care restoration
strategies, and allies itself strongly with the eco-village movement,
which incorporates ecological design and natural building techniques for
even temporary structures. Permaculture recognizes most people have
an innate need to help when disaster strikes, and a huge cost to cultures
if systems aren't designed with viable ways to both assist and be
assisted when a need might arise.
Permaculture
is a design system based on ecological principles for creating
sustainable human environments, and is one of the most holistic,
integrated systems analysis and design methodologies found in the
world. Originally coined from the words PERMAnent
agriCULTURE, it has evolved to one of permanent or sustainable
culture with consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns of
nature.
Geoff
Lawton is the Director of the Permaculture Research Institute in
Australia, assuming the position from Permaculture founder Bill
Mollison. Lawton has worked for clients that include 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. A recent project in Jordan is documented
on a video called Greening the Desert available for viewing
on his website
(www.permaculture.org.au).
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 has 10 years of international experience in emergency response,
post conflict development and rehabilitation, working extensively for
CARE International, the United Nations, and various NGO’s such as SurfAid
International. Jones is a board member of the Permaculture Research
Institute in Australia and Director of the consulting firm, Full Circle
(www.fullcirclellc.com).
He has worked in the Middle East, South Pacific, Asia, Europe and the
United States, most recently in Indonesia in a post-tsunami recovery
context.
The
conference takes place at the Santa Barbara City College West Campus,
Fe Bland Auditorium, 721 Cliff Drive. The lecture is on
Friday, June 30, 7pm, cost $15, pay at the door.
Workshop, Saturday, July 1, 9-5pm, and Sunday, July 2,
9-4pm. Workshop cost is $120 with pre-registration, $140
at the door, Students $100, student scholarships available. The Santa
Barbara Permaculture Network, SBCC Environmental Studies Program, Nutiva,
and Hopedance Media sponsor the event. For more info and registration,
contact: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, margie@sbpermaculture.org;
805-962-2571;
www.sbpermaculture.org
. For workshop registration, send checks to SB Permaculture Network, PO Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190.
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SANTA MONICA
Please Join Us! in welcoming Geoff and Nadia Lawton, come and meet these accomplished Permaculture Designers on their first West Coast teaching tour.
Tuesday June 27th 6-9 PM Lecture and Power point presentation with Geoff Lawton.
Santa Monica Public Library, The Martin Luther King Auditorium Donation $10-$15
The library is located on Santa Monica Blvd. at 6th street in Downtown Santa Monica. Ample parking, entrance on 7th street.
Space is limited, please RSVP: Contact David Kahn at <info@sustainablehabitats.org> 1-323-667-1330
www.sustainablehabitats.org
Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned permaculture practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia and studied permaculture with the originator, Bill Mollison, in Tasmania. He founded the Permaculture Research Institute (www.permaculture.org.au)on Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147-acre farmstead previously developed by Mollison. Since 1985, Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects in 18 countries for private individuals and groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, and multinational corporations. He has taught the Permaculture Design Certificate course in 20 countries.
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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