Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century
Workshop and Lecture
How to change the paradigm of emergency disaster
relief and development to a
model of life affirming assistance.
Fri June 30 7pm Lecture Geoff Lawton
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
Checks made to Santa Barbara Permaculture Network PO Box. 92156
Santa Barbara Ca 93190
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
Co sponsor
SBCC Environmental Horticulture Dept, Environmental Studies Program
Santa Barbara City College, Nutiva, Hopedance Media and Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network