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Guild Events Listing for May 2001.
What is Permaculture?
"A more current
definition of permaculture is "Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the
patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of
food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs" The people, their
buildings and ways they organize themselves are central to permaculture. Thus
the permaculture vision of permanent (sustainable) agriculture has evolved to
one of permanent (sustainable) culture."
Quoted with permission from
website of David Holmgren & Su Dennett of Holmgren Design Services
Australia
Check out their Website http://www.spacountry.net.au/holmgren
David Holmgren is best known as
the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the permaculture concept following the
publication of "Permaculture One" in 1978.
South Coast Permaculture Guild Contacts and other
Organizations of Interest
South Coast Permaculture Guild
Margie Bushman sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network: Margie Bushman sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Ojai Permaculture
Guild: Dave White artdetour@mac.com 805-646-9809
Central Coast Permaculture
Guild: Rob Kimmel zigge@aol.com 805-438-5745
San Diego Permaculture Center:
San Diego Economic Conversion Council sdecc@igc.org (619) 298-8879
Cal Poly
Student Farm in SLO:The SARC (Sustainable Ag Resource Center)
805-756-5086
Hunter Francis wfrancis@calpoly.edu
Long Beach Organics:
David Krieger-DeWitt dakd@earthlink.net 562-438-9000
Southern East Sierra:
Tom Drummond 760-377-5011
Pc Institute of Southern Cal: Bill Roley
DrRoley@aol.com 949-494-5843
Santoyo&Associates santoyo@earthflow.com
800-469-5857
LA EcoVillage: Lois Arkin crsp@igc.org 213/738-1254
Permaculture Activist Magazine Website <http://www.permacultureactivist.net>
Permacultura http://www.tortuga.com/permacultura/spanish/QueEsPermacultura.htm
PERMACULTURE CREDIT UNION http://www.pcuonline.org
Hi
everyone
May 2001 Newsletter Content:
1) List of May 2001
Events, SCPermaculture Video Discussion Group, Santa Barbara Organic Club
Meeting
2) List of Future Events, Mushrooms and Permaculture,
Ecovillage Slideshow/Workshop,Natural Building
3) Perma News
SARC in SLO, Hopedance Mag, Permaculture Credit Union
4) List of
interesting Websites -Car Free Times , Permaculture Principles with David
Holmgren
5) Subscribe to South Coast, Central Coast, San Diego
Permaculture Guild Listserves
6)Please send listings and events for next
email news by May 28 to lakinroe@silcom.com
1. MAY 2001
EVENTS
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May10,
Thurs. 7pm Permaculture Discussion Group to Cover Permaculture Principles and
Practises in Santa Barbara CA
Community Environmental Gildea
Resource Center 930 Miramonte Dr Santa Barbara
This will be an interactive
meeting showing video covering many parts of a lecture series on Permaculture
Design by Bill Mollison one of the founders of Permaculture , audio tapes,
other Permaculture Videos, slides and discussion each month. First series will
last 3months and cover Design, Water, Natural Building etc
For more info
contact Margie Bushman 962-2571 or email sbpcnet@silcom.com
May
12 Saturday from 10 to 3. Come Learn Natural Plasters
At Calpoly
San Luis Obispo Ca Student Experimental Farm
The Straw Bale building at
the Cal Poly Student Experimental Farm (in SLO) is
a local example of
natural, affordable building at its best. Built from
reclaimed materials,
sandbags, cob, bamboo, and organic wheat straw, the
building was
constructed for approximately $3 per square foot
Join us for this work
party and potluck lunch
Call Hunter Francis at 805-756-5086 for
details
May 16 7 p.m The Joys of Vermicomposting with Michael
Thompson
Community Environmental Council 930 Miramonte Dr Santa
Barbara Ca
Santa Barbara Organics Club Meeting
Worms are our friends!
They eat our garbage and turn it into food for our
plants!
Our
featured speaker will be Michael Thompson, who has 40 years experience as
an Organic Gardener and "Worm Herder." Dr. Thompson holds a BA in Zoology
from UCSB, plus BS and DDS from SCSF. He'll describe the various types of
worms, teach us how to make or get vermicomposting bins, talk about how
worms
can help us compost ALL kitchen wastes. Best of all, he'll provide
FREE WORM
SAMPLES FOR ALL ATTENDING! Our moderator is Santa Barbara
Organic Garden
Club member Kate Lundy.
For more information on this
event or the club call Linda or Larry Saltzman
at 805/563-2089 or e-mail
lbsaltzman@aol.com.
May 19-25 Cob Workshop near San Diego,
CA
Cost is $560
Check out there website for more details www.deatech.com/cobcottage
Cob Cottage
Company P.O. Box 123 Cottage Grove, OR 97424 phone/fax 541-942-2005
May 19-25, Permaculture Teacher Training Course
Course is Completely booked planning a second
course
Heartwood Institute in Garberville California
Teachers Jude
Hobbs and Tom Ward and others
Tuition is $550 includes meals, lodging and
instruction
This is the first Permaculture Teachers Training
since Lea Harrison and Max Lindegger came from Australia in 1990. We hope to
see a new generation of teachers rise up and step forward to the challenge of
facilitating Permaculture Design Courses. there is a standard Course
Curriculum and we will help everyone discover and improve their strengths and
pick up new tricks to demonstrate and illustrate whole systems
education..
Course Topics
*Teaching systems , principals and
patterns
*teaching as an organism
*life long learning
*Staying
Healthy
*Time and participation Management
*Adult learning
styles
*Interns and apprentices
*Team Teaching
*Keeping up the spirit
and more
Who should Attend?
Permaculture Design Course Graduate and
individuals with permaculture knowledge and experience and who are interested
in teaching Permaculture
Course Site
Is Heartwood Institute is a
residential education facility of 80 - 100 people focusing on healing arts of
massage and transformational therapies. The course site includes a cobb house,
two strawbale buildings, several yurts , domes and ranch style classrooms and
living spaces. The campus is 240 acres of rolling mountains , meadows and
forest of douglas fir, oak and buckeye. and madrone. Permaculture has been
practise on site since 1985.
Course is run by Island Mountain
Institute. a non profit sustainable agriculture organization
For more info
contact Shemaia at 707-923-1324 Shemaia_Skywater@hotmail.com
Send for
brochure at
Island Mountain Institute
Att Shemaia Skywater
220
Harmony Lane
Garberville, Ca 95542
2. FUTURE
EVENTS
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June
9 & 10Mushrooms & Permaculture Seminar
Davis Bynum Winery
8075 Westside Road Healdsburg, CA 95446
Cost $275 for both days,Sat. only -
$175, Sun. only - $125.
Checks payable to: Davis Bynum Winery
Learn how
to integrate mushroom cultivation into Permaculture gardens
and land
restoration projects within the surroundings of a three acre
Mediterranean
Food Forest. Hosted by Davis Bynum winery and Sonoma
Permaculture, this
knowledge-filled weekend course will introduce
participants to highly
talented mushroom authorities, permaculturists, and
cooks.
Saturday
will feature Paul Stamets of Fungi Perfecti, author of
*Growing Gourmet
and Medicinal Mushrooms*. Paul will discuss both the
integration of edible
& medicinal mushrooms into Permaculture gardens, and
the applications
of mushroom cultivation to habitat restoration
On Sunday, Tom Alexander of
Bemushroomed, and Charmoon Richardson of
the Wild About Mushrooms Co.,
will discuss how to build and operate a small
scale mushroom cultivation
laboratory
Register soon. Participation will be limited to allow for
individual
contact with the instructors.
For info Charmoon Richardson -
seminar coordinator
phone: 707-887-1888
e-mail: charmoon@sonic.net
http://www.sonic.net/mycoperm
June 10-17 The third annual
BUILD HERE NOW Natural Building and Permaculture Convergence
Lama
Foundation in Taos County, New Mexico
Cost - Before May 1, 2001, $425;
after May 1, $495. Children 5-16 half
price (childcare not provided). Cost
includes three vegetarian meals per
day and on-site lodging.
Lodging
options - At Lama yurt and tent with beds can accommodate 20 (bring
your
own bedding or sleeping bag); RV and tent sites for 100 campers.
Hotels
are available in Taos and Questa (at additional cost).
Schedule of
events - The Convergence will begin June 10 with registration
from 3-5 PM,
dinner at 6 PM and evening greetings and orientation at 7:30
PM. Days will
be filled through June 17 with concurrent workshops in
natural building,
permaculture, appropriate technology, and community
building. Afternoon
field trips to Taos Pueblo and local natural building
sites are planned
for midweek.
Travel information - The Albuquerque airport is 3 hours from
the site.
Carpooling and shuttle service will be available. For more info
contact the
Lama Foundation at (505) 586-1269 or see http://www.lamafoundation.org
A printable
registration form is available at
http://www.strawhomes.com/build/here/now2001/registration.html
June 22-28 Building a Rural
Off-the-Grid
Ecological Base Camp Fee: $350.00
Tom Watson,
Penny Livingston-Stark, James Stark
An advanced permaculture workshop
where you will learn to
Install a water tank and solar pump, Selectively
harvest Douglas Fir trees
in a way that enhances the forest and build
simple structures, Build a camp
kitchen, Install solar showers, Create a
Biological treatment system for sewage &
grey water.
It is
recommended that participants have taken an Introduction to
Permaculture
Course or the Permaculture Design Course.
Permaculture Institute of
Northern California 2001 Courses
PO Box 341 Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956
(415) 663-9090
July, August, Sept 6 Permaculture
Weekend Design Course at Calpoly SLO
Offered at Calpoly San Luis
Obispo Extended Education Program over 6 weekends
With Permaculture
Teachers and Designers Larry and Kathryn Santoyo
Participants may register
for all or some of the workshops. (Students who complete the series
are eligible for Permaculture Design Course Certification.) For more
info contact the CalPoly Extended Ed dep't (805.756.2053).
This course
is for anyone interested in gaining practical skills and
perspective for
sustainable living and productivity.
July 26 Thurs. 7 pm Crystal
Waters Permaculture Ecovillage Australia Slide Show and
Talk
Faulkner Gallery Main Library E Anapuma St Santa Barbara
Ca
Morag Gamble and Evan Raymond Ecological Design (Permaculture) Teachers
and consultants
with Sustainable Futures Australia
Crystal Waters
Permaculture Village in Australia is one of the most
established and
successful examples that exists to date. It has received a
prestigious
United Nations World Habitat Award for its "pioneering work in
demonstrating new ways of low-impact sustainable living" and has been
listed
in the top 40 of the UN’s Environmental Best Practices database.
Crystal
Waters offers a model for their successful development.
For
more Info contact
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 805-962-2571
sbpcnet@silcom.com
Crystal Waters Slide Show also happening in Ojai
Friday evening July 27 and LA Ecovillage, Los Angeles more details
later
July 28 9-5 Ecovillage Design Course , Taft Gardens
Ojai
Morag Gamble and Evan Raymond Ecological Design (Permaculture)
Teachers and consultants
Cost for all day workshop $100
Ecovillage
Design is a new and innovative field of design that is emerging to address our
current environmental and social crises in a holistic, integrated and positive
way, providing sustainable and long-term solutions.
International
ecological design teachers and consultants, Morag Gamble and Evan Raymond,
from Crystal Waters Permaculture Village, Australia
This workshop
provides an opportunity to explore the integrated approach of planning and
designing ecologically sustainable human settlements and presents an overview
of the design principles used in successful projects around the
world.
Ecovillages are designed with ecology in mind and encourage
people who live in and visit them to develop an understanding of the
interconnectedness of the natural world- to create beneficial relationships
between the ecological, social, economic and spiritual aspects of their lives.
The aim is to engage people fully with their head, heart and
hands.
Many aspects of ecovillages will be explored during this
workshop including:
· What is an ecovillage
· Ecovillage design
considerations
· Design for sustainable land management
·
Infrastructure development for ecological settlements
· Healthy houses and
low impact buildings
· Ecological waste management strategies
·
Developing a sense of community belonging
· Community Structures
·
Right livelihood and strengthening the local economy
The workshop will
include images and case studies of international ecovillages, demonstrating
the diversity of ways in which ecovillage design principles can be applied to
meet the needs of local communities and environments.
For more Info contact
and to register for the course
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
805-962-2571 sbpcnet@silcom.com
Permaculture Design
Certificate Courses Sept 30- Oct 13 2001
Permaculture On Ground Training
Oct 15 -26
These course supports efforts to develop a North
American demonstration
of sustainable agriculture and commerce at the
deactivated Louisiana
Army Ammunition Plant, where plans are under way to
renovate the area
using Permaculture practices. It is amazing place to
learn permaculture.
Contact for more info
Northwest Louisiana Commerce
Center
2618 York Ave
Minden, Louisiana 71055
877 459-5120 and
318-459-5185
www.nwlcc.com
Oct. 27-28 Plaster and Cob
Workshop
Penny Livingston-Stark
Come Explore the Magic of Mud.
Learn how to buiild garden walls and benches
with cob. During this
workshop you will also learn to make your own interior
paints and plasters
using all non-toxic ingredients. These finishes surpass
most commercially
available paints and plasters in quality and asthetics.
Fee:
$250.00
Permaculture Institute of Northern California 2001 Courses
PO
Box 341 Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956
(415) 663-9090
Pattern
and Design Nov. 11-12
Richard Feather Anderson & Penny
Livingston-Stark
Our world surrounds us with patterns indicating the many
processes that
created them. By applying natural patterning to design, we
create
environments that are harmonious within the natural systems
surrounding us.
In this course discover the many functions of patterns and
learn how to
enhance or eliminate, diffuse or concentrate various energies
through
pattern application. Fee: $300
Permaculture Institute of
Northern California 2001 Courses
PO Box 341 Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956
(415) 663-9090
Permaculture Courses at Earth Haven Ecovillage
in North Carolina
Contact: Culture's Edge, 1025 Camp Elliott Rd.,
Black Mountain, NC 28711, 828-669-3937,
Courses in Permaculture Training ,
Design Courses ,Permaculture Residency Programs, Village Design, Sustainable
Forestry, Natural Building and more starting March 17
http://www.permaculture.net/~EPTA/Culture'sEdge.htm
3.PERMA
NEWS
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Hopedance
Magazine Pathways to Sustainable Living and Positive solutions
A
magazine that comes out every two months is a great source of information on
activities for the Permaculture Community in Southern Ca and our activities we
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network are involved as editors and distributors
latest issue May/June Affordable and Sustainable Housing, issue can be
picked up free in Ojai , Ventura, SLO outlets
Please subscribe to support
this great regional magazine at $20 per year 6 issues
P.O. Box 15609
San
Luis Obispo Ca 93406
hopedance@aol.com www.hopedance.org
Sustainable Agriculture
Resource Center (SARC) in San Luis Obispo Ca
This is a new
organization formed out of a year of fruitful activities at Calpoly
Student Farm
This resource center was organized at the Farm to help
give the principles and
techniques taught there a wider audience through
university curricula and
community based programs.
MISSION:
SARC's
mission is to promote holistic paradigms for sustainable agriculture
through education, demonstration, investigation and facilitation of
projects
aimed at promoting sustainability. We embrace the commonly held
notion
that "sustainable systems" ought to be environmentally sound,
economically
feasible, socially just and viable in the long term.
Sustainable agriculture
includes, but is not limited to organic
agriculture. SARC seeks to promote
other "holistic" approaches which
attempt to conduct agriculture in the
context of "whole" systems, and
which may, or may not, be strictly "organic".
Holistic Management,
Permaculture, Biodynamics, agroecology, regenerative
agriculture, urban
agriculture and other similar approaches are all seen by
SARC as having
valuable roles to play. The Student Farm will continue to be
CCOF
certified organic.
Extended-Ed summer courses...
- "Market
Gardening" (5 Sat.s with Biodynamic farmer Steve Moore, starts July14)
-
"Permaculture Design Series" (6 weekends featuring Eco-Designer Larry Santoyo)
- "Traditional Wisdom for Health and Healing" (eves w/Craig Lane, July
10,17,24)
- "Organic Certification" (3 day short course w/ Dr. Joe
Montecalvo, 8/23-25)
CONTACTING SARC:
- SARC's temporary email address
(as above) is: <wfrancis@calpoly.edu>
- Our office telephone number
is (805)756-5086
- U.S. mail should be directed to:
Mr. Hunter Francis
Sustainable Ag Resource Center
c/o Crop Science Department
Cal
Poly, SLO, CA 93407
The Natural Builders Network
listserv
For those folks who are interested in a listserv that is
primarily about
networking natural builders, please see the
following:
The Natural Builders Network listserv was birthed after a
half-day workshop
with Gary Duncan from smartshelter.com (on November 11,
2000). The listserv
is a way to keep the energy flowing and the
communications moving regarding
creating a Network of Natural Builders in
the area from San Luis Obispo to
San Diego. The idea is to create a
network of engineers, builders,
architects, insurance agents, lenders,
contractors, strawbale construction
folks and attorneys "to compete with
the non-renewable toxic and
environmentally destructive aspects of
conventional building." (Gary Duncan)
If you are interested in joining,
simply send a message to
majordomo@omnipost.com and type in subscribe
NBN.
thanks,
bob banner
temporary coordinator of the NBN
listserv
Announcing the Opening of The Permaculture Credit
Union
The Permaculture Credit Union is a reality. A new kind of
environmentally responsive financial institution has been created and
chartered. It is possibly the first credit union founded upon the Earth Care
principles of Permaculture ethics, namely respect for natural systems, respect
for people, and no waste ( which in banking will mean the reinvestment and
recycling of surplus back into the community being served). Our mission is to
pool the financial resources of people who subscribe to these ethical
principles and provide a financial vehicle that will allow these resources to
be put to work creating a sound sustainable, environmentally responsible
future. We believe we have targeted a market that is severely unserved by
existing financial institutions- those people who are committed to a cleaner
environment, healthy food and water, sustainable energy use, and a more
conscious lifestyle. It will create the opportunity for members to control the
use of money in the community and contribute to the revitalization of local
well-being.
Permaculture Credit Union
4250 Cerrillo Road
Santa Fe ,
NM 87505 (505) 954-3479 fax (505) 424-1624 perma@pcuonline.org
http://www.pcuonline.org/
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WEBSITES OF
INTEREST
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The
May 2001 issue of Carfree Times is now available at:
http://www.carfree.com/cft/i019.html
Carfree Times #19 contains the usual
World News Notes & Comment,
a Letter from Venice, and a review of
David Engwicht's recent Street Reclaiming
Check out http://www.spacountry.net.au/holmgren/PCprins.html#Header
This
is a such a great and thoughtful writeup on Permaculture Principles and
other ideas from the website of Holmgren Design Services,
David Holmgren and Su Dennett. David Holmgren is a co-originator with Bill
Mollison of the permaculture concept and Su Dennett is director of Fryers
Forest Research and Development, she is active in local community planning
issues. Her commitment and energy in pursuing a low impact, simple lifestyle
is legendary in permaculture circles..
David has put these ideas into a
new Permaculture Book called
"Permaculture Principles and other ideas".
The book is approximately 300 pages of text and graphics
projected
retail price $25 Australian pre-publication price $25. Can be ordered
from
David Holmgren & Su Dennett Holmgren Design Services
Hepburn Permaculture Gardens 16 Fourteenth St, Hepburn. 3461.
Australia. Ph/fax 0353483636 Email
holmgren@netconnect.com.au
5.LISTSERVE
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To
get Up to Date Permaculture Ongoing Announcements for courses , events and
posting of articles of interest try subscribing to our local Permaculture
Listserves ccpg serves San Lois Obispo ,scpg serves Santa Barbara down and
including Los Angeles, and sdpg serves San Diego area. Below are the
instructions how to sign up
thanks to John Howe for setting them
up
this works the same for each separate list:
central coast
list(ccpg@arashi.com), south coast(scpg@arashi.com), and the san diego
list (sdpg@arashi.com)
TO SUBSCRIBE to this mailing
listserve
Basically, the info is more web based now so log on the each
website you want to subscribe to
SoCal PCG subscription
http://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/scpg
SanDiego
PCG subsciption
http://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sdpg
CentralCoast
Cal PCG subscription
http://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ccpg
Please
send listings and events for next email news by May 28 to
lakinroe@silcom.com
Mail Address
South Coast Permaculture Guild and Santa
Barbara Permaculture
Network
224E
Figueroa ST
#C
Santa
Barbara CA 93101
"What permaculturists are doing is the most important
activity that any
group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details
of a truly
sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options,
we need
people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are
one of
the critical gangs that are doing that."
Dr David Suzuki
geneticist, broadcaster
and international environmental
advocate
Permaculture education includes principles and practices of
sustainable soil, water, crop, forest, architectural, business, and
finance systems ethical investment, community loan support and small
business management.
Taken from the Latin, permanens, to endure or
persist through time and
cultura, cultures - permaculture is an
interdisciplinary design
science focused on sustainable system design.
Sustainable systems are
defined as those that, over their lifetime,
produce energy equivalent
to or in excess of what they consume.
Permaculture operates on three ethics: care of the earth, care of the
species and return of excess to the first two.
The Movement
Permaculture is also a world wide network and movement of individuals and
groups working in both rich and poor countries on all continents. Largely
unsupported by government or business, these people are contributing to a
sustainable future by reorganizing their life and work around permaculture
design principles. In this way they are creating small local changes but ones
which are directly and indirectly influencing action in the wider environment,
organic agriculture, appropriate technology, communities and other movements
for a sustainable world. After 20 years Permaculture may rank as one of
Australia's most significant "intellectual
exports".