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/



By 21st Century Permaculture -

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

 




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