[Lapg] Prof. Declan Kennedy Speaks in Santa Monica! Oct. 14th. Save the Date!
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson
lakinroe at silcom.com
Mon Sep 11 23:23:00 PDT 2006
You are invited!
Please Join Us! in welcoming Prof. Declan Kennedy, come and meet this
accomplished Architect, Urban Planner, Permaculture Designer, Ecologist and
Mediator.
*********************Complementary Currency!**************************
Myth or Must solution for your community?
Prof. Declan Kennedy www.declan.de, will be giving a talk and powerpoint
presentation on Designing Complementary Currencies. Applications,practical
implementations and issues will be discussed. Learn how to benefit from
techniques successfully iimplemented in Europe and in more than 2700
communities around the world and the USA. He will touch on European
Eco-Village design applications and will discuss the future of economies
that are based on abundance vs. the economics of scarcity.
This informative presentation will be followed by a game simulating the use
of local money as a permaculture tool to create community, jobs and fight
inflation. He will use Silverlake neighborhood as a model.
Prof. Kennedy is an Irish architect, urban planner, permaculture designer
and ecologist, co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe and of
the Global Village Network (GEN). He has been teaching and practicing
ecological urban design since 1972 and permaculture for the past 20 years
and was Professor of Urban Design and Infrastructure at the Architectural
Department of the Technical University of Berlin. Presently, he is doing
the urban design for the first full-fledged ecological settlement in
Ireland. He now teaches eco-village design from the ecological community
Lebensgarten Steyerberg, Germany where he and his wife Margrit live and
which they co-founded in 1985. www.margirtkennedy.de
Working mainly as a healer and mediator, he also assisted with the
introduction of complementary currencies in different regions of Germany,
Poland and Austria.
Saturday October 14th 10:00 AM Lecture and Power-point presentation:
"Complementary Currency!"
Santa Monica Public Library' The Martin Luther King Auditorium Donations
$10-$15
Space is limited Please RSVP Contact: David Kahn
info at sustainablehabitats.org 1-323-667-1330 or sign up below.
The library is located on Santa Monica Blvd. at 6th street in Downtown
Santa Monica. Ample parking, entrance on 7th street.
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