[Lapg] Summertime News from EarthFlow

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Circles & Cycles-Newletter!

Spring 08
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Save the Swales!
and Earn Money doing it...EarthFlow
Spiral Logo [mailto:savetheswales at earthflow.com]

Networkers and Sustainability Advocates Needed Now to Promote and Market Our Upcoming
Courses...
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Upcoming
Permaculture Design Coursepermaculture
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Pass the word...
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April 20-May 3
Two
weeks of living & learning permaculture
principles and practices camping on a Natural Building Learning Center and organic
farm nestled in the coastal heartland hills of
San Luis Obispo, CA.
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Permaculture Column Returns to HopeDanceHopeDance
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L.Santoyo's regular column has returned to HopeDance Magazine. See the Feb/Mar08
 issue for The Top Permaculture Things You Can Do Now to make a better world...
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EarthFlow-Alumni!
Check out some of the projects our alumni are working on, from retreat centers and
family ranches to urban networks and resource-sharing to food forest nurseries and
neighborhood produce exchanges.
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More
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Banner have reached beyond their California Central Coast roots to
touch, inspire and connect people throughout the West with stories,
films and forums on the emerging new world.
Now they celebrate the best of the past 10 years with this new anthology,
Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope
available for ordering online.
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Ecology-Community-Education-Network!
Dear Friends,
We
welcome this Spring with thanks and
appreciation for all of you who played a part in the past year for us
-and we invite you to join us again for more opportunities to
learn, work and play.

Last year, we traveled with our students from
the tropical ecosystems of Belize and Jamaica to the rural countryside of France,
and
from Hollywood and downtown LA to wine-country retreats of California.
Everywhere we went, we could see the
networks moving closer and closer to reaching "logical" mass- that point
in time when it just makes sense to enough people to change the dynamics of society
for the better!
With your participation, we'll continue to create the conditions for
sustainability to happen...
L.Santoyo, Director
EarthFlow Design Works
earthflow.com
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Learn-Work-Play-Repeat!
In 2008, we are pleased to again offer more Permaculture Design Courses for the 
very Rural, the very Urban -and everything in-between. Certificate Courses continue
to be presented in both in our popular one-weekend-a-month format, as well as the
traditional two-week intensive.
Santa Cruz, CA [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NGH_jgdyj0P4X0GCnIdjJuGVR1tro_NxOohqdFllfC6ZHah1sby2fU6zdb6XP-1FDQLwIniSQoECh8sneemGUuE-ijVVQilOSi_lURWsneh-fxOtESMtqulK5F8hw3w0ak=]: Third
Weekends of each Month, Feb-July 2008
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Intensive April 20- May 3, 2008
NYC Open Center [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NEiNQm4bXdniGo7vw6ukBHPPuag4JqR2FPiatHrBvpZ6vizuvzJLtXbLbMFCIlF7fRoUkVfdLLkHqvTmY4g7cbPj3LsUgyBkOYQEmRvza_TGw==]: 3Day CityPermaculture
Strategies Workshop -April '08
The Catskills, New York [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NFJnIrcVsP7-308BrJ-w2qKHA1kC0NtECAudXLE23y9A96VGhnj8ud0NiGJlROTdP2i_VbIGEnsrvvaPMAw0NZ6W4HikdgijthUcmRrhNS7TSe16_Du01e4QidLLgaN2cU=]:
Two-Week Intensive August 16-29, 2008
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Weekends of each Month, Oct '08 - March '09
Aveyron, France: Permaculture Highlights & History Tour - Fall '08
More Hands-On WorkParties coming soon: Natural building and home ecosystem design
on California's Central Coast and the Southland...
Check our Calendar [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NG9Fk2qwa1fkWYFJf0zeWq59JWjTw6ovToeC1kYfAqetVCPER-2-KJRz6Wd0uy1O68yP4Ds_noiVsOpaKX8U_XvgZx9cyC4qBxO9ftHNd4-KHj0IOqrqCAA] for
 Complete List of Events...
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Project-Highlights!
Belize
North and and Central Americans joined Larry Santoyo and
Toby Hemenway, [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NHi2Oe-KHkAEG3wHTX05lt7MUZSKHWBq_CrY7zGzLYb0PqqTZKsLriCYNk86UuImHhn_kip4QhW60h_w0PqYdyoGPfVFvfy4tYv9RW7-W4Q_B_dxVENhdge] author of Gaia's Garden ,last winter for a permaculture design
course in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize.
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are reintroducing agroforestry management to the farmers of Belize and other Central
American countries, along with marketing strategies for premium cacao, vanilla and
other organic forest products.
The design course experience was a revelation in understanding the brilliance of
 the early Mayans: their tropical ecosystem, thick with trees, vines and understory
in a seemingly random chaos, was actually a carefully cultivated food and resource
design. Ancient house and temple ruins scattered throughout the landscape are quiet
evidence
of that system's ability to support a once-sizable population.
The Mayan legacy continues today in the increasing numbers of small farmers returning
their land to the polyculture method. Patches of organically grown cacao and other
crops once again mix with nitrogen-fixing and fuel-wood providing trees, and grow
in a mosaic along with fruits, nuts and herbal understory that shelter a rich variety
of wild and domestic animals.
Jamaica
The seldom-seen-by-tourists villages of Jamaica's Treasure Beach are filled with
 families and fishermen who are willing to assist with our long term goals of focused
 development patterns: [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NEZlAoGK7SboEAG6O5MijdHVHXH3yJDH0CCqmFLRu_r3sCDYNYbfBM91_l-eC_W49AyM00ERzhrlENUlhQyt1tQ3kUwRDUjqxtR23NMYMPJUkBaijlO7IJsH7Y6Icay-o54EE9JixQlOifg2dvMApPinZG2xWYgfh4=] hurricane relief, localizing economies, community 
sustainability and utilizing tools from Permaculture Design to create economic growth
and a higher quality of life for Treasure Beach residents.
France
In our travels to southern France this past Fall, we witnessed a partnership that
has continued for millennia between human and natural systems: fields, forests and
waterways are managed to provide for the needs of the entire ecosystem, wild as 
well as domesticated. Hhmmmm...sounds like Permaculture.
Along the roadways we saw wild chestnuts, hazelnuts and walnuts growing, as well
 as apples, pears, hawthorns, medlars and berries of all types. Walking trails that
reach back to Roman times weave throughout the landscape, and their grassy edges
 are rich "flowery meads", thick with culinary and medicinal herbs and nectar-rich
wildflowers.
Rural France was indeed a Permaculture slide show- everywhere you looked, there 
was an example of integrated design. Towns and villages still support local and 
regional producers of foods, crafts and the traditional building skills of the stone
masons, plasterers, and slate roofers.
We were fortunate to be introduced to
much of this world by old and new friends, who relocated to
rural France to create their pieces of heaven and share it with others.
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and Le Solitary [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NHNQ5kxLDOKHequIuiTbM2u3icmgmdgKn4tX5BJqNV0c-IQm8unCvrYlLc5c6R17FqHUogSQINf2FDuP1_zUC59Z03cvBBnAz1x_8_xeFWOQBmd2nSKOstU] when daydreaming
of France, or join our next Permaculture Highlights tour scheduled for Southern 
France Fall '08...
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City-Permaculture!
The future of sustainability is in our cities and towns. Urban neighborhoods are
 ideal for the promise and potentials of Permaculture Design,  embodying the social,
intellectual and physical resources needed to create a sustainable system... L. 
Santoyo
In Los Angeles, we are seeing exactly this, with the increasing effectiveness of
 the team projects in the popular LA
Permaculture Design Course series [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NENOMjgDEUnrLgja4JD3q6upEdwD9V67KLsyHZ6IOi0JUhMbHb4G_GCV7ig9abKBNbH13Sz1ICTyudEmINME7KlWZGzu3G4uib8LrkqRD49eu1ku84t0F-b]. From the  development of green residential
and business complexes, to helping local schools initiate green programs, to starting
community groups to work on neighborhood needs, EarthFlow's Design Course projects
have attracted the attention and support of officials from the LA Unified School
 District, local artist groups, production companies and development firms. Stay
 tuned for more news as these  projects continue beyond the classroom...
In New York City, we return to conduct a Sustainable City Strategies seminar and
 host a happy-hour gathering of social and environmental activists -designing solutions
for city life and beyond. Tell your friends to meet us at the Open
Center [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NH7yafMHaVYVEFEzOTERG_HF2JDnMTt3nF8gEiZIcyj6f7p9ZvhKlmid6OAg-xjHQp78bdV-6Gor9CrKxNzvWahxYbbguaMnARk1syhFkc71A==] in April and in the Catskills for a Certficate
Course [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102167923801&s=1411&e=001DSuEioKP_NFJnIrcVsP7-308BrJ-w2qKHA1kC0NtECAudXLE23y9A96VGhnj8ud0NiGJlROTdP2i_VbIGEnsrvvaPMAw0NZ6W4HikdgijthUcmRrhNS7TSe16_Du01e4QidLLgaN2cU=] in August.
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Back at the Ranch...
Our San Luis Obispo, CA course this past
year introduced students to a
variety of projects incorporating permaculture design, from
backcountry hideaways to suburban condos, all of them using the
principle of connecting to others to solve their needs. (As a final
illustration of their understanding of permaculture design, the class
turned the "problem" of snails in the garden into the
"solution" of elegant escargot appetizers at their
end-of-the-course graduation party).
Hands-on
Workshops -we have a variety of ongoing projects... Sustainable
Landscape Construction -Earthen Oven building -Earth Bag construction
-Natural Plastering -Straw Bale Barn construction, Arts & Crafts
and more.

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