[Lapg] Southern California version of this

[Joan Stevens]

Wow!  That is unprecedented.  Perhaps a group of academic-minded greenies could bring propose this to a local university? 
My plate is full right now or I'd volunteer.
(where the heck did they get all the funding I wonder???)
Joan

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."

- Bill Mollison

--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Dennis Pilien <dpilien98 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Dennis Pilien <dpilien98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Lapg] Southern California version of this
To: lapg at arashi.com, "City Repair LA" <cityrepairla at lists.riseup.net>
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 2:15 PM






LAPG and City Repair Folks:
Is there one like this or its equivalent in the L.A. area? Where or why not? Maine is nice, but far away. california is nice and a lot closer (permaculture)...
Towards sustainability,
DP
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