[Lapg] LA Permaculture History

Thu Apr 22 08:43:39 PDT 2010

Thanks for this Lois!  Very interesting.  It s good to be reminded of John T. Lyle!

Another part of the story that would be great to document would be Mark Lakeman and City Repair!  I believe you and I organized his first trip, but when?

Now we have 2 street paintings under us at LA Eco-village!  Also, Jennifer Murphy who started the city repair list serv.

PS.  He will be returning this September 

Thanks again!

On Wed Apr 21st, 2010 10:14 PM PDT Lois Arkin wrote:

>Thanks Dennis and Larry for naming Julia and I as Mothers of LA Permaculture.  However, there were some who came before us and several who have carried the torch with great commitment and passion, several among them "fathers of LA permaculture" as well.  Here's a little of the history as I recall it.  I hope others in the know will verify the accuracy of this  personal recollection, and make appropriate corrections and additions.
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>Yes, it is time, now that permaculture practices are growing into the mainstream that we begin to systematically remember how our local thinking and actions around permaculture came to be.
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>Best,
>Lois
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>Mid to late 1970s:  Bill Mollison gave a workshop in the West Valley sponsored by:  ???
>Julia Russell attended this workshop
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>Mid to Late 1970s:  Julia Russell begins using permaculture principles on her home in the Los Feliz district which will become the nonprofit Eco-Home and Eco-Home Network by the mid 1980s.
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>Mid to late 1970s and on to the present: Dr. Bill Roley of Laguna Beach and Jim Bell of San Diego were creating permaculture demonstration projects and teaching permaculture principles to community groups, and local colleges, and traveling to Tijuana to help implement permaculture practices there.  Bill had developed the Permaculture Institute of Southern California and its demonstration home in Laguna Beach.
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>Mid 1980s:  CRSP in association with TreePeople and several other local nonprofit organizations sponsors a talk by Bill Mollison at TreePeople.  Bill visits with Nader Khalili that weekend, I believe it was in Claremont.  Lois had made arrangements for Connie Koennin of the LA Times to interview Bill for a major feature on permaculture, but Bill was so rude to her, she decided to let the interview go.  Connie had covered just about every aspect of sustainability of the preceding half a decade or so at that time.
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>Late 1980s: Jeff Tucker and Brad Mowers sponsor a permaculture gathering at Jeff's Santa Monica home attended by 30 to 40 interested permaculture folks in the LA area, including Julia Russell, Lois Arkin, Rani Jacobs, Kreigh Hampel, John Tikotsky, and others.  I'm sure I have the sign-in list of people that were there someplace, but please add yourself to this list if you were there.
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>Early 1990s: Landscape Professor John T. Lyle of Cal Poly Pomona develops the Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly.  Years later, the Center was re-dedicated as the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.  Early classes at the Center taught permaculture principles. Camille Cimino was among those early students, and she went on to travel through Europe, studying permaculture at various intentional communities/ecovillages.
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>1993:  CRSP begins the processes for developing the L.A. Eco-Village on  the two block neighborhood of Bimini and White House Place, using permaculture principles, especially trying to maximize the beneficial connections among and between social, ecological and economic systems of the neighborhood.
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>2003:  CRSP and LA Eco-Village sponsor Larry Santoyo and his Earthflow organization in the first 72 hour permaculture design certificate course in LA.  Many L.A. Eco-Villagers were enrolled in the course.
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>2003 to present: Larry S/Earthflow continued to provide annual PDC courses in LA and Southern California.
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>2003:  CRSP/LA Eco-Village sponsors the first L.A. Permaculture Guild gathering at LA Eco-Village.  About 20 people attend.
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>2004:  LAPG listserve begins.  Camille Cimino and Joan Stevens assume leadership of the local movement over the next few years.
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>2005:  CRSP/L.A. Eco-Village sponsor a 72 hour PDC certificate course with Scott Horton as the lead trainer.  Several more L.A. Eco-Villagers are trained.
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>2006 - 2010:  The term "permaculture" is increasingly seen in the mainstream.  Permaculture projects throughout the LA area grow, permaculture is being taught in many local colleges and universities. Larry has trained hundreds of people, and they are providing leadership for a variety of local permaculture practices.
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>And a special tribute to Wes Roe and Margie Bushman of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Bob Banner of HopeDance Magazine who, indeed, spread the word tirelessly throughout Southern California for the past decade.
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>Dennis Pilien wrote:
>> I agree with Larry.
>> Dennis Pilien
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>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* L. Santoyo <santoyo at earthflow.com>
>> *To:* Joan Stevens <mamabotanica at sbcglobal.net>
>> *Cc:* lapg at arashi.com
>> *Sent:* Wed, April 21, 2010 11:45:06 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lapg] Fw: Event tonight?
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>> Joan,
>> 
>> I don't know what this is about but I would say that The Mother(s) of Permaculture in LA has got to be: Lois Arkin of LA Eco Village and the incredible Julia Russell of The Eco Home Network
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>> Larry
>> 
>> L. Santoyo, Director
>> EarthFlow Design Works
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>> http://earthflow.com
>> http://twitter.com/LarrySantoyo
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>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Joan Stevens <mamabotanica at sbcglobal.net <mailto:mamabotanica at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Some Pasadena City College student heard there was an event tonight
>>     honoring, "The Mother of Permaculture" in LA or perhaps "The Mother
>>     of Permaculture in LA"?  Any clue as to what this might be?
>>     and who that mother is???
>>     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
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>> 
>>     ----- Forwarded Message ----
>>     *From:* Leigh Adams <lladams at earthlink.net
>>     <mailto:lladams at earthlink.net>>
>>     *To:* Joan Stevens <mamabotanica at sbcglobal.net
>>     <mailto:mamabotanica at sbcglobal.net>>
>>     *Sent:* Wed, April 21, 2010 10:54:41 AM
>>     *Subject:* Event tonight?
>> 
>>     Hi Joan,  I heard there is an event tonight that a friend from PCC
>>     would like to attend “honoring the mother of LA permaculture”.  Can
>>     you tell me anything about it and how he would get there?  Thanks !!
>>      XXOOL
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