Sustainable Living in Action at The Ojai Foundation Nov 2000 Pressrelease

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Dear Friends,
   Can you help us circulate this info to correct peoples?  If we need to pay
for a listing, please let us know.  Any networking assistance is much
appreciated.  For questions or fees, call (805) 646-8343.

                           Gigi




PRESS RELEASE

Sustainable Living in Action at The Ojai Foundation
November 2000

   For 20 years The Ojai Foundation has been both a champion and a vigorous
example of sustainable living.  Its rustic retreat in the mountains an hour
north of Los Angeles is a living laboratory of permaculture plantings,
earth-friendly structures, council training, and community outreach.

   The architectural evolution reflects The Ojai Foundation¹s philosophy of
stewardship, both for the 40 acres it occupies and for the Earth at large.  To
this wooded, secluded collection of yurts, domes, and gardens have come
healers
and spiritual leaders from many cultures.  Here they have shared their wisdom
and have found common ground and renewal amid the silence and beauty of
nature.  Along with this has come a fertile education, now with many programs
for youth as well as adults, on how people from different backgrounds and
cultures might live respectfully with each other and their environment.

   Stewardship of the Earth is a matter of the heart and attitude as well as
technology, and The Ojai Foundation has become a center for exploring the
practical as well as the spiritual side of this mission.  Numerous innovators
in sustainable building design and construction techniques have presented
workshops in this supportive setting.  Over the next few months The Ojai
Foundation will offer three programs in this tradition:

   --Building With Cob with Martin Hartman;  Nov. 1-15, 1 to 5 p.m. daily: 
Hands-on experience constructing with cob building materials.  (Work
exchange.)
   --Earth Building with Jim Hallock and Stephen Gates;  Nov. 17-22, with
evening presentation Nov. 17:  Building with pressed earth blocks. (Suggested
donation $25 per day.)
   --Permaculture with Penny Livingston-Stark and Brock Dolman  (Dec. 1-15): 
Intensive course in sustainable systems design including permaculture
solutions
for watershed storage, site planning and design, aqua culture, edible
landscaping urban planning, and much more.  ($995.)

   For more information, contact Gigi Coyle at (805) 646-8343 ext. 199 or
visit
The Ojai Foundation on the Internet at www.ojaifoundation.org.


Looking for new staff/community/board members at The Ojai Foundation, an
educational retreat center in Southern California.  Live in rustic nature
village or in nearby towns of Ojai, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, and Ventura. 
Share love of land, council, service, community, personal growth, spiritual
life.  Business steward, receptionist, administrative assistant, bookkeeper,
secretarial and computer skills--could be a full-time or two part-time
positions--team-player, small business, non-profit organization/management
experience and personal initiative necessary.  One month residential trial,
stipend @ $10 to $12 per hour, plus many benefits, including pioneer work in a
transformative vision emerging over 20 years, participation in rites of
passage
programs, transition celebrations, and ceremonies for youth and adults,
sustainable building/living experiments and practices.
Call Gigi Coyle, (805) 646-8343, ext. 199, e-mail - <ojaifdn at jetlink.net>.




Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network
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