[Santa_Cruz_Permaculture] *FRI JUNE 12 /Sustainable World Radio Interview with Juan Rojas of the Institute of Mesoamerican Permaculture

Tue Jun 9 23:33:44 PDT 2009

Friday, JUNE 12, 9-10am, Sustainable World Radio
  Interview with Juan Rojas of the Institute of Mesoamerican Permaculture

Sustainable World Radio, KCSB 91.9 FM PST
  also streaming live on www.kcsb.org, interviews 
posted later on     www.sustainableworldradio.com

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio for 
an interview with Juan Rojas of the Institute of 
Mesoamerican Permaculture (IMAP). Rojas has been 
instrumental in establishing grassroots 
organizations aimed at appropriate methods of 
farming and land restoration, always seeking the 
skills and expertise of local farmers. Since 1994 
Rojas has been a part of the thirty year old 
Campesino a Campesino (Farmer to Farmer) movement.

Joining Jill in studio will be Wes Roe and Margie 
Bushman of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network who 
first met Juan Rojas in 2005 at the 7th 
International Permaculture Convergence in Croatia 
and then again in 2007 in Brazil for the 8th 
International Permaculture Convergence. 
www.ipc8.org.  They will be speaking about the 
importance of the International Permaculture 
Convergences (IPC's) in building an international 
community of personal and regional knowledge 
exchanges.  The next IPC will be in Malawi, 
Africa, November 2009.

MORE ABOUT JUAN ROJAS:

	Juan Rojas was born in El Salvador, who 
after qualifying as an industrial electrician 
became involved in the trade union struggles of 
the 1980's.  Forced into exile by a brutal 
military regime, he spent four years in Mexico, 
and later eight years in Australia where he 
studied Permaculture as a useful tool for 
rebuilding his home country following the peace 
accords of 1992.

Mesoamerica is a term that recognizes the 
cultural, ecological, traditional, and 
sociological similarities, rather than political 
boundaries of what currently makes up the 
countries of Central America.  Juan Rojas is a 
certified permaculture instructor and one of the 
founders of both the Institute of Mesoamerican 
Permaculture and the Permaculture Institute of El 
Salvador who has worked with others to 
acknowledge these similarities along with the 
comparable dilemmas and obstacles that countries 
in the regions share.

Juan recently taught an Advanced Indigenous 
Permaculture Design Course May 26-june 4  2009 in 
Wisconsin for the Oneida Nation at the Tsyunehka 
Farm hosted by the College of Menominee Nation 
Sustainable Development Institute. 
www.sustainabledevelopmentinstitute.org

~Permaculture (PERMAnent agriCULTURE), a design 
system based on ecological principles for 
creating sustainable human environments ~
~Permacultura (agriCULTURA PERMAnente), un 
sistema de diseño a base de principios ecológicos 
para crear un medio ambiente sostenible.~

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Resources/websites:

Institute for Mesoamerican Permaculture (IMAP) 
and Permaculture Institute of El Salvado 
www.permacultura.org

Campesino a Campesino, by Eric Holt-Gimenez. 
Author spent over 25 years in Mexico and Cenral 
America as a community organizer and agricultural 
outreach worker, learning that only when farmers 
taught each other, many times with parables, 
stories, and humor, was knowledge successfully 
transferred. His is executive director of Food 
First/Institute for Food & Development Policy.
  http://www.foodfirst.org/backgrounders/campesino

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
    an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
  www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in 
new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous

First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
  http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org
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