[Scpg] "Beyond Sustainability" at 32 acre living art cornfield in downtown LA

[L.Santoyo Designs]

Friday Night at Not A Cornfield / Salon:

Larry Santoyo: Beyond Sustainability

Friday October 14, 2005, 7.30-10.30pm



Not A Cornfield

1201 North Spring St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

(323) 226-1158

(323) 226-9430 (fax)

info at notacornfield.com


Beyond Sustainability

The challenge of creating a sustainable relationship between human 
beings and the planet we inhabit is one of the most pressing of our 
age. But is sustainability enough?

  Pointing beyond sustainability toward the more abundant propositions 
of restoration and transformation, the Not A Cornfield art project 
has both literally transformed 32-acres of polluted earth into a 
verdant cornfield and generated a green vision of future possibility 
in Los Angeles. Growing in the midst of LA's Downtown 
re-vitalization, the project invites us to consider innovative ways 
of addressing urban ecology and the integration of fertile spaces 
into dense cities.

In this fruitful context Larry Santoyo, one of the United States' 
leading permaculture practitioners, discusses the radical 
Permaculture Design Movement. Developed over the last quarter century 
by renowned Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, 
permaculture is a design system that applies ecological principles to 
all of the systems and disciplines that human settlement requires. 
Weaving together food, fibre and energy production, water management 
and human needs into intricately connected productive communities, 
permaculture has evolved from an initial vision of permanent or 
sustainable agriculture into one of permanent or sustainable culture.


About Larry Santoyo

Larry Santoyo is an artist trained in land use planning, resource 
protection and product development, including seven years of training 
and service with the State of California and studies with Bill 
Mollison. He is among the most experienced Permaculture designers and 
teachers in the United States. Since 1983, he has assisted 
individuals in the design and installation of residential ecosystems 
and has assisted companies in developing industrial ecologies and 
sustainable business practices. As business and product development 
consultant, Larry Santoyo serves as the senior planner for Earthflow 
Design Works and the co-director of The Terra Foundation. He is also 
the founder of the Permaculture MicroVillage Network and the creative 
director at The Center of Natural Design.


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