[Scpg] PR Eco-Villages and the Global Future Oct 14, 15 2006

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, email: margie at sbpermaculture.org

SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:
Eco-Villages and the Global Future

Evening Lecture Sat, Oct 14, 7:30 pm, 2006
Workshop, Sunday, Oct 15, 10 -4pm
Location: Santa Barbara City College

At the Environmental Summit in Rio in 1992, leading politicians from all 
over the world laid down principles for a sustainable lifestyle in the 21st 
century.  What will promote and initiate this hopeful future?

The Eco-village movement has been at the forefront of an effort to design 
human settlements in a way that could transform our lives.  Based on 
ecological design, they say yes to a positive future, while considering the 
possibility of less resources to maintain our present over-consumptive 
lifestyles.

Join Professor Declan Kennedy (www.declan.de) as he defines and explores 
the concept of Eco-villages and the Eco-village movement.  An exuberant man 
in his seventies, Prof Kennedy has had many careers, beginning with dance 
and choreography, making the leap to architectecture and urban planning, 
then incorporating permaculture & Eco-village design into his life's work.

An Eco-Village is a human-scale, full-featured settlement, in which human 
activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that 
is supportive of healthy human development and can be successfully 
continued into the indefinite future. Eco-Village design is based mainly on 
permaculture principles and is a way of thinking to create an abundant 
future. By conscious design, we can build homes and buildings that conserve 
natural resources, make agriculture ecologically sound, reforest the planet 
and restore community life in rural and urban areas

          Prof. Kennedy is an Irish architect, urban planner, permaculture 
designer and ecologist, co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe 
and of the Global Eco-Village Network (GEN).  He has been teaching and 
practicing ecological urban design since 1972 and permaculture for the past 
20 years and was Professor of Urban Design and Infrastructure at the 
Architectural Department of the Technical University of Berlin. He served 
as Secretariat to the United Nations for the Global Ecovillage Network 
(GEN).  His present activities include working on the urban design for the 
first full-fledged ecological settlement in Ireland, and most recently 
assisting the Gaia University (www.gaiauniversity.org) in establishing its 
international advisory board.  He lives with his wife Margrit Kennedy, in 
Steyerberg Germany, at Lebensgarten, an eco-village they helped co-found in 
1985.

The evening lecture takes place  Saturday, Oct 14, 7:30pm, at the Santa 
Barbara City College West Campus, in the Fe Bland Auditorium, 721 Cliff 
Drive. Cost is $10/$5 students, no reservations are needed. For more 
information, please call (805) 962-2571, email, margie at sbpermaculture.org, 
or visit www.sbpermaculture.org.  Sponsors: Santa Permaculture Network, 
Santa Barbara Ecological Education Coalition SBCC Adult Education 
Series(SBEEC), SB City College Students for Sustainability,  Hopedance 
Media,  and For the Future.
***Workshop, Sun  Oct 15, 10am-4 pm, $30/$20 Students, Location, SB City 
College Earth & Biological Science Building (EBS), Room, 309, East Campus, 
721 Cliff Dr, Santa Barbara.



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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet at silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

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


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