[Scpg] Scpg Digest, Vol 80, Issue 22

Sat Aug 8 08:22:25 PDT 2009

Wow! Robyn is so amazing. I got to do the Advanced Skills Course with RDI in
July and was totally impressed. If you're on the fence, get to the event!

PS If anyone can help print a flyer for my greywater workshop and take it to
Robyn's Workshop. Since I live in Santa Cruz, I don't know personally who
plans to be there or not.

You can download a copy here at the below link and just print a copy from a
home printer.

It's in the files section of
http://groups.google.com/group/grow-food-party-crew-ventura

Thanks in advance!
Devin

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>   1. TONIGHT!/SAT August 8/Robyn Francis/Permaculture in
>      Cuba/Djanbung Garden Design (Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
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> In addition to speaking about Cuba, Robyn will briefly share her
> design work in Australia with Djanbung Permaculture Gardens &
> Education Center, Jarlanbah Permaculture Hamlet, and Rivendell
> Eco-Village, with greywater systems, composting toilets, rainwater
> harvesting tanks and many other sustainable design features we can
> only dream of in place since the early 1990's.  An incredible body of
> work, go to www.permaculture.com.au to see what she has been up to
> for the last 20 years, and with our new Calif  greywater codes, we
> might be able to emulate soon.
>
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
>  Permaculture Around the World Series
> with Robyn Francis from Australia speaking on
> Permaculture in CUBA
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> Saturday, August 8, 6:30 - 8:30pm 2009, Donation $5
> Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
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>      Santa Barbara Permaculture Network continues its Permaculture
> Around the World series, this time welcoming Robyn Francis from
> Australia as she speaks about her past and future visits to Cuba
> where she and other Australian permaculturists have been credited
> with helping Cuba transform the islands agriculture to a more
> sustainable model through perrmaculture.
>
>         Climate Change and Peak Oil are topics on the minds of many
> Americans today.  There is much to learn from Cuba's response to the
> sudden loss of cheap and abundant oil in the early 1990's with the
> fall of the Soviet Union and the continued U.S. Embargo in place
> since the 1960's.  Cuba's industrial model of agriculture under the
> Soviets was highly mechanized with monoculture crops reliant on
> petro-based pesticides and fertilizers.  The era in Cuba following
> the Soviet collapse is known to Cubans as the "Special Period" when
> it lost more than 50 percent of it oil imports, much of its food, and
> 85 percent of its trade economy.  Transportation halted, people went
> hungry, and the average Cuban lost 30 pounds.
>
>         Dictated by reality, Cubans began to bring agriculture into
> the city with urban gardens, cultivating vegetables wherever they
> could. A small group of Australians assisted in this grass-roots
> effort, coming to Cuba in 1993 to teach Permaculture, a system based
> on sustainable agriculture that uses far less energy.  With a grant
> from the Cuban government they set up the first Permaculture
> demonstration site, that evolved into the Foundation for Nature and
> Humanity's Urban Permaculture demonstration site located in
> Havana.  Today 50 percent of Havana's vegetables come from inside the
> city, while in other Cuban towns and cities, urban gardens produce
> from 80 percent to more than 100 percent of what they need.
>         More recently Australians have come back to Cuba to assist
> after two devastating hurricanes wrought massive destruction
> throughout Cuba in September 2008.  The loss of crops, soil and
> organic matter from the torrential rains and flooding, challenged all
> the islands agriculture, including the permaculture sites.
> Robyn Francis and the Cuba-Australia Permaculture Exchange (CAPE)
> toured the island to assess the damage, offer help, and take the
> opportunity to learn from the disaster to design more resilient
> systems for the future.
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>         Robyn Francis has just returned from a visit  to Cuba in
> June 2009 as part of Cuban-Australia Permaculture Exchange (CAPE) and
> will be reporting on her observation in her talk on One-Earth
> Footprint - Learning from Cuba's Experience.  Discover the key
> factors enabling Cuba to survive collapse, live within its ecological
> footprint, and how this relates to Permaculture and Transition
> design. Don't miss the chance to learn from one of permaculture's
> earliest pioneers.
>
>         Robyn Francis is an award-winning international permaculture
> designer, educator, presenter and innovator, with over 25 years of
> permaculture work throughout Australia New Zealand, USA, India,
> Indonesia, Germany, Cuba, and Taiwan, and including projects ranging
> from outback communities to urban development. . Robyn was founding
> director of Permaculture International Ltd (PIL) in 1987, editor of
> the Permaculture International Journal, designer and creator of
> Djanbung Gardens (www. permaculture.com.au), one of Australia's
> leading permaculture centers.
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>         The event takes place on Saturday, Aug 8 , 6:30-8:30 pm at
> the downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St, Santa
> Barbara, CA. Donation $5, no reservations needed.  For more
> information visit our website at: www.sbpermaculture.org
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> Sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Non-Profit &
>  Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm
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> "We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in
> order to grow." - Anonymous
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Devin Slavin
Regenerative Design & Mentoring
AbundanceInBalance.com
Office: (831) 440-7525
Skype: AbundanceInBalance

Upcoming Events:

Mind of Mentoring (Part of the Cultural Mentoring Series)
Regenerative Design Institute - Aug. 29-Sept 4 - Venture Retreat in
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http://www.regenerativedesign.org/courses-events/mind-mentoring

Video:

Fresh video from Grow Food Party Crew Santa Cruz!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOG2ajvsi0I

Latest video from our Creating an Edible Oasis workshop:
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