[Southern California Permaculture] In Honor of Earth Day- Contribute $10-$20?/IPC Scholarship Crowdfunding Campaign Close to Goal!

Thu Apr 16 16:54:21 PDT 2015

hey, this is exciting, the scholarship crowdfunding campaign for the 
International Permaculture Convergence is within $2100 of it's goal!

in honor of Earth Day, anybody want to pitch in with $10 to $20 
donations, take this over the top?  or more of course if you feel inspired?
(more money = more scholarships)

Remember Julious Piti from Chikukwa Ecological Land Trust in Zimbabwe 
we brought to Santa Barbara City College a couple of years ago, whose 
permaculture center grows enough food for 8000 in the Chimanimani 
communal lands without any outside aid?  And when Zimbabwe struggled 
through an economic crash a few years ago, Chikukwa helped to feed 
those driving from the capital city of Harare!  These are the 
designers who normally never travel, or have a chance to meet with 
other permaculturists to strategize with work & projects on a face to 
face basis.

We only have until 7am our time tomorrow to accomplish. Our Santa 
Barbara permaculture community has sponsored some outstanding people 
in the past, can we do it again?

you may feel your dollars should stay local, but truly, we are a 
global community, and all the small and beautiful projects at home 
won't mean a thing if the rest of the doesn't shift some of it's 
negative practices, and permaculturists everywhere are leading the way.

$10-$20 dollars, so small an amount, but with so much potential...

Donate with PayPal: 
<http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships>http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships
Donate with your Credit Card: 
<https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9>https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9 

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even if you can't go....there is a way to support our grassroots PC 
movement, good work is being done everywhere, shifting, shaping, 
tweaking, another world is possible...

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Hello global permaculture community! and our Santa Barbara home community...

IPC-UK organizers have started a Permaculture CROWDFUNDER campaign to 
help get people from across the world to the 12th International 
Permaculture Convergence (IPCUK) in the United Kingdom & London, 
hosted by the Permaculture Association of Britain. (thank you 
Permaculture Association!)

Always exciting to see all the projects and work of Permaculture 
practitioners from around the world.  For past International 
Permaculture Convergences (IPC's) a valiant effort was made by 
individuals and local permaculture associations to help provide 
scholarships for those from cash poor, but incredibly skill rich 
countries to attend.  Now we want to amp up the scholarship effort, 
make it even more inclusive with larger representation than ever for 
this convergence and setting the model for future convergences, so we 
ask your help.

Already there are over 60 great scholarship applications for IPC-UK 
and with this crowdfunder organizers want to support as many nations 
as possible to be present.

Please consider the value Permaculture has made to your life and be 
generous with your gift, knowing these IPC's are truly the bedrock on 
which the Permaculture movement we take for granted was built.  With 
early permaculturists meeting every two years to strategize on how to 
take permaculture out to the world, when it was still a basically 
unknown word and concept.  Wow, when you think about it, without 
them, permaculture may have remained an essentially localized 
Australian phenomenon, a big loss for the rest of the world and us.

It is a heroic job for a local permaculture association to host one 
of these IPC'c, it's like throwing a party for the world!  So let's 
all join in and help with the scholarship part, get a big and wide 
group of really smart permaculture people together to network, build 
partnerships, share innovative permaculture thinking and designs, 
other worlds are possible.  We have a future in front of us that 
needs ALL the creative minds of permaculture global permaculture 
community, no one left out for lack of funds.

with gratitude for open hearts & pocket books,

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, & members of
Friends of the International Permaculture Convergences Nonprofit

donate by April 17 deadline:
Donate with PayPal: 
<http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships>http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships
Donate with your Credit Card: 
<https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9>https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9 

<http://ipcuk.events/scholarships>
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https://ipcuk.events/

By <https://www.mixcloud.com/21stCenturyPermaculture/>21st Century 
Permaculture -

If you want to hear about plans for 12 International Permaculture 
Conference/Convergence Sept 2015 with Andy Goldring of the 
Permaculture Association (Britain) follow this link: 
https://www.mixcloud.com/21stCenturyPermaculture/29thmarch2015/

History of IPCs

IPC1 Rowlands, New South Wales, Australia, 1984
IPC2 Breitenbush Hot Springs & Olympia in the NW of the USA, 1986
IPC3 Christchurch, New Zealand, 1988
IPC4 Nepal, 1991
IPC5 Copenhagen, Denmark and Gerlesborg, Sweden, 1993
IPC6 Perth, Australia, 1996
IPC7 Croatia organized in cooperation with Danish 
Association/European Permaculture Institute, 2005
IPC8 Brasil, Permacultura America Latina, 2007
IPC9 Malawi, 2009
IPC10 Jordan, 2011
IPC11 Cuba, 2013

upcoming:
IPC12 United Kingdom, 2015
IPC13 India, 2017

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