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  • From: Russ Grayson <pacedge@magna.com.au>
  • To: Intl permaculture list <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Michael Pilarski
  • Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:39:41 +1000

Hello American permaculturists...
It was with sadness that I read Mark's email about the hospitalisation of Michael Pilarski.

Following is the announcement about Michael I circulalted in Australia on the permaculture-oceania listserv:

I have just learned via the international permaculture listserv that American permaculturist, forest campaigner and provocateur extraordinaire, Michael Pilarski, is in hospital in the US. Michael suffered a major heart attack and is in Wenatchee Central Hospital. The report says that his prognosis is unknown.

Michael was hospitalised late Thursday night and is reported to have heart damage and liver problems. After release, he is expected to convalesce with friends. Michael does not have medical insurance and US permaculturists may raise funds to cover his medical expenses.

Michael campaigned to preserve the forests, gardened and was instrumental in setting up bioregional 'barter fairs' in the US North-West where he lived. He visited Australia in 1995, touring permaculture sites on the east coast, giving a forests workshop in Sydney and attending the 1995 Australian permaculture convergence in Adelaide.

Michael stayed with Fiona and I in Sydney where we organised his workshop in Bondi Junction. We connected again at the Adeleide convergence. My recollections of Michael are of a sharp mind behind a bearded, weathered face and a liking for 'Dr Pepper' double-caffeine fizzy drinks.

Michael is a free spirit who has worked for the Earth and all those species that inhabit it. Here's hoping he can continue his work.

Michael can be contacted at:

Michael Pilarski
Friends of the Trees Society
PO Box 4469
Bellingham, WA 98227, USA

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Russ Grayson
Media services: journalism-print/ online/ photo
TerraCircle development aid team, Oceania
pacedge@magna.com.au Phone/ fax: 02 9588 6931
PO Box 446 Kogarah NSW 2217 Australia
http://www.magna.com.au/~pacedge/
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  • [permaculture] Michael Pilarski, Russ Grayson, 09/18/2003

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