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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] NAPC: Scarcity?
  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 09:01:01 -0700

On Aug 9, 2014, at 4:51 AM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
<lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> Would you be willing to put $100-$500 in a pot for the next NAPC
> convergence to fund organizing positions and campaign at the NAPC event to
> get this money

This is a good idea--although we've identified permie pocketbooks as a
limiting resource. But, sure. And membership dues or similar are all
possibilities. Makes ya wonder how the Oddfellows and Masons get such
gorgeous meeting halls in nearly every town.

Here's a relevant story: I'm teaching a 9-month Eco-landscaper training with
brilliant local designer Erik Ohlsen and others. We have an outdoor classroom
that has needs improvement, so we gave the course participants the task of
designing a better classroom. Erik gave them $2000 as a budget for the room.
During the multi-group design charette, one of the students said, "Why don't
take that $2000, hire a fund-raise with it, and have them raise $50,000 for a
really good classroom?"

A beautiful leap to a higher design level.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com





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