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  • From: Gary Higbee <garyh@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
  • To: permaculture-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
  • Subject: International Permaculture Events
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:08:22 -0800 (PST)


The following is a message I am posting for some friends. Please contact
them if you are interested in these courses. They have more detailed
information available. In addition, I will send another post in a couple
weeks, with more information. Please pass this along to any person or
organization you think might benefit from such a course. These people
have been at this for some time, and my experience with their other
events has been very positive.


CONTACT PERSONS:
Ianto Evans or Michael Smith
Zopilote Association
Box 123, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Phone/FAX (503) 942-3021

Two Interconnected Courses in
ALTERNATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

July 1-13 1995, near Eugene , Oregon USA
August 6-19 1995 in the mountains of Tlaxala, central Mexico

After fifty years of Overseas Aid and International Development,
the world's poor are worse off than ever. Attempts by governments and
large organizations to develop traditional societies by making industrial
consumers of the richly cultured Southern nations have accelerated
environmental destruction and social chaos everywhere. We create new
poverty with every dollar we spend.

But one small private group has a unique record of success in an
alternative style of international development, based on bringing
together mixed groups of professionals from the North and South to share
perspective, skills, experiences and solutions. Zopilote Association is
a collaborative of architects, foresters, sociologists, agronomists and
ecologists from Europe, North and South America. All members are expert
teachers, extensively traveled and experienced in rural development. The
core group have worked together since the 1970s offering training in
permaculture, sustainable forest management, organic food production,
appropriate household technologies, land restoration and rural
self-reliance. Zopilote Association takes no government or
institutional funding, yet has provided a decade of service in Latin
America, run more than thirty sustainable development courses, given
hundreds of scholarships to Latin Americans, and influenced major shifts
in national policies.

In July of 1995, Zopilote will add an international course in the
US. We will bring skilled Latin Americans to Oregon to help us learn
from their traditional systems of agriculture, land care and community
life. Then, in August we will take a dozen selected US/Europeans to
Mexico and expose them to everyday realities by living and working
closely with Latin Americans and Native Americans. Both courses include
keynote talks by international specialists and lots of field trips. We
emphasize hands-on learning, exploring the cooperative relationship of
humans to our environment which we must develop if we are to survive the
21st Century. Specific topics include: ecological food production,
permaculture, erosion control, drought management, sustainable forest
management, regenerative agroforestry, strategies for strengthening
family and community, natural building and appropriate household
technologies. Both courses will be taught and translated in English and
Spanish.

The cost of the Oregon course is $750, Mexico $1150, both $1750,
including tuition, all meals, rustic accommodations and field trips, but
not travel to and from the site. A $200 deposit ensures a place. 10%
discount for 60-day advance payment, 10% surcharge for any payment mailed
within 15 days of the course. Some scholarships are available for Latin
Americans, Africans and Asians, but we cannot cover transportation costs.



  • International Permaculture Events, Gary Higbee, 03/21/1995

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