permaculture

["Claude Genest" <genest@together.net>]

True that Louisiana is far, but I sure would like to see fisrthand what they
are doing with that old millitary compound ! ( and maybe get to catch
Zachary Richard singing in French :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: North American Permaculture Convergence


> Scott et al:
>
> I'd be eager to see a permaculture conference come about, and would almost
> certainly attend and help with it. But Shreveport doesn't seem like a good
> location, as it is not near a major airport (3 plane changes for me), and
> about as far away from the major concentrations of both population (NE and
> west coast) and permaculture activity (same as above plus the SW) as you
can
> get. That means it will be expensive for most people to fly to, and very
far
> to drive, bus, or train to. I'd suggest moving it to either one of the
> coasts or to the SW, so that at least a portion of the participants would
be
> nearby. The current location just about maximizes the amount of resources
> consumed to attend. It would be cheaper and less energy intensive to fly
> Bill to a more central location than for 200 people to come to him.
>
> I'd love to help it happen, though.
>
> Toby
>
>
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