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[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

Hi Josh,

Don't despair about the postings on the list these days...bunch of good people to be found here....

Hope you come to Green Mountain in Sept... With peter Bane there it should be excellent ( but of course I'm partial as it's my place ;-)

Love to hear more about your bio-regional plans...Count me in...
Best Regards,
Claude William Genest

www.greenmountainpermaculture.com
Green Mountain Permaculture: Solutions, Sustenance, Sustainability

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On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Joshua Dolan wrote:

> Hello all,
> This is my first post on this list so far.  I joined
> about a week ago, or so, and have been rather
> dissapointed with the discussion so far.  I would like
> to speak up for the silent majority out there who are
> on this list because it is a permaculture discussion. 
> So far, I have not read one post about PC.  What
> gives?
> Can we focus on the reason we are all here?  
>
> With that said, I would like to introduce myself and
> talk a bit about what has been going on in the Finger
> Lakes Region of Upstate New york.  my friend michael
> burns recentley initiated an online discussion (which
> you can enter at
> fingerlakespermaculture-request@topica.net ) and has
> sparked a flurry of activity.  He has hosted a solar
> oven workshop at his homestead Cayuta Sun along with
> Rebecca Cutter from the mesoamerican permaculture
> institute.  Rony Lec, also of IMAP, will be
> facilitating a permaculture discussion/cafe later this
> month at Cayuta sun. 
>
> At this point, there are maybe 1 or 2 certified
> individuals in the region that I know of, but it seems
> that there are a few more that will be certified this
> summer or next.  Steve gabriel, who has recently
> reterned from the findhorn foundation, will be
> attending the course at earthhaven this summer and i
> have tentative plans to attend the september course at
> green mountain permaculture.  We are currently trying
> to facilitate the formation of a permaculture guild
> for the bioregion as well as collect names of people
> interested in a bioregional congress next year.  So in
> the 2 months or so that this discussion has been up
> and running, we have made great strides toward
> connecting the dots and creating something beautiful. 
> I think we will have great succes in our region as it
> is naturally one of the most sustainably oriented in
> the usa (cornell, ecovillage, ithaca dollars, ithaca
> health fund, etc. etc. etc.)
>
> a few projects that i myself am interested in pursuing
> are 1. a regional seed bank  and 2. a forest repair
> network (a environmental protection group, coppicing
> education, value-added forest products, and guerrilla
> tree planters, etc.)  This second project is
> particularly important to me.  I sometimes meditate on
> the forests that once covered the entire eastern part
> of the country.  My heart yearns to bring them back. 
> This is a much larger vision and I would love to hear
> from anyone else working on this or interested in
> this.  It would be great if there someday emerges a
> network of forest healers across the entire east,
> wouldn't it.  anyway, i would love to here your
> feedback.  Thanks for listening to my story.
>
> In La Kesh
> Josh Dolan
> Pulteney, NY
>
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