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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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Subject:        Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century Lecture
Fri June 30 7pm and Conference Sat & Sun July 1 & 2 Santa Barbara Ca and
LA, SF, Portland
Date:   Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:25:55 -0700
From:   Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <sbpcnet@silcom.com>

Hello
        just wanted to let you know about our conference "
*Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century  Lecture Fri June
30 7pm and Conference Sat & Sun July 1 & 2 Santa  Barbara California
USA "  July 17 Los Angles CA and July dates for San Francisco and Portland

*wes roe and margie bushman

santa barbara permaculture network www.sbpermaculture.org
<http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>
See details of program below

Hi Everyone.-

*Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century: How to Change the
Paradigm of Emergency Disaster Relief & Development to a Model of Life
Affirming Assistance* is the big event for Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network this year on *June 30, July 1, 2, 2006*.

As the title suggests, it tackles a huge subject. As Americans we have
often thought of emergency relief in terms of sending aid to other
countries, after Hurricane Katrina we also see a need to know how to
respond in a better way to our own natural disasters. *Natural
disasters, wars, famines, how does the human family respond to each
others needs during these overwhelmly stressful times? What new models
can we create to assist each other better?* Come listen to those who
have been doing this work for many years with permaculture as a
tool---with not only immediate emergency relief, but longer term
recovery and development efforts, and land care strategies that
permaculture can provide. Geoff Lawton, Nadia Abu Yahia and Andrew Jones
are the key speakers, please see below for bios and more info about the
event.

We are looking for *people interested in hosting some of the speakers
and others attending, contact us if you'd like to join in the fun*, have
a guest from another part of the world visit with you in Santa Barbara.

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Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century
How to change the Paradigm of Emergency Disaster Relief and Development
to a Model of Life Affirming Assistance

3 Day Conference & Workshop
June 30, July 1 & July 2, 2006

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*Fri June 30, 7pm
*Lecture with Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Research Institute, Australia
Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College, West Campus, $15

*Sat & Sun July 1 & 2* (Sat, 9-5, Sun, 9-4)
Morning Plenary Sessions, Afternoon Workshops
with Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and Andrew Jones, and including Panels
discussions on Rebuilding Local Economies with Fair Trade Companies and
Local Residents who went to help in New Orleans and more.

*Cost:
*Cost $160 Two Days , $90 per day or *(Payments before June 8 - $120)*
Student $120
For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571, www.sbpermaculture.org
<http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>
*Checks made to Santa Barbara Permaculture Network PO Box. 92156 Santa
Barbara, CA 93190

Location:
*Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum (BC Forum) Santa
Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA

*Speakers:

*Nadia Abu Yahia (Lawton) was born in the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan. She
learned traditional ways of land use from her father, an expert farmer
and herbal healer of Palestinian, Bedouin descent. She later went on to
complete her permaculture diploma in design, education and site
development and has recently become a registered permaculture teacher.


Andrew Jones,  Australian with a background in ecology, permaculture,
humanitarian aid and international development. Past 15 years has worked
in a humanitarian aid and development context in the Middle East , the
Pacific, Asia , Europe and the United States . With CARE International,
the International Rescue Committee, Counterpart International and
SurfAid International., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in
Macedonia and Albania , and with the United Nations Environment Program
most recently in Indonesia in a post-tsunami recovery context.
(www.fullcirclellc.com <http://www.fullcirclellc.com/>) .

Geoff Lawton, one of the world's foremost experts in “permaculture,”
providing consulting, designing, teaching and project implementation for
clients that include private individuals, groups, communities,
governments, aid organizations, non-government organizations and
multi-national companies. Lawton has served clients in 17 different
countries, including Jordan , Iraq , Egypt , USA , Mexico , Macedonia ,
Vietnam , Costa Rica , Brazil , Ecuador , Peru , England , Denmark ,
Australia and the South Pacific. Permaculture Research Institute
(www.permaculture.org.au <http://www.permaculture.org.au/> ).

*QUOTES:

*"Aid is a necessary but delicate affair; some forms of aid can produce
dependency, facilitate further inequities in a society, destroy or impair
cultural values, decrease the yields of the environment, upset balance
nutritional habits, or actually destroy sustainable local ecologies or
agricultural systems."
/Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Manual

/"Overseas experience has shown that every dollar spent on disaster
mitigation helps to save three dollars in later disaster response and
recovery. Indonesian experience shows a bigger ratio of around 7 to 1.
Overseas experience has also shown that it takes a community between
four to twenty years to recover from a major disaster, depending largely
on its level of preparedness."
/Yayasan Indonesian Development of Education and Permaculture Community
Based Disaster Management (CBDM) Kit
/www.idepfoundation.org <http://www.idepfoundation.org/>

"War is a serious destroyer of sustainability and social coherence, and
the genocide which followed the war in Cambodia further reduced
sustainability. Bombing destroyed natural resources, cultivated areas
and cultural heritage. .
War also reduces the ability of a country to withstand undesirable
foreign influences....Foreign and disinterested world monetary
organizations direct fiscal policy and reconstruction with no regard to
sustainable outcomes, and blame the country for its poverty or inability
to cope with their decisions. Sustainability finds itself in crisis and
crisis requires relief."
/Sustainability in a Worn Torn Nation/, Permaculture Projects in
Cambodia, Rosemary Morrow , Hopedance Magazine www.hopedance.org
<http://www.hopedance.org/>

"In the aid context when things are really rough you get the sense that
despair is almost a luxury that you can’t afford because certainly the
people around you for the most part are not wallowing in self-pity.
They’re getting on with their lives and doing their best. It’s
remarkable and humbling to work with people who are the focus of natural
disasters or war and conflict because what you often see is an extremely
high degree of dignity".
/Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid
for the 21st Century Conference


/"I think the paradigm of aid and development is going to change
drastically in the 21st century, because it needs to. Partly what we’re
dealing with, the reality of aid and development as it’s currently
practiced in broad senses is partly a result of having these massive
global imbalances in wealth distribution, technological resources, and
trade benefits. "
/Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid
for the 21st Century Conference


/"So I think that homegrown aid and regionally-based aid and networks
between people are going to be the things that really grow and thrive as
we’re coming into a network age. I think that the ability for people to
connect and work together as equals is of huge importance because that’s
actually going to be the most effective way of working with folks who
are in situations of stress and facing challenges. "
/Andrew Jones Unpublished Interview for Permaculture & Sustainable Aid
for the 21st Century Conference

/*Co-Sponsors :
*SBCC Environmental Horticulture Dept, Environmental Studies Program,
Santa Barbara City College;Nutiva; Hopedance Media and Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network.

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_List of Public Events for Geoff and Nadia Lawton and Andrew Jones in USA :

_June 18,19,20,21,22,23, Programs in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Geoff
and Nadia Lawton
Contact Guy Trombley <trom0003@umn.edu>,

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Tuesday June 27th 6-9 PM Lecture and Powerpoint with Geoff Lawton
Santa Monica Public Library, The Auditorium Donation $10-$15
1343 6th street Santa Monica, CA 90401 Phone at library 310 458 8600
www.smpl.org <http://www.smpl.org/>
The library is located on Santa Monica Blvd. at 6th street in Downtown
Santa Monica. Ample parking, entrance on 6th street.
Contact David Kahn <info@sustainablehabitats.org> 1-323-667-1330

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Fri June 30 7pm Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century
Lecture with Australian Geoff Lawton $15
How to change the paradigm of emergency disaster relief and development
to a model of life affirming assistance.
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum, Santa Barbara City
College, West Campus 721 Cliff Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2394
For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571
www.sbpermaculture.org <http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>

Sat & Sun July 1 & 2, 9-5pm Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st
Century Workshop
How to change the paradigm of emergency disaster relief and development
to a model of life affirming assistance.
With Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and Andrew Jones including Panels
discussions on Rebuilding Local Economies with Fair Trade Companies and
Local Residents who went to help in New Orleans and more
Cost $160 Two Days , $90 per day or (Payments before June 1 - $120)
Student $120
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum Santa Barbara City
College, West Campus 721 Cliff Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2394
For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571
www.sbpermaculture.org <http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>

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July 1 -6; Permaculture Design Course at the Portland Permaculture
Institute.
Introduction to Permaculture, Healthy Soil, Water Collection and
Greywater, Permaculture Food Production.
Geoff Lawton on July 3, 4, and 5. co teaching with Toby Hemenway, Pam
Leitch, Joe Leitch and Karen Tillou.
$50 per day includes lunch. www.portlandpermaculture.com
<http://www.portlandpermaculture.com/> pam@portlandpermaculture.com
503.293.8004
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SFBG Urban Permaculture Design Certification Course July 7 - 9, July 14
- 16, Aug 11 - 13, Aug 18 - 20
July 7-9 Geoff Lawton with Kat Steele Fred Bove' and Kevin Bayuk
Saturday July 8 7:30-9:30 Geoff and Nadia Lawton, Evening SOULutionary
Programs www.soulutioneers.org/ <http://www.soulutioneers.org/>
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society Ninth Ave at Lincoln Way San
Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 661-1316, ext 354 , contact Kat Steele <kat@steelemoon.com>
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July 10 10th 7:30 - 9 Lecture with Geoff Lawton Santa Rosa California
New College 99 6th Street Santa Rosa
Contact Joseph Kennedy livingearth62@hotmail.com,jkennedy@sonic.net
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
*/sbpcnet@silcom.com
/*_www.sbpermaculture.org <http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>

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