permaculture

[Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>]

Hi Marisha,

Glad to see your course is coming together.  I hope it fills just fine.

I note that Bruce Weiskotten is also planning a pdc to end just before the 
convergence.  

Plus Toby's in the same time period.  At some point I will send notice about 
all the next course line-up to my list when I got all the facts straight.

Please read my email with the convergence brochure draft.  I'd love feedback.

I'd love if you would confirm that you'd be a presenter.  I know you hadn't 
100% signed on.  But think about it cause I don't want to put your name on 
the brochure without your permission.  

let me know.

perma-love

skeeter.  

--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Marisha Auerbach <queenbee@herbnwisdom.com> wrote:
From: Marisha Auerbach <queenbee@herbnwisdom.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Upcoming Events: Please Help Spread the Word.....
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 10:09 PM

August 25 - September 7th, 2008
Permaculture Design Certification Course
with Adam Rawson and Marisha Auerbach
K-Jo Farm, Vashon Island, WA

Permaculture is whole system design and development for sustainable living and
land use.  Permaculture presents at framework for consciously designed
landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature.  These
systems yield an abundance of food, water, shelter, and energy for the
provision of local needs.

This complete, accredited course is suitable for eveyone interested in
permaculture and sustainable design including:  homeowners, gardeners,
farmers,
business owners, students, design and development professionals.  At
completion, students will recieve the Permaculture Design Certificate.

Topics include:
* Permaculture Philosophy, Ethics, and Principles   * Concepts and Themes in
Design     * Design Methodology   * Pattern Understanding
* Reading the Landscape
* Cliimatic Factors    * Trees and their Energy Transactions     * Water
*
Soils     * Earthworking and Earth Resources      * Aquaculture      * Natural
Building
* The Humid Tropics, Drylands, and Humid Cool to Cold Climates   * Forestry
* The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation  * Perennial and Annual
Gardens
* Animal Husbandry     * Sustainable Building     * Restoration Ecology  *
Mycology
* Edible Landscapng    * Sustainable Land Use     * Plant Propagation
* Nutrient Cycling     * Ethnobotany     * Energy Conservation      * Seed
Saving
* Bioregionalism       * Urban Permaculture       * Appropriate Technology

* Local Economics      * Food Forests & Polyculture Systems   * Community
* and more!

With expert guests, tours of local sustainable projects, homes and farms, and
hands-on application on a working farm
Course tuition is $1200, includes meals and camping on-site.

For information and registration, call (206) 697-0159

************************************************************************************************************************************

Weekend Permaculture Design Certification Course
Vashon Co-Housing, Vashon Island, WA

September 19 - 21
September 26 - 28
October 10 - 12
October 24 - 26
November 7 - 9
November 21 - 23

Friday Evenings:  7 - 9 pm
Saturdays:  10 am - 5 pm
Sundays:  10 am - 5 pm

Facilitated by Marisha Auerbach, Dana Schuerholz, Adam Rawson, Kelda Miller,
and friends

The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of
sustainable futures, based on permaculture philosophy, techniques, and
strategies that one could incorporate into their everyday life, or enhance
their career.  This course will provide diverse hands-on experience.  The
intention is to facilitate a systems approach to thinking about different
issues, encouraging care for the earth and its inhabitants as a diverse
community.  This course will meet two weekends per month.  There will be
suggested readings and we will visit and network with others using
permacultureprinciples in their lives and careers.

Topics include:
* Permaculture Philosophy, Ethics, and Principles   * Concepts and Themes in
Design     * Design Methodology   * Pattern Understanding
* Reading the Landscape
* Cliimatic Factors    * Trees and their Energy Transactions     * Water
*Soils     * Earthworking and Earth Resources      * Aquaculture      * 
Natural
Building
* The Humid Tropics, Drylands, and Humid Cool to Cold Climates   * Forestry
* The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation  * Perennial and Annual
Gardens
* Animal Husbandry     * Sustainable Building     * Restoration Ecology  *
Mycology
* Edible Landscapng    * Sustainable Land Use     * Plant Propagation
* Nutrient Cycling     * Ethnobotany     * Energy Conservation      * Seed
Saving
* Bioregionalism       * Urban Permaculture       * Appropriate Technology
* Local Economics      * Food Forests & Polyculture Systems   * Community
* and more!

The tuition for this course is $900 - $700, sliding scale.  We are open to
work/trade possibilities.

For more information, or to register, contact:  Marisha Auerbach  (360)
943-5262 or queenbee@herbnwisdom.com

To learn more:  check out our websites:  www.herbnwisdom.com or
www.vashoncohousing.org

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:39:24 -0400
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-meyerhoff30-2008jul30,0,1362663.story

 From the Los Angeles Times
Buzzzzzzzz kill
The loss of billions of bees raises questions about our pesticide
controls.
By Al Meyerhoff

July 30, 2008

It's likely that most people have never heard of Gaucho. And no, it's
not a South American cowboy. I'm talking about a pesticide.

There is increasing reason to believe that Gaucho and other members of
a family of highly toxic chemicals -- neonicotinoids -- may be
responsible for the deaths of billions of honeybees worldwide. Some
scientists believe that these pesticides, which are applied to seeds,
travel systemically through the plant and leave residues that
contaminate the pollen, resulting in bee death or paralysis. The
French refer to the effect as "mad bee disease" and in 1999 were the
first to ban the use of these chemicals, which are currently only
marketed by Bayer (the aspirin people) under the trade names Gaucho
and Poncho. Germany followed suit this year, and its agricultural
research institute said it concluded that the poisoning of the bees
was because of the rub-off of the pesticide clothianidin (that's
Pancho) from corn seeds.

So why did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 grant an
"emergency" exemption allowing increased use of Gaucho -- typically
invoked during a major infestation -- when only a few beetles were
found in blueberries? Why did the agency also grant a "conditional"
registration for its close relative, Pancho, allowing the chemical on
the market with only partial testing? And why is the agency, hiding
behind a curtain of "trade secrets," still refusing to disclose
whether the additional tests required of companies in such cases were
conducted and, if so, with what results?

Therein lies a tale. Most pesticides, we're told, are safe. So we add
about 5 billion pounds a year of these deadly chemicals to our world,
enough to encircle the planet if it were packaged in 100-pound sacks.
Sure, they are regulated -- but badly -- under the antiquated Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. This law allows a chemical
on the market unless it's proved to pose "an unreasonable risk," far
too weak a standard.

Gerard Eyries, a Bayer marketing manager, said in connection with the
French action that "imidacloprid [that's Gaucho] left a small residue
in nectar and pollen, but there was no evidence of a link with the
drop in the bee population." Bayer also blamed seed makers and
suggested that there may be "nonchemical causes" for this massive bee
kill. But Bayer may not be entirely objective here. In 2006, Gaucho
sales topped $746 million.

Something is killing the bees, though. Some scientists suspect a
virus; others mites, even cellphones. (Bees are not known to use
phones, though, having their own communications system -- a dance
called the "waggle.")

Here in the U.S., the bee kill is a big problem. Domesticated bees
were brought to the U.S. on the Mayflower. Today, they contribute at
least $15 billion to the nation's agricultural economy. For example,
California's $2-billion-a-year almond crop is completely dependent on
honeybees from about 1.5 million hives for pollination. This year,
more than 2.4 million bee colonies -- 36% of the total -- were lost in
the U.S., according to the Apiary Inspectors of America. Some colonies
collapsed in two days.

Part of the problem is how we farm. Rather than rotating crops,
farmers grow the same one each year. This "monoculture" creates a
breeding ground for pests. Farmers then use chemicals that kill not
only the target organism but other life forms as well -- like
honeybees. That this approach may now be coming back to bite
big-production agriculture is not without some irony. For decades the
agriculture industry has been its beneficiary -- with farmworkers,
consumers and local communities the victims. But, actually, we're all
in trouble.

No independent government testing is required before a pesticide is
registered for use. Large gaps in basic scientific knowledge about
pesticides remain, including their environmental "fate" (where they
end up) and their toxicity to humans and to wildlife. A problem
pesticide may be removed from the market only after a long process and
full trial -- something that should be done before. The Food Quality
Protection Act of 1996 improved control of residues in our food. That
didn't help the bees.

Rachel Carson was vilified by an industry smear nearly 50 years ago,
after the release of her book, "Silent Spring." "If we were to follow
the teachings of Miss Carson," said American Cyanamid, the maker of
DDT, "we would return to the Dark Ages ... insects, vermin and disease
would once again inherit the Earth." But, as Carson so eloquently put
it in a CBS documentary in 1964: "Man's attitude toward nature is
today critically important simply because we now have acquired a
fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is part of nature,
and his war is inevitably a war against himself."

Al Meyerhoff, an environmental attorney in Los Angeles, is a former
director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's public health program.