permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Friday, Sept 26, 9-10am Sustainable World Radio on KCSB 91.9 FM PST 
and streaming live on www.kcsb.org. Also found 
on  www.sustainableworldradio.com, later in the month

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio for an interview  with 
Warren Brush certified Permaculture designer, educator, and 
storyteller. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis &
Permaculture Farm (www.quailsprings.org), Wilderness Youth Project, 
Mentoring for Peace, and Trees for Children

Invited by the Santa Barbara based non-profit Everyday Gandhis , 
Warren Brush traveled to Liberia to teach workshops in Permaculture 
as a part of a peace building process, with vocational training for 
many former child-soldiers from a brutal 15 year civil war the 
country had endured. Follow Warren's work in Africa on his blog at 
<http://web.mac.com/warrenbrush/iWeb/Site/African%20Journeys/African%20Journeys.html>http://web.mac.com/warrenbrush/iWeb/Site/African%20Journeys/African%20Journeys.html 
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UPCOMING LECTURE/FUNDRAISER IN SANTA BARBARA OCT 4, 7pm 2008
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
 Permaculture Around the World Series

Child Soldiers of Liberia, Transformation through Permaculture
with Warren Brush

Saturday, October 4, 7-9pm 2008
Fundraiser Donation $10
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery

        Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as it 
launches its new series Permaculture Around the World by hosting a 
talk with Warren Brush of Quail Springs Learning Oasis and 
Permaculture Farm as he talks about his journey and work in Liberia, 
West Africa.

      Invited by the Santa Barbara based non-profit Everyday Gandhis 
( www.everydaygandhis.org), Warren Brush traveled to Liberia to teach 
workshops in Permaculture as a part of a peace building process, with 
vocational training for many former child-soldiers from a brutal 15 
year civil war the country had endured.  After the long civil war, 
the land was injured, but so were its children, now grown to young 
adults.  Caught in the nightmare of a war they didn t create, but had 
been conscripted into, many were reluctant to return to their homes 
after the terrible atrocities of war. Could Permaculture help heal 
the land and its people?

Warren Brush made his first journey to Voinjama, Liberia in 2007 to 
teach a Permaculture course to students from a wide variety of 
backgrounds. These included elders of all the local tribes, medicine 
people, ex-combatant youth, trained agriculturists, subsistence 
farmers, men and women, all teaching translated into the local 
language.  Teaching sustainable agriculture techniques, as a part of 
the course, the students participated in a design project for a newly 
created Peace and Permaculture Demonstration Farm.  In March 2008, 
the first graduating class of a Permaculture Design Course in 
Liberia's history received their diplomas from an assistant to the 
country's President, H.E. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, noting the 
significance of the event.

Permaculture (PERMAnent agriCULTURE) is the conscious design and 
maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the 
diversity, resilience, and stability of natural ecosystems. It is the 
harmonious integration of landscape with humans in providing shelter, 
water, food, energy and other material and non-material needs in a 
sustainable manner.

Quail Springs is a 450-acre working farm and wilderness center 
focused on modeling and teaching the concepts and practices of 
sustainability. Located in the Cuyama Valley north of Ojai, CA, Quail 
Springs ( www.quailsprings.org) has been incorporating Permaculture 
into all of its land practices on their farm and demonstration site 
since it's inception.  Permaculture teachers from around the world 
have taught at Quail Springs, and most recently, students from 
Liberia have attended advanced training courses there.  The hope is 
to share ecological design techniques and strategies with both the 
local communities of California and the world.  Currently Quail 
Springs is involved in a capital campaign to help build a Core 
Mentoring Center to accommodate this work, and join a network of 
Permaculture Training Centers around the globe.

Warren Brush is a certified Permaculture designer, educator, and 
storyteller. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & 
Permaculture Farm, Wilderness Youth Project, Mentoring for Peace, and 
Trees for Children.  He works extensively in Permaculture education 
and sustainability design in North America and in Africa.  Follow 
Warren's work in Africa on his blog at 
<http://web.mac.com/warrenbrush/iWeb/Site/African%20Journeys/African%20Journeys.html>http://web.mac.com/warrenbrush/iWeb/Site/African%20Journeys/African%20Journeys.html 
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The event takes place at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner 
Gallery, 40 East Anapamu St, in downtown Santa Barbara, on Saturday, 
October 4, 7-9pm, 2008.  No reservations are required, fundraiser 
donation for Quail Springs work $10. For more information please call 
(805) 962-2571, or email 
<mailto:margie@sbpermaculture.org>margie@sbpermaculture.org; 
www.sbpermaculture.org. Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network and Everyday Gandhis.

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