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  • From: Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>
  • To: cory@permacultureguild.us
  • Subject: [permaculture] Straw bale apprenticeships Pine Ridge Lakota rez
  • Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:56:51 -0700 (PDT)

We are looking for people who want to help us finish building our huge straw
bale building for the Oglala-Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitilization
Initiative at Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Please forward this to
anyone who might be interested!

The project is currently in progress daily. We would like to finish building
the structure by Oct 15-30 of this year, in time to provide much needed
winter housing for interns, and this is very doable especially if we get
several more people to assist.

The structure will be used as a workshop to develop alternative energy
prototypes including biodigesters, high efficiency cogeneration
stoves/heaters/electric generators, and more. These will be used on the rez
to create greater resiliency and independence as well as providing an
economic engine on the reservation when manufacturing/production begins.

It will also serve as an office and housing for interns for our extensive
permaculture project and design which involves a fully self-sustaining,
regenerative system of keyline, swales and other water systems, food forest,
CSA garden, silvoculture, cooperative businesses (farmer-rancher and others),
cultural regeneration for Lakota, sustainability and cultural library,
prairie regeneration project, natural building, wind energy, sustainably
produced biofuels, etc.

This is a very worthy project that you can be truly proud of contributing to!


We would love people who have construction, earth plastering,
plumbing/electric and/or natural building experience but will take
inexperienced people as well and train you in basics of straw bale building.
Tent camping is available, and you will need to be prepared to pay for your
own food.

We need to complete:
Roofing
Walls (1/2 way done)
Plastering, exterior and interior
Interior cob walls
Floor
Interior walls
Plumbing/electric
Kitchen/bath hookups

Please forward this far and wide to anyone who may be interested! For more
info, see permacultureguild.us, Pine Ridge (under projects and also under
Apprenticeship program under courses), or write me.

Best, Cory Brennan
cory@permacultureguild.us






  • [permaculture] Straw bale apprenticeships Pine Ridge Lakota rez, Cory Brennan, 09/15/2010

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