permaculture

[Ray Cirino <cobanation@yahoo.com>]

Dear Wes and Margie,
This one looks like a very important one right up my alley. I need to cut 
through lots of red tape and they look like the people that could help. Can 
you find out if a dragon is allowed to serve food at this event. I promiced 
I'd come up and this date is open.
Let's talk,
Ray


The Great Challenges we now face as a species present the very opportunities 
that are giving birth to Ecological, Psychological, and Spiritual 
Sustainability.


--- On Fri, 1/6/12, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
<lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
> <lakinroe@silcom.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] Mon Jan 16/Carolyn Raffenspeger/Precautionary 
> Principle the Golden Rule for Future Generations Santa Barbara
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, January 6, 2012, 8:38 AM
> */
> 
> <mailto:sbpcnet@silcom.com>/*
> /SBCC Center for Sustainability Hosts:
> /
> The Precautionary Principle
>    the Golden Rule for Future Generations
> with Carolyn Raffensperger
> 
> and special guest David Eisenberg
> Monday, January 16, 7pm-9:30pm, 2012
> Santa Barbara City College, West Campus, Fe Bland
> Auditorium
> $10 general/$5 SBCC Students
> 
> 
> What does the present owe the future?
> 
> >From medicine to agriculture, energy, communication,
> and transportation, 
> we have technologies our grandparents could not have
> imagined.  Some of 
> these technologies have dark sides and unknown
> consequences.  Who will 
> be the guardians for future generations insuring that our
> present 
> technologies don't negatively impact our descendants?
> 
> The Precautionary Principle suggests that we err on the
> side of caution 
> when designing for our future.  It is a tool for
> making better health 
> and environmental decisions, and aims to prevent harm from
> the outset 
> rather than manage it after the fact.
> 
> Although America's founding father's intended a government
> that would 
> allow its citizens life, liberty and the pursuit of
> happiness, they 
> could not have anticipated the industrial age with its
> extremely toxic 
> substances that now pollute the soil, air, and water, our
> country's commons.
> 
> What role does both government and the individual play in
> protecting 
> these commons, our common heritage?  What compelling
> vision can we have 
> for ourselves and our children that allows us to be
> prosperous, healthy, 
> and ecologically whole?  Come learn about the
> Precautionary Principle 
> and its tool kit for communities, organizations, and
> government.
> 
> Carolyn Raffensperger has helped define, shape, and lead
> the 
> precautionary movement.  She and her team at the
> Science and 
> Environmental Health Network, have purposefully sown the
> seeds of the 
> precautionary principle across the United States.
> 
> Carolyn Raffensperger is an environmental lawyer and the
> Executive 
> Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network.
> She is the 
> co-editor of /Precautionary Tools for Reshaping
> Environmental Policy/ 
> published by M.I.T. Press (2006) and /Protecting Public
> Health and the 
> Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle/,
> published by 
> Island Press (1999). Together, these volumes are the most
> comprehensive 
> exploration to date of the history, theory, and
> implementation of the 
> precautionary principle.  Carolyn coined the term
> "ecological medicine" 
> to encompass the broad notions that both health and healing
> are entwined 
> with the natural world.
> 
> Carolyn will be joined by her friend and colleague David
> Eisenberg of 
> the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT),
> who since 
> 1995, has led the effort to create a sustainable context
> for building 
> regulations.  A panel discussion including community
> members from 
> backgrounds of health, agriculture, social justice, and
> education  will 
> follow the talk.
> 
> 
> The event takes place on *Monday,* *January 16, 7pm -
> 9:30pm, at the Fe 
> Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College West Campus,*
> 721 Cliff Dr, 
> SB 93109.  Admission $10 general/$5 SBCC students, no
> reservations 
> required. More info; (805)965-0581,ext 2177, sbpcnet@silcom.com
> 
> Event Sponsors: Oasis Design, Santa Barbara Permaculture
> Network & the 
> SBCC Center for Sustainability
> 
> SBCC Center for Sustainability
> http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
> 
> 
> <http://sustainability.sbcc.edu/>
> _More Info:
> 
> _View on Facebook:
> Center for Sustainability:
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/SBCC-Center-for-Sustainability/195585370466944?v=wall
> 
> Carolyn Raffensperger
> Science and Environmental Health Network:
> www.sehn.org
> 
> <http://www.sehn.org/>Articles:
> 
> *Carolyn Raffensperger Interview:
> *The Precautionary Principle asks whether harm can be
> prevented
> instead of assessing degrees of "acceptable " risk:*
> * http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/technology-who-chooses/461
> 
> *How Do You Love All the Children, Interview with
> Architect, Designer 
> William McDonough:
> * 
> http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/power-of-one/how-do-you-love-all-the-children
> 
> 
> 
>     /"If design is a signal of intent, and we
> look at what we've done
>     with the first industrial revolution, we
> would have to ask, did we
>     intend to do this? If we articulated the
> retroactive design
>     assignment of the First Industrial
> Revolution, it would be something
>     like this: "Could you design a system that
> pollutes the soil, air,
>     and water; that measures productivity by how
> few people are working;
>     that measures prosperity by how much natural
> capital you can dig up,
>     bury, burn, or otherwise destroy; that
> measures progress by the
>     number of smokestacks and requires thousands
> of complex regulations
>     to keep you from killing each other too
> quickly; that destroys
>     bio-diversity and cultural diversity; that
> produces things that are
>     so highly toxic they require thousands of
> generations to maintain
>     constant vigil while living in terror?"
> /  William McDonough, the
>     Next Industrial Revolution
> 
> 
> -end-
> 
> 
> Margie Bushman
> Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability
> (805) 965-0581, ext 2177, sbpcnet@silcom.com
> http://sustainability.sbcc.edu/
> P Please consider the environment before printing this
> email.
> 
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