permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Michael, 

Thank you for your words. I think that a national convergence would be great 
and would be willing to help organize or market or whatever for that. I have 
a pretty good idea of how busy you and other established designers/teachers 
are and appreciate your intention to extend yourself to expand into these 
areas.  I am willing to help where I can be useful. I, like others, do not 
feel like I can spearhead anything right now (nor would it be appropriate for 
me to do so, I feel). If enough of us volunteered to move forward, I think we 
could spread things out sufficiently that it would be doable for any one of 
us.

It's always adventurous to put in organizational structure. What would the 
yield of such a structure be? It seems that if it were approached as a site 
design, with an analysis done and needs/resources included that it might be 
easier to get agreement? That sounds like a lot of work, I'm sure that a 
number of you have engaged in multiple discussions around that, and it may be 
that things are organically evolving as they should, from various regions and 
sectors and it will all come together when it should. I'm sure others may 
have a better sense of that than I do, being out in the boonies relatively 
speaking. I am just blissfully ignorant enough to not know any better, lol. 

Meanwhile, I'm willing to discuss with anybody how we can help each other 
spread the word more effectively. Another place to list courses is 
permies.com. and http://www.permaculture.net/courses/
 
Koreen Brennan

www.growpermaculture.com
www.facebook.com/growpermaculturenow
www.meetup.com/sustainable-urban-agriculture-coalition


________________________________
 From: Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] cooperation between permaculture teachers
 
Thank you Koreen,

You are totally right.  I may have sounded a little cantankerous in my last 
email.  There is tremendous room for further cooperation and promoting of 
permaculture in the USA and you are right that it doesn't need a national 
convergence to do so. There is at least one move afoot to set up a national 
registrar of certified/qualified teachers. This dicussion has been ongoing 
over the years and is always fraught with controversy.  Hopefully we can 
increase collaboration at the national level.  To this end, I have been 
promoting a national convergence for some time, including on this list serve. 
Most anyone with any real gumption already has their hands full. 

There are a number of national portals for permaculture 
information/websites/organizations/sites on the internet. I usually start at 
the Permaculture Activist, PRI/USA, the PermaculturePortal and there are many 
others.  Who has got the most definitive list at this point? 

Looking forward to watching the developments on the national scene. Your pr 
and marketing skills are certainly needed. 


Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski
Permaculture - Wildcrafting - Medicinal Herbs & Seeds


----- Original Message -----
From: Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] cooperation between permaculture teachers

I know there is cooperation regionally in more established areas and didn't 
mean to suggest otherwise. I think there could be more of it between regions 
and that could happen with or without a National Convergence. I appreciate 
Loren making the suggestion and reaching out. 

I'm in Florida which is definitely pioneer territory, but we are starting to 
get more effective cooperation going with our first statewide convergence in 
January. I did PR and marketing in my previous to permaculture life and 
remain interested in exploring cross pollination type collaborations with the 
purpose of amping up exposure to permaculture and penetration of quality 
information about permaculture values, principles and design techniques more 
deeply and broadly into the culture. A permaculture principle is using the 
energies in the system, and my energy has value if it is recognized and 
utilized. 
 
Koreen Brennan

www.growpermaculture.com
www.facebook.com/growpermaculturenow
www.meetup.com/sustainable-urban-agriculture-coalition


________________________________
From: Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:58 PM
Subject: [permaculture] cooperation between permaculture teachers

Koreen 

Totally agreed about the cooperation, including marketing cooperation, and 
about your comment  "we might learn more from one another and become more 
effective as teachers."

Sorry, but I don't know what part of the US you are in and about the level of 
cooperation between permaculture teachers there.  

But I would like to point out that there already exists a lot of cooperation 
between permaculture teachers in many regions of the US. The area I am most 
familiar with is my home region of the Pacific Northwest.  There has been 
lots of collaboration and cooperation and exchange bettween pc teachers in 
our area over the decades.  Lots happens at our annual Pacific Northwest 
Permaculture Convergence.  A lot is coming together right now in our regional 
association of pc teachers, Cascadian Permaculture Institute. It aims for 
high standards of teaching and for collaboration between CPI members.  CPI is 
just now coming together formally, but we have many years of informal working 
together.  

i know that there is lots of intra-regional cooperation in many other parts 
of the US as well. California, Southwest, Colorado, Northeast, Southeast, 
upper Midwest, etc. 

Of course there is a long ways to go and much more to do, but I didn't want 
any new reader to get the impression there is no cooperation among 
permaculture teachers.  

At some point we will have a North American Permaculture Convergence to 
further this process on a national level.  Until then every permaculture 
teacher should be doing their due diligence to connect with and cooperate 
with other permaculture teachers in their region.

Permacordially,

Michael Pilarski

Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski
Permaculture - Wildcrafting - Medicinal Herbs & Seeds

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--- On Mon, 2/11/13, Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Who is this?
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 1:59 PM

I think we can learn from successful marketing techniques no matter who is 
doing them. I have ethical problems with some things he does, like start 
"social" Facebook pages and hide who he is on them and then use them to 
market his products. 

I would like to see more cooperation between permaculture teachers. I think 
it would be easier if we pooled marketing and made more effort to get to know 
one another and our strengths. I think that if we worked together more and 
used some (ethical) marketing strategy, we would all have more than enough 
students, and we might learn more from one another and become more effective 
as teachers. 
 
Koreen Brennan

www.growpermaculture.com
www.facebook.com/growpermaculturenow
www.meetup.com/sustainable-urban-agriculture-coalition


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From: loren luyendyk <loren@sborganics.com>
To: Permaculture Listserve <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Who is this?


It looks like the campaign is going good, despite some obvious concerns 
regarding the content/teacher/ethics.  (I have never met this person, so I 
cannot vouch either way for their credibility).

Maybe there is something to learn from this?  Cooperation not competition...? 
 I agree with the concept personally, I think the more people are exposed to 
PC the better.  But now again we are back to the issue of 
curriculum/accreditation/consistency- what are they learning and is it 
similar to what we all "should" be teaching.  (Obviously the hard part with 
an online course is for students to have hands-on experience.)

Anyone can object to the campaign if you believe it is using "prohibited 
content" here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/313242

Loren Luyendyk
805-452-8249
Permaculture Design and Education
ISA Certified Arborist #WE-7805A
www.sborganics.com
www.globalpermaculture.com
www.surferswithoutborders.com


> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:05:00 -0500
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> 
> On 2/11/2013 1:23 PM, Cory Brennan wrote:
> 
> > There are already a number of well developed on line curriculae
> > available - Dan Hemenways' Barking Frogs course, an Australia course
> > that I've heard very good things about (forgot the name of the
> > organization), and there is a partial course that is free on-line
> > that was just released, done at NCSU. And there is on-line curriculum
> > at permaculture media. And probably some I'm not aware of.  These are
> > developed by people who are using permaculture in their lives,
> > walking their talk.
> 
> Can you provide a list of links to their respective websites or other 
> online resources they use?
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop1952@att.net>wrote:

> You never quite know what will happen with these crowd sourced funding
> plans.
>  They could raise the money and never produce the product.
>
> These folks
>
> http://www.indiegogo.com/OpenPermaculture
>
> raised $16000+, but their promised book on urban permaculture has yet to
> appear.
>

Never heard of this person but did see a promotion for her work at
permies.com. Maybe Paul Wheaton can comment further as to the legitimacy of
her work.

I see that you can 'buy your own tree' to be planted in the The Wolf
Private Nature Reserve in Slovakia at the following site:

http://www.indiegogo.com/OpenPermaculture
"Who is behind this project?

Sophia Novack is a documentary film student passionate about creating a
more sustainable world. She is a passionate permaculture geek and
environmental activist. She is the force behind Permaculture Media Blog and
Permaculture Directory, the largest and FREE online directory of
Permaculture educational resources and course listings around the world.

For almost two years Permaculture Media Blog and Permaculture Directory
have brought together high-quality, sustainable-living and educational
media for the worldwide eco-community. These projects inspire thousands of
people every day and have helped many people to start their own
homesteading projects."
<>

It would be unfortunate for money to go to hyped-up nonproductive projects
when it could go to so many worthwhile ones needing and seeking funding or
thinking about pursuing that route for financial survival.

LL