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[Steve Hart <stevenlawrencehart@gmail.com>]

Yes, likewise Robyn I heard the news just recently too from Carlos Louge in
Argentina. Magrit, Declan and I did Bill and Andrew Jeeves course together
in Tassie. We had great fun on many fronts and stayed in contact through
different links. She does leave behind a great legacy valuable to all
networks...Steve Hart


On 27 March 2014 04:18, Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au> wrote:

> I don't know if I missed something in the permie networks, but it was a
> shock for me to discover in a recent GEN (Global Ecovillage Network)
> newsletter that Margrit Kennedy had passed away December 28, 2013.
> She was one of the first generation of permaculture pioneers, and an
> important mentor and role model for me as a young permaculture teacher and
> designer in the 1980s, and was a considerable influence in the formative
> years of the permaculture movement.
>
> I first met Margrit and her husband Declan when they were in Australia for
> the first ever International Permaculture Convergence in 1984.  They had
> taken one of Bills early PDCs and set up the Permaculture Institute of
> Europe. Margrit, at that time was  a powerful voice for women in
> architecture and a leading innovator in eco-architecture and urban renewal
> in Berlin. I later attended an advanced Urban Pc Design course with Margrit
> and Declan in USA, just before IPC2, during which she introduced Michael
> Linton, inventor of the LETS system to permaculture and visa versa.
>
> Most of Margrit's work over the past few decades has focussed on changing
> the financial system, and she has been a leading voice for complimentary
> currencies, including publication of her book Interest and Inflation Free
> Money, Creating an Exchange Medium that Works for Everybody and Protects
> the Earth (1987) which has been revised several times and translated into
> 22 languages. download pdf here:
> kennedy-bibliothek.info/data/bibo/media/GeldbuchEnglisch.pdf
>
> Margrit leaves an important legacy which continues through the many people
> she inspired and mentored. Her achievements need to be acknowledged by the
> permaculture movement as a significant pioneer in urban design, ecovillage
> and invisible structures.
>
> Robyn
>
> http://permaculture.com.au/margrit-kennedy-1939-2013-permaculture-pioneer/
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