permaculture

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

Things are hotting up! We just hit 181 backers and now need a final £1400 ( 
$2000 US Dollars) to hit the target in the next 24 hours - not much over 100 
people putting in £25. Can you help? RAISING Money for Scholarship FUND the 
12th International Permaculture Conference /Convergence Sept 2015 London 
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships

Brilliant cause - to bring some of the most amazing permaculture 
practitioners in the world to the UK this September for the 12th 
International Convergence, so we can learn, share and plan together. Great 
rewards too, and everyone that puts £10 or more into the pot could win a 
place at the convergence..

in honor of Earth Day, anybody want to pitch in with $10 to $20 donations, 
take this over the top?  or more of course if you feel inspired? (more money 
= more scholarships)

Hello global permaculture community! and our Santa Barbara home community...

IPC-UK organizers have started a Permaculture CROWDFUNDER campaign to help 
get people from across the world to the 12th International Permaculture 
Convergence (IPCUK) in the United Kingdom & London, hosted by the 
Permaculture Association of Britain. (thank you Permaculture Association!)

Always exciting to see all the projects and work of Permaculture 
practitioners from around the world.  For past International Permaculture 
Convergences (IPC's) a valiant effort was made by individuals and local 
permaculture associations to help provide scholarships for those from cash 
poor, but incredibly skill rich countries to attend.  Now we want to amp up 
the scholarship effort, make it even more inclusive with larger 
representation than ever for this convergence and setting the model for 
future convergences, so we ask your help.

Already there are over 60 great scholarship applications for IPC-UK and with 
this crowdfunder organizers want to support as many nations as possible to be 
present. 

Please consider the value Permaculture has made to your life and be generous 
with your gift, knowing these IPC's are truly the bedrock on which the 
Permaculture movement we take for granted was built.  With early 
permaculturists meeting every two years to strategize on how to take 
permaculture out to the world, when it was still a basically unknown word and 
concept.  Wow, when you think about it, without them, permaculture may have 
remained an essentially localized Australian phenomenon, a big loss for the 
rest of the world and us.

It is a heroic job for a local permaculture association to host one of these 
IPC'c, it's like throwing a party for the world!  So let's all join in and 
help with the scholarship part, get a big and wide group of really smart 
permaculture people together to network, build partnerships, share innovative 
permaculture thinking and designs, other worlds are possible.  We have a 
future in front of us that needs ALL the creative minds of permaculture 
global permaculture community, no one left out for lack of funds.

with gratitude for open hearts & pocket books, 

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, & members of 
Friends of the International Permaculture Convergences Nonprofit
  
donate by April 17 deadline:
Donate with PayPal: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ipcuk-scholarships
Donate with your Credit Card: 
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9 


Learn more:

https://ipcuk.events/


By 21st Century Permaculture -

If you want to hear about plans for 12 International Permaculture 
Conference/Convergence Sept 2015 with Andy Goldring of the Permaculture 
Association (Britain) follow this link: 
https://www.mixcloud.com/21stCenturyPermaculture/29thmarch2015/




History of IPCs

IPC1 Rowlands, New South Wales, Australia, 1984 
IPC2 Breitenbush Hot Springs & Olympia in the NW of the USA, 1986 
IPC3 Christchurch, New Zealand, 1988 
IPC4 Nepal, 1991 
IPC5 Copenhagen, Denmark and Gerlesborg, Sweden, 1993 
IPC6 Perth, Australia, 1996 
IPC7 Croatia organized in cooperation with Danish Association/European 
Permaculture Institute, 2005 
IPC8 Brasil, Permacultura America Latina, 2007 
IPC9 Malawi, 2009 
IPC10 Jordan, 2011 
IPC11 Cuba, 2013 

upcoming: 
IPC12 United Kingdom, 2015
IPC13 India, 2017