Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture in Houston and Mexico
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:07:14 -0600
Hi Shawn,
almost forgot to ask you for the article regarding teaching core modules...
we've started giving permaculture courses through the local state
university (biological sciences college). Brings prices down, but also run
into a few problems... Easter break ran into teacher`s day and mother's
day and I can't remember what else but it turned out to be a five week
break. And there's the fact we haven't been paid five months
afterwards... :)
By the way, the person (Alejandra Caballero) that gives the wonderful
alternative construction courses in Mexico prices them a bit high to
subsidize the elementary school that her mother started, totally free for
children in their low-income neighborhood. She's the sole funder of the
school, which includes permaculture as part of the curriculum, the
classrooms are made of strawbale construction, they have urine-diverting
dry toilets, etc etc. Some civil organizations do the same - advertising
the expensive courses/services, but not the community work not charged.
There are also just skads of community-oriented local (and not so local)
radio stations which are very open to environmental issues in general and
love to hear "fresh" voices. Hope to get more serious about this in the
future. Hard to explain some concepts without visual aids, but the idea is
to just get the word out there...
thanks,
george anna
At 08:48 p.m. 15/09/2004, you wrote:
McFarlandAIA@aol.com
If anyone is interested in how we made this transition from an
in-residence
intensive class to a more fragmented allotment of core teaching modules which
can transfered to any available teacher (assuming you have many), please
let me
know and I will share or post an article written by Dr. Bob Randall of Urban
Harvest about the evolution of our group and its teaching approach.
Re: [permaculture] Permaculture in Houston and Mexico,
George Anna Clark, 10/19/2004