>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3-the_well_a (2006-06-01) on > assassin.well.com >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled > version=3.1.3-the_well_a >X-WELL-Auth: No >From: "Institute for Urban Ecovillages - Los Angeles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: NVC Training, Carfree housing, Advanced Permaculture and >more events at L.A. Eco-Village >Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:55:04 -0700 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) >X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 >on smtp.well.com >X-Virus-Status: Clean > >Hi All, >Please visit our website or click on the links below for details on these >events. >Lois >www.laecovillage.org > >NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOP SERIES with Esfandiar Abbassi at >L.A.Eco-Village. Starts Sat. 7/1 (5 - 7 pm) and continues on 7/8, 7/15, >7/22, 7/29. Take one or some or all. Details at >http://www.laecovillage.org/UseUpcoming%20events.html > >CARFREE HOUSING IN EUROPEAN CITIES with Dr. Jan Scheuer, Sunday, July 9 at >8:30 pm. PowerPoint presentation and talk at L.A. Eco-Village Details at >http://www.laecovillage.org/Janscheuer.html > >ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE FOR THE WILSHIRE CENTER AMBASSADOR PARK >with Scott Horton: 8/12-13, 8/19-20, 9/2-4 Details at >http://www.laecovillage.org/Scotthortonamb.html > >AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCING FOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS AND LIMITED EQUITY >HOUSING COOPERATIVES - 8/16 (Watch for details) > >AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOVILLAGES Slide Show and Talk with Diana Leafe >Christian on 8/25. Two-day Workshop on 8/26-27 Details at >http://www.laecovillage.org/Dianeleafechristian.html > >LOS ANGELES ECO-VILLAGE TOURS: 11 am - 1 pm on 7/1, 7/3, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5. >http://laecovillage.org/Toursoflaev.html > > >NOTE REGARDING A RELATED EVENT: > If you get this in time and can get to the "Permaculture & Sustainable Aid >for the 21st Century" conference in Santa Barbara this weekend (6/30-7/2), >you will learn of the permaculture work of Geoff Lawton and Nadia Yahia in >several devastated areas throughout the world. Their work is beautiful, >practical, simple and inspiring. It has as many implications for first >world cities as for the developing world. See below for details: > >Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century: >How to Change the Paradigm of Emergency Disaster Relief & Development >to a Model of Life Affirming Assistance > >3 Day Conference >Evening Lecture with Geoff Lawton, Friday, June 30 7pm >Workshop Sat July 1, 9-5pm & July 2, 9-4pm , 2006 >Santa Barbara City College West Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium > >As Americans, we have often thought of emergency disaster relief in terms of >sending aid to other countries. After Hurricane Katrina, we also see a need >to know how to respond in a better way to our own natural disasters. Natural >disasters, wars, famines, how does the human family respond to each other's >needs during these overwhelmingly stressful times? What new models can we >create to assist each other better? > >Join renowned permaculture teachers and international aid workers Geoff >Lawton, Nadia Abu Yahia, and Andrew Jones, on July 1 and July 2, 2006, as >they share their experiences working around the globe in recent disaster >zones and longer term refugee camps, existing from circumstances the world >may have already forgotten. > >The model of aid permaculture has to offer is vastly different from >conventional aid, it includes long term development, land care restoration >strategies, and allies itself strongly with the ecovillage movement, which >incorporates ecological design and natural building techniques for even >temporary structures. Permaculture recognizes most people have an innate >need to help when disaster strikes, and a huge cost to cultures if systems >aren't designed with viable ways to both assist and be assisted when a need >might arise. > >Permaculture is a design system based on ecological principles for creating >sustainable human environments, and is one of the most holistic, integrated >systems analysis and design methodologies found in the world. Originally >coined from the words PERMAnent agriCULTURE, it has evolved to one of >permanent or sustainable culture with consciously designed landscapes that >mimic the patterns of nature. > >Geoff Lawton is the Director of the Permaculture Research Institute in >Australia, assuming the position from Permaculture founder Bill Mollison. >Lawton has worked for clients that include communities, governments, aid >organizations, non-government organizations and multi-national companies. >Lawton has served clients in 17 different countries, including Jordan, Iraq, >Egypt , USA, Mexico, Macedonia,Vietnam, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, >England, Denmark, Australia and the South Pacific. A recent project in >Jordan is documented on a video called Greening the Desert available for >viewing on his website (www.permaculture.org.au). > >Nadia Abu Yahia (Lawton) was born in the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan. She >learned traditional ways of land use from her father, an expert farmer and >herbal healer of Palestinian, Bedouin descent. She later went on to complete >her permaculture diploma in design, education and site development and has >recently become a registered permaculture teacher. > >Andrew Jones has 10 years of international experience in emergency response, >post conflict development and rehabilitation, working extensively for CARE >International, the United Nations, and various NGO's such as SurfAid >International. Jones is a board member of the Permaculture Research >Institute in Australia and Director of the consulting firm, Full C cle >(www.fullcirclellc.com). He has worked in the Middle East, South Pacific, >Asia, Europe and the United States, most recently in Indonesia in a >post-tsunami recovery context. > >The conference takes place at the Santa Barbara City College West Campus, Fe >Bland Auditorium, 721 Cliff Drive. The lecture is on Friday, June 30, 7pm, >cost $15, pay at the door. >Workshop, Saturday, July 1, 9-5pm, and Sunday, July 2, 9-4pm. Workshop cost >is $120 with pre-registration, $140 at the door, Students $100, student >scholarships available. The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, SBCC >Environmental Studies Program, Nutiva, and Hopedance Media sponsor the >event. > >For more info and registration, contact: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 805-962-2571; www.sbpermaculture.org . For >workshop registration, send checks to SB Permaculture Network, PO Box 92156, >Santa Barbara, CA 93190. ><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >Friday June 30, from 9-11am Sustainable World Radio on public radio station >KCSB 91.9fm Santa Barbara CA and continues to interview lot's of >permaculture people, they will have Geoff Lawton, Nadia Abu Yahia & Andrew >Jones on for a special two hour show on Friday June 30, from 9-11am, >Permaculture & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century: please tune in, also >streaming live at www.kcsb.org. They welcome calls and questions during the >show. Contact for Sustainable World Radio >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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