Title: “Invisible Structures: the economics of sharing and caring”
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona- Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course
Description: Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course
“Invisible Structures: the economics of sharing and caring”
* Date: July 8th, 2011
* Location: STAR School- near Flagstaff, Arizona
* Instructors: Larry Santoyo and guests
info@earthflow.com
Date: 2011-07-08
Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course
“Invisible Structures: the economics of sharing and caring”
* Date: July 8th, 2011
* Location: STAR School- near Flagstaff, Arizona
* Instructors: Larry Santoyo and guests
info@earthflow.com
Title: Nahua Ecovillage Permaculture Design Course
Location: Tosepan Kali, Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico
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Description: This hands-on experiential learning retreat is held in a most beautiful indigenous Nahua ecovillage at Tosepan Kali, a sustainable resort and co-op located in the the Sierra Madre highlands.
This design course experience includes one of the finest models of permaculture, peaceful autonomy and of a people practicing ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability.
Start Date: 2011-10-16
Start Time: 09:00
End Date: 2011-11-01
End Time: 16:00
Title: Permaculture Teacher Training
Location: Wind River Ranch, Las Vegas, New Mexico
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Description: Permaculture Teacher Training…
This retreat is designed to increase your effectiveness as a teacher of permaculture. We believe that it is the pedagogy of permaculture has made it such an effective and life altering experience and we would like to share that pedagogy with you. This training is designed for both the experienced and inexperienced teachers.
Start Date: 2011-08-20
Start Time: 09:00
End Date: 2011-08-25
End Time: 17:00
Organized by EarthFlow PDC graduate Iginia Boccalandro, Director of the NM Ecological Living Center, this educational series, on working systems and models applicable to the South West in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is for anyone interested in learning to use waste as a resource while returning biology and vitality to the soil through natural techniques of carbon sequestration.
Please join us as well every Friday before a workshop for an evening talk and panel discussion. Venue to be announced. See www.carboneconomyseries.com for topics, speakers and dates.
Speakers include:
Gary Liss | Zero Waste Economy Community Planning | June 24-26
Nate Downey l Water Harvesting in Arid Lands July 22,23
Owen Hablutzel | Keyline Design for Whole Fertility Farm | July 24
Joel Salatin | Ballet in the Pasture: Polyface Farms | August 26, 27
Kirk Gadzia | Holistic Land Management | September 16-18
Dr. Elaine Ingham | Soil Food Web & Compost Technology | October 14-16
For more info, or to register, please visit www.carboneconomyseries.com .
Gather with other west coast female permaculture (r)evolutioneers for a weekend full of women’s leadership, social permaculture, self-care and learning how to manifest cultural change on a local and global scale.
For more info and to register: http://westcoastwomenspc.weebly.com/
The LA Permaculture Guild is hosting this year’s convergence at Camp Hess Kramer near the ocean in the Santa Monica Mountains. Check out who’s coming and what’s happening here http://socalconvergence.org/ !
A big thanks to Gabriela Rocha and Ryan Yoshimoto producers of this mini documentary. Our Permaculture Course adventure takes place in this remarkable indigenous village retreat April 10-25th.
to register for all or part: http://www.covolv.org/covolv-sustainable-travel/special-deals-experience-packages.html
via COVOLV: Permaculture Heroes Vol.1 on Vimeo.
Permaculture Heroes Vol 1, the first minidoc in this series, is a short introduction to permaculture, a legendary permaculturist Larry Santoyo, and an amazing model of permacuture, the Indigenous CO-OP & Community high in the Sierra Madre called Tosepan Titataniske, which means in Nauhatl, “Going Forward Together We Will Succeed”. Tosepan Titataniske is an autonomous CO-OP in the beautiful mountains of the Sierra Madre in Cuetzalan. Puebla. Mexico. They are one of the finest models of peaceful autonomy and of a people practicing ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability.
The record-breaking heat up here at The Ranch and throughout California has me wishing our underground root cellar/wine storage/hangout zone/ always-cool room were already built. I’d be down there right now. (Of course, it doesn’t really have to be underground- just covered by the insulating power of 3 feet of earth or built of thick walls of straw or clay or stone).
So until that happens, I stay cool by drinking ice-tea sweetened with mint from the garden and lie down to read a new book in the shade of the tree I planted a few years ago when I moved to this once-barren corner of The Ranch.
I’m grateful for that tree and its intrinsic ability to cast shade and cool the environment around it. It can’t help but do that – it’s its nature.
I find that appreciation to be a similar theme running through the new book I’m reading, “Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World”. It’s a collection of essays from luminaries in the environmental movement, including Larry Santoyo, that address the question “If our world is facing an imminent environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?
And while each of the many authors has their unique and beautiful take on the question, it seems that it comes down to this: let us cherish and protect what we love about our world now. Wherever we live, city, country, apartment or house, we each can find a way to act upon and honor this and that will give us the power to continue.
I find that learning permaculture design has helped me to do that. By understanding that everything is a potential resource, I allow myself to see more possibilities and probabilities for designing and caring for the systems, natural and constructed, around me and to play with them. That gives me hope.
Being involved in the design courses for over 10 years and watching the students who have taken them also gives me hope, as I know now that there are plenty of people out there whose care is leading them to seek the tools that can help them effect the greatest change with the resources at hand.
If you need an inspirational lift for dealing with the world’s challenges, then do go ahead and read this book. If you want to learn a process for meeting those challenges, then study permaculture. There’s still time to register for EarthFlow’s LA permaculture class series beginning Oct 2 & 3 and for the two week intensive San Luis Obispo permaculture class that begins Oct. 17 .
As Larry reminds his students, “We have everything we need for a sustainable future now.” Truly, we don’t need to wait for anyone or anything. It’s just a matter of choosing- agreeing- to make the changes necessary.
Feeling hot? Plant a tree, grow some cooling mint for your ice tea and then come help me build my earth-sheltered coolroom. Restoring our place in the natural world is the greatest challenge and most hopeful thing that we can do now to adapt and advance.
We’re adapting and advancing here at EarthFlow and, one of the ways we’re changing is moving from the occasional newsletter on a service hosted by someone else that we send out to thousands of you, to posting more frequently here and being accessed by millions of you…
If you’re new to us, welcome; if you’re not, thanks for visiting again to see what’s new.
We’ll be talking about things and people of interest in our classes, projects and communities… as well as highlighting issues we think are of importance in the world at large.
Everything can be described as a predictable pattern: though we are not fortune-tellers, we know that by being keenly aware of the present, we can predict the next step in the cycle- and choose to step in and change the flow of the pattern if we wish to change the outcome.
The time is now to change what you or we wish to see in the world- will you step in with us?
We welcome your questions, comments and maybe a little bit of your concerns.
