Re: PERMACULTURE TRAINING IN GAIA ARGENTINA

Why do you send me this after repeatedly blowing me
off when I tried to meet with you during the two
months I was just in Agrentina?

--- Asociación_Gaia <[email protected]> wrote:
> *THANKS FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATION WITH
> LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE,  AND FOR SPREADING IT IN WEB
> PAGES*
> 
> ARGENTINEAN PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE
> 
> Invites you to a great opportunity of intensive
> Permaculture training in Latin America
> 
>  
> 
> Permaculture Design Course
> 
> From 24th October to 7th November 2003 
> 
>  Permaculture Advanced course on Ecovillage Design
> 
> From 9th to 14th November 2003
> 
> By Peter Bane and Keith Johnson (US) & Gustavo
> Ramirez (Argentina)
> 
> 
> 
> Introduction
> 
> Permaculture is the design of human-centered
> environments - towns,
> homes, gardens, and farms - to work with, not
> against Nature. We can
> create neighborhoods and villages that harvest
> energy from the wind and
> sun, capture and store rainwater, produce food for
> their inhabitants,
> and build soil and clean their own wastes while
> existing in harmony with
> the wildness of the landscape around them.
> Permaculture principles can
> also be applied to the design of social and economic
> systems that will
> support restoration of the earth and nurture
> self-reliant communities.
> 
> This revolutionary and holistic design system is
> based on the
> integration of widespread grassroots research, the
> wisdom of traditional
> peoples, and modern ecological science. Originated 
> with the work of
> Australians David Holmgren and Bill Mollison,
> Permaculture is now taught
> and practiced by thousands of men and women in over
> 60 countries.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> These courses brings together experienced designers
> from Northern and
> Southern ecovillages to share the challenges and the
> success of their projects
> 
>  
> 
> Peter Bane took his initial training in Permaculture
> design with Max
> Lindegger and Lea Harrison in 1990, and has gone on
> to teach over 25
> design courses, most recently in Chile, Colorado,
> Michigan, and North
> Carolina. For over ten years he has published The
> Permaculture Activist,
> North America's leading journal of permaculture
> design. As editor,
> author, and journalist, he has reported on
> Permaculture systems from
> Nepal to Scandanavia, and his writing has been
> published in more than a
> dozen journals and books in Britain, Canada,
> Australia, South Africa,
> and the United States, including Planet Drum, Katuah
> Journal,
> Permaculture International Journal, Communities
> Magazine, Eco-Farm and
> Garden, The Villager, The Overstory Book, and
> others. 
> A consultant to Slippery Rock University
> (Pennsylvania) in the design of
> its graduate program in sustainable systems, and a
> charter faculty
> member of the Ecovillage Training Center in
> Tennessee, Peter is
> presently a board member of Culture's Edge, an
> educational non-profit
> sponsoring programs in sustainable living in the
> Southern Appalachian
> Mountains. He has pioneered new course formats in
> Permaculture education
> and received the International Permaculture
> Community Service Award in
> 1994. Since that time he has been a member of
> Earthaven Ecovillage in
> western North Carolina. He joined the community's
> founding group seven
> years ago, has served as its Firekeeper (president)
> and Waterbearer
> (treasurer), and has played a leading role in
> developing the village
> Land Use Plan. Recently he built a timber-frame and
> clay-straw cottage
> for himself from local and salvaged materials. A
> native of Illinois,
> Peter has lived in all regions of the United States,
> as well as in
> Hawaii, Ireland, and Mexico.
> 
> 
> Gustavo Ramirez Since his youth art, oriental
> spirituality and nature have fascinated him.
> Graduated as a veterinarian in 1983, since then he
> has participated in several wildlife projects.
> 
> He got interested in the health of the planet as a
> whole and started working towards the protection of
> two wild areas near Buenos Aires City. Whilst
> working there he created and developed an
> environmental education program based on the deep
> connection with nature. 
> 
> He is founder member of Gaia Association. He has
> lived in Gaia Ecovillage project for five years, and
> has played a leading role in the general design of
> the site. He recently built, together with his wife,
> their cob cottage with local materials.
> 
> With Permaculture he found the synthesis of many
> areas in which he has been working separately, which
> has opened new paths in his work with nature. 
> 
> He took his initial training in Permaculture design
> with Max Lindegger in 1996, and has gone on to teach
> Permaculture Design Course in Argentina, Uruguay,
> Peru, Chile. 
> 
> He has created and coordinates Instituto Argentino
> de Permacultura. He is an active member of RAPEL
> (Latin-American Permaculture support network) and
> has made presentations in 1st Latin-American
> Congress in Argentina. He is also an active member
> since the creation of GEN (Global Ecovillage
> Network) and ENA (Ecovillage Network of Americas)
> 
> One of his main interests at the moment is the
> adaptation of Permaculture systems to the
> Latin-American reality, and the inclusion of art,
> native flora, and popular knowledge to his designs.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Permaculture Design Course
> 
> From 24th October to 7th November 2003 
> 
> 
> Cultivate Practical Skills for Growing your own Food
> and Medicine,
> Building your own earth-friendly House, and helping
> Restore your
> Community to vital sustainability
> 
> 
> The course curriculum will cover the 72-hour
> requirement for
> Permaculture design training and participants who
> complete the course
> will receive a certificate authorizing them to use
> the term in pursuit
> of a livelihood.
> 
> Subjects include:
> Ethics and Principles
> Observation, Pattern & Design
> Ecosystems, Climate & Biogeography
> Forests, Soils, and Water
> Earthworks
> The Design of the Home
> Natural Building Systems
> Energy and Waste Treatment 
> Appropriate Technology
> Gardens and Food Storage
> Plants, Animals, and Aquaculture
> Design of Towns and Villages
> Economic and Financial Systems
> Broadscale Agriculture and Land Managment.
> Tools for the Designer
> Creating a Livelihood
> 
> 
>  
> 
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Christopher Wright, actor, director and author of 'Great Acting: Learning Your Craft'© 2000; founding director and executive producer of Brave Arts International, Carnal CinéPix and the Espiritus International Video Arts Colony.

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