"Earth Activist Training" Starhawk, Warner Springs, California May 3-17, 2008, near San Diego

From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

May 3-17
Warner Springs, California two-week-long intensive "Earth Activist Training"

In this course with a special focus on social permaculture, participants will learn ways to collaborate and build just and enduring alliances across social divides, as well as skills to build personal, interpersonal and community resilience to sustain themselves through hard times.  This two-week residential intensive is a permaculture design certificate course and also offers a broad-brush overview of the regenerative design principles of permaculture. From inoculating mushrooms and digging swales to building with natural materials and sheet mulching the land, students have ample opportunity to experience these principles firsthand.
      
 Taught by Starhawk, Margo Adair, Bill Aal, Charles Williams, and guest instructors.

Location: Manzanita Village, in Warner Springs, southern California
Cost: $1200-1700 sliding scale, some work trade and scholarships available. Includes meals and lodging.

For more information: www.earthactivisttraining.org  < http://www.earthactivisttraining.org.html
Questions? < earthactivisttraining at gmail . com>

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Introductions!

Comment here and say what you want from Permaculture San Diego, and what you'll help make happen. If you'd like an "Introduction to Permaculture" workshop in your neighborhood, tell us where you are!

Definitely share a bit about your background too--maybe say where you heard about permaculture.

Some history

This will be very rough to start--I'll make a better effort eventually.

In San Diego some initial permaculture work was done by Marcia Boruta with the SDECC. Currently there is no main PC organizer. We do have the SDPG email list.

To understand the magnitude and power of PC, it helps to spend some time with Permaculture: a Designers' Manual. Chapter 14--"Strategies for an Alternative Nation"--is particularly noteworthy.

I will help you get a copy of this if you contact me.

Also, view the entire Global Gardener video series -- search for Bill Mollison + Global Gardener. But Marc and I can organize a showing of this.

And, if you want your mind still further blown, read Travels in Dreams.

This not a cult of one man, however. The more you look into the PC movement the more you will find wonderful people doing powerful things.

Quail Springs is the closest great permaculture I have experienced, though there are many LA-area efforts.

Josh Robinson is some other PC greatness I got to experience recently.

It's not just men:

• Kleiworks
• Regenerative Design
• EAT

But here's one more man I wanted to mention:

• Geoff Lawton