2006 May | Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

Note, some dates have changed.

Fri June 30 7pm Lecture Geoff Lawton
Fe Bland Auditorium Santa Barbara City College West Campus $15

Sat & Sun July 1 & 2, Workshop with Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and Andrew Jones including Panels discussions on Rebuilding Local Economies with Fair Trade Companies and Local Residents who went to help in New Orleans and more

Cost $160 Two Days , $90 per day or (Payments before June 1 - $120) Student $120
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum (BC Forum) Santa Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2394

For more info and registration Santa Barbara Permaculture Network or margie@sbpermaculture.org or on 805-962-2571

Thursday 18th May

Permaculture Noosa Monthly General Meeting
All welcome
Venue: Cooroy RSL Hall, Maple St
Maple Street Cooroy
Time: 7pm (market stalls), meeting starts 7.30 pm
Topic: ‘Drought Proofing Your Property” - water management strategies and design.
Plus Questions and Answers and Geoff’s update with the latest from various overseas projects & events.
Admission: Free

With the depletion of the world’s reserves of oil we are set to experience enormous repercussions world-wide in the not too distant future.

Peak Oil means that we have reached the point of demand outstripping the supply of conventional petroleum and other fossil fuels. Already the price of fuel is skyrocketing. Our economy relies heavily on petroleum-based products with many of our food supplies dependant on fossil fuelled transport. It is not hard to see that this scenario signals difficult times ahead for millions of people around the globe. Meeting basic food needs could soon become difficult for people with limited incomes.

Geoff Lawton, of the Permaculture Research Institute, an international permaculture teacher and consultant, will present permaculture solutions for suburban populations of this region and the world to help people avoid the consequence of Peak Oil and the Energy Descent. Questions will be answered with positive solutions, encouraging self-reliance.

A screening of the newly released documentary, ‘The Power of Community- How Cuba survived Peak Oil’ will show Cuba as an example to the industrialised world, successfully dealing with the crisis of the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources.

A discovery reported in the latest edition of the journal Nature (June 13, 2002) — that fungi on the roots of some trees in the Northeastern United States help supply much-needed calcium in forest soils battered by acid rain — would seem to ease worries about the worrisome form of pollution.

But don’t stop worrying just yet, warns Timothy J. Fahey, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Natural Resources at Cornell University and a co-author of the report, “Mycorrhizal weathering of apatite as an important calcium source in base-poor forest ecosystems.”

“Not all tree species are fortunate enough to be associated with the types of root fungi that supply calcium,” he says, pointing to sugar maples, which in some areas have suffered serious declines in recent years.

Changing the Paradigm Of Emergency Disaster Relief and Development To A Model of Life Affirming Assistance…

Wed June 28, 7pm:
Lecture by Geoff Lawton - Santa Barbara City College - $15

Thurs & Friday June 29 & 30:
Workshop with Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and Andrew Jones including Panel Discussions on Rebuilding Local Economies with Fair Trade Companies, and Local Residents who went to help in New Orleans and more
Cost: $160 Two Days, $90 per day or (Payments before June 1 - $120) Student: $120

For more info and registration, go to the
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network - 805-962-2571 - margie@sbpermaculture.org.

Checks made to Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, PO Box. 92156, Santa Barbara Ca 93190.

Take a look at the PDF for more information.