Comments on: The Permaculture Master Plan - Permaculture Centres Worldwide

By: Anne-Christine von Wetter

Anne-Christine von Wetter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:23:59 +0000

I live North of Los Angeles in Topanga Canyon on 20 acres arid, dry hillside.
I have been interested in permaculture for a long time, and would like to know if there is a permaculture center nearby ?

By: Geoff Lawton

Geoff Lawton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:40:46 +0000

Hi Mariana
we first began in 1997.

By: Mariana Monteiro

Mariana Monteiro — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:13:51 +0000

Hello, i’m a journalism student, working on my final paper. Im member of the Permacultural Net on Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil and im interested in knowing witch year the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia began. I’d be glad to recieve your answer as soon as possible, so i dont loose this important fact on my research on Permaculture’s story.
Thank you in advance,
Mari

By: Bruce Weiskotten

Bruce Weiskotten — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:52:18 +0000

Hello,
I’m a Permaculture Deisgner and Teacher here in the Pacific NW where we’ve lost over 87% of the Chill Temperate Rainforest. Our organization - Dancing Spirits Permaculture - is actively developing community and homestead sites here as Permaculture Design projects and workshops. We’d like to be one of your official centers in the network you are proposing, though we are
not seeking need based funding. We are trying to convert “first-world” citizens to a sustainable, permaculture lifestyle while repairing/reforesting our own local rainforest as a food and medicine forest. Anyone interested can contact us through the design-consultancy http://www.panearthdesigns.com
Blessings & Balance
Bruce Weiskotten for Dancing Spirits Permaculture

By: Mardi Kendall

Mardi Kendall — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:19:09 +0000

Hello to Camelia and partner,

I am an Australian citizen (was for years a resident) and my project is one of those listed on the worldwide masterplan for permaculture sites. It is called the Tamalalou Guinea Site.
I am working in a community setting in Guinea, West Africa, and have the land and the will, with an extended Guinean family, to build a housing prototype and training centre for sustainable housing, permaculture and other sustainable health necessities (such as water catchment and composting toilets). We are certainly looking for funding to begin. If you have any interest in a project in Africa, please contact me through Geoff Lawton.
Thank-you, Mardi

By: David Remkes

David Remkes — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:46:57 +0000

Hi, Your projects are amazing. I am quite impressed with what I see. What do you have that would help in a High Cold Desert, as in Utah, in the Great Basin. A plant list would be extremely helpful. Also my land is over 600 feet of alluvial granular fill. Water loss through absorption is as bad or worse than loss from evaporation.

By: James

James — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:15:42 +0000

Could someone get this post to Geoff Lawton?

My partner and I want to support the roll out of Permaculture Centres around the world as outlined in GL’s video.

We want to donate via direct debit on a monthly basis (we are Australian residents). We don’t do credit cards or PayPal.

We previously donated to charities operating in developing countries but we have become disenchanted with their failure to achieve enduring improvement.

We have switched our donation focus to micro-finance and social entrepreneur initiatives. The self sustaining nature of the programme GL described fits our criteria.

By: camelia

camelia — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:44:42 +0000

hey cymon, do u have a website. what is this different track u are on?

camelia

By: Cymon Fjell

Cymon Fjell — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:52:05 +0000

Hello,

What I can do suggestion #1 - “Donate”. Is this sustainable. Why not make the money to apply to these issues? think outside the square . . . or perhaps in it by preparing a business plan to generate the funds to get the job done.

I am very concerned about the very idea of “solutions”. After co-teaching the first and PDC courses in the Amazon I published an article (My Bungle in the Jungle - PC Quarterly Magazine). I have now found that involving people in discovering their own solutions is much more sustanable and with much greater outcomes.

I am on a different tack which has allowed me recently to secure 500 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest to transfer to its resident comunity of 800 and make a profit to carry forward in to the next project.

No donations. No solutions. Just applying sound business principle to vital issues to generate the restorative economy . . . the biggest opportunity you may never even heard of. You will.

C’ya,
Cymon Fjell

By: Victor Phillips

Victor Phillips — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:12:10 +0000

Wonderful development of a global network of practicing permaculture facilities in different bioregions. These regional facilities can serve as clearinghouses for teaching/learning resources pertinent to the bioregions. The permaculture centres worldwide master plan is indeed an exciting and excellent step towards solutions needed now. Bravo!!

Our Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM) at U. Wisconsin-Stevens Point has conducted three PDC courses and one keyline design training activity with the help of Geoff and Nadia Lawton and Darren Doherty. GEM staff are planning to offer the PDC again in summer 2009. We are happy to connect and interact with the Minnesota permaculture effort for cold climate applications. Fun and fabulous!