The lineup of speakers being male was not intentional in the slightest. In fact, Rosemary Morrow was originally scheduled to speak, and also to teach in the pre-IPC PDC, but she had to cancel out due to personal circumstances.

The main bid was to have speakers with expertise in dryland situations – whatever their gender.

Hi Kareen, the princess also had a speech, and I don’t think there is an obstacle for women permaculturists to speak at the conference. It was only a coincidence that they were all men. Jo was presenting her active Jordan project during the convergence.

I am compelled, however, to bring up a very glaring issue with regards to the conference and perhaps something I need to address with the organizers rather than on this forum. With the exception of Nadia, who gave the introduction, all other nine permaculture speakers were men. This is not to say that their talks were not compelling, informative and inspiring. It would be nice, however, to get more women’s voices into these larger meetings. Perhaps women permaculturalists were invited and unable to attend; I am willing to give the organizers the benefit of the doubt. But it is something that we should be more conscious of in the future.

Thanks!

We’re excited and very glad for the live-streaming – as we think it very important to make these conferences and convergences as inclusive as possible.

So we will be translating (in summary) to our colleagues in the spanish PC networks as much as we can of the Conference, thanks to the live-streaming.

And will do our best to translate for the Convergence too, as much as is possible.

News in spanish here http://tinyurl.com/68gym42 (all help very welcome – get in touch if you’re bilingual English-Spanish)

NodoEspiral of the PC Academy
will also be giving a presentation in both languages (which will be recorded & available online) during the Convergence, see here to subscribe to the English version: http://tinyurl.com/3cs8fut