September 4th 2008 - An Invitation for Practices Beyond Sustainability:


Our Permaculture network is rich and diverse and have a great number of solutions to the issues we, as a culture, now find ourselves facing. Many institutes are feeling the need to be better stewards as well as provide educational programs that demonstrate these practices. Our work as Permaculturlists supports these ends and works in partnership to create demonstration sites of Permaculture so that people can see how holistic Permaculture is and how it can be applied in all climates at at any scale.

Currently we are working with a network Project of the Permaculture Alliance of the Pacifica Region of North America, to provide services to already established organizations and institutes in their transition to a more regenerative model.

This first delegation of connections has commenced and been launched as of Septemeber 4th 2008. Some of the first work is establishing more solid bonds from Big Sur California to B.C. Canada. This winter  from Big Sur to Baja California. Some of these sites in California in which we are planning on working with already include The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Regenerative Design Institute, Quail Springs Learning Center, the Esalen Institute, Emerald Earth, Polcum Springs, Solar Living Institute, Mendocino Ecology Learning Center, Avalon Springs, Green Valley Village, Heartwood, CCAT, and many many sustainable Localized groups put into motion by the peak oil awareness ...In reaching out to the our great web we hope to meet and gain more insight to the bio-regional networks that are working in the Portland area with City-repair and Mark Lakeman, The Seattle Contingent, and would hope to make the connection with many in B.C. Canada

It is the hope to find the networks and connections that already exist and see how the work we are all doing can be more effective as a whole. By making person to person connections this network begins to be grounded in the humanistic qualities that we are promoting in the ways of being better land stewards and creating a more regenerative landscape to dwell.

We would love to meet with you or your affiliates in the Permaculture network that you have contributed to creating in your own bio-region. We all have so much to learn and share with each other as the times begin to shift it is demanding those of us holding the possible solutions to step up to share and demonstrate what is possible. Permaculture is what the masses are looking for. It is a design system that goes beyond the buzz of sustainable and green and can truly have a large and small scale impact on communities and governments.

It is an exciting time for our movement as we feel the unrest and surge these times both in the social cultural sector and in the environmental situation we face. The change that our political leaders pose is one for off shore drilling and one of ambiguous diversity. It is time that we all step up and begin our advocacy for a more just sacred and regenerative culture. It is only through a movement that has critical mass that our voice will be heard. The network that we are suggesting is one that already exists through many international organizations. The main networks we are tapping into here are those that have formed through The Permaculture Research Institute, The Bioneers, and SLOW Food USA.  Judgments can be made about each one of these groups and others would voice their criticism, yet these prominent movements have made a presence on the world stage and are open to collaborating and working together at every scale. Those who hold key positions within these organizations are strongly promoting a permaculture platform for change.

For the work we all are doing.... keep it up and please forward this invitation on to any of your contacts you feel appropriate. Please add comments to this page as well and anyone who feel inspired to be apart of the network delgation, please contact me.

In unity and best practice
Benjamin Fahrer

Teacher with the Permaculture Research Institute and Project director for Network mapping of The Permaculture Alliance in the Pacifica of the Americas (La PAPA)
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