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Dear friend,
Welcome
to the latest ebulletin from the Permaculture Association (Britain).



In
this edition

- Permaculture
Works volume II issue 3 call for submissions

-
Permaculture at the Big Green Gathering

-
Reminder: uploading your course, event or project to www.permaculture.org.uk

-
Pole Barn Construction in Cornwall

-
Permaculture Mag on air

-
4th annual Festival of Life

-
Clunderwen & Whitland permaculture group

- 2007
Camp for Climate Action upon us!

-
Study on lifestyle choice - volunteers wanted

-
New Internationalist permaculture issue

-
South London Urban Green Fair

-
Leicester Permaculture Network

International
news

- IPES
seeking loans

- 8th
International Permaculture Convergence

- Website
international section

Permaculture
Works volume II issue 3 call for submissions - deadline approaching

The
deadline for Volume II, Issue 3 of Permaculture Works magazine is noon on
Friday,
10th August 2007. In case you"ve yet to submit your news or other
contributions
(see below) then time is running out!

We
are looking for content under each of the following areas (please try and
keep
contributions to no more than 250 words):

-
News - the latest from your project

-
Opportunities and livelihoods: looking for someone to join a project or start
one up? Looking for teachers, speakers or volunteers for an event?

-
Courses and events - are you running an Introductory Permaculture course,
a Full
Design Course or a specialist course relating to permaculture that we
might not
know about? (Courses added to our website are automatically included in
the newsletter
for FREE - submit
your course details now)

-
Any questions or queries that our readers might be able to help you with?

-
Letters page - give us your opinions on a topical issue. This is the place to
praise, fume or ponder!

-
Articles. We will no longer be running full-length articles in the
newsletter,
but we are still looking for your articles for our website - email them to
office@....
We will then include abstracts in the newsletter, with links to the full
article
online.

- Study groups
and action learning guilds listings - let us know about local groups based on
learning and skillsharing.

-
Projects workdays listing - get more people involved by adding details of
your
project"s workdays.

- Learning
opportunities and teachers news- we"ve now set space aside for announcements,
opportunities and news relating to teaching and skillsharing.

-
Marketplace and classified ads - contact us for advertising rates.

-
Cartoon - sharpen your pencils budding artists out there
.
- Photos, drawings,
sketches, images and designs, especially photos, both of practical activities
and artistic works.

Email
all contributions to office@....


Permaculture at
the Big Green Gathering

If you"re planning to go to this year"s
Big Green Gathering,
don"t forget to check out this year"s larger-than-ever permaculture
zone. It will feature over 100 workshops, project stalls and displays, and
the Permaculture Association
information and book stall.

Reminder:
uploading your course, event or project to www.permaculture.org.uk

Visit
www.permaculture.org.uk/submite.asp
to upload details of a course or event to our online listing for free.
Details
for all UK events will then be included in Permaculture Works.
You can also post details of a group or project at
www.permaculture.org.uk/submitg.php.

Pole
Barn Construction in Cornwall
*Pole
Barn Construction

Trevalon
organic farm near Liskeard, Cornwall, will be constructing a barn and
workshop
using sustainable, locally sourced timber on the weekends of 11-12 and
18-19 August
2007.

The farm is owned
by a community land trust that grows and sells organic vegetables through
a box
scheme.

The barn will measure
8m by 12m and is 6m high to the ridge. It will be constructed using the
pole barn
method, and will consist of 12, 7m long round Douglas Fir poles sunk into
holes
in the ground, then after erection the poles will be framed using sawn timber
to form the ridge, wall plates and bracing. When finished the barn will be
roofed
in turf and clad in Cedar featheredge board.

With
the support of Cornwall Sustainable Buildings Trust, Tino Rawnsley, an
experienced
and respected local woodsman, will be leading the pole raising and
framing. Then
throughout August and September there will be informal opportunities for
volunteers
to get involved with framing, stud work, roofing and turfing.

Basic
accommodation is available on the farm.

Contact:
Mark Simon of Orchard Land Trust for more
details.
Telephone 01579 326144

www.trevalon.blogspot.com



Permaculture
Mag on air

Permaculture
Magazine editor Maddy Harland has given an interview to Treehugger online
- listen at
www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/maddy_harland_permaculture_magazine.php

4th
annual Festival of Life


A celebration of holistic lifestyles, rawfood nutrition and natural health
featuring:



-
A packed programme including over 50 talks and workshops by leading
speakers and
authors on all aspects of health, ecology and spirituality.
- A market offering
extraordinary rawfood cuisine, Goji Berries and other exotic superfoods,
blenders
and juicers, organic clothing, inspiring books and more.
- You can take a
yoga class, chant for world peace, investigate permaculture and
alternative technologes
or receive a therapeutic treatment in the healing area.
- Outside play area
and lots of activites for children.
- Poets, clowns and musicians provide
entertainment and there’s an alcohol free dance party in the evening.



The Festival of Life 2007. 11am
to 7pm Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd September
St Paul’s Church ( The Steiner
School), 1 St Paul’s Road, Islington N1 2QH
Cost :- £12 weekend
ticket or £8 per day (concessions £5 ). Under 16s free.

No
additional charges for talks and workshops.

Conscious
Dance Party Saturday eve 6pm to 10pm. Cost £3 (£5 on the door)

More
information 08707 344888 info@...
Full
programme to come at www.festivaloflife.net





Clunderwen &
Whitland permaculture group

A
PAB member is looking to start a local permaculture group in the
Clunderwen &
Whitland area - anyone in South Cereidigion, North Pembrokeshire and West
Carmarthenshire
please get in touch!

Contact:
Cassandra Lishman, Maesgwyn Isaf, Llanboidy, Whitland, Carms SA34 0ET.
Email:
cassandra@...


2007
Camp for Climate Action upon us!

The
Camp for Climate
Action, to be held near Heathrow on the outskirts of London 14-21 August,
has now finalised its programme of workshops for the event. The camp will
feature
over 100 workshops, covering climate science, direct action, networking
skills,
practical skills, alt tech and permaculture. The programme will appear
soon at
www.climatecamp.org.uk.

For
ways to get involved in the camp visit www.climatecamp.org.uk/index.php.

*STOP
PRESS* Musicians sought for Climate Camp

The
Camp is looking for bands, musicians and other performers for the whole
duration
of the Camp, ie. round campfires, on actions etc. It also plans to have a
decent-sized
PA on the Thursday and Friday nights, with the Wednesday being a possible
acoustic
music night and the Saturday 19th for comedy/spoken word. The designated
direct
action days are the 20th and 21st.

Contact:
Mark, 020 7792 5023; markb@...


Study on lifestyle
choice - volunteers wanted

Have
you undertaken radical lifestyle change or are in the process of experiencing
lifestyle change or are contemplating some level of change? This may
include substantial
change in employment, a change in working hours or a complete change of
lifestyle
including a geographic relocation.

I"m
a PhD student at Deakin University, Melbourne Australia researching how
people
make lifestyle choices, particularly radical lifestyle change. As part of the
study, I"m seeking to interview interested volunteers about their
lifestyle change.

If
you are interested in being part of the study or would like more
information please
contact Carmel at cgou@....



New Internationalist
permaculture issue

The
current issue of New Internationalist magazine is on Permaculture, and
includes
an in depth article on the last Naturewise
permaculture introductory course in London as well as interviews and articles
on Transition Towns, OrganicLea in Walthamstow, contributions from Maddy
Harland
of Permaculture Magazine and an interview with Graham
Burnett. There"s also a permaculture special on New Internationalist Radio:
see
http://interact.newint.org/radio-new-internationalist-how-does-your-garden-grow.


South London
Urban Green Fair

The Urban
Green Fair will be held at Brockwell Park, Brixton on the 9th September 2007.
South London Permaculture will be running the Food and Gardening Zone. If you
want to participate in any of the workshops for this particular zone then
contact
Merlyn Peter (0845 458 1734 eight.merlyn@...)as
soon as possible. I am looking for talkers, demonstrators, exhibits,
volunteers
and competition entrants. Further information is available from
www.soteriologicgarden.net/news
where the appropriate forms can be downloaded. Fees will be charged
accordingly,
but those running workshops will be granted free drinks and a snack.

Leicester
Permaculture Network

To
join the Leicester Permaculture Network egroup, send an email to
leicesterpermaculturenetwork-subscribe@....

International
news

IPES
seeking loans

The Permaculture
Institute of El Salvador (IPES) has identified a piece of land for an
education
and demonstration site. They have agreed the purchase, and have assured
funding
to the project. They however have a gap between having to pay for the land
and
the funding being released. IPES is asking for loans of between
£1000 and
£30 000 for up to a year, to see them over this gap. If you are able to
offer a loan or would like more information please contact Karen Inwood
(permacultura@...)
or Suzi High (world@...)


8th
International Permaculture Convergence


IPC8
was a huge success with beneficial connections being made that are already
bringing
positive yields. Reports from participants can be found on our
website and on the IPC8
website. The website will be handed on to IPC9, which will be held in
Southern
Africa in 2008. There is an international support group helping the
organisers
with planning and fund raising for IPC9. Part of the fundraising is to
increase
permaculture design course provision in Africa in the next 2 years. If you
would
like to be involved creating training opportunities in Africa, please contact
Suzi High world@...


Website


International
networking is taking off in a big way and the
PAB is playing an important role in this. Our website and online
database are an important contribution to the international movement for
sustainability.
Please keep us informed of changes to projects currently
listed, or of new projects that you find out about.






Remember,
you can support the PAB"s work by joining
the Association.



Best
wishes

The Leeds office
team

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