Terry Leahy, the keynote speaker and facilitator for our upcoming mini-conference writes: Policing Ownership of Wealth “Considerable money is devoted to policing the class system of ownership of wealth. Members of the lower classes who challenge this system by developing illegal shortcuts to wealth are attacked with superior force. The state attempts to maintain a monopoly of force and weapons. The middle class is warned and titillated by these stories of subordinate class insurrection. The story warns by letting the middle class reader know how much danger they are in from insurrection, how much they need the state to protect …
Russ has been working for decades in the Solomon Islands promoting permaculture with his project http://pacific-edge.info/ He began his permaculture journey in 1985 and has been active in the movement ever since. He will be a great inspiration and leader at our mini-conference. The Mini Conference about Permaculture in Society and Development The Program Is Shaping Up Beautifully After a quick round table, getting to know you we will start with a presentation from Terry, There will be some short presentations from Russ Grayson, Aaron Sorenson, Sheryl Wiffen and the Permablitz team. We will then call for input from all …
Terry Leahy, the facilitator and keynote speaker for our upcoming mini-conference on Permaculture in Society and Development on April 30th has more to share! He comments on the article: How to Hit the Rich Where it Really Hurts Terry writes: “This article proposes a particular kind of tax on the rich. Why is such a tax unlikely to be implemented? One reason is the alliance between the political class and the rich. The other is that the rich will take their investments and money elsewhere if taxes increase. Even a tax on personal property (as proposed here) is not completely …
You like to eat? you generate a little bit of waste? you would like to use what you have more efficiently? Wishing for a more comfortable home without turning on the air-con? A Permaculture course can give you lots of ideas. This will be a fun full day of ideas and practical solutions and then application with a mini-practice design. Learn the art of Permaculture design with designer, creator, artist and international permaculture teacher April Sampson-Kelly on her mature demonstration property: a food forest integrated within a buzzing community. We will start the Introductory Day at our permaculture site [Silk …
This will be a fun full day of ideas and practical solutions and then application with a mini-practice design. Learn the art of Permaculture design with designer, creator, artist and international permaculture teacher April Sampson-Kelly on her mature demonstration property: a food forest integrated within a buzzing community. We will start the Introductory Day at our permaculture site [Silk Farm], have lunch together, then pop over to a local site to put our new found skills to the test and do a permaculture concept draft plan for their site. Your chance to learn what Permaculture is about and how it …