Leo – European Permaculture Network

08/03/201908/03/2019

Alfred Decker’s Teaching Schedule 2019

Earth Activist Training (Certified PDC) @ Sieben Linden (Germany), August 10 – 23, with Starhawk
PDC @ Silent Green (Berlin, Germany), June 1 – 15, with a big and diverse facilitation team including Declan Kennedy
Earth Activism & Social Permaculture @ La Loma Viva and La Bolina (Granada, Spain), September 4 – 11, with Starhawk and members of La Loma Viva and La Bolina
Social Permaculture @ Ulex Project (Catalunya, Spain), December 7 – 14
“Training Permaculture Teachers” (TPT). Rosemary Morrow developed TPT in order to have a multiplier effect in the development of permaculture, with the intention to develop the course in the different European languages by teachers from those countries. The following TPT courses in Europe 2019 are facilitated by Alfred and local teachers:
- Sweden @ Kosters Trädgårdar, November 5-12, with Cathrine Dolleris and Helena Von Bothmer
- Bulgaria @ Gorno Draglishte, November 18-25, with Mihaela Tsarchinska, Mihail Kossev, and Philip Varionov. Green School Village and 12 Principles Permaculture Design are seeking partner organisations who work with young adults aged between 18-30 and would like to apply for Erasmus+ funding in order to send some members of their organisation to this course. If interested, contact info [at] greenschoolvillage [dot] org as soon as possible, deadline for identifying partners on March 31
- Italy @ Risera Natural di Torre Guaceto (Puglia), April 18-24, with Anna Bartoli and Elena Parmiggiani. In Italian, with my sessions translated from English

Formation de Facilitation Créative en Permaculture (FFCP). Vous souhaitez désormais transmettre la Permaculture avec professionnalisme et créativité? Voici la formation qu’il vous faut!
- Belgique @ Château de Velaines (Tournaisis), 10 – 18 Mai, préparée par Rosemary Morrow, Bernard Alonso, Alfred Decker, Bernadette Dufour, Sylvain Eymard, Cécile Berny et Charles Abécassis

28/02/201907/03/2019

Permaculture for Refugees

Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) took its first steps right after the European Permaculture Convergence workshop on Permaculture and refugees, in Italy in 2016. The very same people who attended the workshop, facilitated by Rosemary Morrow, and Rosemary herself joined and formed the working core group. We were united in our conviction that permaculture offers integrated and humane responses to the refugee crisis now and in the future, and that we wanted to take this concept further practically:

To refugees in camps because this is where there is some of the worst suffering
To refugees in communities where life is also extremely difficult especially at first.
For refugees returning home to damaged environments and painful memories

These were our basic motivations and direction. We called ourselves LandEd and our overall project Permaculture for Refugees. We all agreed that refugee camps could feasibly become ecovillages….

17/10/201817/10/2018

From A Distance

Just this month: IPCC report on the dire state of our climate and – perhaps more immediate – the weather forecast for the coming 12 years; a report on the dire state of mammal biodiversity; new images of Earth from the far side of the moon.

The first images of Earth rising behind the horizon of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission around Christmas 1968 gave rise to our modern environmental movement and inspired and informed amongst other things the emergence of permaculture.

What will inspire and inform us now to address the challenges of the collapse of biodiversity – largely on the back of the invention of human agriculture, urbanisation and population explosion – and climate, with unsurprisingly the same root causes. Denying the role of humans, doesn’t make it so. And if we aren’t the cause, we will fix it anyway. Right?

Call for property to develop permaculture project

From time to time we get requests from lovely permaculture people that are looking for opportunities to make our world a better place – through permaculture. We hope that our network members can help them along. Here is an example.

Hello everybody!

We are Hanna & Felix, two mid-twenties from Germany. Right now, we are traveling through South America in search for some land to start a self-sufficient farm & join the reforestation movement. We have decided to come here after living on a farm in Northern California for one year. Originally, we abandoned our European life in the course of learning enough about the current state of the planet & the crises ahead of us. Being too young to ignore that outlook, we decided we had to fundamentally change our lives & join the efforts to fight the upcoming catastrophe. Hence, we are set to dedicate our time & energy to promoting life in all its forms – permaculture being the perfect tool to work towards a greener & healthier world.

By now, we have to change course in one respect: We have to come back to our home land Europe. We have a group of friends & family who would also join our efforts in case we find a proper piece of land to start with. Hence, we now begin our search, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe.

Our advantage is that we don’t need a “good” piece of land at all. We are looking for the challenge to bring life to a place that is not already abundant of it or even especially suitable. Our aim is to experiment with ways & methods to grow plants in preparation for a future without fossil fuels. We want to start with at least 10 hectares, but the final scale of the project depends on the number of people involved.

Please, if you can help us find a place to begin our journey towards a more beautiful world, get in touch with us.

Thank you so much in advance!

Hanna & Felix

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