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The Permaculture Institute of Eastern Ontario (PIEO) is delighted to announce its collaboration with the new Just Food Community Food and Urban Agriculture Hub in the Ottawa Greenbelt. PIEO will donate all profits from its recent regional event to support this new project.
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The following is a transcript of a speech by Douglas Barnes given to the Belleville chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women in Belleville, Ontario on February 17th, 2011 and to the Ottawa Permaculture Convergence on June 25, 2011
Today, we’ll be looking at the state of the world read more...
En mai 2010, nous avons été invités en Haiti par une ONG pendant une semaine et demi. Le but était de préparer un cours de design à la permaculture et de donner des petits ateliers dans les camps à Port-au-Prince sur la façon de commencer un jardin potager et un système de composte.
Si le read more...
Mon premier voyage en Haiti m'a bien marqué. Ça m'a donné l'envie de retourner travailler là-bas et partager plus profondement avec les gens. Quelques mois après, quand nous nous sommes rendus comptes qu'on n'avançait pas avec la subvention de fonds pour notre cours de permaculture en Haiti, j'ai read more...
I've been training a team of four teacher trainers and two agronomists to replicate a 5-day training that I've designed for AMURT called “Creating My Community”. After doing five days of “pre-training” with them, we are now training a larger group of almost 40 participants. In “Creating My read more...
By this time next week, my plan is to have given two 5-day trainings; trained over 40 teacher-trainers, community animators, and agronomists from three organisations and five sites; and coached three teams on their projects using permaculture design. It's been a full few weeks.
I've worked almost read more...
One of the little girls was over at our apartment and was hungry; in that moment, I struggled with the fact that I have food, usually three times a day.
I remember a friend's story about two little boys. One of them said to the other “We are all One” and the other said “Yes, but why are we wearing read more...
What stands out for me in these last two weeks in Haiti is the people. I'm reminded that, in any life circumstance, we have choice in how we live and how we meet the world. Dr. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust, wrote about how people found freedom, choice and meaning even in read more...
I had expected that the language difference (me speaking French and not Creole) would be a challenge for me in giving trainings and facilitating groups here. I accepted that this would be a learning edge for me, which would push me to find new and creative ways to facilitate people's learning read more...
It's 5:50am and I've been awake since 4am, resting and relaxing on my mattress under the mosquito net and listening to the sounds of the morning – first the roosters and dogs, then the people and motorised vehicles. At 5:18am it was getting light outside and my skin was already feeling a bit sticky read more...
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