Official IPC8 Report
Prepared by:
Permacultura America Latina (PAL)
723 Allendale St
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Tel: 505-989-1695
pal@permacultura.org
July 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Introduction
Permaculture is an ethics based design methodology for creating sustainable systems and settlements. It was initially developed in Australia by ecologist Bill Mollison in the late seventies but has since traveled the globe and today there are projects of every size happening in most countries of the world.
The International Permaculture Convergence (IPC) was originally designed as an international forum to enable permaculturists working in projects in various parts of the world to gather and share information and contacts. The IPC has been held since the early eighties in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, Scandinavia, Croatia and Brazil.
The IPC’s consist of four separate events which are:
a) The Conference (a public forum)
b) The Convergence (for practicing permaculturists)
c) The Permaculture Design Course (a courtesy to the host country)
d) The Permaculture Site Tour.
Over time these four components have adapted and evolved to reflect the growth of permaculture as a global grassroots movement. Today the Conference is also an international public event headlined by a pre selected theme.
The current 8th Permaculture Convergence was hosted in Brazil and audio versions of the Conference in São Paulo are available for downloading and can be heard on the official IPC8 website: click here . There will also be a DVD of the Conference with subtitles available for distribution shortly.
All the four events of IPC8 took place between May 16th and June 8. Some 570 participants were involved from forty two countries. Hotels, aeroplanes, buses, cars, taxis, boats, canoes in four cities at different ends of the country had to be organized and coordinated. No one missed a plane or got lost and only one person became ill from an allergy. PAL would like to thank all those benefactors that helped fund and support this Permaculture gathering and we deeply and sincerely feel that it has been an extraordinary success from which the planet will gain significantly in the years to come.
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