Permaculture Association of SA - website

Spokesperson:

Chris Day, Convenor

Contact Details:

Ph: 0402 222480

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Key role of Member Group:

• Facilitate Permaculture advocacy, information and learning, and sustainable initiatives in S.A.
• Promotion, networking, information, and plant, seed and skill sharing.
• Central body for many Permaculture bio regional & related groups.
• Education of public.

Key Achievements and Activities for 2008/09:

• Promotion of Permaculture & sales of appropriate books at environmental events (eg WOMAD & the sustainable living expo).
• Facilitation of workshops all over the state to implement Permaculture systems.
• Continuing activities of bio-regional groups: Working bees, stalls at local fairs, lobbying local government, skill, seed, & abundance sharing, local knowledge & community building. Encouraging a sense belonging & responsibility to the local patch of bio-sphere.
• Networking all over the world: Permaculture initiatives & opportunities undertaken by various individual members.
• Regular journal and newsletter to our members.
• Sustainable garden & house design functions.
• Food Forest SA: Offering Permaculture Design Certificate courses, Shorter one day & weekend courses on: Building with Strawbales, Organic Vegetables & Poultry, Composting Toilet and Reedbed Systems, and Fruit and Nut Growing. See: http://www.foodforest.com.au/
• Advocacy & facilitation of the 'Transition towns' concept: To respond, positively & creatively, to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
• Presentations & attendance at various conferences & panel discussions on environmental & social issues.

Identify three key environmental issues impacting on South Australia:

• 1. Unsustainable urban planning, building construction and design. Suburbs and housing for short-term profit rather than building long-term, low-impact community resilience.
• 2. Mismanagement of our water - needs better capture, storage, re-use & recycling strategies.
• 3. Reckless over-consumption / Complacency about our impacts. (Poor holistic education & thinking)