Integral Permaculture Academy

Conferences with links to Facebook threads: A) Mothers of Invention B) The Fierce Feminine C) The Importance of Male Allies D) Action Learning International PermaCulture Day We celebrate International PermaCulture Day this year by launching a month-long conference to honor the contribution of women to Permaculture, to human evolution and to the nurturing & fierce protection of all Life. Why? Because in addition to being International PC Day... Mothers' Day falls in May in most countries that celebrate it Earth Day has been allocated to the 22nd of April but we think the Mother of all of us deserves at least a month-long celebration Maia is one of the names of the Great Mother Goddess   (In ancient Roman religion and myth, Maia embodied the concept of growth) May Day is a traditional spring/summer celebration in Europe, often featuring the May Queen which is one personification of the Life Force And because it's...

Stella & Jose of the Integral PermaCulture Academy contributed to the latest Permaculture Design Magazine which was all about Decolonizing Permaculture , a very important consciousness that is now emerging with more force in the permaculture movement, and something we are proud to have incorporated into the Integral Permaculture curriculum since its beginnings.  See some of the story of that, below. Also included is an interview of Stella by our dear colleague Derrick Jensen for his Resistance Radio Program , all about Integral Permaculture.   Permaculture = Relationship We are writing this from colonized Benawara (renamed La Palma after the Awara people were exterminated and absorbed more than 500 years ago in the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands).  In this article we mention a few of the cultural patterns we noticed we carry as colonialist people.  There are many, but one way of describing several of them, in terms of how we thi...