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FREE Reception for Geoff Lawton: Permaculture Design and Practice

Thursday, 17 November 2005
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Organizer: Ecovillage & Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute

Thursday, November 17th
7:30pm
Ecovillage Common House
Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY

Ecovillage

and the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute

invite you to a
Reception for Geoff & Nadia Lawton,
plus Andrew Jones & Andrew Leslie Phillips

Come meet these accomplished permaculture
practitioners and educators and enjoy
Geoff's presentation "Permaculture:
Designing and Installing around the World."

FREE and open to the public. Come and meet Geoff.
Learn what can be accomplished through permaculture
design. Decide if you'd like to take his weekend
course next weekend November 18th through the 20th,
or join us for the full certificate course.
For more info, go to http://www.flpci.org.

Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned permaculture
practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia
and studied permaculture with the originator, Bill
Mollison, in Tasmania. He founded the Permaculture
Research Institute
on Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147-acre
farmstead previously developed by Mollison. Since 1985,
Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects
in 18 countries for private individuals and groups,
communities, governments, aid organizations, and multinational
corporations. He has taught the Permaculture Design
Certificate course in 20 countries.

Andrew Jones is a board member of the Permaculture Research
Institute, with a background in international emergency
response and post-conflict development and rehabilitation.
He ran a 40,000-person refugee camp in Macedonia for CARE
International and spent three years on the ground in Iraq
following the first Gulf War. A native of Australia, Andrew
is currently a managing partner of Full Circle LLC,
a permaculture consulting firm in
Brooklyn, New York.

Andrew Leslie Phillips established the Hancock Permaculture
Center was in 2004. He is a garden designer specializing in
natural stone, and a certified permaculture practitioner.
A native of Australia, Andrew spent seven years in Papua New Guinea
as a government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker
before coming to New York in 1976. He produced award-winning
investigative radio documentaries on a wide range of environmental
and political issues for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
National Public Radio and later for WBAI Community Radio in New York City
where he was program director (1989-93). He taught journalism, radio and
"sound image" as an adjunct professor at New York University
for 15 years. In 1997 he launched Stone and Garden,
a garden design and permaculture
consulting service, which he still operates. His quest for natural
stone for patios led him to Hancock, "the Bluestone Capital of the
World." In 2004 he relocated to the area and set up the Hancock
Permaculture Center.
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Earn your permaculture design certificate.
The Finger Lakes Permacuture Institute
begins its first course on November 18.
Go to: http://www.flpci.org

Location:
Ecovillage Common House
Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY

Cost: free

URL: http://www.flpci.org