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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Awesome PBS segment last night on aid collapsing Haiti's rice markets

Great 15min segment from yesterday breaking down exactly what's happening right now Haiti with the food supply:z
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haiti-aid/

Also, please please remember to check out, support, and forward the documentary film: Hands That Feed.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1510126655/hands-that-feed-haitis-food-crisis-and-post-quake-0

From Northeastern Permaculture list-serve

Friends,

Mai Frank and I are co-designing a semester-long Permaculture Fundamentals curriculum for the University of Massachusetts that will run in the fall of 2010. One of our design goals is to feature the work of underrepresented voices in Permaculture design. We are looking to highlight the work of women, people of color, and other oppressed groups.

Mott Haven Farmers Market
sponsored by Sustainable South Bronx

Every Wednesday through November 3, 9am - 6pm

Padre Plaza Success Garden
283 Saint Ann's Ave. (corner of E. 139th St.)
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Greetings!

This past Wednesday, July 7th was Opening Day for SSBx's sponsorship of the Mott Haven Farmers Market, and the beginning of an exciting market season! Residents of Mott Haven purchased an array of fresh fruits and vegetables from local New York and New Jersey farmers.

HANCOCK PERMACULTURE CENTER
www.hancockpermaculture.org
ANNOUNCES:

Modular Permaculture Design Course Fall 2010

HANCOCK, NEW YORK: To be held at the Panther Rock Farm with field visits and design exercises at local farms and homesteads. Five weekends over five months. Graduates receive the official permaculture design certificate. Panther Rock farm has chickens, greenhouse, pond, wetlands, solar and well developed gardens and is a developing a permaculture demonstration site.

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"No problem can be solved
from the same level of consciousness
that created it." - Albert Einstein
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PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION
AND YOGA IMMERSION INTENSIVE
with JULIA AND CHARLES YELTON
at SIVANANDA ASHRAM YOGA RANCH,
WOODBOURNE, NY
AUGUST 3-22, 2010

See our course webpage for details: http://bit.ly/bk1sf0

Course Highlights

* Outstanding teachers and guest teachers with local, regional, and international experience
* Hands-on Project Components and Field Trip/s

Register now – Course begins July 17

12 Sessions: July 17 & 18, July 31 & August 1, September 25 & 26, October 2 & 3, October 16, October 23 and November 7

Claudia Joseph, lead teacher
Guest teachers: Jono Neiger, Phil Forsyth and many more

Saturdays 9am – 4pm & Sundays 10am – 4pm

Location: The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn (most dates)
And the 6th Street Community Center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan

Fee: $1,150
Scholarships and work trade will be considered.

GAS DRILLING: THE FINAL WAKE-UP CALL
By Gusti Bogok, with assistance from Carl Arnold

FARM interns wanted

One Intern, possibly two, wanted for organic blueberry farm in western Massachusetts. Room and board and modest stipend for 30 hour work week. Not near public transit, but in a beautiful verdant valley, with river, kitchen gardens, classic farm house with library of books and movies, great porch, beekeeping, nearby hiking, bike available, trips into Northampton.

Friday night, February 19th, about 35 people attended the premier U.S. screening of "Turning Point" at 388 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The 40-minute film about Findhorn, the fifty-year old Scottish Ecovillage, was well-received. After the film, Melissa Ennen suggested that we divide ourselves into smaller groups to focus on six of the topics raised in the film -- water, food, energy, transportation, arts and finance. Each group spent 15 minutes discussing existing sustainable NYC projects and additional things we could do locally.

http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2228
Yale 360 Report

Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats.

Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.
by sonia shah