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Earth Activist Training update 8-05

Next EAT sessions:  September 11-25, January 7-21  Starhawk and Erik Ohlsen
Honoring the Land, Natural Building September 27-October 1

"The permi-culture course made so much sense, practical and easier than conventional gardening that i could see a way forward in the dreams i had for my life . and it really inspired the rest of the group from Aberdeenshire as well, we’re now doing project days once a fortnight were we spent a whole day doing some thing ( grey water , irirrigationnd rain water collection,  composting , renewables. gardening , low impact dwellings …I have never been so inspired before, and not just inspired but really doing it.  Life really is one big learning curve.” Eileen (Student at the Earth Activist Training course, Scotland.)

“Permaculture now seems to be a buzz word flowing through almost the entire activist scene in the UK, and ideas for making our ways of living the real protest are coming alive.”  Rob (Student at the Earth Activist Training course, Scotland.)

A month has passed since the G8 protests in Scotland, and our frenzy of collecting tat, building compost toilets and greywater systems for the eco-village encampment, and then ‘tatting down’.  I’ve had some time to rest up, relax, and begin to digest the whole experience.  I’ve been to an inspiring workshop with David Holmgren, one of the founders of permaculture, who sees it as the strategy and tools needed to face a future of energy decline and growing ecological stress.  There’s a deeper way that permaculture, magic, and political organizing come together, beyond lockdowns in gardens and compost toilets for actions.  And that’s in the deep cultural shift we need to make in our ways of thinking, from a fixation with things to an understanding of patterns and systems and connections.  

I’m more than ever committed to teaching and sharing the skills I have in making that shift.  We’re gearing up for our September Earth Activist Training in northern California, and as always we need help to make it available to those who most need it.  If you’ve appreciated the updates and would like to support the work, a donation to the EAT scholarship fund will help us support the youth, the activists, and the older people in transition who want this training but can’t afford it.

You can donate online at www.earthactivisttraining.org
Go to the top of the page and click on the Donate Button

OR: Checks can be made out to:

Earth Activist Training
EAT
PO Box 291
Cazadero, CA  95421

For tax deductible donations of $50 or more, write a check to our fiscal sponser:
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, earmark it EAT, and send it to:

Earth Activist Training
P.O. Box 291
Cazadero, CA 95421
(I’m sorry but we can’t offer a tax deduction for smaller amounts—it simply costs us most of the amount to process.)

We have a few spaces left for the September course and the Honoring the Land course in natural building that follows, as well as the January courses.  Information is at www.earthactivisttraining.org

If you are interested in my rough notes and a more technical evaluation of the permaculture aspects of the encampment, go to:

www.starhawk.org/permaculture/HoriZone_EcoVillage.html

They are a bit long to put in an email, but eventually will become an article for Permaculture Magazine in Britain.I’ve also written a short response to the London bombings from a Pagan perspective, posted on www.Beliefnet.com and on this website, www.starhawk.org. I’m off now to the woods to teach at the first Free Activist Witchcamp in the Southern Oregon Wilderness.

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Thanks to all of who have expressed your support in so many ways,

-- Starhawk

To learn permaculture, effective activism, and magic with Starhawk and co-conspirators Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, see information on Earth Activist Training at www.earthactivisttraining.org (page will open in a new browser window).

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