[permaculture-oceania] Calling all Permaculture Designers: Opportunity to create the world's first totally 'Permaculturally-Designed' Island...

[Peter Ward]

Greetings all, your advice, suggestions, assistance & support on this one, would be much appreciated.

Cheers,  Peter Ward.

cf: Google Groups post:

From: Peter Ward (peter_ward at skali.com)
Subject: Calling all Permaculture Designers: Opportunity to create the world's first totally 'Permaculturally-Designed' Island... 
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Date: 2003-07-02 20:00:13 PST 
 

Greetings all:  I need some advice & assistance from the world
Permacultural Community.

I'm currently negotiating with the Mayor of Pitcairn Island - Steve
Christian - to transform Pitcairn Island (my ancestral homeland) into
the world's first totally 'permaculturally-designed' Island.

Pitcairn is still a British Colony, but the UK basically wants to shut
the Island down (ie. the colony is "not economically viable") & sell
the Pitcairn Islands (Pitcairn, Henderson, Oeno, Ducie) along with
their accompanying 200 nm. exclusive economic zones to the French*
(presumably so that the latter can test nuclear devices on a volcanic
Island rather than an atoll).

One possible way to save the Island & it's unique heritage, would be
to transform it into the only 'holistic-permaculture-nation-state' on
the Planet; not only to make it completely independent of the British
Exchequer, but also to lay the foundations for a limited ecotourism
industry which could possibly enable the Island to become totally
self-sufficient at a relatively comfortable standard of living.

Steve Christian is warm on the idea, but - being one of the most
remote places on earth - "Permaculture", is a complete unknown to the
Island community.

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So, what I need is some advice on the best way to introduce the key
principles & concepts of Permaculture to the Pitcairn Islander
community.
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All & any advice or suggestions on moving this Project (tentatively
titled 'Biosphere3') forward, will be graciously appreciated.

For those unfamiliar with Pitcairn, the following site provides useful
links:
http://www.escapeartist.com/pitcairn/pitcairn.htm


* there are substantial deposits of manganese, iron, copper, gold,
silver, and zinc, which have recently been discovered within the 200
nautical-mile exclusive economic zone surrounding the Pitcairn Islands
(Pitcairn, Henderson, Oeno, Ducie).

cf: 'Convention on Maritime Boundaries between the Government of the
French Republic and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland'

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/FRA-GBR1983MB.PDF

ref:
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=alt.permaculture&selm=15415a8.0307021900.6fee9e52%40posting.google.com




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