[Trusties] Fwd: Cuban/Australian Permaculture Exchange

Mon Sep 24 20:54:02 EST 2007

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From: Wayne Wadsworth <hellowadzy at gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2007 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Cuban/Australian Permaculture Exchange
To: Roberto Perez <roberto.perez at fanj.cult.cu>

Hi Roberto,

Would be great to get you out here next year.  I may be working overseas but
am more than happy to promote and help you get here.

David Holmgren is a good comtact and also the Permaculture Institute in
Tasmania.

I have been developing the egg Educational Green Garden which I hope to get
in a school ASAP.

If you do a Google search on Educational Green Garden egg you will see the
article from the newspaper.

Have developed a very highly productive system to grow a lot of food i a
small area which of course is the egg.

Well Amigo.  I suggest you email everyone you know in Aus asking for support
and to form an aliance to get you our here and Robin to Cuba.

Make sure we all have each others contact.  Robin is a very talented Permy
but she is a control freak.  I worked with her for a couple of years and
have very personal experience of her bad sides.  Having said that she is
very talented and a very good designer and would be great to have her in
Havana for a month or two.

David Holmgren is I beleive the best designer in Aus (apart form myself of
course) and very humble and intelligent it would be a great cou to get him
to Havana and the Foodies.

Well Amigo

Viva de La Revalucion

Wadzy
for Mother Earth
On 9/21/07, Roberto Perez <roberto.perez at fanj.cult.cu> wrote:
>
>  Hi people in OZ (tralia)
>
>
>
> Its been a while but I can finally sit here to write, it was great to meet
> robyn in Brasil and the rest of the people, and later to have the chance to
> hang out with David Holmgren and Su and their son, they wanted to help in
> anything about my probable trip to Oz, and March- april will be great to be
> there and come back with Robyn, this can be even combined in a way you will
> have to get an airfare to and from England, but is not confirmed yet, so
> lets work on the subject, here Cary and the foodies are very enthusiastic
> about it and .
>
>
>
> Please let me know new thoughts about it
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
>
> roberto
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *De:* Robyn Francis [mailto:robyn at permaculture.com.au]
> *Enviado el:* viernes, 15 de junio de 2007 20:49
> *Para:* Wayne (Wadzy) Wadsworth
> *CC:* Roberto P é rez; Cuban Consulate Australia
> *Asunto:* Re: Cuban/Australian Permaculture Exchange
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I do like Wadsy's idea of bringing Roberto out to Australia. I suggested
> this to Roberto at IPC8 and the response was most enthusiastic. I definitely
> think at least a 2 month visit would be good, longer if Roberto can spend
> the time away. Early 2008 would be great, could include a spot as keynote
> speaker at APC9 in Sydney (Easter weekend March 20-25)???. Cuba will be
> hosting the Americas Permaculture Convergence late next year so I'm mindful
> of commitments on that front for the Cuban pc team--it will be a busy year.
>
> My opportunities to get away for extended time periods is limited. I am
> tentatively looking at a period of around 6-7 weeks for the Cuba visit
> around mid April through May 2008 (and I'd like to experience a May Day in
> Havana!!!). There is also interest for me to deliver an urban pc course in
> Buenos Aires. If Roberto comes to Australia and we return to Cuba together
> we could explore co-teaching the course in Argentina en-route – would also
> be a real advantage re translation to Spanish.
>
> I think it important to promote what I would be offering as Integrated
> Urban Design. It's more than urban PC landscapes-- it integrates housing,
> social planning, technology, landuse and strategic planning as well as
> landscapes. One of the struggles (here as well as in Cuba) for holistic
> permaculture designers is the tendency for the public and professionals to
> regard permaculture as simply a landscape/garden system. Breaking this
> restrictive mould is another underlying aim of the proposed visit.
>
> What are your thoughts Roberto?
>
> Look forward to catching up with you on Friday, Wadsy.
>
> Ciao
> Robyn
>
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>
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> *
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>
> On 16/6/07 9:43 AM, "Wayne Wadsworth" <hellowadzy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Yea ya goto love those Crazy Cubans!
>
> I am thinking about some reverse thinking here re the Cubans
>
> Why not bring Roberto over here for 3 to 6 months.  We could tour him
> around to do public speaking and raise money to send you back there with him
> for  3 to 6 months.  I have spoken to Robyn Clayfield and Jeanette and they
> are both very keen.  I have ccd this to the ACFS in Brisbane (Roberto and
> the Cuban Consul for Australia)  who I am sure would turn on a night for you
> up there, which could be fund raiser to get Roberto out here. Also  other
> ACFS branches round Aus would support a tour and you going back to Havana to
> do some P/C urban landscape education.
>
> I will be in Nimbin Friday to do a presentation on the egg at the Nimbin
> School.  If you want I could catch up with you after that.  I am hoping to
> get an egg into Nimbin Central and am doing a project to get one into
> Mullum.
>
> I think the value of getting Robo the Hobo here would be fantastic.  He is
> a very good speaker  and would relate well to the young, he's a bit of a
> naughty boy but a that's the Cubans who thanks to God they have survived 45
> years of Yankee aggression.
>
> I have CCd this to Roberto and the Cuban Consul.  I think it would be very
> good if you can contact the Australian Cuban Consul as the help I got from
> the Consul during the early 90,3 was crucial in getting the Green Team
> project into Cuba.
>
>
> Viva Cuba
> Wadzy for Mother Nature
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/15/07, *Robyn Francis* <robyn at permaculture.com.au  <mailto:robyn at permaculture.com.au><robyn at permaculture.com.au>> wrote:
>
> Hi Wadsy
>
> I really big Hi and hug from Roberto – it was really amazing how well the
> 3 Cubans and me clicked – like old friends meeting – I'm going to have to
> learn a bit of Spanish so I can chat with Cary –it was crazy, we became such
> great friends and hung out together heaps, her speaking Spanish, me English,
> and laughing at each others antics to be understood...
>
> The residential pressures are pretty full-on and they don't want to see
> cement tenement block towers everywhere. There's little eco-literacy in
> planning and the planners still don't see urban food production as a
> permanent integral part of the urban landscape. They're also interested in
> pc takes on eco-sensitive tourism – some sad stuff happening there with
> resort development for the yankee dollar etc. and hope my work in Bali might
> change some thinking.
>
> I've got copies of the Cuban powerpoint presentations and will be drawing
> from them to put a presentation together to help with fundraising. When I'm
> organised I'd like to do an evening over Byron way.
>
> Hope to catch up with you sometime soon.
>
> Ciao
> Robyn
>
>
>
>
>
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