EL 3.0.2
A blog by T.A.Chadwick
2.25.13
We are now at the midpoint of the winter season, and regardless of one’s
relative geographic location, nature is relentlessly reminding us: you know
what to do… you know you can do better… you must take another step… the
wind whispers our instructions, blue jays never let us forget, butterflies,
bees and hummingbirds gently enforce Earth’s patterns and cycles.
Our growing collective human realization that we must
do our part to regenerate Earth’s biosystems is an awareness that’s fostering a
renewed focus on sustainability and a closer examination of the intersection of
economy, finance, business development and an ancient concept with a pointedly
contemporary potential for innovation: permaculture.
Permaculture, in a nutshell, is designing human systems that
replicate and regenerate Earth’s natural processes. Financial permaculture is “working with local
communities to create holistic and regenerative economic solutions for local
and international sustainability.”
On May 31 – June 4, Earth
Learning and the Financial Permaculture
Institute are hosting the 2014 Local Food Enterprise
(LiFE) Summit in Miami to continue building local
food infrastructure here in the Greater Everglades bioregion. This is an
open call to participate as a trainee, investor or food lover! Our objective is to engage entrepreneurs and
consumers in growing the local ecology of “a life sustaining culture” to expand
access to delicious food grown safely and sustainably right here in the Greater
Everglades.
Four local food enterprises will serve as this year’s design
clients. Everyone who registers as a LiFE Summit
participant will have the opportunity to join one of four design teams who will
work together to develop real-time, case-specific permaculture business/ farm/
enterprise models for each design client to implement.
Registration
is open now for the week-long Summit or the keynote lectures only,
including the final evening’s unveiling and launch of the newly designed Local
Food Enterprises!
Sign up today and refer a friend
to get rooted in “growing a life-sustaining culture here in the Greater
Everglades bioregion.”
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