September-October

New School Permaculture Spring Courses
Permaculture is to live in harmony with nature providing for human needs and the needs of everything around us
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Girl Scout cookies without GMO for children, young and inspiring activism.

Girl Scout cookies 
without GMO for children

Alicia, the inspiring activist 
very few know about




You can sign her petition asking Girl Scouts of America to make cookies without GMOs here: http://www.change.org/petitions/girl-...







You can also find out more about when here cookbook will be out here:
rickyrosie.wordpress.com
All proceeds from her cookbook will go towards getting Organic gardens in schools.




New School Permaculture sponsoring children in africa affected by ebola virus

The New School Permaculture is helping  sponsor
the education of children affected by the ebola virus in Sierra Leone  

 Become part of our Community Supported Education program and help giving a future for this children. We are developing this project in support of Laura Petkute and Mohamed Papa Bangur
and their non formal organization Access to education Sierra Leone

2 years ago Access to education Sierra Leone sent first payments for the school fees of children and now 15 children have finished this time and we want to raise more funds to pay for school fees for them to continue education
For one year in school it is about 40 pounds which is around 45 euros. With this money a child receives uniform, school materials and a scholarship payment to the school...

If you would like to support our Community Supported Education program and help this children please make your donation to:


  
 Aminata Sesay, age 12

Aminata Sesay lost his father a year befor the Ebola outbreak her mother was taking care of four of them , her mother was infected during the Ebola and died their step mother is an old woman that is now looking after them and could not aford to send them to school since the death of their mother in 2014

 Present Sponsorship will end soon 
For Aminata Sesay
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 Ibriham Kanu age 9 year

Ibriham Kanu class 4, lost his Dad during the Ebola virus and his mum is poor and can not aford to send Ibriham and his brothers to school and decided to send Ibriham to his grandmother , Ibriham grandma can not send Ibriham to school as well and later approach me and explained the story to me I made follow up and I see the reality of the story , Ibriham was send back to school by Access to Education for young people in Sierra Leone last year and he is doing very well in school

 Sponsorship will end soon   
For Ibriham Kanu
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 Aminata Bundu Kamara, age 15

Aminata Bundu Kamara ' s Parents were the first to contacted the virus and died in the Masuba section , Aminata Mum was a palm wine seller while her father was a carpenter who does wood work , they contacted the virus after caring for a nurse woman who contacted the virus in Bo and came to makeni , a week later after the nurse woman left for her home town Aminata ' s father fall sick and died after two weeks a week later her Mum fall sick and died after 3 days , that was in September 2014 , four of Aminata family died including Mother , father Auntie and one uncle but grandma survive but she is an old and poor woman who can not even put food on table

Sponsorship will end soon  
For   Aminata Bundu Kamara
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 Kadiatu Sesay, younger sister of Aminata Sesay, age 8

Sponsorship will end soon   
For  Kadiatu Sesay
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  Michael Fornah, 8 years old

Michael Fornah is in class 3 now , he lost both parent during the Ebola , it was his dad who first contact the virus and his mother was taking caring of his Dad , a week later after the death of his dad Michael became sick and his mother took him to Government hospital it was in October 2014 they were kept there for two weeks and later confirm that both Michael and his mum have been infected with the virus , on the way to Kailahun in the Eastern part of Sierra Leone were the only treatment center was, his mother died on the way , of which no one knows where she was buried

Michael was taken to the treatment center were he spent 4 weeks without his mum and Dad , after the four weeks he was brought to makeni and handed him over to his aunt after two weeks Michael started vomiting again and he was taken again to the hospital where he spent another 21 days after he get better he was brought back home to his aunt , his aunt is also a poor widow who lost his husband 5 years ago she can not aford to send her own children and Michael

In 2015 Michael became one of the first benefic beneficiaries to be send to school by Access to Education and he is now doing well in school he is in class 3 

Michael Fornah was
 NEW SCHOOL PERMACULTURE
 and will continue in school

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If you would like to support our Community Supported Education program and help this children please make your donation to:


If you want to donate direct to  Laura Petkute and Mohamed Papa Bangur
and their non formal organization Access to education Sierra Leone
you can do it here

Here is a video about the work that has been developed on in sierra leone check this video

 


Urban Permaculture Workshop in Fuerteventura Island

On Sunday, 10th of April we were invited to Fuerteventura Island for an Urban Permaculture Workshop.



 We were promoting and raising awareness 
about the care of nature and people.

This time, it was in an old cultural association, El Casino, where they are working on improving the management of the site through a bottom- up methodology. 


We were even filmed by local Tindaya TV.

As a community project, we organized some dynamic games for participants expose their needs about green spaces and to define the "guardians" of the gardens.

 For one day, we talked about and practiced permaculture for a group of people that haven't heard about it before... 




We also transformed one of the outside spaces as an example of how they can start to design
 and make real the gardens. 
It is just about creativity and initiative!! 


Due to limited free space in the cities, getting a piece of land for making a garden is really a challenge. 
A vertical one seems to be always a good option...  ;)  
For the whole installation, we re- used some wasted materials found in a storage room of El Casino.


Children were the most excited 
and wanted to be part of it, too.


 Fuerteventura is the dryest and warmest island of the Canaries, so we had to choose local flowers, fruits and vegetables that don't need to be watered very often and we looked for a half-shade wall in the patio.


   



       

We hope, after some months, passion fruits are hanging in the structure while covering the whole wall, zucchinis are growing around the place and more plants are flowering. 
Thanks to all the participants of El Casinoabierto and Fasebase collective for the invitation.


To see more about adventure 
in Fuerteventura click HERE.

You can also check some Urban Permaculture HERE
To know all about Helder Valente AQUI 

Video interviews
Spanish national TVE HERE 2014
Video at IPC Cuba HERE 2013
Portuguese RDP HERE 2013
Spanish national TVE HERE 2013
Reportagem da SIC HERE 2012
Biosfera da RTP HERE 2011
Biosfera da RTP HERE 2010

Biosfera da RTP HERE 2009

Newspapper interviews 
 Jornal Publico AQUI 2018
Atlantico Express dos Açores AQUI 2017
Jornal Publico AQUI 2009



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Big Rock Candy Mountain and permaculture, whats the connection





Harry 'Haywire' McClintock wrote his first song, the story of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." around the turn of the last century which was based on fairy tales he had heard growing up, conjuring up images of houses built out of sweet cakes and candy. In this visual adaptation a scruffy old hobo brings us on a journey around this wonderfully lazy place where hand-outs grow on bushes and you can sleep out every night.
With beautifully rendered backgrounds and silky smooth animation the Big Rock Candy Mountain is something anybody of any age will enjoy.

Support children education in Haiti with AAE Amis de Enfants

  AAE's new school is finally under construction, so we need desks for the children.

   Here is our "SPONSOR a DESK" campaign.


     Each desk and chair costs US$70
 and includes giving work to a local carpenter.

A classroom of 30 students 
can contribute $2.40 each.

         Donors' name tags (on request) will be arranged and 
a photo will be sent back to the donor/s

Tables and chairs, of recommended and age-appropriate sizes, 
are locally made thus also supporting much needed local economy.

Organize you classroom donations (or any other donation) through our PayPal button for contact me if you wish details for a tax deduction, instead via ISHRA, Haiti Appeal International Society for Human Rights, Australia (only).


BEFORE


AFTER




Please do not hesitate to contact me 
for any further information and I would be 
pleased to meet you in person 
and/or speak at your school, if you’
d like.

Orietta L’Abbate

CEO AAE Australia Inc. for AAE La Gonave


under the auspices of Intern. Society for Human Rights Australia

Mobile: 0414 818 055


How to make a newspaper dome with kids


All you need is old newspaper and tape and then you can get the kids engaged on a recycling adventure.



And in the end they can put it all down and feed it to the worms...




Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil

If we burn the plastic, we generate toxins and a large amount of CO2. If we convert it into oil, we save CO2 and at the same time increase people’s awareness about the value of plastic garbage.—Akinori Ito, CEO of Blest.

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Permaculture is to create paradise on earth starting at the kitchen garden