Cob Natural Building & Permaculture Convergence

[Mark Piepkorn]

This is intended to be an advisement of an opportunity, not an advertisement.

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A Natural Building & Permaculture Convergence, June 6-12 1999, at the Lama
Foundation in Taos County, New Mexico. Co-sponsored by The Permaculture
Drylands Institute, The Lama Foundation, and The Last Straw Journal.

Lama Foundation is situated on 105 acres of high alpine desert in northern
New Mexico, altitude 8600 feet. The land is regenerating in the wake of the
1996 7000-acre Hondo Fire.

Featured Workshop Presenters & Their Topics

NATURAL BUILDING
John Murray, Timber Framer, Taos NM - Sustainable Timber Harvesting
Janice Vascott, Architect, Santa Fe NM - Passive Solar Design
Sun Ray Kelley, Natural Builder, Oregon - Organic Architecture & Log Joinery
Carole Crews, Gourmet Adobe, Taos NM - Natural Plasters
Robert Laporte, Founder, Econest Building Company, Santa Fe NM - Straw-clay
Infill & Timber Framing
Frank Meyer, Natural Builder, Austin TX - Straw Bale Walls & Earthen Floors
Paula Baker-Laporte, Architect, Baubiologist, and Author of Prescriptions
for a Healthy House, Santa Fe NM - The Healthy Home
Cedar Rose Guelberth, Designer, Consultant & Natural Building Supplier -
Building for Health & Natural Plasters
Len Meserve, Passive Solar Natural Builder, Tesuque NM - Glass & Glazing
Alan Reeves, Mason, Santa Fe NM - Russian Stove Design & Construction
Jann Rucquoi, Natural Builder, Nevada - Earthbags
  
PERMACULTURE
Peter Bane, The Permaculture Activist, Black Mountain NC - Eco-village Design
Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas, Summertown TN -
Ecovillage Design & Y2K Planning
Ben Haggard, Regenesis Collaborative Development Group, Santa Fe NM -
Permaculture Principles & Practices; The Lama Site Plan: A Permaculture
Case Study
Joel Glanzberg, Designer, Teacher, & Consultant, Fairview NM - Toolmaking
Jonathan Scharfman, Regenesis Collaborative Development Group, Santa Fe NM
- Intro to Permaculture & Watershed Management
Richard Zook, Lama Foundation, San Cristobal NM - Fire Ecology, Erosion
Control, & Forest Restoration
Dan Dorsey, Designer & Teacher, Tucson AZ - Local Currency Systems
Toby Hemenway, Permaculturist, Oregon - Plant Guilds & Creating Living Soil
Michael Lockman, Designer & Teacher, Seattle WA - Food Forests
Vishu Magee, Architect, Taos NM - Archetype Design
Brad Lancaster, Designer & Teacher, Tucson AZ - Edible & Medicinal Insects
Tammy Davis, Gardener, Santa Fe NM - Mushrooms & Vermiculture
Susan Garrett, Herbalist, Albuquerque NM - Native Medicinal Herbs
Bill Roley & Gabriel Howarth, Permaculture Institute of So California -
Food Forests
Chris Meuli, Permaculturist, Edgewood NM - Path Design
Cathy Hope, Herbalist/Gardener, Taos NM - High Alpine Gardening
Cath Conlon, Blackwood Building Group, Houston TX - Community Relationship
to Land
   
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
Bert Lopez, Natural Builder, Albuquerque NM - Cistern Building
Alan Sindelar, Positive Energy, Inc, Santa Fe NM - Photovoltaic Electric
Systems
Ron Sutcliffe, Ecological Designer, New Mexico - Composting Toilets
Tom Watson, Ecological Designer, Santa Fe NM - Designing Biological Waste
Treatment Systems
   
COMMUNITY
Lama Residents, Lama Foundation, San Cristobal NM - Intentional Community

and others as yet unconfirmed...   


Schedule of events - Opening Circle at 2pm, June 6. Closing Circle at 3pm,
June 12. Daytime activities will focus on the "blitz-build" of a
timber-framed Solar Arc Classroom of straw-bale, adobe, straw-clay and cob,
with natural plasters. A concurrent Permaculture curriculum will feature
principles of design and hands-on workshops. Evening events will include
video and slide presentations, dances, music, fire circles, sharing
councils and a Friday Shabbat Ceremony with the Lama community.

Cost (includes meals & lodging) - $550. Children 5-16 half price.
(Childcare, hikes, play, and natural building opportunities available for
ages 5-16.) Cost includes three vegetarian meals per day and on-site
lodging. On location: yurt and tent with beds can accommodate 20. Tent
sites for 100 campers. Hotels and campgrounds available in Taos and Questa
(at additional cost). Cost per day - $80.

For more information and registration contact Permaculture Drylands
Institute, Attn: 1999 Convergence, PDI, PO Box 156, Santa Fe, NM
87504-0156. Visa/Mastercard payments may be phoned in 505-983-0663, faxed
505-986-0339, mailed, or e-mailed <pdrylands at aol.com>