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The International Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory is a network of individuals that aims to enhance the effectiveness of the global permaculture movement.
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What's going on!
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Watch What We've Been Up To on YouTube
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Next Steps Project Contributors met to talk about what they were excited about this year and what they thought were their biggest challenges.
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Next Steps Project is a funded project within the CoLab learn more about it here.
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Emergent Festival Applicants got together to present their projects to the community.
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In total 10 projects shared their plans for this year and pitched them to the CoLab's most active members for funding. In total 7 projects have been funded, find out more about them here.
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CoLab Year 3 Training Program – Open for Registration!
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Join us for a series of interactive workshops designed to support ethical marketing, community engagement, network weaving, and permaculture design. Whether you’re a CoLab member or new to our network, these sessions will help you grow your skills and connections.
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Ethical Marketing for Permaculture Projects – 28th May, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
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Thriving in Online Communities – 15th July, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
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Network Weaving for Collaboration – 15th October, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
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Introduction to Permaculture (3 sessions) – 4th, 7th, 10th November, 18:00 – 20:00 CET
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CoLab Podcast - Series 2, Episode 6
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For the final episode in this series, The Permaculture CoLab Podcast Project will talk with Carolyne who started up the SheGenerators Perma Hub which is based in Rongo, Kenya.
In this episode, Carolyne Akinyi Olang-Onyango will discuss the background to her project, how she hopes to develop the project and also the future of the project within her community. Carolyne emphasises that first and foremost SheGenerators is a place to learn permaculture principles and techniques by teaching women how to grow their own food and become self sufficient. The project also hosts community members as a safe place for young people to play music, create art and discuss ideas.
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As a final message the CoLab Podcast would like to sincerely thank all the grassroots project interviewees and participants for their time to talk with us. It gives us hope and vision for the future to hear all about the innovative and groundbreaking activities and projects from around the world. May peace be upon us.
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For your listening pleasure, tune in and learn about this great project by using this link:
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What is Medicinal Forest Gardening?
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A new free course is set to help people discover the amazing potential of a medicinal forest garden. The online course Discover Medicinal Forest Gardening, is about designing, harvesting, understanding and using healing plants in the forest garden. This course introduces growing herbal medicines sustainably in a variety of forest garden contexts.
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Students explore trees and shrubs that heal, permaculture design and making herbal remedies. This taster course of three lessons is offered free by the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust which promotes sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs.
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Each lesson of Discover Medicinal Forest Gardening includes videos, downloads and an activity such as a quiz or practical task. The course materials include safety advice and suggestions for ways to further develop knowledge and skills.
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The tutor is Anne Stobart, an experienced herb grower and medical herbalist in the UK. She is the author of The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (2020) and Trees and Shrubs That Heal (2023), both published by Permanent Publications. To find out more, go to the Thinkific course website for the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust.
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Diversity and Decolonization
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The International Permaculture CoLab recognises that permaculture history, ethics, principles and practices have deep roots in many indigenous cultures.
This section of our newsletter is dedicated to addressing gaps in knowledge, highlighting resources and important work. We seek to promote, share and support diversity and decolonization projects, organisations and shared knowledge around the world that are aligned with our vision of a socially just world where we live in harmony with nature.
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Tools For Justice
The Healing Racism Toolkit has been put together to be informative, beautiful, interactive, and useful to white folks as they explore and positively address issues of race and racism within themselves and society. This toolkit is an extensive library of resources primarily for white people to understand, and work to heal racism within themselves and the society they created. Racism is a chronic, spiritual disease. It is not genetic but born out of a false sense of racial entitlement, arrogance, egotism, and superiority. It alienates us from the roots of our being and prevents the building of healthy community.
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People of color are encouraged to look through this toolkit to provide feedback, analysis, insight, constructive criticism, or anything else they feel like saying. Beyond guilt, shame, blame, denial, and resistance, the Toolkit endeavors to be helpful in examining how white people can take responsibility for challenging specific forms of privilege, supremacist attitudes, and prejudice.
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The idea is that this is a growing, living, dynamic Project with things being added or changed on a regular basis so check back often. In particular, resources are updated regularly. The hope is that all walk away with improved skills in talking about race and race privilege and its consequences.
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Resource of the Month
Sowing Seeds Without Soil
- advice for African permaculturists wanting to access land without high capital costs -
A 53 page PDF guide detailing the research process, findings, and advice for African permaculturists wanting to access land without high capital costs. This guide contains stories of permaculture projects and indigenous farmers operating on tribal land, in land trusts, on land from redistribution programmes; as well as challenges especially around gender when accessing land. Focused on SADC for now but with plans to expand into other regions in Africa.
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Each section has key insights as well as advice for other permaculturists wanting to pursue these avenues. We encourage others to use this guide as a template from which to base further research in their own regions.
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Engagement opportunities
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Applications are open for Diversity Stipends and Grants. Find out more by reading the policy carefully.
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Freelance Communication Strategist - Applications open until 18th April 2025
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Diversity Decolonization Community Pot Coordinators - Applications open until 30th April 2025
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Upcoming recruitment for positions within the International Permaculture CoLab and Aligned networks can be found also here.
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Did you know: Within the CoLab slack workspace we also curate a channel called; #nice-jobs where members share open positions worldwide that are aligned with our shared values.
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Upcoming Events
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Are you a member?
CoLab membership is free. CoLab members are individuals who have an active account in the CoLab Slack workspace.
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If you're interested in becoming a member you can check out what that entails here.
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