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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.

What's going on

Next Steps Emergent Festival

The Next Steps Emergent festival supports micro enterprises, enhancements to existing activities, or explorations of new ideas over a short period of time. This year, there are 5 projects that have received funding.

These are the Permaculture Glossary, the African Landless Permaculturist Project, the CoLab Podcast, Communicating Permaculture in Spanish, and Permaculture in Africa.
All of these projects were given the go ahead on 1st April and are already undertaking their work. Go team go!

Support For Your Permaculture Project

Do you want to know the impact of your permaculture project? Do you long to evaluate its work, but don’t know where to start?

The Colab Next Steps project is able to offer support to several grassroots / community permaculture projects that want to improve how they evaluate their work and assess its impact.

We will work with participating projects to identify areas to work on together, and agree a pathway for your project or organisation, which will be supported by online materials and courses, 1-1 coaching, small group workshops and peer to peer learning through a community forum.

Support is offered free of charge. Participating projects will need to commit to doing the agreed work over an agreed timeframe (likely to be 6 - 12 months) with support from us. This will involve homework! (completing work between our meetings).

Projects need to apply and will be selected to participate subject to eligibility criteria.

If you are interested, please email contact@perma.earth marking the message ‘Impact'.

CoLab Podcast Season 2

The CoLab podcast has received funding for a second round of interviews. If you are involved in a grassroots permaculture project, and would like to join us for a chat and a (virtual) coffee, please get in contact. This is a chance for you to tell the world about what you are doing.

The interview will be about 40 minutes long and the focus is on you and your project. We can pay you £25 for your time and will promote your interview on this newsletter, on the CoLab Slack channel, and on the CoLab LinkedIn page. For more information, please contact @Daniel_Atwell on the CoLab Slack.

Diversity and Decolonization

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.

NDN Collective

NDN Collective was founded in the He Sapa (Black Hills) in Rapid City, South Dakota. From these roots all of their organizing, policy advocacy, and movement-building has a hyperlocal focus.The Collective works to "Build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and Mother Earth."

This collective is a great resource for insight into Indigenous movement building: https://ndncollective.org/stories/

They provide grants which support and advance Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations to defend and protect land, air, water, and natural resources from negative resource extraction and exploitation. Development in a regenerative and sustainable manner based on share values and connection to land, culture and identity. Indigenous ceremonies, cultures, languages, and ways of life are revitalized, recognized and celebrated.

Grants are used for mutual aid, solidarity with movement builders and in the spirit of intentional reciprocity.

Grant Opportunities: https://ndncollective.org/grant-opportunities/

Are you a member?

CoLab members are individuals who have an active account in the CoLab Slack workspace.

If you're interested in becoming a member you can check out what that entails here.

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