2013 Financial Permaculture Workshop

January 21-25, 2013 Miami Dade College Homestead Campus www.financialpermaculture.com

How can we communicate?

When the organizers of the Financial Permaculture Course convened on how we’d outline the structure of the event, we all agreed that we needed to start the event with a session on COMMUNICATION and Community Development Tools.  We designed the session for the first day so that it would set the stage for effective group [...]

Flash Documentation

We’re here this morning at a pre-session for Financial Permaculture. The actual event begins at 2 pm. We started this pre-session out by creating an agenda, asking people to sponsor agenda items and set a time frame for the session.

Agenda: Check-in’s, Business Confessions, Defining Financial Permaculture, Documentation, Goals for the week.  I or someone [...]

Green Evening Cafe with a Seed and Plant Exchange

The Sonnenschein Green Initiative hosted the third Green Evening Cafe on Tuesday, March 24, 6-8:30 pm at the Emporium Cafe, downtown, Hohenwald. Food and Farming was the theme for the March Green Evening. Fifty seven people attended the evening, which began and ended with a seed and plant exchange. Cassandra and Tom Warner of Cane [...]

Third Transition Update

The Sonnenschein Green Initiative, Transition Committee held a meeting Wednesday, March 4, with 27 people in attendance.  Outreach education, youth education and the Green Proclamation were on the agenda.  The Food and Farming Working Group also met and discussed the Food and Farming Green Evening Cafe’, which will be held March 24, 6-8:30 pm.  The [...]

“IN HOHENWALD WE TRUST”

The Sonnenschein Green Initiative had its first meeting on complimentary currencies, Monday February 9, 2009. Myself, Jennifer Dauksha-English, Patrick Gibbs and two members of the local Chamber of Commerce met over tea to discuss transition economics. We first assessed our current situation. Aside from talking about the state of the world’s economy, our assessment was [...]

Financial Permaculture Certification

The Financial Permaculture Institute team has decided to move forward with creating an advanced certificate in Financial Permaculture. While 2008 was the pilot for the Financial Permaculture Course, we anticipate that 2009 will be the pilot for the new certificate. We’ll be working on the content and required curriculum for the certification over the next [...]

Proactive with Permaculture

Catherine Austin Fitts and I had a call this week about instructors for the September 22-26, 2009 Financial Permaculture Course in Hohenwald, TN. We agreed that the main criteria for our instructor search was that the instructor have these qualities: knowledge relevant to economic development in Hohenwald, tools easy to replicate and that they themselves [...]