IPC8 (The 8th International Permaculture Conference and Convergence) in Cuba will be a mile stone for the global permaculture and sustainability movement. It will be held on the 25-27th November 2013 in Havana. The conference will address directly poverty, developing the United Nations Development Program, climate change, food security and education all under the theme of permaculture. The conferance will showcase how permaculture design has solved all of these problems in every inhabited continent on the globe.
This is the opportunity for leaders and practitioners in the permaculture field to network and develop and publish their imperative work. Cuba was chosen as the host country because of three main factors:
- One of only three countries in the world that lives under its ecological footprint.
- The only country to have dealt with peak oil and climate change effectively on a national scale.
- The capital city of Havana grows 80% of the food required to feed the citizens of the city in organic community free hold gardens.
Learning from such a leading nation is the educational and governmental imperative of nations for the years to come. Showing how nation wide mobilisation changes the environmental and quality of life outcomes.
I will present my 5th year Master of Architecture thesis at the conference. The question of which was:
" How can permatecture evolve the U.N Development Program criteria for Latin America, within the political hierarchy/agenda for the favela of Monterrey, Mexico"
Stuart Muir Wilson
More infromation about the conference can be found by going to: http://ipc11cuba.com/en/international-permaculture-congress-cuba/ipc-11-international-permaculture-conference.html
