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Dear Food Sovereignty orgs and networks,

I'm writing to let you all know about the 12th International Permaculture Conference (IPC) that we are hosting on the 8-9 September at 'The Light' Conference Centre, Euston, London.

Permaculture is an ecological design approach that is now being practised in over 100 countries. Recent research and reviews are showing that it is making a major contribution to sustainability practice and thinking.

The conference theme is 'Designing the World We Want'. This will be a trans-disciplinary conference that brings together over 600 permaculture and sustainability practitioners, researchers and policy makers from Europe and across the world. We hope you will want to get involved.

Day one will showcase exemplary projects and initiatives from across the world that, if mainstreamed, would enable us to meet climate change and wider sustainability targets.

Day two looks at the transformational processes, including policy developments, that will enable this to happen.

Both days will be underpinned by the latest research and policy thinking.

The conference seeks to articulate a coherent and practical vision of the future based on what we know is already possible. We are working to feed the results in to the COP 21 conference in Paris later this year.

We are very much going beyond permaculture, and welcome your involvement in this conference. Together we offer amazing solutions - use this conference to showcase what you do, and build links to other organisations and networks making a difference. Its a big opportunity to highlight food sovereignty as a key part of our healthy future.

Key information about the conference can be found here:

www.ipcuk.events/conference

I hope you are interested in getting involved. There are a few ways you could do this:

Please let people in your networks know about the conference via your newsletters, website, e-bulletins and social media.
Identify people in your network that could make a contribution to the event as a speaker or workshop leader – please encourage then to do this by Friday 27th March latest.
Get involved more closely as a partner or sponsor - to promote your work to our global audience www.ipcuk.events/sponsors/becomeasponsor

The Conference will be followed by a 5 day networking 'convergence' for permaculture practitioners – if you have any permaculture practitioners in your network that can come along that would be wonderful – we are making some really important strategic decisions about how to move forward internationally and keen to do this with input and awareness of how it fits into a wider strategy for change in partnership with other networks. More information on www.ipcuk.events/convergence/programme.

I am happy to talk through any questions or suggestions that you may have by email, on the phone, or in person if that would be helpful. There are some really good opportunities to promote our shared goals through the IPC, I look forward to talking to you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Andy Goldring

Chief Executive of the Permaculture Association

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Twitter: @andygoldring
Skype: permaculture.coordinator
Direct line: +44 (0)113 2307658
Email: andyg@permaculture.org.uk

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