Spanish Permaculture Beginners Guide Launched Spring 2006

The weekend of 5th-8th 2006 May saw the launch of the first Spanish language permaculture publication, 'Permacultura – Una Guia para Principiantes' at the annual Biocultura Fair held in Barcelona. The book is a translation of Graham Burnett's 'Permaculture – a Beginners Guide' originally published by Spiralseed (www.spiralseed.co.uk) in 2000, and features an illustrated introduction to the ethics, principles and applications of permaculture, such as urban gardens, LETS systems, community building projects and farms. The translation is the work of a team consisting of Antonio Scotti, Stefania Strega, Sara Arnaiz and Zoe Costa, and has been jointly produced by Academia de Permacultura (the Spanish Permaculture Academy), PermaCultura-es.Org and EcoHabitar magazine (the Spanish equivalent of Permaculture Magazine).

To celebrate the book's launch, the author was invited to the Biocultura event, where he led two presentations and question and answer sessions at the Olympic stadium, inside the main lecture theatre and at a less formal event in the small teepee area outside, both which were very ably translated by Antonio Scotti. Signed copies of the book were also sold at the Permaculture stall at the fair.

'Permaculture a Beginners Guide' has also been translated into Croatian, Hebrew and Belgian and Hungarian editions are in the works.

For more information or to order copies of the Spanish edition see http://tienda.ecohabitar.org/elemento_detalle.php?pk_cd_elemento=3653&op=