Community Land Trusts  |  SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL ORGANISATION

Background: Robina McCurdy
Robina is a founder of Tui Land Trust, located in Golden Bay, New Zealand. She holds a Diploma of Pemaculture Design and for the past fifteen years she has been engaged in broader community development, permaculture design, teaching, organic gardening and orchard management, along with the development of environmental education resources and participatory processes for decision making. Robina weaves together facilitation, education and design in a unique and powerful way, to build sustainable community in harmony with the natural environment.

As well as working extensively in NZ, her skill as a sustainable land use and community development consultant and facilitator has taken her to Australia, South Africa, USA, Brazil, Ireland and Scotland. Some of the organisations which have backed her work are: New Zealand High Commission, NZ Natural Heritage Foundation, DANIDA (Denmark), Fundacio Gaia NGO, Rio Grande du Sul and Santa Catarina Education Departments (Brazil), Global Ecovillage Network (Australia), Village Development, Novalis Institute and Abalimi Bezekhaya (South Africa), PELUM (Zimbabwe), Context Institute (USA) and the British High Commission.

REGISTRATIONS & logistical enquiries:
for Byron Bay workshop: to Earthcare Education Aotearoa, C/o Leone, 
PO Box 1544, Byron Bay, 2481 Phone: Mobile 0410 627310

for Crystal Waters events: to Morag Gamble of SEED INTERNATIONAL
Morag Gamble, S E E D I n t e r n a t i o n a l, 50 Crystal Waters, Kilcoy Lane, Conondale, QLD 4552 AUSTRALIA Phone & Fax: +61 (0) 7 5494 4833

Note: Numbers may be limited. Please register at least one week prior to the workshop, by sending a deposit of $30 to the respective co-ordinators.
(Please make cheques out to: Earthcare Education Aotearoa)

Workshop Content Enquiries: Email: robina@win.co.nz
Robina's phone (New Zealand): 0064-3-5258488

Private Options:
Tools and Concepts for Land Conservation

by Montana Land Reliance and Land Trust Exchange
Paperback (1982)
The Community Land Trust Handbook
by Institute for Community Economics
Community Land Trust
by Gretchen Older
Starting a Land Trust:
A Guide to Forming a Land Conservation Organization.

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