Money Does Grow On Trees!

Miami, FL – The much anticipated 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit to take place January 21-25 in Miami, FL at the Miami Dade College Homestead Campus.

Miami, FL (I-Newswire) January 5, 2013 - Earth Learning, the community-based nonprofit organization focused on food availability and the development of a life-sustaining culture in Southern Florida (the Greater Everglades bioregion), will be a Summit host to address the convergence of economic and ecological challenges of the 21st century. Other host groups include the Financial Permaculture Institute, the Economic Development Council of South Miami-Dade, and Miami Dade College.

This year, dozens of participants from across the country will gather for a week in South Dade to design successful regenerative business models. Sessions will be led influential industry thinkers and practitioners in finance, sustainable economic development and business, and Permaculture Design. They include David Rose, Emily Kawano, Jonathan Cloud, Jude Hobbs, Eric Toensmeier and Elizabeth U.

Hot topics include: “Creating Money-Cycling Models” “The Win-Win Scenario Of Local Investments,” “Innovative Businesses Optimizing The Local Natural Eco-Systems,” and “Change Agents Implementing Models of Regenerative Business And Local Ecological Resiliency.”

The event will provide an unprecedented networking and partnership building opportunity for groups, companies, and individuals looking to benefit from the economic vitality of the local South Florida economy while developing a model plan for sustainable businesses that can be used throughout the world.

“We are honored to be hosting such an important Summit. Particularly this past year, the community interest in our region’s sustainability has grown immensely. So it’s no surprise that community feedback to this event has been amazing. Everyone is very quickly understanding how important it is to further learn about our relationship with our region, and of course Earth,” said Earth Learning Founder and Director Mario Yanez.

For more information visit www.FinancialPermaculture.com

About Financial Permaculture
Permaculture means permanent agriculture and permanent culture. Financial permaculture takes an ecological approach to economics.


Earth Learning is a non-profit organization growing a life-sustaining culture in its home region, the Greater Everglades (southern Florida), as well as seeding life-sustaining strategies in regions across North America. For further information: Mario Yanez, Earth Learning, (786) 233 -2784, mario@earth-learning.org