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RYW: Skills for Community Self Reliance Course

To my dear RYW BLOG readers

I just attended a week long Ecovillages and Sustainable Community Design Course.

It was brilliant.

If you'd like more information, please email me or reply here.

Love
David

PS: I will be prefixing these BLOGS with RYW in future. RYW stands for RepairYourWorld, my BLOG.

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