Local Transition Joshua Tree members Tim Delorey and Nicholas Holmes have received scholarships from the Nutiva company to attend the Permaculture Voices Convention from March 13 â 16 in Temecula, CA. The convention will be comprised of 60 sessions featuring over 40 world-renown speakers who are on the cutting edge of permaculture research. Permaculture is a land use design method that works with the deep patterns of nature to regenerate ecosystems and create sustainable human habitation. Â Each Scholarship applicant had to submit an exhaustive application to demonstrate that he or she is an Eco-Entrepreneur: Â someone who has been running an eco-business for less than 2 years or is in the process of starting an eco-business that doesnât yet exist.