Susan Silber

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/photo-e1442455934373.jpg[/image_frame] Susan is co-producer of the Building Resilience Communities Convergence. She has worked as both a community organizer and environmental educator for the past 25 years. She is proud to…

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Rachel Kaplan

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rachel-Kaplan1.jpg[/image_frame] Rachel Kaplan is a permacuture educator, somatic healer, political agitator, and mother. She works in the lineages of generative somatics, the Regenerative Design Institute, Contact Improv and radical street…

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Creating Green and Resilient Homes, Neighborhoods, Culture and Economy

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-10-at-3.26.35-PM.png[/image_frame] This presentation will show and tell greening a suburban property and neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon for taking care of more needs closer to home - food, water, energy, "social…

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Jan Spencer

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Unknown-1.jpeg[/image_frame] Jan Spencer took his PDC in 1991 in Austin, Texas. He moved to Eugene in 1992. From the start in 2000, Jan intended to transform his quarter acre suburban…

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Gerardo Ruiz Smith

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gerardo.jpg[/image_frame] Gerardo works as a permaculture consultant and educator through Mexico and Latin America. For the last 5 years he has been a member of the Wixarika Research Center, a…

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Delia Carroll

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Delia-e1443749256629.jpg[/image_frame] Conceived in Pennsylvania, born in California, Delia Carroll is a hardy pioneer species deeply rooted in the soil of Bay Area counterculture. She has a degree in the art…

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Permaculture Contracting: Building Businesses That Care for Earth and People

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Permaculture-Plan-.jpg[/image_frame] Learn best practices for starting and sustaining your own permaculture contracting or design company using the principles of permaculture. In this day and age there is a ripe opportunity…

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Collaborative Action to Take Community-Based Solutions to Scale

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tour.jpg[/image_frame] Given the scale of the challenges we face, how can we strengthen our organizations and networks and take these vital community-based solutions to scale? Join Daily Acts and community…

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Kellen Watson

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Kellen-Watson-Bio-Photo.jpg[/image_frame] Kellen works with Daily Acts and municipal governments to bring permaculture ideas to the world at large, using local water conservation initiatives as a funding source and a framework.…

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It’s On! Water Challenges and Solutions for 2016 and Beyond

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/drought_image.jpg[/image_frame] Everyone knows we are facing a serious water crisis in California and globally. The hottest temperatures on record, unprecedented forest fires and four years of extreme drought are about…

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Aysha Massell

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AyshaMassell.jpg[/image_frame] Aysha Massell, MS in Environmental Engineering, is co-founder of Drought Smart, a worker-owned cooperative focusing on  affordable water reuse and harvesting systems for residents and businesses throughout the Bay…

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Alfonso Jaramillo

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mateo.jpg[/image_frame] Alfonso Jaramillo is co-founder of Drought Smart, a Bay Area rainwater catchment and greywater re-use systems worker-owned cooperative. Alfonso has a diverse background that includes a B.A. in Development…

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Luminaries

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/vir.jpg[/image_frame] Formed in Venice Beach California, and immersed in one of the most culturally diverse communities in LA, arises the heart driven, and service orientated Hip Hop emissaries of peace,…

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Sol Horizon

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sol-Horizon-logosquare.jpg[/image_frame] Voted "Best World/Reggae band" in the North Bay Area, Sol Horizon seamlessly fuses roots reggae with rock, funk, world and electronic dance. Anchored by veteran musicians (including former members…

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The Dogon Lights

          [image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/vir.jpg[/image_frame] Pronounced "Doe-Gone, The Dogon Lights  "Afro-Galactic Hip Hop" from the Bay Area. The Dogon Lights create a shamanic and energetic dance atmosphere that takes…

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BOLO

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/11393742_458832017632973_9160480352793633729_o.jpg[/image_frame] BOLO is a dynamic ensemble with Surya Prakasha (Lavay Smith) on drumset, vocals and harmonium, Eliyahu Sills (The Qadim Ensemble) on ney & bansuri flutes, oud, and upright bass,…

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Sweet Medicine with special guest Joss Jaffe

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10264244_253394151512571_4751198484021437941_o.jpg[/image_frame] Sweet Medicine is a musical collaboration between Emily Lewis and Naia Jess Graham. Their sound is earthy, elemental, spirit infused folk with a side of soul wisdom & playful…

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Vir McCoy

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Judy_Hoaglund.jpg[/image_frame] Vir McCoy has written and recorded over 200 original original songs in many styles of music on 19 albums (as of 2013) including styles in Children's, Rock, Funk, World…

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