[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fairshare-permaculturejpg.jpg[/image_frame] Town and City Permaculture will put on an interactive workshop. About how diversity helps permaculture truly realize it's expressed ethics. We will delve into, how can we design. For…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1441593989096.jpeg[/image_frame] Ryan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network gives a how-to on getting involved with the organization's movement of mobilizing concert-goers and festival-audiences to Permaculture Action Days - one day…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ruthie-King.jpg[/image_frame] Ruthie King grew up in Southern California before heading east to attend Columbia University, where she studied planning and design with a focus on ways to integrate sustainability into…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/What-is-Adaptive-Agriculture-1.jpg[/image_frame] With so many categories, ideologies, philosophies, styles of growing food sustainably, it is challenging for beginning farmers to enter the local food system with their own identity. Adaptive Agriculture…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/robin-bloom-and-annahata.jpg[/image_frame] The Embodying Permaculture workshop is an interactive experience that integrates the permaculture principles and ethics with body-centered awareness practices including transformational theater, collective musical creation, and guided exercises that…
Rick has always gardened and foraged, and has had a long interest in edible plants, snails and bugs. He has gardened in climates and soils of many sorts, from the glacial soils of the…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"] [/image_frame] Permaculture is "site specific". Are the important characteristics of "a permaculture garden" circular lines, or things that might be more difficult to express in sound bites? We'll take…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Connect - Nourish - Grow - Activate - Release - Sustain concepts are alive in the prinicples of Permaculture. Drumming has been an integral part of human experience and…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Hip Hop For Change Inc. will produce an educational workshop that teaches about the history and importance of hip hop culture. Together participants will take the corporate veil depicting…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Khafre Jay might be the hardest working man in Bay Area Hip Hop. He’s rocked with legends in 38 states like Rakim, Method Man, Dead Prez, Krs1, Jean Grae,…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Afia Walking Tree, M.Ed. is recognized for her restorative facilitation of African Diasporic courses, processes, and performances, internationally. She uses drumming, rhythm, song, movement, storytelling, earth stewardship, ritual,…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Jessica Bates of El Sobrante, CA, based Food Forest Farm West will highlight the basics and important features of designing a food forest in an urban environment. We will…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Jessica Bates (El Sobrante) Is a transplant to the bay area from Washington D.C. She has been establishing her roots in the bay area for the last 13 years.…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] In September, 2015, the U.S. joined 192 other UN member nations in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, composed of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), starting with the…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Gail Williamson has worked with numerous community-based organizations of low-income workers in an educational and training capacity over the course of her 33 years as a volunteer organizer. Gail…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] This workshop will provide participants with the skills they need to determine how much water they produce or falls on their property, how to match that with water needs…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] This workshop challenges participants to fall in love with the water cycle. By giving the big picture of water in California, including river flows, infiltration, stormwater, greywater, rainwater, groundwater,…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com[/image_frame] Elizabeth Dougherty has steeped herself in sustainable technologies and practices of green building, organic agriculture, fair trade, and permaculture in Latin America, Africa, and the United States. Upon finishing her PhD…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Jillian is an experienced practitioner of regenerative systems living, who works creatively and collaboratively with others, applying whole systems design principles to a wide range of projects: from urban…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] The Integral Center in Boulder Colorado is a forerunner in developing social technologies that build community, increase relational intelligence, and develop leadership skills. Their immersive courses such as the…