2018 Pre-Convergence Workshop: Music as Medicine Day Long Intensive

Thurs, Sept 20| 10:00am – 5:00pm

Participants will learn collaborative design through modeling and voicing crucial elements and principles involved in creating an intensive garden in minimal space.

Participatory learning around a basic common denominator of permaculture (the intensive front-door garden) with the power of collaborative design in real space

Presented By: Rick Valley

Lydia has a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS. She has studied closely with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 8 years, learning how we can metabolize our pain for the world into profound communion with our human and more-than-human communities. She is also an accomplished musician who is deeply inspired by folk, blues, and protest music traditions. In her solo project she combines fiddle, banjo, and her soulful voice to offer a soul-folk revival experience. In the past year she has collaborated with Rising Appalachia, Climbing Poetree, Ayla Nereo, and the wonderful women of MaMuse. Two years ago she pioneered, “Music As Medicine In Our Time” with Penny Livingston at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA. In this workshop she brings together facilitation of Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects” with exploring movement music that nourishes resilience, promotes justice, and facilitates healing in our communities.

2018 Pre-Convergence Workshop: Music as Medicine Day Long Intensive

Thurs, Sept 20| 10:00am – 5:00pm

SALMON ARE SACRED

We believe that when Creator put us on this Earth we had no voice. Our Salmon relatives saw we needed help and gave us their voice.  In return, we promised to always speak for them. Today, climate change, GMO farming, habitat destruction and water diversions for Big Ag are pushing our salmon relatives towards extinction . Our tribe has an ancient prophecy, “When there are no more salmon, there will be no more Winnemem Wintu people.” For this reason, we believe that we must do everything we can to bring back our salmon. There is still hope. Our tribe is taking action to save our endangered salmon relatives and restore this keystone species to its rightful place in the natural world.

OUR STORY

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, salmon eggs were taken from the McCloud River to populate the rivers in other parts of the world. After the Shasta Dam was installed, we thought we had lost our fish forever but in 2004, when news about our War Dance went around the world, a New Zealand professor contacted us saying, “We have your fish, do you want them back?”We learned that the eggs that had been taken to Aotearoa (New Zealand) survived in the glacier-fed rivers and existed in healthy numbers. Now we are on a mission to bring home the genetic descendants of our wild chinook salmon. This June we need to raise $85,000 to begin the process of restoring our wild, genetically pure winter-run, chinook salmon in our California waters. This has never been done before, but it is the only chance we have to save our endangered Salmon relatives.

THE TIME IS NOW

We are working to bring our salmon home.  The descendants of our McCloud River salmon are thriving in Aotearoa (New Zealand), and they’re beginning their spawning journey upstream this month. This July we hope to travel to New Zealand with our tribal youth to collect samples for DNA testing to prove to the U.S. government that the New Zealand salmon are indeed our McCloud river fish. If we can’t complete phase 1, we may not have another chance. It’s now or never.  We know that with your help we will make this project a reality.

The money we raise will go towards:

+$60K Will go towards hiring the staff and biologists to collect samples of the salmon and New Zealand’s administrative costs. This will also cover campaign fees and administrative costs.

HELP GET US THERE!

Our stretch goal will be to help fund our youth to travel to New Zealand in July to be a part of this historic restoration effort.

+$25k Will help get us to take our tribal youth to New Zealand to be a part of the restoration effort.

DONATE TO OUR GO FUND ME CAMPAIGN HERE

This has never been done before, but it’s our only chance of saving our Salmon relatives. We are ready to bring our salmon home to our waters. Restoring our salmon runs to the high mountain streams is the only hope we have in helping the salmon survive climate change and revitalizing our culture. Join us in this movement, follow our tribe and join us on this journey as we continue to carry out our #Run4Salmon prayer (see more: Run4Salmon.org ) to protect our waters, restore our salmon and revive our culture.

We believe in the good things coming,

Chief Caleen Sisk

P.S. To learn more about the Dancing Salmon Home documentary, visit

www.dancingsalmonhome.com

To donate to our Go Fund Me campaign visit: www.gofundme.com/salmonwillrun

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Yurt

– Instructed by Max Meyers

• Pre-Registration Required: $75 – $195 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Ready to Green Your Grow?

Are you interested in learning how to grow clean and green Cannabis? Would you like to improve the quality of the cannabis you grow by moving beyond organic? Want to learn how to produce it using more sustainable, even regenerative practices? Well then, join us for this one of a kind class and learn how to Green Your Grow! This introductory class will help you improve your cannabis growing methods so that they are not only better for you and your pocket book, but for the consumers and the environment as well.

Workshop Description

Many problems facing this fast growing industry relate to the wasteful amount of non-renewable resources being used everyday in the production of the cannabis plant. From the common practices of using chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides, to the destruction of forest systems and waterways, California’s booming new industry in recreational Cannabis must also become more sustainable, clean and certified Organic. The successful changes we are helping to spread will help the state to become a leader in clean green cannabis, which is not only better for the consumers, but better for the environment. In this 1-day Intro workshop Master Grower Max Meyers will teach you the basic concepts of growing Cannabis using ecological design.

Some Key Benefits to Greening your Grow!

• Learn How Nature Can Provide the Solutions to Most of the Challenges Facing Cannabis Growers on the Farm or in the Garden
• Use Up to 75% Less Water Than Other Growing Methods
• Reduce Nutrient Needs and Eliminate Need for Buying Extra Bottles
• Go Beyond the Traditional Understanding of Healthy Soil Systems
• Saves Money, Time and Resources
• Model Plant Communities After the Most Successful Examples in Nature
• Learn How to Go 100% Organic and Beyond!
• Increase Marketability of Your Crop
• Join the Largest and Fastest Growing Segment of Cannabis Production
• Learn from Sustainable Cannabis Experts
• How Using Observation and Good Permaculture Design Can be a Huge Benefit to Growers
• Self-sufficiency = Good for the Planet & Good for Your Wallet
• Localized, Site Specific Advantages that Can’t be Bought in a Store or Nursery
• Design to Maximize Production Area While Minimizing Wasted Space
• Your Chance to Apply what you Learn From this Unique Sustainable Cannabis Growing Class!

Whether you have been growing for years or just getting started, this class will help you grow more sustainable cannabis, using less money, resources and can even help you produce more with less time and labor!

Learn from a well-known expert in Cannabis and Ecological Design the successful tips and tricks you need to reduce electrical usage if growing indoors and how to dramatically reduce your ecological footprint!

This class is perfect for garden managers, growers, owners and operators.

Max Meyers

 Max Meyers is an experienced Ecological Designer, Permaculture Teacher, Consultant, Registered Aquaculturist, Aquaponic System Designer/Installer, Rainwater and Greywater System specialist, Farmer, and the Executive Director of the Mendocino Ecological Learning Center a nonprofit educational organization and ecological reserve offering green job training and sustainable living skills to the public. Through his work as an instructor of Permaculture and Ecological Design he has successfully trained over a thousand students from more than 40 countries world wide. In addition to the work at MELC, Mr. Meyers provides Ecological design services to the public, organizations, and schools through Osiris Designs and Nor Cal Aquaponics. He is passionate about all things related to a more just and sustainable world. Most recently Mr. Meyers helped write the guidelines for the newly formed  California Fish and Wildlife Aquaponics subcommittee. He has been studying, practicing and teaching Permaculture and Ecological Design for 18 years.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Yurt

• Pre-Registration Required: $75 – $195 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Hops Tipi

– Facilitated by Starhawk & Malik Coburn

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Workshop Description

Social permaculture looks at the people-care aspects of permaculture. Vegetables are the easy part—people are the challenge! All groups struggle with issues of power, conflicts, and the need to make decisions. Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founder on the rocks of conflict and poor communication.

In this one-day intensive, we’ll look at regenerative patterns for human interaction. How do we come together across barriers and create spaces where we are welcome in the full complexity of who we are? We’ll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes.

The foundation for this workshop is based on tools and practices from Starhawk’s book, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups.

Starhawk is a committed global justice activist, organizer, speaker, teacher, and the author or coauthor of ten books. Starhawk is founder of Earth Activist Training, and travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism for diverse groups, communities and audiences. Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. Her works include The Spiral Dance, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing. A personal favorite is award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Starhawk’s latest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. Starhawk’s books have been translated into many languages, while her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Her writing is influential and has been quoted by many hundreds of other authors, from magazines to trade and academic press. Her books are often used in college curriculums.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 30 years. She has organized, trained protesters, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. She continues to be a witness for peace on the front lines of the Palestine/Israel war, working with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists.

A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT: Root Activists’ Network of Trainers, and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America. She is active in the revived American peace movement, and works with Code Pink. Starhawk also works on countless environmental and land use issues, and is a founder and active member of the Cazadero Hills Land Use Council in western Sonoma County.

Starhawk consulted on and contributed to a trio of popular films, the Women’s Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read). Starhawk and Donna Read formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is “Signs Out of Time” (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement.  Watch Starhawk’s short videos on Permaculture –  Tabor Tilth: Permaculture in the City, and Permaculture Principles at Work. Starhawk and Donna are at work on her next film, an Introduction to Permaculture. Starhak is currently working on a screen play and film for the film for her visionary best selling book – The Fifth Sacred Thing. http://fifthsacredthing.com/

Starhawk lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Hops Tipi

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Oct 5th, 10am- 4:30pm

– Co-Facilitated by Jeff Clearwater and A. Keala Young

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Workshop Description

All over the world there are modern day ‘Villages’ emerging with a multiplicity of forms and a common intent, to become the imaginal cells, the pioneer crucibles that can develop the solutions that humanity needs. The work is of immense value to us all as they model sustainable lifestyles, develop tools, technologies, processes that demonstrate that a Regenerative path is not only a dream but a true potential. Each of these versions of Village offers a story, a leading vision and fulfilling future for humanity.

Our interactive Village Design Workshop will allow you to learn the blueprints of a Regenerative Community directly with people passionate about juicy and high quality conscious community and Whole Systems Design.

This ReInhabiting the Village intensive is an exploration of essential principles for revitalizing the ethos of Village culture and re-aligning ourselves with the intelligence of the Living Earth.

Leveraging Thinking Global, Acting Local perspectives we consider the consciousness shift and culture shifts necessary in order to empower collective engagement in meaningful action towards a more regenerative society.

During this interactive deep dive experience, we will work with best practices, tools, frameworks, dialogue and useful exercises for growing our capacity for cooperation and stewardship within our communities while considering our place in the greater web of life.

Topics of Focus:

To ground a Village Vision, Core Values and agreements and how to obtain and develop land.
The architecture of leadership, how to grow a circle of cohesive powerful community supported by a dynamic governance system.

• Community-Based Approaches to Transforming Conflict.
• Collective Intelligence principles that enable harmony, traction and Impact.
• Wisdom Driven Community Economics – well-being, sharing power and systems that generate wealth for the community.
• Whole Systems Design ( social, political, economic, eco-tech).
• To develop capacity and framework to support individual and collective learning.
• To develop and deepen connection, trust & intimacy while having fun!\

Co-Facilitated by Jeff Clearwater and A. Keala Young

Jeff Clearwater

Jeff has been a leader in whole systems regenerative design for over 40 years with a special passion for intentional community, ecovillage design and applied new paradigm economics.

Jeff has played a major role in the sustainable and regenerative communities movement – having co-founded the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) and Living Routes Ecovillage Study Abroad in 1997 and as Ecovillage Director at Sirius Community until 2001. Jeff has provided integrated systems and renewable energy design, consulting and installation in rural villages, businesses, governments and sustainability projects all over the world since the 1980s.

Jeff’s prime passion is to illuminate a new paradigm in economics. Grounded in a long cultivated understanding of sacred economics and numerous initiatives in creating Commons, Jeff works closely with the Metacurrency Project and recently developed a revolutionary model for collective wealth co-creation and stewardship – the Wealth Stewardship Pattern.

Jeff co-founded VillageLab in 2012 whose talented team is now busy building the RegenSolutions process and framework for the systematic research, development, demonstration, replication and dissemination of regenerative best practices for communities of purpose, practice and place.

When not actively engaging in regenerative community work, Jeff tends to find himself in wilderness – tuning into life amongst the woods, rivers and beaches of northern California and Oregon or the mountains of the Southwest.

A. Keala Young

Keala is a whole system designer​,​ regenerative practitioner ​and permaculture teacher ​with a background in the healing arts. His rich study of permaculture and ecovillage design includes certificate programs from Findhorn Foundation to Esalen Institute and is complimented by experiential learning in co-production of multiple design courses and intensives. Keala is a co-founder of Atlan Living and Learning Center near the Columbia River Gorge in Central Cascadia, is a co-author and contributing editor of ReInhabiting the Village and is Co-Director of VillageLab’s RegenSolutions Initiative.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Solar Panel

-Pre-Registration Required – $45 – $95 sliding scale (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
-Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Jeff has played a major role in the sustainable and regenerative communities movement – having co-founded the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) and Living Routes Ecovillage Study Abroad in 1997 and as Ecovillage Director at Sirius Community until 2001. Jeff has provided integrated systems and renewable energy design, consulting and installation in rural villages, businesses, governments and sustainability projects all over the world since the 1980s.

Jeff’s prime passion is to illuminate a new paradigm in economics. Grounded in a long cultivated understanding of sacred economics and numerous initiatives in creating Commons, Jeff works closely with the Metacurrency Project and recently developed a revolutionary model for collective wealth co-creation and stewardship – the Wealth Stewardship Pattern.

Jeff co-founded VillageLab in 2012 whose talented team is now busy building the RegenSolutions process and framework for the systematic research, development, demonstration, replication and dissemination of regenerative best practices for communities of purpose, practice and place.

When not actively engaging in regenerative community work, Jeff tends to find himself in wilderness – tuning into life amongst the woods, rivers and beaches of northern California and Oregon or the mountains of the Southwest.

Pre-Convergence Workshop: Village Design Intensive

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Solar Panel

Pre-Convergence Workshop: 1 Day Village Design Intensive

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30 pm| Solar Panel

Oct 5th, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm

– With Maria Owl

• Pre-Registration Required
• $45 – $95 suggested donation (Included with FULL Convergence Tickets)

Workshop Description

Have you ever felt like you are here to participate in something big? Like you are a piece of a larger, intelligent whole that is on the verge of waking up? Do you ever wonder what your role is in the “Great Turning”? Many of us are sensing an inner-calling to rise up and be a leader in our communities, in a whole new way than has ever existed on the planet before. We long to be impeccable, aligned to our Soul Mission, and in service to others in a way that truly makes a difference. If we’re going to birth a just, sacred and sustainable new culture on Earth, we must face our fears, come into emotional balance and know that we have the power to transform our self-doubt, fear, and confusion.

Maria Owl invites courageous bridge-people, earth-healers and leaders to join her in exploring and activating your inner-Light-Leader. Maria believes that now more than ever, our sovereignty as individuals and as a planet can now be embodied. During this 4-hour deep dive, she will guide you through a reclamation process to meet your empowered multi-dimensional Self; the Awake, Timeless You who knows how to thrive, “reality-create”, heal, transform and love unconditionally.

Pulling from Universal Law, Quantum Physics, Energy Medicine and Indigenous Wisdom, Maria offers an experience one doesn’t easily forget.

In this workshop you will learn how to:

• Embrace and consciously choose the power of transformation, rather than fear it
• Release old patterns of self-sabotage and self-abandonment
• Step into your most empowered, authentic voice and calling as a leader
• Shift your “resonant field” through intention, sound, meditation and connection to nature.
• Anchor in new neural pathways of new self-chosen empowering beliefs
• Collectively envision a liberated human future and thriving Earth, and through the power of group intention – make it so!

This workshop will culminate in an hour-long Activation Ritual, where we will anchor in our new “resonant fields” and the new resonant field of our future/now Mother Earth.

Guided by Maria Christina Owl Gutierrez

Maria Christina Owl is an international speaker, spiritual mentor and ceremonial leader. She has offered workshops and rituals in Israel, New Zealand, Canada and the US. She is a clairvoyant medium and author of the forthcoming book “The Great Mother Transmissions: Midwifing the New Earth”. Maria founded Sacred Future School in 2012 as a safe and grounded training ground for healers and leaders ready to align with their innate gifts and calling. Maria holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Master of Intuitive Medicine and scholar of Indigenous Science and Healing. www.sacredfuture.org

Thurs, Oct 5| 12:30 pm – 4:30pm| Bio-Regional Hub

• Pre-Registration Required
• $45 – $95 suggested donation (Included with FULL Convergence Tickets)

www.lydiafiddle.com
www.facebook.com/lydiafiddle
IG: @lydiavioletmusic

 2017 Convergence Performance: Sunday, Oct 6 | 12:30 – 1:00 PM | Main Stage

“Lydia’s violin has provided a spontaneous deepening of experience to all, as has her capacity for keen and genuine presence…” – Joanna Macy

“Lydia is a magical gypsy whose violin notes dance like fire and fall with the grace of water. She is one of the most talented violinists I’ve ever had the honor of working with. Her enthusiasm is absolutely infectious, and she is always so receptive to ideas, feedback, changes, and crazy impromptu improvisations. She beams a bright light, and it truly brightens up every person around her.” – Ayla Nereo

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As a recording artist, Dustin has built a unique grassroots following online and boasts over a half a million streams on his website alone. Truly a man of the road, Dustin Thomas has shared the stage with the biggest names in conscious music including SOJA, Xavier Rudd, Trevor Hall, Rising Appalachia, and Nahko and Medicine for The People. As an advocate for both social and environmental justice, Dustin Thomas uses his platform to inspire both awareness and consciousness about important issues and writes music that encourages all people from all walks of life to work through the hard times, appreciate the good times, and ultimately to love themselves, love the planet, and love each other. Dustin is currently recording music in the states and touring both globally and nationally. To support his upcoming album and touring efforts, click the donate button below.

 2017 Convergence Performance: Friday, Oct 6 | 10:00 – 11:00 PM | Main Stage

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http://www.housekombucha.com/

House Kombucha is a family-run, community startup dedicated to
bringing the ancient tradition of fermenting a living, probiotic tea into modern light.

Beyond just making a great tasting and healthy beverage, they are a young, owner-operated, triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) endeavor. They value quality craftsmanship, local economic development, and community stewardship.

Grow your own! It doesn’t get more local or fresh than your own yard.
Want to create a personal Garden of Eden for you, your clients, or your
community? Want to eat fresh, local, organic produce while reducing your
environmental footprint? This workshop will focus on the how-to’s of creating a
beautiful, functional and food-generating garden, no matter how much space you
have. There will be an emphasis on incorporating ecological principles, such as
soil building, using perennial edibles, and planting for habitat enhancement.
The more food we grow at home and in our neighborhoods, the more food resilient
we become, relying less on remote agribusiness and for-profit supermarkets. We
reduce our environmental footprint by using less fossil fuel, less water, less
fertilizer and fewer chemicals.
There will be a power-point presentation, a group brain-storming session, and
sample plants followed by a question-and- answer session as time allows.

Friday, Oct 6 | 12:30 PM – 1: 30 PM | Zocalo

Presented By Mike Boss

Mike Boss is a plant ecologist and garden maker. He founded the award-winning company Rock & Rose Landscapes in 1989. His home garden is one of San Francisco’s oldest food forest gardens. He took his first PDC in 2014 at The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and his second with Toby Hemenway and Daily Acts in 2016-7. He recently founded The Edible Nursery Project in San Francisco which makes available to San Francisco and Bay Area residents perennial plants that produce edible roots, fruits, and shoots.

Food Forest Gardens

Friday, Oct 6 | 12:30 PM – 1: 30 PM | Zocalo

https://nutiva.com/

Nutiva’s Mini-festo

In a world where the industrialized food system has led us down a tangled path, where food choices have been reduced to the lesser-of-evils, and where distrust reigns, we are the champions of the greater good.

Tireless seekers of pure and delicious foods that will nourish our bodies and our planet, we have devoted ourselves to a dream, a vision, a mission. We will revolutionize the way the world eats! And in so doing we will bring nourishment and balance, health and well being, sustainability and community to people and planet.

We know change is hard but we want to make it easy. We went out looking for the kind of foods that packed a powerful amount of nutrition into every bite, so that you could make small changes to big effect.

We found superfoods—nutrient-dense powerhouses that can also be grown and processed in a sustainable way. These are foods that are truly good for you and for the planet. They’re foods like hemp and coconut, chia and red palm. They’re organic, full of vital nutrition, easy to use and delicious additions to your diet.

We say food doesn’t have to be a choice between the lesser of evils.
We say let food lead us to a better world.
We say super people deserve superfoods.
We say, come join us in our mission.
Together, we can change the world.

Founded in 2001, Empowerment WORKS (EW) is a global sustainability think-tank in action advancing community-led solutions for a thriving world.

Impact

In the world’s most culturally rich, yet economically challenged communities, access to markets, appropriate technologies and education can empower people to transform critical problems into opportunities for a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable future. Empowerment WORKS brings these vital tools within the grasp of citizens on the front lines of poverty and climate change.

Approach

Promoting global collaboration in support of local solutions, Empowerment WORKS fosters a diverse, cross-sector network of Partners in Empowerment (PIE) united in action by an ecologically social innovation framework called 7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS).

Through The Global Summit, Local Summits and other media and educational forums, these Partners are empowered to contribute their diverse skills, appropriate technologies and markets to catalyze local impact.

Through this holistic mission, Empowerment WORKS inspires people across the globe to realize the value of their existing knowledge, unique talents and collective potential to change the world.

Restoring California’s majestic giant kelp forests will sequester carbon, increase biodiversity and create blue green jobs. Over 95% of California’s kelp forests have disappeared in the past 150 years. We will explore re-planting our native kelp forests, state coastal regulations, coastal native tribe participation, cutting edge projects including Bren Smith’s GreenWave and Marine Permaculture, potential markets for kelp and sea greens and how vibrant kelp forests support aquatic life bio diversity.

Saturday Oct 7| 3:30pm| Yurt

Presented By: John Roulac