[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/haleh.jpg[/image_frame] Haleh Zandi is a co-founder and the Educational Director of Planting Justice. Her approach towards the food justice movement particularly draws connections between the United States dependence upon fossil…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/norcal-logo07-100.png[/image_frame] The Convergence brings together hundreds of movers and shakers, and dozens of organizations from the grassroots on up. How can we stay connected both online and offline; and how…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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.…
[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…
[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…
[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…
[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] Mateo was born and grew up in La Paz, Bolivia. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, he has worked in the labor, environmental justice and international solidarity…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ChoQoshAuhHoOh.jpg[/image_frame] ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh was named by the Seneca and Chumash elders. She is herself an elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She is a giver of spiritual tools, divine and…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/POG-Aerial-1.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers will lead this workshop about the work of Sepp Holzer, the Austrian rebel who has been innovating in this work since before the work permaculture was coined.…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/11150236_10206803933525484_94523102715552836_n.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers is passionate about permaculture. After years of self-study, he completed a PDC in 2010 and has since then done three workshops with Sepp Holzer. He helped to…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BioNova-Melanie-New.Crop5_.jpg[/image_frame] Medicinal plant knowledge presents a timely opportunity to create healthier and more bio-diverse world from the ground up. What can YOU do in your backyard? What information can we trust…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MelanieSt.James_Bio_Pic.jpg[/image_frame] Recently returned from medicine exploration in Zimbabwe, Melanie St. James was first inspired in 1999 by the culturally rich animist tribe in Senegal West Africa to use their rich…