[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Matt-Drewno-Head-Shot.jpg[/image_frame] Matt Drewno, Green Belt Mini-Farm Manager: Matt is certified in permaculture, restoration of oak-savanna ecologies and biointensive food production. After a Bachelors of Architecture from Iowa State University, he…
Matt Powers is an author, teacher, and family guy with online courses, books, and videos that help families, individuals, students, schools, and school districts live better lives more in harmony with nature. Translations of his books…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Max Brotman is a radical mycologist and member of Bay Area Applied Mycology, a non-profit that practices mycoforestry with public and private land managers, and operates an open mycology…
Maximillian Meyers is an ecological designer, permaculture teacher, commercial aquaponic system designer/installer, rainwater and greywater system specialist, farmer and the executive director of the Mendocino Ecological Learning Center (MELC) - a nonprofit educational organization…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/maya2.jpg[/image_frame] Maya Blow is an herbalist and classical homeopath practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied herbal medicine at the California School of Herbal Studies in Northern California…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Megan O’Neil is the Community Choice Outreach Coordinator at the Local Clean Energy Alliance, where she has helped build a county-wide coalition of over 50 organizations supporting a Community…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Michael is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies with an emphasis in radical ecology and ecospirituality. His interests reside at the intersection of permaculture, rewilding,…
Miguel Elliott, knighted as "Sir Cobalot" has been leading cob workshops, teaching in schools, and running his business Living Earth Structures for over 12 years. His vast array of projects include building an organic…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Senator Mike McGuire is a third generation Northern Californian, whose family farmed prunes and grapes in the Alexander Valley for nearly a half century. Raised by his mom and…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Mike_Lomuto.jpg[/image_frame] Mike Lomuto is dedicated to strengthening the local small business community in the Bay Area. He grew up in San Francisco's Sunset District and believes very strongly in bringing…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Mud Hut has been a worker-owner at Three Stone Hearth, a cooperatively owned Community Supported Kitchen, since 2014, and has worked and volunteered there since 2007. He is working…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Narsanna Koppula is a permaculture pioneer in India. Bill Mollison visited him in 1987 and created a village permaculture project. He is cofounder of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, host…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Natasha Florentino is a documentary filmmaker and video producer. She recently completed Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty, a feature length documentary about a Hawaiian community challenging the biotech…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Based in Reno, NV, Neil Bertrando manages a 1.3 acre homestead with his wife Katie and the help of many in the community. His passion is enriching bioregions by…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Nicodemus has lived a life of service and has an unwavering commitment to youth and communities. Nicodemus is a co-founder of University Prep High School in Detroit, Michigan. He…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Nik Bertulis is an ecological innovator who is fascinated by humanity's intrinsic regenerative potential. He has a degree in ecological design from Colorado College and has been developing regenerative…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Nils Palsson is Communications and Special Projects Coordinator at Transition US, and a founding member of Transition Lake County. He is a father, author, teacher, radio host, and former…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] He was raised in a very wet climate in Washington state called the Pudget Sound. After many years of rain and cold months he moved to northern California where he discovered…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Padma Koppula is the cofounder of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, a 17 year old permaculture nonprofit organization in India. Aranya is the host of the next International Permaculture Convergence in…
[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…