Building & Infrastructure

Geoship – Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture

A renaissance in consciousness reflected through biologically resonant architecture is coming. Rusty Roy and Bucky Fuller are the two inventing fathers of Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture. Geoship is fusing Rusty's sciences of "Whole Person Healing"…

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Water Harvesting Design Principles

Come learn about the basic design principles and best practices of different water harvesting techniques - rainwater collection, greywater harvesting, earthworks systems, & composting toilets. Holistic watershed management is the critical guiding principle to…

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Fruitwood Nursery Live Design Demonstration using the Regrarians Platform®

The Regrarians Platform® bridges the work of Permaculture, Keyline Design, and Holistic Management to determine the priority of different elements of landscape development, their respective permanence and the order in which we design and plan…

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Practical Solutions for Protecting, Respecting, and Honoring Water

Mni Wiconi! We will discuss several ways in which we can improve our relationship to water, from the everyday individual action to the society level paradigm shift. Water is the foundation of all life,…

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Lawful Permaculture; No Longer Living Looking Over OUR Shoulders

Looking at examples and strategies for having great projects given full regulatory approval and even funded! This could be two workshops even: 1) F.O.G. - how to Finance, Own and Govern 'The Commons'. Legal…

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Emergency Preparedness = Community Resilience

Is your community ready for anything? Join this workshop to explore the dynamic intersection between transition, permaculture, and emergency preparedness. Let’s get resilient! How resilient is your community? How ready are you for the…

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Techno Cities or Biological Towns?

Two quite different paths to sustainability are developing; can they co-exist? I perceive two radically different approaches to sustainability developing, one of dense, 'smart' cities and another of dispersed eco-villages and market towns. I…

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Origin and Evolution of Green Acres Permaculture Village

A slide presentation with commentary illustrating the evolution of Green Acres Permaculture Village over the past ten years. GREEN ACRES PERMACULTURE VILLAGE is a small, retrofit, intergenerational intentional community in a core suburban college…

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Networking in a time of Chaos

How to use permaculture to respond to disaster and learn social permaculture tools for networking for resilience. This workshop will introduce how people around the world are using permaculture to respond to disasters, such…

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