Education & Culture

EcoKosm

Tend your connection to Spirit and Earth. EcoKosm: practical tools and technologies for personal and community practice towards a world of belonging. This workshop is for people committed to tending the soul of community,…

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Bringing Permaculture to Neighborhoods with the Resilient Hubs Initiative

Learn about the Resilient Hubs Initiative, a collaboration between the NorCal Resilience Network and Daily Acts, is an exciting new model that uses permaculture principles to create create a network of homes, schools and…

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Who’s Missing at the Table? Creating a more Inclusive Resiliency Movement

Through presentation and group discussion, we will come up with strategies to insure fair inclusion and representation of marginalized voices in ecologically-regenerative movements. While we all want to transition to a post-carbon future in…

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International Permaculture Slideshow Odyssey

International Permaculturalist, Jillian Hovey, will take you on a journey of some of the best examples of permaculture and eco community projects from around the world. A leading edge practitioner, Jillian has lived and…

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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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Seaweed: Ecology, Use and Harvest

This presentation and demo includes how to differentiate and use seaweeds, their ecology, harvest cycles, and the nutritional/health benefits of seaweed. This informative, illustrated presentation includes how to differentiate and use our coastal "sea…

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Queer Ecology 101: The Biological Exuberance of Living Beings

Join us for an introductory conversation on Queer Ecologies and Ecojustice: Open to ALL, please bring your questions. As people whose lives embody change and transformation, the LGBTQ+ community has necessary contributions to lend…

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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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Drawing Basics for Permaculture Plans

A hands-on workshop using simple drawing and design techniques to enhance your Permaculture Design Plans. Workshop participants will apply permaculture principles towards developing drawing skills to improve conceptual and physical aspects of their design…

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Reimagining the Commons: GENNA Alliance

This session will offer practical tools and frameworks for how we can collaborate - based on the recent development of GENNA Alliance. Collaboration is happening! Explore new collaborative potential within our regenerative movement. GENNA…

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Diversity of Participants, Diversity of Ideas, Diversity of Solutions from Around the Globe: Come Learn About the International Permaculture Convergences

Come learn how these grassroots global convergences are organized, what the challenges are for host organizations, and contribute your ideas of how to keep them strong and resilient in the future. Attending the International…

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The bio-cultural corridor, everything we need it to be

Designing a complex evolutionary back to the land movement. The bio-cultural corridor is a collaborative design template for a comprehensive and complex land based social movement that propels us well beyond the inadequacies of…

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Transition to Permaculture: Scaling Up for Community Resilience

Learn how to effectively apply Permaculture ethics, strategies, and principles to build a thriving movement for community resilience right where you live. The international Transition Towns Movement was founded in 2005 by UK-based Permaculture…

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Dynamic Farm Organization

Presenting an organizational model utilizing dynamic self governance coupled with dynamic equity splits to creat a fair and legal framework for collaborative business. The Dynamic Farm Organization workshop is a presentation of the Passiflora…

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International Permaculture Relationships – Delcolonizing the Western Mind, reflections and interactive discussion about IPC India 2017

Westerners and non Westerners think and behave differently about many things, who can we become more aware when relating to others of a different culture? Reflections from IPC India 2017. What is a colonial…

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