Ecological Stewardship & Regenerative Design
An exploration of holistic water practices for communities and villages to explore the reparation of the water cycle Introduction and exploration of sustainability practices that both repair broken parts of the water cycle, and…
Your watershed is your ecological address where you have significant influence on its water cycles and what happens next. What we learned in school about hydrological cycles was in many cases oversimplified and its…
Our understanding and our treatment of our SOIL demonstrates how we relate to the living Earth and to Death –– our death and death in general. We are not apart from the soil. We…
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…
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"…
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…
From Vedic wisdom of harmonious design to multifunctional Ayurvedic herbs, this workshop intends to weave elemental wisdom with practical plant knowledge to diversify your garden and heal your bodies. This workshop will explore the…
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…
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…
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,…
We will explore the role of invasive annual grasses in the recent Sonoma County fires. There will be a presentation of the role that vegetation, particularly invasive, non-native, annual grasses, played in the rapid…
Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature ~ Interconnected Wisdom & Intuition ~ Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature Wisdom - Tapping into the wisdom of nature, plants, animals,…
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…
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…
Learn how we use Goats in a small ecovillage for restoration, food, and labor. Learn how Emerald Earth Sanctuary's goat herd helps in oak savannah and woodland restoration, while providing dairy, meat, fertilizer, and…
It is all about relationships. Social Forestry is about local communities working together to enhance and restore Oak Pine savannas, riparian corridors, brush lands, community woodlands and fire resistant old growth forests. Our work…
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…
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…
Learn how to shift from grocery store dependence to community resilience through foraging, farming and tending our local ecosystems. Food is growing all around us. Explore how to tap into the abundance and decrease…
Herbs stack functions on the land and provide us with medicine, we will share planting integration and medicine making. Herbs are best at stacking functions, playing different roles in permaculture design. They provide us…