Bryan Arturo is a permaculture land steward working at East End Eden in Ojai, CA. After studying Business Management & Entrepreneurship in Chicago, he worked at regenerative projects and facilitated socially impactful gatherings throughout Latin America. Bryan supported NuMundo‘s global impact center database since it’s inception and is organizing The Sustainable Living Tour occurring October 2016.

2016 Convergence Workshop: Regenerative Enterprise & the 8 Forms of Capital

How can our businesses regenerate multiple sources of capital? Gain a new simple tool to incorporate permaculture into any organization. Work in groups to map out how real world businesses can interlink and cultivate the 8 different forms of capital: Living, Cultural, Experiential, Intellectual, Spiritual, Social, Material and Financial.

This topic is important to bring permaculture principles beyond just farming. Participants will utilize a framework to think outside the box and discover new value within their pre-existing businesses. This workshop is highly interactive, I start by describing each form of capital and ask the audience for examples within the Convergence. Then we break out into groups and each group maps a strategy to regenerate multiple forms of capital within one of their businesses.

Presented By: Bryan Arturo

Over the last 18 years, Sky Blue has been a member of Twin Oaks Community, a housing collective, a student housing cooperative, a cohousing community, and two small worker co-operative businesses. He current works as the Executive Director for the Fellowship for Intentional Community. He’s visited dozens of communities and cooperatives, in the US and in Europe. Living in community and furthering the larger cooperative movement has been a primary focus of his entire adult life.

He’s played a formal or informal role in a number of organizations, as well as forming or developing groups. At Twin Oaks he’s had many jobs, including, manager of the Twin Oaks Communities Conference. He also serves as one of the Twin Oaks delegates to the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and serves on the Council for the Global Ecovillage Network of North America.

On a more personal level, Sky is an amateur musician and DJ and loves organizing all manner of events, from parties to conferences. Personal growth and healthy interpersonal relationships are another focus of his life. He is the father of a teenager. His life is about bringing people together to make the world a better place for everyone.

Makin’ It Happen, Cooperatively: Pathways for success in Intentional Communities, Worker Co-ops, and other collective projects and endeavors

Saturday, Oct 7| 2pm| Hops Tipi

Beyond Diversity to Liberation: Intentional Communities as platforms for social justice

Tales from the Trenches: The realities of life in intentional communities 

Brennan Blazer Bird is an ecological educator, natural builder, and solutioncrafter who has led a diverse array of artistic and ecological projects around the world. For the past 5 years Brennan has taught youth and community members to transform plastic waste into an artistic community-gathering place (www.earthbench.org). Brennan is also starting a fossil-fuel-free ecological kitchen classroom called SolutionCraft (www.solutioncraft.org). Currently Brennan lives at an ecological collective in Oakland, CA and is a full-time Garden and Sustainability Educator at Alta Vista School in San Francisco.

2016 Convergence Workshop: Appropriate Cooking Technology – The Fossil-Fuel-Free Meal!