Transition 101: Permaculture Your Town – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:23:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png Transition 101: Permaculture Your Town – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Transition 101: Permaculture Your Town! http://permacultureconvergence.com/transition-101-permaculture-your-town/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:23:22 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5917

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 natural and man-made disasters and disruptions that inevitably accompany climate change? Did you know that our work in permaculture, homesteading, and building resilient community is also disaster preparedness work? Join this vibrant discussion about these overlapping fields, and explore ways of leveraging ‘crisis consciousness’ to enhance your efforts to build truly resilient community. Learn how to assemble your own “go bag,” receive great practical resilience and emergency-prep tips that could save lives, and share your wisdom and experience in this interactive workshop.

Many people — even those who have never heard of permaculture — are interested in building community resilience. They just call it by another name: “emergency preparedness.” This is an interactive workshop that will explore the vital relationship between community resilience and emergency preparedness. In it, participants will gain knowledge and information about how to apply the disaster preparedness lens to our work in building resilient community. In addition to learning practical skills like assembling a “go bag” and creating community emergency response plans, participants will unlock the power of emergency preparation as a great unifier that can amplify our work in community. We “transitioners” and “permies” can scale up the impact of our work in building resilient community by building a bridge to the extensive, more mainstream world of people working on disaster preparedness. By applying the emergency-prep lens to our work, we can attract more funding, community partners, and other resources to our movement. We may even save some lives in the process.

Sunday, Oct 8| 11am| Yurt

Presented by Nils Palsson

 

 

]]> Nils Palsson http://permacultureconvergence.com/nils-palsson-2/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:22:23 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5915 Nils Palsson is Communications Coordinator at Transition US, and a founding member of Transition Lake County in rural Northern California. He is a father, author, teacher, radio host, Bernie Delegate and former candidate for U.S. Congress, with a passion for building bridges from the world of Transition and Permaculture to the wider movement for social, racial, environmental and economic justice — scaling up our movement and creating a world of thriving resilience for all. He lives in the North Bay Area, and just completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. In 2015, Nils was displaced by the historic Valley Fire of Northern California, and during the disaster he initiated a grassroots response effort using the local community radio station, KPFZ. He is passionate about applying the permaculture lens to our work in building resilient community and just political and legal systems that serve our planet and people. You can read more about his story at www.nilspalsson.org.

Friday Oct6| 2pm| Solar Panel

Community Resilience = Emergency Preparedness

Sunday, Oct 8| 11am| Yurt

Transition 101: Permaculture Your Town!

 

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