Womb Warriors: Using our Wombs as our Cauldrons
Using the power of our wombs to manifest the new Earth as a conscious collective. Our wombs are a powerful and sacred space. Using our wombs as our cauldrons, we will journey into the…
Sasha Shankar
Sasha Shankar of Town and City Permaculture is a permaculture designer and urban farmer. She is passionate about resilient community building, cultivating healthy, healing relationships with people and land, permaculture education and training, diversity…
David Blume
Founder of Blume Distillation, Inc. David Blume is an American permaculture teacher and entrepreneur. He has been an especially prolific public speaker, and is a vocal advocate for production of ethanol fuel, especially at…
Chris Patton
Founder of Phase 5 Chris owned a gold and diamond operation in West Africa in the mid 90's because it seemed like a good idea at the time. He survived through the Liberian Civil…
Regenerative Technologies Revealed
This panel will explore several innovative technologies from thermal energy production, quantum power cells, bio-refineries, off grid eco-resorts power systems, zero waste systems and waste to energy production, closed loop technology-run aquaponics systems, and…
Kevin Fretz
Founder of Greenearthology Inc. Mr. Fretz is North America’s leading Eco-Capitalist, with over 30 years of multi-disciplinary experience in business development and environmental product engineering. Mr Fretz pioneered the emerging food waste management and…
Chris Grabill
Born and raised in Santa Rosa, Chris grew up volunteering with the Madrone Audubon Society and the Bird Rescue Center. Worked in field ornithology labs as a teenager. Studied Urban Planning and International Policy…
Katia Sol
Katia Sol, Ph.D. is passionate about helping individuals cultivate the personal shifts that in turn enable them to transform their lives, their communities, and the world. Katia has spent the last 20 years facilitating…
Certified Permaculture Caretakers Program
This is a permaculture training and land access program that is nested into a larger back to the land and emergent culture movement. Certified permaculture caretakers is a program that offers training in permaculture…
Designing for Resilience
Lets talk about how to use Permaculture Design that supports people and the planet, from the bottom up! Brandi Mack, AKA, Mama B, will share her 5 steps to Resilient design that support people…
Bright Sky
Bright Sky is an ecological educator, retired superhero, and current caretaker for Fruitwood Nursery. She took her PDC in Thailand with Christian Shearer in 2012, after joining the Possibility Alliance- a bike powered annual…
Marc & Corrina
Marc and Corrina have spent the last 20 years creating and running an intensively planted 5 acre food forest and permaculture homestead on a steep slope above the Klamath River in Northern California.They manage…
Neil Bertrando
Based in Reno, NV, Neil Bertrando runs RT Permacultue, a small design business, is a member of Permaculture Design International, and is an active board member in Reno Food Systems, a non-profit focused on…
Introduction to Permaculture
Laying an important foundation to the 2018 Permaculture Convergence, this intro class will give a brief overview of the origins of permaculture from the 1970s in Austrialia until the present in the US, with…
Christopher Shein
Christopher Shein has been busting ass for 27 years in Berkeley and Oakland, a visionary and hands-on community gardener, he has started BASIL (Bay Area Seed Interchange Library) 20 years ago at the Ecology…
Permaculture Contractor: The Ins and Outs
How to become or work with a design-build contractor, “How I became a contractor to save the world, the lessons I learned from all my mistakes, and how we are still growing and not…
Marco Barrantes
Marco Barrantes is an environmental activist, watershed and food system planner, and the President of La Loma Development Company, an ecological design-build-maintenance firm in Los Angeles County, with state licenses as a General "A"…
Place Justice with City Repair
Sharing Power through Co-Collaborative Placemaking For this workshop, Ridhi D-Cruz and I will start by giving an overview of The City Repair Project. We will explain what the organization represents, how the Village Building…
Ashley Bonn
Ashley is a Placemaking Organizer for the City Repair Project. Her work involves assisting with facilitative leadership for the Village Building Convergence and providing direct service to local community sites that implement placemaking projects…
Trathen Heckman
Trathen Heckman is the founder and Director of Daily Acts Organization. He serves on the Board of Transition U.S. and the California Water Efficiency Partnership and is an Advisory Board member of the Norcal…