[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Joel-Glanzberg.jpg[/image_frame] Joel is a teacher and tracker of patterns in landscapes of all sorts. His early work of his thirty years in permaculture is documented in both the book Gaia's…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jamie_Edmonds_Sept2015.jpg[/image_frame] Jamie Edmonds wants to live in a world where humanity lives gently and sustainably on this pale blue dot in harmony with all of our fellow creatures. Jamie is…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fyodor_Ovchinnikov.jpg[/image_frame] Fyodor is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. As participatory process designer, consultant, and facilitator he worked with local and international clients including UC Berkeley Goldman School…
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Raya has been involved with organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable systems since 1996. She is an herbalist with a medicinal herbal product business, Simply Being Botanicals. She has taught…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_6537-retouched-1-768x768.jpg[/image_frame] Calgary manages innovative shared spaces and builds ecosystems where communities can flourish. She is currently the Operations Manager at Impact Hub Oakland, a coworking community and space for changemakers…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ElainePBreema.jpeg[/image_frame] Elaine is a Staff Instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland and has benefited from practicing Breema for 24 years. She has taught workshops at many locations around the…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Andrej_Loncar.jpg[/image_frame] Andrej Loncar works with groups, individuals, organizations, and families on the discovery of the complex function systems of the divine spirit embedded within our bodies and the physical body…
Jasmine Fuego is a Bay Area based performance artist and social permaculture community organizer. In 2014, Fuego co-founded the Permaculture Action Tour with musician, The Polish Ambassador, which catalyzed hands-on, earth based projects and…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Yassi_Eskandari_Sustainable_Economies_Law_Center.jpg[/image_frame] Yassi Eskandari leads Sustainable Economies Law Center’s City and Regional Policies work, identifying municipal-level barriers to SELC’s work and producing policy solutions that support community resilience and grassroots economic…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Christina-Oatfield-profile-picture.png[/image_frame] Christina Oatfield is the Policy Director at the Sustainable Economies Law Center where she works with a diverse array of stakeholders to propose and advocate for laws that enable…
Miguel Elliott, knighted as "Sir Cobalot" has been leading cob workshops, teaching in schools, and running his business Living Earth Structures for over 12 years. His vast array of projects include building an organic…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/chongkee_tan.png[/image_frame] Dr Chong Kee Tan started life as an academic. He had taught at Stanford and National University of Singapore. After leaving academia, he worked in real estate development in…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kat-Steele-bio-photo.jpg[/image_frame] Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/keba_photo1.jpg[/image_frame] Keba Armand Konte was born and raised in San Francisco, has been in Oakland as long. He is an artist, food entrepreneur and community man. His artwork has been published…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/156katsteele.png[/image_frame] Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA. She facilitates workshops on ecological design, sustainability, facilitation, permaculture and holistic…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Rana_in_Nature-e1440206083286.jpg[/image_frame] Rana Chang started House Kombucha in 2009 as an on-the-ground, community-based startup. Kombucha brewing is an ancient Asian tradition of fermenting tea into a living, probiotic beverage. Rana learned to make kombucha…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Unknown.jpeg[/image_frame] Aaron is the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of House Kombucha, a community-based startup. He also co-founded Bay Localize, a local ecological justice group that works to build equitable, resilient…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kevin_Bayuk.jpg[/image_frame] Kevin Bayuk works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets cooperative organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life.…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Don-Corn.jpg[/image_frame] Don Tipping has been offering hands on, practical workshops at Seven Seeds Farm since 1997. We are a small, organic family farm in the Siskiyou Mountains of SW Oregon,…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Nikki-.jpg[/image_frame] Over the last ten years, Nikki has been a thought leader in creating social equity for underrepresented populations in food systems, social services, public health, climate solutions, and economic…