Creating Green and Resilient Homes, Neighborhoods, Culture and Economy

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-10-at-3.26.35-PM.png[/image_frame] This presentation will show and tell greening a suburban property and neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon for taking care of more needs closer to home - food, water, energy, "social…

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Permaculture Contracting: Building Businesses That Care for Earth and People

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Permaculture-Plan-.jpg[/image_frame] Learn best practices for starting and sustaining your own permaculture contracting or design company using the principles of permaculture. In this day and age there is a ripe opportunity…

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Collaborative Action to Take Community-Based Solutions to Scale

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tour.jpg[/image_frame] Given the scale of the challenges we face, how can we strengthen our organizations and networks and take these vital community-based solutions to scale? Join Daily Acts and community…

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It’s On! Water Challenges and Solutions for 2016 and Beyond

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/drought_image.jpg[/image_frame] Everyone knows we are facing a serious water crisis in California and globally. The hottest temperatures on record, unprecedented forest fires and four years of extreme drought are about…

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Introduction to Holzer-Style Permaculture

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/POG-Aerial-1.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers will lead this workshop about the work of Sepp Holzer, the Austrian rebel who has been innovating in this work since before the work permaculture was coined.…

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Plant Medicine & Community Health – Past, Present & Future

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BioNova-Melanie-New.Crop5_.jpg[/image_frame] Medicinal plant knowledge presents a timely opportunity to create healthier and more bio-diverse world from the ground up. What can YOU do in your backyard? What information can we trust…

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Ceremony for a Sacred Life

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Judy_Hoaglund_Ceremony-for-a-Sacred-Life.jpg[/image_frame] This ceremonial offering is one that is traditionally celebrated throughout the Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. In Andean cosmology, the entire physical plane, including Mother Earth and all living…

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Designing Systemic Change Processes

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Joel_Glanzberg_Workshop2.jpg[/image_frame] Joel Glanzberg will be leading us in this participatory workshop. All living systems follow the same patterns, from ecosystems to economies, and organisms to organizations. learning to read these patterns…

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Walking the Labyrinth: Fostering Spiritual Growth by Creating Sacred Space and Building Community

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jamie_Edmonds_Walking_The_Labyrinth_Image1.jpg[/image_frame] Introduction to Labyrinths: The history of ancient labyrinths and their modern rediscovery as a tool for spiritual growth and building community. Found all over the world and in many…

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Introduction to Evolutionary Leadership: Redesigning Cultures and Institutions for a More Just, Sustainable, and Flourishing World

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fyodor_Ovchinnikov_Introduction_to_Evolutionaty_Leadership.jpg[/image_frame] Are you absolutely happy with how things are in the world? If you aren't, here is something to think about: you are designing this world right now. Of course,…

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Zone Zero: A Resilient Body Supports Resilient Relationships

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SalenaConvergence.jpg[/image_frame] Join Elaine Pendergrast and one other instructor in this interactive workshop. Building resilient communities can be stressful physically, mentally, and emotionally. Giving and receiving Breema bodywork, and especially practicing…

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Discovering the Living Earth: Learning to Live in the Spiritual Dimension of the Planet

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_6246-825x510.jpg[/image_frame] In this experiential workshop we will learn how to connect and communicate with the soul of the land and its reflection in us. Through this process we will learn…

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Social Permaculture & Community Organizing

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1441593989096.jpeg[/image_frame] How can we build stronger relationships within our local communities and groups? Explore fun and practical applications of the permaculture principles in organizing working groups, community events and actions…

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“Dirt Cheap Housing”

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Cob_Oven_DailyActs_0.jpg[/image_frame] In this hands on natural building workshop, participants will construct a small house in just a couple hours. Miguel "Cobalot" Elliott will teach how to build a small house using all…

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Policy Making for Resilient Local Economies

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Policy-Making-for-Reslilent-Local-Economies.jpeg[/image_frame] To create socially and economically resilient communities, we need to change or create thousands of city, state, and federal laws. What if every person takes charge of advocating for…

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Local Currencies & Economic Resilience

[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] From 1970 to 2010, the world has witnessed 145 banking crises, 72 sovereign debt crisis and 208 monetary crashes. Writers such as Charles Einsenstein and Bernard Lietaer have clearly…

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Design Your Regenerative Enterprise

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kevin_Bayuk_Workshop-Design-Your-Regenerative-Enterprise.jpg[/image_frame] Direct discussion and learning to take your ethical regenerative enterprise aspirations into reality or further towards your vision. This workshop is for individuals with an idea for a regenerative…

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Whole Systems Seed – Breeding and Adaptation for Resiliency

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/100_1235.jpg[/image_frame] Thoughtful selection, breeding and adaptation of our vegetable cultivars can enable plants to adapt to climate, disease, drought, pests and other environmental stresses. Commercially available varieties are often grown…

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Closed-Loop Aquaponics: Combining the Sciences of Permaculture & Aquaponics

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unnamed.jpg[/image_frame] Wether you are a beginner, a backyard hobbyist, a homesteader, or a skilled professional wanting to grow more food sustainably and for less work, Aquaponics has something to offer. Aquaponics…

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Indigenous Mind: Re-awakening Our Connection to Nature & Cosmos

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/EagleAndCondor.jpg[/image_frame] Maria Owl Gutierrez will be speaking on the relevance of nature-based ritual, ceremony and rites of passage for creating resiliency and harmony in our modern culture. Through interactive processes…

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