Education & Culture

​Practice Showing Up: Racial Justice as Spiritual Work for White People

How to address internalized white supremacy and how it shows up in our understanding and practices of spirituality. Systemic racism has disconnected white folks from our cultures, our spirituality, and therefore: systemic racism has…

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Fruitwood Nursery Live Design Demonstration using the Regrarians Platform®

The Regrarians Platform® bridges the work of Permaculture, Keyline Design, and Holistic Management to determine the priority of different elements of landscape development, their respective permanence and the order in which we design and plan…

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Sacred Anatomy Chi Gung and Plant Sensing

We will tune into our larger energy structure then tune into the plant world to glean their wisdom Each morning we will focus in on inhabiting our larger energetic structure- our "Sacred Anatomy." As…

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Practical Solutions for Protecting, Respecting, and Honoring Water

Mni Wiconi! We will discuss several ways in which we can improve our relationship to water, from the everyday individual action to the society level paradigm shift. Water is the foundation of all life,…

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Interconnected Wisdom & Intuition

Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature ~ Interconnected Wisdom & Intuition ~ Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature Wisdom - Tapping into the wisdom of nature, plants, animals,…

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Lawful Permaculture; No Longer Living Looking Over OUR Shoulders

Looking at examples and strategies for having great projects given full regulatory approval and even funded! This could be two workshops even: 1) F.O.G. - how to Finance, Own and Govern 'The Commons'. Legal…

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Emergency Preparedness = Community Resilience

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…

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Social Forestry

It is all about relationships. Social Forestry is about local communities working together to enhance and restore Oak Pine savannas, riparian corridors, brush lands, community woodlands and fire resistant old growth forests. Our work…

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Techno Cities or Biological Towns?

Two quite different paths to sustainability are developing; can they co-exist? I perceive two radically different approaches to sustainability developing, one of dense, 'smart' cities and another of dispersed eco-villages and market towns. I…

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CA AB 816 Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law

A dialogue on worker owned co-operative businesses as pertaining to the ethics of permaculture vs capitalism. Daniel has worked in the fields of solar energy, aquaponics, permaculture, farming, landscaping and construction. One thing has…

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Origin and Evolution of Green Acres Permaculture Village

A slide presentation with commentary illustrating the evolution of Green Acres Permaculture Village over the past ten years. GREEN ACRES PERMACULTURE VILLAGE is a small, retrofit, intergenerational intentional community in a core suburban college…

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Fireside Chat with your Neighborhood Herbalist Dominatrix

An Exploration of Herbal Allies and Practices for Cathartic Sexual Experience Are you ready to explore the brilliant wealth of pleasure and knowledge that's stored in your body? What world of possibilities awaits as…

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Networking in a time of Chaos

How to use permaculture to respond to disaster and learn social permaculture tools for networking for resilience. This workshop will introduce how people around the world are using permaculture to respond to disasters, such…

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