Resilient Homes & Neighborhoods

Indigenous Voices Panel

Sweetwater will open the panel with a 30 minute talk on Decolonizing our Activism To heal from historical trauma, you must first understand how colonization has impacted indigenous people. By acknowledging our collective past…

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Emotional Literacy & Reading Human Landscapes

Are you emotionally intelligent? Do you know what is going on inside yourself and others? Can you ‘read’ human landscapes like you read land systems? The dominant culture has not supported us in being…

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Processing Wild Harvested Clay

We will learn how to process clay sourced from the earth beneath Little Lake Valley, making it usable for medicine, ceramic or building material Attendees of this workshop will be getting their hands dirty!…

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Pollinating the Permaculture Paradigm: Blooming Biodiversity’s Global Permaculture Journey

Bloom and Anahata have travelled globally with their organization, the Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture network, living at and visiting a rich diversity of Eco-villages, intentional communities, indigenous farms, and Permaculture projects. Bloom and Anahata have…

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Empowerment and Enlightenment in Disasters

Practical survival skills and knowledge for when the grid goes down. Community and personal resilience begins with you. Be prepared for when the lights go out and the grid goes down. Practical, educational and…

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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…

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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…

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Intentional Communities: The Unfolding Story

A panel discussion on the intentional communities movement - past, present, and future. Join us for a panel discussion on the future of the intentional communities movement. Where have we been, what is happening…

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Place Justice with City Repair Project

We will explore case studies of placemaking work we are doing with marginalized communities. City Repair has over 20 years of experience with grassroots, community-initiated placemaking in Portland, Oregon. Our model for building place-based…

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Micro to Macro: Soil Science Made Easy with Matt Powers

Learn Soil Science from the Micro to the Macro with Matt Powers for everyone in all contexts. Trained 1:1 by world renowned soil expert Dr. Elaine Ingham to convey complex ideas to a K-12…

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The “New Masculine”

Evolution is calling for the emergence a 'New Masculine', one that is integrated, awake, agentic, and active; come heed the call and accelerate your evolution! This experiential and interactive workshop will have you learn…

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Supporting the Cycle – Sustainability Practices that Encourage Community Resilience and Repair the Water Cycle

An exploration of holistic water practices for communities and villages to explore the reparation of the water cycle Introduction and exploration of sustainability practices that both repair broken parts of the water cycle, and…

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Wet Solutions for Drought, Climate Change, & Poverty

Your watershed is your ecological address where you have significant influence on its water cycles and what happens next. What we learned in school about hydrological cycles was in many cases oversimplified and its…

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Bringing Permaculture to Neighborhoods with the Resilient Hubs Initiative

Learn about the Resilient Hubs Initiative, a collaboration between the NorCal Resilience Network and Daily Acts, is an exciting new model that uses permaculture principles to create create a network of homes, schools and…

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International Permaculture Slideshow Odyssey

International Permaculturalist, Jillian Hovey, will take you on a journey of some of the best examples of permaculture and eco community projects from around the world. A leading edge practitioner, Jillian has lived and…

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Geoship – Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture

A renaissance in consciousness reflected through biologically resonant architecture is coming. Rusty Roy and Bucky Fuller are the two inventing fathers of Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture. Geoship is fusing Rusty's sciences of "Whole Person Healing"…

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