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SUMMARY:Indigenous Wisdom and Permaculture Skills Convergence
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Wisdom and Permaculture Skills Convergence\nPre-Event On-Site Infrastructure Build: July 19 – 25\, 2017\nConvergence: July 26 8:00 Am – July 31\, 2017  5:00 pm\nPine Ridge Reservation\, South Dakota\n \nBuilding a just and regenerative world from the roots up!\n \nJoin the Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitalization Initiative and a team of incredible facilitators to co-create a gathering that is transformative – not just for the attendees but for the community and the land that supports it. A place for us to put our values into practice through permaculture design alongside experts\, where we can build a just and regenerative world from the roots up through art\, music\, and community. \nRead more at the IWPSConvergence webpage\, and reserve your spot here. \nCONVERGENCE GOALS\n1. Complete Lakota-initiated projects that increase food security\, build sustainable infrastructure\, and enhance economic opportunity on the Pine Ridge Reservation.\n2. Provide stipends (see: Community Stewards Stipend Program) for Pine Ridge residents to join as paid stewards and learn useful ecological design and construction skills.\n3. Attendees learn and practice permaculture design through hands-on workshops\, and leave the Convergence with a deeper understanding of natural building\, aquaponics\, traditional ecological knowledge\, and appropriate technologies. ALL projects were selected as beneficial by our Lakota partners.\n4. Create community through music\, skill shares\, and meals that are open to the Pine Ridge community. \n5. Build long-term relationships that support the resiliency of indigenous and Earth-centered networks. \nCONVERGENCE PROJECTS\nOpportunities to learn\, build\, and leave a positive impact\nNatural Building\nParticipants have the opportunity to help design the plans for a Permaculture Center made of cob\, under the guidance of renowned natural building teachers. Then we will start and finish a smaller project\, such as a chicken coop or oven together. Prepare for a cob-stomp dance party to music performers! If passionate about natural building\, attendees are invited to stay on the reservation after the end of the convergence to help complete a nearby Earthship. \nGrowing Food Security\nLearn about the unique challenges and solutions to growing food on the Great Plains. Work in OLCERI’s food forest\, now 5 years old. Together we will plant the site’s Community Garden\, and Walapini Greenhouse. Many infrastructure designs were created especially for the reservation and made of repurposed materials. \nMycology\nGrowing mushrooms low-tech and medicinals. Mushrooms are a fast-growing source of nutrition and medicine. Learn how to cultivate mushrooms in open air conditions. \nAppropriate Technologies\nAttendees will learn how to build and complete projects that will contribute to the self-sufficient sustainable practices of the tribe\, including:\n• Passive Solar Dehydrators\n• Rocket Stoves\n \nMeals\nNothing brings community together like a delicious\, nourishing meal. The outdoor kitchen will be serving 3 a day for all participants. The kitchen hosts a workshop on traditional foods for all who prepare and serve meals. Meals are hot and off the grid provided by the world’s largest solar oven\, on-site. \nSolutionCraft\nSolutionCraft is an ecological education kitchen classroom that highlights appropriate technology and ecological design. We will be highlighting the giant Villager sun oven\, solar parabolas\, rocket stoves\, efficient zero waste and dishwashing systems\, and other ecological technologies that can be used when designing a truly regenerative kitchen.\nRead more about SolutionCraft here. \nTea House\nEnjoy the company of other builders and visionaries in the tea yurt and join discussions on a variety of facilitated circle discussions. Open every evening. \nMusic\nWe will be moved to the musical tunes of local and indigenous performers including Calina Lawrence\, Tom and Emanuel Blackbear.\nAny interested performers please email pineridgepermaculuregathering@gmail.com \nWISHLIST\nWe encourage the sharing of skills and facilitators for evening talks and performances on direct action\, astronomy\, native resiliency groups\, theater\, and those with EMT skills. \nTEACHER BIOs\nBryan Deans\, natural building and Lakota ways\nBryan is the founder of OLCERI and host of the convergence. Bryan is an aerospace mechanic\, welder\, and veteran who is well-versed in ecological design and Lakota ways. For more on his work\, please see http://www.olceri.org/about-us \nKoreen Brennan\, food forestry\nKoreen has extensive experience in permaculture design and education. She has taught permaculture design at Pine Ridge since 2005. Her areas of expertise and passion are food forestry\, small farms and food security\, community building\, and regenerative economics. Specialties include soil building and remediation\, water catchment and use\, edible landscaping\, planning urban and rural integrated farming\, reducing energy needs\, and building more resilient finances and communities.  \nShe organized permaculture-style disaster relief for thousands of Haitians living in camps after the earthquake in 2010\, coordinated the formation of the Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition St Petersburg\, and is a founding co-organizer for the North American Permaculture Convergence. \nMichael Alcazar\, permaculture and direct action\nMichael is an Indigenous permaculturalist\, veteran\, artist\, designer\, builder\, outdoor experiential facilitator\, movement fundamental specialist\, and educator. He has a lifetime of experience in green building\, intentional design\, and has been an educator for almost three decades! He joins us from Denver\, CO where he is working on projects from sustainable policy and community garden organization. He is also involved in the Eco Village for Standing Rock ND\, sustainable housing and workshops for the Black Mesa Band of Navajo people\, and an organizer for 1 million trees 4 Haiti. He will be teaching on Indigenous Phenology\, Carbon Farming\, and the Perennial Economy.  \nPeter McCoy\, mycology and mycoremediation\nPeter McCoy is the co-founder of Radical Mycology\, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the means to easily work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal\, societal\, and ecological resilience. For the last ten years\, Radical Mycology has provided free resources and held internationally attended conferences to share the science of mycology and the art of mushroom cultivation in a manner that is open-source\, practical\, and relevant for the modern world. Peter lives in Portland\, Oregon and he regularly teaches mycology-related courses around the world. \nMiguel Elliot\, natural building\nMiguel Elliott\, knighted as “Sir Cobalot” had been Cobbing full time for over 20 years. He is the owner of Living Earth Structures\, based in the Bay Area\, which specializes in leading workshops and projects at schools to build ovens\, benches and huts. He was part of the crew at Standing Rock to build the Strawbale School for the children of the camp. His latest design is the “Palletable Cobin” which is a quick\, durable\, well insulated structure made of pallets and cob. To see photos of his work\, you can visit his website. \nKevin Poor Bear\, live mural painter\nKevin Poor Bear of the Lakota Sioux Nation is a proud member of the Pine Ridge reservation\, an artist\, a husband\, and father\, and a bilateral amputee resulting from a brown recluse spider bite. \nKevin’s original hand painted pastels embody and preserve the Lakota history and culture. Like many of the Sioux people\, Kevin strives to preserve the history\, language\, and spiritual practices of his ancestors. \nTICKETS\nFree for Pine Ridge and other residents of reservations\n$300 – 500 sliding scale for Convergence July 26th – 31st. \n$150 for volunteers pre-event infrastructure build and convergence organizing roles\nPre-build volunteers are invited to join the week before the Convergence (July 19th – 26th) to set up infrastructure. Besides a discounted ticket\, volunteers will gain an intimate look at event production using permaculture design principles that uphold sustainability and transparency as the highest values. Volunteers will construct solar showers\, compost toilets\, shade structures\, and signage for the incoming gathering\, as well as get acquainted with the reservation through community outreach events. Positions to help organize the festival are needed. \nResidents interested in stewarding our designs at community impact centers throughout the reservation are invited to email us (pineridgepermaculturegathering@gmail.com) and connect with OLCERI to join the Convergence as a paid steward. \nReservation Community Resilience Programs attend free\nWe would like to serve as a platform for your organization or project. Please email to let us know how you’d like to join us. \nReserve your space and buy tickets here\nCan’t join us but want to support the project? Please donate. 100% of proceeds go to building project materials. \nFor questions\, comments\, or workshop/artists proposals\, contact:  pineridgepermaculturegathering@gmail.com \nStay connected and invite your friends at the Facebook event page here:  https://www.facebook.com/IWPSconvergence/ \nPermaculture Action Network is honored to be co-hosting this unique convergence and to be in solidarity with indigenous people whose lifeways we all benefit greatly in learning from and with all those living\, working\, and fighting to restore traditional lifeways that are regenerative and holistic.
URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/indigenous-wisdom-permaculture-skills-convergence/
LOCATION:Pine Ridge Reservation\, South Dakota\, Pine Ridge Reservation\, SD\, United States
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SUMMARY:ARISE Permaculture Action Course
DESCRIPTION:July 31st – August 3rd at Sunrise Ranch\, Loveland\, CO \nFor information on just the Permaculture Action Day on August 3rd click here\nYou can also learn more about the course on the ARISE website\nJoin Ryan Rising and Alexa Levy of Permaculture Action Network\, water systems expert & certified permaculture design teacher Avery Ellis\, Sunrise Ranch’s own permaculture designer Patrick Padden\, biodynamics practitioner Stone Hunter\, and other guest instructors for a detailed and holistic program that combines ecological design science\, community organizing with an action-based focus\, and the many facets of permaculture. \nWith a focus on catalyzing social transformation\, you will learn techniques for regenerating ecology and explore community building through action-oriented organizing. \nWith experts in their respective fields teaching Natural Building\, Rainwater Harvesting\, Earthworks\, Forest Gardening and more\, this course will leave you with the practical tools to actually start building the world you want to live in. This course will lead into an on-site Permaculture Action Day before the Arise Music Festival and will explore how large\, temporary human gatherings can catalyze long-term positive impact on the land. \n  \nCourse: Monday\, July 31st 8am\, to Wednesday\, August 2nd\n(Early arrival camping and dinner is available on the night of July 30th for an extra fee)\nAction Day: Thursday\, Aug 3rd \nThe course will include three days of full-on permaculture education and community building\, including:\n-permaculture design process\n-rainwater harvesting and earthworks\n-introduction to permaculture\n-natural building and appropriate technology\n-regenerative tools and techniques\n-permaculture gardening and food forestry\n-applying ecological principles\n-social permaculture\n-community organizing methods\n-soils and composting \nAttendance is limited to 30 participants! Secure your ticket today! \n  \nCost: $379           Register Here! \nTicket includes:\n-A three day permaculture intensive course followed by a Permaculture Action Day\, all on the festival site at Sunrise Ranch\n-Festival Early Arrival Access (with first choice of camping for the whole week)\n-Three organic meals per day\, Monday through Wednesday (breakfast included on Thursday\, Aug. 3\, but not on Monday\, July 31)\n-On-site camping \nArrival and check-in: 8-9 a.m. Monday\, July 31st (early arrival on July 30th is available for $75 extra). \nFirst session begins at 9:30 a.m. on Monday\, July 31st. \nAll participants in the Action Course and Action Day must depart the west side of the valley by 3 p.m. on Thursday\, Aug. 3\, and may enter the festival with an ARISE Festival wristband. \n  \nFor info on the Permaculture Action Day on August 3rd\, click here. \nRyan Rising \nRyan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action\, food justice\, ecological design and community space\, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour for music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. The tour visited 32 cities across the country\, holding a Permaculture Action Day in each one and bringing together up to 400 people at a time to implement projects including public food forests\, edible gardens\, natural buildings\, urban farms\, and greenhouses. The tour was so effective in moving thousands of people into regenerative work and movement building for the just transition that an organization of local chapters throughout multiple bioregions\, the Permaculture Action Network\, arose from it. \nRyan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living—connecting people to take direct action and transition to a resilient way of life; and social permaculture—the ways we make decisions\, build resilience\, resolve conflicts\, and organize in community. \nRyan has taught numerous courses and workshops\, including the Elemental Alchemy Permaculture Intensive before Symbiosis Gathering in 2013\, 2015\, and 2016\, Permaculture Design Courses across California and Tennessee\, a month-long Gaia Education certified Eco-Village Design training in Nicaragua\, and numerous Permaculture Action Courses and workshops. Ryan also sometimes guest teaches at University of San Francisco\, San Francisco State\, and Laney College. A certified permaculture designer with a degree in Peace and Social Justice Studies\, he also co-founded a regenerative\, productive urban farm in the East Bay and the Omni Commons—a community space and education center in Oakland\, CA. For more information on Ryan’s work\, see the Permaculture Action Network website. \nAvery Ellis\, Ecological Designer & Aquaponics Specialist\nAvery Ellis\, owner of Colorado Greywater\, is a sustainability specialist and ecological designer. He has a Masters degree in Ecological Design through SFIA and a BS in Biology & Sustainability through Stockton College. He is also a Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher and a Certified Greywater Installer. Having spent many years pursuing his passion for sustainability\, he now focuses on designing ecosystems that serve humanity by mimicking natural processes. \nHis passion for Sustainable systems became a life direction after a semester abroad\, where he undertook an in-depth study of sustainability at an International Eco-village in Auroville\, India. In this intensive course\, he explored permaculture design\, renewable energy systems\, grey water treatment\, organic food production\, and sustainable building methods. Upon completion of his Bachelor of Science degree\, he continued to explore various aspects of sustainability while gaining experience in the field. He worked at an organic farm harvesting culinary herbs\, he spent a year as a solar installation specialist\, and he was a supervisor for a recycling company\, intent on net zero waste. \nWith all of these skills adding up to a cumulative understanding of sustainability\, he decided to continue his education at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture\, where he enrolled in a Masters of Ecological Design program. This course has been instrumental in his knowledge of sustainable and regenerative design. As a thesis\, he designed and built a small scale aquaponics system for his home\, as a model for home-scale food production. This system\, along with others he has designed and built\, produce organic vegetables and fish year round. As the field of aquaponics develops\, he invites each new system as a design challenge and as a sustainable solution for humanity. \nPatrick Padden\nPatrick Padden\, a graduate of Colorado State University\, studied natural systems building design in Namibia and urban food forest implementation in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, in 2007. In 2008\, Patrick obtained his permaculture teacher’s certificate from Sandy Cruz and Becky Elder of the Permaculture Institute. Patrick received his design certificate from the International Permaculture Design Course in Harare\, Zimbabwe\, and attended the International Permaculture Convergence in Malawi in 2009.\nPatrick is a practicing permaculturalist and permaculture educator and leads the Permaculture Design Certification Course. \nAlexa Levy\nAlexa Levy is an educator\, public school teacher\, permaculturist\, organizer\, and an artist. In various positions\, she has dedicated her life to working with underprivileged youth as a facilitator of learning\, offering them tools to becoming their best self. She started a Permaculture program at a Middle School in Oakland\, where together she and her students learn about growing food\, creating regenerative systems\, art\, current events\, social justice\, and practice restorative justice. She has been exploring alternative avenues of education in search of piecing together an “Educational Utopia” where justice and compassion are at the forefront. \nShe has taught in over seventy public schools\, knowing thousands of children by name in New York City\, and Oakland\, California. Alexa is a core member of the Permaculture Action Network\, a non-profit organization that mobilizes audiences from cultural events to take direct action at Permaculture Action Days\, as well as host courses and create educational hubs at events. She has been a part of creating the organizational development and structure\, as well as organizing Permaculture Action Days\, facilitating youth workshops\, and offering workshops in Permaculture Action Hubs at festivals. \nStone Hunter\nStone Hunter is a biodynamic farming practitioner and consultant at Sustainable Settings Ranch in Carbondale\, Colorado. Born and raised at Sunrise Ranch\, Stone attended River Song Waldorf School and later graduated from the International Baccalaureate program in Fort Collins\, Colorado. After attending Evergreen State College and working on permaculture-based projects in Costa Rica and Panama\, he began farming in 2013 at Happy Heart Farm in Fort Collins. \nIn 2015\, Stone began working at Sustainable Settings\, where he completed a two-year North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program training with experience in dairy cattle operations\, holistic grazing\, grain cultivation\, draft horse implementation\, stone masonry\, CSA gardening\, green construction\, natural beekeeping and more. Currently\, Stone works with Sustainable Settings emphasizing the application of biodynamic techniques and permaculture designs\, composting and livestock management\, while he also teaches gardening at the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork.
URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/arise-permaculture-action-course/
LOCATION:sunrise ranch spiritual retreat and conference center\, 100 sunrise ranch road\, loveland\, Colorado\, 80538\, United States
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