BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Permaculture Action Network - ECPv6.15.10//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Permaculture Action Network X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Permaculture Action Network REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Dubai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0400 TZOFFSETTO:+0400 TZNAME:+04 DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20160313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20161106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20170312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20171105T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20150308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20151101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20161127T103000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20161127T173000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20161015T024813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161107T130500Z UID:13130-1480242600-1480267800@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Bay Area Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia DESCRIPTION:Rising Appalachia hosts a Permaculture Action Day after their San Francisco show at the Great American Music Hall with Arouna Diarra & Dustin Thomas on Saturday\, November 26th.  Permaculture Action Day SUNDAY\, November 27th!\n\nSunday\, November 27th\n10:30am – 5:30pm\nCity of Dreams\n1030 Oakdale Avenue\nSan Francisco\, CA 94124\n\nJoin the Permaculture Action Network & Rising Appalachia Music for a Bay Area Permaculture Action Day! This special Thanksgiving action day will be taking place at City of Dreams urban farm in San Francisco on Sunday\, November 27th following Rising Appalachia’s show at the Great American Music Hall on Saturday the 26th. \nThis will be a one day\, family friendly festival with permaculture projects\, live music and as always\, pot luck lunch!\nProjects include:\n– Terracing & Irrigation Install\n– Mural Painting and Repair\n– Fruit Tree Planting\n– Building Beds & Removing Brush\n– Outdoor Classroom & Kitchen Build\n– Compost System Install \nMusic & Performance:\n– Members of Rising Appalachia Music\n– J Brave of the Luminaries\n– Jasmine Fuego & the Pop Up Band\n– Tatu Vision\n– Lydia Violet Music\n– Members of Thrive East Bay Choir\n– more TBA\n– Cypher hosted by: Jada Imani \nContests:\n– Freestyle\n– Dance-Off \nWorkshops/Panels:\n– Yoga\n– Panel of Elders\n– More TBA \nPlease bring:\n– Water\n– Garden tools\n– Dish or snacks to add to Pot Luck meals (rice & beans provided)\n– Paint for murals\n– Working clothes + Layers (prepare for typical fall Bay weather)\n– Stories + Songs to share \nAbout City of Dreams:\nCity of Dreams is committed to supporting youth living in San Francisco low-income public housing in building a bright future through mentorship and youth leadership development. They have a beautiful established garden and a youth-led garden program operating out of the Oakdale Community Center. \nTickets to Great American show: http://www.risingappalachia.com/tour/\n(Permaculture Action Day itself is free\, as always) \nPlease click “Going” on the Facebook event page\, invite your friends\, and post the link!  https://www.facebook.com/events/646018142228446/ \nWrite to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/bay-area-permaculture-action-day-w-rising-appalachia/ LOCATION:City of Dreams at Oakdale Community Center\, 1030 Oakdale Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94124\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14680654_681359125346948_2951447729782927249_n.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Permaculture Action Network":MAILTO:contact@permacultureaction.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161113T140000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20161109T104243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161113T095156Z UID:13151-1478944800-1479045600@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Standing Rock Ready: Training for Water Protectors Mobilizing to Standing Rock DESCRIPTION:Standing Rock Ready \nTraining for Water Protectors Mobilizing to Standing Rock \n***JUST ANNOUNCED: Second day of training added Sunday for folks wanting a full street medic training; read bottom of page for details***Location will be at Qilombo 2313 San Pablo Ave. (at Grand Ave.)\, Oakland\, CA \nBay Area Training at PLACE for Sustainable Living on Saturday November 12th from 10am – 6pm \n1121 64th Street\, Oakland\, CA 94608 (64th off San Pablo) \nFor all people heading to Standing Rock\, come get trained and prepared to be an effective water protector and stand in solidarity with native people defending their land.  This training will also be useful for folks organizing local direct actions in the Bay Area in solidarity with Standing Rock\, and otherwise.  All are invited to attend.  While folks are invited to come for any part of the training or for the entire thing\, we ask everyone coming to please make it a point to be there if at all possible for the 10am-12pm piece on walking with humility and respect when working with indigenous communities. \nConnect with other people heading to Standing Rock from the Bay Area.  Keep up to date with this page for caravans to Standing Rock from the Bay Area being planned.  Learn Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Basics\, Medical Supporters Training and Group Health\, Legal and Know Your Rights\, Security Culture\, Tech and Communications Security\, and Best Practices for Working Alongside Indigenous People with Humility and Respect.   \nWe will gather from 10am-6pm on Ohlone land at PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland.  See the schedule below for a breakdown of the day.   \nSchedule \n\n10 – 10:15am:  Welcome and Intro to Day’s Schedule and Topics w/ Permaculture Action Network \n10:15 – 10:45am:  Report Back on Standing Rock\, Situation on the Ground\, and Brief History of Dakota Access Pipeline and Indigenous Resistance to it w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz\, Camille Seaman\, and Richie Beltran\n10:45 – 12pm:  How To Work Alongside Indigenous Communities w Humility and Respect w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz\, Camille Seaman\, and Richie Beltran\n12 – 12:15pm:   Light Lunch and Potluck Spread \n12:15-2:00pm:  Direct Action and Civil Disobedience w. Krystof Lopaur\n2:15pm – 3:15pm: Medical Supporters Training and Group Health w. MASH Clinic\, Timber\, and Amani William \n3:15 – 4:30pm:  Tech and Communications Security w. Lisha Sterling (Geeks Without Bounds) remote from Standing Rock (tentative)\, Bill Budington (EFF)\, Jen Helsby (Freedom of the Press\, tentative)\, Scott LaMorte (May First) and Jenny Ryan (Sudo Room / Peoples Open Network)\n4:30pm:  Legal and Know Your Rights w. John Viola\, Ben Rosenfeld\, and Gabriela Lopez\n5:30pm:  Transport Networking and Caravan Debrief w. Ryan Rising and Kammer Moss (Permaculture Action Network)\n6pm:  Closing Ceremony\n\nFacebook event page for Standing Rock Ready Training Day 1:  https://www.facebook.com/events/218158421941848/ \n***SECOND DAY OF TRAINING:  Street Medic Intensive – Sunday\, November 13 10am-2pm at Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave. (at West Grand Ave.)\, Oakland\, CA \nCheck event page on Facebook for updates:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1505778019486949/ \nPlease join us in our efforts to strengthen Community and Front-line Resilience by means of Radical Healing and Health. \n\nThis training will focus on:\n\n\n \n\n\n1. First Aid Strategies for Non Violent Civil Disobedience Protest and Defense Actions.\n\n\n2. How to be a supportive member of the medical community when working with Indigenous land rights occupations. \n\n\n \n\n\nOutline for the Day \n\n\n(30min allotted to each topic\, lunch break mid-day):\n\n\n \n\n\nBrief Introduction \n\n\n \n\n\n1. Community & Self Care- When bearing witness; What to bring\, What to wear\, What not to do.\n\n\n2. Cold Exposure & Hypothermia- Red flags & distinctions\, What to do/How to care for each.\n\n\n3. Pepper Spray and other Chemical Weapons- What they are\, How they are deployed\, How they affect you\, Protection from\, Prevention\, Remedies. \n\n\n4. Blunt Force Trauma- How to manage and treat\, Flower essences\, Topical remedies\, How to deal\, Injury aftercare.\n\n\n5. Aftercare- Chemical weapons aftercare\, Emotional aftercare\, Lung support\, PTSD.\n\n\n6. The Law- Documenting injuries for legal\, How to get medications in jail. \n\n\n \n\n\nQuestions and Close.\n\n\n \n\n\nSpecial Guest: The Black Cross Collective Manual (20 pages). \n\n\n \n\n\nIn Solidarity\,\n\n\nThe MASHH Clinic\, Permaculture Action Network\, PLACE for Sustainable Living\, Standing Rock Ready Bay Area.\n\nWe’ll be posting an extended outline of the training curriculum soon.\n \nTo get in touch\, please write to us at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/standing-rock-ready-training-water-protectors-mobilizing-standing-rock/ LOCATION:PLACE for Sustainable Living\, 1121 64th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T220000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20161015T024020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161015T024526Z UID:13122-1478804400-1478815200@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:STAND: A Standing Rock Benefit & Winter Gear Collection DESCRIPTION:Want to support the folks at Standing Rock but you can’t go all the way to South Dakota? Join the Permaculture Action Network & PLACE for Sustainable Living for a benefit show where we will be collecting much-needed donations for the water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux resistance camps.\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, November 10th | 7pm – 10pm\nWHERE: PLACE for Sustainable Living | 1121 64th Street\, Oakland\, CA 94608\n\nShow begins PROMPTLY at 7pm and ends at 10pm\n$10 suggested donation (no one turned away)\n** proceeds will go directly to Standing Rock Sioux\n(http://standingrock.org/) \nLive Performances by:\nCreative Liberation Network- Liberation Music\nJasmine Fuego– Pop for your soul\nTatu Vision– Inspirational Hip Hop\nEli Marienthal– Poetic Spoken Word \nFor several months the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation have been working day and night to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (a pipeline that will carry more than a million tons of crude oil just under the Missouri River). Hundreds of Native Americans and allies of all ages and races from around the country have come to Cannon Ball\, South Dakota where the reservation is to stand in solidarity and stop this pipeline. The fiece Dakota winters are steadily approaching and these Protectors will need support and supplies to continue the resistance against the pipeline. \nPlease help us by bringing some of the supplies below: \n• Tents (Various Sizes) and Army Tents\n• 1 person pup tents\n• Flashlights\n• Lanterns\n• Sleeping bags (heavy duty)\n• Blankets\n• Heat blankets\n• Rain Coats/rain gear\n• Wool Socks\n• Winter gear\n• Shades/canopies\n• Chem lights\n• Tarps\n• Folding tables\n• Coolers (Large)\n• Cell phone boosters\n• Solar powered chargers/lights\n• Walkie Talkies\n• Fire wood\n• Parachute cord\n• Jumper Cables\n• Non-perishable bulk food\n• Variety bandages\n• Splints\n• Ace wraps\n• Sleeves\n• Goldbond\n• Medical tape\n• Athletic tape\n• Medical scissors\n• Ice/hot packs \nPlease click “Going” on the Facebook event page\, invite your friends\, and post the link!  https://www.facebook.com/events/1664000687244374/\n \nWrite to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.  URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/standing-rock-benefit/ LOCATION:PLACE for Sustainable Living\, 1121 64th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/STAND-flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Permaculture Action Network":MAILTO:contact@permacultureaction.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20161015T025753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161015T070647Z UID:13138-1476525600-1476536400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Social Permaculture & Community Action Workshop DESCRIPTION:Ryan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network will be facilitating a 3-hour workshop on Social Permaculture and Community Action at the Living Earth Symposium\, a 3-day wellness retreat and botanical conference in Lake Tahoe.\n\nWHEN: Saturday\, October 15th | 10am – 1pm\nWHERE: Camp Richardson\, South Lake Tahoe\, CA 96150\n\nHow can the lens of permaculture – the mimicking of nature’s patterns and principles – inform the way we design both the ecological systems of food\, water\, and shelter that give us life\, and the social systems of how we make decisions\, come together as people\, and build resilient communities? \nHow can we take effective action to create viable life-affirming alternatives to the extractive and exploitative systems that we seek to replace? \nRyan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network will start this session with an introduction to permaculture design and lead into a conversation that takes its application beyond forest gardens\, rainwater catchment systems\, and natural building to how we can cultivate effective collaborative groups and communities capable of taking action towards realizing a more just and regenerative world. \nRyan will also touch on the work of the Permaculture Action Network over the last two years of organizing over 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country after concerts and before music festivals where hundreds gather to directly implement regenerative systems in their communities. \nStep into this in-depth session on ecological design\, regenerative living systems\, how to take direct action for a just and sustainable world\, forming healthy collaborative groups and community organizing. About Ryan Rising \nRyan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. After organizing Pushing Through the Pavement: a Permaculture Action Tour with The Polish Ambassador in the Fall of 2014\, Ryan co-founded the Permaculture Action Network and has worked with festivals and artists like Lightning in a Bottle and Rising Appalachia to mobilize concert-goers and festival attendees to install permaculture systems and create community spaces that move us further on the transition to a just and regenerative world. \nPermaculture Action Days have brought out hundreds of people at a time after concerts and before music festivals to plant public food forests\, build urban farms & community gardens\, install rainwater catchment systems\, and construct greenhouses & earthen buildings. Having organized more than 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country and taught numerous courses and workshop spaces before and within festivals and gatherings\, Ryan works at the edge of culture and ecological justice to catalyze the growth of a broad and diverse network set on taking action to build a better world. \n\nTickets & Directions \nThe full conference runs from Friday\, October 14th at 3pm through Sunday\, October 16th until after 2pm at Camp Richardson Historic Resort and Marina at 1900 Jameson Beach Rd.\, South Lake Tahoe\, CA 96158. \nFull conference tickets are $235; or $65 per day. Participants can also take this three hour workshop alone for $40 payable upon entrance at the Boat House. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/social-permaculture-community-action-workshop/ LOCATION:Camp Richardson\, South Lake Tahoe\, CA\, 96150\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Example-NewGardenFont-nobird-209x300.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Permaculture Action Network":MAILTO:contact@permacultureaction.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161009T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160930T042025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160930T042025Z UID:13097-1476010800-1476032400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Permaculture Action Day during Confluence in Denver DESCRIPTION:We are proud to collaborate with the Denver Permaculture Guild during the Denver Permaculture Confluence (October 7\,8\,9)\,  for the fourth Permaculture Action Day in Denver of 2016.\n\nJoin us as we cap off a very special weekend of regenerative practice in Denver with a Permaculture Action Day at Sister Gardens. \nWe will prepare the farm for winter and build a structure to protect the cob oven from the elements and provide a permanent shade space for gatherings at the farm. \nWe’ll open the day at 10:30am and wrap up work by 2:30\, when the Denver Permaculture Confluence’s bike tour concludes at the site. \nWe will be joined by a very special Eco-Wakening acrobatics performance at 2:30\, and then Ridhi D’Cruz and Mark Lakeman from the world-renowned City Repair Project will lead a Repair Your City workshop from 3:15-5:45. \nThis will be a potluck event with live music from 11-2:30pm \nPlease visit the Front Range Village Building Extravaganza w/ City Repair Project and 2nd Annual Confluence: Life on The Edge-A Changing Climate\, A Changing City pages for information about the other village building events taking place this weekend. \nSister Gardens is a 1 acre vegetable and herb garden on the Aria Denver campus. Garden produce is sold at a pay-as-you-can farm stand\, to restaurants and is distributed to Warren Village\, a transitional housing facility that helps low income single parent families achieve sustainable personal and economic self-sufficiency. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-action-day-denver/ LOCATION:Sister Gardens\, 2861 W 52nd Ave\, Denver\, CO\, 80221\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Confluence_ACTION-DAY.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160925T190000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160912T200451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T180259Z UID:13080-1474531200-1474830000@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis Gathering 2016 DESCRIPTION:The Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis is the beehive of networking\, discussion\, skill-sharing\, workshops\, and talks on the regenerative ecological systems and community organizing methods that will bring us into a more just and sustainable world.  From exploring soils\, water catchment\, food growing\, natural building and alternative energy to illuminating social design\, building the commons\, direct action\, and decision making\, the Permaculture Action Hub is the space to build a movement capable of taking on the great challenges of our time and discover a better way of living together. \nThis year\, the Permaculture Action Hub will feature renowned teachers\, organizers\, and designers\, as well as a number of demonstration systems detailing ecologically regenerative ways of attaining our food\, water\, and shelter.  Alongside the Permaculture Action Hub\, make a visit to the Placemakers Teahouse\, have a cup of tea and talk with your fellows about what’s occupying your mind\, or swing by the BioRegional Hub to connect directly with people from your geographical region who want to create new projects\, take action\, and get organized\, whether by starting a community garden together or mobilizing your neighbors to completely change the local economy. \nWhat does a better world look like to you?  How will we grow our food\, gather our water\, build our shelter\, and get from place to place?  How will we make decisions\, come together in community\, and resolve our disputes?  What will it take to shift the entire trajectory of the current dominant paradigm?  The Permaculture Action Hub is your place at Symbiosis to figure that out. \nCoordinated by Timo Granzotti and hosted and curated by the Permaculture Action Network\, this is the space where we plan to take our dreams into reality through action. \nFeaturing workshops with Dr. Vandana Shiva\, Erica Wohldman\, Ryan Rising\, Timo Granzotti\, and workshops on urban agriculture\, the community-led food movement\, direct action for ecological justice\, finding and using plant medicine\, and much more. \nSee below for our full schedule of workshops in the Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis  \n—– \nPermaculture Plaza at Symbiosis 2016  \n\nIn ‘The Village’\, across from the humongous HUB stage at Symbiosis\, you’ll find the Permaculture Plaza nestled between the Nourishment Nook and Healing Huts along the shore of the peninsula.  This is the center of activity\, learning\, and networking for the regenerative community movement we are cultivating together\, including a full schedule of workshops\, demonstration systems\, skill-shares\, networking sessions\, and much more.  \n\nWithin the Permaculture Plaza find: \n\nPermaculture Action Hub:  our main workshop and skill-share tent.  Find talks by Vandana Shiva and Erica Wohldmann\, direct action trainings for social and ecological justice\, workshops in rainwater catchment systems and soil building\, solar cooking and appropriate technology skill-shares\, and much more.  Scroll down for full schedule. \n\n\nPlaceMakers’ TeaHouse:  across the Permaculture Plaza from the Permaculture Action Hub\, next to the Nourishment Nook\, the PlaceMakers’ TeaHouse is our anchor for creative\, convivial chill space; a place to relax\, reflect\, discuss and digest.  Cultivating a more intimate relationship with our earthly home\, we’re offering light sessions on community life\, restoring our relationship to place\, and the permaculture neighborhood.\n\n\n\nNetworking Node:  the center of connection within the Permaculture Plaza\, come under the shade of our open canopy to meet folks interested in similar projects and passions as you\, and to network with people who live in the same BioRegion you came from.  With BioRegionally-based info boards up 24/7 for you to interact with\, as well as guerilla workshops and facilitated networking session\, this is the spot to find your comrades.  \n\n\n\nThe Closed Loop System:  Set up by the Jenkstars straight from Building Man festival\, a system demonstrating alternative energy\, appropriate technology whole-systems water\, solar\, humanure\, and other energy flows.  \n\n\nTiny Home:  Come check out the demonstration tiny home; learn to live in less space with more connection.  \n\n\nSolutioncraft Sun Oven:  The humongous sun-oven large enough to cook for a village will be cooking up pizzas\, veggies\, and other dishes.  Come have a bite.  \n\nSchedule for Permaculture Action Hub \nFriday 9:45-10:45am  Urban Agriculture & Permaculture Projects: How To Get Started w/ Carrie Lierl\n\nCome join urban permaculture practitioner\, Carrie Lierl\, for an optimistic discussion about the practical potential for community-led urban agriculture and permaculture projects! With an emphasis on the specific skillsets\, tools\, and foundational knowledge you may need to both successfully self-start and self-maintain your own urban agriculture or permaculture project\, Carrie will discuss some best practices and lessons learned from the shared experiences of herself and other urban permaculture practitioners who have set out to restore urban landscapes in the name of promoting sustainable food production\, ecological health\, and community solidarity. Some other central themes of this discussion will include: making things work within the system (while simultaneously working to change it!)\, generating value from waste materials\, and tapping into the productive potential of both micro-climates and social anomalies.\n\n Friday 11am-12pm  ReHydrating The Earth: Rainwater Catchment w/ Lydia Neilsen \nFriday 12:15-1:15pm  Plant Life as a Model of the Original Gift Economy w/ Matthew D. Segall\, PhD\nPOSTPONED to later in the weekend; check the Networking Node schedule at the \n Permaculture Plaza for the time and day\n \nFriday 1:30-2:30pm  The Community-Led Food Movement w/ Jasmine Vassar MPH \nLooking to get more community buy in for your project? Come joins this interactive workshop focused on org awareness and techniques for community engagement.\n\nJasmine (Jazz) Vassar\, is a Bay Area educator who is passionate about bringing knowledge of health and wellness to families. With a degree in nutrition and certification in yoga\, she has taught various workshops ranging from yoga\, nutrition\, food justice\, and life skills. \nFriday 2:45pm-3:45pm  Myco-Food Forestry w/ Ry N Flint \nCome explore some of the mysterious realms of symbiotic fungi and how they live with their plant hosts. Stack some functions! Learn how to integrate mushrooms and fungi into your perennial food forest environment. Your host Rye N. Flint\, co-owner of the oldest Truffle Farm in America\, will walk you through your very own garden of eatin’. \nRye N. Flint resides in an blue oak\, gray pine Savannah in Northern California. He surthrives in an self built $300 off-grid tiny home. He has a B.S. in Soil Science\, a permaculture design certification\, and is co-owner of the oldest Truffle farm in America. Rye gives talks and host workshops on rewilding and food forestry and many transformational festivals and events\, lead walks through the natural areas in Northern California\, tying in stories of our past with how we can live more natural lives in the present. \nFriday 4:15pm-5:15pm Designing for the Movement w. Ryan Rising & Jasmine Fuego \n\nHow can the lens of permaculture – the mimicking of nature’s patterns and principles – inform the way we design both the ecological systems of food\, water\, and shelter that give us life\, and the social systems of how we make decisions\, come together as people\, and build resilient communities? \nHow can we take effective action to create viable life-affirming alternatives to the extractive and exploitative systems that we seek to replace. \nRyan Rising and Jasmine Fuego of the Permaculture Action Network will start this session with an introduction to permaculture design and lead into a conversation that takes its application beyond forest gardens\, rainwater catchment systems\, and natural building to how we can cultivate effective collaborative groups and communities capable of taking action towards realizing a more just and regenerative world. \nRyan and Jasmine will also touch on the work of the Permaculture Action Network over the last two years of organizing over 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country after concerts and before music festivals where hundreds gather to directly implement regenerative systems in their communities. \nStep into this in-depth session on ecological design\, regenerative living systems\, how to take direct action for a just and sustainable world\, forming healthy collaborative groups and community organizing. \nFriday 5:30-6:30pm  Wild Foods: 6 Months Living in the Forest w. Erica Wohldmann\n\nSpending time in nature has countless benefits to psychological and physical health. In this talk\, Erica Wohldmann will share some of those benefits\, as well as a few of the lessons she learned while living in the forest for 6 months on wild food and medicine. Learn how to be a forest dweller in the urban wild.\n\nSaturday 9:45-10:45pm  Plastic Planet: A Not-So-Symbiotic Relationship w. Genevieve Abedon \nWe live in a culture addicted to convenience that is resulting in a plastic planet. We are working against nature\, not with her. This is not quite the permanent culture we have in mind. Come learn about the extent of our plastic pollution problem as well as the many opportunities we have for solutions using various permaculture principles as our guide. Let’s bust myths\, learn the facts\, and get creative with reducing our plastic footprint for the sake of the planet\, all of her creatures\, and the return to symbiosis. \nGenevieve is a recovering plastic-aholic. Motivated to be part of the solution\, Genevieve changed her ways dramatically by refusing all things plastic and has now devoted her career to the matter. Genevieve works with the Green Team for various events\, including Symbiosis in the past\, and has sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean researching plastic pollution with 5 Gyres\, so has seen first-hand just how pervasive plastic pollution is. Music\, nature\, animals\, good food\, friends\, family\, traveling\, and community feed her soul. \nSaturday 11-12pm  Solar Cooking & Appropriate Technology w/ Brennan Blazer Bird \nAppropriate cooking technology harnesses renewable energy to cook meals that are healthy for our planet and us. Solar thermal energy is a readily available and renewable way to cook our food; dehydrate our fruits and vegetables; and pasteurize water. When sunlight isn’t available\, rocket stoves use a fuel-efficient combustion chamber to minimize the amount of firewood needed for cooking. Come learn how to build and use these technologies as we cook and enjoy a fossil-fuel-free meal in one of the largest solar ovens in the world! \nSaturday 12:15-1:15pm  All Plants Are Teachers: Learning From & About Plant Medicine w/ Erica Wohldmann \nLong before the days of modern medicine\, people used plants to prevent and cure diseases. This wisdom was passed down orally from one generation to the next\, but as indigenous cultural values have been replaced with western ideologies\, many of these practices have been forgotten. In this talk\, Erica will discuss traditional uses of locally available plant medicines for healing mind\, body\, and spirit. \nSaturday 1:30-2:45pm  Art Drives Culture: Creative Revolution in the Modern Age w/ Prescott McCarthy \nIn this lecture we will discuss the importance of an idea and the path to making it into a reality. We will look at the bigger picture of Art in our world and the way it drives the societies we live in. From Davinci\, to banksy\, to Bucky.  We are surrounded by the ideas of others. The goal of this workshop will be to inspire you to take the wheel and start driving your next big idea. \nSaturday 3-4:15pm  Permaculture & Power: The Logistics of Liberation w/ Ryan Rising \nWhat is it really going to take to liberate ourselves from the exploitative\, extractive systems we are living within?  How can we re-inhabit space\, and see that re-inhabiting of space as one of the most revolutionary acts we can take?  How can we interact with the material infrastructure of our world to collectively slow and stop the mechanisms of ecological devastation and human harm? Power is logistic. \nSaturday 4:30-5:45pm  Direct Action for Social & Ecological Justice w/ Krystof Lopaur \nOur destructive\, unjust\, and unsustainable society is the product of social and political mechanisms that are continuously working to reproduce it. Permaculture reminds us that another world is possible\, but how can we overcome these obstacles to transform our communities and our planet? This workshop will offer lessons and strategies from contemporary and recent social movements\, including the movement to end police violence and racism. \nSaturday 6-7pm  The Soil Story w/ Kiss the Ground \nThis workshop will explore how soil — the thin layer of the Earth’s surface — can play a role in reducing and sequestering carbon emissions and balance our climate. Focusing on techniques of regenerative agriculture\, it will explore this topic from a microscopic level to the global scale and also present solutions and ways to get involved. Please join us for an in depth look of the story of soil\, the living\, breathing entity that sustains us all! \nMatt Finkelstein is an regenerative/organic farmer and educator. He has spent the past 10 years dedicated to cultivating and empowering a deeper connection with food and nature. Matt has also been involved in the transformational festival community for several years\, contributing to building projects and production. Currently\, Matt is based in Los Angeles\, where he manages the garden for Kiss the Ground while also running a school garden program and managing a private farm. \nSunday 9:45-10:45am:  Seed Bomb Making Skill-Share w. Natalie Flores \nEmbrace your inner rebel and come participate in the flowering of your communities\, one bomb at a time. Clay\, soil\, water and wild flowers.. what else do you need~? \nSunday 11:00-12:00pm:  Herbal First Aid Kit: Medicine Making w. Kouros Alaee \nSunday 12:15-1:15pm:  Restorative Justice: An Alternative to Zero-Tolerance & the Punitive Justice System w/ Alexa Levy \nIntroduction to Restorative Justice: Learn what Restorative Justice is\, what makes it a possible solution\, how it works\, and hear a personal story of how restorative justice transformed a public school classroom. \nAlexa Levy is an educator\, public school teacher\, permaculturist\, fighter for restorative social and ecological justice\, and an artist. Over the past few years\, 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 has been exploring alternative avenues of education in search of piecing together an “Educational Utopia” where justice and compassion are at the forefront. She has taught in over seventy public schools\, knowing thousands of children by name in New York City\, and Oakland\, California. Alexa cares deeply about educating youth\, and shaping her skills through situations and people that surround her. Alexa’s desire is to create positive solutions\, to nurture and guide youth towards self-empowerment to take action all over. \nSunday 1:30-2:30pm:  Open-Source Closed Loop Systems: Solving the Problem of Food\, Water and Shelter w. Scotty Soltronic \nThe future is here\, intelligent closed loop living systems. \nScottysoltronic is one part artist\, two parts inventor and three parts mad scientist. He is the co-founder of the JenkStars\, the Center for Art and Sustainability\, and the creator of the Solar Saucer\, Sol Blossom and Sol Sister Mobile Solar Powered Art Installations. Scotty has been coast to coast powering events and talking to participants about Art\, music and technology. Scotty is a full time artist and lives in Utah with his son. \nSunday 2:45-3:45pm:  Indigenous Agroforestry w. Timo Granzotti \nSunday 4:00-5:00pm:  Permaculture Year One: Evolving Our Farm\, Our Business and Ourselves w/ OurPlace Kauai \nWe’ll be sharing our year-long permaculture journey on a farm in Hawaii. We have been place-making a farm cafe\, as well as helping our friends’ ranch blossom into a permaculture food forest. After taking the Elemental Alchemy immersive course at Symbiosis\, we learned many different concepts that have since transformed into projects at home and at our business. We hope to inspire you with how much change can take place in just a year! \nKimmy Lyon and Michael Blow operate a permaculture farm cafe in Hawaii. \nSunday 5:15-6:45pm:  Conserving BioDiversity; Producing More Food w/ Dr. Vandana Shiva \n  \nSchedule for Networking Node \nFresh off the heals of the North American Permaculture Convergence\, and with space being co-facilitated by the impact center-mapping group NuMundo\, come find people in your BioRegion who want to take action with you in similar areas of passion\, and find networking sessions and additional sessions.   \nFriday 12:15pm Yoga for Anatomical Empowerment w/ Leah Van Winkle \nSaturday 1:15pm Networking Session for Activists w/ NuMundo \n \nTBA  Adapt:  A Permaculture Game w/ Bridget O’Brien URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-action-hub-symbiosis-gathering-2016/ LOCATION:Woodward Reservoir\, Oakdale\, CA\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160914T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160912T201728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T201728Z UID:13085-1473840000-1474304400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:North American Permaculture Convergence DESCRIPTION:Permaculture Action Network is co-hosting this year’s North American Permaculture Convergence & Northern California Building Resilient Communities Convergence from September 14th-18th at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland\, CA. \nPermaculture Action Network will be co-hosting the BioRegional Hub within the convergence\, as well as the BioRegional Breakout organizing sessions.  We are also happy to be coordinating the music and performance for the event. \nOn Saturday\, we’ll be giving a presentation from 11am-noon on the Permaculture Action Network: How We’re Organizing and How To Get Involved\, giving a short report back of the last two years and laying out the BioRegional Crew organizing strategy we’ve been developing. \nYou can also catch the Pushing Through the Pavement: a Permaculture Action Story documentary about the first tour during the convergence. \nCheck out the fullness of the event at http://permacultureconvergence.com/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/north-american-permaculture-convergence/ LOCATION:Solar Living Institute\, Hopland\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160824T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160824T160000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160718T091719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160805T055318Z UID:13005-1472032800-1472054400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Orcas Island Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia DESCRIPTION:Orcas Island Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia \nWednesday\, August 24th! 10am-4pm\nLocation: Orcasong Farm\, 280 Dolphin Bay Rd.\, Eastsound\, Washington 98245 \nJoin the Permaculture Action Network and Rising Appalachia Music as we host the first ever Salish Sea Permaculture Action Day on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington State! \nWe are so excited to be teaming up with Orcasong Farm\, New Stories’ Thrive San Juan Islands & Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory to bring permaculture action to the San Juan Islands. \nTogether we will bring together a day of ecological learning\, community building\, regenerative systems implementation and awesome entertainment while sharing the beauty of Orcas Island.\n\nThe Day’s Projects: \n\nBuilding a cob oven to cook for large gatherings using straw\, clay\, sand\, and stones\nMounding *Hügelkultur beds to sequester carbon\, grow polycultures of useful plants\, and retain water for the adjacent Fall orchards \nCreating paths through the forest to the meditation huts \nConstructing a passive-solar spiral shower\nHarvesting and preparing poles to build the meditation hut\nPlanting the garden beds with Fall crops \n\n\nWe will of course have live music to enjoy and delicious food to share.  Please bring a dish to share *POTLUCK* style if you can. Please also bring any tools you can\, work gloves\, a water bottle\, close-toed shoes\, a bowl/plate\, utensils\, and mug.   \nOrcasong Farm is regenerating 80 acres of land in Crow Valley. This intentional community of land stewards focus on sustainable education\, transformational leadership and catalyzing social change.  Orcasong is setting themselves up as a community-building center for the bioregion that can host gatherings\, permaculture workshop\, council spaces\, and town meetings.  \n\nWhat better way to get down and deep than to camp out at Orcasong Farm after the Permaculture Action Day and head right to the Rising Appalachia show at the Orcas Center the next day?   \nOrcasong Farm Camping is available\, for an additional fee:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2569906 \nAnd be sure to grab your tickets to the Orcas Island show if you plan on seeing Rising Appalachia: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910 \nGoldentree Hostel has accommodations available\, too. \nhttp://www.goldentreehostel.com/ \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nRising Appalachia will be performing on Lopez\, San Juan and Orcas Islands. \nRising Appalachia is super excited to launch our new project “the Slow Music Movement”\, an effort to promote sustainable touring practices\, bring in local outreach to each event\, reduce single-use waste at our shows\, source farm-to-table food for backstage\, and continue to create and promote sustainable touring practices across the board. \n“It’s our effort to take the glitz and glam out of the music industry and bring performance back to its roots- that of public service. A service where musicians are not just part of fast-paced entertainment world\, but instead influence the cultural shift as troubadours\, activists\, story tellers\, and catalysts of justice\,” explains Leah. \nWe have been working alongside incredible leaders and organizations including Winona LaDuke\, Joanna Macey\, Climbing Poetree\, Gulf Restoration Network\, the Permaculture Action Network\, the Prison Yoga Project\, and 1 Billion Rising (along with many more on-the ground efforts) to bring you more direct action and involvement throughout our concerts\, and to help maintain an independent musical spirit in the face of such a fast-paced world. Stay tuned for more ways to get involved! \nLopez Island on August 19 \nTickets: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=details&item=1648 \nSan Juan Island on August 21 \nTickets: http://www.sjctheatre.org/whats-happening/calendar/eventdetail/99/rising-appalachia \nSalish Sea Permaculture Action Day on August 24 Orcas Island \n10:00 AM- 4:00 PM FREE / Potluck \nOrcas Island on August 25 \nFor tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910 \n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nStay tuned in at the Facebook Event page here:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1361580340535063/ \nAnd look for live updates the day of from @PermaAction and #PermacultureAction on Twitter \nAnd @PermacultureAction on Instagram URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/orcas-island-permaculture-action-day-w-rising-appalachia/ LOCATION:Orcasong Farm\, 280 Dolphin Bay Rd\, Eastsound\, WA\, 98245\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/orcasongflyer-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160807T190000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160718T091108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160718T120722Z UID:12998-1470567600-1470596400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:L.A. Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man DESCRIPTION:Join Burners Without Borders\, Common Vision\, and the Permaculture Action Network for a Permaculture Action Day at Kiss the Ground Garden in Los Angeles – a permaculture demonstration and education garden in Venice Beach outside the Beyond Baroque Arts Center. This is a high visibility site! \nOn your path from Los Angeles to Burning Man 2016 this year\, take a stop at the Kiss the Ground Garden where we’ll be holding a wildly life-affirming Permaculture Action Day on Sunday\, August 7th from 11am – 7pm. \nWe’ll be planting fruit trees with the state-touring Common Vision team and making signage to inform people of the many beneficial relationships between trees\, soil\, people\, water\, food\, and the ecological web of life. \nWe’ll also be painting the Kiss the Ground GREENHOUSE with a layer of protective Linseed Oil\, planting and beautifying the BUTTERFLY GARDEN\, making cigarette butt depositories to keep filters out of the garden\, and chopping and turning the compost on site. We’re preparing to build an outdoor kitchen in the garden and erect a shade-structure as well\, on the 7th or in the future! \nThis is a celebration of life in the truest sense. Along with putting this long-lasting energy in the ground right here in Los Angeles\, we’ll be turning up the music with live bands and DJs\, sharing delicious food all around\, hosting a number of workshops and skillshares\, and of course meeting one another and discussing our collective transition to a better way of living together. \nCome get down with the Burning Man community\, BRAEVES live band\, and many more to be announced. Want to bring the funk? Hit us up at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org \nKiss The Ground is an organization working to get out “The Soil Story” through media and demonstration – the story that building healthy topsoil is the key to carbon sequestration\, healthy food\, greater ecological diversity\, water retention and drought resistance. Beyond network building and creating media\, Kiss The Ground creates the direct experience of the many benefits of healthy soil regeneration through their highly visible LA Permaculture Garden in Venice. \nStay tuned in for our Permaculture Action Days on the Road to Burning Man at PermacultureAction.org and follow along the day of and year round at @PermaAction on Twitter\, at our facebook page Permaculture Action Network and @PermacultureAction on Instagram. \nStay up on Burners Without Borders’ many other ways to create a better world at BurnersWithoutBorders.org; and help Common Vision to keep planting fruit trees everywhere at CommonVision.org \nLearn more about Kiss The Ground in LA at KisstheGround.com and on Twitter and Instagram @KissTheGroundCA URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/l-permaculture-action-day-road-burning-man/ LOCATION:Kiss the Ground Garden\, 681 Venice Blvd\, Venice\, CA\, 90291\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Burning-Man_timeline.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T180000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160706T063925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160706T063925Z UID:12967-1468661400-1468692000@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Permaculture Action Day in DENVER\, COLORADO on JULY 16 DESCRIPTION:WHERE: Sister Gardens: 2861 W 52nd Ave\, Denver\, Colorado 80221\nWHEN: July 16\, 9:30AM – 6:00PM\nLINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/239470083100828/ \nDetails:  \nSister Gardens is a 1 acre vegetable and herb garden on the Aria Denver campus. Garden produce is sold at a pay-as-you-can farm stand\, sold to restaurants and is distributed to Warren Village\, a transitional housing facility that helps low income single parent families achieve sustainable personal and economic self- sufficiency. \nWe envision Sister Gardens as a community food hub – a food-producing farm\, farm stand\, and classroom. As food is fuel for the body\, we hope to be fuel for social interaction and change. By re-purposing otherwise unused space\, we hope to help stimulate the community and beautify the land. We want to embrace creative and eager minds\, teaching them the value of urban farming\, of nutrition\, and of food justice. We want to alleviate stress and provide happiness and healthfulness through greater access to better food. We will listen and respond to the needs of the community\, growing and changing with them\, and giving them more control over the food that they eat. Most importantly\, we want to pass along to our youth the knowledge and tools needed to ensure that the connections between farm and table and between food and health are never lost. \nWe are thrilled to present this action day as a collaboration of the Musical Activist Alliance\, Earth Guardians\, and the Front Range Permaculture Action Crew. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-action-day-denver-colorado-july-16/ LOCATION:Sister Gardens\, 2861 W 52nd Ave\, Denver\, CO\, 80221\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.permacultureaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PADFBTimeline.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20160617T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20160619T180000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160527T171509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171213T200040Z UID:12953-1466150400-1466359200@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Permaculture Action Hub at Sonic Bloom Festival DESCRIPTION:Coming to Sonic Bloom Festival?  We’ll be holding a dynamic space throughout the event with a full program of workshops\, skill-shares\, and panel discussions on permaculture\, ecological regeneration\, community organizing\, and direct action.  To get an idea of what will be happening\, check out the schedule from our recent Permaculture Action Hub at LIB here. \nSonic Bloom Festival Permaculture Action Hub – June 15-18\, Hummingbird Ranch\, CO\nCome hang out in the Permaculture Action Hub at Sonic Bloom Festival June 15th-18th to learn from and connect with others catalyzing a shift to a just and regenerative way of living. \nWorkshops and Sessions include: \n\n – Intro to Permaculture & The Just Transition w/ Ryan Rising\n – Indigenous Phenology in the Age of Climate Change w/ Michael Alcazar\n – Natural Building w/ Mike Wird\n – Geomeditation: A Conscious Journey Through Deep Time w/ Callie Maron\n – Permaculture as Playtime: Gamifying the Design Process w/ Eliot Kersgaard\n – Bloomtown Villagers: Ecological Embodiment Theatre Games for Youth & Adults w/ Robin Eden\n – Re-Villaging Movement Amidst the Housing Crisis w/ Karen Seed\n – Carbon Farming and the Perennial Economy w/ Michael Alcazar\n  – Soul of Soil: Making Compost Tea w/ Edaphic Solutions\n – Systems Thinking & Urban Permaculture w/ Mike Wird\n – INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective film screening\n – Problem Solving Adventures: For Youth and Kids at Heart w/ Eliot Kersgaard\n  – Social Permaculture: Applying Nature’s Principles to People and Communities w/ Ryan Rising\n – Social Permaculture: Power\, Decision Making\, and Conflict Resolution w/ Ryan Rising\n – Solar Power and Alternative Energy w/ Brittany Heller & Jim Payne\n – The Power of Storytelling & Creating Your Own Media w/ Unicorn Riot\n – Your Independent Media footage screening w/ Unicorn Riot\n – Earth Body Dances w/ Allison Caw\n – Wild Weedz Edible Herb Walk w/ Manda Pendleton\n – Security Culture 101 & Know Your Rights w/ Unicorn Riot\n – Permaculture & Power: the Logistics of Liberation w/ Ryan Rising\n – Amazing Veggie & Fruit Fermentation Skills: Recipes for Probiotic Health & Preservation w/ Laura Shiels\n – Sacred Mycology: The Harmonic Balance of the Biosphere w/ Britt Clements\n – Social Networking with Mycorrhizae w/ Eliot Kersgaard\n – Open Space: Come Through\, Meet\, and Organize\n\nCheck out the rest of Sonic Bloom Festival’s workshop and speaker lineup.  Come to Sonic Bloom early for the three-day Permaculture Academy June 11th-14th and the Permaculture Action Day on June 15th. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-action-hub-sonic-bloom-festival/ LOCATION:Hummingbird Ranch\, CO\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20160616T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20160616T180000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160527T170842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T170842Z UID:12939-1466074800-1466100000@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day DESCRIPTION:June 16th\, before Sonic Bloom Festival begins\, come to the Permaculture Action Day at District ONE Farm at John Mall High School in Walsenburg – https://www.facebook.com/events/230070644039546/ \n\nOn your way to SONIC BLOOM 2016\, Colorado\, come to the local community farm to put down energy into a lasting regenerative space that will provide nutrient-rich\, organic food to the people of Walsenburg\, Colorado. The second poorest county with the worst nutrition on record in the state\, Walsenburg is building an organic\, community farm to create greater food access to the people. \n\n\n \n\n\nSONIC BLOOM has found its home at Hummingbird Ranch 20 minutes away\, and it’s time to create reciprocal relationships of soldiarity between us\, the festival community\, and the local communities that welcome us into their homes. Between the beginning of the permaculture design and implementation plan of Hummngbrid Ranch\, and the creating of the nearby farm and community center in Walsenburg\, we’re creating the interconnected\, regenerative world we all have been talking about. \n\n\n \n\n\nJoin the Permaculture Action Network for a day of installing a rainwater harvesting and irrigation system\, constructing low-tunnel greenhouses\, installing a proper composting system\, and building and planting raised beds. \n\n\n \n\n\nAs always\, we’ll have a celeratory convergence of workshops\, music\, shared meals\, and discussions on furthering the transition to a just and regenerative world\, integrating our communities into the patterns of the natural world. And\, as always\, the Permaculture Action Day is absolutely FREE and everyone is welcome to attend – whether you are staying for the festival or not. This is about coming together as community to take action and start building the world we want to see. \n\n\n \n\n\nWant to learn how to design through a permaculture framework? How to catch and store water in the soil through earthworks? How to design food forests and productive polycultures of plants that will produce year after year? How to design ecovillages and organize your own community and neighborhood? \n\n\nJoin us for the SONIC BLOOM Academy • Permaculture Action Series in the three days before the festival starts – June 13th-16th. With an incredible team of facilitators\, this course will prepare you with the skills and tools we all need to transition to a more ecologically-integrated\, community-oriented way of living. \n\n\nGet the details and register at http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/sonic-bloom-permaculture-action-day/ LOCATION:District ONE Farm at John Mall High School\, Walsenburg\, CO\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20160613T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20160616T170000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160423T192816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T193618Z UID:12836-1465840800-1466096400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Academy Series DESCRIPTION:The Permaculture Action Series lets you get your hands dirty at Hummingbird Ranch before Sonic Bloom begins.  Learn about permaculture while creating a more sustainable festival site. \nLearn more and register >>> http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\nPermaculture comes from the terms “permanent agriculture\,” or more broadly\, “permanent culture\,” and encompasses a design process by which humans can create relationships of mutual benefit with the natural world and with each other that provide for an abundance of human needs. The tools and technologies of permaculture exhibit how humans can move away from an extractive\, exploitative paradigm with the earth and one another\, and towards systems of symbiosis\, ecological regeneration\, and community.\n\n\n \n\n\n• Learn the design principles and process of permaculture\n\n\n• Gain hands-on skills to directly transform the world around you\n\n\n• Relate to the earth symbiotically to create your food\, shelter\, water and energy\n\n\n• Get training in community building and action planning for a better world\n\n\n• Dig into practical tools for ecological regeneration with experienced practitioners\n\n\n \n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n• 21 class-hours of world-class educational experience\n\n\n• 2 healthy meals per day (brunch and dinner)\n\n\n• Connections with like minded people\n\n\n• Be among the first people on site\n\n\n• First priority shaded and creekside camping included\n\n\n• Free time in pristine Colorado nature \n\n\n• Hiking\, biking\, relaxing in the creek\n\n\n• Free filtered water included all week\n\n\n• Yoga class each morning\n\n\n• Campfires each night\n\n\n\nFacilitators:  \n\n~ Ryan Rising ~\n \n\n\n \n\n\nRyan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator most recently known for organizing the Permaculture Action Tour. Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for regenerative living; connecting people to take direct action and transition to a resilient way of life. Ryan and the Permaculture Action Network have organized over 45 Action Days across the US.\n\n\n \n\n\n~ Mike Wird ~\n\n\n \n\n\nMike Wird is an educator\, permaculture designer and artist\, who shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts empowerment and regenerative practices. Mike has been actively cultivating a sense of community for over 10 years as a Hiphop Cultural Arts Ambassador\, and co-founder of an eco-social enterprise called Regenerative Lifestyles.\n\n\n \n\n\n~ Stephanie Syson ~\n\n\n \n\n\nStephanie is co-founder of Dynamic Roots herbals and the Basalt Food Park where she innovated and grew a town seed library into a full-on public edible forest garden. She is an educator and practitioner in the fields of permaculture\, herbalism\, seed saving and an avid promoter of edible polycultures and medicinal herb gardens in public spaces.\n\n\n\n\n\n~ Keala Young ~\n\n\n \n\n\nA. Keala Young is a whole systems designer\, regenerative practitioner and permaculture teacher with a background in the healing arts. His rich study of permaculture and eco-village design includes certificate programs from Findhorn Foundation and Esalen Institute\, as well as full-time engagement co-founding Atlan Living and Learning Center near the Columbia River Gorge in Central Cascadia.\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\nLearn more and register >>> http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/\n\nFacebook Event Page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1591888027794858/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/sonic-bloom-permaculture-action-academy-series/ LOCATION:Hummingbird Ranch\, Spanish Peaks Country\, CO\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160604T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160604T200000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212530 CREATED:20160423T190146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T190612Z UID:12832-1465034400-1465070400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Berea Permaculture Action Day with Rising Appalachia at Clear Creek Schoolhouse DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1035457529863959/ \n  \nJoin Rising Appalachia & the Permaculture Action Network in Kentucky for a Permaculture Action Day at Clear Creek Schoolhouse after Rising Appalachia plays First Friday Berea! \n\n\n\n \n\n\nClear Creek Schoolhouse is a workshop space for teaching\, learning and sharing in Kentucky on the foothills of the Appalachia mountains. \n\n\n \n\n\nWe’ll be expanding the food forests and edible forest gardens we’ve already begun\, and may create more pond life and a sanctuary\, as well as plant native species. \n\n\n \n\n\nWe’ll have acoustic music in the schoolhouse at night\, and a potluck throughout the day\, so bring something to share. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nAlong with building up this beautiful education center and community space\, we’ll be sharing some workshops and skill-shares throughout the day\, and threading deeper community. \nFacebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1035457529863959/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/berea-permaculture-action-day-rising-appalachia-clear-creek-schoolhouse/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Disputanta\, KY\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160601T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160614T150000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T180236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T184025Z UID:12826-1464793200-1465916400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course in Eastern Tennessee DESCRIPTION:Learn more and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html\nJune 1st – 14th at Seven Springs Retreat Center in Sweet Hollow\, East Tennessee\n\nThe Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course led by Cliff Davis & Jennifer Albanese of Spiral Ridge Permaculture & Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will explore innovative strategies for harmonious land use\, combining traditional wisdom with cutting edge techniques to build thriving communities.\nThere will also be ancestral arts\, community building\, and daily yoga and meditation facilitated by Cliff Davis\, Zachary Towne-Smith\, and Jessi Luna\nThis PDC will be focused on the harmonious transition of this picturesque hollow from a private residence to a thriving hub for holistic health\, earth care\, and community building.  Strategies for increasing food production and promoting native species and medicinal herbs will be combined with non-invasive and ecological construction techniques to build a solid foundation and the capacity to host a variety of transformational experiences.  Special attention will be paid to the traditional Cherokee and Lakota practices of this land in collaboration with experienced tribal leaders. \nHighlights…\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSow the seeds of a Permaculture Food Forest\nConnect with the ancestral Lakota and Cherokee roots of this sacred land.\nEat delicious vegetarian meals sourced from and local organic producers\nExplore the beautiful forest paths\, natural springs and wild abundance\nLive in sustainably built Yurts and experience conscious off-the-grid living \nPractice yoga in beautiful natural indoor and outdoor spaces surrounded by forest\nProfessional Massage and Wellness Counseling\, various therapies available\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCourse Content: \n\nIntroduction to Permaculture – Definition\, History and Ethics\nThe Permaculture Principles\nProfessional Ecological Design Process\nStrategies and Techniques for Sustainable Settlements\, Communities\, and Gardens\nRegenerative Earthworks Including Keyline®   – Design\, Survey\, Layout\, Strategies and Techniques\nNatural Building – Techniques and Theory\nAnimal Systems – BeeKeeping\, Goats\, Poultry\, Rabbits\, Pigs and Vermiculture\nDesign Strategies for Housing and Landscape Design\nTemperate Climate Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design\nDrylands Design Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design\nSocial Permaculture\nCollaborative Economies & Financial Permaculture\nClimate Factors\nPattern Understanding – Patterns in Nature\, Patterns in Design\, and Pattern Language\nFood Fermentation and Preservation\nWater Design Solutions – Catchment\, Conservation\, Grey Water Solutions\, Swales\, and Ponds\nSoils – Composition\, Biology\, Food Web\, Remineralization\, Fertility\, and Human Health\nAquaculture – Food Webs\, Techniques and Fish Production\n\nPracticums: \n\nDesign Projects: You will perform a (thorough client interview\,  site analysis and assessment of the land\, and develop a permaculture design and presentation for a project in a small team\, through which you will received feedback from course instructors\nDesigning Intensive Annual Systems and Guilds: this module will include seed saving\, germination and plant grouping for annual vegetable systems\nDesigning and Implementing a Forest Garden: this module will include propagation and planting techniques; and design for perennial polycultures.\nCompost Making and Soil Building\nSheet Mulching\nPlant Identification\nNatural Building using Earthen Building Techniques\nWater Design Solutions\nCommunity Permaculture Action\nPrimitive Arts\nHomesteading & Harvesting\n\n  \nGet more info and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html \n  \nFacebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/454785421390272/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/smoky-mountain-permaculture-design-course-eastern-tennessee/ LOCATION:Seven Springs Holistic Retreat Center\, Sweet Hollow\, TN\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160525T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160525T200000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T191615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T191950Z UID:12835-1464177600-1464206400@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Summer Camp pre-Festival Permaculture Action Day DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 25th; 12pm-8pm\nSeven Circles Heritage Center\n8817 West Southport Rd – Edwards\, Illinois 61528 (25 minutes from Summer Camp)\n\nJoin Permaculture Action Network at 7 Circles Heritage Center Wednesday May 25th\, the day before Summer Camp Music Festival.  Before heading to Summer Camp\, come out to get your hands in the dirt\, learn about permaculture techniques and give back to community!  Seven Circles Heritage Center is a community space to preserve and restore indigenous culture and Native American teachings.  It is a spiritual gathering place for all people to cultivate cross-cultural understanding and respect by sharing knowledge and developing community.\n\n\n \n\n\nCelebrate community with us at 7 Circles Heritage Center\, 2 days before Rising Appalachia plays their set at the festival on Friday\, to engage in a full day of healing and activating the land. \n\n\n \n\n\nAs part of a continuing permaculture education program at Summer Camp Music Festival\, we will be participating in an earthworks revitalization process to prepare the land for improved water retention. In addition to building swales and terraces\, we will be installing an edible food forest system\, three sisters companion planting gardens\, medicinal herb gardens\, native habitat plantings\, all while celebrating the diversity of culture. Throughout the day there will be several opportunities for participants to learn more about native traditions while adding biological diversity and resiliency intended to restore\, regenerate\, and renew the land.\n\n\n \n\n\nPLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT: \n\n\nhttp://goo.gl/forms/fpizmyE5NN\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMore details forthcoming\, so check back here soon! \nFollow along for more info on the Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1087930021275323/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/summer-camp-pre-festival-permaculture-action-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160522T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160524T200000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160514T142855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160514T142855Z UID:12896-1463904000-1464120000@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Permaculture Intensive at Summer Camp Music Festival DESCRIPTION:The Permaculture Intensive Experience will host registered guests for three days of learning; the cost for participation is $333. The action-oriented workshop will address natural building methods\, soil health\, water design integration\, planting techniques\, edible food forests\, container gardening\, and much more. The complete immersion event includes prepared meals\, camping\, morning ceremony\, evening discussions and a dynamic learning environment.  Visit the course page and register on the Summer Camp Music Festival website. \nBrief Course Summary\nThe 3-day Permaculture Intensive is an in-depth workshop and learning experience exploring a hands-on approach to urban gardening and holistic land design. Grounded in the principles of permaculture\, this action-oriented workshop will address natural building methods\, soil health\, water design\, planting techniques\, food forests\, container gardening\, whole systems theory and much more! Students enrolled in the 3-day comprehensive process will build real projects\, creating two spaces that will serve as educational zones during the festival weekend. The learning course will include optional daily yoga\, meditation and Native American ceremony. On Wednesday\, May 25th\, following the course\, participants will be encouraged into leadership opportunities to apply their new skills at a Permaculture Action Day\, open to the public\, in Edwards\, IL\, where ~200 volunteers will transform 7 Circle Heritage Center through the principles of permaculture\, diversifying the Center’s landscape. \nThe workshop offers a complete immersion event including prepared meals\, camping\, morning ceremonies\, evening discussions and a dynamic learning environment. The intensive will be facilitated by a collective of teachers who have studied the course concepts both internationally and domestically and boast years of applied knowledge\, offering a broad and practical perspective. Participants can expect a compelling life experience valuing community\, embracing new friends and illuminating a renewed perspective of abundant regenerative solutions to some of modern society’s most pressing challenges. URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-intensive-summer-camp-music-festival/ LOCATION:Three Sisters Park\, Chillicothe\, IL\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20160521T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20160521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T184627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T201420Z UID:12829-1463828400-1463853600@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Denver Permaculture Action Day with Rising Appalachia DESCRIPTION:Join Rising Appalachia for a Permaculture Action Day in Denver this Saturday\, May 21st starting at 11am.  Converge at Seeds of Power Unity Farm – 3551 Humboldt Street – for a day of planting\, building\, learning\, music\, food and community. \nJoin the event page here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1740911666188419/ – for the latest happenings and follow @PermaAction and #PermacultureAction on Twitter for live updates the day of.  The Permaculture Action Day precedes Rising Appalachia’s big show with Elephant Revival and Josh Ritter the next day at Red Rocks on Sunday evening. \nWe have irrigation to lay and farm rows to build to turn this once empty lot into a productive farm that will supply greens and produce for the MoBetta Greens Farmers’ Market.  Fatuma Emmad of Sister Gardens and Nick Gruber of Moondog Farms will be joining us at Seeds of Power in the morning and bringing folks out to the satellite planting sites when we hit critical mass. \nWe also have a late afternoon and evening gathering space in the works\, so join us early at Seeds of Power or stay tuned to the event page for more info. \nMusic will play throughout the day\, including from Rising Appalachia’s Biko Casini and Arouna Diarra – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGUDV3twWg – and other local performers and special surprises.  Join in on the workshops and skill-shares\, and enjoy the delicious food as we rise above the concrete and grow food for our Denver community right here in the city. \nPlease bring any and all tools you can! Shovels\, wheel barrows\, turning forks\, rakes\, trowels\, pick axes and more! And bring a waterbottle\, gloves\, dish/utensils/mug\, and something to add to the potluck if you wish : ) \nBig thanks to Bija Foundation\, Gaia Conceptions\, The Gypsies Caravan\, and Namaste Foundation for the great support in making this all happen. \nSee you this Saturday!  Seeds of Power Unity Farm – 3551 Humboldt Street – 11am – https://www.facebook.com/events/1740911666188419/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/denver-permaculture-action-day-rising-appalachia/ LOCATION:Seeds of Power Unity Farm\, 3551 Humboldt Street\, Denver\, CO\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160507T143000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T160000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T162612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T162658Z UID:12819-1462631400-1462636800@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:'A Permaculture Action Story' Documentary Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join Jasmine Saavedra of the Permaculture Action Network for a question and answer and screening of the Permaculture Action Tour documentary at Whole Earth Festival. \nThe first Permaculture Action Tour launched from San Francisco in late September 2014 and embarked on a 32 city quest to empower fans through community action and permaculture education. We travelled with musicians The Polish Ambassador\, Ayla Nereo\, Mr. Lif\, and visual designer Liminus encouraging fans from their show to come out the following days to get their hands dirty in an organized permaculture action day. \nWe visited eco-villages and permaculture project sites\, worked with local organizations and volunteers to transform communities\, to spread sustainable and regenerative practices\, from building earthships\, creating community gardens\, planting food forests\, to cleaning up public space. These action days engaged thousands of fans across the nation to get involved with projects in their communities and immersed them in a work party focused on building the world so we all can live in it. \nWe held a permaculture action day in each of the 32 cities we visited\, bringing direct community action and education to the concerts and their audiences. With overwhelming support\, we held multiple days of action and multiple project sites in several cities\, and mobilized thousands of people. \nCome watch the feature length documentary and discuss with tour organizer and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network\, Jasmine Saavedra. \nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/725408570935680/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/permaculture-action-story-documentary-film-screening/ LOCATION:University of California\,\, 1 Shields Ave\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160501T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T162215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T172644Z UID:12818-1462111200-1463331600@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:Urban Adamah Two Week Permaculture Design Course - Berkeley\, CA DESCRIPTION:Learn more: http://urbanadamah.org/events/permaculture-design-course/ \nThis intensive Permaculture Design Course\, lead by permaculture experts Dave Boehnlein and John Valenzuela\, will inspire you to participate in nothing less than the transformation of our world. \nWe live in a critical moment: our biosphere is straining to support seven billion+ people; communal structures are failing to meet the basic needs of millions; the divide between those who have and those who don’t grows ever larger. This is a course about the tools to create a world grounded in sustainability\, justice and love. It is a course about building regenerative communities on all levels. \nPermaculture has been defined as “a holistic approach to landscape design and human culture\, integrating several disciplines including biology\, ecology\, geography\, agriculture\, architecture\, appropriate technology\, and community building.” Our course will integrate each of these fields\, and include lectures\, discussions\, hands-on projects\, field trips to local East Bay permaculture sites\, and a final group design project. Participants will be taken through 72 hours of core curriculum and will receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design upon completion of the course. \nThe course will draw upon the expertise of an amazing team of permaculture educators who bring with them decades of experience in the areas of Food Production and Propagation\, Rainwater Harvesting\, Compost and Soil Building\, Earthworks\, Natural Building\, Community Organizing\, and a diversity of other components that can make healthy human and ecological living possible. \nCurriculum \nYou can view the full curriculum here. \nThe Urban Adamah PDC will explore: \n• Permaculture Ethics and Principles\n• Reading the Landscape; Site Assessment and Analysis\n• Design Methods\, Strategies\, and Mapping\n• Annual & Perennial Production\n• Food Forests and Agroforestry\n• Soil Building and Fertility Management\n• Climate and MicroClimate strategies\n• Renewable Energy Systems\n• Water Management Strategies & Grey Water Systems\n• Livestock & Animal Systems\n• Aquaculture\n• Plant Propagation\n• Structures and Natural Building\n• Urban Permaculture\n• Community Building & Collaborative Group Dynamics\n• Financial Strategies & Alternative Economies\n• Earthworks\n• Bioremediation\n• Land Access\n• Soil Carbon Sequestration \n  \nCourse Site\, Schedule and Details\nCourse Schedule \nThe course begins at 3:00 pm on Sunday\, May 1 and ends on Sunday\, May 15 at 6:30 pm. May 7 and May 14 are full days off. Classes start at 8:30 am on most days and end at 6:00 pm\, with a few additional classes from 7:30 – 9:00 pm on some evenings. There is a lunch break from 12:30 – 2:00 each day. (Times subject to slight changes) \nAbout the Site \nThe Urban Adamah Farm is located on a one-acre lot in the heart of Berkeley\, and includes raised beds for vegetables\, flowers\, herbs and fruit\, greenhouses\, an aquaponics system\, outdoor kitchen\, teaching tents\, meditation spaces\, chickens\, bees and milking goats. The farm produces a diverse yield of organic food which is donated to the local community through both food banks and a weekly free farm stand. The farm is in the midst of transitioning to its new permanent site in West Berkeley and through the PDC\, participants will gain tangible design experience helping to envision exciting possibilities for the new site. \nCourse Meals \nUrban Adamah will provide mostly organic lunches each day of the course\, with vegetarian\, vegan and gluten-free options. Please let us know if you have any specific food allergies. We will also be offering three catered dinners on nights when we are having evening sessions. Otherwise participants are encouraged to bring their own dinners or grab a bite at one of many food establishments in the neighborhood. There is a kitchen on site which you are welcome to use to prepare vegetarian meals during the course. We will have hot water\, tea\, and fruit set out each morning and throughout the day. \nFor all info on course registration and teachers’ bios\, visit http://urbanadamah.org/events/permaculture-design-course/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/urban-adamah-two-week-permaculture-design-course-berkeley-ca/ LOCATION:Urban Adamah\, Berkeley\, 94703 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160430T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160430T160000 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T154109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T063724Z UID:12811-1462010400-1462032000@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:New Orleans Permaculture Action Day DESCRIPTION:@ CRISP Farms – 1310 Lesseps Street\, New Orleans\, Louisiana 70117  \nJoin us and Rising Appalachia in the upper 9th ward for our *FIRST* Permaculture Action Day in New Orleans at CRISP Farms. \nThis day will be focusing on cobb building\, installations\, planting and listening to music together! Crisp is already a thriving garden and now wishes to be more of a space for neighbors to spend time together and create deeper relationships- true resilience. Please come and support Crisp Farms in being a beautiful\, edible resource for the 9th ward! \nProjects Include: \nCobb Oven\nBench building\nPond Installation\nBuilding with cobb workshop\nPergula Installation\nTree Planting\nMore TBA… \nWe will have live music by Biko Casini ( of Rising Appalachia) and Arouna Diarra (Burkina Faso)\, POT LUCK lunch and snacks\, and other live guest performances. \nWhat to Bring: \nComfortable cloths ( to get dirty)\nDish for POT LUCK lunch\nBottle for Water\nWork gloves/ Shoes\nInstruments (if you wish to contribute some music while we work party!) \nMore about Crisp Farms:\nCrisp Farms was established in 2013. With the help of some neighbors the once blighted property is now a thriving community garden that focuses on research into sustainable permaculture and exploring alternative growing practices for an urban environment. The farm hosts various events on its stages including the well known 9th Ward Festival. Learn more at : http://www.crispfarmsnola.com/?page_id=14 \nCheck out Rising Appalachia here: http://www.risingappalachia.com/ \nLearn more about Permaculture Action Network and past events here : http://PermacultureAction.org/ \nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/143443979384268/ URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/new-orleans-permaculture-action-day/ LOCATION:CRISP Farms\, 1310 Lesseps Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70117\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160425 DTSTAMP:20260522T212531 CREATED:20160423T153908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T153908Z UID:12809-1461376800-1461463199@www.permacultureaction.org SUMMARY:LAST DAY to donate to Crowdfunding Campaign!! DESCRIPTION:It’s the last day to donate to our IndieGoGo campaign for the Permaculture Action Network and our Permaculture Action Days with Rising Appalachia!  Help us go over our goal here – igg.me/at/PermacultureActionNetwork URL:https://www.permacultureaction.org/event/last-day-donate-crowdfunding-campaign/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR