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Welcome to our new readers!!! Keep sharing, one connection at a time we are growing our network and becoming Self aware of our community, our bigger self. Community Meeting - Monday Morning Monthly Mixer Want to listen-in or share about what’s happening? Join our Zoom Circle tomorrow, and every 2nd Monday (March 13, 2023 ) at 9 to 10:15 am. It’s a great place to share project updates, get feedback and build up the Northwest Permaculture Community Network. Cascade Torrent Salamander Habitat Restorationon Bells Mountain on Friday, March 31  Registration is open! You’re invited to a day mixing work, community and fun at Bells Mountain near Battleground, WA. We’ll work on improving habitat for the Cascade Torrent Salamander, a small salamander endemic to the west slope of the Cascades. Pay what you can with inclusive ticketing options. For more information and to register for the event, click here. Share The Poster We collaboratively worked on a poster. Thanks Blair for getting us started! Share this beautiful new poster in your networks . (I could not upload it here sadly). Ask us on Slack for the new poster or click that link to download the pdf. Northwest Permaculture Convergence Needs YOU! Here are some of the ways to get involved with the Northwest Permaculture Convergence and help build permaculture community in Oregon and Washington:
If you’re interested in any of these roles, (even paid ones) use the Volunteer form here – mention any of the above in the form or add your edge and contact us soon at info@northwestpermaculture.org Only 6 months to the fall convergence. Do get in touch if you want to help make it happen. COMMUNITY EVENTS Monthly on-line Community Meeting - currently the 2nd Monday of the month from 9-10:15 am is an opportunity to connect and share with others in the Northwest Permaculture Convergence community. No Way to Party Like a Work-Party! Do you have an educational event, work party or other function you’d like some NW Permaculture Convergence energy behind? The easiest way to get your event on our calendar is to send a Google calendar invite to info@northwestpermaculture.org. You can also join the Northwest Permaculture Convergence Community Facebook group and post your events there. Permaculture Teacher Training with Jude Hobbs June 16-23 2023. Read more here. Village Building Convergence 2023 (VBC23) in Portland, June 10-17, 2023. City Repair’s in-person Village Building Convergence is returning this summer. In addition, the T-Horse, a fantastic placemaking and comfort-bringing mobile tea bar, is making appearances this spring around Portland. Visit The City Repair Project for more information. Be the Beaver Plant the Rain Regenerative Water Design Management Workshop April 28th, 29th & 30th 2023 in Ashland, OR VISION : Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance! We CAN, like the Beaver, have a positive effect on our local water cycles, and thus on our surrounding ecologies & communities. WHAT: In this workshop you will learn how to assess a site for rainwater harvesting potential, and how to apply regenerative design principles & techniques to retain water in the landscape, replenish groundwater, develop drought tolerance, mitigate fire, restore damaged watersheds and build ecological resilience. Event Website Link Event Facebook Page Open Invite to Permaculture Speakers & Storytellers Interested in speaking or getting updates on our ongoing monthly speakers series? Visit our speakers page. Want to speak? apply here. Thanks for Reading the NW Permaculture Convergence Newsletter. Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee, David and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Text: 360-389-2721 (will go to both Julie and Shaelee) PS Bring plants to Bells Mountain - sign up on Eventbrite Here's my first attempt at using QR code for Eventbrite - does it work?:  PPS We are moving website hosts, so if it goes down - go here.
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Cascadia Permaculture - Teacher Training with Jude Hobbs coming this summer June 16th to 24th, 2023. More info can be found on the website here. Recent Newsletter from Cascadia Permaculture: Greetings! Hoping this finds you well and enjoying the slowly emerging spring. We are busy planting in the greenhouse peas, lettuce and many other veggie & flower starts. Pruning the fruit trees and transplanting perennials. I've noticed the forest here at Wilson Creek Gardens is significantly changing due to climate change. We continue to infill with Red Alder, Grand fir, Western Red Cedar, Incense Cedar, Giant Sequoia and native shrubs, such as Douglas Spirea, Red Flowering Current, Willows, evergreen Huckleberries and Red-twig Dogwoods. It is a rejuvenating time of year in the Pacific Northwest. I’m writing to share with you information about my upcoming Permaculture Teacher Trainings. As well as, the self-paced online Multi-Functional Hedgerow course. Hope you can join us! As always, feel free to write me with any questions… infocascadiapc@gmail.com Warm regards, Jude Cascadia Permaculture Teacher Trainings 2023 Sharing Knowledge is Regenerative, Empowering and Part of the Permaculture SolutionDates: June 16th — 24th Residential (First Day is arrival, last is departure day. No class) Instructors: Jude Hobbs and Guests Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon Host: Center for Rural Livelihoods (https://rurallivelihoods.org/) Information: infocascadiapc@gmail.com REGISTRATION FORM: ~~~~~~ Dates: September 30th to October 6th Non-Residential Instructors: Jude Hobbs and Guests Location: PLACE, Oakland, California (https://www.place.community/) Host: Town and City Permaculture (https://www.townandcitypermaculture.org/) Information: troy@townandcitypermaculture.org REGISTRATION FORM: ~~~~~~ In development: Online Pc Teacher Training With encouragement from potential participants, I'm planning to launch an online Teacher Training course this fall. It will be part self-paced and part Zoom. Let me know if you are interested as enrollment is limited. Prerequisites: Permaculture Design Course Certificate or instructor’s approval. COVID-19 Protocols will be in place. Certificate from the Permaculture Institute of North America will be presented upon course completion. For further information: https://cascadiapermaculture.com/advanced-trainings/current-trainings/ Questions? Contact: infocascadiapc@gmail.com Description: In this 7-day dynamic and interactive course we offer teaching techniques encouraging ways to apply Permaculture principles and strategies to a wide range of audiences and educational settings. This is achieved by demonstrating a combination of diverse teaching modalities, including effective use of lecture, storytelling, small group work, interactive experiential activities, visual aids and hands-on happenings. Participants build confidence by engaging in essential practice via preparing and co-teaching a variety of presentations as well as being the co-facilitators of this course. As a group we are empowered to create a safe setting of active learning. We cultivate building strong networks to support one another via group projects and connections post-course. The focus of this course is to guide participants to share information in many types of situations, such as at: workshops, PDC’s, libraries, schools, and other venues. This Teacher Training is a Path Toward Right Livelihood ~~~~~~ Self-Paced ONLINE:Designing and Implementing Multi-Functional Hedgerows Through this course you will learn how to design, implement and maintain any size hedge with the options to provide soil stabilization, windbreaks, privacy screening, shelter and food for wildlife and people, encourage beneficial insects, reduce noise and other pollutants, as well as identify ways to diversify your income. The concepts of soil preparation, plant selection, planting techniques, irrigation, and ways to reduce maintenance will be discussed. Budgets, timelines and a host of resources will be offered as well as case studies and examples. Hosted by Regenerative Living Enroll $149 INFORMATION & REGISTRATION   This is a short email to remind you of the Feb 23rd permaculture speaker. This email also includes new (corrected) links to our Volunteer and Mission Google Forms. Plus 1 ask of you Cassie for the spring gathering at Bell's Mountain.
Future Speaker Recommendations: Is there a presenter you recommend? Let us know! Applications are now being accepted - visit Speaker Page to apply. Community Announcements   Would you come, asks Salamander? to our Bells Mountain Spring Event? We need your help. This beautiful land is located 40 minutes NE of Portland OR, on hundreds acres, and is the potential site of our 2023 fall convergence. If enough people are interested we can gather in spring to get the site ecologically ready for more and bigger events later in the year, to protect our sensitive population and habitat of Cascade Torrent Salamander. If you are interested in attending this spring event, to visit this land and participate in Salamander and forest garden restoration education and work parties please reply back and/or better yet take the steps below. Please do this to help us gauge your interest and support:
Collaborators Welcome! There are many ways you can be involved and making impact with NWPCC. Our intention is for our work together to be productive and uplifting. You can help refresh our Mission Statement by responding to the prompts on our Mission Statement form (New link) There are lots of ways to make an impact with Northwest Permaculture Convergence, including:
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Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Text: 360-389-2721 (will go to both Julie and Shaelee) Hiya, Welcome to our new readers! Read on for information about tomorrow’s Community meeting, next week’s awesome new Permaculture Speaker and how to get involved with upcoming gatherings and teams. Monthly Mixer this Monday Morning! Want to listen-in or share about what’s happening? Join our Zoom Circle tomorrow, and every 2nd Monday (February 13, 2023 ) at 9am to 10:15 for a pulse on what's happening with whomever is present. Its a great place to share project updates, get feedback and build up the northwest permaculture community network. → To keep in touch on a syncopated rhythm, join our slack or discord, YouTube or Instagram channels, or Facebook group and page.  February’s Permaculture Speaker Series Presents: Eloisa Lewis, a Climate Scientist and Permaculture Designer from the Maricopa and Pima Territories of Arizona. She/he/they teach about decolonization in corporate and institutional spaces. Topic: Trauma Circle Medicine: this is a special subset of that which is offering deep insight for non-violent communication, self defense, and replacing law enforcement/military within our own permaculture communities to outgrow war and policing. It is also called “practicing peace”. This is really the advanced social permaculture that indigenous communities, hip hop communities, and permaculture heads would recognize me for. It’s really being advanced as my personal applied/field research specifically these days. Read more, register for updates and recordings or apply to speak here When: Thursday Feb 23 7pm PST Where: Zoom, Read More & Register for updates/recordings Here.
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Community Announcements & Event Details: No Way to Party Like a Work-Party! Do you have an educational event, work party or other function you’d like some NW Permaculture Convergence energy behind? Let’s put it on our calendar! We can give you a shout-out on our socials & come to our community meeting to share or simply reply to this message.
Be the Beaver Plant the Rain Regenerative Water Design Management Workshop April 28th, 29th & 30th 2023 in Ashland, OR  VISION : Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance! We CAN, like the Beaver, have a positive effect on our local water cycles, and thus on our surrounding ecologies & communities. WHAT: In this workshop you will learn how to assess a site for rainwater harvesting potential, and how to apply regenerative design principles & techniques to retain water in the landscape, replenish groundwater, develop drought tolerance, mitigate fire, restore damaged watersheds and build ecological resilience. Event Website Link, Event Facebook Page Hope to hear from you soon, really!
Thanks for Reading the NW Permaculture Convergence Newsletter. Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee, David and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org PS Really! Reply back with your thoughts! We love to hear from you! Only You can support NW Permaculture - apply here! We would love to share this Workshop with our community. Please see below for this wonderful opportunity. Hello, I am excited and pleased to share this Regenerative Water Workshop that I will be hosting at the end of April and would be very grateful for you to share with your professional network. Thank You! -Lion Waxman Good Earth Gardens LLC Regenerative Water Design & Management Workshop VISION : Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance! We CAN, like the Beaver, have a positive effect on our local water cycles, and thus on our surrounding ecologies & communities. WHAT: In this workshop you will learn how to assess a site for rainwater harvesting potential, and how to apply regenerative design principles & techniques to retain water in the landscape, replenish groundwater, develop drought tolerance, mitigate fire, restore damaged watersheds and build ecological resilience. Topics covered will include: -Hydrological Cycles -Regenerative Water Design Principles -Rainwater Harvesting Catchment & Tank Systems -Rainwater Harvesting Earthworks: Swales, Terraces, Rain Gardens & more -Bioregionalism & Local Standards and Regulations Workshop will be available for CEH credits with the Oregon LCB When: April 28th, 29th & 30th 2023 Where: Ashland, OR Event Website Link Event Facebook Page  Welcome to new subscribers to the Permaculture Speaker Series.
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Thanks for your interest in NW Permaculture Speaker Series Cassie. Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Welcome to our new subscribers. Here is your brief January NW Permaculture Newsletter, with a few announcements about tomorrow’s Community Meeting and this weeks Permaculture Speaker (Tuesday) and next month’s gathering.
Community Meeting Monday (morning) Want to listen or share about what’s happening in your part of the world? Join our Zoom Circle tomorrow, Monday January 23rd at 9am to 10:00 ish for a pulse on what's in our backyards and lives. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3903090360 id: 390 309 0360 pw: 706622 dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ?One tap mobile +13462487799,,8228795259# US (Houston) February Restoration WorkParty & Pizza Party Starting in February we will be having a series of events at Beloved Bell’s Mountain to help prepare for our fall gathering. Before we can bring a large group of people to the landscape, we have a responsibility to make sure the current non-human residents are taken care of.
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Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Happy Holidays,
Remember to make the most of your season relaxing into what you love. Sharing gratitude for this year. Wasn't 2022 a great year to build community connections, cross pollinate and become Self-Aware as a collective? We are looking forward to an amazing 2023, but before the year ends, please join us on Dec 29th! Just a short note here this time:
December Permaculture Speaker Join Us This Thursday! Topic: Testing Notions of Resilience Who: Mark Lakeman of City Repair Where & When: Dec 29, 7pm PST NW Permaculture Zoom Room. Description: This is no time for small plans! First though, prior to the pandemic, City Repair had successfully completed more than 1,000 permaculture based community projects in Portland, Oregon. As the pandemic ensued, our social and technical systems struggled until we nearly collapsed. Not entirely though, and we are still standing. Come hear the big news of what we have planned for a more ambitious year than ever before! Audience dialogue invited during and after this talk. NWPCC Zoom Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 → Find the link, read more about Mark and Register here. (no charge) Convergence 2023 News Sept 29 2023 - Save the date! Add us to your calendar - link here and let us know (reply to this) if you want to be invited as a guest for updates (from our Google Calendar). Our 2023 Convergence will be hosted by Beloved on Bells Mountain, 40 min NE of Portland near Battleground, WA. Our theme is leaning into how we can address harm and help bring about deep healing and restoration on all levels, ecologically, organizationally, socially. Open Eyes - Open Heart The convergence will be more centered on projects, participatory experiences and learning together as workshop space will be limited. What do you want to see? What matters most to you at our events? We heard some answers, some surprising answers, from those of you who have come to our monthly community meetings. Next year we’ll send you a survey! Volunteers & Intern’s Needed! Thank you to those who responded! We DO need your help. With a volunteer board of 2 active people, it's a challenge to get things done. We're excited to help you step in and are getting organized to have you help us. Take action and contact us now so we can hit the new year dancing! Find us on Slack here to collaborate. Call or text us to leave a message to set a time to talk. Our New GVoice # 360-389-2721 (will go to both of us) or ... Julie - 858-848-7047 Shaelee - 360-670-1041 Thank you! Community Announcements & Event Details: Upcoming soon:
Thanks for reading y/our NW Permaculture Convergence Newsletter. See you next year 2023! Julie, Shaelee and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Happy Holidays and a Joyous Winter to you!
Please join us online through Slack, Discord, Instagram or FaceBook and especially at our monthly zoom meeting. We’d love to get to know you and connect your hearts and hands with ours this next season. Zoom This Monday ... morning: In respect of working during daylight and honoring evening rest, we are trying morning meetings for our winter get together. Please join us this Monday Dec 12 from 9-10:30 AM. First half of the meeting is for community check-in, and the second half for business. Join our Zoom here. Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US Do you enjoy a monthly space to informally connect? Are you interested in hosting the community container to give Julie a break? Do you enjoy this organization and want to consider running for a board position this fall 2023? OR to volunteer as a 2023 ally in planning the Bell’s Mountain Convergence? Reply if you are curous and learn what it's all about! → Intern Opportunity! Get school credit! Develop professional skills! Network with amazing folks! Be supported in developing your skills. Learn what its like to put on a sustainably-minded convergence! Contact us with questions and to learn more. Speaker Series - Mark Lakeman of City Repair and Village Building Convergence will speak this month on Thursday Dec 29th 7 pm. Topic: Testing Notions of Resilience Read more here about big plans for 2023! We are still accepting proposals and nominations for speakers. Please apply (see below) and help us get more voices out there! Community Announcements & Event Details: Open Invite to Permaculture Speakers & Storytellers Interested in our ongoing monthly series? We invite presenters and story tellers, both experts and new practitioners. Read more about presenters, topics and apply here to speak - Feb thru July openings for Zoom and also our Fall Convergence. Thanks for Reading the NW Permaculture Convergence Newsletter. Hope to gather together with you soon, Julie, Shaelee and the NWPCC Team info@northwestpermaculture.org Two events coming up this week and a book recommendation: Skeeter's Botanical Book Sale - November 27, Sunday, 11 am - 4 pm At Friends of the Trees/Global Earth Repair office: 10644-B Rhody Dr., Port Hadlock wa 98339 Ness's Corner Building, Corner of Hwy 19 & Hwy 116 Books for sale on herbal medicine, permaculture, farming, agriculture, ethnobotany, botany, horticulture, social change, ecosystem restoration, etc. Mostly used books, some new. This is a fund-raiser for the Global Earth Repair Foundation.  Penny Livingston: Wednesday, Nov 30 at 7 PM Pacific Time Online, part 3 of our 9-part series on Living Permaculture Please join us! Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. She holds an MS in Eco-Social Regeneration and 3 Diplomas in Permaculture Design. Penny has sat on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America as well as the Building Appeals Board for the County of Marin and the Redwood Empire Chapter of the US Green Building Council. She has studied, taught with, hosted and learned directly from Bill Mollison and David Holmgren the co-founders of Permaculture and the developers of the Permaculture Design Certification Course curriculum. Penny co-created the Ecological Design Program and its curriculum at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture and co-created the Permaculture Program at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.
The interview, by Jan Spencer, will tap into Penny's extensive knowledge of how Permaculture can serve as a powerful tool for ecological and social regeneration. Join us Nov 30 at 7 PM Pacific Time on Zoom at this link. ~ ~ ~ There is no charge. Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) One tap mobile: +12532158782,,8228795259#,,,,*706622# US Upcoming guests in December and January for the NWPCC educational series will include Mark Lakeman, co founder of City Repair and Village Building Convergence in Portland and Jason Schreiner of the Prout Institute. Check the NWPCC website for upcoming series info and more information about permaculture in the Northwest. American History from the Perspective of Those Most Impacted This week is a very loaded time in our history. Now we collectively wade through conflicting energies of family, gratitude, loneliness, grief and gluttony. May we root into gratitude for all we have, and pause to mourn what brought us here. For a full take on American History from the perspective of those most impacted (rather than the elite “winners” who generally write the books) please read “A People's History of the United States” by Howard Zinn. It reads more like a novel than a text book, and doesn’t shy away from the messier parts of our past. How can we build a better future if we dont't know where we’ve been? How can we heal from harm if we don’t acknowledge its there? Please be in contact with ways you feel this organization can step up into social regeneration projects this next season and at our fall convergence. We need your hands, heart and mind to do the work. I hope you all have a wonderful week, we look forward to seeing and hearing from you, Julie and Shaelee Northwest Permaculture Convergence November 2022 NewsletterHi NW Permaculture Fam,
In October we held a wonderful community retreat and lent support to the Earth Repair Summit, check out more on our story page. Looking ahead we’re stoked on the fall 2023 gathering in SW Washington and our speaker series. Up next is Penny Livingston on November 30th, 7pm in our zoom room. Do you have a speaker to recommend? Please let us know and share this link with them. Peace or Bust! Leaning into Zone 0 Social Permaculture Our relationships with each other matter, and impact our capacity to care for the earth and be agents of healing. Team NW Permaculture believes this organization has a responsibility to invite input from often unheard voices, at events and in our innerworkings. As leaders in the regenerative movement, we have an awesome opportunity to lean into the permaculture design principles of people and earth care; self-regulation, feedback and slow-small solutions. What harm has been done in the name of Permaculture? By this organization and our partners specifically? With awareness and an openness to change we can learn from the past and build something better. So the big question we invite you to untangle and weave into a tapestry of light with us: How can we address historical harms so that we can move toward greater integrity and healing? Let's show the world how organizations can fearlessly, joyfully demonstrate what it looks like to hold ourselves accountable and work to heal and restore our relationships with each other and the land. For relational land nurturing, here is a 13 min video by Lyla June about 3 indigenous land management practices, and how humans can restore the balance and once again become a Keystone species that supports all life, all our relations. "Hózhǫ́ is the joy of being a part of the beauty of all creation. When we understand that humanity is an expression of the Earth's beauty, we understand that we too belong. Hózhǫ́ understands that we have an ecological role. Hózhǫ́ understands that our Mother Earth needs us." For our hearts, it starts with listening. Do you have something to share? Please be in touch. Fall 2023 Convergence is On in SW Washington! When: Sept or October Help choose the date here Where: Bells Mountain near Battleground Washington, 40 min NE of Portland. What: A ceremonial healing and restoring of land and Nature, with song, dance and grief work as well as sharing food preparation. Bringing the community together with a focus on food regeneratively grown and cared for, focusing on relational culture with all our kin (people-animal-plant-mineral-spirit) and being empowered to belong and release our gifts, our medicine into the world. Review: Here is the talk we showed at the Fall Retreat of Elliott, Mark, Julie and Shaelee Want to be a part? Join us! NW Permaculture Convergence Meetup Nov 15th 6:30-7:15 Community Discussion: retreat reflections, check-ins 7:15- 8pm Board Business: Agenda and Next Steps Join us on Zoom at this link. Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US One tap mobile: +12532158782,,8228795259#,,,,*706622# US For more information on whats been going on, check out our Story Page at NorthwestPermaculture.org for updates on:
Thank you for the time and care! We hope to hear from you, Julie and Shaelee Northwest Permaculture Convergence In October we held a wonderful community retreat in Sequim WA. Fusion dancing in the forest, planning the future of this organization, hearing about Permaculturalists Emergence Preparedness and plans for 2023 gatherings in SW Washington next fall. We toured Shaelee's farm, cooked, camped and circled together. We had an online Zoom to stream our live circle to for some of it, with interactions between both live and online circles. Thank You David Ahlgren for being Zoom host. We hope to see the recorded circles and presentations on our YouTube channel soon.
Thank you soooo much! Thank you so much Ben Tyler for being our tech media guy! Thank you Sylvan Bonin for making sure we were fed! Thank you Russ and Kameron for the amazing outdoor kitchen (Images below). thankts for the outdoor hot shower Russ. thank you Amir for picking up the sails for our awnings. Thank you Brian and Winnie for helping with all kinds of things, one being our quick compost toilet! Thank you Jenny and Ethan for coming early and staying late and everything you helped us with! Thank you Ravi Logan for the Presentation on Scenerio planning for permaculturelists and for being the fire tender and finding Ben to help. Thank you Dawn for making campsites in the forest floor and for all you did. Thank you to Binah and Kaverii for helping plan and schedule. Thank you to all my friends for coming! What a summer! Images and Video Retreat images and video here. There are more retreat circle recordings coming - a link to our YouTube channel will be here soon. And here is the video of the talk we showed at the retreat with Elliot, Mark, Julie and Shaelee planning Fall 2023 in SW Washington 40 min. from Portland. Below is our Outdoor Kitchen. Speaker series info - a monthly offering by NWPCC
Zoom at this link Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) The Northwest Permaculture Convergence invites you to the next in its series of online presentations and interviews. Wednesday, Nov 30 at 7 PM Pacific Time. We are excited to host Penny Livingston-Stark for a live Zoom interview. Please join us. See further below for upcoming and previous speakers. Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. She holds an MS in Eco-Social Regeneration and 3 Diplomas in Permaculture Design. Penny has sat on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America as well as the Building Appeals Board for the County of Marin and the Redwood Empire Chapter of the US Green Building Council. She has studied, taught with, hosted and learned directly from Bill Mollison and David Holmgren the co-founders of Permaculture and the developers of the Permaculture Design Certification Course curriculum. Penny co-created the Ecological Design Program and its curriculum at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture and co-created the Permaculture Program at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. The interview, by Jan Spencer, will tap into Penny's extensive knowledge of how Permaculture can serve as a powerful tool for ecological and social regeneration.Join us Nov 30 at 7 PM Pacific Time on Zoom at this link. ~ ~ ~ There is no charge. Meeting ID: 822 879 5259 Passcode: 706622 Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) One tap mobile: +12532158782,,8228795259#,,,,*706622# US Upcoming guests in December and January for the NWPCC educational series will include Mark Lakeman, co founder of City Repair in Portland and Jason Schreiner of the Prout Institute. Check the NWPCC website for upcoming series dates and more information about permaculture in the Northwest Speaker Series page here. The NWPCC hosted Ole Ersson, of Kailash Eco Village, Skeeter Pilarski of Friends of Trees and Jan Spencer of Suburbanpermaculture in October. Ole described how he and his partner Maitri, turned the run down 'meth" apartment complex in Portland into a thriving, 55 resident, eco village. Urban social, economic and environmental restoration! Find out more at www.kailashecovillage.org Michael, Skeeter Pilarski has a long and rich history of activism in the Northwest - teaching PDCs and organizing events. The Barter Fair, PC Convergences, Global Earth Repair Summit and others. Find out more at www.friendsofthetrees.net Jan Spencer spoke about creating a preferred future. His current project is a primer for paradigm shift - initiate purposeful conversations - why, where, how, content, examples that already point the way. More at www.suburbanpermaculture.org Taking applications here for Presenters and Story Tellers to be part of the series. Register for updates on our speaker series here. An Earth Regeneration Map to Save The Future The Big Global Map of Eco-Restoration. (A Global Earth Repair Summit 2022 Presentation)
The Earth’s biosphere is undergoing catastrophic changes. The interconnected events producing these changes include climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, food and water shortages, and infectious vectors, among others. The Ecorestoration Alliance (ERA), headquartered in Rochester, NY, is an organization that firmly believes that the only mitigating solution is a rewilding of millions of hectares of degraded land areas. Local restoration and rehabilitation efforts are already enhancing biodiversity, re-introducing short water cycles, and sequestering carbon. These efforts must be realized on a global scale if we are to avoid the worst consequences of biological collapse. To this end, the ERA has produced The Big Map to Save the Future, a GIS product that highlights hundreds of locations where these rejuvenating activities are taking place. By clicking on each red dot, the user is presented with an inspirational story of how and why each landowner began his/her project, what barriers (s)he encountered, and what the final outcome was. Optionally, but desirably, the landowner can digitize their site boundary with an easy-to-use polygon tool. ERA’s hope is that these stories will inspire others to follow suit, to create a global network of life-saving restoration heroes. Further details can be obtained from Charles Shore at cshore11@hotmail.com. From an email to Global Earth Repair Summit: … we are developing a Big Map to Save the Future. We are focusing on inspirational stories about ecorestoration and related attempts to save the biosphere. ERA sends out a short survey, and uses social media, to bring your stories to life on the Big Map. We also request that interested landowners either digitize a site boundary or provide us a drawing of the boundary. Perhaps you [or the NWPCC Newsletter readers] could provide us with the names of NW practitioners who would be interested in sharing their information. I’d like to contact [land projects for the map]. Global Earth Repair Summit Recap 2022 This was the 2nd GERF event, the first being in WA Olympic Penninsula in 2019. This is the first global event for Global Earth Repair Foundation. Micheal “Skeeter” Pilarski and team made something really awesome happen! I loved all the indigenous circles and also the Open Space Unconferencing to engage everyone. Read more at the Global Earth Repair Foundation website. Now recovering from all the organizing, Skeeter tells me he is doing “Horticultural Therapy”, tending his herb gardens, gathering seeds, etc while also getting ready for a report on the Summit for COP27, a listing all the N American, Africa, Latin America & Europe events with links to the recordings.
 Join us Oct 14 - 16 in Sequim WA in person or on Zoom for the Fall NW Permaculture Retreat and ... Shoulder events 13th and 16th and 17th! This volunteer-run, community envisioning and making it happen camp out retreat is going to be fun. Check out the draft Schedule here and if you can't come live, register to get the Zoom session schedule and changes. Pre-Retreat Camp Setup Potluck, Bonfire and Music. We are planning a pre-retreat camp setup party, potluck, bon-fire to get the compost toilets built, and fire wood stacked, barn awnings up, outdoor kitchen built, barn office ready, etc. We need to invite the "young bucks" to join us. Join us early! The 11th, 12th and 13th. Contact us - info@northwestpermacultuer.org A Small Gathering Only a few spots open (6) for our Oct 14-16th Retreat Campout. Read more here and Register now before we "sell" out or close registration at capacity physically (30). Zoom is open to register up to 100. Rideshare offered to those who register. Lets be clear what we are offering (out door camping/meeting in wood heated Yurt, fire rings, under big awning and covered eating in fall weather), so you can decide if they want to participate in our camping retreat or to join from the comfort of zoom. With a large sail extended from the front or back of the barn, there is lots of room to stay dry for circles and the barn, topography and surrounding trees give lots of protection. The goal is to make a container for more folks to participate in the planning process, and to feel included and welcome to join our leadership.
Volunteer & Help: These last open spots to attend live with us need to be for volunteers:
We are still organizing this volunteer sign up sheet. Feel free to pitch in and sign up. If a few of you can come a day or 2 or even a few hours early we could use help setting up the farm site (awnings, bathrooms, outdoor kitchen, firewood, meeting and camping/sleeping spots, checkin, etc). A few of us will be there on the 12th-14th to setup. Can you join us? We have a Food donation and Meal help sign up here if you can bring things for our community made and shared Breakfasts and Dinners. Friday night potluck too. We hope to have a meal plan soon and possibly a sign up for specific staples to bring. Contact us if you can help. Email us at info@northwestpermaculture.org. Global Earth Repair  Register here for the Global Earth Repair Summit.
The earth is calling us to get together and achieve collective consciousness. "Its not about an event. Its about growing our shared intention to work together." ~ John D. Liu No-one turned away for lack of funds. Please donate what you can. Pitch in some help too. Help Needed:
Check your email 9/15/22 for the Sept Newsletter. It has lots of inspiring pics and a poem from the New Era Convergence last August 2022. If you didn't get it, try subscribing above. Hi friends! We welcome you to join in Northwest Permaculture gatherings this fall! Join us and register free for the fall community campout. Oct 14-16, Fall Retreat in Sequim WA at Goodness Tea Farm (15th online option). There is limited onsite parking, limitless opportunity to join in through zoom or parking/hiking in through nearby trails and carpools. Please register by Oct 5-8th here - spaces limited. View the Draft Schedule Here Want to help? Here's our Volunteer Form if you want to help make this great! Thanks.  Fall Happenings...
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