Northwest Permaculture Speaker Series
Presenting Permaculture Presentations 

New Monthly Series starting Nov 2022 and extending into 2023 an ongoing series  


More info will be available about topics and speakers as the schedule takes shape going into the fall and winter. ​
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Taking applications here for ​​Presenters and Story Tellers to be part of the series. 

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This is where we will post updates of the Permaculture Speaker Series, as well as keep an archive of previous speakers.

Speaker series info - a monthly offering by NWPCC. 

• Sept Speakers - Shaelee, Julie  & David (BOD). Culture of Healing Self and Community in Permaculture, Succession Planning for Sustainable Organizations and Star Voting in a New Cohort of Community Builders & a New Board at this Convergence. NW Permaculture social culture of healing harm and whats planned for The Convergence 2023 . ​
• July Speaker - Andrew Millison. Topic: World Changing Permaculture Projects, Friday, July 21, 4 pm
• May Speaker - Tomi Hazel Vaarde, Siskiyou Permaculture, Topic "Social Forestry", Wednesday, May 24 at 10am PST
• April Speaker - Chloe and Lylia, Whole Systems Network, Topic "How the apocalypse leads us to community living", Monday, April 24 at 5pm PST
• February Speaker -Eloisa Lewis, New Climate Culture, Topic "Trauma Circle Medicine", Thursday, February 23 at 7pm
• January speaker - Jason Schreiner, Prout Institute, Topic "Integrated Permaculture Economy", Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm​
• December speaker - Mark Lakeman, City Repair, Topic "Testing Notions of Resilience", Thursday, December 29 at 7pm
• November speaker - Penny Livingston-Stark PIMA, Interview by Jan Spencer, Nov 30, 7pm

Zoom at this link Meeting ID: 390 309 0360 (Updated) Passcode: 706622  Dial in:   +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)  ​

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Did you miss one of the talks?
When possible we will upload the zoom meeting to YouTube and post them with their respective teachers in the sections below.

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July 21, 2023 Andrew Millison, World Changing Permaculture Projects 
When: 4pm
Where: NWPCC Zoom - more info here
Recording on YouTube​

Topic: World Changing Permaculture Projects

This presentation will explore some of Andrew's findings from his world tour of epic permaculture projects, highlighting projects from his recent time in India. 

Bio:
Andrew Millison is an agent for change who shares permaculture wisdom through expressions of art, design and multimedia storytelling. He is a pioneer of bringing permaculture teachings into the mainstream educational system, and is a Senior Instructor II in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University (OSU) where he founded OSU Permaculture Design program in 2009. Collaborating with experts at OSU, Andrew developed an online permaculture education program with niche offerings that has evolved into a worldwide program that has served thousands of students throughout the globe. The primary focus of Andrew's 27 year career in Permaculture has been water management systems. In recent years he became a documentary videographer who travels the world filming epic permaculture projects in places such as India, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba, and throughout the US which are featured on his popular YouTube channel.

Permaculture Design Principles to be presented.

• Observe and interact.
• Catch and store energy.
• Obtain a yield.
• Design from patterns to details.
• Integrate rather than segregate.
• Use and value diversity.
• Use edges and value the marginal.
• Creatively use and respond to change.

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Wanna help?  volunteers welcome to help! Contact us!

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May 2023 - Hazel Vaarde, Siskiyou Permaculture

We are excited to host Hazel for a live Zoom interview.  Please join us. 

Bio: Hazel Vaarde is a renowned permaculturist and elder in the community. They have been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. After having earned degrees in Forestry and Systematic Botany from Syracuse University and SUNY College of Forestry in 1969, Hazel taught Wild Edible Plants and Woods-lore at Laney College in Oakland, California in the early 1970’s. Hazel has been instrumental in teaching and spreading Permaculture practices over the last 37 years, primarily in Southern Oregon and Northern California. They have been a guest teacher with other renowned educators such as Bill Mollison, Toby Hemenway, and Starhawk.

Topic: Social Forestry
Description: Climate adaptation, human survival, and conservation efforts to maintain biodiversity that supports life on Earth require radical, back-to-the-roots grounding and intentional dedication. "Social Forestry" helps readers remember the ways of the wild while implementing local food production, collaboration with conservation efforts, forest management, and stabilization of headwaters to build resilience for the long term. 

Join us Wednesday, May 24 at 10 AM Pacific Time on Zoom  ~ ~ ~ There is no charge.

Recording & Chat: 

Recording on Zoom - click here  and use Passcode: 53u&YpT@ (updated passcode 6/10/23) - Tip: use all 8 characters for passcode. Download and share form Zoom while you can. This will be deleted from Zoom cloud soon after uploaded to YouTube.  YouTube Video will be embedded here on this page asap (tech issues being fixed). 

Interview Questions: 
1. Tell us about your background. Where did you grow up and how did you acquire your knowledge?

2. What inspired you to write this book, Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place?

3. What does it mean to be a People of Place?

4. Principles of Social Forestry?

5. How will practices of Social Forestry help us transition?

6. It could be cool to have (you) Hazel read an excerpt from "The Orchestra Assembles" pg.90-91

7. What parts do humans play in nature? 

8. and more Q&A from the audience - Great questions and answers! 

Chat: (* some Q&As)
10:05:24 ...
10:19:49 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
Can someone put link to book in chat?
10:20:53 From  Paul  to  Everyone:
https://siskiyoupermaculture.org/social-forestry-book-page/
10:23:52 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
As a biochemist by training, I am loving this
10:24:36 From  Patricia Menzies  to  Everyone:
Me, too, Lori!  From way, way back!
10:41:13 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
* I’d love to hear your thoughts on intentional planting of trees in communities - general advice, guidelines?  So much lawn.....
10:41:50 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
Yes, Do ask questions everyone!
10:45:02 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
In communities of humans
10:45:09 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
Places that lack trees
10:49:06 From  Shaelee  to  Everyone:
* Fav woodland edible/medicinal from Oregon to help move north to Washington?
10:50:41 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
What is the name of the book by Ursula LeGuin’s family?
10:53:23 From  Ravi Logan  to  Everyone:
Forestry camps?
10:59:53 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
And they smell great!!! Love ceanothus
11:01:43 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
The same thing happened with natural medicine getting theft and packaged into functional medicine
11:04:53 From  Patricia Menzies  to  Everyone:
Now you've got me rethinking what I mean when I say design!
11:09:19 From  Shaelee  to  Everyone:
Yes! Make that Permacultute design report after you’ve loved, listened and worked with a landscape for a few years.  I just got to, it was  so fun to map out what’s happening, has and I hope to see
11:14:57 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
Hazel recommends reading Heida (sp?) "Mouse Women" - please confirm Karen.
11:15:12 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
Reacted to "Yes! Make that Perma..." with ❤️
11:15:54 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
https://www.powells.com/book/mouse-woman-trilogy-mouse-woman-the-mi-9781551928807
11:16:09 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
Ishi
11:16:13 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271470/ishi-in-two-worlds-50th-anniversary-edition
11:16:57 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
Remember to save chat if you like. 3 dots bottom of chat.
or email me for the chat - info@northwestPermaculture.org
11:19:17 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
Karen where can we get the book that most supports Hazel? Link?
11:21:25 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
We are encouraging folks to ask for the book from their local bookstores. No shipping and supports local businesses.    Or from the publisher:  https://synergeticpress.com/catalog/social-forestry-tending-the-land-as-people-of-place/
11:23:57 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
Universities now about $ and admitting as many people as possible and staffing minimally
11:26:36 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
Feel free to share contact info! Always building community and relationships! to grow.
to adapt. to be more resilient
11:27:48 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
Or maybe partner with youth who are looking for meaning, or developing school gardens/forests
11:27:49 From  Anne Eldridge  to  Everyone:
I would really love a book on tape
11:28:42 From  Lori (she/hers)  to  Everyone:
I don’t agree- humans can be a keystone species when connected to environment
11:29:13 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
I’ll check in with the publisher about moving forward with an audio book.
11:29:27 From  Julie Wolf - NW Permaculture Convergence  to  Everyone:
* Unasked question Cloe gave me for this interview - "What parts do humans play in nature?"
11:29:58 From  Paul  to  Everyone:
https://cerenehawaii.org/dr-miku-maria-lenentine-cerene-program-coordinator/
11:30:32 From  Karen B Taylor  to  Everyone:
Resiliency Hubs are getting federal funding

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April 2023 - Chloe and Lylia from Whole Systems Network

We are excited to host Chloe and Lylia for a live Zoom presentation.  Please join us. 

​Bio: Chloe and Lylia are the founders of Whole Systems Network. We have worked with the ecovillage and permaculture movement for over 30 years in sum. We have guided over 15 development projects to success. 
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Topic:  How the apocalypse leads us to community living
Description: Will it take disaster to understand the benefits of community living? In this talk, Chloe and Lylia of Whole Systems Network, will provide the benefits of community living that we need to apply now to mitigate climate crisis and to maximize our overall well-being.

When-where: Monday, April 24 at 5pm PST at our NWPCC Zoom 
Meeting ID: 390 309 0360 
Passcode: 706622
Dial in:   +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)      
One tap mobile: +12532158782,,8228795259#,,,,*706622# US

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February 2023 - Eloisa Lewis - New Climate Culture

We are excited to host Eloisa Lewis for a live Zoom presentation.  Please join us. 

​Bio: Eloísa Lewis is 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.
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Topic:  Trauma Circle Medicine
Description: Trauma Circle Medicine 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.

When-where: Feb 23rd @ 7pm at our NWPCC Zoom 
Meeting ID: 390 309 0360 
Passcode: 706622
Dial in:   +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)      
One tap mobile: +12532158782,,8228795259#,,,,*706622# US

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Here's a link to the slides that were shared during the presentation.

January 2023 - Jason Schreiner, Prout Institute

We are excited to host Jason Schreiner for a live Zoom interview.  Please join us. 

Bio: Jason Schreiner serves as President of PROUT Institute, based in Eugene, Oregon, and is also Associate Director of the Teaching Engagement Program at the University of Oregon, where he teaches graduate seminars in engaged pedagogy and courses on social and environmental justice. He has been studying and presenting on alternative economic systems and social movements for economic and environmental justice for more than two decades.  

Topic: Integrated Permaculture Economy
Description: Permaculture has evolved from its origins as an approach to “permanent agriculture” and “permaculture culture” to embrace notions such as “social permaculture” and even – despite Bill Mollison’s claims to the contrary – the “politics of permaculture,” as Terry Leahy puts it. In this session we’ll add the dimension of economics to the discussion and consider what an integrated permaculture economy might look like and how we begin now to design and build it. 

Join us Jan 24 at 7 PM Pacific Time on Zoom  ~ ~ ~ There is no charge.

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December 2022 - Mark Lakeman - City Repair
Websites for more info about ongoing projects City Repair, Communitecture, and Marklakeman.net 

We are excited to host Mark Lakeman for a live Zoom presentation.  Please join us. 

​Bio: Mark has been a public speaker since 1996 when he founded The City Repair Project. He has been traveling the continent since that time, speaking and teaching workshops related to urban permaculture design and education, combined with participatory place making. Every design project he is involved with furthers the development of a beneficial vision for human and ecological communities.   
Read his extensive bio with many affiliations and projects here: https://marklakeman.wordpress.com/about/  

Topic:  Testing Notions of Resilience
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.

When-where: Dec 29th 7pm at our NWPCC Zoom 

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November 2022 - Penny Livingstone-Stark PIMA

We are excited to host Penny Livingston-Stark for a live Zoom interview.  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 ~ ~ ~ There is no charge.

September 2022 - The NWPCC hosted Ole Ersson, of Kailash Eco Village, Skeeter Pilarski of Friends of Trees and Jan Spencer of Suburbanpermaculture in September.
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 ​