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This is a series of zoom presentations and site tours in Eugene with Jan Spencer. suburbanpermaculture.org
Join us for a timely set of zoom presentations and companion site tours in Eugene.
Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
* Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level.
* Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.
* Positive human potential is our greatest renewable resource.
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More info at suburbanpermaculture.org/zoomstours.html with links to
- Zoom presentations. Recorded and put on youtube.
- Short essay explaining the convergence of preparedness, resilience and permaculture.
- 25 years of Suburban permaculture
- Could be additional site tours
Zoom link for all presentations - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81223758710?pwd=bG01SWVGMFY1TkZhZWk3aTVnK2VIUT09
Here is the Schedule – Zoom Presentations and Companion Site Tours
All free.
The presentations will put the site tours in a paradigm shift context.
May 13, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion The Convergence of Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
This presentation will explain how Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level and Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.
May 17, Saturday, Site Tour, Suburban Permaculture and nearby impressive Front Yard Gardens. RRCO is hosting this tour.
Site Tour - Meet - 1 PM Rosetta Park, River Road Neighborhood, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit a 1/4 acre suburban property with 25 years of purposeful transformation to produce more basic needs on site and to reduce eco footprints. Grass to garden front and back, edible landscaping all over, driveway to food production, garage to living space, 6500 gal rain water system, patio to passive solar, passive solar ADU, habitat, aesthetic features. 1000s of people have visited over the years. The tour will visit two other properties and several very different front yard gardens.
May 27, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion Preparedness - What Are We Preparing For And Why?
What are we preparing for? Why do we have all these deepening social, economic, political and environmental problems in the first place? There is a common denominator and when we address that many trillion dollar common denominator, we can more address the source of these problems and not just the symptoms. A growing number of people are already addressing the source. We will see some of those examples during the site tours.
May 31, Saturday, Site Tour, Duma Community Site Tour – Meet - 10 AM, Duma Community, 2244 Alder
Duma Community is an intentional residential group of 9 people sharing a large historical home. The intention is to build group cohesion and reduce eco footprints. Community members share house maintenance and chores. Evening meals are together. The place has a shared wood shop, rain water catchment, solar electric, chickens, jacuzzi and common spaces. Duma has a beautiful and functional food forest and edible landscape. The former packed gravel driveway is now a garden. The front along the sidewalk features entertaining place making projects. Duma is an excellent example of paradigm shift - enhancing social relations, producing more basic needs at home and reducing impact on the environment.
June 17, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion Allies and Assets and Aspects for Preparedness, Resilience and Paradigm Shift Almost every local public interest organization exists to help make the community a better place to live. That means they have common interests and can be on the same team,,, a potential network for resilience. Assets are tools we have to work with such as communication and people with useful skills for paradigm shift. Aspects of paradigm shift mean what are characteristics of a paradigm shift way of life such as reducing eco footprints, how we manage our own time and money, building civic culture and more. Allies, assets and aspects all add up to taking purposeful and positive action.
June 21, Saturday, Site Tour Friendly Neighborhood , Various locations Site Tour - Meet - 11 AM, Common Ground Garden, 21st and Van Buren This site tour will visit several locations starting at Common Ground Garden. CGG is a cooperative neighborhood project, turning an unused city street right of way into a very popular neighborhood point of interest. Plots are cooperative. The tour will visit at least two residential properties with many resilience/permaculture features for food production, solar and rain water catchment. The tour will visit the Friendly Tool Box Project. The ToolBox Project is a volunteer-driven, tool-lending library open to residents of Lane County. The Project and CGG are excellent examples of neighborhood initiative to boost the well being of people and the environment. Finally the tour will finish at Friendly Market. We want to imagine the apartments across the street as a proxy for developing a parking lot. Building mixed use on parking lots is the new urban redevelopment frontier. Bikes are strongly recommended.
July 8, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion Real Life Examples of Resilience, Permaculture and Paradigm Shift
This presentation will be a show and tell of real life examples creating a more resilient present and future. Empowering young people in Syracuse, maker space in Oakland, eco villages - Portland, LA, Columbus; Local 20/20 in Port Townsend, permaculture boot camp; pushing back on cars in New York City, Paris, Houten, Barcelona, Alghero and more.
July 12, Saturday, Site Tour East Blair Housing Co-op, Site Tour – Meet – 1 PM. East Blair, 940 W 4th, Whiteaker N'hood
East Blair is a cooperatively owned and managed housing cooperative and is home to about 50 members. EB values and encourages community, creativity, diversity, civility, cooperation, and accountability among its members and its neighbors. EB dates to 1982 and features an impressive variety of on site features that build community culture, organizational skills and synchronizing smart use of its eight properties. EB is perhaps the best example in Eugene to show what block planning can deliver. The tour will explain.
July 19 Churchill
Site Tour of adjoining residential properties. Details TBA
July 29, Zoom, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion Taking Resilience and Paradigm Shift Ideas To A Wider Audience Be the change, strategic planning goals, an enormous movement waiting to discover itself. Organizations, networks, members. Imagine AARP and the Sierra Club advocating suburban permaculture and block planning.
August 2, Saturday, Site Tour, Eco Village and Residential Property
Site Tour - Meet at 2 PM Broadway and Almaden, Maitreya Eco Village.
Maitreya is home to about 35 people. There is a large shared garden area and creative density elsewhere including Eugene's first permitted strawbale structure. Many resilience features. We will visit a residential property with rain water catchment and extensive gardens.
August 12, 6:30 PM; Zoom Discussion Reflect, review, discuss the site tours and previous zoom presentations with thoughts of disaster preparedness, resilience, permaculture, paradigm shift. Share our thoughts about the presentations, site tours and paradigm shift.
