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Instructors: Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan
Cost: $1500/$1400 if registered two weeks in advance (residential course). Some partial work exchange opportunities are available for this course; see below for more details. For registration information, click here. Click here to see a video about our Permaculture Design Course at OAEC. Whether you currently own property or dream of it, this two-week intensive course will immerse you in information, ideas and inspiration for how to design sustainable, regenerative systems in balance with your home ecosystem. You will learn the ethics, principles and practice of “permanent culture,” by exploring topics such as organic gardening, mulching, natural building techniques, forest farming, water retention and regeneration, erosion control, community processes, and much more. Using a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on activities at OAEC’s 80-acre site, visits to local permaculture examples, and a group design project, you will have the chance to integrate and apply the concepts of permaculture during almost 100 hours of course time. Upon completion of the course, participants receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design. In 2009, OAEC enters its second decade and fifteenth year as a permaculture school, the most established and longest continually operating school of its kind in California. We celebrate having offered 30 courses to well over 500 students, and consistently hear feedback from graduates that OAEC's design course is a “life-changing” experience. For a more detailed description of our facilities, including information on what to bring, visit our Participant's Information page. Work Exchange: A limited number of work exchange positions are available. We award these positions to course registrants based on demonstrated financial need. Participants receive a $250 reduction in course fees in exchange for 20 hours working in our kitchen or doing other course-related support tasks. If you would like to be considered for a work exchange position, check the "Work Exchange" box on your registration form. Include a brief letter describing your situation, along with your $100 course deposit. If you are not chosen for one of the positions and cannot pay the standard course fee, your deposit will be fully refunded.
To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website! | 12
Start: Sep 19 2009 5:00 pm
End: Oct 12 2009 12:00 pm
Instructors: Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan
Cost: $1500/$1400 if registered two weeks in advance (residential course). Some partial work exchange opportunities are available for this course; see below for more details. For registration information, click here. Click here to see a video about our Permaculture Design Course at OAEC. Whether you currently own property or dream of it, this two-week intensive course will immerse you in information, ideas and inspiration for how to design sustainable, regenerative systems in balance with your home ecosystem. You will learn the ethics, principles and practice of “permanent culture,” by exploring topics such as organic gardening, mulching, natural building techniques, forest farming, water retention and regeneration, erosion control, community processes, and much more. Using a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on activities at OAEC’s 80-acre site, visits to local permaculture examples, and a group design project, you will have the chance to integrate and apply the concepts of permaculture during almost 100 hours of course time. Upon completion of the course, participants receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design. In 2009, OAEC enters its second decade and fifteenth year as a permaculture school, the most established and longest continually operating school of its kind in California. We celebrate having offered 30 courses to well over 500 students, and consistently hear feedback from graduates that OAEC's design course is a “life-changing” experience. For a more detailed description of our facilities, including information on what to bring, visit our Participant's Information page. Work Exchange: A limited number of work exchange positions are available. We award these positions to course registrants based on demonstrated financial need. Participants receive a $250 reduction in course fees in exchange for 20 hours working in our kitchen or doing other course-related support tasks. If you would like to be considered for a work exchange position, check the "Work Exchange" box on your registration form. Include a brief letter describing your situation, along with your $100 course deposit. If you are not chosen for one of the positions and cannot pay the standard course fee, your deposit will be fully refunded.
To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website! | 13
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Start: Oct 14 2009 8:00 am
Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum! Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve. Location: Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center For more information and to register please vistit: Start: Oct 14 2009 6:00 pm
End: Oct 14 2009 8:00 pm
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Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum! Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve. Location: Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center For more information and to register please vistit: Start: Oct 15 2009 6:00 pm
Go Local is fortunate to receive Judy Wicks as a featured guest speaker at this reception. Judy is founder of Philadelphia’s landmark White Dog Cafe, and an international leader in the local living economies movement. She is co-founder and board chair of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food – both originally incubated at White Dog Community Enterprises, a non-profit created to direct business profits toward building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region. In the retail industry, Judy was founder/owner of Black Cat, a retail store that featured locally made and fair trade gifts for 20 years, 1989 – 2009. In 1970, Judy co-founded the Free People's Store, now well-known as Urban Outfitters. Just after the 26th anniversary, Judy sold the White Dog Cafe in January, 2009, through a unique exit strategy that preserves the values of the business and assures local, independent ownership. She is currently working on a book to be published in 2010 by Chelsea Green. This reception is free to locally-owned businesses within Sonoma County. It's open to the general public to attend. Admission price is $5 for GoLocal individual members and $10 for non-members.Wine, beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served as attendees mix and mingle. If you're a business owner and would like to participate in Give Local this season go here for more information about how you can join the effort.
Location: Glaser Center Start: Oct 15 2009 6:30 pm
We need to be as ready as we can to take care of ourselves and our neighbors in the event of a disaster. Come to our Town Hall meeting on Thursday, October 15, and learn how we can prepare to get through a disaster together. You'll hear from our Fire Chief, Police Chief, City Manager, CERT Board Member, and the County's Department of Public Health. 6:30 to 8:30 PM in the Multi-Purpose Room at Parkside School, 7540 Bodega Avenue. Please invite friends and bring folks with you. | 16
Start: Oct 14 2009 8:00 am
End: Oct 16 2009 5:00 pm
Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum! Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve. Location: Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center For more information and to register please vistit: | 17
Start: Oct 17 2009 11:00 am
End: Oct 17 2009 5:00 pm
90 plus alternative practitioners and wellness vendors, wholesome Here are some more of the attractions awaiting you: * Rich Shames, M.D. and Georjana Shames, L.ac are a father and * Kyle Yoder, DC specializing in car accidents/whiplashe s and lower * Michael Brickey with feldenkrais, a system of somatic re-education * Diana Concoff Morgan, M.A. holistic health educator, minister, *Dinndayal Morgan, founder and director of Pathfinder institute, *Michaela McGivern blends energy medicine with other modalities for * Jeri Nager with her delightful, beautiful gourd art creations, For booth info please email vardarose@att. net or call 829 9794, few Sebastopol
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Join us for the Third State of the Laguna Conference and Science Symposium October 14-16, 2009 at Sonoma Mountain Village, Rohnert Park, with the theme: Meeting the Challenge - Strategies for adapting watershed ecosystems to climate change.
