Advanced EAT Intensive:

EARTH HEALING STRATEGIES: An Advanced Earth Activist Training Intensive Offered in collaboration with Permaculture First Responder

Taught by: Starhawk, Benjamin Fahrer, and Mia Rose

Course dates: February, 2007

Location: Cazadero Hills, Northern California (Black Mountain Preserve)

Cost: $1300, $1100 or $800 sliding scale for the 8-day session (includes meals, accommodations, and course materials)

For all EAT and Permaculture First Responder alumni, graduates from similar permaculture programs, and people who have deep permie experience!

Over the last year, the public has become increasingly aware of the extent and severity of climate change and peak oil. As a result, many feel a sense of impending doom. But few know what the solutions are. Fortunately, as permaculturalists, we know that solutions do exist. We know what many of them are. But we may not yet feel confident enough to take our permaculture designs and strategies into our larger communities. That's what "Earth Healing Strategies: An Advanced EAT Intensive" is all about.

Attend this advanced, eight-day, residential course, and you will:
. Deepen your Earth-healing skills
. Actively explore the catalytic roles you can play in helping your community organize around ethical, sustainable solutions . Develop an overall climate-change campaign to be best prepared and confidently responsive when implementing practices rooted in permaculture ethics and principles . Leave with a plan to implement in your own community

 

THE BIG QUESTIONS
During this course, we will explore how to answer and respond to the big questions, like:

• How do communities organize around issues associated with peak oil and global warming? 
  What are the pro-active solutions we can put into place, on individual and community levels?
• What are the larger changes in policy and infrastructure that are needed on national and international levels? And how do we advocate and agitate around them?
• What are the practical skills needed to respond in times of crisis?
• What physical systems need to be addressed to assure stability and security in our food and water cycles?
• How do we convey the solutions to people, and help them find the appropriate tools for organizing at different levels?

COURSE CONTENT

Answers to the big questions will be uncovered as we dive deep into a variety of topics that might include:

• Overview of 'the long catastrophe' or 'long emergency'-climate change, peak oil, water, food, eco-system degradation and the other related environmental and social crises.
• Personal solutions-conservation, lifestyle choices, backyard gardens, offsets, etc.
• What do people need in order to actively live these solutions?
• What are the low-hanging fruits?
• Emergency preparation and response
  The barrel, wilderness first aid, resources.
• Permaculture First Responder (PFR) protocols
• Earth as patient, community as patient
• Safeguarding health of humans and the ecosystem
• Providing sanitation, water, food, food and shelter

Community solutions

• Relocalization, local food and water security, local energy policy.
• Bioremediation-natural methods for cleansing soil and water of toxins.
• Oil depletion protocol, transport, economy, etc.
• Case studies - Cuba, Willits, Portland City Repair, Sonoma, City Repair

National/Global solutions

• What policies make sense?
• Capping emissions?
• Carbon trading?
• Investment in renewable energy?
• Carbon Farming? 
• Soil practices that sequester carbon:
  keyline, mycelial inoculation, etc.
• Others?
• What are the obstacles?
• Possible campaigns

Solutions-based organizing

• How do we inspire and help communities think about these issues?
• Community organization and the making of place.
• Develop agendas,
• Practice facilitation
• and prepare to present:
  . One-evening presentations.
  . Weekend workshops.
  . Community vision sessions

Hands-on

• Dive deeper into bioremediation and mycoremediation
• Instant infrastructure
• Sanitation, water provision, storage, filtration, compost toilets and other strategies for waste
• Propagation Station
• Seedsaving and starting, food crops and propagation by division, greenhouse, sprouthouse and growing food out
• Building with on-site resources, earth and 'waste materials' basic construction
  

To Register: Visit our Registration Page for registration forms and related information.