Friday |
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1 p.m. |
Registration begins |
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2:30 p.m. |
• Permaculture Site Track: Introduction to Permaculture with Devon Bonady |
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• Food Security Track: "Culinary Herbalism: Growing and Preparing Foods that will Nurture and Nourish the Unique Needs of Each Individual |
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• Peak Oil, global Warming & Wild Weather in Permaculture with Michael Sunanda |
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• Ethno Botany with Guy Prouty |
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4 p.m. |
• Human Potential Track: Permaculture and the Inner Landscape, with Melanie Rios |
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• New Paradigm Track: End Times, New Beginnings: Design for an Earth Society |
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• Mushroom Growing with Ryan Woolverton |
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• Workshop: "The Power of Words" with Jorah LaFleur |
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6 p.m. |
Potluck dinner. Please bring a vegetarian dish.
(meals provided are Saturday breakfast to Sunday lunch) |
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7 p.m. |
Opening Ceremony, followed by welcome from Ravi Logan, founder of Dharmalaya on behalf of the organizing committee and the Eugene Permaculture Guild, followed by an overview and scope of the Gathering by Jan Spencer of the organizing committee followed by a brief theatrical performance by Melanie Rios. |
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7:15 p.m. |
Break into groups |
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9 p.m. |
Closing of Plenary: Begin Mix & Mingle |
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Saturday |
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6:30 a.m. |
Yoga in the strawbale |
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7 a.m. |
Meditation in the strawbale |
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7:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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8:45 a.m. |
Morning circle |
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9 a.m. |
• Permaculture Site Track: Permaculture
from the Back Yard to the Bioregion; also a Preview of Perma Site Track with Jan Spencer |
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• Health & Well-Being Track: Herbal Medicine with Sue Sierralupe |
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• Forest Stewardship Track: Homemade Home Furnishings with Greg Marcheses |
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• Energy Track: Connecting the dots on Energy, Sustainability, Peak Oil, and Climate Change with Jim Maloney, EWEB Energy Resource Project Manager |
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• Economic Track: The benefits and potentials of credit unions with Aleta Miller |
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10:30 a.m. |
• Permaculture and Rural/Small Town Networking Tracks combine: Rural Permaculture with Don Schneider, Rick Valley, Pam Hewitt |
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• Human Potential Track: Heart of Now |
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• Food Track: Development of Sustainable, Self-organizing Labor Cooperatives |
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• Forest Stewardship Track: Forest Restoration and Ecological Economies with Joshua Smith |
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• Health & Well-being Track: Body, Mind, Spirit Connection with Norinne Powers |
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Noon |
Lunch, with a show-and-tell from Aprovecho |
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1:15 p.m. |
Afternoon Circle |
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1:30 p.m. |
• Permaculture Site Track: Urban Permaculture with Gary Delfiner and Skeeter Duke |
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• Water: Conservation, Trends & Issues with Tammie Stark |
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• Forest Stewardship Track: Tamanawas Restoration Forestry with Bill Burwell |
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• Bicycle Restoration Tour with Yotokko Kilpatrick |
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• Economic Track: Peach Pages Regional Resource Guide with Aleta Miller |
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3 p.m. |
• Permaculture Site Track: What if we started making the right choices? Permaculture visions of what could be, with Jason Schreiner, Devon Bonady, Marilene Richardson |
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• Food Track: Save the Seeds: Practical, Spiritual and Artistic Aspects with Melinda McComb |
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• Human Potential Track: Prana, the Animating Substance of Life with Ravi Logan |
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• Social Forestry Panel: "Healing Forestry," a panel with Bill Burwell, Mike Barnes, Gregg Marcheses and Joshua Smith |
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• Keeping your Solar Lifeboat Afloat with Energy-efficient Renewable Energy Design with Gary Higbee & Newt Loken |
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4:30 p.m. |
• Meet, mingle, browse the displays |
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• Rural & Small Town Caucus (all are welcome): What culture change is happening in rural areas and small towns? Review of initiatives and projects. |
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6 p.m. |
Dinner |
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7 p.m. |
Evening Plenary Session: Inspiring descriptions of Culture Change initiatives from small towns, rural areas, urban areas and neighborhoods.
Followed by a fascinating video documentary: "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil." (click here for film details)
After the film, mix and mingle.
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Sunday |
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6:30 a.m. |
Yoga |
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7 a.m. |
Meditation |
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7:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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8:45 a.m. |
Morning circle |
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9 a.m. |
• Permaculture Site Track: Walking tour of nearby Permaculture Sites; solar, gardens, water catchment, concrete removal |
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• Media Track I: Independent Media in Sustainable Culture
with Sue Supriano and others |
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• Human Potential Track: Dialogue on Sustainability and Spirituality |
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• Social Forestry Track: Forest Stewardship Council: A Tool for Making the Transition to Sustainable
Forestry Management of the Earth's Forests with Mike Barnes |
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• Tour of Dharmalaya's model urban Permaculture landscape with Heiko Koester |
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10:30 a.m. |
• Media Track II: Independent Media in Sustainable Culture, continued
with Sue Supriano, plus Janaia Donaldson and Robyn Mallgren of "Peak Moment" |
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• Food Security Track: How to Design Your Edible Landscape with Jude Hobbs |
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• New Paradigm Track: A New Paradigm or Just Another Pair of Dimes? with Jason Schreiner |
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• Health & Well-being Track: Rei ki, the Energy of Health & Well-being with Rei Ki master Yelaina Svenchana |
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• Forest Stewardship Track: Natural Forestry Meets Natural Building with Gregg Marcheses |
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• "Community Begins with YOU" with Caren Black, Titanic Lifeboat Academy |
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12 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:15 p.m. |
Afternoon Circle |
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1:30 p.m. |
Closing Plenary: New Paradigm
This closing plenary is intended to make the connections between the many elements of a sustainable culture and way of life. We will also break into interest groups as we did Friday evening.
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4 p.m. |
Closing Ceremony |