East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

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Permaculture for Renters/Cohousers/Co-op Members workshop (Downtown Berkeley)

Saturday, September 12, 2009, 9:00 AM

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Sliding Scale up to: $150.00/to $100 per person

Note New Dates in September - the presenter has rescheduled his Bay Area visit. Sign up today!

Wondering how you can participate in land-based solutions to social, economic, and environmental crisis, without owning property? Confused about where to start?

East Bay Cohousing is delighted to host a workshop that we think is relevant also to homeowners, cohousers, condo-owners, co-op members, and group house residents, with a $20 discount for paid supporting EBCOHO members.

For all of those folks who have thought or said "I want to practice Permaculture, but I don’t have any land," Permaculture for Renters will provide a packed toolbox of strategies and methods that can be used anywhere: on balconies, while traveling, in tiny sideyards, indoors, on rooftops, and more!

Over the two day workshop, participants will come together with diverse members of their community to engage their heads, hearts, and hands in learning a wide range of useful concepts and techniques that they can integrate into their lives no matter who they are or where they live.

This is a great opportunity for anyone searching for a way to be more effective in creating a more ecologically and social just world. Students, couchsurfers, renters, travelers, and even landlords will come away from the weekend feeling inspired and empowered.

Some of the topics covered in the course include:

The Ethics and Principles of Permaculture, and how non-Land-Holders can Live By Them
How to Create Edible Plant Micro-Nurseries to Pay Your Rent and Food-Forest Your Town
Food Gardening in Small Spaces
Mobile Container Gardens
Plant Propagation
Small-Space Edible Mushroom Cultivation
Guerrilla Gardening
Land Access for Renters: Creating Interdependent Communities of Land-Owners and Non-Land-Owners

Additionally, you will leave with:

Nursery stock and mushroom spawn to propagate.
A web-based ‘virtual binder’ of readings and resources for further learning.

About the Instructor

Leonard Barrett is a landscape designer, contractor, educator, and renter based in Portland, OR. Through his firm, Barrett Ecological Services, he has collaborated on land planning projects with some of the region's best and brightest in sustainable design, including Mark Lakeman (Communitecture) and BEAM Development. Most recently he has been a visiting professor in the Environmental Studies department at Pacific University, teaching a 3-credit course entitled “Landscape Master Planning: A Permaculture Perspective.”

The workshop fee is $150-100 sliding scale for the whole 2-day workshop, with single-day options available. Current paid East Bay Cohousing supporting members can deduct $20.
Note: expressing interest by RSVPing here on the EBCOHO MeetUp or on the event's FaceBook page is not enough... you need to register at thePermaculture for Renters website ASAP to save your seat.

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.