[Santa_Cruz_Permaculture] Toby Hemenway Talk Tonight - Redesigning Civilization

[Jay Ma]

Hi Friends,

If you are free tonight, come join us at the Venture Greenhouse in San Rafael for a networking event and talk on "Redesigning Civilization" with Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden. This is the sequel to his popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."

Hope to see you there!

-Jay Ma

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Redesigning Civilization
Permaculture's Vision for a Just and Sustainable World

With Toby Hemenway

Thursday, Feb 21st, 6:30 - 9:00 pm 

The Venture Greenhouse
San Rafael, California

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Agenda

6:30 - Networking, Snacks, Beverages
7:00 - Featured Presentation
8:30 - Questions and More Networking

Description

It's no secret that our society has become unsustainable. Modern agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back, and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get in this mess? And, more importantly, what can we do to help our culture get back on track? The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of regenerative, fair ways to provide food, energy, livelihood, and other needs while letting humans share the planet with the rest of nature. This presentation will give you insight into why our culture has become fundamentally unsustainable, and offers ecologically based solutions that can help create a just and sustainable society. 

This is the sequel to Toby's popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."

Presenter - Toby Hemenway

Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the last seven years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. He has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and is currently a field director at the Permaculture Institute (USA). Toby has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. He has contributed book chapters for WorldWatch Institute and to several publications on ecological design.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was the editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, and after six years of developing urban sustainability resources there, Toby and his wife now divide their time between Sebastopol, California and western Montana. More information on Toby Hemenway can be found at: http://www.patternliteracy.com/

Cost (includes snacks & beverages)

$20 - Standard
$5 -10 - Students

* Free for Dominican University students
* No One Turned away for lack of funds.

Ecological Leadership Series

The Ecological Leadership Series is a monthly networking event held at the Venture Greenhouse featuring an amazing speaker on cutting-edge ecological and social technologies. With a green entrapranuial focus, the series will host renowed leaders, pioneers, and experts in various topics from permaculture, sustainability, ecovillage & community design, watershed restoration, aquaponics, holistic organizational design, and other potent stradegies that can transform people and the planet.

About the Venture Greenhouse

The Venture Greenhouse of Dominican University of California is a pioneering, early-stage business incubator providing an intensive program to accelerate the success of environmentally and socially beneficial ventures.  Located in San Rafael, California, this “innovation engine" is a hub for budding social and environmental entrepreneurs, a learning laboratory for the University’s business students, and a community resource for innovators, investors, sustainability advocates and new ventures. The Venture Greenhouse has a globally collaborative network of enterprises, professionals and partners who contribute to vibrant and sustainable economic development for Marin County and the Bay Area.

Sponsors

This series is Co-Produced by Living Mandala and the Venture Greenhouse.

To become a sponsor of this event or the entire Ecological Leadership Series, email: sponsors at livingmandala.com

More Info

For questions and more information
email: education at livingmandala.com
Living Mandala: 707-634-1461
Venture Greenhouse: 415-497-3308
www.livingmandala.com 
www.venturegreenhouse.org

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-The Living Mandala Team

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