Eugene Natural Building Workshop

Submitted Mon, 2008-05-12 13:05 — organicjack

Dear Friends,
You are invited to participate in a hands-on cob building workshop near downtown Eugene! Details below...

WHAT: Hands-On Cob Building Workshop
WHEN: Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, 9am-5pm daily
WHERE: Maitreya Ecovillage, in front of the Strawbale community building on Broadway between Almaden and Chambers near downtown Eugene, Oregon.
THE DETAILS: Learn to mix, build and sculpt with cob (earth, straw, water) in this hands-on workshop. Topics covered will include foundations, soil testing, cob construction, passive solar design, earthen sculpture, earthen plasters and probably some light wood carpentry. We'll be completing an urbanite and cob bench and the roundwood timberframe roof structure. The tuition is $60 for one day or $100 for both. Natural Building related books and other items will be available for sale - please bring cash to receive discounts on books.
WHAT TO BRING: hat, gloves, boots/surfing booties (if you'd rather not mix barefoot), water bottle, notebook, pen or pencil
DISCOUNTS: "Friends and Family Discount" - bring a friend and you both save 20% off the workshop tuition; Work/Trade: if you can help with tools, materials or work beyond the workshop (finishing the project in the following days/weeks) we can offer some scholarships.
INSTRUCTOR: Jack Stephens, instructor with the Cob Cottage Company, partner at Wild Earth Village Builders and director of the Natural Building Network.
CONTACT: organicjack@gmail.com or 888-201-8489

For additional information about natural building and this workshop please contact Jack at 888-201-8489. Natural Building offers real solutions to the problems of global climate change, fresh water access, natural resource depletion, affordable housing and social justice. For more information about the Natural Building visit www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org. This event is sponsored by City Repair Eugene!

If you are able to donate materials we will be ever grateful, and if you're attending the workshop you can receive a discount. Here's the list:

1 yard of sharp/masons/river sand (about 15 5 gallon buckets)
1 yard of clayey soil (subsoil with clay content)
2 bales of straw (2 string bales)
3 six by eight foot tarps for mixing cob
2 or 3 dull, worn out handsaws for trimming cob walls
1 or 2 machetes for trimming cob walls
4 or 5 large Nancy's yogurt lids for plastering
3 or 4 plastering trowels of various sizes

Thanks again for supporting Natural Building in Eugene. Let's stay in touch and help our community become more beautiful, healthy and durable.

In Community,

Jack Stephens
www.wildearthunlimited.com
www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org

Event title:
Eugene Natural Building Workshop

Start:
2008-05-17 09:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-18 17:00

Location:

Location(s)

Broadway Between Chambers and Almaden

Eugene, OR, 97402
United States

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Contact Email:
organicjack@gmail.com

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Idaho Green Expo

Submitted Sun, 2008-04-13 10:54 — joanie

The Idaho Green Expo
May 17th and 18th, 2008
Saturday, May 17th 9:00 AM-8:00 PM and Sunday, May 18th, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Boise Centre on the Grove
Free Admission!

The Idaho Green Expo will be a free, two day annual event that will showcase environmentally friendly products and services, and provide information that will help people to lead healthier and more sustainable lives. The goal of the Expo is to improve both the quality of our environment and the quality of our lives.

The Expo will feature over 150 exhibitors and 80 workshops and seminars on a variety of green-living topics. Attractions will also include music, speakers, art, food, demonstrations and activities for children.

The Idaho Green Expo will be a celebration, but one with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new green economy - an economy that is sustainable, healthy, ethical and earth friendly.

It will unite green businesses, social and environmental groups, visionary thinkers, and thousands of community members in a lively exchange of ideas, commerce, and community building.

Event title:
Idaho Green Expo

Start:
2008-05-17 09:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-18 18:00

Event Website:
http://www.idahogreenexpo.org

Contact Email:
info@IdahoGreenExpo.org

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Building Healthy Soil Part I

Submitted Tue, 2008-04-22 00:11 — Sonya

Building Soil Part I – What is healthy soil?: Soil as habitat, soil types common to this area, soil testing, current practices which degrade soil and cause its loss. Practices for building healthy soils: Green manures, compost, biodynamic preparations, microbial inoculants, manures, legumes, mulches (includes groundcover mulches), valuing our weeds. Teacher: Robyn Cook, Organic Gardener currently working with Nutri-Tech Solutions

Home Gardening with Permaculture

An eight-session course held at Chevallum State School, Chevallum Rd., Chevallum. This course provides ideas and practical skills for those wanting to establish a home garden, food forest, keep animals and develop aquaculture.

Cost: $30 per session

Time: 9am to 3pm
Registration: Monique @ 5478 9364

Please note that sessions can be booked individually.
Space is limited.
Other courses will follow if there is sufficient demand.

Event title:
Building Healthy Soil Part I

Start:
2008-05-17 09:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-17 12:00

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W.E.D. Library Display

Submitted Mon, 2008-04-28 21:48 — ahazelwood

Just in time to promote The Bundaberg 2008 World Environment Day Celebration on June 1, SustainaBundy will have a display in the Bundaberg Library. From the 12th to the 22nd May, a collection of SustainaBundy's books, magazines and DVDs on peak oil, climate change, sustainability, self sufficiency, organic gardening and more will be on display in the library entryway along with World Environment Day posters and information.

Following World Environment Day, the contents of the display will become a part of the library collection, available for borrowing by anyone with a Bundaberg Library card. A list of the items will be available on the SustainaBundy website so borrowers can ask for them by name.

The books, magazines and DVDs are from the personal collections of SustainaBundy members - the materials will do much more good if they're available to the wider community instead of just the owners, and we're happy to be able to use them to promote WED before they go into the library's inventory!

Here is a small sample of items that may be on display. Watch this space for a complete list of borrowable items soon!

DVDs:
-Relocalisation: How Peak Oil Can Lead To Permaculture by David Holmgren
-A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
-The End of Suburbia
-The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
-An Inconvenient Truth
-A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
-The Future of Food
-Small Scale Cooperative Enterprise in Maleny: Creating Prosperous Communities
-School Gardens/Eating Your Park
-Natural Building and a New Sense of the Earth

Books:
-Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty - Daniel Lerch
-Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance - John Storey
-The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It - John Seymour
-From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Cooperative Lifestyles in Australia - Bill Metcalf
-Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times - Steve Solomon
-The Natural Way of Farming - Masanobu Fukuoka
-The Rodale Book of Composting
-Organic Control of Household Pests - Jackie French
-Companion Planting - Brenda Little
-The Backyard Orchardist - Stella Otto
-Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens - Gail Damerow
-Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow
-Lost Arts: A Celebration of Culinary Traditions - Lynn Alley
-Home Cheese Making - Ricki Carroll
-Homemade Root Beer, Soda and Pop - Stephen Cresswell
-Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them - Rolfe Cobleigh
-The Beauty of Strawbale Homes - Athena & Bill Steen
-The Natural Plaster Book - Guelberth & Chiras

Magazines:
A selection of Earth Garden, Grass Roots, National Geographic, New Scientist and others

Event title:
W.E.D. Library Display

Start:
2008-05-12 09:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-22 17:00

Location:

Location(s)

Bundaberg Library

Bundaberg, QLD, 4670
Australia

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Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)

Submitted Mon, 2008-03-17 17:11 — vanvalli

This year  Ashevillage Institute will be hosting classes and internships that provide you with real solutions to Peak Oil and the climate crisis.   Our course offerings are taught by a dynamic team of instructors and take place at an educational community dedicated to permaculture and regenerative ways of living. Join a lifestyle and a worldwide movement with over 100,000 Design Course graduates!

Contact Information:
Kimchi Rylander
Registration Coordinator
email AVI@kleiwerks.org or call 828.225.8820


April 25-27, May 30-June 1, June 27-29, July 25-27, Aug. 29-31, Sept. 26-28, Oct. 24-26
Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)
with Patricia Allison  and other nationally renowned instructors

This course will introduce you to the essential principles and practices of permaculture, an ecological design system for creating abundant regenerative human habitats.  It takes place at Ashevillage Institute, an emerging urban education center and living laboratory for sustainable solutions in action.  AVI is located in a cluster of houses in a neighborhood a few blocks from downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Students receive a Permaculture Design certificate upon completion. 

This course:
• Includes 72 curriculum hours
• Has an urban, neighborhood, and residential focus
• Allows you to use the word 'Permaculture' professionally
• Is hosted by Kleiwerks, an internationally-renowned organization
• Offers practical, intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual aspects of sustainability
• Has an outstanding team of pioneering guest presenters from around the country, with over 200 cumulative years of teaching experience!

The weekend course format allows for more hands-on projects, social networking, and cultural sharing. It runs  the last weekend of every month from April thru October, and begins with Friday evening presentations hosted by Ashevillage Institute.

Course fee: $1400 (does NOT include food and lodging)
For details on registration, fees, discounts, course info, and other details, click here: http://www.kleiwerks.org/avi/workshop_details.php

For details on all 2008 educational events at the Ashevillage Institute, click here: http://kleiwerks.org/events_projects.php
 

Additional Week-end Sustainability Workshops
For more info or to register email AVI@kleiwerks.org or call 828.225.8820

Introduction to Permaculture with Patricia Allison & guests: March 27 & 28
Residential Rainwater & Greywater Harvesting with Brad Lancaster (Author of 'Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond'): April 24 & 25
Bee-Keeping with Chris Mathis (WNC Bee School & Spicewood Farm): May 29 & 30
Natural Building with Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks), Steveo Brodmerkel (Kleiwerks), Lydia Dolman (City Repair), Mark Lakeman (City Repair): June 26 & 27
Wild Food & Fermentation with Sandor Katz (Author of 'WIld Fermentation' & 'The Revolution Will Not Be Micro-waved') & Frank Cook: July 24 & 25
TBA (tentatively Bio-Dynamic Wkshp): August 28 & 29
TBA (tentatively Raw Food Wkshp): September 25 & 26
Natural Finishes - Earthen Plasters & Paints with Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks): October 23 & 24

Event title:
Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)

Start:
2008-04-25 08:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-10-24 17:00

Location:

Location(s)

Asheville, NC, 28802
United States

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Event Website:
http://www.kleiwerks.org/avi/workshop_details.php

Contact Email:
AVI@kleiwerks.org

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Residential Greenroofing Class

Submitted Sun, 2008-03-30 04:31 — plunsfo

Learn how to design/build a greenroof from materials to installation through this class through Portland Community College.

Taught by Greg Haines, Principal, Ecoroofs Everywhere, LLC.

Held over seven Saturdays from April 5th to May 17th. 9:00am - 12:00 pm.
This is the only class where you can learn to design/build a greenroof from material selection to waterproofing and installation. It's just once a year. Learn an increasingly valuable and marketable skillset.

Cost is $100, (including the $25.00 class registration fee.)

The class is suitable for homeowners, designers, architects, contractors, and students.

PCC registration website

Event title:
Residential Greenroofing Class

Start:
2008-04-05 09:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-17 12:00

Event Website:
http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?event_id=32881&cal=DisplayEvent&c=30009&year=2008&modefrom=month&month=3&arrowbutton=%3E

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