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
•    Gain practical medical training for responding to emergencies
•    Restorative solutions for help the earth heal after natural disasters
•    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?
 
 Main Areas of focus: Community solutions, National/Global solutions, Solutions-based organizing and Hands-on into bioremediation and mycoremediation. Instant infrastructure-Sanitation, water provision, storage, filtration, compost toilets and other strategies for waste. Propagation Station -- Seed saving and starting, food crops and propagation by division, greenhouse, Sprout house and growing food out. Building with on-site resources, earth and 'waste materials' basic construction
Cost: $1300, $1100 or $800 sliding scale for the 8-day session
Includes meals, accommodations, and course materials
Some work trade and scholarships available