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Global Warming, Global Action, Global Future.
350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. But solutions exist. All around the world, a movement is building to take on the climate c ...learn more
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Created: Jul 15, 2008
Updated: Jun 02, 2009
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Urban Sustainability - a week with Mark Lakeman and Kat Steele at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, Aug 31-
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Urban Sustainability: The Nuts and Bolts of City Repair and Urban Permaculture
This is a workshop of dialogue and design, a forum to hear stories and learn strategies for neighborhood organizing and the planning of co-creative urban permaculture projects. Bring your ideas, questions, and projects for networking opportunities.
City Repair (www.cityrepair.org) was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. Born out of a successful grassroots neighborhood initiative that converted a residential intersection into a neighborhood public square, with the idea that localization—of culture, of economy, of decision-making—is a necessary foundation of sustainability, City Repair reclaims urban spaces to create community-oriented places, plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities, and nurture our local culture.
Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids, and the intersections where our lives can converge. City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture, and ecological design in projects that transform public space. City Repair was conceived as an "anti-virus" to combat the isolation and commodification of conventionally designed cities by literally inserting villages into cities.
This workshop will explore the roots of empire and the historical choice-point moments that have led up to the urban design we presently live within. Its intention is to inspire you to co-create the world you want to live in.