OVGC: Transportation Committee

Our MISSION is to

* contribute toward building a localized economy, starting with building a local food system.
* promote and facilitate access to environmentally responsible, off-the-grid, affordable housing;
* preserve and refine traditional methods of food and seed production and conservation
* demonstrate and teach sustainable living, based upon permaculture principles including cooperative communities such as ecovillages; and
 

Our PURPOSE is to empower people with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, and to be a catalyst for creative change in society.

PROGRAM AREAS:

LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM -- towards sustainable forms of prosperity for all, we are focused on and encourage decentralized, local, land-based economies.  To this end, we are networking with local and regional organizations to help develop a local food system.

EDUCATION - SLS offers both on-site workshops with hands-on training and talks and seminars in the valley, addressing principles of sustainable living.   We also organize green home tours.

SEEDS – We are engaged in breeding, sharing and maintaining a seed bank of locally adapted, open pollinated, non-patented food and medicinal plants.

ECOVILLAGE DEVELOPMENT --Corvallis Conservation Farm - an educational permaculture community demonstrating an environmentally responsible approach to shelter, energy, food production and collective living. The farm has established a wildlife friendly, bio-intensive, organic gardening system to provide a sustainable food base for residents, interns, and staff, and demonstrates a collective living arrangement  that weighs less heavily on the planet and on people.

SHELTER – Farm facilities are designed and constructed to have the lowest ecological footprint on the earth as possible. They demonstrate new frontiers in the design of earthship, straw bale, cordwood, and adobe construction methods, with energy systems that are simplified and off the grid.  The buildings also feature innovations in no-discharge sanitation systems and water recycling.  Four structures that incorporate earthship [thermal mass] technology are in place, consisting of a dwelling, an office, a barn and a greenhouse.