Zoom Tonight May 13 and Tour this Sat May 17 in Eugene
Zoom link for tonight.
Note, more site tours can be added. Organize a site tour in your neighborhood. A network can help promote it.
- May 13, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
The Convergence of Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
This presentation will explain how Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level and Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level. - May 17, Saturday, Site Tour, Suburban Permaculture and nearby impressive Front Yard Gardens. RRCO is hosting this tour. Site Tour – Meet – 1 PM Rosetta Park, River Road Neighborhood, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit a 1/4 acre suburban property with 25 years of purposeful transformation to produce more basic needs on site and to reduce eco footprints. Grass to garden front and back, edible landscaping all over, driveway to food production, garage to living space, 6500 gal rain water system, patio to passive solar, passive solar ADU, habitat, aesthetic features. 1000s of people have visited over the years. The tour will visit two other properties and several very different front yard gardens.
Site Tours in Eugene and Companion Zoom Presentation
Jan Spencer in Eugene has an impressive schedule of site tours to locations in Eugene and companion zoom presentations that are relevant anywhere. The presentations put the site tours in context but are also stand alone. The primary theme of the schedule is, disaster preparedness can be a first move towards resilience, permaculture and moving towards sustainability. If we are interested in safety, security and well being for people and planet, best to downsize eco footprints, produce more basic needs closer to home and make common cause with friends and neighbors. Those actions can be early moves towards paradigm shift and sustainability.
First in the five part zoom series is May 13
The presentations point out standard preparedness is a very smart idea but it is reactive. It does nothing to address the cause of the problems – other than earthquakes. The term “natural” disaster serves to deflect human caused or human amplified disruption by blaming disruptions and disasters on nature. The five planned site tours will show and tell examples of reducing eco footprints, producing more basics at home or nearby, building community culture and ultimately, creating alternatives to capitalism and the consumer culture. First site tour is May 17, first in the five part zoom series is May 13.