Archive for September, 2009

Earth Action Mentor: Online Access to Premium Permaculture Resources

Earth Action Mentor is a new study and mentoring site for permaculture.
Earth Action Mentor is the training hub for documentation of regenerative living skills and practices. Earth Action Mentor provides lessons available for download, short videos, interviews with earth mentors, an independent study curriculum, workbooks, case studies, community forum and documentation of county permitted [...]

West County Community Seed Bank

The West County Community Seed Bank has launched their web site!

To create a grassroots community seed bank that supports Sonoma County gardeners with free, locally grown, open-pollinated, pesticide and GMO-free seeds. All gardeners with or with out seeds to share are welcome. We hope that many gardeners will commit to grow out and donate back [...]

Help Install a Food Forest in Cotati

Here’s an unusual and unique opportunity coming up locally: help install a professionally designed 5000 square-foot food forest…get hands on and learn how to transform your thirsty lawn into multi-tiered food-producing ecosystem!

In August, Daily Acts conducted a hands-on workshop in sheet-mulching to transform the lawn at Mini-Park (End of LaSalle and Loretta Ave) in [...]

Greywater in California: Good News and Opportunities

Did you know that new greywater standards for California took effect last month? This is exciting news for California, and especially for activists like the folks at Oasis Design and the Greywater Guerrillas, who have been working tirelessly for this sort of thing for years.
Here’s an excerpt of a notice that was sent out [...]

Free 1-Day Intros to the Ecology of Leadership

We live in a time of great change, and during great change, leaders always emerge. If we’re going to be the change we seek, we should also be prepared to be the leaders we seek.
Many of us Permies have an innate distrust of authority, and many of us associate authority with leadership. But [...]