Creating A Safer, More Secure and Healthier Neighborhood
Contents
I...... Tour Schedule
II.... Brief Article Explaining the Tour
III....Tour Events in River Road
Tour Schedule
All presentations and seminars are free and open to the public. More dates to be added.
Evening Presentations
May 18, Wednesday, Temple Beth Israel, 7 PM, 1175 East 29th, Amazon Neighborhood
June 2, Thursday, 6:30, First Congregational Church, 1050 E 23rd, South University Neighborhood
Half Day Seminar
The seminars go into greater detail, there will be guest speakers and a 30 minute table top group design project
June 4, Saturday, Noon to 4 PM, HALF DAY SEMINAR, 1055 River Road, River Road Park District Annex, River Road Neighborhood
Open House and Tour
A visit to Jan Spencer's place. Co hosted by the Unitarian Green Sanctuary Committee. Grass to garden, reclaim automobile space, rain water catchment, passive solar design, edible landscaping, chickens, food forest,,,,
May 14, Saturday, Open House 12 to 3 PM and Property Tour 1 to 2 PM, 212 Benjamin, River Road Neighborhood
Brief Article Explaining the Tour
Being prepared for the unknown is looking like a better idea than ever
A speaking tour in Eugene, currently being planned by Jan Spencer, of Eugene, includes a number of innovative approaches to preparedness. The tour is called “Creating A Safer, More Secure and Healthier Neighborhood.”
The tour will include close to a dozen presentations in different parts of town from early April to early June. Spencer is collaborating with communities of faith and neighborhood associations to co host the presentations, which will be free and open to the public. Most of the presentations will be an hour and a half on a week day evening while two will be be half day seminars, going into greater detail, with guest speakers plus 30 minute interactive table top exercises.
The presentations will be in two parts. First, is describing changes to a suburban property such as trading grass for garden, redesigning for solar energy, catching and storing rain water, edible landscaping, reclaiming automobile space and more. The intent is to take care of more needs on site and closer to home.
The second part of the presentation is making common cause with nearby neighbors and friends. Increasing the scale of preparedness to the neighborhood level makes available a much wider range of skills and capabilities. Spencer makes reference to a variety of assets and tools, already available, public and private, that can be a big help for building cohesion and readiness.
Neighborhood Watch, Emergency Preparedness, Neighborhood Associations, Communities of Faith and non profits such as the Red Cross plus Permaculture – a holisitc approach to ecological design, are all valuable for use at home and in the neighborhood. Fitting these approaches together makes them even more effective. The Presentation explains how and why, these groups and organizations can work together to play a timely role for empowering neighbors to create safer and more secure homes and neighborhoods. Its a matter of people taking the time to make good use of the opportunities.
Unique to this approach to preparedness is growing food, storing rain water and solar design, plus the idea of affinity groups, where neighbors actually share skills and assets at a more intentional level. These home and neighborhood strategies also can contribute to physical and social health which adds even more to cohesion, effective planning, response and longer term resilience. These approaches are applicable to disruptions whether natural or human caused.
Neighborhood mapping, a citizen based approach to emergency preparedness will be highlighted with information specific to mapping available at the presentations.
The final part of the presentation explains how smart design for preparedness leads to multiple benefits relating to public health, the environment, economics, global relations and social uplift. These and other benefits all act together for a much deeper level of preparedness.
Spencer has been transforming his own 1/4 acre suburban property in river Road for over ten years. He has direct experience with solar design, edible landscaping, grass to garden, food storage and rain water catchment. He has also been on the board of his neighborhood association for ten years and is well aware of how neighborhood associations can play a vital part for helping to create safer and more secure places where we live. Further, he and nearby friends, a newly emerging affinity group, collaborate on projects that add to their well being and preparedness.
Important, each level of increasing neighborhood collaboration can act as a platform leading to more ambitious projects and greater benefits.
Key words – multiple benefits, cohesion, front yard garden, work party, permaculture, collaboration, human potential, existing assets
Tour Events in River Road
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Saturday, June 4, Noon to 4, Half Day Seminar - Annex, 1055 River Road, 2 blocks north of Goodwill
Practical. More detail about safety, security, going local and green. Lively and interactive, table top design projects. Guest Orientation - Mapping Your Neigborhood. This is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and fertile ground to make safe, secure, local and green action plans right here where we live.
Saturday, June 18, 10 to 2, Open Space – Annex, 1055 River Road
Share what you know, bring your skills and teach others - bees, food storage, herbs, green kids, conservation skills, solar design, permaculture, green kids, conservation skills, solar design, permaculture,,,, Identify skills and knowledge in the n'hood. Form Common Interest Groups. Discover green neighbors nearby. “Classifieds to connect.”
Saturday, June 25 and Sunday the 26th, 11 AM both days, Green Home Tours. Meet at Rosetta Park
All sites in River Road. Casual, best to ride a bike, cars can follow. Visit gardens, solar design, edible landscaping, front yard gardens, rain water catchement, chickens, fences down, “n'hood” business, natural building, food forests, reclaim automobile space,,,,,
For more info, see www.suburbanpermaculture.org or call 686 6761