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Participants
Lois Arkin, LA Eco-Village, Los Angeles, Cal
Marisha Auerbach, Permaculture Rising, Portland, Oregon
Sunil Patil, Patchwork Urban Farm, Asheville, North Carolina
Yvonne Chou, Onondaga Earth Corps, Syracuse, New York
Jim Shenk, Enright Ridge Eco Village, Cincinnati, Ohio
Bob Randall, author, Year Round Gardening, Houston, Texas
Chris Roth, Editor, Communities, Magazine
Jan Spencer, Suburban Permaculture, Eugene, Oregon
Lois Arkin, LA Eco-Village, Los Angeles, Cal
Marisha Auerbach, Permaculture Rising, Portland, Oregon
Sunil Patil, Patchwork Urban Farm, Asheville, North Carolina
Yvonne Chou, Onondaga Earth Corps, Syracuse, New York
Jim Shenk, Enright Ridge Eco Village, Cincinnati, Ohio
Bob Randall, author, Year Round Gardening, Houston, Texas
Chris Roth, Editor, Communities, Magazine
Jan Spencer, Suburban Permaculture, Eugene, Oregon
Lois Arkin is the founder (1980) of the nonprofit CRSP/ dba Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute (LAEVI). In 1993, she co-founded the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV) as a project of CRSP. Co-author/editor of two books on sustainable cities and cooperative housing, she is the former editor for the “Ecovillage Living” column in Communities Magazine. She is a board member of the Global Ecovillage Network – U.S. as well as the Global Village Institute, and served for 17 years on the Community Advisory Committee of the Wilshire Center/Koreatown Redevelopment Area. Lois lives and works in LA Eco-Village, and is passionate about reducing auto use in L.A. She is a frequent public advocate for sustainable urban living and gives regular public tours of LAEV. Her current focus is on the retrofitting of an old auto shop in LAEV to an eco community hub as well as passing the torch to a new Associate Director in the Spring 2021. You can see her occasional blogs on the LAEV blog site. She holds a BA degree in Anthropology from Cal State University Northridge. She can be reached at crsp@igc.org
website: www.laecovillage.org
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Marisha Auerbach is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, designer, and speaker based in Portland, OR. Marisha has lived and practiced permaculture in both urban and rural environments. As an avid gardener and herbalist, Marisha specializes in food production, ecology, and useful plants. Marisha believes that it is possible to respond to the current environmental challenges, lower our ecological footprint, and continue to live equally delightful lives through permaculture design. This passion is what drives Marisha's active teaching schedule throughout the year. website - www.permaculturerising.com
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Sunil Patil is a farmer, permaculturalist, and a food and farming thought-leader, he’s studied natural farming methods and worked for farmers in California, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Oregon. Along the way, he’s collected many skills from growing 4-season biodynamic vegetables, to managing a grass-fed dairy herd, making artisanal raw milk cheese, baking for production in a commercial wood-fired oven, natural building, and helping maintain permaculture sites.
Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, he managed a large CSA in central PA for the about 4 years. In that time, he expanded a quarter acre plot to a 12 acre working farm.In January 2013, relocating to Asheville and transitioning from being Site Manager and Teaching Urban Farming at the Ashevillage Institute, he launched Patchwork Urban Farms in early 2014. website - www.patchworkurbanfarms.com
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Yvonne Chou
Yvonne Chu is a local climate and community activist based in Syracuse, New York with a background in environmental science. She volunteers her time with local grassroots organizations such as Climate Change Awareness and Action and the Sustainable Economies Alliance, to push climate change and sustainability information to the public in efforts to help solve the climate crisis. As an overall nature lover, she is grateful for the opportunity to work as the Office Manager at the Onondaga Earth Corps and to be able to help youth and young adults take ownership of growing the tree canopy, natural areas, and green infrastructure in the community.
The mission of the OEC is to empower youth to be active participants in creating positive change for their communities and the environment. OEC was formed to:
· Help youth understand the relationship between people and the urban ecosystem
· Engage youth in hands-on community and environmental service learning projects
· Train youth for future jobs and careers in environmental fields
· Empower youth by developing their leadership abilities that help them analyze situations, solve problems and implement strategies to improve their communities
These can be accomplished by bringing youth to the forefront of creating livable, sustainable communities through service, social enterprise and outreach.
website www.onondagaearthcorps.org
The OEC models itself on the highly successful and effective Youth Conservation Corps model that has been in operation throughout the United States since the 1930’s to address critical environmental and human service needs. Corps programs lead to positive impacts on participants’ employment and earnings, teach them valuable job readiness and technical skills for the future, and provide needed services
website www.onondagaearthcorps.org
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Jim Schrenk was the director of Covington Community Center in the mid 70’s. He co- founded Imago with his wife, Eileen, in 1978. where he was director for 28 years. He now works for Imago as project coordinator.
Jim lives in and was involved in creating Enright Ridge Urban Eco-village (ERUEV) in 2004. Seen as a local and national model for sustainability he is working to publish a work on the ecovillage called, Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, A Way to Recreate Our Cities.
Enright Urban Ecovillage seeks to create a multi-generational intentional community that joyfully works, plays, and grows together while connecting with residents of our larger neighborhood. As an educational center we pursue experimentation, and life-long learning, passing along the knowledge that we acquire. We compassionately support each other on our journey to a more healthful and Earth-centric way of life. We are a growing community of diverse people who foster connections with the environment, each other, and the surrounding neighborhood. We believe that cultivating community allows us to enrich our relationships between one another while creating bridges between Cincinnati as well as the world! website enrightecovillage.org
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Bob Randall has been a food systems activist for more than five decades. He has a doctorate in Ecological Anthropology, taught anthropology, and wrote about the Philippine poor, their problem-solving strategies, the destructive international economy, and the deteriorating ecosystems caused by it. Just before he moved to Houston in 1979, he read and began applying the Mollison-Holmgren first permaculture book.
In 1987, he quit academic life and became a professional food activist first as a community gardens specialist at a hunger-fighting agency, and then 7 years later as Executive Director of a new non-profit: Urban Harvest, Inc. (http://Urbanharvest.org) Under his 14-year leadership, Urban Harvest grew from nothing to an $850K budget when he retired in 2008. He has a strong interest in community gardens, school gardens, farmers’ markets, adult gardening, farming education, and orcharding.
Bob has been a main teacher and facilitator for Permaculture Design Courses in Houston. Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America. Bob is a pioneer of suburban permaculture. He began his suburban sub tropical food forest in 1979. Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food production, with focus on Southeast Texas.
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Chris Roth is the editor of Communities Magazine. Need bio from Chris
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Jan Spencer is an outspoken advocate for paradigm shift and lives in Eugene, Oregon. He has a degree in Geography and has low budget travelled outside the United States for about 5 years in New Zealand, all over Europe, east, central and south Africa and other locations. He Jan is, perhaps best known for 20 years transforming his quarter acre suburban property in Eugene. He has traveled
website: www.laecovillage.org
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Marisha Auerbach is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, designer, and speaker based in Portland, OR. Marisha has lived and practiced permaculture in both urban and rural environments. As an avid gardener and herbalist, Marisha specializes in food production, ecology, and useful plants. Marisha believes that it is possible to respond to the current environmental challenges, lower our ecological footprint, and continue to live equally delightful lives through permaculture design. This passion is what drives Marisha's active teaching schedule throughout the year. website - www.permaculturerising.com
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Sunil Patil is a farmer, permaculturalist, and a food and farming thought-leader, he’s studied natural farming methods and worked for farmers in California, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Oregon. Along the way, he’s collected many skills from growing 4-season biodynamic vegetables, to managing a grass-fed dairy herd, making artisanal raw milk cheese, baking for production in a commercial wood-fired oven, natural building, and helping maintain permaculture sites.
Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, he managed a large CSA in central PA for the about 4 years. In that time, he expanded a quarter acre plot to a 12 acre working farm.In January 2013, relocating to Asheville and transitioning from being Site Manager and Teaching Urban Farming at the Ashevillage Institute, he launched Patchwork Urban Farms in early 2014. website - www.patchworkurbanfarms.com
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Yvonne Chou
Yvonne Chu is a local climate and community activist based in Syracuse, New York with a background in environmental science. She volunteers her time with local grassroots organizations such as Climate Change Awareness and Action and the Sustainable Economies Alliance, to push climate change and sustainability information to the public in efforts to help solve the climate crisis. As an overall nature lover, she is grateful for the opportunity to work as the Office Manager at the Onondaga Earth Corps and to be able to help youth and young adults take ownership of growing the tree canopy, natural areas, and green infrastructure in the community.
The mission of the OEC is to empower youth to be active participants in creating positive change for their communities and the environment. OEC was formed to:
· Help youth understand the relationship between people and the urban ecosystem
· Engage youth in hands-on community and environmental service learning projects
· Train youth for future jobs and careers in environmental fields
· Empower youth by developing their leadership abilities that help them analyze situations, solve problems and implement strategies to improve their communities
These can be accomplished by bringing youth to the forefront of creating livable, sustainable communities through service, social enterprise and outreach.
website www.onondagaearthcorps.org
The OEC models itself on the highly successful and effective Youth Conservation Corps model that has been in operation throughout the United States since the 1930’s to address critical environmental and human service needs. Corps programs lead to positive impacts on participants’ employment and earnings, teach them valuable job readiness and technical skills for the future, and provide needed services
website www.onondagaearthcorps.org
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Jim Schrenk was the director of Covington Community Center in the mid 70’s. He co- founded Imago with his wife, Eileen, in 1978. where he was director for 28 years. He now works for Imago as project coordinator.
Jim lives in and was involved in creating Enright Ridge Urban Eco-village (ERUEV) in 2004. Seen as a local and national model for sustainability he is working to publish a work on the ecovillage called, Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, A Way to Recreate Our Cities.
Enright Urban Ecovillage seeks to create a multi-generational intentional community that joyfully works, plays, and grows together while connecting with residents of our larger neighborhood. As an educational center we pursue experimentation, and life-long learning, passing along the knowledge that we acquire. We compassionately support each other on our journey to a more healthful and Earth-centric way of life. We are a growing community of diverse people who foster connections with the environment, each other, and the surrounding neighborhood. We believe that cultivating community allows us to enrich our relationships between one another while creating bridges between Cincinnati as well as the world! website enrightecovillage.org
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Bob Randall has been a food systems activist for more than five decades. He has a doctorate in Ecological Anthropology, taught anthropology, and wrote about the Philippine poor, their problem-solving strategies, the destructive international economy, and the deteriorating ecosystems caused by it. Just before he moved to Houston in 1979, he read and began applying the Mollison-Holmgren first permaculture book.
In 1987, he quit academic life and became a professional food activist first as a community gardens specialist at a hunger-fighting agency, and then 7 years later as Executive Director of a new non-profit: Urban Harvest, Inc. (http://Urbanharvest.org) Under his 14-year leadership, Urban Harvest grew from nothing to an $850K budget when he retired in 2008. He has a strong interest in community gardens, school gardens, farmers’ markets, adult gardening, farming education, and orcharding.
Bob has been a main teacher and facilitator for Permaculture Design Courses in Houston. Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America. Bob is a pioneer of suburban permaculture. He began his suburban sub tropical food forest in 1979. Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food production, with focus on Southeast Texas.
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Chris Roth is the editor of Communities Magazine. Need bio from Chris
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Jan Spencer is an outspoken advocate for paradigm shift and lives in Eugene, Oregon. He has a degree in Geography and has low budget travelled outside the United States for about 5 years in New Zealand, all over Europe, east, central and south Africa and other locations. He Jan is, perhaps best known for 20 years transforming his quarter acre suburban property in Eugene. He has traveled