Welcome! Below is the current schedule for zoom presentations and site tours.
Feel free to share this url link with friends and networks.
Check back a few days after the zoom presentations go to youtube for the url.
Check back, there may be other site tours added.
Here is a link to a short essay about preparedness, resilience and permaculture
Check the drop down menu above to see what else is on this website such as 25 years transforming this suburban property. Also links to zoom and on line "A Primer For Paradigm Shift."
Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
* Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level.
* Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.
* Positive human potential is our greatest renewable resource.
Zoom link for all presentations mentioned below
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81223758710?pwd=bG01SWVGMFY1TkZhZWk3aTVnK2VIUT09
Note, more site tours can be added. Organize a site tour in your neighborhood. A network can help promote it.
Here is the Schedule – Zoom Presentations and Companion Site Tours
The presentations will put the site tours in a paradigm shift context.
Note -
East Blair Housing Co-op tour has moved to July 19
New tour in Churchill will be July 12
New tour, Hummingbird Wholesale will be August 9
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.
May 27, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Preparedness - What Are We Preparing For And Why?
What are we preparing for? Why do we have all these deepening social, economic, political and environmental problems in the first place? There is a common denominator and when we address that many trillion dollar common denominator, we can more address the source of these problems and not just the symptoms. A growing number of people are already addressing the source. We will see some of those examples during the site tours.
May 31, Saturday, Site Tour, Duma Community
Site Tour – Meet - 10 AM, Duma Community, 2244 Alder
Duma Community is an intentional residential group of 9 people sharing a large historical home. The intention is to build group cohesion and reduce eco footprints. Community members share house maintenance and chores. Evening meals are together. The place has a shared wood shop, rain water catchment, solar electric, chickens, jacuzzi and common spaces. Duma has a beautiful and functional food forest and edible landscape. The former packed gravel driveway is now a garden. The front along the sidewalk features entertaining place making projects. Duma is an excellent example of paradigm shift - enhancing social relations, producing more basic needs at home and reducing impact on the environment.
June 17, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Allies and Assets and Aspects for Preparedness, Resilience and Paradigm Shift
Almost every local public interest organization exists to help make the community a better place to live. That means they have common interests and can be on the same team,,, a potential network for resilience. Assets are tools we have to work with such as communication and people with useful skills for paradigm shift. Aspects of paradigm shift mean what are characteristics of a paradigm shift way of life such as reducing eco footprints, how we manage our own time and money, building civic culture and more. Allies, assets and aspects all add up to taking purposeful and positive action.
June 21, Saturday, Site Tour Friendly Neighborhood , Various locations
Site Tour - Meet - 11 AM, Common Ground Garden, 21st and Van Buren
This site tour will visit several locations starting at Common Ground Garden. CGG is a cooperative neighborhood project, turning an unused city street right of way into a very popular neighborhood point of interest. Plots are cooperative. The tour will visit at least two residential properties with many resilience/permaculture features for food production, solar and rain water catchment. The tour will visit the Friendly Tool Box Project. The ToolBox Project is a volunteer-driven, tool-lending library open to residents of Lane County. The Project and CGG are excellent examples of neighborhood initiative to boost the well being of people and the environment. Finally the tour will finish at Friendly Market. We want to imagine the apartments across the street as a proxy for developing a parking lot. Join us on the tour to hear why this is important. Bikes are strongly recommended.
July 8, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Real Life Examples of Resilience, Permaculture and Paradigm Shift
This presentation will be a show and tell of real life examples creating a more resilient present and future. Empowering young people in Syracuse, maker space in Oakland, eco villages - Portland, LA, Columbus; Local 20/20 in Port Townsend, permaculture boot camp; pushing back on cars in New York City, Paris, Houten, Barcelona, Alghero and more.
July 12, Churchill
Site Tour of adjoining residential properties. Details TBA
July 19, Saturday, Site Tour East Blair Housing Co-op,
Site Tour – Meet East Blair, 940 W 4th, 1 PM, Whiteaker N'hood
East Blair is a cooperatively owned and managed housing cooperative and is home to about 50 members. EB values and encourages community, creativity, diversity, civility, cooperation, and accountability among its members and its neighbors. EB dates to 1982 and features an impressive variety of on site features that build community culture, organizational skills and synchronizing smart use of its eight properties. EB is perhaps the best example in Eugene to show what block planning can deliver. The tour will explain.
August 2, Saturday, Site Tour, Maitreya Eco Village and residential properties
July 29, Zoom, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Taking Resilience and Paradigm Shift Ideas To A Wider Audience
Be the change, strategic planning goals, an enormous movement waiting to discover itself. Organizations, networks, members. Imagine AARP and the Sierra Club advocating suburban permaculture and block planning.
August 2, Saturday, Site Tour, Maitreya Eco Village and residential properties
Site Tour - Meet at Broadway and Almaden, Maitreya Eco Village.
Maitreya is home to about 35 people. There is a large shared garden area and creative density elsewhere including Eugene's first permitted strawbale structure. Many resilience features. We will also visit a residential property with rain water catchment and extensive gardens.
August 9, Saturday, Site Tour, Hummingbird Wholesale
Site Tour - Meet at 150 Shelton - McMurphey Blvd.
Hummingbird Wholesale is a next for a wide range of positive iniatives. The tour will learn about the wholesale business of natural foods and its cooperative business model. We will see the commercial kitchen and small business incubator and office area for local progressive non profits. We will hear how HB supports and encourages local farmers to go organic and try new new crops.
August 12, 6:30 PM; Zoom Discussion
Reflect, review, discuss the site tours and previous zoom presentations with thoughts of disaster preparedness, resilience, permaculture, paradigm shift. Share our thoughts about the presentations, site tours and paradigm shift.
Feel free to share this url link with friends and networks.
Check back a few days after the zoom presentations go to youtube for the url.
Check back, there may be other site tours added.
Here is a link to a short essay about preparedness, resilience and permaculture
Check the drop down menu above to see what else is on this website such as 25 years transforming this suburban property. Also links to zoom and on line "A Primer For Paradigm Shift."
Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
* Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level.
* Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.
* Positive human potential is our greatest renewable resource.
Zoom link for all presentations mentioned below
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81223758710?pwd=bG01SWVGMFY1TkZhZWk3aTVnK2VIUT09
Note, more site tours can be added. Organize a site tour in your neighborhood. A network can help promote it.
Here is the Schedule – Zoom Presentations and Companion Site Tours
The presentations will put the site tours in a paradigm shift context.
Note -
East Blair Housing Co-op tour has moved to July 19
New tour in Churchill will be July 12
New tour, Hummingbird Wholesale will be August 9
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.
May 27, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Preparedness - What Are We Preparing For And Why?
What are we preparing for? Why do we have all these deepening social, economic, political and environmental problems in the first place? There is a common denominator and when we address that many trillion dollar common denominator, we can more address the source of these problems and not just the symptoms. A growing number of people are already addressing the source. We will see some of those examples during the site tours.
May 31, Saturday, Site Tour, Duma Community
Site Tour – Meet - 10 AM, Duma Community, 2244 Alder
Duma Community is an intentional residential group of 9 people sharing a large historical home. The intention is to build group cohesion and reduce eco footprints. Community members share house maintenance and chores. Evening meals are together. The place has a shared wood shop, rain water catchment, solar electric, chickens, jacuzzi and common spaces. Duma has a beautiful and functional food forest and edible landscape. The former packed gravel driveway is now a garden. The front along the sidewalk features entertaining place making projects. Duma is an excellent example of paradigm shift - enhancing social relations, producing more basic needs at home and reducing impact on the environment.
June 17, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Allies and Assets and Aspects for Preparedness, Resilience and Paradigm Shift
Almost every local public interest organization exists to help make the community a better place to live. That means they have common interests and can be on the same team,,, a potential network for resilience. Assets are tools we have to work with such as communication and people with useful skills for paradigm shift. Aspects of paradigm shift mean what are characteristics of a paradigm shift way of life such as reducing eco footprints, how we manage our own time and money, building civic culture and more. Allies, assets and aspects all add up to taking purposeful and positive action.
June 21, Saturday, Site Tour Friendly Neighborhood , Various locations
Site Tour - Meet - 11 AM, Common Ground Garden, 21st and Van Buren
This site tour will visit several locations starting at Common Ground Garden. CGG is a cooperative neighborhood project, turning an unused city street right of way into a very popular neighborhood point of interest. Plots are cooperative. The tour will visit at least two residential properties with many resilience/permaculture features for food production, solar and rain water catchment. The tour will visit the Friendly Tool Box Project. The ToolBox Project is a volunteer-driven, tool-lending library open to residents of Lane County. The Project and CGG are excellent examples of neighborhood initiative to boost the well being of people and the environment. Finally the tour will finish at Friendly Market. We want to imagine the apartments across the street as a proxy for developing a parking lot. Join us on the tour to hear why this is important. Bikes are strongly recommended.
July 8, Tuesday, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Real Life Examples of Resilience, Permaculture and Paradigm Shift
This presentation will be a show and tell of real life examples creating a more resilient present and future. Empowering young people in Syracuse, maker space in Oakland, eco villages - Portland, LA, Columbus; Local 20/20 in Port Townsend, permaculture boot camp; pushing back on cars in New York City, Paris, Houten, Barcelona, Alghero and more.
July 12, Churchill
Site Tour of adjoining residential properties. Details TBA
July 19, Saturday, Site Tour East Blair Housing Co-op,
Site Tour – Meet East Blair, 940 W 4th, 1 PM, Whiteaker N'hood
East Blair is a cooperatively owned and managed housing cooperative and is home to about 50 members. EB values and encourages community, creativity, diversity, civility, cooperation, and accountability among its members and its neighbors. EB dates to 1982 and features an impressive variety of on site features that build community culture, organizational skills and synchronizing smart use of its eight properties. EB is perhaps the best example in Eugene to show what block planning can deliver. The tour will explain.
August 2, Saturday, Site Tour, Maitreya Eco Village and residential properties
July 29, Zoom, 6:30 PM; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Taking Resilience and Paradigm Shift Ideas To A Wider Audience
Be the change, strategic planning goals, an enormous movement waiting to discover itself. Organizations, networks, members. Imagine AARP and the Sierra Club advocating suburban permaculture and block planning.
August 2, Saturday, Site Tour, Maitreya Eco Village and residential properties
Site Tour - Meet at Broadway and Almaden, Maitreya Eco Village.
Maitreya is home to about 35 people. There is a large shared garden area and creative density elsewhere including Eugene's first permitted strawbale structure. Many resilience features. We will also visit a residential property with rain water catchment and extensive gardens.
August 9, Saturday, Site Tour, Hummingbird Wholesale
Site Tour - Meet at 150 Shelton - McMurphey Blvd.
Hummingbird Wholesale is a next for a wide range of positive iniatives. The tour will learn about the wholesale business of natural foods and its cooperative business model. We will see the commercial kitchen and small business incubator and office area for local progressive non profits. We will hear how HB supports and encourages local farmers to go organic and try new new crops.
August 12, 6:30 PM; Zoom Discussion
Reflect, review, discuss the site tours and previous zoom presentations with thoughts of disaster preparedness, resilience, permaculture, paradigm shift. Share our thoughts about the presentations, site tours and paradigm shift.