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Permaculture Design Workshop – Basics and Design

The presentors are Marian Farrior and Susan Hessel from PermacultureWorks Cooperative / Madison Area Permaculture Guild Join us for this introductory workshop on permaculture, a design process that uses ecological principles to create healthy and resilient food systems and communities. Last year Sustainable Hill Farms visited the Madison Area Permaculture Guild Food Forest to see permaculture design in practice. It was an inspiring display of abundance and diversity. In this interactive workshop, you will learn about permaculture basics and design principles and how you can apply them in your own back yard. Please come a few minutes early to visit, have a snack, and settle inThe workshop will begin promptly at 1:00

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From Consumer to Community Member

This event focuses on the community aspect of sustainability. – How does a strong local community support sustainability?– What is the connection between consumer culture and building community?– How can we build greater well-being in the neighborhood? Let’s explore and discuss these questions. Image used with consent from Michelle Tylecki https://www.michelletylicki.info/,

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Cleanup at Rennebohm Park

What: This is part of the Madison-wide Earth Day Challenge Initiative (https://www.cityofmadison.com/…/pro…/earth-day-challenge)When: Sat 4/25 10 AM – 12 (leave when you need to)Where: We’ll meet at Rennebohm park at corner of Regent and Eau Claire Celebrate Earth Day with neighbors, friends, and family by volunteering to clean up Rennebohm Park. What we’ll do: Stick Removal and trash pickupWe can work as a group or independently What to bring:Trash bag and gloves (grabbers are handy if you don’t want to bend over a lot).We’ll have extra trash bags in case you need more

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The Regenerative Lens

Regenerative systems maintain positive reinforcing cycles of wellbeing within and beyond themselves, especially between humans and wider nature, such that “life begets life.” We identify five key qualities needed in systems to encourage such dynamics

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Frenting: A system to share resources

Buy less; borrow more.  Need a heat gun? a tile saw? A pruning saw?  Don’t buy when someone in our group already has one. Frenting is a resource-sharing service started up by a Madison resident.  The mission is, “to turn underused spaces and things into shared value, access, and connection within trusted communities.” Let’s find out what they can do. https://www.gofrenting.com/

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Regenerative Cities

The Regenerative Cities Movement aspires to leverage the transformative power of cities. The emphasis of regenerative cities is not simply on restoration, but on the active generative power that urban systems have

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Hylo

A coordination platform for groups that are trying to do something together — and need better tools to do it. We’re open source, non-profit, and community-governed.

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Michelle Tylicki

Michelle Tylicki is an activist and interdisciplinary artist whose subversive work challenges systems of power, amplifies marginalized voices, and envisions a lush, just future of planetary kinship.

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The Transition Handbook book cover

The Transition Handbook

We live in an oil-dependent world, and have become reliant in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process – and without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but the reality may not be as bad as we think.The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead could have a positive effect. Written by permaculture expert Rob Hopkins, he discusses the possibility of a rebirth of local communities, which will generate their own fuel, food and housing. These will encourage the development of local currencies, to keep money in the local area, and unleash a local ‘skilling-up’, so that people have more control over their lives. The growth in interest in the Transition model continues to be exponential.There are now more than 35 formal Transition Initiatives in the UK, including towns, cities, islands, villages and peninsulas, with more joining as the idea takes off. With little proactivity at government level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your community has not yet become a Transition Initiative, this

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The Serviceberry book cover

The Serviceberry

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.” As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the

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Transition Network

The Transition Towns Movement brings local people together. Every group is different, shaped by local needs, but all share common goals: cutting fossil fuel use, boosting local economies, and strengthening community connections. These groups inspire positive and lasting change.

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Voces de la Frontera

We strive to create a world where all people live free of poverty and discrimination, have access to safe, dignified work, quality education, and health care; where immigrants can cross borders with dignity; and human rights and workers’ rights are respected; where government is truly “of the people”, and all families thrive.

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Sustain Dane

Sustain Dane is the sustainability organization of Dane County and Madison, WI. Our programs connect businesses, organizations, schools, local governments, and individuals to the sustainability movement and provide the support and resources to generate change.

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