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17th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap

Sunday, January 26, 2025
11-4pm, Free - Rain or Shine!
Children Welcome

A celebration to bring seeds & people together

LOCATION:

Santa Barbara Community Arts Center (SBCAW)
631 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Join us for the 17th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap at the SB Community Arts Center (SBCAW). The free event takes place on Sunday, January 26, from 11-4pm, rain or shine, with both indoor & outdoor activities.

Hundreds attend every year, sharing seeds and knowledge with other backyard gardeners, plant lovers, beekeepers, farmers and more.  Come be a part of this seed saving movement, making sure that locally adapted seeds & plants are passed on to future generations.  Special speakers, children activities, food & live music!

Local groups will have plant and seed related exhibits & speakers throughout the day.  Seed saving is a fun and easy way to connect to the circle of life!

Once again we will honor a Local Food Hero, this year the award going to Mesa Harmony Garden.  Join us for an award ceremony at 1:30 pm.




Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, and garden knowledge to swap.

Don't have these?
Then come get seeds.
Seeds to sow.
Seeds to grow.
  Seeds to harvest.
Seeds to save and share next year.
Activities for all ages
Music that will have your toes tapping

Special Speakers throughout the day
A gathering of garden friends old and new.



An annual community event hosted by:
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network


Co-Sponsors: Island Seed & Feed, Blue Sky Biochar, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Explore Ecology, & Plant Good Seeds


Event Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/632203483488117/

More Info: Margie@sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571


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4 days ago
Saying Goodbye, Honoring the Trees - Sat, Sept, 21, 2024
How blessed Santa Barbara has been with the Downtown Farmers Market
that started at the Cota St location more than 30 years ago, soon to be moved.

A commuter parking lot, with a mandate from a visionary City Council years ago to plant trees in all their commuter lots, 35 trees have graced & shaded farmers and shoppers here on Saturday mornings.

Santa Barbara has a wonderful city wide tree canopy, these trees among them.  
We honor and encourage all to say goodbye with a colorful blue ribbon

Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
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4 months ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents

Creating Local Resilience with Regenerative Design:
Solar Powered Homes, Communities & Gardens

With special guest Leif Skogberg
 of Appreculture Design

Wed, August 7, 2024, 6-8 pm, Free
CEC Environmental Hub,
1219 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Leif Skogberg is a holistic sustainability educator, consultant, builder and designer, who shares how we can partner with both Nature and modern technology to create more beauty, abundance and resilience for our local communities.

A twenty-year veteran of resilient & regenerative design, including permaculture, working with hundreds of large and small residential & commercial property owners, he is the founder of Appreculture Design Institute and TurnKi Sustainability, providing integrated land use design and solar energy system consulting around the country.  Formerly a resident of Santa Barbara, while a student at SBCC he is remembered for initiating several groundbreaking organizations, including the Students for Sustainability Coalition, the SBCC Center for Sustainability, and more, later working for the City of Santa Barbara Environmental Services Division, and later the Ojai Foundation.  At home now in Wayne, New Jersey, he chairs the local Environmental Commission, and serves on the Wayne Master Plan Steering Committee.  Website: www.leifskogberg.com

A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Cosponsored by the Community Environmental Council (CEC)
More info: www.sbpermaculture.org; margie@sbpermaculture.org
5 months ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network participates in
2024 I Madonnari Chalk Art Festival
Come & Be Inspired!

Memorial Day Weekend: May 25 – 27
Free,  10am-6pm

Location: Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St, SB, CA 93105


Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for our sponsored art square at the 38th Annual I Madonnari Chalk Art Festival that takes place every Memorial Day weekend at the Old Mission Santa Barbara.  Sponsored by the Children’s Creative Project, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network began participating in 2020 with Nature inspired art squares, with themes that included beaver & wetlands; the amazing world of fungi; coastal kelp forests; & the biologically alive soils beneath our feet.

Our 2024 theme shares the work of ecological design pioneer John Todd and his “Living Machines” that work with nature using only sunlight, plants, & microorganisms to clean & restore waterways & oceans from toxic waste created by human activity. In 2023 John Todd was honored with the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award.  

The I Madonnari Festival is special as it gives the public an opportunity to watch the artists in action, sometimes with a chance to talk with them.  For the second year, local artist Kristen Sell will be the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network featured artist.

The festival also has music, food, and visitors from around the world attending, a chance meet new friends at the tables provided on the Mission lawn.

Our art square is usually located below the Old Mission steps, on the right side as you face the Mission.  Hope to see you there!







Learn More:



FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE

https://www.facebook.com/events/816877973649398



RESOURCES:

2024 I Madonnari Chalk Art Festival

https://ccp.sbceo.org/about-the-festival

3rd Echo Hero Award John and Nancy Todd

https://www.sbpermaculture.org/events.html#event65

John and Nancy Todd

Ecological Design - John Todd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8IRbYerwxM

Ocean Arts

https://www.oceanarksint.org/

Kristin Sell Chalk Mural Artist

https://www.instagram.com/kriimadstensellsart

Soil Web Magic Mural MOVIE  2023 I Madonnari Chalk Art Festival

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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

www.sbpermaculture.org ,https://www.facebook.com/sbpermaculture

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2024 I Madonnari Chalk Art Festival
8 months ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents
2024 Eco Hero Award Honoring Albert K. Bates
Biochar Pioneer/Global Ecovillage Network UN Delegate/Author/Permaculture Teacher & Designer



Santa Barbara Permaculture Network celebrates its fourth Annual Eco Hero Award, honoring Albert K. Bates, Environmental Lawyer, Author, Right Livelihood Award recipient, UN Climate Conference Delegate, and Biochar Pioneer.

A perennial good-natured optimist, but hard-core realist, Albert Bates has been an advocate for the Earth and its ecosystems for over 50 years.

Like many of his generation, he gravitated towards living in an intentional community, joining The Farm ecovillage in Tennessee in 1972, after trekking (Thru-Hiking) north to south, the entire Appalachian Trail.  In his years at The Farm ecovillage, he learned many practical skills, working as a horse farmer, mason, solar technician, illustrator, typesetter, flour miller, riding instructor, mushroom grower, paramedic, councilman and schoolteacher.

Albert served on the executive board of Plenty-USA, a not for profit organization founded by members of The Farm, that put small water, energy, and health-care systems into underserved communities around the world.  In 1980, The Farm and Plenty were awarded the first Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel Peace prize, for “caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”  Plenty supports economic self-sufficiency, cultural integrity and environmental responsibility in partnership with community groups and organizations in Central America, the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa.

With Plenty, Albert also founded the Natural Rights Center and launched a lawsuit to end atomic power on human rights grounds that went before twenty-two federal judges and four times to the United States Supreme Court.  Bates also challenged uranium mining in the Black Hills and the first strike MX Missile deployment in the Dakotas.  He also challenged a State law retroactively disenfranchising all felons, winning a State Supreme Court order that restored the right to vote to more than 200,000 citizens in Tennessee.

As a young lawyer, Albert defended rural Tennessee residents from some of the most dangerous toxins imaginable that were being dumped by agrochemical companies into the Knox Aquifer, a primary source of citizens drinking water.  Bringing in experts and showing statistically high cancer rates by county, he won a statewide ban on fracking and deep well injection.

While researching that case, Albert began a journey of learning about how climate change might affect water rights in the future, which led to his fifth book, Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990) with a foreword by Al Gore.  Shaken by all he learned, he retired from the practice of law, and as an antidote, took up forest mushroom farming with a mail-order catalog called Mushroompeople, also later discovering permaculture.

Later forays to the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon introduced him to terra preta (dark earth) and biochar, exploring biochar’s potential for mitigating climate change and improving soil quality where implemented.  Biochar is modeled after an ancient practice found in the Amazonian basin, where indigenous people used it with great success for centuries to create rich fertile soils, out of their typically thin infertile tropical soils.

In 1994, Bates founded the Farm Ecovillage Training Center and in 1995 co-founded the Global Ecovillage Network.  Both were outshoots of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology, a nonprofit scientific research, development and demonstration organization, with projects on six continents including resettling Ukrainian refugees with the Green Road project, and regaining food sovereignty for Palestine. He has taught hundreds of courses in permaculture, natural building, ecovillage design, and climate solutions in more than 60 countries, including training certified permaculture instructors in China and Cuba.

Albert has been an ongoing delegate to the United Nations Climate Conferences (COP), representing the Global Ecovillage Network, ProNatura, and the International Biochar Initiative.

Albert is the prolific author of more than 20 books including Climate in Crisis; The Paris Agreement; The Biochar Solution; Transforming Plastics; The Dark Side of the Ocean; Plagued; and coauthor with Kathleen Draper of Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis (in German as Cool Down). His latest book is Retropopulationism: Clawing Back a Stable Planet from Eight Billion and Change (2023).

Albert will be attending the International Biochar Conference in Sacramento, CA in February 2024.

The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those individuals who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for more than thirty years, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale, while demonstrating pathways forward for future generations.  Past recipients of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award include John D. Liu; Paul Stamets & Louie Schwartzberg; and John & Nancy Jack Todd.   We are honored to have Albert Bates join us in person as the recipient for the 2024 Eco Hero Award.  A reception follows in the Lobero courtyard for all ticket holders.
Albert Bates Eco Hero 2424 Lobero Threater
1 year ago
16th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap
Sunday, January 28, 2024
11-4pm, Free - Rain or Shine!

celebration to bring seeds & people together

LOCATION

Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW)
631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org

Join us for the 16th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap!  The event takes place at the Santa Barbara Community Arts Center (SBCAW) in downtown Santa Barbara, with both indoor and outdoor space, rain or shine.


Honoring of our 2024  Local Food Leslie Person Ryan Hero will be at 1:30 pm at !6th SB Annual Seed Swap see below for writeup

Hundreds attend this free event every year sharing seeds and knowledge with other backyard gardeners, plant lovers, beekeepers, farmers and more.  Come be a part of this seed saving movement, making sure locally adapted seeds & plants are passed on to future generations.  Free seeds offered to help gardeners get started.  Local groups will have seed & plant related exhibits.  Live music, and kids activities throughout the day.  

Once again we will honor a Local Food Hero, this year the award goes to Leslie Person Ryan of Sweet Wheel Summerland Farm.  Join us for an award ceremony at 1:30 pm.

Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, and garden knowledge to swap.
Don't have these? Then come get seeds. Seeds to sow, seeds to grow, seeds to harvest. Seeds to save and share next year.
Activities for all ages.
Free Face Painting
Music that will have your toes tapping.
Plant and seed-related exhibits from local groups
Special speakers throughout the day.
A gathering of garden friends old and new.
Seed saving is a fun and easy way to connect to the circle of life.


A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network



Co-Sponsored by Island Seed & Feed, Blue Sky Biochar, Explore Ecology, & Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.



More Info: Margie@sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571

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Seeds, they are our past, they are our future.  In past times, they were skillfully adapted to climate and location.
Join us as we encourage our community to save and grow out seeds specific to our own climate and place, while honoring our ancestors gift & legacy.

2024 Local Food Hero  Leslie Person Ryan of Sweet Wheel Summerland Farm
Leslie Person Ryan of Sweet Wheel Summerland Farm has been committed to building food resilience in her community for many years.  Starting with her Sweet Wheel Farm Cart selling local, organic, in season produce & other goods, with a large percentage donated & delivered to vulnerable community members. After a cataclysmic fire & debris flow event in 2018 leaving Summerland completely isolated & without food for two weeks, Leslie determined Summerland was a “food desert” and needed its own farm to be food secure.  Leslie led a phenomenally successful fundraising campaign to purchase a six-acre farm, with an intention to ultimately grow enough to feed everyone in the community, while demonstrating & educating all ages about best regenerative farming practices, including encouraging young women to consider farming.  Leslie is a passionate heirloom seed advocate, known for the beautiful non-GMO multi-color corn varieties she grows on the farm.
1 year ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents

Booksigning & Talk CROSSINGS -Ben Goldfarb
How Road Ecology is Shaping The Future of our Planet

TUESDAY OCT 24 6:30-8:30pm
Santa Barbara Community Council (CEC) Environmental Hub FREE
1219 State St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Road ecology is the study of how roads and other forms of transportation infrastructure affect nature

An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning rauthor of Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter


Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience.
While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption .

In Crossings, environmental journalist     Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone, but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roads
Creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates invasive plants hitch rides in tire treads road salt contaminates lakes and rivers and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat.        

yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania’s car-orphaned wallabies and community organizers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities.Today as our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially the science of road ecology has become increasingly vital. Written with passion and curiosity Crossings is a sweeping spirited and timely investigation into how humans have altered the natural world—and how we can create a better future for all living beings          




A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org
Cosponsors- CEC Community Environmental Council  and Sustainable
World Radio RESOURCES

FACEBOOK PEVENT PAGE https://www.facebook.com/855792232796516/

RESOURCES

Ben Goldfarb website
https://www.bengoldfarb.com/

How Roads Have Transformed the Natural World
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-roads-have-transformed-the-natural-world-180982809/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=952023&utm_content=new

PODCAST Fresh Air interviews Ben Goldfarb How Roads & Highways Affect Wildlife
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1197954444/fresh-air-draft-09-26-2023


Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
https://annenberg.org/initiatives/wallis-annenberg-wildlife-crossing/

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a public-private partnership of monumental scope that has leveraged the expertise and leadership of dozens of organizations and institutions to protect and restore wildlife habitats in Southern California.

EXCERPT Interview

Crossings’ details how roads impact wildlife in Washington and beyond

What is road ecology? Why does it matter?

Road ecology is the study of how roads and other forms of transportation infrastructure affect nature. And I think the reason that it matters is that roads are among the worst forms of ecological disruption that we inflict on nature. We take them for granted because they’re such a part of our daily lives. We don’t think about them in the same terms that we think about climate change or dams on rivers or poaching wildlife.

How did you get interested in road ecology?

In the fall of 2013, I was working as a reporter writing about habitat connectivity and wildlife in the Northern Rockies — Montana, Wyoming, British Columbia and Alberta. I got a tour of a wildlife overpass on Highway 93, north of Missoula on the Flathead Indian Reservation. And it was just getting on top of this old wildlife overpass, this bridge that was specially built to allow grizzly bears and elk and other creatures to safely navigate this really busy federal highway. And there’s just something so beautiful about that — the fact that humans were going to such great lengths to undo some of the harms we’d inflicted.

I found that really powerful and moving. I also just found it to be a great intellectual challenge. We’re so accustomed to building infrastructure for ourselves. How do we build infrastructure for animals? How do you know what kind of overpass or underpass a deer or a cougar or a coyote might find appealing? We have to think like an animal in some ways.



What are some of the assumptions you had about road ecology going into the book, and what were some of the biggest things that surprised you?

I think that the primary assumption that I had going in was geographical. The first wildlife overpasses and underpasses were built in Western Europe — France, Germany, Switzerland. Then there were great examples in Canada and the western U.S. I sort of thought this is primarily something that the Western world is doing and maybe there’s some export of knowledge to other countries as well.

But the more that I read, I realized there’s just incredible road ecology movements in places like Brazil and India, and Costa Rica and Kenya. These are places that are engineering wonderful endemic solutions to their own conflict between roads and nature. One of my favorite examples is in India. They’re building this new highway through a tiger sanctuary, and they just put the entire highway up on pilings. They elevated the whole freeway above the forest so the tigers can walk under this highway undisturbed. That’s more radical than anything we’ve done in North America to accommodate wildlife.

You’ve got so many cool stories in here — frogs and turtles being ushered across roads by volunteer hands, a wildlife crossing for cougars in California, citizen roadkill reporting networks. In many ways, it’s a book about the people trying to correct our mistakes. What were some of the solutions to our road problems that seemed the most promising to you?

I’ve already talked a bit about wildlife crossings, but that’s the first one that comes to mind. There are some fantastic examples of that all over the Northwest. Most Washingtonians have probably driven I-90 and seen the crossing up on Snoqualmie Pass. There’s that very visible, conspicuous overpass that you drive by, but there are many other underpasses that are already being used very readily by elk and black bears and coyotes and all kinds of creatures. Those structures also have fences along the interstate so that the animals stay off the highway and are directed by those fences to the crossings.

One important thing to note about them is that they’re very, very cost-effective. People see this big bridge over the highway and think, “Oh man, what a huge expenditure.” I think that [Snoqualmie Pass] overpass was something like $6 million. But because those crossing structures are preventing so many wildlife-vehicle collisions, they’re often paying for themselves really quickly.
1 year ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award
An Evening with John & Nancy Jack Todd, Ecological Design Pioneers
Come & Be Inspired by a life of Innovation!
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Friday, March 17, 6:30-9pm, 2023
TICKETS $10, $20, $40, & Friends of Eco Hero $100

Location: Lobero Theatre
33 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Tickets on Sale Now:  Lobero Ticket Office




Ecological design goes way beyond any other field of design.  It taps deep into Nature’s operating instructions, organizing knowledge & ecosystems to serve human needs without despoiling the planet.  John Todd


Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as we celebrate our third annual Eco Hero Award honoring John & Nancy Jack Todd, pioneers in the ecological design movement.

Beginning in the late 1960’s this unique and amazingly productive husband and wife team has shared a partnership journey over five decades, committed to the emerging field of ecological design, that uses human ingenuity to design a future in balance with nature, while healing broken ecosystems damaged historically, and by modern industrial society.  

Youthful founders of the New Alchemy Institute, in 1969 John and Nancy Todd began their journey on a twelve acre site in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with the intention of “scientifically exploring strategies that could have evolutionary value to humanity and the planet’s future”.  The New Alchemy Institute had an enthusiastic and talented young staff of scientists and innovators who pioneered among other things, Eco-Machines®, living machines designed for biological waste water treatment using solar energy & living organisms. This team also led the way with newly evolving organic agriculture & aquaculture practices;  also the design of bioshelters, dwellings that provide their inhabitants with energy, food & shelter, with minimal reliance on fossil fuels.    

With lessons learned from the New Alchemy Institute, they embarked on the Ark for Prince Edward Island, an ambitious project with support of the Canadian government, while in the midst of an energy crisis being felt around the world. The Ark was a bioshelter that generated its own electricity with wind generators, and used solar energy for space and water heating, tested purposely in Prince Edward Island’s cold northern climate.  Despite the wintery weather with limited daylight, the Ark’s gardens and fruit trees provided food all winter long for its inhabitants.

Today John & Nancy operate Ocean Arks International, a nonprofit research and outreach organization founded in 1982.  Ocean Ark’s stated mission is “to create planetary healing through promoting ecological literacy and the dissemination of vital eco-technologies”, with projects focused on the restoration of the world’s oceans and fresh waters, using the tools of nature to heal toxic waste sites, oil spills, leaking landfills and severely damaged waterways.  In order to provide consultancy services to communities and businesses John Todd Ecological Design was also formed with projects around the globe. Through the years, Nancy Jack Todd has been the chronicler of all their work, masterfully describing the scope of what they were attempting, while at times even predicting the revolutionary direction they were going.  These publications remain potently relevant today.  They have collaborated & partnered with many other ecological design pioneers, including  William McLarney, Bill McKibben, Amory Lovins, Janine Benyus, Stewart Brand, John D. Liu, Paul Hawkens, and in their earliest days the anthropologist Margaret Mead who strongly influenced their work.  


Recently the Todd’s have joined forces with the ambitious Greening the Sinai project, along with John D. Liu, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network’s 2019 Eco Hero Award recipient.  Headed up by the Weather Makers, a widespread group of international engineers and scientists, this project proposes altering the climate cycle in one of the hottest, driest places on the planet---to a cooler, moister one---as was successfully done in a similar historically desertified region, the Loess Plateau in China.  Since fresh clean water is a precious and limited resource in the Sinai, Dr. John Todd’s Eco-Machine® is an especially valuable tool as a natural system for treating industrial and human wastewater, while remediating existing degraded bodies of water.



The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those individuals who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for more than thirty years, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale, while demonstrating pathways forward for future generations.   Audiences will learn what inspired John & Nancy, how they made their projects happen, and what challenges they faced along the way—with time for the audience to ask questions, especially encouraging youth attending to interact.

Past recipients of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award include John D. Liu, Paul Stamets, and Louie Schwartzberg.   We are honored to have John & Nancy Jack Todd join us in person as recipients for the 2023 Eco Hero Award.  A reception follows in the Lobero courtyard for all ticket holders.  

The event takes place at the Lobero Theatre on Friday, March 17, from 6:30 pm – 9 pm, tickets on sale at Lobero Tickets (fees apply), 805-963-0761; Lobero.com.  For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org.



A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org


Cosponsors: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, Blue Sky Biochar, Bamboo DNA, Teeccino, AH Juice, Community Environmental Council, Antioch University, SBCC Environmental Horticulture, Explore Ecology, Regenerative Landscape Alliance, Sweetwater Collaborative; Island Seed & Feed, Orella Ranch-Gaviota Givings, Santa Barbara Aquaponics, Sustainable World Radio, Santa Barbara Agriculture & Farm Foundation, Paradise Found, Quail Springs Permaculture, HourBooks, Mesa Harmony Garden, Wingnut Mushroom Farm, Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, Ojai Center for Regenerative Agriculture (CRA), WonderMouse Studios, and the Santa Barbara Independent.


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Learn More:

Bios:
Nancy Jack Todd is an author, former dancer, editor of numerous publications, who has been involved in international environmental affairs for more than forty years.  A co-author of many books with her husband John Todd (see below), she is the sole author of A Safe and Sustainable World (that has been likened to Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us), and The Village as Solar Ecology.  Nancy Todd is the  long-time editor of the Journal of the New Alchemist that chronicled the New Alchemy Institute as it evolved over time.  She is currently the editor and publisher of the Annals of Earth, a publication of Ocean Arks International, and manages their outreach programs.  Among the numerous honors she has shared with John Todd are the Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh Award, the Bioneers Lifetime Achievement Award, the Friends of the United Nations Award, and the Swiss Threshold Award for contributions to human knowledge.  

John Todd is a biologist and ecologist, who graduated from McGill University in Canada with degrees in agriculture, parasitology & tropical medicine, with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Marine Biology.  Todd is a professor emeritus and distinguished lecturer at the University of Vermont, and fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics also at the University of Vermont.  Todd has been an assistant scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic, and assistant professor at San Diego University.  He is the co-founder of the New Alchemy Institute, founder and president of John Todd Ecological Design; and president of Ocean Arks International.  Todd designed a facility size Eco-Machine® for the Omega Institute of Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, New York.  A favorite speaker at the annual Bioneers Conference in the San Francisco Bay area, collaborating while there with other ecological design pioneers like Janine Benyus, Paul Hawkins, and  Bill McKibben.  His many awards include the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award (2008) for the best idea and concept to help save the planet and humanity; “Top Visionary” award (2007) by Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, and was profiled as one of top thirty-five figures "Inventing Modern America" in the "Genius” issue of Esquire magazine.  Todd was named “Hero of the Earth” by Time magazine in 1999.  His most recent book publication is Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation & Environmental Stewardship.


Books Co-authored by John & Nancy Jack Todd:

Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address
The Book of the New Alchemists
From Eco-Cities to Living Machines – Principles of Ecological Designs
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design.

Resources:

Video: Why Design Now: Eco-Machine at the Omega Center for Sustainable Living

Video: Ecological Design & Living Machines

Video: Eco-Machines/Living Machine examples: El Monte Sagrado Resort Taos, New Mexico; Eco Hood in Prescott, AZ

Interview: John Todd on Sustainable World Radio, Episode 131

John Todd Ecological Design

Ocean Arks International

New Alchemy Institute & The Green Center

Kathe Seidel, German Botanist, first to incorporate vegetation into wastewater treatment wetlands in the 1950's

Greening the Sinai: John D. Liu’s trip to the Sinai

John Todd and Nancy Jack-Todd Interview (2006)

Journal of the New Alchemists 1973-1981 7 Journals Download PDFs

The New Alchemist Documentary 1974 CBC Canada

The Weathermakers Greening the Sinai Project: John Todd, John D. Lui and the Weathermakers

John Todd Greening the Sinai ‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: Scientists turning the desert green



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1 year ago
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents
Gratitude Revealed Film Premiere
With Award-winning Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg in Person
Post-screening Q&A following

Saturday , November 19, 6:30 - 9 pm, 2022
TICKETS $10

Location: Marjorie Luke Theatre
721 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103

Gratitude is a state of mind that preserves our humanity amidst the chaos. Louie Schwartzberg

Just in time for Thanksgiving! Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents the film premiere of Gratitude Revealed, a new film by Louis Schwartzberg, the director of the acclaimed Fantastic Fungi documentary, and recent recipient of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network’s 2022 Eco Hero Award, graciously received to a standing ovation.

An epic journey forty years in the making, Gratitude Revealed is a rich visual tapestry that takes viewers on a transformational cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of


Gratitude through intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities, revealing Gratitude is a proven pathway back from the disconnection we feel in our lives---disconnection from ourselves, our planet, and each other. Louie Schwartzberg will be attending the event in person, and welcomes a lively Q&A session following the film.

Please join us!
Louie Schwartzberg is an American director, producer, and cinematographer, recognized as a pioneer in high-end time-lapse cinematography, and visual artist known for breaking down barriers of perception and taking viewers on journeys of time and scale. For more than forty years, with his studio Moving Art, his passion has been telling stories through film that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature.

The event takes place at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, Saturday, November 19, 6:30 – 9 pm, tickets sales online with Santa Barbara Independent Tickets (fees apply). For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org, margie@sbpermaculture.org, 805-962-2571


A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org


More Info:

Gratitude Revealed Website:
https://gratituderevealed.com/

Gratitude Revealed Trailer:


Mantragold - Gratitude (Official Music Video)

INDY TICKETS links Gratitude Revealed
https://www.sbindytickets.com/events/129780268/gratitude-revealed-film-premiere-with-filmmaker-louis-schwartzberg-attending-in-person-q-a-following
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