Permaculture Design Workshop: “Visions of Resilience: Permaculture design and the Culture of Sustainability”
Be at the epicentre of the shakeup toward a more abundant, sustainable, and resilient Powell River!
This two-day workshop will engage your heart, head, and hands in questions, strategies, and tools for creating a cultural shift away from dependence on fragile global systems and toward a richer, saner, and more peaceful future for our community and the world. Learn how the fundamentals of Permaculture design can be used to create dynamic community-based actions that can make a real difference in our lives and the lives of those around us — and then actually DO it!
From our personal frustrations, fears, and barriers to the global challenges we all share, this workshop is your chance to participate in a pro-active and solution-minded approach to achievable social change.
What is Permaculture?
What is Resilience?
Details
Use the Contact Us Page to get a registration form by email, or call (604) 483-9052
August 18, 2010
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Solar Food Dryer Workshop
On Wed 14th July we held a hands-on “Build Your Own Solar Food Dryer” workshop at the CRC here in Powell River. 10 teams or individuals built dryers out of cardboard, clear plastic and duct tape, and took them home to play with. Ours is out in the backyard drying cherries right now: it’s a bit slow, but it’s working! Next time we’ll make the food pieces smaller and not so thick, so they dry more quickly.
Enjoy the pictures…
Cutting and re-sizing cardboard boxes for solar food dryers
Kelly and Valerie cutting cardboard for their solar dehydrator
All working hard at their dryers
Painting the insides of our solar heat collectors
Nine complete (or almost) solar food dryers
Many thanks for David for allowing us to piggyback on the Kale Force meeting, to Kevin, David, Barry and Owen for acting as coaches and helping others build their dryers, to everyone who brought extra materials and tools for others to share, and to all our participants for coming along and building.
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July 17, 2010
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Solar Dryer Workshop – register and pay here
On Wed July 14th at 7pm, after the Kale Force meeting at the Community Resource Centre (4752 Joyce), we’ll be holding a hands-on workshop where you will build your own simple solar-heated food dryer out of cardboard and a few other simple materials. This is not a dryer that will last forever, nor is it the most efficient possible, but it will get you started drying stuff without paying big bucks for an electric dryer. Workshop cost is $5.
You can register and pay right now using Paypal by clicking this button:
Note that this will let you pay using your credit card through Paypal without needing to have a Paypal account.
You can also pay by dropping off cash or a check with a TTPR initiating group member – phone 483 9052 or email transitionpowellriver@gmail.com to make arrangements.
July 6, 2010
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Reducing Waste at events – how to do it
Pebble in the Pond has a great guide to reducing waste at your events, whether a small club get-together or a big community-wide bash. See it here:
Reducing Waste at Pebble in the Pond
June 25, 2010
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10/10/10 Work Party idea meeting
On Sunday June 13th a group of us met to brainstorm ideas for a 10/10/10 work party project. Here’s the list:
- Organize a Tree Planting (preferably edibles)
- Install solar panels on a public or community-owned building
- Work day at a community garden or organic farm
- Mass bike ride
- Mass bus ride: “fill the bus” day
- Install a wind turbine
- Weatherize a public or community building – energy retrofit SWAT team(s)
- Perform energy audits
- Trash Cleanup Day (recycle and compost as much as possible)
- Install an edible garden in publicly accessible space (eg corner of Alberni and Marine by Breakwater Books)
- Invasive Plant removal day
- Public juicing day – use fruit that would otherwise go to waste and Skookum’s cider press to replace imported juice.
- Car free day
- Anti-idling campaign
- Vegetarian cooking workshop / potluck / party pledging to continue with Meatless Mondays
- TV-free day (electronic-media free day? outdoor/indoor activities instead?)
- Tool sharing project
- Green (sharable) bikes
- Provide local food and waste-free catering at public event
- piggyback on TTPR Celebration of Local Food, scheduled for Oct
- “Buy Local” campaign kickoff/focus week
- Local food potluck / party
- Art project – using local/recycled materials, make publicity pieces to encourage ppl to reduce CO2
- Alternative building project (small building or renovation)
I’m posting this list on the forum too, so if you’d like to add ideas or discuss any of those listed above, head over there (forum link above) and let’s hear from you!
For more 10/10/10 information generally, head over to 350.org
June 15, 2010
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Bike to Work Week comes to Powell River
For the first time, Powell River is an official Bike to Work Week community! Transition Town Powell River is helping the Powell River Cycling Association get the show on the road.
For more information, check out the Powell River section at the Bike to Work Week site:
Bike to Work Week Powell River
May 22, 2010
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TTPR at Earth Day
The Earth Day celebration at Willingdon Beach on Sat 24th Apr was marked by wildly changeable weather (sunshine, high winds and heavy rain followed each other throughout the day) and lots of fun. TTPR used Wendy P’s big 20′ x 10′ canopy to create a “hang your laundry” display, a vision board activity, and our usual big display board with books and handouts.
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- Solar Drying Information Display
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- Choosing pictures for the vision board
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- Hanging out at the laundry display
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- Hang Your Laundry display showing umbrella dryer
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- Laundry drying info blowing in the wind
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- Laundry drying info blowing in the wind
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- Defy strata regs!
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- Powell River Futures vision display
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- Earth Day thoughts by Tracy
April 28, 2010
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The Four Key Assumptions of Transition
From Rob Hopkins’ “Transition Handbook”
- That life with dramatically lower energy consumption is inevitable, and that it’s better to plan for it than to be taken by surprise
- That our settlements and communities presently lack the resilience to enable them to weather the severe energy shocks that will accompany Peak Oil
- That we have to act collectively, and we have to act now
- That by unleashing the collective genius of those around us to creatively and proactively design our energy descent, we can build ways of living that are more connected, more enriching and that recognise the biological limits of our planet
April 1, 2010
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350.org Action Slideshow
March 21, 2010
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Training for Transition comes to Powell River
Please join us for a workshop on
Training for Transition
hosted by Transition Town Powell River
exploring lessons and approaches to strengthen community resilience
Friday 9th April 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Saturday 10th April 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Unitarian Hall, 6828 Cranberry St, Powell River
Training for Transition Workshop
This two day workshop is intended to introduce and allow for practice of skills required to initiate the very successful “Transition Town” model of local response to global challenges. Learn how to: initiate a transition group in your community; build awareness of peak oil, climate change and economic instability; and engage citizens from all walks of life in neighbourhood or community projects. This is a very full two days of learning. From the practical (organizing Open Space sessions and planning awareness activities) to the theoretical (principles of resilience and theories of change), you will leave the session better equipped to offer transition leadership or get involved in an existing transition initiative in the place you call home.
Course Objectives Include:
- understanding the context for transition
- understanding the Transition Towns model as it has evolved so far – from inspiration to working groups
- gaining knowledge of the main steps of transition
- working out a plan of action for yourself and your community
- understanding the inner and outer aspects of transition
- having the elements of an inspiring talk on Transition Towns
Who Should Attend
The workshop is for anyone aged 16 or over interested in strengthening a community wide response to the converging trends of fossil fuel dependence, climate change and economic instability. Participants from the permaculture, environment, education, and eco village fields will find it useful. Likewise, participants who are just starting to address these issues – including municipal staff, elected officials, and neighbourhood associations – have rated the workshop very highly. Ideally you will come with at least one other person from your organization or community.
Transition Towns Movement
Transition Towns (TT) was initiated over four years ago in Totnes, U.K. to help whole communities take action and adapt their lives to peak oil and climate change. The movement has spread very quickly around the globe. After 4 years of learning in Totnes, the founders and others formed the Transition Network to support TT initiatives and training worldwide. There is also a Transition US Network formed in December of 2008. Peterborough, Guelph and Dundas, ON, and Victoria and Nelson, BC were the first five official Transition Towns in Canada: there are now 13 including Powell River, Vancouver and Salt Spring Island in BC, plus active unofficial groups in Cranbrook, Port Alberni, Abbotsford, Denman Island and elsewhere. Transition is here to stay.
www.transitiontowns.org
Workshop fee: $135 includes materials and snacks. Please bring a memory stick to load the files onto.
Lunch is “on your own” both days. There are several delis and cafes within walking distance or bring your own bag lunch. Two lakeside parks are close by and make wonderful, peaceful places to eat and re-energize yourself.
Contact Michelle at: 250-595-8874 or mcolussi@telus.net for more information about the workshop content.
Registration
Attendance is limited to those 16 years of age or older.
email or snail mail this page to transitionpowellriver@gmail.com or TTPR, 5865 Mowat Ave, Powell River, BC V8A 4C2
Your Name: ___________________________________________
Organization or group if relevant: ____________________________________________
Phone: ______________________ Email: _____________________________________
How did you hear about the workshop: __________________________________________________
Payment: $135 (check one below)
Would you like to donate to support our youth scholarships? If you would, please add your donation to your $135 when you pay, and let us know that you’re doing so.
o I will pay by cheque in the mail (see mailing address above – include a copy of this form)
o I am being sponsored by _________________________ and they will send the cheque(s)
o I will pay by Paypal to cdnkev@shaw.ca
o I am a youth aged 16-25 and I’m applying for a scholarship (see below)
Please make cheques payable to Transition Town Powell River
Mail to: TTPR, c/o Kevin Wilson, 5865 Mowat Ave, Powell River, BC V8A 4C2
Billeting
Billets may be available for out-of-towners. Note that due to a convention in town the same weekend, hotel and B&B space is already thoroughly booked up.
Do you need billeting? Yes ____ No _____
If yes, give us more details: are you a single or part of a couple, any allergies eg pets or cigarette smoke.
Youth Scholarships
Youth aged 16 – 25 inclusive
We have a limited number of full scholarships available for youth aged 16 – 25 who live anywhere within the Powell River Regional District and who would not otherwise be able to attend.
Would you like to apply for a scholarship? Yes ____ No _____
Date of birth ___________________
Permission Slip for youth aged under 19
Because the information on climate change and resource depletion in this workshop can be upsetting and even frightening to those who have not experienced or understood it before, we need to get permission from your parent or guardian. Please mail this signed permission slip to the address above.
Youth’s name: __________________________ Date of birth ___________________
I give permission for the youth named above to attend the Training for Transition workshop in Powell River, BC on April 9th and 10th 2010.
Parent or guardian’s name __________________________________
Signature ___________________________ Date ____________
March 19, 2010
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