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Anyone got any events going on in their bioregion worth posting?
Here's a couple from mine that are coming up, if anyone's interested in North East stuff, particularly Western Mass.
Foraging for Wild Edibles with expert forager and author Russ Cohen
Belchertown, Mass 2PM-5PM,
Join expert forager Russ Cohen as we discover more than 2 dozen of the 150 species of Massachusetts' edible wild plants. This workshop aims to teach you how to enjoy nature while nibbling on the trail and is not meant for unsustainable commercial harvesting.
NOFA Members: $14 Non-members: $17. For complete information and to register online visit www.nofamass.org or call Tom at 781-894-4358 or email seedpotato@yahoo.com.
EAT THE VIEW!
A celebration of the beauty and bounty of our local landscape
Friday, October 2, 2009 6-10pm
The Arena at the Tri-County Fairgrounds
Northampton, Massachusetts
www.buylocalfood.com/ETV2009.htm
Here's a couple from mine that are coming up, if anyone's interested in North East stuff, particularly Western Mass.
Foraging for Wild Edibles with expert forager and author Russ Cohen
Belchertown, Mass 2PM-5PM,
Join expert forager Russ Cohen as we discover more than 2 dozen of the 150 species of Massachusetts' edible wild plants. This workshop aims to teach you how to enjoy nature while nibbling on the trail and is not meant for unsustainable commercial harvesting.
NOFA Members: $14 Non-members: $17. For complete information and to register online visit www.nofamass.org or call Tom at 781-894-4358 or email seedpotato@yahoo.com.
EAT THE VIEW!
A celebration of the beauty and bounty of our local landscape
Friday, October 2, 2009 6-10pm
The Arena at the Tri-County Fairgrounds
Northampton, Massachusetts
www.buylocalfood.com/ETV2009.htm
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Re: Biorgional happenings?
Tue, June 23, 2009 - 5:28 AMVery cool idea Nanci, none to contribute myself, but that's definitely cool if people have listings of this sort from their area they would like to add! Good call!
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Re: Biorgional happenings?
Tue, June 23, 2009 - 5:45 AMI am particularly intrigued with this "Eat the View" concept ....
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Re: Biorgional happenings?
Tue, June 23, 2009 - 6:40 AM-argh!!! Okay nanci I know this may not be what you meant but i gotta spout off for a moment so please indulge me...
BIOREGIONAL HAPPENINGS?!!!! 35 people are due here in 3 days for a REAL ESTATE TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the 'welcome wagon' will be waiting, heh-heh)
For fuck's sake! why, after claiming to have found paradise, do people immediately set out selling it off by the square meter. We're experiencing an unfortunate infestation of north americans trying to escape north america. from what i can tell they say they want a different way of life but are really just bringing the worst of the U.S. here and trying to call it something different. Well, manure by any other name still smells like manure to me.
And while I have utter faith in Mandango and Huaranga to sort all these people out, (these two mountains do not mess around when it comes to who lives in this valley and for how long) the energy of real estate speculation has become rather dense--bogged down, stagnant, toxic and very very unsettled.
unfortunately (at least it seems unfortunate to me) that is what's happening in my bio-region right now...i'm listening, asking the land for a ceremony, asking for advise for those of us who are sensitive enough to hear it in order to really know what we need to be doing.
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 7:22 AMPrayers out to you and the mountains there Cynthia.....fuggin' modern world man, we're over-run, everywhere you turn......the beautiful temperate rainforest I rode my bike through in Patagonia 15 years ago is now a strip-mall, hotel mayhem, tourist over-run, capitalist sand trap......sigh........ -
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 12:19 PMcynthia, when you cuss, i take heed.
we thru loud and obnoxious parties complete with a 1/4 stick of dynamite, and a shooting range for fun. collected liquour bottles to leaves laying around the drive up area. for the most part, we managed to convince prospective buyers we were inbreed backwoods throwbacks, and they always left. We pointed out all the useful information - like it turns into 3 feet of mud every year, and there is NO towtruck service out here. And no neighbor is going to tow ya out. And we pointed out the sounds of the coyote pack of 300 (we grew it in story, and additional 225) that eats all domestic animals....my dog would run out at a strangers car, and jump on the hood and bark till they left in a hurry. (he wanted them to get out and play, but they took it as the rottweiler/shepard will eat us. Good luck with detering them. -
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 2:28 PMthanks t! that is rich. like i said the welcome wagon is standing by (all the horror stories are coming out and I got some GOOD ones!)
Jav that depresses me. When I was traveling through the other side of Patagonia (ruta 40) last January i had visions of that same thing happening and happening fast. the road is being paved all the way to Calafate and eventually to Ushaia. Once that happens the petrol stations will be moving in and etc., etc. What never fails to blow me away is how fast all of this happens. Just staggering.
Last year I returned to the village I lived in 17 years ago. It was about the size of the pueblo where I currently live. Roughly 3000 people in the canton. A paved road was completed there several years ago. It used to be a hot sweaty bone rattling jaunt through the jungle. Now there are nearly 20,000 people living there-- explosive growth that has occurred in less than a decade. Seriously I could not find the house I used to live in and half of my old barrio is paved over. As Aldo Leopold said 'it's so much easier to build a road than to ask what the country really needs.' -
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 2:36 PMi shudder at the rapidity of it all. when will the consumerism end? (there never seems to be an end for a consumer personality) -
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 2:41 PMthe quarter sticks of dynamite are the really spectacular part of a presentation. we also would get a bunch of blanks for the 22. pistol. Then the visitors thot we were shooting at each other, with some nice 'winging'. -
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 7:05 PM'the quarter sticks of dynamite are the really spectacular part of a presentation. we also would get a bunch of blanks for the 22. pistol.'
actually the locals have that one covered--a particular ecuadorean fondness which I will never understand for igniting very loud explosives at all hours whenever there's a fiesta--and there's always a fiesta happening. I only wish it were carnival right now--the throwing of eggs, flour, achiote, water balloons and worse at unsuspecting people--that always scares the speculators off!
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 6:25 PMWow....hey...happenings are happenings right? Spout away, sista!
And it's good to bring those things to the forum, since we are all so scattered about in different regions. Although we are focusing on our own regions, it can only help our process to be aware of what's happening in others, in terms of real estate development, dynamite caps, gentrification, further depletion of the rain forest coupled with human right violations in places like Peru and Venezuela, and the constant forward quest of consumerism. We are all part of the larger community and what affects one affects all at some point.
I hear you on the real estate BS...we have been undergoing a constant influx of New Yorkers since 9-11 and there has been a huge amount of gentrification in our area and of course, that all revolves around real estate. We have the land at the Indian Center in Boston, which is leased to the native people by treaty...imagine that...having to lease your own ancestral land! Well now, because there is little prime real estate left int he city of Boston, the City wants the land that the Indian Center is sitting on. There has been an ongoing fight for the last few years about the issue...because where the Indian Center sits is part of the "Emerald Necklace" the top p[rime real estate in Boston. Whatcha wanna bet as to who eventually wins this? It doesn't make much difference to corporate heads and government nazis, that for years that center has been doing fabulous work and assisting urban and displaced/dis-enfranchised Indians in terms of sevices whether they be housing, food, education, health, pre-natal, and more. It's all about the "prime real estate"
It's all over...and it is alarming; but if we become more aware of things going on in other regions, especially the negative stuff......there is more opportunity for a collective conscience and networking on issues, and perhaps the opportunity at some point to create more exposure in terms of bioregional animist philosophy and to further engage and educate people. At the very least, it knowing some of these things that are going on in other regions, would make ME more conscious of the need for more ceremony, possibly, as I said in collective consciousness and action. ...outside of my own little bubble, which I think we sometimes have a tendency to get caught in.
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Tue, June 23, 2009 - 7:27 PM'Thanks for your input ...it's always good to know what you face in terms of "the enemy" huh?'
well it is as they say 'better to know your enemy than to hold him'.
that was a great response nanci. thank you. The need for ceremony specifically for the earth is greater than ever for all of us everywhere. May we all be aware to send those intentions and prayers out when we hold ceremony.
Thanks for sharing about what's happening in northeastern north america. Leasing one's own tribal lands. I am speechless.
Yeah, it's so hard to watch what's happening here since on one hand there are obvious (short term) economic benefits for for both ecuadorean and extanjero. People in this country have done so much with so little for so long that i understand why they want to sell their land at grossly inflated prices and seek out the 'easy' northern style consumer life. But what goes boom eventually goes bust. And what I see happening in the long run is people turning arable land into housing developments (and worse), more ecuadoreans becoming urbanized and disconnected from the land. I understand that they need to have this experience, but it's so awfully painfully to watch. The land here is in pain from this too. Really it's almost unbearable sometimes. And while I am not above asking for a nasty storm and several days worth of inconvenience I do also ask regularly that these speculating fools will be spared their foolishness. Trust me when i tell you that this land does not suffer fools--i can tell you tragic stories of those who disrespected (yes people have lost homes and lives) and I can tell you beautiful stories of people who really care about this valley being miraculously spared the wrath of the spirits of this place.
As I say to everyone here who will listen, and many do thankfully, what will the people do without their land? A people without land is a people without power.
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Fri, July 10, 2009 - 5:57 PMI received this today in email from the northeastern permaculture institute list serve; thought it might be of interest to folks here:
ANNOUNCING:
The 10th CONTINENTAL BIOREGIONAL CONGRESS (CBCX)
OCTOBER 3-11, 2009
Hosted by The Farm, Summertown TN
Amidst the hills and hollows, tribes and councils new and old will gather
to share and collaborate finding ways to re-inhabit mother earth.
Visit www.BioCongress.org to read more and register!
Early Bird Registration ($50 Savings) Ends 7/15/09
The team for CBCX has been busy at work getting everything prepared to host this landmark event! The new website and online registration system are live, and we hope that you will join this year's Congress as a delegate, facilitator,sponsor and/or regional captain!
Email BioregionalCongress@LivingMandala.com to learn more and offer your support.
Twenty-five years after the first Continental Congress, this year's Congress is poised to help catalyze tremendous synergy for the growing global sustainability effort!
Hosted by the Farm in Tennessee
CBCX will be held on The Farm in the Swan River watershed of the Cumberland Green Bioregion, Summertown, Tennessee. Founded in 1971 by a caravan from San Fransisco, The Farm started as a spiritual community that has served as a model for sustainable development and community living for over 35 years. The Farm now encompasses over 2,000 acres, houses many ecologicaly-based businesses (including the Ecovillage Training Center), and hosts bioregionally-related events of many kinds year-round. Holding this event at a successful ecovillage will allow participants to experience life in a permaculture-designed village full of earth-friendly housing, cooperative forestry, and consensus-based decision-making.
Featuring a Certification Curriculum in Bioregionalism
Congress organizers are weaving in content that reflects the cutting edge of the bioregional movement, such as Transition Towns, within a Certification Curriculum in Bioregionalism, a toolbox of workshops and speakers focused on building, sustaining and re-localizing communities, reinvigorating culture and arts and organizing for ecological restoration, economic prosperity and policy change.
The proposed curriculum will cover the following topics:
Bioregionalism
•History of the Bioregional Congresses
•Decentralization and Ecoregional approaches to sustainability
•Reinhabitation and Ecocentric philosophy
•Decision-making: inclusion and empowerment
•Action learning
•Pageantry and Celebration
•World Café
Tools for Sustainable Communities
•Bioregional grassroots community organizing and stewardship
•Strategic planning
•Bioregional right livelihood
•Group process and consensus-based meetings
•Community-making through the arts, ecological
•Outreach and Web-tools for organizers
•Event planning
•Rites of passage and other ceremonies
Relocalizing Communities Toward Sustainability
•Transition Town Movement
•Ecovillages
•Permaculture
•Renewal Energy/Energy Conservation
•Re-storying the Landscape and Communities
•Relocalizing Education
Reinhabiting and Restoring Local Ecosystems
•Landscapes and Bioregional Mapping
•Orienting to Watersheds
•Ecoregions
•The Seasons and Migratory Patterns: Charting
•Planetary Connections
•Reinhabiting the Body: Health, Wellness and Restoration
As is tradition, the content of the congress will be determined by the participants.
Register at www.regonline.com/cbcx to let us know what you would like to facilitate!
BECOME A REGIONAL CAPTAIN TO ORGANIZE YOUR LOCAL NETWORK
Regional Captains embody the decentralized local empowerment that is core to the philosophy of Bioregionalism. Individuals and groups are encouraged to become Regional Captains by taking an active role in Congress development and outreach including:
• Distributing fliers
• Inviting local delegates
• Fundraising
• Coordinating regional events
• Organizing biofuel caravans
• Producing/distributing press releases
Regional captains are encouraged to identify at least ten leaders in the Bioregional, Transition, and/or Permaculture movements to bring to CBCX. Each captain will help raise the money from their own bioregion for the 10+ delegates to come, and through that work, gain free entrance and a recognized position at the congress.
Email BioregionalCongress@LivingMandala.com to find out more about becoming a regional captain.
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE CONGRESS...Earn $40 toward your registration fees for every person you refer!
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Re: Biorgional happenings?
Sat, July 11, 2009 - 8:22 AMthat is awesome to see a bioregional congress occuring! i really wish i could go to it!
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In Hawai'i
Fri, July 10, 2009 - 9:56 PMSunny Savage (www.WildFoodPlants.com) and I (David www.medicineatyourfeet.com) are teaching a wild edibles class on Maui July 18th. Following is copy from the poster. This will be loads of fun.
Maui
Now in Ha'iku at Hale Paliku!
Edible Weeds ... Eat Your Weedies!
Edibles at Your Feet - One Day Intensive
with David Bruce Leonard & Sunny Savage
Saturday July 18, 2009 - 9am to 3:30pm
• Hawaiian Wild Edibles • Identification: Plants to Eat ... Plants to Avoid
• Plant Walk: Wild Foods and Medicines
• Lunch Included
Sunny Savage is the Diva of Wild Edibles - WildFoodPlants.com
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Re: In Hawai'i
Sat, July 11, 2009 - 6:11 PMWish I could travel to both the Bioregional Congress and the wild edibles class~ It's fantastic to see so many events taking place like these! Wow!
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