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Communities’ Resiliency to Face The Climate Crisis
November 6 @ 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time
Communities’ Resiliency to Face The Climate Crisis
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Pacific: 8:00-9:30am
- Mountain: 9:00am-10:30am
- Central: 10:00-11:30am
- Eastern: 11:00am-12:30pm
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About the event
What will it take for communities to thrive in a time of increasing climate chaos? What roles might we play in the growing polycrisis? In this webinar we will discuss lessons learned from members of three ICs that have been recently impacted by hurricanes as well as key findings from the two-year Ecovillage Resiliency Project.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- A quick overview of Climate Chaos
- Resiliency at Earthaven
- Resiliency at Celo
- Resiliency at Union Acres Community
- GEN Ecovillage Resiliency Project
- Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
About Your Host
Daniel Greenberg
Daniel Greenberg is the Co-Executive Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community. Back in 1998, following his Ph.D. dissertation on Growing up in Intentional Communities, Daniel founded Living Routes, which ran study abroad programs in ecovillages around the world. In 2012, he started Earth Deeds, which offers online tools to account for our unavoidable CO2 emissions.
This Weeks Guest Speakers
Brandon Greenstein
Brandon Greenstein is a sustainability consultant specializing in Renewable Systems, Earthworks, and Permaculture design. A skilled practitioner in ecological building and land management, he combines hands-on technical expertise with trauma-informed therapy approaches while living and practicing community at Earthaven Ecovillage in Western North Carolina.
Gred Gross
Gred Gross has lived in Celo Community since the early 80s. He is a farmer, cow herder, and a retired builder and teacher, and grandfather.
Jessica Ruegg
Jessica Ruegg and her husband, Tal Galton (of Snakeroot Ecotours) have lived in Celo Community for 25 years and became members 16 years ago. She has worked as a teacher, house parent, juvenile mediator, graduation coach, school counselor, child/adolescent psychotherapist and parent educator. She and her husband have raised two boys and a timber-frame house in the community.
Tom McMillan
Owner of Terrapin Studios in Whittier, NC, is a craftsman and longtime intentional community member residing at Union Acres. A skilled woodworker and Red Cross volunteer who earned a 2020 Governor’s Award, he has contributed to several communities including The Farm, Earthaven, and Gesundheit since the 1970s.
Anna Kovasna
Anna Kovasna, co-founder of Ecovillage Resilience 2.5+ and Kincentric Leadership through the Polycrisis, is dedicated to exploring community as a tool for resilience and regeneration. A former Social Anthropology lecturer and GEN Education Director, she developed key tools like the Ecovillage Impact Assessment while living at Findhorn Ecovillage for ten years. She now lives on a permaculture mountain farm in the French Pyrenees, having worked with over 50 ecovillages across four continents.
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Live Zoom Sessions
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Affordable and Accessible
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Watch the Recording
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Registration
Communities’ Resiliency to Face The Climate Crisis
Free!
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Pacific: 8:00-9:30am
- Mountain: 9:00am-10:30am
- Central: 10:00-11:30am
- Eastern: 11:00am-12:30pm
