[Southern California Permaculture] TONIGHT! 7:30pm/Author Karen Lifin & Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Ecovillages Around the World:
  Lessons for Sustainable Community
  with author Karen Litfin
Thursday, February 13  FREE
7:30pm-9pm 2014
  Ayni Gallery
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         Join author Karin Litfin as she shares 
her newly published book "Ecovillages: Lessons 
for Sustainable Community" in an evening talk on 
Thursday, February 13, describing her experiences 
traveling and visiting Ecovillages around the world.

         In a world of dwindling natural 
resources and mounting environmental crisis, who 
is devising ways of living that will work in a 
more sustainable way for the future?  And how can 
we, as individuals, make a difference?

         To answer these fundamental questions, 
Professor Karen Litfin embarked upon a journey to 
many of the world’s ecovillages – intentional 
communities at the cutting-edge of sustainable 
living.  From rural to urban, high tech to low 
tech, spiritual to secular, she discovered an 
under-the-radar global movement making positive 
and radical changes from the ground up.

         Not only is another world possible, it 
is already being born in small pockets the world 
over. These micro-societies, however, are small 
and time is short. Fortunately – as Litfin 
persuasively argues – their successes can be 
applied to existing social structures, from the 
local to the global scale, providing sustainable 
ways of living for generations to come.

         WHAT IS AN ECOVILLAGE? The Global 
Ecovillage Network (GEN) defines an ecovillage as 
an intentional or traditional community using 
local participatory processes to holistically 
integrate ecological, economic, social, and 
cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to 
regenerate social and natural environments. 
Because any group can call itself an ecovillage, 
the term has been adopted by entities ranging 
from student coops to suburban housing 
developments. In order to have an authentic 
experience of ecovillage life, Karen chose to 
visit larger, more established communities 
belonging to the Global Ecovillage Network. She 
also selected for diversity in order to 
experience the full range of ecovillage culture: 
rural, urban and suburban; rich and poor; secular 
and spiritual. Starting with Earthhaven on the 
east coast of the US, Karen worked her way around 
the world via Europe, Africa, Asia, and 
Australia, concluding her journey in Los Angeles.

         Karen Litfin is a professor of political 
science and environmental studies at the 
University of Washington. She grew up in 
Pittsburgh and Baltimore, received a B.A. and 
M.A. from University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. 
from UCLA. Karen is a mother, an introspective 
activist, an avid bicyclist and hiker, and a 
second-rate gardener. In her research and 
teaching, Karen takes a “person/planet politics” 
approach, which entails integrating the 
intellectual, emotional, practical and 
contemplative dimensions of sustainability.

         Karen’s first two books were Ozone 
Discourses: Science and Politics in Global 
Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University 
Press, 1994) and The Greening of Sovereignty in 
World Politics (MIT Press, 1998).

The evening talk takes place on Thursday, 
February 13, 7:30pm-9pm, Free, at the Ayni 
Gallery (across from the Amtrak Station, free 
parking nearby at SB City Parking lot on Helena 
Ave) 216 State St, Santa Barbara CA,  93101, no 
reservations required.  For more Info, 
(805)962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org, www.sbpermaculture.org,
Santa Barbara event facebook page 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1417963928444132/>https://www.facebook.com/events/1417963928444132/


Event Co-sponsors: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, SB Time Bank and Sama

Additional Info:

YouTube/Seed Communities: Ecovillage Experiments 
Around the World  with Karen Litkin
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNjZaXDGqM>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNjZaXDGqM 


Info on the Ecovillages:Lessons for Sustainable Community and booksigning tour
<http://ecovillagebook.org/>http://ecovillagebook.org/

Facebook page for Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community
<https://www.facebook.com/Ecovillagesbook>https://www.facebook.com/Ecovillagesbook






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