[Southern California Permaculture] TONIGHT!/ Permaculture and the Climate Crisis: Science, Politics, and Practice with Dr Rafter Sass Ferguson

Fri May 6 08:08:50 PDT 2016

  Environmental Horticulture Dept. &
  the SBCC Permaculture Design Course

  Presents:
Permaculture & the Climate Crisis: Science, Politics, & Practice
Emacs!

with Dr. Rafter Sass Ferguson
  of Liberation Ecology

Friday, May 6, 2016
  7:30 - 9 pm, FREE (no reservations required)

Event Location: SBCC Fe Bland Auditorium/BC Forum, West Campus
SBCC West Campus, 800 block of Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

SBCC Campus Map (parking available on West Campus after 6pm):
http://www.sbcc.edu/security/files/sbcc_campusmap.pdf

~Permaculture is a design system based on ecological principles for 
creating sustainable human environments ~

COP21, the UN international climate meeting convened in Paris last 
year, proved conclusively that our institutions are not equipped to 
handle the enormous climate crisis that is facing humanity and our 
planet on their own. We need grassroots movements to drive needed 
transformation - to both demonstrate alternatives to the status quo, 
and demand that governments, NGOs, and business get on board and work 
collaboratively as allies for the changes that are so desperately needed.

Permaculture is an international grassroots movement that has 
dramatically transformed lives and landscapes on every inhabited 
continent. In suburban edible landscapes, on sprawling midwestern 
farms, as well as for resource-poor subsistence producers from El 
Salvador to Malawi to Nepal.

Permaculture has proven that it has a toolbox of concepts and 
practices that can be applied virtually anywhere.  With 
permaculture's inception in the 1970s, it is natural that to continue 
to evolve and engage the world as it is now, permaculture may have to 
go through some transformations of it own, as we work to understand 
its strengths and its current limitations. This talk will address 
emerging perspectives and recent scientific research on permaculture, 
where we need to go, and how we can get there.

Dr Rafter Sass Ferguson received his PhD in Crop Sciences from the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015, and is currently 
a Research Fellow at the Center for Ecology, Evolution, and 
Environmental Change at the University of Lisbon, where he is part of 
the project Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies Towards a 
Sustainable Europe. His dissertation research produced the first 
papers on permaculture to appear in major scientific journals.  He 
has been involved with permaculture as student, educator, and scholar 
since 2003, and in 2005 developed the Liberation Ecology workshop, a 
curriculum that helps participants develop strategies for integrating 
social justice and sustainability goals.

The event will be a local celebration of the 7th International 
Permaculture Day - May 2016

The event takes place on Friday, May 6, 7:30-9pm, at the Fe Bland 
Auditorium/BC Forum, on the SBCC West Campus, 800 block of Cliff 
Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. The event is FREE, no reservations 
are required.  More Info: Daniel Parra Hensel: daparrahense at pipeline.sbcc.edu

  Hosted by the SBCC Environmental Horticulture Department
Facebook event page: 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1113606562029227/>https://www.facebook.com/events/1113606562029227/

Event Co-Sponsors: Quail Springs, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 
Casitas Valley Farm, & Liberation Ecology

SBCC Campus Map (parking available on West Campus after 6pm):
http://www.sbcc.edu/security/files/sbcc_campusmap.pdf

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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org

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