Diana Leafe Christian
Coming to Emeryville on Thursday evening, August 19.
She will be preceded by Cohousing Coach Raines Cohen, speaking about Climate Change with slides from Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth.
Discover what Sustainable Communities can really feel like, and how they can change the world: Join us for a free look at ecovillages the world over, with Creating a Life Together author and Ecovillages online newsletter publisher Diana Leafe Christian, Communities magazine editor for most of the past two decades.
Diana, who lives at Earthaven Ecovillage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, will present "Ecovillages: Where They Are, What They're Doing, Why They're Important," her updated tour of how communities around the world integrate aspects of ecological, economic, and social/cultural/spiritual sustainability.
In hundreds of vivid images, learn how ecovillages manifest:
- permaculture design
- natural building
- off-grid power
- renewable energy/alternative technology
- sustainable agriculture
- Earth-restoration projects
- international peace activism
- service to specific populations in need
- local currencies
- on-site cottage industries
- participatory decision-making
- conflict resolution
- process and communication skills for bonding and connecting.
Diana, who also wrote the helpful book for community-seekers, Finding Community, shows why ecovillagers are devoted to developing these ecological settlements, how ecovillages are beneficially influencing the wider culture, and how ecovillages will most likely affect patterns of human settlement in the near future.
The presentation shows intentional community-style ecovillages in the Industrialized North, ecologically aware traditional villages in the Global South, and sustainability education centers in both hemispheres. Examples include ecovillage projects in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Tonight's event will be the last chance to sign up for Diana's three-day workshop, beginning the next day in Berkeley, on how to co-create your own EcoVillage, Intentional Community, or Cohousing Neighborhood. Learn more about the workshop on the Cohousing California website - the lowest rates are available with advance registration.
EBCOHO community organizer and Cohousing Coach Raines Cohen, author of the Aging In Community chapter in the book Audacious Aging, and a Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) boardmember, last month was in Nashville, Tennesee, training with Al Gore on his new solutions-oriented slide show (an update to the version featured in the movie "An Inconvenient Truth", now featuring more of an emphasis on collective action for change, locally, regionally, nationally, and globally). He will kick off the evening with some introductory remarks and images to set the context for the communities movement, and how cohousing and Ecovillages can make a difference in fighting climate change, acting locally to change the world.
The event will run about 6-9 PM, and include time for Q&A; please arrive promptly.
Admission is free, but advance RSVP is required; space is limited. If your plans change, please revisit the East Bay Cohousing MeetUp group to update your response; if you are uncertain if you'll make it, please choose "Maybe".
The location and restrooms are fully wheelchair-accessible; call the venue before bringing service animals.
Refreshments will be provided by AgeSong at BaySide Park, the event host and co-sponsor.
Other upcoming East Bay Cohousing events include:
- Orientation/Introduction and Sharing Circle 8/7
- ABC's of Group Process with Betsy Morris 8/14
- Cohousing Bus Tour 8/21
- Two-year Facilitation Intensive Series starting in September.
Current opportunities to become part of sustainable communities in the area include:
- Affordable "Instant Cohousing" homes in a 7-unit Victorian mansion in North Oakland's Golden Gate district, near Emeryville
- A one-year rental of a 2-bedroom home at Pleasant Hill
- A rooftop garden apartment in 611 Ecovillage, an Oakland shared house
- An end-of-the-year 1.5-month sublet at Temescal Creek cohousing
- Potential sites in Pacifica, Emeryville, and perhaps even San Francisco
Get details about all of the above and more the East Bay Cohousing website -- membership is free!
http://www.ebcoho.org...