Austin Permaculture Guild

Permaculture Talk/Video Series
Sessions are 7pm to 8:30pm, followed by discussion/mingling til 9. Location is the Habitat Suites, Austin’s favorite eco-hotel at 500 E. Highland Mall Dr. Off Airport Blvd., near Highland Mall. No need to register; just show up — and bring friends!

Thurs. Jan. 14: Introduction to Permaculture - what is permaculture? How can we apply it to design better homes, lifestyles, and communities? Talk by Dick Pierce, the lead teacher of our permaculture design course.

Thurs. Feb.11: Other Stories to Be In.

If our world, your world, your world-view, your “story” is a little cracked, stained, bedraggled, unclear, or not really your own (mostly your parents’, friends’. churchs’) - this presentation on cultural items/areas from other cultures, other times, other places, other ____, might be helpful, informative, and enjoyable. How do/did other cultures raise children, provide education, govern themselves? How did they work, compete, produce food, transition to man/woman-hood? Perhaps, some of their ideas/approaches might be interesting to contemplate as modifications/repalcements for facets of your world-view, aka “story.” Come on out and find out.

The Winter Series of Talks - All are Welcome - Free, Free, Free!

-Feb. 11      -Other Stories to Be In – Hints from Other Times, Cultures -
DP
                    (what can other times, traditions, and cultures tell
us?)

-Feb. 18      -Who Makes our Food? - Local, Smaller, Organic, Sustainable
                   ( a Farmer, a Poultry Producer, an Extraordinary
Gardener )

-Feb.  25     -The Folks that Bring Us Local, Safe, Nutritious, Yummy Food?
                   (Edible Austin, Fmrs. Market, Local Dist., Rest., CSA,
Barter)

-Mar. 4     Business, Finance, & Re-Localization - Talk/Slides
                   (Energy  Effic., Smaller, More Local Bus., Worker-Owned,
…)

-Mar. 11     -  -Restoring Soil, Bringing Land Back, Helping Nature -Talk -
TBD
                   (Soil/ /Plant professionalon how to help Nature help our
soil)
-Mar. 18     -No Winter Series Talk – AISD Spring Break – Week Off - Enjoy

-Mar. 25     -Eco-Villages, Intentional Communities, Co-Housing-Slides/Talk
                   (Eco-villages & Co-Housing in US, around world, Austin)

-Apr.  1       -Topic is TBD – Your idea??, your favorite topic/speaker??

Transition Austin Film Series

Transition is a growing worldwide movement to make a graceful TRANSITION away from fossil fuel dependence and unsustainable practices, and toward local resilience and sustainable communities. Permaculture is a key toolkit for the Transition movement. This winter, Transition Austin (www.transitionaustin.org) is hosting screenings of nine hallmark films focused on transition and sustainability.

These screenings will be held on the third Monday of each month, starting January 18, from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening.  We’ll be showing our movies at the First United Methodist Church’s Family Life Building on the northwest corner of 13th & Lavaca in central Austin.  [That's one block north of the church itself, on the opposite side of Lavaca.]  That time of night - especially on a Monday - there’s plenty of (free) on-street parking nearby.  We won’t charge an admission fee, but we will take donations to support the work of Transition Austin (including the costs of the movie nights themselves).

Our first movie will be “Fresh” (http://www.FreshTheMovie.com); others will be:
- “Dimming the Sun” (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun)
- “Earth 2100″ (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100)
- “Earthlings” (http://www.earthlings.com)
- “The End of Suburbia” (http://www.EndOfSuburbia.com)
- “Food Production” (http://www.BackYardFoodProduction.com)
     For this one, we think we’ll be able to get the filmmaker to join
us.
- “In Transition” (http://transitionculture.org/in-transition/)
- “An Inconvenient Truth” (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)
- “The Power of Community” (http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/)
- “Six Degrees Could Change the World”

(http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/six-degrees-could-change-the-world-3188)

The Movie Night Team will be getting more information out about the events as the planning firms up.  

Transition Town Totnes, one of the first active Transition Initiatives, raises most of their operating funds from public movie showings.  We’d like these events to be a major source of funds for Transition Austin, too - so once you start getting notices of each individual event, please get out there and drum up people to attend them.  Oh - and you might even think about attending them yourself.