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From: Scott Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living book event!
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
This is a last minute announcement about a presentation for the new
book "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide",
by Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew, co-founders of Austin Texas'
Rhizome Collective
(check it out at www.radicalsustainability.org)
This Thursday, July 24th at 5PM, 514 North Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY
For more info, please call 512 294 9580
We would enormously appreciate it if you could send it out on your
finger lakes permaculture email list.
Thank you!
Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
Below is a description of the workshop.
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Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities:
Description:
A workshop in urban ecological survival skills: exploring the cross-section of
permaculture and social activism.
This workshop's focus is teaching the design of tools and techniques
used to secure
people's access to life's basic necessities: food, water security,
shelter, waste
management and energy production.
The systems described are simple and affordable and are built from
salvaged, waste
and recycled materials. They can be used to create locally based, decentralized
sustainable infrastructure in people's backyards or neighborhoods. Emphasis is
put on the interrelations between sustainability and
class/race/international struggles.
Systems to be described include:
• Soil building and asphalt removal
• Bioremediation
(cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and biological processes),
• Urban chickens and microlivestock
• Rainwater harvesting,
• Aquaculture ( ponds, plants, fish and algae )
• Constructed wetlands for cleaning wastewater,
• Humanure and worm composting,
• Passive solar and bicycle windmills,
• Biogas and veggie oil biofuels,
• Natural construction methods – strawbale, clay woodchip
• Restoring brownfields
• DIY air purification
• Struggles for land and gentrification
• Energy decline, city futures and climate justice
The class includes both hands-on and lecture formats.
The techniques described are ones which have been developed over the past eight
years
at the Rhizome Collective, an urban sustainability and community
organizing project
in Austin, Texas. (www.rhizomecollective.org)
This workshop emphasizes the interrelatedness of the sustainability
and social justice
movements. Emphasis is on urban design in the Global North, but these
methods are
also applicable in rural areas and the Global South.
Bio of Organization:
The Rhizome Collective is a non-profit, consensus run organization based out of
Austin, Texas. Since 2000, it has served as a center for community
organizing and
as a center for urban sustainability education. It provides low rent space to a
number of activist and social organizations including the Inside Books Project,
( a books for prisoners project ), the Austin Independent Media
Center, and Bikes
Across Borders.
In addition, in 2004 the collective was donated a 10 acre piece of
land in the city
which it is in the process of turning into an ecological justice park.
For more info, visit www.rhizomecollective.org
Teacher Bio:
Scott Kellogg is a co-founder of the Rhizome Collective, and the director of its
sustainability program. He is an experienced teacher, activist and
ecological designer
and father.
He divides his time between the Rhizome Collective, in Austin Texas,
and the Albany
Free School Community in Albany, New York.
He is currently earning a Masters in Environmental Science from Johns
Hopkins University.
He is the co-author of the upcoming book "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A
Do-it-Ourselves Guide" (South End Press, June 2008) and the primary
teacher of R.U.S.T.
- The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend
workshop in urban
ecological survival skills.
Contact:
Scott Kellogg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
512 294 9580 (cell)
Book title: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-ourselves
Guide by:Scott
Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew. South End Press, 2008
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