Ideas to Change the World

Date: Tuesday, February 8th 2011

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Mary Mccormick Community Centre

• 66 Sheridan Ave
• Toronto, Ontario, near Dundas and Dufferin

Hosted by the Toronto Community Garden Network

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How do we as people, live in an age of increased distractions, shorter attention spans, more environmental degradation then any time before and still feel secure, healthy, happy and positive about our future?

This workshop will introduce attendees to the principles and practice of Resilience Perma-culture. Resilience Perma-culture began with this question in mind and found that through Perma-culture, an integrated, holistic, scientific and ethical design system, we can live happier lives, while saving money, energy and our habitat (the Earth).

Based in over 40 years of successful application Perma-culture provides a framework to look at systems or designs to find the greater connections and relationships that benefits both the individual and the community.

During this 3 hour presentation Peramaculture Educator Javan Kerby Bernakevitch's will discuss the fundamentals of Perma-culture Ethics, Principles and Design methodology and how it can be applied to:

• improve your home & backyard while saving resources and building a healthy place for family, friends and community;
• build resilient communities patterned after ecological principles;

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• assemble landscapes that clean water, use less energy, provide healthy organic food, save money and contribute to a healthy ecology.

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This workshop is relevant and useful for everyone interested in gardening, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, education, health, planning, business or green lifestyles.

This course will activate you into building food security outside your door; getting through water shortages with design for rainwater harvest; or lower your energy bills with efficient design and retrofit.

The application of Perma-culture design provides positive solutions towards a sustainable future.

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• The suggested donation for this workshop is $10/person.

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Biography

Javan Kerby Bernakevitch’s career has been focused on education and action.

As a Permaculture Educator and Designer he works with the land and people to increase the connections and yields of systems. Working with soil building techniques, water harvesting and application, organic bee keeping and Tadelakt (waterproof all natural plaster) Javan pairs craftsmanship with education to deliver interactive educational opportunities for everyone who’s ready to put their hands to creating positive solutions towards a sustainable future.

Javan operates Resilience Permaculture Design Group on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He continues his work towards a sustainable future through the Transition Towns Movement, Vancouver Island Permaculture, OUR Ecovillage, GAIA College, Society for Organic Urban Landcare, Waterlution and other professional partnerships. In his quieter moments, Javan likes to meander through old growth forests learning the lessons from 4.5 billion years of successful design and application.

For more information Please contact Ravenna at ravennabarker@yahoo.com

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