Ryan Rising
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area who most recently organized and facilitated the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living – connecting people to take action and transition to a resilient way of life.
Ryan has taught numerous courses and workshops, including the Elemental Alchemy Permaculture Intensive before Symbiosis Gathering in 2013 and a month-long Gaia Education certified Eco-Village Design training this past winter in Nicaragua. A certified permaculture designer with a degree in Peace and Social Justice Studies, he also co-founded a regenerative, productive urban farm in the east bay and now organizes with the Omni Commons – a community organizing space and education center in Oakland, CA.
Scheduled Appearances
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Urban Permaculture
Location: Permaculture Action HubPermaculture in the city? Come learn about turning empty lots into farms and gardens, seed libraries, place-making, lead and contaminants in urban soil, and the yields of urban homesteading. We’ll touch on gentrification and urban farming, planting food not lawns, and look at how the permaculture principles guide community regeneration in the city.
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Social Permaculture and Community Action
Location: Permaculture Action HubWe’ll apply the ecological design principles of permaculture to the social realm. Permaculture is not only about food forests, cobb ovens, and rainwater catchment systems (visible structures). It’s also about how we relate to each other, make decisions, resolve conflicts, and organize ourselves in community (invisible structures). We’ll start here and then move into stories of direct actions like Occupy The Farm and the People’s School for Public Education that transformed underutilized spaces into permaculture places. Then, we’ll talk about the 2014 Permaculture Action Tour, where we go from here, and what’s coming next.
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