permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LChlKgNupI 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LChlKgNupI>

Resilience Design for A Rapidly Changing Ecological and Social Climate with 
Warren Brush <https://www.facebook.com/WarrenBrush>
Back in September, I was honored to present a lecture for the The 
Sustainability Speaker Series at the Middlebury Institute of International 
Studies at Monterey. 
In this presentation, I gave an introduction to the Resilience Design 
Framework and Permagarden Program that is an integration of agroecology, 
permaculture design, and rainwater harvesting practices and principles. 
In times of global climate extremes and instability, ecological degeneration, 
social restlessness, and economic volatility, this training is being promoted 
by USAID through their TOPS (technical operations performance support) 
program as part of their Food for Peace programming as an essential training 
to promote resilience in their beneficiary communities. 
It consists of practical design tools and participatory methods for working 
with the patterns of landscape, local resources and local innovation to 
restore hydrological stability, create regenerative agriculture practices, 
eliminating waste and creating economic viability through ecological 
stability with high-risk communities globally.