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Take Action Permaculture Action Days Permaculture Action Courses Permaculture Action Hubs Calendar Media Resources Videos Press Links Contact Donate Menu About Take Action Permaculture Action Days Permaculture Action Courses Permaculture Action Hubs Calendar Media Resources Videos Press Links Contact Donate Permaculture Action Network Organize. Mobilize. Catalyze. TAKE ACTION UPCOMING EVENTS Home Permaculture Action Network is a continent-wide collective that mobilizes thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects with a diversity of groups and organizations. We collaborate with performing artists and cultural events to invite people into hands-on work that regenerates ecosystems and catalyzes the movement for a just transition. We work at the edge of art, music, culture, and the regenerative community movement, offering people a pathway to take action locally where they live through Permaculture Action Days, Permaculture Action Hubs, and Permaculture Action Courses; our approach is to create events that are easy to engage in and sprout long-lasting movement involvement. SUBSCRIBE Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates * We respect your privacy; we never share your email or information with outside parties. Permaculture Action Day Permaculture Action Hub Permaculture Action Courses What is a Permaculture Action Day? Permaculture Action Days are one-day events in which we mobilize people from a concert or cultural event to a day of hands-on direct action creating regenerative systems and common spaces in our own cities and communities. Hundreds of people at a time have come out to Permaculture Action Days to build urban farms, community gardens, public food forests, natural buildings, rainwater catchment systems, greenhouses and other systems in 65 cities across the continent. These days of community action are always free and host workshops, music, and shared food in addition to the hands-on projects being facilitated. What is a Permaculture Action Hub? Permaculture Action Hubs are an essential gathering place at any event. We set up Permaculture Action Hubs at large gatherings and music festivals as a central space for workshops, classes, panel discussions, and skill-shares focused on r egenerative ecology, social transformation, community building, and permaculture design. This is a space where people can network with individuals and projects, as well as catalyze community organizing and action. Past Permaculture Action Hubs have included the main workshop and speaker space, a networking node for bioregional organizing and informal workshop sessions, and demonstration systems of natural buildings, greywater filtration, solar ovens, garden beds, alternative energy, and more. Past speakers have included Dr. Vandana Shiva, City Repair’s Mark Lakeman, Erica Wohldman, Penny Livingston, James Stark, Lydia Neilsen and many other amazing facilitators. What is a Permaculture Action Course? Our permaculture courses teach both hands-on techniques and social tools that participants can use to create greater connection and sustainability in their life, today and for future generations. Permaculture is a design science for regenerative ecological systems and holistic socio-economic structures that mimic nature. In addition to methods and skills for designing and implementing physical systems, these courses offer methods for community organizing to bring visions and dreams of a better world into reality. VIEW OUR SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING EVENTS BIOREGIONAL CREWS BioRegional Crews are the primary organizing unit of Permaculture Action Network. They live where we organize. They know the local needs. They’re building networks with the projects and facilitators around the region. These crews organize Permaculture Action Days in their area, as well as courses, workshops, and other events. We organize our crews by BioRegion, a geographical space that is defined by watershed, landform, climate, and culture, rather than by borders, state lines, and city or municipal boundaries. We do this to remind ourselves to connect to a sense of place through our relationship with the earth and one another. Go to our Organizational Structure page to learn about the sociocratic structure through which these BioRegional Crews practice participatory decision making and horizontal governance. Who We Are Organizational Structure Indigenous Roots Direct Action Ryan Rising Permaculture Educator & Project Facilitator Alexa Levy Leah Van Winkle Malik Sol” Coburn Khadija Khansia Manifest Michael Beck James Claitor Joana Amorim Kammer Offenhauser Zac Fabian Creative Media Specialist The term permaculture” is fairly new, but the essence of the design science and practice itself is the amalgamation of indigenous wisdom specific to place and culture from all around the planet. It is important to recognize the root of permaculture in indigenous land-use practices, foodways, and lifeways. From the Mayan Milpa systems as a model of permaculture’s food forests , to South China, Thailand, and Indonesia’s cultivation of rice in paddy fields in combination with fish as a model of aquaponics and aquaculture systems, indigenous cultures have given innumerous practices to the design system we think of as permaculture. What also must be confronted is that a great many of these practices and systems were not in fact given,” but were taken by colonial forces that too often throughout history have taken not only the cultural traditions and practices of indigenous people, but often their land, their languages, and often their lives. In many ways we can say that permaculture is largely indigenous peoples’ understanding of how to live in place .”These ways of observing and working with nature are the legacy and heritage of indigenous peoples all over the globe. They do not call it permaculture. They have often not heard the word, yet they understand nature’s patterns and use them to create polycultural, perennially based, energy efficient homes, gardens, farms, communities… These are found all over the world where remnants of those cultures have been allowed to survive. They deserve acknowledgement and respect. So no one actually ‘invented’ permaculture. Good ideas and good practices have been borrowed from indigenous cultures. These have been mixed with appropriately scaled renewable technologies and low embodied energy materials to try and design the most ecologically elegant solutions to our current problems” – Maddy Harland; Permaculture and Indigenous Culture Take Action with Permaculture Action Network We partner with artists, musicians, and performers to empower their fans to action! We also love to have musicians play at our action days! Turn your work into an inspiration for real action in the world. Come to an upcoming Permaculture Action Day: View our calendar of events or our facebook event pages to learn about upcoming action days to attend. Attend an upcoming Permaculture Action Course or Permaculture Action Hub . Connect with our BioRegional Crews What is Direct Action? By direct action, we mean those actions that directly create the change we want to see in the world. This is not to disregard those actions and efforts that work with institutional power to push change; nor to disregard those efforts that take the shape of lifestyle choices, artistic expression, or ….. However, we are inspired by the immediacy of direct action and feel this empowerment every time we use our own hands to plant a garden that feeds a family or build a tiny home village that houses those otherwise living on the street. We encourage you to find each other . Turn fleeting encounters into real relationships. Learn skills from one another. Find common ground from which to work towards a common future. Begin to understand yourselves as something more decisive than a group of friends. From there, anything is possible: A Permaculture Action Day has been the ground on which hundreds of...