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From CFI
PERMACULTURE DESIGNER JAMES STARK TO SPEAK AT the COLLEGE SATURDAY MAY 31
Prominent sustainable community development and leadership speaker, James Stark is a partner at Sustainable Living Designs, the co-director of the Permaculture Institute of Northern California and the Regenerative Design Institute and co-founder of numerous other community organizations. James Stark will speak on Saturday, May 31, 7 p.m., at Mendocino College Little Theater. This is the first of a two-part speaker series on “The Food Crisis: Challenges and Solutions” hosted by the Compassion Network, KMEC, Mendocino Environmental Center, Greater Ukiah Localization Project, and other local organizations.
Nominated for the Beryl H. Buck Award for Achievement for Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities in 2002, James and his partner Penny Livingston-Stark direct a professional permaculture design/build firm integrating landscapes and structures with soil, plants and energy efficiency, as well as direct an educational and research organization promoting sustainable technologies and methodologies.
James has been focused on earth based community development and the training of effective leaders in that area. He is a dynamic speaker on the ethics of earth care and the maximization of symbiotic and synergistic relationships in integrating human settlements into harmony with earth. His presentation will be on growing healthy communities as gardens.
This speaker series is open to the public and everyone is welcome. A small vegetarian reception with the speaker follows his talk. Donation is appreciated.
For more information, please contact thecompassionnetwork@gmail.com, 707-736-6299
AUTHOR & ADVOCATE ERIC HOLT-GIMENEZ TO SPEAK AT the COLLEGE SATURDAY JUNE 28
An activist who chronicled the development of farmers voices for sustainable agriculture, Dr. Eric Holt-Gimenez will speak on Saturday, June 28, 7 p.m., at Mendocino College Little Theater. This is the second of a two-part speaker series on “the Food Crisis: Challenges and Solutions”. This series is hosted by The Compassion Network, KMEC, Mendocino Environmental Center, Great Ukiah Localization Project, and other local organizations.
New York Times calls Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, directed by Dr. Holt-Gimenez, one of the country’s “most established food think tanks.” The mission of Food First is to end the injustices that cause hunger, poverty and environmental degradation throughout the world, believing that a world free of hunger is possible if farmers and communities take back control of the food systems presently dominated by transnational agri-foods industries http://www.foodfirst.org/.
Dr. Holt-Gimenez is the author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture (2006) which chronicles the development of this movement in Mexico and Central America over two and a half decades. Eric conducted extensive research, worked with farmers, participated in their farmer-to-farmer trainings, and recorded their triumphs with camera and pen. Previously, he served as the Latin America Program Manager for the Bank Information Center in Washington D.C.
Erik earned a Ph.D in Environmental Studies from the University of California –Santa Cruz. He speaks about farmer-to-farmer trainings, sustainable agriculture, and food sovereignty: people’s right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems—at home and abroad, how this would help avoid a future food crisis like the one the world is currently experiencing. In his words, “successful social movements are formed by integrating activism with livelihoods. These integrated movements create the deep sustained social pressure that produces political will—the key to changing the financial, governmental and market structures that presently work against sustainability.”
This speaker series is open to the public and everyone is welcome. A small vegetarian reception with the speaker follows his talk. Donation is appreciated.
For more information, please contact thecompassionnetwork@gmail.com, 707-736-6299
