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Downshifting from affluenza and solving Global Climate Change on a budget.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

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Speaking Engagements

Is your group receptive, nay, eager, for the inspirational account of how I am collapse-proofing my life and the lives of those around me? How I use permaculture as the antidote to fear and lack? How your neighborhood can strengthen itself and promote well-being? Email bobpixel@gmail.com for public speaking about urban permaculture.

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What is affordable urban permaculture housing?

Objective: Founding an investment and development company to acquire under-utilized investment properties of 2 to 6 units per building and retrofitting and rehabilitating them using sweat equity, green building and urban permacultural principles into "seeds" for eco-villages.

We combine expertise from the worlds of green building and architecture, relocalization, social activism and sustainability, rehabilitating distressed investment properties into cores for community-centered living, reshaping the urban environment and offering solutions to issues as small as affluenza to as large as global climate change.

Urban permaculture points the way to creating a secure, environmentally sound, and socially just housing model for owner-tenants who are yearning for affordable housing.

What's all this, then?

Want to know what's happened so far? Here are a few key posts about our journey away from affluenza and towards the invention of our new lives:
Losing the rental |
Hope floats |
Remembering to have some fun |
Buy refurbished appliances |
Discovering Permaculture |
Crafting the ecotopian vision |
Insights while homeless |
Living out of our van, are we sustainable? |
We buy a home! |
Future ideas of mud homes |
Building Community with neighbors |
Initiating the housing project |
Permaculture vs Traditional |
Fall down go boom |
Party Payoff |
It just keeps getting better |

Links, Resources

  • My work: human power vehicles
  • The Daily Harvest
  • Low Impact Living
  • Clueless? Urban Farming!
  • Amanda Kovattana, Ecotopian writer
  • Transition Island Blog
  • Best Green Blogs
  • Stopwaste.org recycling guide
  • Eureka Alert: Science News

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Contributors

  • Caitlan
  • Robert van de Walle
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