**UPDATE** Conversations For A Preferred Future with OEC is now up on Youtube! (See video below)
Please join us for Conversations For A Preferred Future.
Thursday February 18, 4 PM Pacific Time, 7 PM Eastern Time
Yvonne Chu and Tay Stenson with the Onondaga Earth Corps
Thursday, February 25, 4 PM Pacific Time, 6 PM Central time, 7 PM Eastern Time
Bob Randall of Year Round Gardening
The Conversation are free to the first 100 attendees. These are the third and fourth conversation in an eight part series, two per month, January to April, produced and hosted by Jan Spencer, in Eugene, Oregon.
All the conversations are about Creating A Preferred Future. The content is social, economic, lifestyle, permaculture, land use and much more.
See further below for the entire schedule and zoom log in info.
See suburbanpermaculture.org for more conversation details including links as the completed conversations move to podcasts and you tube.
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Next conversationThursday, February 18, 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern Time
Yvonne Chu is a local climate and community activist based in Syracuse, New York with a background in environmental science. She volunteers her time with local grassroots organizations such as Climate Change Awareness and Action and the Sustainable Economies Alliance. She is also office manager for the Onondaga Earth Corps. Yvonne will be joined by Tay Stenson who joined the OEC as a Youth Crewmember in 2016 and is now OEC’s Advanced Young Adult Crew Leader. Tay will describe his OEC responsibilities and also how OEC has been such an important part of his life.
The mission of the OECorps is to empower youth to be active participants in creating positive change for their communities and the environment. OEC was formed to:
· Help youth understand the relationship between people and the urban ecosystem
· Engage youth in hands-on community and environmental service learning projects
· Train youth for future jobs and careers in environmental fields
· Empower youth by developing their leadership abilities to help create livable, sustainable communities through service, social enterprise and outreach.
· Help youth understand the relationship between people and the urban ecosystem
· Engage youth in hands-on community and environmental service learning projects
· Train youth for future jobs and careers in environmental fields
· Empower youth by developing their leadership abilities to help create livable, sustainable communities through service, social enterprise and outreach.
The OECorps provides a good idea of what President Biden’s proposed Climate Corps might look all over the country. Enormous benefits to the community, the environment and the participants.
website www.onondagaearthcorps.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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After Yvonne, the next Conversation, will be
Thursday, February 25, 4 PM Pacific, 6 PM Central Time
Bob Randall has been a food systems activist for more than five decades.
In 1987, he quit academic life [phd in Anthropology] and became a professional food activist first as a community gardens specialist at a hunger-fighting agency, and then 7 years later as Executive Director of a [then] new non-profit: Urban Harvest, Inc. (http://Urbanharvest.org) He has a strong interest in community gardens, school gardens, farmers’ markets, adult gardening, farming education, and orcharding.
Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America and is a pioneer of suburban permaculture. He began his suburban sub tropical food forest in 1979. Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food production, with focus on Southeast Texas.
In 1987, he quit academic life [phd in Anthropology] and became a professional food activist first as a community gardens specialist at a hunger-fighting agency, and then 7 years later as Executive Director of a [then] new non-profit: Urban Harvest, Inc. (http://Urbanharvest.org) He has a strong interest in community gardens, school gardens, farmers’ markets, adult gardening, farming education, and orcharding.
Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America and is a pioneer of suburban permaculture. He began his suburban sub tropical food forest in 1979. Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food production, with focus on Southeast Texas.
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All the conversations will be free to the first 100 attendees.
Zoom log in information is the same for all the presentations.
Join Zoom Meeting – Conversations For A Preferred Future
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 895 5367 3085
Passcode: 990252
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 895 5367 3085
Passcode: 990252