Overview

How can you best prepare for increasingly chaotic energy and weather conditions? Can your landscape and your neighbors contribute to this preparation? What is the best approach?

Create Neighborhood Resiliency helps you cultivate a spirit of collaboration and trust within your neighborhood and community to address issues like Peak Oil and climate change. Using ecological principles, you will learn how to create a resilient and close-knit neighborhood that is able to respond to stresses with the least energy for the greatest effect. Topics include neighborhood food pantries, sustainable energy creation, reusing all waste and community economics.

At the end of this class you will be able to:

• Prepare for energy descent.
• Understand green building.
• Understand renewable home energy.
• Creatively eliminate all waste.
• Better understand your role in your community.

Excellent pre-classes

• Any introductory permaculture course.
• Seeds of Sustainability: Gain a fundamental ecological worldview that enhances learning and skills in all other classes.
• Design an Abundant Landscape: Learn how to design an entire landscape.
• Create an Edible Landscape: Learn how to implement your design and choose plants for your garden beds.