Women’s Leadership in Northeast Permaculture
What is the status of women’s leadership in permaculture in the northeast? The article “Permaculture or Spermaculture: Confronting Patriarchy in Permaculture and Alternative Food Movements” by Trina Moyles in BriarPatch Magazine has sparked debate and discussion over online forums in recent weeks. In 2013, the article “A ‘Pattern Language’ for Women in Permaculture” by […]
PINE Supports Sub-Regional Convergence Events in 2015
PINE SUPPORTS SUB-REGIONAL CONVERGENCE EVENTS IN 2015 For the last ten years, the Northeast region has had a regional Permaculture Convergence. From meeting with David Holmgren in 2005, to yearly convergences in New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, each summer is punctuated by this PINE-sponsored event. The 10th Convergence was hosted in 2014 by […]
PINE Board Retreat – February 2015 – from a new PINE member…
by Justin “Hood” Young, Swan Lake, NY (on right) The other week, I got lucky enough to find out about the PINE leadership retreat. I had heard of PINE before, but I am new to the region. I had trepidations – but the personal invite I received was so warming, and I knew I couldn’t not […]
Permaculture Institute of the Northeast Opens for Membership! Join today.
Greetings Northeast Permies! You’re invited to JOIN the Permaculture Institute of the Northeast to strengthen our Permaculture network and to increase community resilience throughout our region. Permaculture inspires and empowers thousands of people across the Northeast to imagine and design healthier and more functional relationships with nature and with each other. Whether you apply Permaculture at home, a garden, farm, or regenerative […]
How Can the Permaculture Movement be in Right Relationship with Place, People of Color, and Indigenous Peoples: A Discussion from the October Gathering at Omega
by Jesse Watson This year’s Northeast Regional Permaculture Organizer’s Retreat held at Omega in Rhinebeck, NY was a nice mix of open space topics and work sessions focused on PINE action items (the Permaculture Institute of the Northeast). I rather timidly brought an open space topic for discussion with which I had but a passing familiarity. […]
Glimpses from a new Permie’s journey to Omega
by Justin Remus, New York, NY Our Omega plan was simple: Monica, my fiancee and budding permaculture star, would attend the regional workshops. I would hit the sauna, practice yoga and meditation. After a brutal last 10 months at my job for a magazine publisher, that seemed like a good fit. Then, at the last […]
Van Jones at Omega – Live blogging at Collaborative Commons Summit, Oct 24, 2014
http://www.eomega.org/workshops/conferences/where-we-go-from-here/join-us-for-a-free-public-talk-with-van-jones-social-justice-and-the-new-economy Blessed to be here at Omega, again, and sitting 10 feet from Vandana Shiva. A crowd of teens just left the stage – teens from Yonkers, NY, my parents’ home town… where I spent the first 15 years of my life visiting my grandparents. It’s a superb urban “suburb”, just north of the Bronx. […]