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If you've heard of permaculture but you're not sure what it actually is, you're in luck! Join me for a conversation with Lee Recca, President of the Denver Permaculture Guild (DPG).

In this interview, we'll explore what permaculture is and discuss their upcoming Permaculture Design courses.

Denver Permaculture Guild (DPG) is a community-organized, membership-based nonprofit with the aim of building healthy, resilient, regenerative, and inclusive Denver area communities.

DPG is offering a Permaculture Design Course from April through October 2021, with a mix of remote and in-person workshops. The course includes the core 72-hour internationally certified curriculum as well as detailed breakout sessions and regionally appropriate resources.

DPG is also offering a hands-on, intensive outdoor course starting in late July. Additional 2021 course offerings include Social Permaculture, Advanced Landscape Design using Permaculture, Financial Permaculture, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Phenology.

Links:
-- Denver Permaculture Guild https://denverpermacultureguild.org/

Books:
There are many great books on permaculture. Here are a few:
-- The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country by Peter Bane
https://newsociety.com/books/p/the-permaculture-handbook
-- Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/gaias-garden/
-- The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience, by Toby Hemenway
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-permaculture-city/
-- Permaculture in Pots: How to Grow Food in Small Urban Spaces by Juliet Kemp
https://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Pots.../dp/185623097X
-- Permaculture: A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison (co-founder of the movement)
https://www.amazon.com/Permaculture.../dp/0908228015

UPCOMING EVENTS
2021 Earth Week Summit
April 17-24, 2021
Live workshops, happy hours, 1000 tree campaign, April pop-up group, and more!
FREE Registration
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Register by April 10 for 50% discount and introduction in Earth Week Summit
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

The pandemic and economic implosion have exposed and amplified the pre-existing flaws in our food system. Hunger, access to nutritious food, and the means of food production are more important now than ever. Tune in for my interview with Benu AmunRa, a food justice advocate in Colorado.

Benu is working on her masters degree at Naropa University, centered on Resilient Leadership with an emphasis on Sustainable Systems. She is pursuing a doctorate in Transformative Studies in Fall 2021. 

Benu is active with numerous groups across Colorado that are filling the gaps. She will share about organizations that are providing training and resources for BIPOC farmers, food security measures for students, and much more!  

Upcoming Events:

• Hunger Action Week - March 24-31, 2021
  https://p2a.co/V8VXO2y 
• 2021 Earth Week Summit, April 17-24, https://www.earthweeksummit.com
• 2021 International Climate Action Challenge, August 18, https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

• Alliance Center, Regenerative Recovery Coalition https://www.thealliancecenter.org/coalition/ 
• Bee Campus USA – https://beecityusa.org/about/
• Boulder County Health Dept. – https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/food/fruit-and-veg-boulder/
• Boulder Farmers Market – https://bcfm.org/food-access/
• Boulder Food Rescue - http://boulderfoodrescue.org
• Bronzeville- Black and Brown Growers Collective – Gathering of Peoples Event - 

Film is a powerful type of environmental education that can reach beyond the classroom and the trail. Join me for a discussion with Shawna Crocker, founder of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF). Hear how the festival was started, how you can participate this year and in the future, and how to emulate their success.

We're joined by Shiela DeForest, Mrs ECO-International and the founder of Golden Residents (and Friends) Eco-Action Team, one of the Exo-Expo exhibitors and an Eco-Champion Award Winner from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge. 

This year’s Colorado Environmental Film Festival will be entirely virtual, which means you can now enjoy the best of the fest at home! Watch over 70 films, short and long, featuring environmental issues and solutions from around the world.

JOIN THE VIRTUAL FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 12 – 21, 2021 at www.ceff.net. 

April 17-24, 2021 Earth Week Summit

www.EarthWeekSummit.com

August - December 2021 International Climate Action Challenge

www.ClimateActionChallenge.net

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Desperation is never a good look. 

You've probably had this experience many times. When you act needy, the exact thing that you've decided that you need so desperately continues to elude you.

Maybe we're all like those buds just below the surface, just so excited to pop! But unlike the buds who aren't rushing or feeling inadequate, it seems like there's a lot of anxiety right now about not having or not doing enough. 

This is something that I work to manage in my own life every day. 

In this week's Green Team Academy Podcast Live, I'll share my thoughts on how to:

• Handle the feeling that you need more time, money, or anything
• Discern the levels of having, doing, and being
• Consider the multiple forms of currency available in your life and your work
• Notice words that creep into our language that create the illusion of desperation
• Say no with gusto rather than guilt
• Switch the vibe from repel to attract
• Lean on nature for reminders on how to roll with grace
• Get clear about who or what you are working for so you can define success on your terms

This episode is a gentle reminder that you are already enough!

Climate Action Challenge
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Earth Week Summit
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

What is biochar? How can you use it? Should you make it yourself? How can it build community? Find out in my interview with Charmaster, Tony C. Saladino.

Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts - Stitcher, Apple, Google, Spotify

Tony C. Saladino is a Charmaster, Biochar Educator, Founder and Guide for ECO-Tours of Wisconsin, Inc. As a participant in the 2020 International Climate Challenge, he met his goal of creating his weight in char and turning that into over half a ton of biochar, enough to enrich a dozen 4X10 foot beds to a depth of six inches, forever! He also taught a dozen more biochar classes so that more people would be able to do the same, cheaply and efficiently.
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

In 1987, Saladino rode his bicycle around all five Great Lakes, teaching people in person, through TV, radio and print publications how to live lightly on the planet and experience a higher quality of life at the same time. Over ten million residents of the Great Lakes Basin heard him speak or read about his trip.

Tony committed his life to "helping heal the rift between humankind and nature" as a child and has helped plant over 60,000 native trees and hundreds of thousands of native perennial food and medicinal plants across Northeast Wisconsin as an adult. He leads plant-ins, seed collection and dispersal tours, biochar classes, permaculture garden tours, canoe and bicycle trips across the region. He also advocates for the Earth Charter, www.earthcharter.org, which encourages people to utilize information from Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org especially their Skin-Deep database of personal care products and their zip code specific water quality database.

The focus on the six steps required to make biochar will help people understand how-to double crop production, sequester carbon, protect water quality, reduce the need for irrigation and fertilization by half, all while providing a host of environmental benefits. He will help people decide if they are better served by making their own biochar or purchasing it and for those who decide to buy, how to tell if the char you are buying is worth the investment.

Six steps required to transform dry woody material into biochar:

• Make it by getting it to glow, without air
• Micronize it to bits 2mm or less.
• Moisten that material to as wet as a wrung-out sponge.
• Add Minerals
• Add Microbes
• Let it mature, stirring several times a day and keeping the moisture steady.

Saladino and his group, are currently working to secure funding for an 80-acre parcel that will not only serve as a home base for ECO-Tours but allow guests to come and learn the principles of sustainability by doing. In a living laboratory, that builds community through diversity. The property will only be available for Leave No Trace Camping and classes in and about nature which helps guests understand and create more sustainable lifestyles.

Support the new center via the GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/52fa3b77

Join me for an interview with special guest, Renee Millard Chacon. In this episode, we'll talk about defining environmental justice, and what it means to be an ally to or accomplice with the BIPOC community.

Renee Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Danzante Azteca, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Diné/Mexica descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. Her family is from the Denver community and she now works as a cultural educator and teacher. She works as the Youth Program Coordinator/ Cultural Educator at Spirit of the Sun and Co-founder of Womxn From the Mountain in hosting, organizing, and leading marches, workshops, and educational resources for social justice and environmental justice. She maintains her culture every day as a Sahumadora/Malinzin in Azteca Danza for Grupo ColorAztlan in Denver and Tlahuitzcalli in Boulder. Her goal now is to help in the circles she has the opportunity to engage in to move forward to heal through environmental awareness, transformative education, and support to diverse leaders ready to fight for future generations. She welcomes any respectful correspondence to start doing the tedious but powerful work of creating better relations in spaces that deserve to be healed because of the trauma from historical inequality and environmental racism.

If you have any questions about Spirit of the Sun programming, please email Renée at [email protected]

Renee is working in Colorado to define environmental justice for legislation.

Renee worked with 350 Colorado, Conservation Colorado, Western Conservation, and many environmental organizations to address how womxn and children are often trafficked in these same areas affected by exploitative practices, such as fossil fuel development. In a collective effort with the International Indigenous Youth Council, they presented an art installation on 16th Street Mall in Denver to highlight Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Black Womxn, and Migrant Womxn by hanging red and black dresses individually dedicated to a womxn missing or deceased. During the strike with Greta Thunberg, they painted handprints over the mouths of hundreds of individuals to continue to bring attention to these silenced individuals.

Renee provides fee-based cultural and allyship trainings for groups and organizations.

Get ready for the 2021 International Climate Action Challenge! Register now for early bird pricing! Each purchase creates a scholarship for another person or team. 

Tired of being ineffective while watching the state of planet degrade before our very eyes? If you've tried bunches of others things to no avail, don't worry. It's not your fault.

Anyone can make an impact quickly, once they know how. This episode was recorded on January 6, with 106 days until Earth Day, April 22, 2021. That's plenty of time to make a difference.

Tune in to learn about the Weekly Action Plan Checklist from the Climate Action Challenge book and workbook. Find out about courses for challengers and communities. Get books, coaching, and courses at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Join me for a look at 2020! I'll take you on a ride through the ups and downs of life with the Green Team Academy. Find out how the Climate Action Challenge came to be and what our global community achieved, even during a pandemic. 

Books, courses, and coaching available in our shop at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Tune in to meet the award winners from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge!

• Our Team https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/team 
• Mentors https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/mentors
• Challengers https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/challengers 

Find out what they did in the 90 days between Sep 1 and Nov 30, 2020.

Get support in making a huge eco-impact fast! Find the Climate Action Challenge book, workbook, courses and coaching at: https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

Get a quick overview of the schedule for the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge, with new special guests!

View the entire schedule here:

https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/schedule