Locals Share Green Action

Kim Konte is the founding member of Nontoxic Neighborhoods, an organization that helps neighborhoods transition to organic and regenerative methods of care in public and private areas of the city.  They do this in a hands-on and collaborative way by supporting city staff, landscape contractors, and school administrators with solution-based tools and training to support the end of using synthetic pesticides.

https://nontoxicneighborhoods.org/ 

https://www.facebook.com/nontoxicneighborhoods/

https://www.instagram.com/nontoxicneighborhoods/?hl=en          

Non-Toxic Neighborhoods YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiYhkonixbXwCPajRDozsg

Lauren Winters West is the Founder and Chief Expert Organizer at Next Highest Good. As far back as she can remember, Lauren has enjoyed decluttering and organizing spaces for friends and family. She began organizing professionally after more than 20 years in a wide breadth of job capacities including: being a music video producer, a marketing executive at a Fortune 500 company and a nonprofit executive director.

Since 2016, Lauren is proud to focus full time on organizing and offering her services to help people create spaces that maximize healthy, sustainable living and productivity. Lauren is passionate about zero waste and merging her commitment for keeping items out of the landfills with her love for organizing to ensure every item goes to its next highest good. 

From blankets and paint to prescription medications and eyeglasses, she has a wealth of knowledge for the sustainable disposal of a huge range of unwanted items.

She is also a member of the Good Future Design Alliance and lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Lauren Winters West 

Professional Organizer & Zero Waste Expert

NextHighestGood.com

917•822•3003

https://nexthighestgood.com/

https://www.facebook.com/zerowasteorganizer

https://www.instagram.com/zerowasteorganizer/

Shane Davis the founder of Plantr in Eugene, Oregon. While in the Marine Corp, Shane traveled the world as part of the President lift squadron which provided global special mission airlift, logistics, and communications for two presidents through 5 countries and over 20 states. After his time in the Marine Corp he founded Plantr where he has been working with his team of developers on an app that helps match ecological garden designers with local community yards in urban and suburban settings on a wide scale.

Plantr came to Shane as a way to help spread Permaculture across the nation.  His experience and skills as part of a squadron managing important US security missions are now being used for one of the most important missions of all, to design and plant ecological gardens in Eugene, Oregon.  As use of the app expands, they would like to see this spread across the US.

Website/App:   https://www.plantrapp.com/

Austin Arrington is a software developer, scientist, and entrepreneur working on systems to help humans and nature connect and thrive.  Austin brings sustainable technologies and systems to market, from green roofs and urban farms, to soil sensors, automation, and machine learning. 

He is a published researcher and holds an MS in Environmental Science from the state university of New York and College of Environmental Science & Forestry, an MA in Bioethics from NYU, and a B.A. in English from Penn State University. His research explores the intersection of ecology, technology, and ethics.

One of the exciting projects he has been developing, coordinating, and launching is a cell phone application that monitors humus/organic matter/carbon in the soil.  This device will help to facilitate farmers and ranchers being compensated for improving the environment through their agriculture practices.

Planter Group brings the best in technology to garden/farming systems, technology, and green buildings to design and enhance successful systems that support people and the planet.

Plant Group

https://www.plantgroupnyc.com/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/plant_group/?hl=en

Shugah Baybee Summer Events Summer - Fall 

https://www.plantgroupnyc.com/shugah-baybees

Cuauhtemoc Landeros has worked and lived in multiple area of California and Mexico.  He is academically and physically engaged in the fields of sustainable landscaping, organic farming, permaculture, agro-ecology, soil food web biology, Korean natural farming, and Permaculture. He was part of a small group that started SymSoil which has developed products that increase the diversity and abundance of beneficial soil micro-organisms for healthy soil.

He has studied regenerative methods directly with well-known experts in their field such as:

Agroecology with Sepp Holzer,

Soil biology with Dr. Elaine Ingham

Mycology research with Paul Stamets at his facility in Washington

Permaculture with Geoff Lawton

He has worked with farms, compost facilities, and in production and product development with SymSoil.  With SymSoil he has been involved in producing and applying teas/extracts, top dressings, soil mixes, and mother cultures.  He has also managed tilth with cover crops/sheet mulching and boosting fertility with these multiple methods

He has found it truly inspiring how healthy soil is a momentous pulse that builds upon itself and in short it gets better and better as you nurture and care for it. 

[email protected]

linkedin.com/in/cuauhtemoc-landeros-4a8411108

https://symsoil.com/

Walker Sauls, in Reno, NV, is the founder of the nonprofit GreenVibe World and the urban mushroom farm called Biggest Little Mushrooms.  After Walker Sauls completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science he founded the nonprofit while living in Oregon.  Later when he moved to Reno, NV he co-founded Biggest Little Mushrooms with his brother and now works as the Head Cultivator. 

At Biggest Little Mushrooms they pride themselves in growing high-quality mushrooms with as little impact to the environment as possible.  Their small farm contributes healthy and delicious mushrooms to their local community through a co-op, a CSA, and soon at a stand at the local farmer’s market. 

Walker now sits on the board of the nonprofit, Greenvibe World which provides an online environmental education platform as well as organizing local environmental activism events in his area.  

Walker has always had a passion for the outdoors and nature, and is on a mission to be part of the multi-faceted solution that will enable humans to live in symbiosis with our beautiful Planet Earth. When he is not growing mushrooms or working for Greenvibe, you can find him on the side of a mountain, with skis on his feet, or a foraging bag on his shoulder!

Green Vibe World Nonprofit

https://www.greenvibe.world/

Green Vibe World Blog

https://www.greenvibe.world/new-blog

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/biggestlittlemushrooms/?hl=en

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/walker-sauls-973a69142/

Karaline is a marketing professional turned food advocate. With over 12 years of experience in digital marketing and advertising, Karaline has let her passion lead her to what matters most: food, and supporting a local food system!  Originally from the Midwest, Karaline is a huge proponent of small organic local farms. After volunteering for a few non-profits over the years, Karaline worked as a summer farm hand this past summer at Prema Farms and got her feet wet selling organic veggies at the busy Saturday summer market in Reno.  Shortly after this she was invited to take on the role as Director of the new Reno Mobile Market program

Reno Mobile Market Brief From the Director:

Reno Mobile Market (renomobilemarket.com) is a NEW local food distribution program in Reno! We function as an extension of the farmers market to connect the community to local and regional organic products and goods.  We are called the Reno "Mobile" Market because of our 3 satellite market stands that function for 2 hours during the same time as the main farmers market (www.renofarmersmarket.com), giving people in other parts of town (NW, Central, and SW Reno) access to the same goods sold at the market.

We essentially function like a mini market with multiple items, farmer goods, including non-food items like candles, lotions, hemp products and more (items all sold at main market). The goal:  to support the local farmers, makers, and bakers in town! In addition, our secondary goal is to help get healthy organic goods to people during COVID so we are selling premade MarketBoxes which is a mix of 8 local and regionally sourced organic fruits and veggies. The box is available for weekly purchase or through a subscription and can be bought online then picked up at one of our four locations.

The program was started through a grant provided by the Nevada Department of Agriculture, and has been built to include a free produce box program for those in need. GiftBoxes are provided to members of the community who might be low income or unemployed and in need of a nutrient dense box of organic fruits and veggies.  While we will be pursuing future grants to support this program and our general operations, we are asking community members now for direct donations to help keep our GiftBox program running.

We plan to run the operation as a self-sustaining program and will include additional services soon such as MarketBox "Plus" which is a way to order add-ons to your MarketBox such as honey, bread, spices, or sweets (all locally made) and packaged with your name on it for the ease of pick up. 

We accept volunteers, and donations, or anyone that wants to lend a hand or collaborate in any way!

https://www.renomobilemarket.com/

Saturdays 9am-12pm

McKinley Arts & Culture Center
925 Riverside Dr, Reno, NV 89503

Saturdays 9:30 - 11:30am 

3925 Neil Rd

Reno, NV 89502

Saturdays 9:30 - 11:30am 

1485 Robb Dr 

Reno, NV 89523

Saturdays 9:30 - 11:30am 

1950 Steamboat Pkwy

Reno, NV 89521

Anja Lyngbaek, is the Associate Programs Director with Local Futures an international nonprofit dedicated to renewing ecological, social, and spiritual well-being by shifting away from dependence on global monopolies, and towards decentralized local and regional economies. Anja holds a bachelors of science in Rural Resource Management and a Masters degree in Agroforestry. She has worked with Local Futures on a number of projects since 1986, among others as coordinator of the UK Local Food Programme, the International Alliance for Localization and the International Economics of Happiness Conference Series. She is currently coordinating World Localization Day 2021. Fluent in Spanish, English and Danish, she has been an articulate spokesperson for localization on several continents. 

Local Futures Nonprofit:

https://www.localfutures.org/

International Alliance for Localization IAL 

https://www.localfutures.org/programs/global-to-local/international-alliance-localization/

World Localization Day 2021

https://worldlocalizationday.org/

Local Futures

https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomicsofhappiness
https://twitter.com/EconofHappiness

Kara and her family started Stony Rose Homestead as a conscious effort to ensure their family was enjoying the healthiest food possible.   From a few bee hives and chickens, they added no-till farming and all with the goal of providing delicious food for both family and community using sustainable and earth-friendly methods. 

From their hives they harvest raw honey and create naturally healing beeswax-based skin care products. From their chicken coops they gather free-range eggs and from their fields & forest they harvest pastured chickens, mushrooms, fruits and vegetables.

Find them on FB and Instagram @StonyRoseHomestead  

Our skincare is listed on Etsy Stonyrosehomestead.etsy.com

Our campsites can be booked through HipCamp  https://www.hipcamp.com/dashboard/land/41211/listings