Suburban Permaculture, Neighborhoods and Cohousing

Saturday 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Imagine suburbia becoming more like cohousing. Start with a suburban permaculture project - reinventing a property, making use of existing personal and community assets, redefining values, time and goals. Leverage that suburban project into a tool for empowerment in the neighborhood and beyond.

Presenter Jan Spencer lives in Eugene, Oregon and has been transforming his suburban property for nine years. Many of his needs are taken care of on site. His place has become an important community resource. Jan is known as an advocate for ecological culture change, he speaks and writes about related issues and is active in civic affairs. He and two friends are currently producing a film called Closer to Home. See http://www.suburbanpermaculture.org and http://www.closertohomemovie.com