There are so many potential approaches to mitigating and maybe even reversing climate change. But they aren’t found by offering either despair or simplistic solutions. They won’t come from high-tech or genetic engineering. They come from shifting our way of thinking, understanding climate change as one form of massive ecosystem degradation—and that ecosystem repair comes […]
An Earth Activist Training Permaculture Design Course with Starhawk In our two-week Permaculture Design Course, we gather together to explore an internationally-recognized permaculture design certificate (PDC) curriculum with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and social change. Learn how it is possible to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a […]
Black Mountain Preserve
Cazadero, CA, United States
Earth Activist Training PDC Led by Starhawk, Charles Williams and friends. Welcome to our home in the hills of Cazadero California. Please join us for our flagship Permaculture Training course, held in our home location of Western Sonoma County, at Black Mountain Retreat Center with hands-on projects up the road at Starhawk’s Golden Rabbit Ranch. […]
The ten-day course includes one week of instruction at New Paradigm College in Lucerne, Lake County, CA that culminates in a weekend restoration eco-blitz on a community project that will engage the larger community. It ends with a final day of cleanup, evaluation, and celebration.
Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founder on the rocks of conflict and poor communication. In this five-day intensive, we’ll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes. We’ll explore issues of power, privilege […]
Join Starhawk and Earth Activist Training on Earth Day for a ritual to honor our planet and envision a future that can sustain us all. Let's Vision A New Future Together On this Earth Day, join Starhawk and Earth Activist Training for a live online ritual to release some of our grief and fear, strengthen […]
Here we are at this time of unprecedented change – and we recognize that every one of us is part of this new CALL TO ACTION !! Permaculture Design has been recognized the world over as a solutionary potency for creating amazing transformation within our full life systems and the needed planetary/earth healing as well. […]
The pandemic is still rampaging, the social justice uprising shows no signs of faltering—we hope! In the midst of rapid change, it’s hard to think ahead to what comes next, yet this is the time to plan and build if we want the future to embody the crucial changes we are calling for. What would […]
Explore the solutions to climate change, and the strategies and organizing tools that can put them into place. Join us for the first 3 weeks of our full Permaculture Design Certificate Course and dive into the principles of permaculture in our introduction to permaculture design with Starhawk & Charles Williams. We will be supported by […]
Deepen Your Understanding and Practical Application of the Science, Systems, Skills, and Spirit of Earth Healing. Our new 6 month Advanced Permaculture course will give you the experience and confidence to plan, design, and begin regeneratively managing medium to large scale land systems. Bring your vision of resilient land and upon completion you will have designed a […]
Three Days of Must-Have Tactics, Tools, and Empowerment To Grow Food – Harvest Water – Combat Climate Change – and Thrive No Matter What! FREE | LIVE | ONLINE OCTOBER 15, 16 AND 17, 2021 Introducing permaculture as a positive, proactive way to create food security, water security, and energy security, build community, and more […]
Are you ready to be an Earth Healer? We are thrilled to announce a return to in-person courses in January 2022! Register now to secure your spot– places are limited. Taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams. Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) is our longest running course– we’ve been teaching it for over 20 […]
Join us for an Earth Day celebration of Black and Indigenous land stewards. Fundraiser to support Diversity Scholarships. Celebrate Earth Day with Starhawk as we honor the work of Black and Indigenous land stewards. We’ll be coming together online to hear the inspiring voices of Pandora Thomas, Redbird Willie, Chanowk Yisrael, and Permaculture teacher Bahar […]
Taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams, Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC) is a most needed and ethical choice for learning in these certainly uncertain times of change. Learn how to design human systems that mimic natural systems, consider climate change adaptation strategies (and the new IPCC Report for 2022), use a minimum […]
Lammas or Lughnasad, the ancient Celtic feast of the first harvest. Once it was a time of fairs, of gatherings and of celebration of the first fruits and the haying. And yet, the main harvest is not yet gathered in, the fall fruits are still not ripe. Today we remain poised between hope and uncertainty. […]
