Financial Permaculture

Farm Team Highlights from Financial Permaculture 2013

Jorge — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:12:24 +0000

After two days of inspiring keynote speeches we got down to business. First we designed the design process: how could we come up with a meaningful contribution to the Farm at Verde Gardens by the end of this week? Some of the important steps we identified included: to articulate goals, select enterprises to focus on, [...]

Jonathan Cloud: Financial Permaculture and Local Economic Vitality

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:55:42 +0000

Jonathan Cloud, with his presentation on Financial Permaculture and Local Economic Vitality, closed the keynotes of the 2013 Financial Permaculture and Local Business Summit in Homestead, Florida. He shared approaches and examples of channeling financial resources into economic development projects for creating local resiliency, and underscored the un-sustainability of a financial profit-maximizing economy. When production [...]

Eric Toensmeier: Permaculture – Toolbox for Economic Development

Jeff — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:26:23 +0000

Eric Toensmeier, on the second day of the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Homestead, Florida, demonstrated how permaculture can foster community driven economic development and environmental justice. In his presentation, Permaculture: Toolbox for Economic Development, Eric and Diego Angarita shared learnings and insights from their experiences working with Nuestras Raíces in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Overcoming [...]

David Rose: Grassroots Financing for a Resilient Local Economy – Ease Into Hope

Jorge — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:00:07 +0000

David Rose begins by leading us in visualizing the direness of the situation humanity faces, not to push us into a fearful mire of disempowerment but rather to encourage us to allow ourselves to “ease into hope.” Despite the greatness of the task at hand, David inspires the kind of hope necessary to take on any [...]

Jude Hobbs: Permaculture and the Foodweb

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:33:15 +0000

Jude Hobbs explaining Permaculture and Foodwebs during the first day of the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit.

Jude Hobbs, during her presentation on Permaculture and the Food Web, shared her insights and perspectives on Financial Permaculture, which she described as applying whole-systems thinking to resilient local economies. Through real-life examples from around [...]

Emily Kawano: Solidarity Economy

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:31:21 +0000

Emily Kawano explains capitalism and solidarity economy.

Emily Kawano opened the Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Homestead, Florida, with her keynote on the Solidarity Economy – Building an Economy for People and Planet. As she guided us through a collective visioning of a just and sustainable world, it became clear that the [...]

Food Based Permaculture Business: Turning Problems into Solutions

ElenaEL — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:58:19 +0000

Blog Author, Marisha Auerback works as a permaculture teacher for Bastyr University, Oregon State University, Pacific University, and The Evergreen State College. She also collaborates with a number of non-profits including The City Repair Project, Aprovecho Education Center, Lost Valley Education Center, and Fertile Ground Community Center. Marisha sits on the Board of Directors of [...]

Exploring Terms and Key Concepts in Financial Permaculture

ElenaEL — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:51:05 +0000

Blog Author, Shiloh Boss is dedicated to bringing holistic awareness and positive momentum into the world of media-presentation, events, curriculum design, community building and organizational development. Shiloh is also a Team Facilitator for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

The concept of Financial Permaculture is a recent innovation in thought and [...]

Financial Permaculture and Local Economic Vitality

ElenaEL — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:00:02 +0000

Blog Author, Jonathan Cloud is founder of the Sustainable Business Accelerator and serves on the boards of several nonprofits. He is a member of the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Jonathan is also a Keynote speaker and Finance/Business experts for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

As one of [...]

Local Food Businesses Highlighted at Financial Permaculture Course

ElenaEL — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:27:22 +0000

Blog Author, Jono Neiger is principal at Regenerative Design Group, faculty at the Conway School of Landscape Design, board president of the Permaculture Institute of the Northeast (PINE), and stewards his homestead, Hickory Garden, as well as Brook’s Bend Farm in Massachusetts. He is also one of the Permaculture Design Experts for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local [...]

Wellspring Cooperative Collaboration – community revitalization through economic democracy

ElenaEL — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:26:36 +0000

Blog Author, Emily Kawano is the Director of the Center for Popular Economics and the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network. She is also a Keynote Speaker and one of the Finance Experts for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

Springfield is a mid-sized city in western Massachusetts that has been hard hit [...]

European Baha’i Business Forum

ElenaEL — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:08 +0000

Blog Author, Jeff Thimm, is a regenerative entrepreneur and consultant for sustainable development. He is on the Documentation Team for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

In an age characterized by social and ecological disintegration, it is easy to be dismayed by the decay in evidence on the news. But we [...]

Paul Hawken and Natural Capitalism

Mario EarthLearning — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:06:18 +0000

Blog Author, Gerry Segal is a university professor of entrepreneurship, green business consultant, permaculture designer and successful entrepreneur. He is one of the Finance Experts for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

My first job in the Natural Foods industry was with the Erewhon Trading Company, a Boston retailer and distributor [...]

Nuestras Raices as a Model

Mario EarthLearning — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:21:55 +0000

Blog Author, Diego Angarita, the Assistant Executive Director at Nuestras Raices in Holyoke, MA and works with the Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council. He is one of the Business Content providers for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

When going through the process of developing a business, it is [...]

Regenerative Business Focus

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:56:22 +0000

Blog Author: Beth Geagan, Regenerative Management Consultant, Balance Business is one of the design team facilitators for the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit in Miami, Florida.

I am excited to participate in the 2013 Financial Permaculture and Local Business Summit, which supports the creation of regenerative business models. This aligns with the vision [...]

Teeth in the Ethics (revisited) – toward Financial Permaculture

Jennifer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:17:24 +0000

Blog Author: Rafter Ferguson is an agroecologist and doctoral student, living in Urbana Illinois. He will be one of the featured business content providers at the upcoming 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit!

Here is a lightly-revised version of “Putting Some Teeth in the Permaculture Ethics,” originally published on my old website in 2010 [...]

Financial Permaculture with Eric Toensmeier

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:58:40 +0000

*Click on this link, Financial Permaculture with Eric Toensmeier, to listen to Eric’s podcast. In it, he discusses some of the topics that he will further address at the upcoming 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit.

**The Financial Permaculture Institute and Earth Learning are collecting and publishing articles from independent guest writers to promote the January [...]

Commercial Kitchen

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:46:35 +0000

Blog Author: DION TAYLOR, President and Co-Owner of RawONE Food (rawONE food), will be one of the featured business content providers at the upcoming 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit.

I’m thrilled and honored to take part in the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit. At RawONE Foods, we manufacture our own products, [...]

Permacultura Financiera y Finanzas Permaculturales

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:34:11 +0000

Blog Author: JORGE ESPINOSA will be part of the documentation team at the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit!

El Congreso de Empresa Local y Taller de Permacultura Financiera en Homestead, Miami se llevará a cabo del 21 al 25 de enero del 2013. Tuve la suerte de conocer el sitio del proyecto Verde [...]

Placemaking: A Catalyst for Community Empowerment

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:31:49 +0000

Blog Author: GABRIELLE ALBRIGHT is an emerging eco-social event producer and community organizer. She is also one of the team organizers for the upcoming 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit!

When we talk about creating a healthy and regenerative culture, we must look at how society and nature affect one another. The way we [...]