Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities: A workshop in urban ecological survival skills

Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities
A workshop in urban ecological survival skills: exploring the point where perma-culture and social activism meet.
RUST
Soon, humanity will be challenged by energy depletion and climate change. We will have to consume less, and shift away from material growth. As part of this transition, the means for securing food, water, energy, and waste management must be re-localized into people's communities. And since more than 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas, it will be critical to make our cities more sustainable.

This workshop will focus on skills, tools, and technologies usable by urban residents who want more local access and control over food, water security, waste management and energy production. Using affordable, simple designs, we will discuss how to build sustainable infrastructure in our own backyards by utilizing salvaged and recycled materials.

Systems to be described include:
· Soil building and asphalt removal
· Bioremediation
· Urban chickens and micro-livestock
· Rainwater harvesting & Aquaculture
· Constructed wetlands for cleaning wastewater
· Humanure and worm composting,
· Passive solar and bicycle windmills
· Biogas and veggie oil bio-fuels
· ‘Green Building’– straw bale, clay woodchip
· DIY air purification
· Struggles for land and against gentrification

Scott Kellogg is co-founder of the Rhizome Collective, the director of its sustainability program and the primary teacher of R.U.S.T. - The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills. He divides his time between the Rhizome Collective in Austin, and the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York.

Thursday February 12th
7:00 pm
Sedition Books
901 Richmond Ave.
713-523-0807 or www.seditionbooks.org for more information