Winter '08 Syllabus

“Building Intentional Sustainable Communities” ILC
Sponsor: Karen Gaul
Heron Heartsun
Winter 2008

Weeks 1 and 2 Jan.7th-19th
∑ Jan 5-19thrd: Attend the Earth Activist Training in Cazadero, CA. Basic permaculture design, agroforestry, vermiculture, earth based ritual, natural building, sustainable energy, political activism, community dynamics and power structures, water catchment/conservation and greywater systems, bioremediation, animal husbandry, and more.
∑ Completion of group permaculture design project and presentation. Earn permaculture certification.
∑ Document experience at training through photography, journaling and audio recordings.

Week 3 Jan 21-27
∑ Jan 22: Begin academic blog on EAT
∑ Jan 23rd: Visit Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Occidental, CA
∑ Write complete syllabus
∑ Jan 24th: Seminar
∑ Jan 27th: Blog on readings and OAEC
∑ Reading: The Earth Path by Starhawk aloud
∑ Reading: Creating a Life Together chapters 1, 2, and 3

Week 4 Jan. 20th Feb. 1st
∑ Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Publicity for EAT report back
∑ Seminar
∑ Blog
∑ Reading: Creating a Life Together chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
∑ Reading: EAT reader

Week 5 Feb. 4th-8th
∑ Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Publicity for EAT report back
∑ EAT report back curriculum planing
∑ Seminar
∑ Blog
∑ Reading: Creating a life together chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
∑ Reading: EAT reader

Week 6 Feb. 11th-15th
∑ Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 Kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Publicity for EAT report back
∑ EAT report back curriculum planing
∑ Seminar
∑ Blog
∑ Reading: Creating a life together chapters 17, 18, appendix’s
∑ Reading: The Tracker

Week 7 Feb. 18th-22nd
∑ Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 Kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Seminar
∑ Blog
∑ Present evening report back on EAT for general community
∑ Reading: The Earth's Blanket chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
∑ Reading: Communities Directory

Week 8 Feb. 25th-29th
∑ Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 Kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Seminar
∑ Blog
∑ Workshop publicity
∑ Reading: The Earth's Blanket chapters 5, 6, 7, 8

Week 9 March 3rd-7th
∑ Mar 2nd: Visit Emma Goldman Finishing School
∑ Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, one hour sitting at Kamana secret spot
∑ 4 Kamana journals
∑ Kamana field inventory
∑ Kamana final reflection
∑ Workshop Curriculum planning
∑ Workshop publicity
∑ Seminar: Community Creation map/plan
∑ Blog

Week 10 March 10th-14th
∑ Teach workshop on sensory awareness and relationship with place
∑ Seminar: Community Creation map/plan
∑ Blog
∑ Final reflective essay due
∑ Kamana portfolio due
∑ Community Creation map due

Week 11 March 17th-21st
∑ Evaluations

Booklist:
Nature Awareness and Permaculture
∑ The Tracker, by Tom Brown. 1978. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
∑ The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature by Starhawk. 2005. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA.
∑ EAT reader, selected articles
Community Vision
∑ The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings For Sustainable Living (Culture, Place, and Nature: Studies in Anthropology and Environment) by Nancy J. Turner. 2005. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.
∑ The Intentional Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living, 2000 edition (selected essays). Fellowship for Intentional Community, Rutledge, MO
∑ Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian. 2003. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC.