Farm School at PSC Tours the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
This is part of a series of videos documenting my experience as a student in the Farm School at the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, California. This is a 13 week program designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of permaculture, ecological design, and farming, as well as helping to mentor them into careers in the world of organic, and better than organic agriculture. I am enrolled in the Ecological Landscaper Immersion track of the Farm School, which means I will also be learning about permaculture and ecological design as it relates to the landscaping industry.
The first week of classes at the Farm School were capped off by a great tour of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. The OAEC is a permaculture demonstration site, educational center, and eco-village that has been under the care of many dedicated individuals since the 70's. One of those people is Brock Dolman, who walked us around and gave us a tour of the many different aspects of the OAEC landscape. There was a lot of focus on how water is managed and directed across the land to reduce erosion and promote infiltration, ultimately keeping the water in nearby Dutch Bill Creek clean and clear for the endangered Coho salmon.
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Saving Salmon, Saving Us
Can saving the salmon save your family?
oaecwater.org
OAEC WATER Institute uses amazing underwater footage to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the historic reintroduction of endangered Coho Salmon to the Salmon Creek Watershed in Sonoma County, CA, where experts reveal why Coho are disappearing, and what that means for you.
Watch to see how protecting your home, your land and your family can help your environment and the endangered species in your area.
a project of
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC)
VISIT oaecwater.org for more!!!
We want to thank the following people and organizations for their financial support, partnership and volunteer contributions to the WATER Institute in general, to the production of this video, to the Salmon Creek Watershed Conservation Program and to the Salmon Creek Estuary Structures Habitat Project:
Panta Rhea Foundation
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Dean Witter Foundation
The Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Restoration Grant Program
National Partnership between the NOAA Community-based Restoration Program and The Nature Conservancy
State Coastal Conservancy
Sonoma Coast State Beach
Gold Ridge RCD
Salmon Creek Watershed Council
Salmon Creek Watershed Landowners and Residents
Chanslor Ranch, George Gross
Michael Fawcett
Dragon Fly Stream Enhancement, Doug Gore
Prunuske Chatham, Inc.
Westminster Woods, David Berman and Corby Hines
Ben Zolno
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KCTS Exclusive! California Tiger Salamander Massacre
Special Report on the slayings of rare California Tiger Salamanders on a Sonoma County Road, and one easy thing you can do to save the rest of them!
from Center for Biological Diversity:
SAVING THE CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER
With its wide mouth charmingly outlined in yellow, the California tiger salamander always looks like it's smiling. But this beautiful amphibian is a discriminating species that can only thrive in unique — and now extremely rare — habitats. As California's vernal pools, grasslands, and oak woodlands disappear, the tiger salamander has fewer and fewer reasons to grin. The species' plight is particularly extreme in Sonoma County, where development threatens 95 percent of remaining salamander habitat, and the Santa Barbara population — although it was luckily listed as federally endangered in 2000 — is still on the verge of winking out.
It will take only 45 seconds of your time to contact the state and ask them to keep the endangered status of the California Tiger Salamander!
See how at
(no salamanders were hurt in the production of this report)
Living The Change, Sharing It With You - OAEC
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Occidental Arts & Ecology Center - OAEC
OAEC is a nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California's Sonoma County. OAEC was founded in 1994 by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists, and artists seeking innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental and economic crises of our day. Much of the Center's work addresses the challenges of creating democratic communities that are ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable in an increasingly privatized and corporatized economy and culture. OAEC's programs combine research, demonstration, education, and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship.
In addition to our courses, there are other opportunities, such as tours and events, where you can visit the Center, see our facilities and gardens, and get to know us.
Climate Change Denier Chautauqua Revue 2015
What good is Science when it challenges Empire?
A Courtney Arnold Parody
Performed by Janel Healy, with Courtney Arnold and Sandy Riccardi
The Dustbowl Darlings at the Chautauqua Revue
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Occidental, CA
PARODY US COPYRIGHT FAIR USE
Parody lyrics by Courtney Arnold
Music by Johnny Cash
Climate Change Denier Parody by Courtney Arnold to the tune of “Ring of Fire,” recorded by Johnny Cash
The fantasy burns brightWhen long-lost loves reunite.You friended me out of the blue,
So naturally, I Face-stalked you.But you’ve turned into a climate change denier,And you seem to think that all liberals conspireBut I’ll trust that things Aren’t quite so dire, you just crossed your wires. We parted ways our senior year,
Now the fates have brought us here.
You’re very rich, I’ll give you that,And omigod, we both like cats.Still you’ve turned into a climate change denier,And you quote Ayn Rand when seeking to inspire.As your fortune grew,
Your ethics mired, now they’ve retired.Yes you’ve turned into a climate change denier,‘Cause what good is science when it challenges empire?And it burns, burns, burns,My screen’s on fire, love’s on the pyre.
I scroll down, down, down,Despair and ire eclipse desire.
My blood boils higher, the flame expires.
Adam Wolpert talks to Bioneers about community-building, Part I
Adam Wolpert, one of the founders of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, talks about the functioning of intentional communities. A trip to OAEC, tour of their beautiful gardens & intro to permaculture was a post-conference Bioneers intensive. Intro from co-founder Brock Dolman.
Adam is a painter and the Director of the Arts Program and co-director of the Intentional Communities Program at OAEC. He studied for two years in Florence, Italy, at the classical atelier, Studio Cecil-Graves, and received his MFA at UC San Diego. Adam has lectured on sustainable community and led painting workshops at many West Coast venues. His painting has been widely exhibited throughout California. Adam offers workshops on group process and organizational structure in many OAEC trainings and courses. His work can be viewed on the internet at adamwolpert.com.
Recorded with a Flip Video camcorder.
Learning Through the Arts Active Ecology
An Ecological Community Artmaking Project created for Earth Day in April 2008, for further information go to ltta.ca. To sign up for this years project go to rcmusic.ca.
Stand By Your Oligarch
A Courtney Arnold Parody
Performed by Courtney Arnold, with Janel Healy and Sandy Riccardi
(The Dustbowl Darlings)
US COPYRIGHT FAIR USE PARODY
Chautauqua Revue, Sept 2015
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Occidental, CA
Alan Journet, Brock Dolman, Colin Bailey at Soil Not Oil Intl. Conf. 2015
Professor Alan Journet, SE Missouri State University
Brock Dolman, WATER Institute at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Colin Bailey, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice coalition for Water
Speaking during the Soil Not Oil International Conference in Richmond California on September 4th & 5th, 2015.
Soil Not Oil promotes agro-ecological practices and community powered solutions to restore ecosystems and reach environmental justice.
soilnotoilcoalition.org
Clowns on a Stick, Chautauqua Revue 2015 (Drought theme and cooking demonstration)
And now for something completely different. We don't generally post videos on our friends' behalf, but today we make an exception, having just taken part in a magical, old-fashioned Chautauqua Revue at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (California). The first bit is a cooking demonstration that goes awry with James Pelican and Wysteria Brylcream. The second bit with Lluis Valls expertly incorporates the use of a divining rod.The theme was Drought, and leave it to Clowns on a Stick to figure out how to make drought funny.
Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Prior to joining City Hall, Hawthorne was architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to early 2018. He is Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where since 2015 he has directed the Third Los Angeles Project, a series of public conversations about architecture, urban planning, mobility, and demographic change in Southern California. He has also taught at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. A frequent collaborator with KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Hawthorne wrote and directed the hour-long documentary That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, which had its broadcast debut earlier this year, and received an L.A.-area Emmy Award as Executive Producer for the 2016 KCET program Third L.A. with Architecture Critic Christopher Hawthorne. He has been a Mid-Career Fellow at Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program and a Resident in Criticism at the American Academy in Rome. Hawthorne grew up in Berkeley and holds a bachelor's from Yale College, where he studied political science and architectural history.
350 GARDEN CHALLENGE
THE 350 GARDEN CHALLENGE:
In a single weekend, May 15-16, 350 Sonoma County landscapes will be revitalized and transformed into bountiful, water-wise food gardens.
Be a part of the movement.
Join the 350 Garden Challenge.
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director: Beau Bouverat
TINBIKE Productions
TINBIKE.com
composer: Chris Vibberts
Music For Film
chrisvibberts.com
Cohabitation & What is Wrong with Ecological Art
This talk debates the different perspectives and problems on our planet, concerning exploitation of labor, extraction of minerals, and its consequences. It addresses issues of cohabitation in terms of living in the same time and space where different worlds and cosmo-visions exist simultaneously, the paradigm of the modern man, and culture. Is making art on these issues self-important and contributing itself to waste? And what is the role of art in general in this context?
Lara Almarcegui, Artist, Rotterdam; Julian Charrière, Artist, Berlin; Luise Faurschou, Founder and Director, ART 2030 and Faurschou Art Resources, Copenhagen.
Moderator: Ana Paula Cohen, Independent Curator, Editor and Writer, São Paulo
Saturday, June 17, 2017, 10am - 11:30am
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Basel 2017.
Tomki Creek Watershed: A Project of Community Concern
Work on the Tomki Creek Watershed Restoration Project illustrates common erosion problems and demonstrates several ways to stabilize or restore watersheds. This program shows how a concerned community can join with federal, state, and local agencies to improve an unhealthy watershed.
Produced by UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor John Harper, Mendocino County.
Series: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources [3/2001] [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 5590]
Sustainability Hardcore -- Inside Intentional Communities
All you need to know about 2012 communes in one minute - Sign up for the Art of Community now, and learn the REAL story behind community..... Sept. 21-23 2012
community, intentional community, westminster woods, occidental, oaec, coop, co-op, cohousing, urban, residential, sustainability, green, ecological, natural building, city repair, northern california, ecotopia, earth, eaarth, nudity, sex, drugs, animal husbandry, spiritual genitalia
ART OF COMMUNITY - September 21 through 23 2012
Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery - Crash Course Ecology #2
Population ecology is the study of groups within a species that interact mostly with each other, and it examines how they live together in one geographic area to understand why these populations are different in one time and place than they are in another. How is that in any way useful to anyone ever? Hank uses the example a of West Nile virus outbreak in Texas to show you in this episode of Crash Course: Ecology.
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Table of Contents
1) Density & Dispersion 02:03
2) Population Growth 03:07
3) Limiting Factors 03:45
a) Density Dependent 06:16
b) Density Independent 07:11
4) Exponential & Logistical Growth 08:04
5) How to Calculate Growth Rate 09:33
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Laundry to Landscape Graywater System - Gardens by Gabriel
Gabriel Frank, Gardens by Gabriel
describes a laundry to landscape graywater system in Morro Bay, California for a single family residence. Native California plants along the fence area are irrigated only by washing machine water. Using low sodium bio-compatible laundry detergent is key to ensure healthy plants.
To start your graywater project on California's Central Coast around San Luis Obispo, please visit
Deserts - Biomes Episode 4
Despite the lack of life, desert landscapes nonetheless inspire us with their stark beauty. A product of endless sunshine and droughts, life yet still finds a way here, for plants to survive in these regions have gotten smart. In this video we explore the biome of deserts, including plant life in the Mojave, Sonora, Atacama, Namib, Kalahari, Sahara, Gobi and Australian Deserts.
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FURTHER READING:
LONS08 - A new world natural vegetation map for global change studies -
Holdridge Life Zones -
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VIDEO AND STILLS CREDITS
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR KIND PERMISSION TO USE EXCERPTS:
Chihuahaun Desert, Mexico - Totality Films
Illizi Province, Algeria – Belhocine Amine
Wadi Rum, Jordan - KT Drones
Thar, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India Traveloguer Kanishk
THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR SHARING IN THE CREATIVE COMMONS:
Peruvian Coast (Paracas, Peru) - KhuyayCuzco
Patagonia, Argentina - Jonathan Roberts
Namib Desert, Namibia - Julian Hillebrand
Granada Province, Spain - Designwithyou
Morocco - La Vie Un Voyage
Iran - AsuhsWorld
Tajikistan - vfr800hu
Kazakhstan - Alcatraz Eleochestra
Taklamakan Desert, China - Prashant Ram
Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Valery Maleev Jr
Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Valery Maleev Jr
Sandstorm - ChaseRFan09
Uyuni Salt Flats - Les Gros Sacs
Blue Agave, Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico - Beautiful Booze
Haleakala Silversword (Daisy Family) - Ken Lund
Frankenia - Jean and Fred
Northern goldenrod, Solidago multiradiata (Artemisia Family) - Jim Morefield
Sagebrush (Artemisia family) - Cowtools
Nevada wormwood (Artemisia Family) - Jim Morefield
White Goosefoot - Chenopodium - Andreas Rockstein
Watson's saltbush (Atriplex) - docentjoyce
Desert Holly (Atriplex) - Laura Camp
Creosote Bush - Hadley Paul Garland
Bristlecone - Jitze Couperus
Bristlecone Pine (Timelapse) - RS2Photography
Nassauvia - Patricio Novoa Quezada
Chuquiraga - Dick Culbert
Brachyclados - Dick Culbert
Artemisia absinthium - Andreas Rockstein
Tamarisk - jacinta lluch valero
Tamarisk - City of Albuquerque
Stipa tenacissima - David Elliott
Nitre bush - Julie Burgher
Bean caper - Bernard Dupont
Atriplex - Adrien
Date Palm - Martin LaBar
Date Palm - Dennis Jarvis
Date Palm - Jess C
Bush Tomato - Robert Ackerman
Desert Oak - Kevin Trotman
Quiver Tree - José Carlos Babo
Milk Bush (Euphorbia virosa) - Ragnhild&Neil Crawford
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A Future with Clean Air. | Michael MacKinnon | TEDxMSJC
Research into the design and integration of advanced energy technologies and systems that can improve efficiencies and reduce harmful impacts on society and the environment
Michael received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2015 and 2013. Additionally, he received a M.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Irvine in 2010. He conducts research into the design and integration of advanced energy technologies and systems that can improve efficiencies and reduce harmful impacts on society and the environment. A specific focus of his research includes assessing the air quality impacts of emissions arising from regional energy systems via advanced atmospheric models. His primary expertise lies in technological mitigation strategies applicable to key sources that can most effectively improve atmospheric pollutant concentrations in tandem with greenhouse gas reductions.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
How Big Oil Conquered the World
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.