Natural Building with Penny Livingston Presentation & Hands on Workshop
| Location – Global Earth Repair Office 10644 Rhody Drive, Port Hadlock, WA Time – Feb 28, Friday, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Natural Building Technologies & Materials Presentation Penny Livingston of the Regenerative Design Institute will share many wonderful examples of bio-regionally appropriate, non-toxic building and building systems from all over the world. Some of the systems discussed will include cob, light straw clay, bamboo, timber frame, strawjet, rammed earth, paja rekey and wood chip clay as well as earthen and lime plaster. By Donation, suggested $10 – 20 ————————————- Feb 29, Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Earthen Building Technologies Workshop Includes hands-on cob and earthen plaster project. All levels welcome. Field trip to a local property to work on a cob wall inside a house. This includes some sculptural elements of embedded glass, mirrors and a sculpted basilisk – mythical snake. Workshop Fee- $75 |
| About the instructor- Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She holds a MS in Eco-Social Regeneration, three Diplomas in Permaculture Design and has sat on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America. She has studied, taught with, hosted and learned directly from Bill Mollison, and David Holmgren the co-founders of Permaculture and the developers of the Permaculture Design Certification Course curriculum. Penny Livingston is one of the most prolific permaculture design course teachers on the West Coast of North America. Her Regenerative Living Institute has been based in northern California since the 1980s. She has taught Permaculture, Natural Building and Herbal Medicine Making around the US as well as Bali, Indonesia, Peru, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Portugal, Australia, Belize, Brazil, England and Costa Rica. A well-rounded permaculturist is very interdisciplinary and can design and teach sustainable systems in both the natural and built environments. Gardening, horticulture, agriculture, water management, as well as energy systems, economics, and natural building. Livingston has specialized in natural building and has a lot of experience and knowledge to share. Livingston has sat on the Building Appeals Board for the County of Marin, after being unanimously approved by the Marin County Supervisors. She was also a founding board member for the Redwood Empire Chapter of the US Green Building Council. Livingston is a founding member of the Natural Building Colloquium, a national consortium of professional natural builders, creating innovations in straw bale, cob, timberframe, light clay, natural non-toxic interior finishes and other methods using natural and bio-regionally appropriate materials for construction. Penny has been associated with the development of the Green School in Bali since its beginning. The school has some of the most outrageous examples of bamboo architecture you can find. Check out some photos by googling “green school Bali bamboo village” In the 1980s, Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark began developing their 3/4 acre home in Point Reyes, California, into what eventually became the Permaculture Institute of Northern California (PINC). They subsequently moved to a new site near the small town of Bolinas, just north of San Francisco. Where they established Commonweal Garden and transformed it over ten years into an integrated, multifunctional, ecologically rich, and productive living classroom. After decades of basing in California, Penny and her partner James Stark moved to Whidbey Island in 2019. I am excited to be hosting an evening presentation and a one-day workshop on natural building by Penny Livingston on February 28 and 29. Penny and I taught a permaculture design course together in 2002 at the Tierra Learning Center in Leavenworth, Washington and we have been friends ever since. Actually we were friends before that and I even helped her get one of her first gigs teaching a permaculture design course. I have been watching her career in awe ever since. ~ Michael Pilarski Check out Penny’s Bio on her website. http://www.regenerativedesign.org/instructors/penny-livingston-stark#.Xkvj1bWM3TQ She is currently teaching an on-line Regenerative Agroforestry course. https://permacultureskillscenter.org/regenerative-agroforestry-course/ |
