TONIGHT!/Creating Local Resilience with Regenerative Design Talk w/ Leif H. Skogberg/ FREE
Margie
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents
Creating Local Resilience with Regenerative Design:
Solar Powered Homes, Communities & Gardens
With special guest Leif H. Skogberg
of Appreculture Design
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
6-8 pm, Free
Location: CEC Environmental Hub
1219 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
“Appreculture” or “Appreculture Design” is a holistic sustainability framework and integrated thinking and design system or philosophy based on the patterns and principles of nature, ecology and the garden. As an “appreciation” based and “appropriate” design system, it supports humanity to thrive and live in harmony through deeper understandings of the patterns and principles of Nature. This system is based on the practice of using “appreciation and appropriate design” as we work to make the world regenerative, resilient, and more beautiful. Leif Skogberg
Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for an evening with long-time friend and former Santa Barbara resident Leif H. Skogberg, who is currently on a 2024 Summer USA tour across the country with his presentation, Creating Local Resilience With Regenerative Design: Solar Powered Homes, Communities & Gardens.
Leif H. Skogberg is a holistic sustainability educator, consultant, builder and designer, who shares how we can partner with both Nature and modern technology, to create more beauty, abundance and resilience for our local communities. Leif’s presentation covers essential strategies for how homeowners & businesses can reduce waste, purify water, passively cool buildings, reduce utility bills, grow food, sequester carbon, regenerate community watersheds, all while increasing value and quality of properties and their environments.
A dynamic speaker and teacher, Leif is a whole system designer providing practical, affordable and scalable solutions to address prevalent environmental challenges. Growing up in the California Sierra Nevada mountains, in a family deeply connected to the environment as beekeepers, Leif traveled to Santa Barbara, CA to attend Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), studying Environmental Horticulture.
As a student he became highly motivated and active with other students, cofounding the SBCC Student Sustainability Coalition; creating the first Project in Sustainability class, and participated in the first SBCC campus sustainability assessment in collaboration with faculty & administrators. With others he initiated the SBCC food scrap composting program that later transitioned into a program for the City of Santa Barbara. As a capstone to his time at SBCC, Leif helped found and develop the SBCC Center for Sustainability, serving as one of its first Program Coordinators. After graduating, Leif worked for the City of Santa Barbara Environmental Services Division, and later the Ojai Foundation.
Today, Leif is a twenty year veteran of resilient & regenerative design, including permaculture, working during this time with hundreds of large and small residential & commercial property owners. Leif is the founder of Appreculture Design Institute and TurnKi Sustainability, providing integrated land use design and solar energy system consulting around the country. Today Leif lives with his family in Wayne, New Jersey, where he chairs the local Environmental Commission, and serves on the Wayne Master Plan Steering Committee.
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network first met Leif while he was a student at SBCC, we collaborated with him and other students on many programs & events. We are happy to warmly welcome him back to Santa Barbara!
The free event takes place at the CEC Environmental Hub, on Wednesday, August 7, 6–8 pm. For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org, mar...@sbpermaculture.org, 805-962-2571.
A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Cosponsor: Community Environmental Council (CEC)
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
mar...@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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