Living Systems Architecture --

So, what is permaculture ? ... and regeneration ?

a quality of life that makes
an art & science (y)our integrated approach more of itself possible
of employing life to a safer, saner world
in service of itself the root & fruit of permaculture
(one that is)
Beyond Sustainable: nature’s original instructions
(driven by these)
more alchemical than the capacity
Earth Care to simply sustain, both permaculture
Ethics: People Care & the planet foster the development resiliency
connection community

Resource Share of self-supporting systems that grow in co-creation Themes: diversity
their own fertility, creativity & possibility
(with a) union accumulation sharing
(an integral piece of)
honoring natural expressions functionality
Prime Directive: a Human Health Movement
everybody wins LIFE practice teaches
to make an ethical choice -- (that yields)
to take responsibility clean water, clean air, & healthy soil
for our actions on the planet what’s permaculture again?
whole-systems thinking
& for future generations
inspiration, excitement, connection & fun
(and at least one clear) a network; a community a vision of abundance
(utilizing these)
Goal: use & value
diversity
Principles: observation a toolbox for regenerative living
to design & engineer an ethical & functional
elegant descent from the peaks operate in zones of interconnection
no waste -- great leverage a design methodology a synthesis of disciplines
of oil, population, & resources only food
redundancy
that we now face accept feedback
use edges, value Earth-centered human culture
the marginal collect & store energy
created by nature works all hands to work -- integrate rather the problem is
simple machinery design from patterns applied common sense
(wearenatureworking.org) than segregate the solution to details

Friday, May 27, 2011

Living Systems
Architecture
A presentation for:
AmeriCorps Career Day
May 27th, 2011

Frances Subbiondo
living systems architect

Co-Founder, Green Collar Futures


Green Collar Futures
RIDGE & VALEY
REGION
leadership
development
empowers communities
action sustainability

to serve themselves,
learning young curricula
adults

sustainable NJ schools
living

rural urban

inc. e ciency
& relevance
outdoor
educational
centers
green
businesses
community
service

urban
renewal JERSEY
by cultivating visionary
CITY
green collar
job training local leadership, and
by creating pathways
Green Collar Futures provides three semesters of experience in
to access the unique &
sustainable living skills & business practices,
uniquely suited to the economic & environmental climate of New Jersey;
plus one-month internships with local green businesses.
essential gifts in
Participants acquire the skills & ingenuity demanded in this emerging
green economy, while businesses receive skilled labor & leaders
in emergent industries, and outdoor education centers
everyone.
launch their programs & campuses toward true sustainability.

GCF members arrive from diverse backgrouds to join together
in creating a new future for New Jersey that is BEYOND SUSTAINABLE

www.greencollarfutures.org
greencollarfutures@gmail.com
732.648.6736


our workshops

offers low-cost,
educational
workshops
that promote
healthy
people and
healthy
communities
Eco-Art & Recycling (2 hrs - 1 day) Social Permaculture (1 day)

Local Foods & Ferments

Permaculture Gardening

Homesteading & Reskilling

Alternative Energy (1/2 day - 2 days)

Natural Building


Design & Installation of a Permaculture Learning Garden
& Edible Forest Demonstration Garden
(nested inside the launch of the Green Collar Futures service-learning program)

-- Washington Park, Hudson County, NJ --

Summary:

• Green Collar Futures weaves an urban-rural educational exchange for urban
young adults to develop core leadership skills, as they learn how to bring the
work of regeneration home to their communities.

• The pilot apprenticeship consists of 2 months of service-learning in green
collar job training, sustainable living skills, and leadership development for 6
young adults (ages 16-19).

• Apprentices learn hard skills of natural building, permaculture, organic
gardening, community event production, and environmental education.

• The installation of a Community Permaculture Learning Garden in Jersey City
is the apprenticeship’s feature project.


(nested inside thethe launch ofthe Green Collar Futures service-learning program)
(nested inside launch of the Green Collar Futures service-learning program)


Population & Applicability:

• The program is designed to serve youth-in-transition from urban areas
(graduates of service-based GED support programs such as NJ YouthCorps).

• Jersey City is our primary urban partner at the moment, but the program is
designed to be replicable across the state & across the country.




Population & Applicability:

• The program is designed to serve youth-in-transition from urban areas
(graduates of service-based GED support programs such as NJ YouthCorps).

• Jersey City is our primary urban partner at the moment, but the program is
designed to be replicable across the state & across the country.

Nature-Based Learning:

• At the outdoor ecological education center in northwest New Jersey that serves
as our rural training campus, traditional hard skills training is broadened
through nature-based learning experiences, and feature break-through personal
experiences (through an outdoor adventure curriculum) that connect the
principles & ethics of sustainability with the deeper lives of each Apprentice.




Our Goals:

• Graduates emerge from the GCF program inspired, broadly-skilled, de facto
community leaders, and comprise a brigade of young, social entrepreneurs.

• They catalyze & transform areas of economic distress, and carry a vision of
their home socio-economic & environmental landscape that goes beyond
'sustainable', to one that effectively grows in its own resilience & health.

• To each their call -- serving as workers, leaders & 'enviropreneurs' -- GCF
graduates engage comfortably & confidently as they return synergies,
surpluses and innovation to budding local green economies.




Strategy:

• GCF bridges critical system needs by serving historically under-served
communities and re-investing their energies into a progressive socio-economic
system -- at home.




Strategy:

system -- at home.

• Also significant is the additional traction GCF provides to organizational
partners & program affiliates with whom GCF collaborates.




Strategy:

system -- at home.


• It represents a missing piece of both after-care & the local, green economy
puzzles.




Strategy:

system -- at home.


puzzles.

• It addresses at once: urban decay, youth-at-risk, a crisis of visionary
local leadership, the gap of holistic understanding around sustainability
itself, lagging public ecological education, the critical need for a skilled
workforce in every emerging green industry..




Strategy:

system -- at home.


puzzles.

• It addresses at once: urban decay, youth-at-risk, a crisis of visionary
local leadership, the gap of holistic understanding around sustainability
itself, lagging public ecological education, the critical need for a skilled
workforce in every emerging green industry..

• AND, the regenerative consciousness shift that ultimately provides a
pathway out of poverty.


Saturday, May 14, 10am - 4pm
Annual Planting in the Park
and the
Friday, May 20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Permaculture Gardening Series:
Introduction to Permaculture

Friday, May 27, 11am - 4pm
Intro to Natural Building with Cob
invite you to Friday, June 3, 11am - 4pm
Natural Building with Cob, Plasters & Finishes
Garden Care Training Days in the (Raindate Saturday, June 4)
Permaculture Learning Garden Saturday, June 4, 4pm - 5:30pm
at Washington Park Energy Efficiency

Friday, June 10, 3pm - 4:30, & 6pm - 7:30
All workshops & community events are free, and hosted in Washington Permaculture Gardening Series:
Park, at the border of Jersey City & Union City, in Hudson County, NJ. Composting & the Bokashi Method
Events will be held in the new Permaculture Learning Garden
at the park (at Paterson Plank Rd. & Sherman Ave.) Friday, June 17 1pm - 3pm
Unless otherwise noted, raindates & locations are t.b.a. Mosaics

Please wear comfortable clothes & shoes, Friday, June 24 1pm - 3pm, & 6pm - 7:30pm
and dress for the weather, as we will learn outside.
Permaculture Gardening Series: Soil Building
PLEASE EMAIL: greencollarfutures@gmail.com for more information.
Wednesday, June 29 (time tbd)
Community Knowledge Share
w/ the Green Collar Futures Apprentices
For even more learning & growing opportunities, join us
for these Wednesdays in the Permaculture Learning Garden -- July (time & date tbd)
afternoons from 2:00 - 5:00, all summer. Solar Cooking
We will host community ‘action-learning’ work days.
August (time & date tbd)
6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 7/6, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24
Permaculture Gardening Series:
Companion Planting


Living Systems Architecture

Architecture:
(source: Wikipedia)

The art and science of designing & producing buildings & other physical structures.
A wider definition may comprise all design activity, from the macro-level to the micro-level.

Architecture is both the process & product of planning, designing & constructing form, space &
ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.
It requires the creative manipulation & coordination of material, technology, light & shadow.

Architecture also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing buildings & structures, including
scheduling, cost estimating and construction administration.

Architectural works are often perceived as cultural & political symbols, and as works of art.
Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
Architecture can refer to the activity of designing any kind of system.


What is a living system?

A whole system?


What is a living system?

A whole system?

Besides you.


Themes of Regeneration
Co-Creation Union

Resiliency Diversity

LIFE Community

Nesting Systems
Everyone Wins
(fractals)

Honor Natural
Practice Teaches
Expressions

Functionality
Connection

Slow Accumulation Sharing


RANCHO
MASTATAL
-- Costa Rica --

Professional & Business
Development
-- Winter of 2010 --

We Design Ecosystems
All The Time...


... but how healthy are they?


How do we merge
these two visions?


GREEN COLLAR FUTURES: GUILD NETWORKS
Guilds are groups of mutually supporting entities that ll a wide range of niches in any (eco)system. Together they form an open,
but still largely self-reliant and self-su cient whole system. Below are the guilds that (le ) support & (right) comprise the Green
Collar Futures service program.

2) GCF System Inputs (Value Chain Partners) 3) GCF System Outputs (Yields)

investors in added value
Green Economy water food growing
food preparation
Earth-based outdoor
local green Earth literacy / education
ecosystems green buildings /
Pathways Out businesses nature awareness
infrastructure
of Poverty
nature-based
financial natural
hard skills learning
resources resources healing /
AmeriCorps small business training
sunlight regeneration
(sponsor model) development

GREEN GCF Pillars:
energy wild
clients COLLAR wind (conservation, CURRICULUM crafting
FUTURES creation, storage)
GUILD

GCF outdoor
educator human organizational education nonviolent eco-social
communication soft skills & sustainable
network resources resources centers development living
communication

NJCDC /
institutions of Habitat for community
service leadership
higher learning Humanity building
learners training ritual culture of
extended network of sustainable creation expressive reverence
partner network enterprise institutions arts

The key features of this support guild include a balanced, broad base of Offered this broad spectrum of inputs, Green Collar Futures transforms
contributing partners, and bi-directional energy flows -- even though this them into its program guild above, which forms the keystone in the local
is a ‘support guild’. The nature of guilds are such that the primary economy noted earlier. This represents a strengthening, attained through
member supported always returns some portion of the energy -- in increased connectivity, toward the formation of what may be called a node
altered, or value-added form, directly back to the system as new solutions. of permancnce -- a network so solid it may not easily be taken down.


the sustainable career health & wellness sustainable career health & wellness

- specific skills training
YIELD -
-
specific skills training
models of leadership
- nourishing, whole, &
living foods diet - business &
- nourishing, whole, &
living foods diet
- business / professional training - culture of healing, reverence, professional training - culture of healing reverence
CATEGORIES - craftspersonship, & regeneration - craftspersonship, & regeneration
sense of excellence - feelings of safety & security sense of excellence - feelings of safety & security
of - in/externships &
job placement
- community support - team building
experience
- community support

GREEN COLLAR - internships &
job placement

FUTURES the
INDIVIDUAL
the
SERVICE
sense of place social growth TEAM sense of place
inner growth

- framework for - comfort in - culture of respect - co-created
OUTPUTS lifetime growth
- sense of empowerment &
natural world
- sense of connectivity to
natural world and society
& sharing
- sense of interdepen-
dence,
sustainable living
unique to place & time
support through core challenges - models of action for
at the - leadership skills &
key learning experiences
- personal paradigm shift
- cultural mentoring
team spirit & team building
- circle leadership experience
community at home
- sense of communal
SCALES - invitation for self-reflection
(greater sense of personal
- group support through
core challenges
empowerment & connectivity
- earth communities grounded
awareness) - invitation for in regeneration of place
of: community reflection

financial environmental leadership business & economy environmental & public
the Individual - new & sustainable economic - new model established for - proven triple bottom line
health
identity for partner facilities environmental education & through core understanding - increasing availability to
- reduced energy consumption stewardship of sustainability framework whole, local, & living foods
the Service Team savings & greater yields from
now productive site ecosystem
- healthy soil, clean water
- smaller carbon footprint via
- scalable production models
- regenerative economic models
through CSA production &
support networks
- exposure to full growth cycles organic resource production - skilled work forces across - growing cultures of healing
- models of leadership - perennial, edible forest disciplines, including & regeneration
Outdoor Ecological that build system
network partners
gardens on-site leaders, teachers,
& mentors
- substantial increases
in community
Education Centers OUTDOOR
ECOLOGICAL NEW JERSEY
engagement

EDUCATION & BEYOND
educational sense of place consciousness sense of place
New Jersey growth
CENTERS
- deep investment
shift
- in place, nature-

& Beyond - increased relevance
of learning experience
in terrestrial &
aquatic ecosystems
- connection to new
global paradigm
based prosperity
-- bioregional alliances
- living laboratory and showcase - 4 season productivity - societal empowerment & both urban and rural
for the best practices of - increased connectivity conscious way forward - scalable network of nodes of
regeneration between Earth & society - national & international permanence
- self-generating & evolving - emergent ‘node of leadership & exchange - guild-based systems
curricula for visitors, permanence’ through vital opportunities connections in state
new and existing linkages with other & across region
system partners


biofuels solar
bee keeping composting
organic farming
creation
maple sprouting Green Collar Futures:
sugaring energy
sustainable fermenting wind
food system conservation Arenas of Practice
perennial crop
wild crafting farming
permaculture energy
salvaged The GCF curriculum guild divides
materials audits
organic farming local naturally between hard skills & soft
materials
skills. Diagram 3) is the reference
value added foods
GCF: retrofits
from which these illustrations of
(ferments, jams, etc) OUTPUTS
dousing program-specific outputs is
(hard skills)
generated.
cottage green
industry carpentry building Here again, key features include
drums redundancy & functional
coppice moccasins,
mgmt &
accessories, furniture / interconnection -- webs emerge,
furnishings living roofs
crafts deer leather clothes and balance is created. This
tanning indoor air balance of hard and soft skills
environmental quality
bicycle, tool & produces solid, stable graduates,
machine repair education natural
cob building
which bolsters GCF, and therefore
strawbale the local economy, which lends
multi-directional clay plaster
wilderness more strength back to GCF --
4) learning
guidance
continually evolving into something
work crew that may be called a node of
whole food edible & medicinal experience permanence within the region
& medicine wild crafting
preparation
(with the understanding
leadership that nothing actually is)..
sustainable training
living skills In so doing, GCF creates self-
perpetuating upward spirals of
free daily practice
Peer Spirit healthy, magnificent growth.
design
Circle

painting,
drawing, GCF:
journaling OUTPUTS culture of
(soft skills) reverence

cultural
expression mentoring
ritual
music creation
communication making

conflict community
resolution building
meal
nonviolent
sharing
communication
5)


Themes/Needs of the Profession
Co-Creation Use Edges, Open Source Union
Value the Everything
Marginal
Resiliency Diversity
Release Accept
Feedback
LIFE Community
Team(work)
Integrity
Nesting Systems
Everyone Wins
PRACTICE (fractals)

Find Points
Honor Natural of Leverage Practice Teaches
Expressions Choice - to Push
Envelope
A New Culture Functionality
Connection
Team(building) Social / Invisible
(Ecosystem)Building Structures
Slow Accumulation Sharing


Niche Analysis
& Ecosystem Design

(what if the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle grew &
developed relationships over time?)

Personal Niche Analysis
Where are you now?
And how are you growing?

What are your Needs,
Yields, Core Behaviors, and
Intrinsic Strengths?


www.greencollarfutures.org
greencollarfutures@gmail.com


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