Global Earth Repair Foundation

09/02/2026

08/26/2026

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Dear Indigenous Relatives and Allies,
Please share this post as we are trying get more attendance for this critical Earth protection and restoration work! 🪶🪶🪶🌿🌿🌿🌎🌲☀️
I’m going to the eleventh Turtle Island Bioregional Congress!
The bioregional movement is rising, and this fall 300 of its most dedicated practitioners gather in one place. The Turtle Island Bioregional Congress (TIBC11) returns September 15–19 in Vernonia, Oregon, United States for five days of councils, workshops, ceremony, and celebration rooted in place. Organizers, Indigenous leaders, and community stewards from across Turtle Island will share skills, align on strategy, and build the relationships that carry movements forward. If you work at the intersection of community resilience, ecological regeneration, and place-based organizing, this gathering is for you. https://www.tibc11.earth/
Our Turtle Island Bioregional Congress team recognizes the historical and present atrocities that have been and continue to be done to Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. With a history ridden with mass genocide of Indigenous cultures, peoples, Lands, and ancient lifeways, it is our duty to restore and repair this immense harm. As we continuously strive to reach for loving relations with our local Indigenous relatives, our intention is to create an honorable and welcoming space for our Indigenous participants through our Indigenous Leadership Program. At minimum, we feel reparations require prioritizing Indigenous leadership in all sectors. Beyond this, we hope their messages reach far and wide globally and that they receive more than enough holistic support to heal from and rise above the historical and systemic abuses directed at them.
We realize the enormity of repair required to be in right relation with Indigenous people and we hope that our ongoing work in our bioregional congresses will plant the seeds for exceedingly better futures for all of us, especially the Indigenous stewards of these ancient lands. We hope that with these intentions, Indigenous Leaders will continue to rise and return to their roles as wisdom keepers, Earth protectors, and guides for residents on their ancestral homelands and beyond. We are so grateful to be in partnership with our Indigenous relatives as we make radical collective shifts for greatness and interconnected freedom!
See you there!
Shaayí and TIBC Organizers

The 2026 Turtle Island Bioregional Congress (TIBC11) will be held September 15–19, 2026 at Camp Cedar Ridge in Vernonia, Oregon, within the Cascadia Bioregion. This gathering marks the 11th continental Bioregional Congress in a lineage that stretches back more than forty years.

08/20/2026

Here are links to the Symposium Agenda, the Presentations by Topic and the Schedule of Presentations (also included below).
Symposium Agenda
https://spokanepermaculture.org/2026-agenda
Presentations by Topic
https://spokanepermaculture.org/presentations-by-topic
Schedule of Presentations
https://spokanepermaculture.org/detailed-schedule
2026 Spokane Permaculture Symposium Presentation Schedule
Saturday 8/22
10:00 – 11:00 AM
• Craig Madsen — Using Goats for W**d Management and Reducing Fire Risk
Topic: Reducing Wildfire Hazard
• Dr. Toby Hallowitz — The Healing Power of Nature
Topic: Health, Healing and Resilience
• Gregg DePonte — Collaboration of Soil and Local Food Systems
Topic: Increasing Local Food Production
11:10 AM
• Keynote Speaker Aaron Weiss — Permaculture Principles & Community Relationships
Topic: Permaculture
1:15 – 2:15 PM
• Rachel Buck — Rooted: Building Your Local Food Eco-System
Topic: Increasing Local Food Production
• Mary Bishop — Reducing Wildfire Hazard Through Land Stewardship
Topic: Reducing Wildfire Hazard
• Kathryn Alexander — Soil and Water
Topic: Soil Health
• Chrys Ostrander — Mutual Aid Programs Such as Those Organized by the Black Panther Party
Topic: Health, Healing and Resilience
2:30 – 3:30 PM
• Ramman and Dayna Turner — Land Stewardship for Fire Management
Topic: Reducing Wildfire Hazard
• Kirsten Angell — Bioregional & Sustainability Agenda Through a Reluctant Bureaucracy
Topic: Bioregional Planning
• Samantha Lewis — Rocket Mass Heater
Topic: Building Systems
• Sherpriya Kaur — Animals in the Homestead; Utilizing All Aspects
Topic: Permaculture

Sunday 8/23
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
• Ronald Reed — Connection with 7 Generations
Topic: Permaculture
• Kathryn Alexander — Water and Fire
Topic: Watershed Health
• Stefanie Skupin — Homeopathic Healing for Animals
Topic: Health, Healing and Resilience

08/18/2026

🌱 We’re getting so excited for the 2026 Spokane Permaculture Symposium! 🌎💚

We’re just days away from gathering August 22–23 at Harmony Woods in Spokane for a weekend of learning, connection, collaboration and practical solutions for creating more resilient communities and ecosystems.

We’re honored to welcome an incredible group of presenters sharing their knowledge and experience:

🌿 Kathryn Alexander, MA — Soil Smart – Soil Wise & Living Ground Collaborative
Regenerative strategist and living-systems educator presenting on living soil, water and the Biotic Pump.

🌿 Kirsten Angell — Spokane Urban Nature (SUN)
Urban and regional planner exploring urban planning, bioregionalism and sustainability.

🌿 Mary Bishop — All Things Regenerative
Permaculture designer sharing strategies for reducing wildfire hazards through land stewardship.

🌿 Rachel Buck — Upper Left Trading Co.
Local-food advocate sharing how we can build stronger local food ecosystems and food security.

🌿 Gregg DePonte — Ola Aina Farms
Regenerative farmer exploring collaboration in nature, agriculture and our local food systems.

🌿 Dr. Toby Hallowitz — CDA Acupuncture & Holistic Healing
Naturopathic physician and acupuncturist presenting The Healing Power of Nature: Healing with Nature Cure and Permaculture.

🌿 Sher Priya Kaur — Urban Homesteader & Permaculture Practitioner
Sharing practical experience with animals on the homestead and utilizing all aspects of our animal partners.

🌿 Samantha Lewis — Permaculture Homesteader & Designer
Sharing about Rocket Mass Heaters and efficient, resilient wood heating systems.

🌿 Craig Madsen — Healing Hooves / Roots of Resilience / CREATE Fellowship
Ecosystem-management specialist presenting on using goats for w**d management and reducing wildfire risk.

🌿 Chrys Ostrander — Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village
Permaculture farmer exploring what we can learn from the Black Panther Party’s historic mutual-aid programs.

🌿 Ronald Reed — Seven Generations Innovation
Conservation advocate exploring the Seventh Generation Principle, permaculture and our responsibility to future generations.

🌿 Stefanie E. Skupin — Veterinary Homeopath & Permaculture Gardener
Sharing poison-free plant care using homeopathic remedies.

🌿 Ramman Turner — Off-Grid Land Steward
Sharing generations of experience and practical approaches to reducing wildfire hazards through land stewardship.

🌿 Aaron Weiss — College of Idaho / mewithoutYou
Anthropology professor exploring permaculture, education, kinship, reciprocity and our relationship with the more-than-human world.

This symposium is about more than presentations—it’s about bringing people together to share skills, build relationships and discover what we can accomplish together for the Spokane watershed and the greater Inland Northwest.

We can’t wait to learn, connect, eat, make music, share ideas and build resilience together! 🌎🌱💚

Learn more and register for the Spokane Permaculture Symposium at www.SpokanePermaculture.org

08/04/2026

https://youtu.be/lQ-jdUGCxcc?si=T0xScOpQ6xBj55_j

05/16/2026

Norway built one of the wealthiest economies on earth by extracting oil from the North Sea and is now cultivating large scale seaw**d farms in the same waters to absorb the atmospheric carbon that burning that oil has contributed to and produce the renewable biofuel that could reduce dependence on the fossil fuel that made the country rich in the first place. Seaw**d grows faster than almost any plant on earth, requires no freshwater, no fertilizer, no arable land, and no deforestation to cultivate at scale, and absorbs carbon dioxide from the surrounding water as it grows, pulling dissolved CO2 from the ocean and indirectly drawing atmospheric carbon into the marine environment to replace what the seaw**d removes.

The dual function of large scale seaw**d cultivation, carbon sequestration and biofuel feedstock production from the same crop in the same ocean space, makes it one of the few climate interventions that addresses emissions and energy supply simultaneously without the land use competition that biofuel programs based on terrestrial crops have consistently faced. Norway is not farming seaw**d because it has run out of oil. It is farming seaw**d because the ocean that delivered its fossil fuel prosperity is now being asked to help manage the consequences of that prosperity and it turns out the same water that holds oil below its floor can grow the carbon absorbing biofuel crop above it. The North Sea gave Norway its first energy fortune. Norway is now asking it to help build the second one cleanly.

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05/13/2026

The Colorado River supplies water to over 40 million people across seven American states and it is disappearing. Reservoir levels have reached historic lows that water authorities no longer frame as a warning but as an ongoing emergency with consequences that compound downstream for every city, farm, and ecosystem depending on what remains. A floating solar farm installed directly on the river surface now blocks 90 percent of the evaporation that has been silently draining the system every day while generating clean electricity for the surrounding grid from the same installation without requiring additional land, additional infrastructure investment, or any trade off between the water it preserves and the power it produces.

The reason this solution outperforms either function delivered separately comes down to physics that work in both directions simultaneously. Water keeps the solar panels cooler than any desert ground installation operating in the same heat, pushing electricity output above what land based panels achieve in the same conditions. The panels keep the water shaded, eliminating the evaporation rate that open reservoir surfaces produce under direct desert sun at a scale no other affordable intervention has matched. Two resource crises that each required separate expensive solutions turned out to share one answer that makes both cheaper and more effective than addressing either one alone. Every water stressed river system on earth received the same blueprint this week and the question none of them should still be asking is why they have not built one yet.