North American Permaculture and Building Resilient Communities Convergence

Ivan Sawyer aka Ivan Kuxan Sum: Event Producer, Media Creator, Collaborative Project Designer and Catalyst. Ivan founder and executive director of Voices of AmerikuaAmong other things Ivan has been participating in the development of different cultural exchange and indigenous knowledge... Read More →

Liora (Alejandra Liora Adler) has been active in developing community since her studies in Psychology and Education in the 1960’s. Her hands-on experience led her to participate in a traveling theatre community (The Illuminated Elephants) that left California, USA for a two year... Read More →

Andrew Langford is the co-president Of Gaia University. Andrew is an unusualist, a possibilist and a lover of small-scale living associated with large-scale thinking. In the early 1970’s, influenced in part by the book Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, he transitioned out of an early career in industry to design and develop an open source, human-scale shoemaking workshop at a time when the mainstream manufacturing industry in England was abandoning the domestic workforce in favor of cheap labor pools on the Pacific Rim. Andrew... Read More →

Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She holds a MS in Eco-Social Regeneration and a Diploma in Permaculture Design. Penny has been studying the Hermetic Tradition of alchemy and herbal medicine making in... Read More →