2 Upcoming Classes:
March 29th – 30th 2008, Austin, TX, Rhizome Collective
April 12th -13th 2008, Austin, TX, Rhizome Collective

The Rhizome Collective is pleased to announce: R.U.S.T. Radical Urban Sustainability Training

Creating autonomous communities with the tools of permaculture and social activism. An intensive seminar in urban ecological survival skills

There is limited space in each class- pre-registration is strongly encouraged!!

Topics and hands-on demos

* Low-tech bioremediation (cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and bacteria)
* Rainwater harvesting
* Aquaculture: ponds, plants, fish, algae
* Constructed wetlands/greywater>
* Autonomous technologies: bicycle windmills & passive solar
* DIY air purification; food forests
* City chickens and micro-livestock
* Struggles for land and gentrification
* Natural building in the city
* Humanure and worm composting
* Biofuels: methane digesters and veggie oil vehicles
* Brownfield restoration
* Resource privatization
* Floating islands to clean stormwater
* Post-petroleum economics
* Energy depletion and city futures
* Climate justice

RUST is an intensive weekend workshop focused on skills related to building autonomous communities in today’s cities. We will share the cumulative knowledge gained from the past eight years of building the Rhizome Collective, an urban sustainability and community organizing project based in Austin, Texas.

The training will have both hands-on and lecture/discussion components. The interrelatedness
of sustainability and struggles for social justice will be emphasized. The many innovative sustainability features on display at the Rhizome Collective will be used as teaching tools.

For more information, visit www.rhizomecollective.org/rust.html

or email skotty at rhizomecollective dot org

The Rhizome Collective
300 Allen Street
Austin Tx 78702
512.385.3695
http://rhizomecollective.org