EBPG Aug Potluck meeting: Fire & Resilience!

Monday, Aug 11, 2025

6:00pm – 8:45pm

Hosted by Bay Area Permaculture Guild+friends!

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🌱 East Bay Permaculture Guild – August Fire & Water Resilience Gathering As California burns and floods, we’re diving deep into fire ecology meets water restoration—braiding ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science to regenerate landscapes that resist flames through strategic hydration, Indigenous stewardship, and community action. 🔥 NEW FORMAT: Featured Speakers in a Fishbowl Conversation Instead of isolated presentations, we’re creating a more dynamic conversation. Four to five people with diverse expertise in the wildfire resilience and safety world will gather in the center—the “fishbowl.” They’ll start with ~10–15 minutes weaving together their specialties: strategic water restoration, Indigenous fire/ecology, and community wildfire safety. Then the current shifts—community members will be invited to step into the fishbowl, join the dialogue, share ideas, ask questions, and then step back out so others can flow in. The conversation will ebb and flow between the core group and the broader circle, making space for fresh perspectives, shared stories, and collaborative sparks! Our Speakers (so far): 🔥 Christina moss – Water restoration practitioner and avid gardener sharing how simple strategies like “slow/spread/sink” and restored water cycles create fire-resistant landscapes. Highlights from communities who’ve survived months-long fires using greywater, rainwater harvesting, and soil regeneration. 🔥 Annie Leverich – Communications Manager for the Watershed Research and Training Center (https://www.thewatershedcenter.com), an environmental nonprofit with local, state, and national programs to connect people and land. Based in Oakland, CA, her work focuses on cultivating better relationships with fire, and supporting the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (https://fireadaptednetwork.org). Annie will share practical adaptation resources, connect us to California’s Prescribed Burn Associations, and offer paths for getting involved in cultural and prescribed fire. 🔥 Dr. Tony Marks-Block –professor at CSU East Bay ecological anthropologist specializing in Indigenous fire, restoration ecology, and critical pyrogeography (https://tonymarksblock.net). Tony is also hatching- a new research/study group on decolonizing fire relations—come ready for breakout time and ways to get involved from the start. 🔥 Wendy Goldsby -long-term Oakland resident, on board of the Oakland firesafe council, spent 20 years leading environmental health and safety, emergency preparedness and mgmt in biotech companies, one w focus on sustainability. 🔥 + Potential Additional Guest(s) – We’re intentionally leaving space for more voices in the middle—especially Black and Indigenous fire practitioners, land stewards, and community defenders whose perspectives are vital in shaping a just and culturally grounded fire future. What to expect: 🌱 Potluck dinner — bring something to share if you can 🌱 A rich, participatory fishbowl conversation on wildfire resilience, water restoration, Indigenous stewardship, and community readiness 🌱 Breakout working groups, including Tony’s proposed research collective, unconference, next month's mtg, garden/work parties, and more! 🌱 Free-form networking and collaboration time 🌱 Mini-grant applications still open: https://forms.gle/kSVXBh2faQ4kwyUN8 🌱 Support Dr. Boomer’s legacy: https://gofund.me/6926dddb Get Involved: Volunteer to help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xKcfOZa6zYmQPddSWBODfg_t6zxM1H7qq2NyIeVuFXo/edit Acknowledgement: We gather on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, the original stewards of the land we now call Oakland. We honor their enduring relationship to this place, recognize the ongoing impacts of colonization, and commit to supporting Indigenous sovereignty, land return, and cultural revitalization. Standing with all colonized peoples everywhere—from the Bay to Palestine—we build resilience through solidarity and ancestral wisdom. PS: Contributions welcome to support supplies, extra food, and PLACE’s mission. PPS: Tickets for our biggest event ever just went live, our Fall 2025 Bioregional Regeneration Unconference, visit: https://events.humanitix.com/fall-25-bioregional-regeneration-unconference?c=bapg to join us. We're also looking for someone to ground our environmental justice opening!

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