Lightning In A Bottle & Permaculture Action Build an Outdoor Sustainability Classroom at neighboring San Antonio Elementary School!
Permaculture Action Day at LIB! Build a Cob Classroom at our local school!
Thursday, May 21st 9:00am-3:00pm (Check most recent details on www.PermacultureAction.org for arrival and participation; all are welcome!)
67550 Lockwood-Jolon Rd., Lockwood, CA 93932
at the cross streets of Lockwood Rd and Lockwood-Jolon Rd in Lockwood, CA
(8 minutes West on Jolon Road from the festival site; turn right on Lockwood-Jolon Road, one street after Gillett Road and the US Post Office)
This year, at Lightning In A Bottle 2015, we will be stepping into the path that The Polish Ambassador started to forge last year with his Pushing Through the Pavement Tour, and will be hosting our own Permaculture Action Days surrounding the festival. We will be constructing an Outdoor Sustainability Classroom at the closest neighboring elementary school, San Antonio Elementary, in Lockwood, CA, and you’re invited! The Outdoor Sustainability Classroom will consist of a circular cob bench, a natural slate chalkboard, and a shaded arbor. It will be situated outdoors on the elementary school campus with the school’s garden beds in direct view.
The classroom will provide a permanent space for teachers from the 1st-through-8th grade school to teach about ecology and gardening, bring nature connection into their lessons, and find solace in the shade outside, even in Lockwood’s 100 degree heat. Cob is a natural building material made from clay, straw, sand, and water. It is a completely non-toxic, organic mixture that can often be made from on-site resources and is low-tech, easy to learn, and can be beautifully hand-sculpted with very little embodied energy needed to manufacture and transport.
Architect, natural builder, and inventor Ray Cirino will be lending his cob-brick innovation to the design, a method of pressing cob into bricks that fit together and add structural integrity and vertical height. Erik Hjermstad, innovator of San Diego’s natural building festival Cob Fest, and Ryan Rising, core organizer of TPA’s Permaculture Action Tour, will be bringing the micro-festival meets alternative systems-building and solution-implementation to the Permaculture Action Day to make it a celebration with music, educational workshops, and hands-in-the-mud for LIB participants, the school’s students and teachers, and the wider community around Lake San Antonio.
Come learn to build with cob, give back to the community that hosts LIB, take action to actually build the world we want to step into, and foster ecological education for the students of San Antonio Elementary. See you at the LIB Permaculture Action Day and visit the Permaculture Action Hub in the Village to get more involved!
Contact:
Ryan Rising
201-388-2367
Ryan@PermacultureAction.org
facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/465155083653318/
