Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will present Friday’s Keynote Case Study Presentation on this past summer’s Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man at this year’s Burning Man Global Leadership Conference.

The presentation will take place during the Friday afternoon plenary session at 2pm at Oakland Marriot City Center and will be followed by a Sustainability Panel Discussion that Ryan will also be participating in at 4pm.  The entire Global Leadership Conference will happen from March 30th through April 2nd and is an invite only event.

Beyond Black Rock City: How to Mobilize and Take Action

How can we mobilize people from burns, festivals, and other events like Burning Man to take action in their own communities at home?  This past year, the first ‘Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man’ brought out 200 burners in Los Angeles to Kiss The Ground, a community demonstration garden focused on the power of soil to sequester carbon.  Burners built composting systems, planted fruit trees, and constructed a butterfly and pollinator garden while enjoying live music, food, celebration and community.  Come hear about this pilot action day, and how the Permaculture Action Network has organized 62 Permaculture Action Days across the continent in 51 different cities, mobilizing people from shows, concerts, and festivals to build regenerative community spaces such as urban farms, community gardens, public food forests, indigenous culture centers, art spaces, and seed farms.

How can we create the liberatory world we experience at the burn all the time?  We’ll discuss how we’ve brought the sense of collectivity and deep community that we find at these events out into the city and onto the land through having partnered with 12 different music artists and festivals to mobilize more than 9,430 people to take action hand-in-hand with more than 80 different local projects and organizations.  

We’ll be discussing how these action days are organized in an open-source way that will equip folks with an understanding of how to mobilize people before and after events to take community action regionally.  Let’s build the world we want to see!