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Just as before you can login to TheDirt.org, make blog posts and post events.  There is a new form and we can now display Google Calendar feeds to the calendar! We've already added  Google Calendars from Friends of Trees and a few other organizations to give folks a better idea of what the calendar will be like. 

See below for a quick view of events this week or click here for the full page, monthly view.

 

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9 Day Cob Building Workshop

July 19, 2013 - 4:00pm to July 28, 2013 - 1:30pm

2013 NW Permaculture Convergence

August 2, 2013 - 8:00am to August 4, 2013 - 9:00pm

Mushroom Cultivation Design Course

September 9, 2013 - 10:00am to September 13, 2013 - 7:00pm

Transition PDX Gathering

May 23, 2013 - 7:00pm

Sustainable Financing and Economics Through Visions of Complementary Currencies

May 24, 2013 - 2:00pm

Portland Fruit Tree Project Happy Hour Fundraiser

May 22, 2013 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm

VBC evening session - Friday, May 24th

May 24, 2013 - 5:30pm to 10:00pm

VBC evening session - Saturday, May 25th

May 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 10:00pm

VBC evening session - Sunday, May 26th

May 26, 2013 - 5:30pm to 9:30pm

VBC evening session - Monday, May 27th

May 27, 2013 - 5:30pm to 10:00pm

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2013 Village Builder Magazine

Link: 
http://vbc.cityrepair.org/index.php?id=197

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Village Building Convergence 13

When: 
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 9:00am to Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 9:00pm
Web: 
Village Building Convergence 13
2013 Evening Events
Facebook Event page

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Become a Tree Scout with Portland Fruit Tree Project

Portland Fruit Tree Project Volunteer Opportunity:
Become a Tree Scout!

Join the Portland Fruit Tree Project in preventing waste, building community, and making fresh fruit available to neighbors in need…

As a Tree Scout, you will identify and register fruit trees in a designated neighborhood area, and conduct follow-up with tree owners that want to share the bounty. It’s a fun way to meet neighbors and help make locally grown produce available to all.

Habitat: 
Urban
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Optical Surveying For Earthworks and Water

When: 
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 11:15am to Saturday, August 10, 2013 - 11:15am
Web: 
Aprovecho

Advanced Permaculture Course in Optical Surveying

August 5th – 10th, 2013

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Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series

When: 
Sunday, July 28, 2013 - 11:15am to Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 11:15am
Web: 
Aprovecho
Natural Building and Green Design from the ground up!

July 28th – September 14th, 2013

The Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series is a 7 week course designed to empower participants with the ability to design/build/renovate their own home using simple techniques and natural, vernacular materials.  During this course we will start from the ground and move up teaching not only the art/science of natural building and green design, but the corresponding appropriate technologies essential for successfully integrating your shelter into a permaculture landscape.

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Permaculture Design Certification and Sustainable Living Skills Course

When: 
Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 11:00am to Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 11:00am
Web: 
Aprovecho
Permaculture Design and Sustainable Living Skills Immersion

Program Dates:

Summer 2013: June 16th – July 27th

Fall 2013: September 16th-October 26th

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Unready for the Big One

Two Line Description: 

This is not a call to survivalism. But it is a call to self-reliance of the kind that societies have historically depended upon and which could dramatically cut mortality in a natural disaster such as a Cascadia subduction-zone earthquake.

Link: 
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/02/in_a_post-quake_oregon_being...

Previews of disasters read like so many movies. Are they really real?

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