You’ve seen The End of Suburbia. You’ve heard the warnings about the disastrous effects of climate change. Now what???
Lisa Rayner offers practical solutions for moving toward a more sustainable, post-carbon lifestyle. This four-hour workshop will explore the transition on multiple levels:

1. Efficiency: doing more with less using energy efficient appliances, fuel efficient vehicles and water conservation strategies.
2. Powerdown: a serious effort to reduce your use of energy for transportation, home heating and electricity use, rainwater collection, gray water reuse and more
3. Self-reliance: unhooking yourself from the global economy and learning to do more for yourself, such as starting your own business, growing and preserving food, using renewable energy, and learning basic skills like bicycle repair and sewing.
4. Community: helping to relocalize the Flagstaff economy through cooperation with your neighbors, including creating a local food system, supporting local businesses, making Flagstaff a safer place to walk and bicycle, cohousing, car sharing, neighborhood tool libraries and community currencies.
 
How do you envision yourself living in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? What changes have you already made? What changes seem daunting to you? Discuss your efforts to shift towards a post carbon way of life and make Flagstaff a better place to live with others who share your vision.
 
Workshop facilitator Lisa Rayner is the coordinator of the Flagstaff Post Carbon Outpost, a permaculture instructor at Coconino Community College and the author of Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains.
 
To Register:
Contact Tamara Ramirez at (928) 523-0499 or Tamara.Ramirez@nau.edu to reserve your place in the class. Space is limited.

Registrants may wish to bring a blanket, towel, or folding chair. The class may sit outside for part of the session, weather permitting.