Educating for Sustainability: Tenacious educators committed to sustainability have made tremendous strides nationwide in increasing student and ecological wellbeing— The School Garden Movement has… Read More >
The WATER Institute Beaver Campaign Hits The Road! In late February and early March, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of… Read More >
Ranching and farming practices can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing atmospheric carbon into soil. Last week, 50 soil scientists,… Read More >
Last week’s 35th annual EcoFarm Conference gathered nearly 2000 sustainable agriculture experts and allies for education, rejuvenation and celebration with… Read More >
Welcome to the new OAEC.org! We have spent the past year redesigning our website to better tell the story of the world that… Read More >
“Is a renaissance in land-based living possible without the technologies that empower us to design more sustainable, regionally based societies… Read More >
Create a whole systems design for your current or future farm, facilitated by Brock Dolman, Kendall Dunnigan and Vanessa Carter, on… Read More >
At the 2014 Bioneers Conference, OAEC’s Brock Dolman joined forces with renowned author and V-Day founder Eve Ensler to present… Read More >
In a time of climate change and drought, California’s forests are increasingly under the threat of catastrophic fires. While the… Read More >
The Bring Back the Beaver campaign, run by Brock Dolman and Kate Lundquist of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s… Read More >
This year, OAEC celebrates two decades of work in cultivating community-scale sustainability and resilience! The Evolution and Impact of OAEC In… Read More >
Photo courtesy of Hawai’i SEED Social movements may be sparked by passion, but their longevity depends upon planning and clear… Read More >
Through Resilient Community Design, the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center‘s permaculture-based collaboration with Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is supporting… Read More >
The California Farm to School Network recently formed a steering committee of 20 stakeholders to help guide the Network as it… Read More >
We arrived by bus in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti located on the north shore. The bus ride… Read More >
Today’s work was to visit the SOIL composting site at the city dump in Twitye to learn about the specifics… Read More >
We met our translator today, Jean Arnaud. He is Haitian and has lived in the US off and on since… Read More >
After surviving an overnight flight and long morning of sleeping on the infamously freezing floor of the Miami airport, we (Kendall… Read More >
