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Advancing Sustainability Through Hyper-Local Action
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Thursday, April 25, 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific
IDEAS For Us (IDEAS) is an Orlando-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and accredited NGO of the United Nations. Our mission is to develop ideas, fund action, and scale solutions that solve the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. Since 2008, we have been guided by our vision to contribute to a future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature and in peace with one another. Thousands of our volunteers have taken action in over 30 countries around the world and we have now evolved to specialize in helping cities advance sustainability at the local level through our projects, programs, and sustainable enterprises such as Fleet Farming. We align all of our projects with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals to bring communities closer to fulfilling the Global Goals on a local scale.
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 Clayton Louis Ferrara is the Executive Director of the United Nations Accredited NGO, IDEAS For Us. He is a classically trained biologist and world traveler who has conducted research on five continents concerning evolution, conservation, and ecology. His work as leader of IDEAS focuses on advancing sustainability through the creation of solutions that benefit people, the planet, and create prosperity in communities around the world. He is a celebrated alum of Rollins, the first American to be named a Darwin Scholar by the Field Studies Council in London, a member of the SDSN Vatican Youth group for Pope Francis, and a handpicked member of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's GreenWorks task force. He was born in Chile and currently lives in Winter Park, Florida.
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Inhabiting RetroSuburbia with David Holmgren
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Wednesday, May 8, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific
Drawing on his latest book, RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter's Guide to a Resilient Future, Permaculture co-originator David Holmgren will show how our suburbs can be transformed into productive, resilient and sustainable places to live through garden farming. Growing food right where people live, in back and front yards, has environmental, social and psychological benefits. Garden farming in the household, non-monetary economy is complementary to commercial urban and peri-urban agriculture that, collectively, can be the heart of a resilient bio-regional food system.
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 David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator of the permaculture concept, following the publication of Permaculture One in 1978. He is globally recognized as a leading ecological thinker, teacher, respected writer, and thought-provoking speaker promoting the permaculture lifestyle as a realistic, attractive and powerful alternative to dependent consumerism. David’s work has been critical in shaping permaculture as a world-changing concept, which may be one of Australia’s greatest intellectual export with significant world-wide recognition and prolific activation. His writings over those three decades span a diversity of subjects and issues, but always illuminate another aspect of permaculture thinking.
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