CMPBS presents: Dr. Bill Roley, Regenerative Design Strategies for Urban Living

Regenerative Design Strategies for Urban Living

Linking food, waste, water, energy, and shelter into loops is essential to make our cities more sustainable. Discovering the underutilized resources and integrating them into full circle solutions will require us to be anthropologists of the future, creating new ways to link our lifestyle with science and ethical choices. Premaculture is on the cutting edge of this 10,000 year old technology.

The core of permaculture is in supplying a design tool kit for human habitation. This tool kit helps designers, planners, architects, and us to observe how an ecosystem cycles and interacts with our lifestyle patterns around our homes and neighborhoods. We grow tasty, organic food, catch and store energy, conserve water, utilize alternative and renewable energy sources while building healthy communities as examples of permaculture design Permaculture is not an end or a destination but rather a means or road leading towards sustainable and ecologically sound ways to meet our needs as humans using connections, relationships, networks and natural cycles found around us.

Take the 25 questions quiz and see how much of a Permaculturists you can become?

Event Information

When:Friday, May 27, 2011
6:30 – 9:00 PM
7 – 8 PM: Presentation

8 – 9:00: Q&A and Reception

Where:CMPBS
8604 FM 969
Austin, 78724

Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

This is an outdoor event. CMPBS is a smoke free environment.

$15 Suggested Donation

RSVP to Center@cmpbs.org

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Speaker’s Biography

Dr. Bill Roley is an applied ecologist, environmental instructor and consultant. He designs strategies to improve sustainable resources for homes, organizations, governments and business. He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health. He has consulted and presented internationally on how to incorporate these multifaceted concepts into working sustainable systems. His courses at Universities and Colleges link the social and environmental sciences into an integrated pattern. Dr. Roley is committed to the future planning of economically viable, environmentally sensitive, and culturally appropriate development patterns.

He brings a contagious enthusiasm and an academic overview to the public forum and frequently makes presentations to businesses, professional societies, conferences and civic groups. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology with majors in Mathematics, and Biology from University of California, Irvine. His doctorate was conferred in 1976 for Social Sciences; Anthropology and Psychology, also from the University of California, Irvine