Gavin Raders
Personal Information
- Date completed course
- Mar 6,
- Installer training level
- Level 1 Installer
- City or region
- Oakland
- State
- California
- Country
- USA
- Other contact information
- 510 290 4049
- Website
- http://www.plantingjustice.org
- Professional titles
- Landscaper/gardener
- Biography
- Gavin Raders is a co-founder and volunteer-executive director of Planting Justice, a social justice activist, and a permacuture demonstrator/teacher. He dedicates his time to practicing permaculture wherever he can, having gone through extensive training with some of the most inspiring and effective permaculture teachers in the world: Geoff Lawton, Penny Livingston-Stark, Brock Dolman, Darren Dougherty, and Nik Bertulis. Before his stint as an intern at the Regenerative Design Institute, he studied cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley, and organized on a range of anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental and human rights issues both on campus and off. He has knocked on nearly 30,000 doors in California, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada as a community organizer with Peace Action West. He comes to permaculture and ecological design through a social justice framework which recognizes the right of all people to peace, security, housing, healthy food, clean water, jobs and healthcare, and the rights of future generations to a just and livable world. For this to happen, he believes that Americans need to understand and respect the intimate connection and the shared fate we have with all people and all life on this planet, and organize effectively on the local level to come up with replicable and effective solutions to the range of hardships and oppressions we currently face. This is the mission of Planting Justice. We are building tangible solutions that create the world the way we want it to be, and believe that it can be: a world where all people have the right to life, sovereignty, abundance, community, and the peace that these bring. Our mission is to empower urban residents with the skills, inspiration, and paid opportunities to transform their food system. We've now built more than 60 permaculture gardens in the East Bay. When you hire Planting Justice to build a greywater system, an organic edible garden, chicken coops, and more, you are not only supporting green jobs in our community, but also helping to fund this work with low-income residents in Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland. Go to www.plantingjustice.org to connect with us!
History
- Member for
- 1 year 48 weeks
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