Earth Activist Training

Advanced Permaculture - Soil & Animals
2025-05-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Understanding soil is key to any resilient land design. Come learn how to build healthy living soils for vibrant landscapes and resilient communities. Taught by senior instructors Starhawk and Charles Williams, this class will guide you through the art and science of building soils for productive landscapes. You can take this class as a stand-alone class for personal growth, or as the third module in a four-part Advanced Permaculture certificate program. Course will cover: BUILDING SOIL & CARBON Soil Analysis: Learn the ecology behind the regenerative theory of soil management. Gain skills in soil biology, chemistry, and structural analysis.

Strategies for Soil Healing and Management: Examine regenerative soil strategies ranging from small urban settings to large-scale farming systems. Learn how to build and maintain healthy soils through techniques such as no-till, compost teas, ferments, crop covers, and biochar.

Applied learning: Take what is taught in class and apply it in the real world. Through class exercises and case studies write your own soil management plan.LAND MANAGEMENT WITH ANIMALS & FIRE Integrating Animals Into Ecological Systems: Learn how to design wildlife and domestic animals into systems for resilience and restoration.

Practical Soil Management with Animals: Explore the role of animals in building soil, sequestering carbon, and improving ecological resilience.

Perennial Systems Thinking: Integrate animals, perennial plants and a systems approach to write your own holistic animal and perennial system design.To learn more, please visit the Advanced Permaculture – Soil & Animals webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Digital Ecosystem Design
2025-05-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-13 11:00 - 13:00
Foundational Tools for Small Business Digital Ecosystem Design is a 6-week, hands-on course, where you’ll learn essential tools for modern businesses. You’ll plant your digital ecosystem to support your business growth, and save you time and energy. Each week you’ll learn fundamental skills for small business owners who want to make the most of their resources. What You’ll LearnEstablish Your Digital Identity: Define your brand’s mission, craft messaging that resonates, and create a cohesive visual identity

Build Your Online Foundations: Understand website basics, and set up essential systems like booking, email, and client management.

Engage Your Audience: Start and grow an email list, create captivating social media content, and repurpose your work across platforms to maximize your reach and impact.

Create and Optimize Content: Use tools like Canva to design eye-catching graphics, craft short-form videos that connect with your audience, and refine your work with personalized feedback and tailored solutions.By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence and tools to expand your reach, nurture your audience, and grow your business sustainably. To learn more, please visit the Digital Ecosystem Design webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Ritual Skills - Magic in Challenging Times
2025-05-07 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-05-14 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-05-21 17:30 - 19:30
Magic, according to occultist Dion Fortune, is “the art of changing consciousness at will.” That’s a definition that can serve for meditation, personal growth, or political change—and never had we needed magic more! The tools of magic and ritual can deepen our awareness, enhance our consciousness, create a sense of belonging and help us face together those things that are too hard to face alone. Starhawk draws on half a century of experience writing, teaching and creating magic and ritual to help us stay grounded and sane in the midst of chaos, design actions and ceremonies that unite our communities in this time of stress and fear, process our grief and despair, and strengthen our will to create a world of justice and compassion.Participants in this series will learn and hone a variety of the skills needed to create a sustaining personal practice as well as craft and lead rituals in a wide variety of settings. In addition, we’ll explore how we can weave magic into secular situations to help create deeper bonds of connection, enhanced solidarity, and the ability to face repression with confidence and courage. Price: Pay-What-You-Can To learn more, please visit the Ritual Skills – Magic in Challenging Times webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Introduction to Natural Building
2025-05-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-20 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-03 18:00 - 20:00
EAT is excited to offer this four-week online natural building class to get you started on your natural building journey. Over our four weeks together, we will explore a variety of traditional and contemporary natural building materials and methods. This series will cover a wide range of strategies and materials used in natural buildings. Participants will explore the major elements of natural building design and construction. We will start with building site selection, then journey through the vast world of wall systems, and conclude with roof systems and options for foundations. Week 1: Codes, site selection, passive heating, and coolingWeek 2: Infill wall systems, heating, and moisture controlWeek 3: Load-bearing wall systems and carbon-sequestering buildingsWeek 4: Foundations and roofs To learn more, please visit the Introduction to Natural Building webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Tool Use & Repair 101
2025-05-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-14 09:00 - 21:00, 2025-06-15 09:00 - 17:00
There is power in knowing how to make common repairs that keep our living spaces more livable. The cost and availability of trades folks as well as difficult landlords can prevent basic repairs that keep our homes functioning and comfortable. The workshop includes basic hand and power tool use, simple plumbing, drywall repair, flooring maintenance and repair, resolving window issues including replacing broken windows, and repair requests from students. Further, we will discuss how to find useful on-line resources to address a multitude of repair challenges. This workshop is for Farmsteaders, Renters, Homeowners, Squatters and anyone who needs to make simple repairs in your living space. This is an inclusive workshop for gender identities and expressions typically excluded from trades skills. Centering queers, femmes, and thems. All are welcome. To learn more, please visit the Tool Use & Repair webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Sustainable Infrastructure
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-26 18:00 - 20:00
Learn the fundamentals of homestead scale energy systems and waste management. This class will provide the technical know-how you didn’t know you needed. Managing land ecologically is a resource-intense activity that requires finding a balance between consumption, ecological impact, and financial solvency. We will look at how to balance these often complex and sometimes competing needs. The focus of this class is on small scale energy systems, material choices, and waste management. We will explore how to design, maintain and manage energy systems, integrate cyclic waste management strategies, and find low-impact materials for landed projects. To learn more, please visit the Sustainable Infrastructure webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Social Permaculture Clinic
2025-06-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-25 18:00 - 19:00
Living and working in community brings connection and collaboration. Yet, working and living with others comes with challenges too. These challenges are a natural part of the process and, if handled well, can strengthen ourselves and our groups. This clinic will explore tools and techniques to navigate challenging moments successfully. The format will be a mix of presentation and conversation This series is a collection of four standalone sessions. Feel free to take one, take them all, or mix and match. Each week has a different theme: June 25th: Dealing with Difficult People.

June 4th: Self Care

June 11th: Negotiation in Community

June 18th: Meeting FacilitationTo learn more, please visit the Social Permaculture Clinic webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Video Visionary
2025-07-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-23 11:00 - 13:00
This course is an introduction to creating social media videos to get your message out there! Whether you’re an activist, small business owner, or non-profit founder, you have a message that needs to reach more new people, and social media video is the best FREE way to do that. If you have a message that you want to shout from the rooftops, you need to start using short-form video. Social media videos are the most powerful, free tool to spread your mission, grow your audience, and inspire action. But maybe you’re not sure where to begin—or you’re hesitant about being on camera. Join Video Visionary to learn the technical aspects, the strategy, AND gain the confidence to get on camera. This course is designed specifically for people like you—those who care deeply about their cause, their business, and the world around them. We’ll take you step-by-step through the process of creating engaging and impactful short-form videos, focusing on TikTok, even if you’ve never touched the app before! (You’ll also be able to apply this knowledge to Reels or Shorts) Whatever you’re passionate about, this course will empower you to share your voice with confidence and clarity. To learn more, please visit the Video Visionary webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now

Introduction to Permaculture
2025-07-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-07-28 18:00 - 20:00
Mondays, 6 pm PDT / 9 pm EDTJuly 21st , 28th , & Aug. 4th, What is an Introduction to Permaculture? Introduction to Permaculture is a great place to start your Permaculture Journey. This class will orient you to Permaculture and give you a solid grounding in the history, philosophy, and some of the core tools used in permaculture design. WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? EVERYONE!We firmly believe that everyone can benefit from learning how to apply the tools and insights of permaculture toward the broad goal of earth regeneration. Permaculture has solutions not just for landscapes and agricultural systems, but also for social design, public policy, and survival strategies for these challenging times. To learn more, please visit the Introduction to Permaculture webpage or register below. GET MORE INFORMATION >Register Now
