October 16, 2009 – Conexions’ Peninsula Permaculture project has launched Earth Action Mentor, an innovative web-based community collaborative that offers ecologically minded people and permaculture practitioners access to a breadth of expert knowledge, inspiration, and best practices focused on green-living skills and regenerative, holistic land management principles. Charter memberships are now available and provide access to a rich source of content, collaboration and mentoring with a global green community.

Mentoring, direct application, and collaboration with a global community of expertise
Peninsula Permaculture, a project of Conexions has launched Earth Action Mentor, a web-based community collaborative dedicated to furthering ecologically regenerative principles and practices.  Earth Action Mentor provides users with access to rich content and expertise in three major focus areas: permaculture mentoring, direct application community inspiration and direct application of permaculture and green-living principles, all in a collaborative setting. 

“Earth Action Mentor is the result of a vision to create a global, virtual mentoring support community and learning center, said Doniga Markegard, founder of Earth Action Mentor and Director of Conexions’ Peninsula Permaculture.  Being engaged by action-learning and sharing knowledge with others involved in regenerative practices fosters wide-spread and rapid adoption of Earth-friendly land stewardship practices which is our ultimate goal. Now is the time to take action in our own backyards, farms, and communities”.

The subscription-based membership offers members direct access to professionals and deep content knowledge through direct mentoring such as opportunities to engage in guild meetings, independent study, virtual forums, and other activities that are designed to support the participant’s action-based learning.  Earth Action Mentor’s focus on direct application gives members the opportunities to apply permaculture tools in areas such as gardening, living on the land, managing water as a resource, and developing case studies that can be shared with the global community.  By participating in the community forums, and through interviews and videos, Earth Action Mentor provides inspiration for members to deepen their practice of green-living skills.

Earth Action Mentor is the brain child of Permaculture Design experts including Doniga Markegard, Susan Osofsky, Ethan Roland and others.  Key contributors include internationally renowned authors, teachers, and designers including Penny Livingston-Stark, Toby Hemenway, Starhawk, and professionals from Gaia University.
“Earth Action Mentor is a great asset to those currently involved in green-living practices and is an ideal way for those starting to learn these principles to get involved, says Andrew Langford, Co-founder and Co-President, Gaia University . We are pleased to be involved in Earth Action Mentor as it fosters regenerative living skills and sharing of permaculture best-practices on a global scale”.

Charter memberships available, funding permaculture aid projects
During the launch of Earth Action Mentor, special charter memberships are available.  Pricing is designed to make Earth Action Mentor easily accessible to a worldwide membership.  
Net proceeds from memberships will go directly toward funding permaculture aid and development projects throughout the world.   

  
About Conexions
Conexions is a nonprofit organization located in the San Francisco Bay Area focused regenerative social, ecological and business practices that enable Earth to thrive.  Conexions’ Peninsula Permaculture project is hosting Earth Action Mentor.  Earth Action Mentor subscriptions are available at a special charter membership rate. For more information about Earth Action Mentor and to sign up for membership, visit www.earthactionmentor.org. For more information about Conexion’s Peninsula Permaculture, visit http://conexions.org/permaculture.

Contacts
Karen Louie, Marketing Director, (408) 688-1711, klouie@conexions.org
Doniga Markegard, Peninsula Permaculture Director, (650)  670-7984 dmarkegard@earthactionmentor.org or info@earthactionmentor.org.