Topics & hands-on demos

  • Low-tech bioremediation (cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and bacteria)
  • Rainwater harvesting
  • Aquaculture: ponds, plants, fish, algae
  • Constructed wetlands/greywater
  • Autonomous technologies: bicycle windmills & passive solar
  • DIY air purification; food forests
  • City chickens and micro-livestock
  • Struggles for land and gentrification
  • Natural building in the city
  • Humanure and worm composting
  • Biofuels: methane digesters and veggie oil vehicles
  • Brownfield restoration
  • Resource privatization
  • Floating islands to clean stormwater
  • Post-petroleum economics
  • Energy depletion and city futures
  • Social justice: dual power anarchism