Regeneration Stories

​Regenerating Community, Economy and Ecology in Lake County, CA and Beyond!
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Vision: Awake

Regenerative ecological education heals land and people

Vision: Regeneration + Ecological Economy

Denise share a vision of a regenerative, ecological economy 

Post Doom Conversations: To Do Our Best

Michael Dowd interviews Denise Rushing on the State of the World

What Earth Has to Teach Us

How to create deep and lasting change.

Project: Clarks Island

Lake County resident create an ecological park at Clarks Island

The Amazing Tules of Clear Lake

Honoring the Tules of Clear Lake

Project: Revitalizing Clearlake Oaks, California

The community of Clearlake Oaks joined with redevelopment, art, and ecological projects to revitalize the community.  The "future" projects are now in place.

 Community Art Project: Lucerne Creek Park

Over 100 volunteers helped create a bench and shade structure along a seasonal creek using local natural materials. Lake County received the Green California Leadership - Culture Change award for this project.

Project: Natural Building in Upper Lake

Hundreds of volunteers learn natural building using local materials at Dancing TreePeople Farm

Vision: A Local Living Economy

Thrive Lake County sponsors the local time bank and celebrates local economy.

Appropriate Technology

A time lapse video of Denise building a low-cost solar box cooker... one example of human-scale solutions.

Denise's Original Lake County Vision Statement

(From her first Campaign for District 3 Supervisor) 
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Remember: Bloody Island

From a post by KQED here.  In this recording, Mildred Duncan explains how Mildred's grandmother and great-grandmother  survived the Bloody Island massacre and its aftermath.

Remember: The Elem Round House 

.A video describing a pivotal moment.