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Adam Green, Ph.D. – Program Director
The Environmental Studies Program Coordinator at SBCC, Adam is
an ecologist by training with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry
and wildlife biology from University of California-Davis, and graduate
degrees in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Adam currently teaches courses in Humans and the Biological Environment,
Environmental Field Studies, Projects in Sustainability, and General
Biology. Adam has a design certificate for permaculture (2007) from the Regenertive Design Institute with Penny Livingston, Brock Dolman, and Geoff Lawton.
green@sbcc.edu
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Margie Bushman - Coordinator
In 1997 Margie took a design course with Australian biologist and founder of Permaculture, Bill Mollison, and nothing was ever the same. She came home to do community organizing with Wes Roe, organizing and facilitating the South Coast Permaculture Guild, and later co-founding the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, an educational non-profit dedicated to permeating the community with knowledge about sustainability and permaculture. A member of the Santa Barbara Environmental Education Coalition (SBEEC) Margie helped develop programs in collaboration with SBCC Adult Education and Santa Barbara City College Environmental Studies department. For five years Margie was editor for the Santa Barbara edition of Hopedance Magazine, helping to build community through the media. She serves on the Board of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, and helped convene the first Southern California Permaculture Convergence in August 2009. Margie is on the official support Committee for the International Permaculture Convergences (IPC's), held most recently in Brazil, and next year in Malawi Africa.
Holder of 2 design certificates for Permaculture with Bill Mollison (1997) & Geoff Lawton (2008). Received a Permaculture Teacher's Certificate in 2001.
msbushman@sbcc.edu
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s'Cool Gardens, Cultivating the Future
| NikiAnne Feinberg - Program Manager, a native of California's Central Coast, earned her BA in International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington DC. She is a bilingual Spanish speaker with over 10 years experience in educational, community-based program development in the non-profit and academic sectors. NikiAnne's work in experiential education, community building, and sustainable living skills has led her from Washington DC to Latin America, and now back to California. Prior to joining the SBCC s'Cool Gardens program, she worked at University of California- Santa Cruz, helping former foster youth achieve their dream of a college education. NikiAnne is also a local wilderness guide and nature-based mentor with Wilderness Youth Project, based out of Goleta. nikianne@gmail.com |
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Judy Sims- Program Coordinator, pioneered garden-based, environmental teaching practices during her career as an elementary teacher at Monte Vista School, Hope District, Santa Barbara. Her classroom teaching practices i ncorporated garden and food experiences through cross-curricular approaches. Judy’s community and grant-supported educational projects built vegetable and orchard gardens, healthy snack programs, salad bar lunch service, a mini-farmer’s market, a native plant nature trail, a worm farm and a recycling program. These projects and their developmental processes, including integration with grade-level curriculum and standards, have been shared through conference presentations, workshops and articles, and serve as a background for her present work with the s’Cool Gardens program. judygardens@gmail.com |
| Ramsey Charles Cronk- Program Coordinator, hails from Minnesota where he rough housed and played sports in the woods and snow. He continued his passion for blood flow though college in Wisconsin, majoring in Kinesiology. He then found himself skiing in Lake Tahoe working for a Landscaper and communicating with plants. He started his own business installing hard scape, backyard food and school gardens in Arizona and Oakland. Attending the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC - Santa Cruz, he met his beautiful life partner Alexis and heard laughter from the legendary Life Lab learning center. Inspiring children to grow and eat food and become one with nature has become his life symphony. He hopes to have a farm school of his own someday that uses the land as a tool and physical experience. ramseygreenwithenvy@gmail.com |
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