<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>>Meals are included – organic and vegan ingredients and<br>>menu will be provided, group members take turns cooking</div><br>Organic AND Vegan! And you site says unprocessed too. I'm impressed! <br><br><div>Best of luck with this endeavor.</div>
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<div>~sanjay</div><div><br></div><div>PS - for those of you who have argued that vegan diets are not healthy, please read:<br></div><br>http://www.commoncircle.com/common-questions<br><h1>What will we be eating during the program?</h1>
<div>We provide a menu and divide the group into cooking crews. Each day a
different cooking group takes turns preparing and making the meals —
which greatly helps build community as people spend time cooking
together.</div>
<img class="alignright" title="log 3" src="http://www.commoncircle.com/imgs/web_photos/logistics-2.jpg">The
ingredients we provide are largely organic, vegan, non-processed and
wheat+soy-free. Our menu is designed to provide very simple meals that
are highly nutritious. Please come expecting to eat a profoundly
healthy diet and know that you will likely find yourself challenged by
the meals if you are used to eating unhealthy or processed foods. We
go to great lengths to source our food as sustainably as possible; know
that due to availability and logistics we are only able to source a
small portion of our meals directly from the farms and portions of our
food comes from cans. The meals you will be eating will be
extraordinarily healthy and we regularly get comments from participants
who mention how much healthier they feel as a result of the good food on
our programs.<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Common Circle Education <vladislav@commoncircle.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 21, 2011 7:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Greenbuilding] The Permaculture and Sustainability Across America 2012 Bicycle Tour<br> </font> <br>Hello friends,<br><br>You know that at Common Circle Education, we're busy changing<br>the world -- and we take our responsibility as the nation's<br>leadership, sustainable living and permaculture
school<br>seriously. Today we're announcing our most powerful program<br>yet - a cross-country permaculture design course on bike.<br><br>More details @ <a href="http://commoncircle.com/cross-country-bicycle-tour" target="_blank">http://commoncircle.com/cross-country-bicycle-tour</a><br><br>Come ride your bicycle with us across the country learning<br>about and promoting sustainability and permaculture. Our most<br>powerful program yet - a supported cross-country tour (support<br>vehicle, meals and lodging included) to farms and<br>sustainability sites, integrated with our award-winning<br>permaculture design and regenerative leadership certification<br>and much more -- this program will change your life.<br><br>This three-month intensive course combines our Urban<br>Permaculture and Regenerative Leadership Certificate training,<br>followed by a Wilderness First Aid training before we head on<br>the road cycling from Eugene, Oregon all the way
across<br>America to Washington DC (we’ll be roughly following the<br>TransAM bike route – about 4200 miles), promoting and<br>learning about sustainable living and intentional communities.<br>The stunning places you will visit on this program and the<br>extraordinary people you will meet will challenge and inspire<br>you..<br><br>Who: You and your neighbors who care about a sustainable<br>future for America. As always, all of our programs are<br>designed for beginner and intermediate cyclists.<br><br>Where: Eugene, Oregon to Washington, DC<br><br>When: June 1 - August 31, 2012<br><br>More details @ <a href="http://commoncircle.com/cross-country-bicycle-tour" target="_blank">http://commoncircle.com/cross-country-bicycle-tour</a><br><br>This program is about sustainable community living –<br>through the extensive training and preparation, the group will<br>form a self-contained community on wheels that will cycle<br>across the nation
learning and promoting sustainable living.<br>Because all of our programs are always designed for beginner<br>and intermediate cyclists, we will teach you how to fix your<br>own flats, fundamentals of bicycle mechanics, wilderness first<br>aid, many safe bicycle touring skills, and provide you with<br>the best possible routes. The permaculture training at the<br>start of the course will give you a very thorough foundation<br>in sustainable community design. Our experienced program<br>co-facilitators will help facilitate the entire program,<br>holding the community container and sharing their experience<br>and guidance along the way — but otherwise serving<br>primarily as members of the community.<br><br>Here are some quick facts about this program:<br><br>--> Includes our Urban Permaculture Design and Regenerative<br> Leadership Certification training<br>--> Includes our Oregon Sustainability in Motion Bike Tour<br>--> Includes a
Wilderness First Aid certification training!<br>--> We will be following the TransAM route – roughly 4000 miles.<br>--> Average of 60 miles per day (~4-8 hours per day) with<br> rest/service days roughly once per week<br>--> This is a supported tour – a vehicle carries all the gear.<br>--> Meals are included – organic and vegan ingredients and<br> menu will be provided, group members take turns cooking<br>--> Experienced and knowledgeable tour support staff team<br> will cycle with the group.<br>--> Camping accommodations for most of the program<br><br>Aside from the amazing places you will visit on this course,<br>the most inspiring and transformational aspect of this program<br>is undoubtedly the incredible community that will form<br>throughout the course. The depth and richness of dialogue of<br>each of our programs naturally leads to friendships and<br>relationships that last well past the expedition
itself.<br>We’ve often heard comments from participants who mention<br>that they have never experienced community the way that they<br>have during a Common Circle Education program.<br><br>Want to know more? Call us or email!<br><br>Much gratitude,<br><br><br>Vladislav for Common Circle Education<br><br>--<br>Common Circle Education<br>phone: 1-800-376-3775<br>web: www.commoncircle.com<br>mail: 14525 SW Millikan Way, Suite 17760, Beaverton, OR 97005<br>LOVE us on Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/commoncircle" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/commoncircle</a><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a ymailto="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a
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