Toby passed away in 2016, but you can find links to some of his online courses and videos elsewhere on this site, and we’ve kept a list of some of his past known speaking appearances below.
If you happen to have previously unreleased footage from any of these events that you can share, please contact us and we’d be happy to publish it.
Recent Appearances:
Lecture: “Redesigning Civilization,” April 13, 2012, Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, CA.
Lecture: “Permaculture Pathways” April 1, 2012, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
Lecture: “Permaculture for a Fear-Free Future,” March 30, 2012, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Lecture: “Redesigning Civilization,” March 27, 2012, Presentation House Theater, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Guest Lecture: Nature’s Patterns as a Design Tool, March 12, 2012. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Permaculture Course, Occidental, CA
Lecture: “Design Innovations from the World’s Flora,” January 18, 2012. Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Lecture: “Developing Permaculture Mind,” May 25, 2011. Prescott College, Prescott AZ.
Lecture, “Foodsheds and Footprints” March 13, 2011. From Land to Mouth Conference, St John Vianney Church, Sedona, AZ
Permaculture Design Course Weekend by EarthFlow Design Works,
March 5-6, 2011. Los Angeles, CA
Workshops, “Designing a Forest Garden,” “Urban and Suburban Permaculture,”
January 30, 2011. Edgewood College, Madison, WI
Workshop, “Urban Permaculture Solutions,”
January 29, 2011. Urban Ecology Center, Milwaukee, WI
Permaculture Design Course Weekend
January 15-16, 2011. Little Artshram, Traverse City, MI
Lecture, “Permaculture, Horticulture, and Civilization”
December 11, 2010, The Ecology Center, San Juan Capistrano, CA
Workshop and Lecture at Seeds Trust Seed School
November 2, 2010. Seeds Trust, Cornville, AZ
Lecture, “Designing a Fear-Free Future: A Permacultural Approach to Energy and Food Security
Sept 24, 2010. Energy and Sustainability Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Workshops: Introduction to Permaculture; Designing a Food Forest.
Sept. 25, 2010, Delaware Center for Horticulture, Wilmington Delaware.
Lecture, “Permaculture, Horticulture, and Civilization”
May 21, 2010, 7-9PM, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
May 17-20, 2010, Seeds of Change Research Farm, Espanola, NM.
Lecture, “Foodsheds and Footprints: Developing Sustainable Food Resources in City and Suburb.
April 26, 2010, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
Workshop: Designing Guilds and Food Forests
March 26-27, 2010, featured speaker at Alaska Botanical Garden Annual Conference, Anchorage, AK
Lecture, “Permaculture, Horticulture, and Civilization”
March 25, 2010, 7-9PM, Alaska Botanical Garden, Anchorage Alaska.
Workshop: Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb.
Feb. 28, 2010, Dover, New Hampshire.
Lecture, “What Does Permaculture Look Like?”
Feb. 27, 2010, 7-9PM, Urban and Environmental Planning Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Keynote Address, “Biodiversity, Permaculture, and the Ecological Landscape”
February 25, 2010, Ecological Landscaping Association, Springfield, Mass.
Workshop: Permaculture for the City
Feb. 14, 2010, Duke University Gardens, Durham, NC.
Workshop: Designing and Installing a Food Forest
Feb. 13, 2010, 9AM-4PM, Duke University Gardens, Durham, NC.
Lecture, “Permaculture, Horticulture, and Civilization”
Feb. 12, 2010, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC.
Annual Litten Lecture to Faculty and Students
February 11, 2010, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“Our Plant Mentors: Learning Biomimicry from the World’s Flora”
Workshop: Permaculture for the City
Jan. 10, 2010, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Workshop: Designing and Installing a Food Forest
Jan. 9, 2010, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Lecture, “Permaculture, Horticulture, and Civilization”
Jan. 8, 2010. 7-9 PM, Student Center Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,