I believe in people working together and sharing their gifts to build more healthy, just, fun & beautiful communities.

I graduated from college in the wake of the '08 financial crash. Disillusioned, I left that path behind and became a freelancer and an activist. I helped start Peaceful Uprising, a group that formed in Salt Lake City after Tim DeChristopher disrupted the BLM's illegal 2008 auction of gas parcels around Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. http://www.peacefuluprising.org/author/jake-hanson

These wonderful filmmakers from Colorado produced a film about it all called Bidder 70 -- if you watch it you'll see me getting arrested for the first time ;-)

I later worked to found Transition Salt Lake and spend 4 years as an environmental and social justice activist. http://transitionsaltlake.org

In 2013, I chose to put more energy into creating economic alternatives. I moved to Colorado and became the first full time student and co-creator of Transition Lab, a grassroots education for local community resilience.
http://transition-lab.com

PHILOSOPHY

No fear

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Question assumptions, open up new ideas and new thinking. Share. Appreciate. Be present. Love it all.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've certainly spent my time away from home staying at new or old friends' places.

Also, at Transition Lab, I've spent 7 months living as a "Skilled Resident" by exchanging 10 hours/week of my talents with my host and paying $0 in rent. The main skills I've exchanged so far have been permaculture garden design, website development, and helping grow a non-profit, The Time Bank of the Rockies. - http://timebankoftherockies.com/

Interests

Permaculture - growing food, designing & building edible landscapes
Biking
Hiking
Photography
Snowboarding
Reading
Drumming (more in my high school days, but I still pick up the sticks every now and again)

Music, Movies, and Books

Fight Club
V for Vendetta
The Matrix
Garbage Warrior

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Total Eclipse of the Sun 2017, baby!

Teach, Learn, Share

Local, living, regenerative economies
Permaculture, ecological gardening anf growing your own food
Web Development