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Created: May 31, 2008
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Michelle Bailey

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Email: miz.bailey [at] gmail.com
Address: United States
I Speak: English
I Am: Other
Member Since: May 31, 2008
Local Time: Thu Jan 8 11:31:25

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Performing Arts (1497 people)  |  Cultural Diversity (2117 people)  |  Soil Ecology (728 people)  |  Mycology (393 people)  |  Fire Ecology (326 people)  |  Agroecology (898 people)  |  Farm Ecosystem Management (1009 people)  |  Gardening (2236 people)  |  Permaculture (2222 people)  |  Rural Farming Communities (1175 people)  |  Soil Conservation and Management (884 people)  |  Sustainable Agriculture (2952 people)  |  Sustainable Livestock Husbandry (570 people)  |  Arts Activism (1633 people)  |  Seed Conservation (1329 people)  |  Biocultural Diversity (1329 people)  |  Youth-led Organizations (1055 people)  |  Coastal and Marine Human Impacts (848 people)  |  Coastal and Marine Invasive Species (309 people)  |  Mangrove Conservation (366 people)  |  Community Service/Volunteerism (1917 people)  |  Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building (1614 people)  |  Fundraising (1303 people)  |  Leadership Training (1989 people)  |  Land Restoration (1178 people)  |  Land Stewardship (1414 people)  |  Natural Resource Education (1070 people)  |  Hunger and Food Security (1140 people)  |  Local Food Systems (2319 people)  |  Logging (275 people)  |  Plantations (238 people)  |  Sustainable Forestry (1656 people)  |  Transnational Corporations (866 people)  |  Alternative Medicine (2289 people)  |  Environmental Justice (1784 people)  |  Indigenous Lands (1117 people)  |  Indigenous People and Culture (2279 people)  |  Indigenous Rights (1507 people)  |  Wetlands (835 people)  |  Rivers and Creeks (722 people)  |  Land Reform (401 people)  |  Law and Policy Reform (340 people)  |  Restorative Justice (483 people)  |  Conflict Resolution (1605 people)  |  Peace and Peace Building (2601 people)  |  Ethnobotany (837 people)  |  Plant Ecology (815 people)  |  Sustainable Livelihoods (2420 people)  |  Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues (2200 people)  |  Sustainable Building (2533 people)  |  Rural Development (1290 people)  |  Social Development (1686 people)  |  Deserts and Semi-deserts (466 people)  |  Forest Ecology and Conservation (932 people)  |  Grasslands and Savannas (368 people)  |  Shrublands (250 people)  |  Dams (442 people)  |  Groundwater (687 people)  |  Women's Empowerment (1510 people)  |  Women and the Environment (1081 people)  |  Informal Economy (693 people)  

About

My name is Misha Bailey.  I just recently finished my formal education at UC Berkeley in May 2007, where I used my undergraduate degree to explore many disciplines: soil science, agroecology, general ecology, international rural development policy, collaborative decision making, indigenous community issues, modern dance, organic gardening…My interests in life so far have tended to be in an umbrella shape – most things related to the larger culture creating and re-membering ways of being in harmony with the natural world and other human beings have always been profoundly important and interesting to me. 

 

More recently I completed two important milestones.  The first was a permaculture design course with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, which happened in May 2008.  And the second was a lengthy ethnographic research project I undertook (partially related to my undergraduate degree) and finished in April, 2008, entitled ‘Missing the Regenerative Pieces? A Comparison of Land Management Systems in California’s NorthCoast Forests.’  This project led me to explore the forestry management strategies/approaches/paradigms of an industrial logging company, traditional Native American forest tending practices, and two current tribal forestry programs in Northern CA.  Ultimately this paper compares these three groups by looking at the ways their forestry strategies treat and potentially affect two significant cultural-use plants for Native Americans in northern CA (blue willow and hazel), and then each groups’ implications for overall forest health and regenerative capacities.  Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you would like more information on this.

 

Currently, I am in an exploratory and transition phase… I want to learn more about herbal medicine, natural building, California fire ecology and ways of restoring CA’s traditional fire cycles, to name just the tip of the iceberg.  Right now I am also spending a lot of time in my inner landscape, inward healing journey, spiritual process.  Zone 0 permaculture, as some people have said.  I am immensely grateful to the Sae Taw Win II Burmese Buddhist school in Graton, CA, and also the book Women Who Run With the Wolves, for aiding this part of the journey. In the near future I look forward to sinking my teeth more deeply into one or some of my interests, while right now I am looking down the potential pathways for me explore.

 

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