Lisa M Fernandes

Lisa Fernandes is the organizer and founding member of Portland Maine Permaculture, Director of The Resilience Hub and has been a student of permaculture and green design since 1992. She is a certified permaculture designer, team trainer and group facilitator and has owned a training & consulting business for several years. She studied political science at Boston College and then environmental studies at The Evergreen State College while designing & implementing municipal waste reduction & recycling programs.  Lisa is a gardener, Master Food Preserver, certified Master Composter and has studied medicinal plants for nearly twenty years. She has worked in the public, private and non-profit sectors and is now bringing her combined experiences to bear in creating sustainability and resilience-building programming and services for the local community.  Recently, she was part of the Maine delegation to the Slow Food Terra Madre Conference in Italy and she also attended Transition Towns Training in the UK.

She currently serves on the Cape Farm Alliance and provides staff support to the Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine (ELFC) and sits on the Southern Maine Partnership for Sustainable Communities. She is a proud member of the Portland Food Coop (Member-Owner #11) and the Slow Food Portland Chapter.  Lisa serves on the board of the Permaculture Institute of the Northeast (PINE), helped launch The Pattern Factory design studio at Newforest Institute and is the principle permaculture designer and blogger at Resilient Homes, a solar hot water and permaculture design company.  Lisa is a 2011 recipient of the EcoMaine EcoExcellence Award for her work.

Lisa and her family are actively working to convert their 1/3 acre property into a demonstration site for resilient and sustainable "post-carbon" living.

She is currently writing her first book which has the working title of "ReVillage: Turning the Neighborhoods We Have into the Villages We'll Need."

Email Lisa to request training, design, speaking or facilitation services.