Course Outline for Six Weekend PDC
Many Topics covered!
Weekend One Source Connection and Community
Day 1
- Introduction to Permaculture and a Context for Today
- Permaculture Ethics
- Permaculture Principles
- Hands on exercises, Principles
- Permaculture and Community – the Power of Connection
- Interactive Needs and Resource Exchange
Day 2
- Elements of Conscious Design
- Natural Law – Energy, Order, and Increasing Yield
- Patterns in Nature
- Hands on – bringing natural patterns into design
- Design Charette – how to draw a design
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Weekend Two Land & Nature Stewardship
Day 1
- Learning from Nature – hands on exercises
- Trees and Their Amazing Energy Transactions
- Hands on – Creating connection
- Building Soil Fertility
- Hands on – How to plant a tree sustainably
- The Role of Water in a System
- Hands on – controlling water in the system
- Climate Sectors
Day 2
- Strategies for Temperate, Tropical and Arid Climates
- Hands on – Sheet mulching strategies
- Zones Zero through Zone Five and Watershed
- Based Bioregional Planning
- Hands on – Designing with Zones
- Food Security – Organic Gardening and Farming, CSA’s and Community Gardens
- Biomass Recycling & Composting
- Hands on – Thermophylic Composting/Vermicomposting
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Weekend Three Achieving Urban and Broadscale Food Security
Day 1
- Hands on – Observing the Natural World
- Gardening with Nature – Increasing yield with less work
- Natural Remedies for Pests and Disease
- Hands on – Transplanting, Comfrey tea, Propagating
- Food Forestry – Understanding Natural systems
- Accelerating Natural Succession
- How to Create Successful Plant Guilds
- Hands on – designing a plant guild
Day 2
- Caring for Animals and Livestock
- Incorporating Animal Energy and Patterns into the Design
- Broadscale Environmental Remediation – Earth Care
- Keyline Design
- Hands on – Finding Slope, swale building
- Agroforestry, Silvoculture, Holistic Management
- Economics of Broadscale Design
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Weekend Four The Built Environment and Tools and Technology
Day 1
- Natural Buildings
- Retrofitting Existing Structures
- Capturing and Reusing Water in the Built Environment
- Hands on – Greywater for outdoor shower
- Hands on – rain catchment
- Eco Village Vision and Planning Community
- Bioregional Land Use Planning
Day 2
- Tools & Technology
- Passive Solar/Wind/Earth – how to increase energy yield with the sun, wind and earth
- Hands on – Solar Hot Water
- Alternative Energy/Fuel – which ones work?
- IT and Computer Tech
- Transportation
- Tools
- Appropriate Technologies
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Weekend Five Cultural and Education, Finance & Economics as People Care
Day 1
- Alternative Education Systems
- Alternative Health Systems
- Diversity in Human Systems
- Conflict resolution as a design tool
- Charette – What is tolerance?
- The Arts in the landscape
- Urban landscape – incorporating human energies into design
Day 2
- Legal Strategies for Permaculture Design – LLC, Non-Profit, Corp Sole, etc
- Monetary Systems
- Debt based money
- Sound money policy
- Banking and Debt
- Legal Tender Laws
- Taxes & Inflation
- The Non-Free Market Reality
- Barter Networks
- Local Currencies
- Local Exchange Transaction System
- Debt Free Money
- Examples of Successful Systems in Place
- Sharing the Surplus – what does that mean?
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Weekend Six Land Tenure and Community Governance
Day 1
- Role of Community in Sustainability
- Building Consensus
- Elements of Successful Community Building
- Community Solutions – City Repair, Permablitzing, Grass Roots
- Conscious Community – Creating an EcoVillage
- Open Source – Working out community solutions
Day 2
- Bioregional Planning-Land Use
- Watershed, Foodshed, & Energyshed and Bioregional Carrying Capacity
- Care of Natural Systems & Managing Resources
- The Village Republic and Bioregional Confederacies – Earth Care and People Care Aligned
- Design Charette – Our Bioregion
- Transitioning our Bioregions
- Manifesting our Visions
- Permaculture Careers
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