[FLPERMACULTURE] permaculture courses for Manhattan this Fall

[Michael Burns]

> From: andrew phillips <greenman124 at yahoo.com>
> Date: August 28, 2006 6:41:35 PM EDT
>
> HANCOCK PERMACULTURE CENTER
> 372 West Front Street Hancock NY 13783
> Andrew Leslie Phillips
> www.hancockpermaculture.org
> greenman124 at yahoo.com
> 917-771-9382
> Care of earth. Care of people. Return of surplus to
> both
>
> Permaculture Design Course:
> Just Food and Hancock Permaculture Center. Manhattan,
> Fall 2006.
>
> Just Food, a non-profit organization working to
> develop a just and sustainable food system in the New
> York City region by fostering new marketing and
> food-growing opportunities http://www.justfood.org/jf/
> and the Hancock Permaculture Center, an educational
> outreach organization dedicated to developing
> sustainable solutions as we enter peak oil and climate
> change http://www.hancockpermaculture.org/ are
> collaborating on a modular permaculture design
> certificate course this fall.
>
> The course will be held at Just Food in Manhattan over
> five weekends (Saturday, Sunday - 9am-5:30pm): October
> 14, 21, 28 and November 11,18. The course will take
> place at Just Food, 210 East 51st Street, Manhattan.
> There will also be local urban field visits.
>
> Permaculture is one of the fastest growing
> environmental movements on the planet and is an
> integrated method of using land and resources in ways
> that sustain the environment while providing economic
> and lifestyle benefits to individuals and communities.
> The Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC)
> presents an introduction to permaculture as set forth
> by Australian legend Bill Mollison, founder of the
> permaculture movement. www.tagari.com. Graduates
> receive the official permaculture design certificate.
>
> The course comprises five week-end units covering the
> official permaculture curriculum including application
> of permaculture principles to habitat, energy,
> landscape, water harvesting and flood control,
> gardening and food production, alternative economic
> structures and legal strategies supporting
> permaculture solutions. Dwindling oil reserves,
> climate change, food and health issues in current
> political context will be examined. Permaculture
> offers positive solutions in an uncertain world.
> Credit for the 72-hour course is accepted by a growing
> number of universities in the U.S. and abroad.
>
> Cost: $200 per weekend. Total cost of course is $1,000
> (72 hours instruction). A deposit of $200 is required
> to ensure a place in the course. Checks should be made
> out to Hancock Permaculture Center. Couples receive
> 25% discount - so find someone to bring and pay less!
> Additionally, Just Food will be offering 2 scholarship
> positions for this course, please contact Kathleen
> McTigue for more information: kathleen at justfood.org or
> 212.645.9880, ext. 229.
>
> INSTRUCTORS:
> Andrew Jones: Specialist in international disaster
> relief applying permaculture principles.
> http://www.fullcirclellc.com/people.html
> Claudia Joseph: Consultant, educator and permaculture
> activist working in Brooklyn, NY. Her diploma in
> Permaculture is based on her work at Oakland Botanical
> Demonstration Gardens.
> Ethan Roland: Specializes in designing and planting
> locally adapted Food Forests, especially to
> reinvigorate aging or abandoned fruit orchards. Ethan
> spent a year traveling the world studying the global
> diversity of apples.
> http://www.appleseedpermaculture.com/
> Andrew Leslie Phillips: Journalist, garden designer
> specializing in natural stone, permaculture
> practitioner and founder HPC.
> http://www.hancockpermaculture.org/
> Albert Bates: Director of the Global Village Institute
> for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the
> Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee
> since 1994, where he has taught sustainable design,
> natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology
> to students from more than 50 nations.
> http://www.thefarm.org/index.html
>
>
> http://www.hancockpermaculture.org
> http://permaculturedesignsolutions.com
> http://www.stoneandgarden.net
> 917-771-9382
> Permaculture encourages:
> "Care of Earth. Care of people. Return of surplus to both. "

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Michael Burns
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Earn your permaculture design certificate.
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
offers affordable local classes.
Go to: http://www.flpci.org
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