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TEXTBOOKBill Mollison's web site and publisher - usually best price. Permaculture Designer's Manual Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. By Toby Hemenway - a simple introduction. LODGING
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| OFFICIAL 72 HOUR PERMACULTURE DESIGN This world-recognized course provides an introduction to permaculture as set forth by movement founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. Students explore site-specific permaculture solutions in hands-on workshops and site visits. The course serves as the foundation for further study and is a prerequisite for a Diploma in Permaculture Design, awarded by the Permaculture Research Institute www.permaculture.org.au. Course credit is accepted by a growing number of universities here and abroad. Thousands of permaculture designers worldwide have been certified, creating a global network of ecological activists influencing major corporations, governments and individuals creating new sustainable business opportunities. Once certified in permaculture you have the right to use the name, teach and create your own permaculture possibilities caring for people, the Earth and returning surplus to both, toward an abundant life. CLASS LOCATIONSHancock Permaculture Center, 372 West Front St., Hancock NY 13783 Panther Rock Farm, 148 Hardenburgh Rd. Livingston Manor NY 12758. Various other rural locations and field visits.
Hancock Permaculture Center is 144 miles northwest of New York City on route 17 between Monticello and Binghamton. Directions TUITION$875 including meals and snacks. $175 deposit required when registering. Hancock Permaculture Center, Send to: 372 West Front Street, Hancock, N.Y. 13783. COURSE DESCRIPTION Permaculture encourages systems thinking. It covers sustainable living systems in a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with special emphasis on temperate zones. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design, earth works and water, energy conservation and generation, and explores alternative economic and strategies supporting long-term sustainable solutions. Specific topics include: * History, theory, ethics and founding principles of permaculture. Permaculture as systems thinking. * Nature-friendly house placement, design and natural building. Permanence in landscape. * Energy conservation techniques in cold climates and other climate zones.Thermodynamics and entropy. * Recycling and waste management strategies, composting, humanure, gray water. Inputs and outputs. * Organic food production, less work and more yield. Polycultures, forage and food forests. * Water harvesting and management, terraforming, dams and roof water. * Aquaculture. * Soil rehabilitation, composting, erosion control, flood and fire mitigation. * Catastrophe preparedness and prevention. * Creating nodes of permanence, transition towns, legal structures and alternative economies, eco-villages, intentional communities, community building, financial permaculture. For more info click: CURRICULUM |
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
 Andrew Leslie Phillips: Studied with Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, and Andrew Jones. Founder and Executive Director of Hancock Permaculture Center. and www.permaculturedesignsolutions.com. Taught journalism and sound-image at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. A native of Australia, Phillips spent seven years in Papua New Guinea as government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming to New York in 1976. He produced award-winning investigative radio documentaries and films on numerous environmental and political issues for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and Pacifica Community Radio, N.Y.C. where he was program director at WBAI (1989-93). He also operates a garden design business in Brooklyn, NY. www.stoneandgarden.net  Andrew Jones: Board member of the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia and the U.S and has co-taught courses with Geoff Lawton. A background in international emergency response and post-conflict development and rehabilitation, he is a native of Australia. He teaches internationally and is an international permaculture consultant and alternative health trainer. Andrew is a life coach specializing in raw food and healthy living.  Kyle T. Murray: Catskill Mountain native Kyle studied permaculture with Andrew Leslie Phillips, Hancock Permaculture Center, Albert Bates and Christopher Nesbitt, Maya Mountain Research Farm, Belize. Alumni Paul Smith College of the Adironcacks. Studied Natural Resource Management and Land Surveying. Skills and project experience include land surveying and forestry, arboriculture, watershed management and natural building.
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|  Maria Grimaldi: Graduated Hancock Permaculture Center, 2008 and is a graduate of the CUNY BA Program with a BS Degree in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate School and University Center City of New York. She was instrumental in developing Operation Greenthumb with the City of New York, establishing hundreds of Community Gardens on vacant lots throughout NYC in the late 1970’s. In the 1980’s she was assistant to the administrator of Central Park. She now lives in Sullivan County, New York near Youngsville and Livingston Manor developing Panther Rock Organic Farm into a Permaculture model. She is a member of NOFA-NY (Northeast Organic Farming Association) and a former Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County Agricultural Program Educator and a director of the USDA-NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Services) Sullivan County Soil & Water Conservation District.  Dr Nancy Eos: Family & holistic medical doctor, attorney, Hancock Permaculture Center graduate, and treasurer of an international foundation. She furthered her Permaculture study in 2008 with Dave Jacke and is a graduate of the first Financial Permaculture course in Hohenwald TN. She is active with Transition Towns Sullivan and a promoter of Transition Towns Delaware. She is particularly interested in Local Living Economics promoting economic multipliers such as state based or local credit cards, local stock exchange companies, time dollar enterprises, local business funding, local bulk procurement, local small stock exchange, green taxing, direct distribution, the Deli Dollars concept, and Think Local First campaigns.
Cynthia Robinson: Brings a solutions-based approach to her passion for Permaculture and Urban Farming. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate at the Hancock Permaculture Center and has studied Urban Permaculture with Jude Hobbs of Cascadia Permaculture Institute. Currently she splits her time between NYC and Milwaukee, working and studying with Will Allen at Growing Power. She has a background in Brand Strategy and Design. http://planetpeoplepassion.com/
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