[Ccpg] Permaculture Design Course Coming Up…

[ccpg-admin at arashi.com]

Dear Permaculture Friends, 
this is a reminder for the upcoming 21-day Permaculture Design Certification 
Course at La‘akea Permaculture Gardens Hawai‘i from August 1st to 21st 2001.

Featuring:
- Certificate in Permaculture Design 
- Lots of hands-on projects, 
- Complete design team assignment from land assessment to design presentation.
- Fieldtrips to various permaculture sites
- Deep Ecology
- The Big Island of Hawai‘i (need we say more?)

Contribution: $1350 (including accommodation in bunkhouse or camping, 
vegetarian meals, field-trips, course manual and tuition). 

Registration at http://permaculture-hawaii.com/permaculture.html
Or call (808) 965-0178 or send an email to programs at permaculture-hawaii.com 
for more information.

Faculty:
Lead facilitator Michael Kramer (Former Executive Director of Permaculture 
Drylands Institute who has been teaching and doing design consultations in 
permaculture since 1992) and 

Don May (Experienced permaculture design consultant and teacher with over 15 
years of practical farming and landscaping experience). 
As well as many guest teachers including:

*Hunter Beyer, Author of the Permacopia book series
*Sean Canetta, Permaculturist and natural farmer
*Joseph Dalrymple, Agro-forester
*Andrea Gill, Energy conservation analyst, 
*Mary Londos, Permaculture designer and our resident yoga teacher
*Jeannie Miskovich, Hawaiian Chants and Lei-making 
*Leimana Pelton, Alternative Building and bamboo architecture
*Beatrix Pfleiderer, medical anthropologist and founder of La‘akea Gardens
*Bodhitara Searles, Deep-Ecology teacher

Core Curriculum includes:
*   Permaculture methodology, principles & ethics
*   Mapping, site analysis and reading the landscape
*   Microclimates and Windbreaks

*   Introduction to biodynamic gardening principles
*   Greenhouse and nursery construction and management

*   Ponds, irrigation and aquaculture
*   Visit to Ahalanui Park, the naturally heated 96deg. warm pond
*   Native Hawaiian land-division systems

*   Animal systems
*   Pest Management

*   Ecosystem restoration
*   Agro-forestry and native reforestation
*   Grafting, Pruning and orchard management
*   Hike to the active Lava flow
*   Alternative economics and self-reliance
*   Deep ecology
*   Visits to surrounding permaculture communities and sites.
*   Black sand beaches
*   Dryland Permaculture
*   Urban permaculture and village design

*   Wind, Solar and Hydro energy

*   Soil improvement, Composting and Human waste management

After the course you can become a Resident Intern and join the La‘akea 
Permaculture Community for an in-depth experience of intentional community 
and applied permaculture.

Aloha and hope to see you in Hawai‘i.