[Sdpg] Ecovillage and Permaculture Certificate Program Lost Valley Educational Center’s Oregon

Tue Aug 14 16:17:17 PDT 2007

Hi bio-regional friends,

I am writing to let you all know of Lost Valley Educational Center's
dynamic four week ecovillage and permaculture course. We offer an
affordable experiential experience built around the permaculture design
curriculum and including extensive offerings based off the Gaia Education
Ecovillage Education Curriculum. This course is especially crafted to
help empower the creation and success of communities firmly grounded
within ecological boundaries, while offering participants valuable
information on everything from legal structures and community dynamics to
companion planting and eco-building. This special combination of learning
opportunities allows the Ecovillage and Permaculture Certificate Programs
to be accessible for people from a wide variety of backgrounds and ages.
It is a wonderful learning experience for both novices and experienced
professionals.

Most Universities offer students upper division credit or internship
credit through program participation.

Please forward this announcement to any potentially interested parties.

Blessings,
Jessi Ortiz
Outreach Coordinator, Lost Valley Educational Center
<mailto:Outreach%40lostvalley.org>Outreach at lostvalley.org
www.lostvalley.org
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Ecovillage and Permaculture Certificate Program

Integrating Sustainability for the Land, Built Environment, and Human
Communities on the Village Scale and Beyond
Lost Valley Educational Center, Oregon

October 1 - 28, 2007

The cost, including accommodations and prepared organic meals, is on a
sliding scale of $1800-2600.

This exciting residential program includes a full permaculture design
course and provides a holistic overview of the concepts and practices of
ecovillage design, in addition to more elements you won't find in your
standard permaculture course. There will be many opportunities to expand
on the personalized instruction through hands-on activities.

You will learn practical solutions to environmental and social problems
that you can implement in your own life, in your local communities, and on
larger scales. You will also develop skills that help you foster
communities that are more ecologically regenerative, socially cooperative,
and personally satisfying. Living at an intentional community, you will
have a unique daily experience of community life.

Subjects include:

Organic Gardening: Learn the basics applied to a rural, urban, or suburban
site. Practice soil building and composting. Understand soil
composition, watersheds, swales, water catchment, and conservation,
biological control agents, native plant guilds, annual, biennial, and
perennial cycles, and other natural rhythms, patterns and biological
relationships.

Natural building: Explore international design and selecting appropriate
models to suit a given climate. You'll learn cob, straw bale, earthships,
living roofs, passive solar and other techniques.

Appropriate Technology and Renewable Energy: Designing to maximize
efficiency through energy conservation and retention. We explore passive
and active solar, micro-hydro, wind, bio-diesel, rainwater catchment, and
grey water systems.

Eco-Forestry: Harvesting food, energy, and medicine, while restoring
damaged forest lands and monocrop tree plantations to diverse and
productive systems.

Site Analysis & Design: Working with raw, developed, and semi-developed
land to create home, garden, and village infrastructures, in harmony with
the surrounding environment.
Community Living: Explore ecovillage design and implementation,
ecovillage economics, employment, education, self-government, health and
wellbeing, and many other aspects of day-to-day life in community.
Social Permaculture and Creating Community: Learn consensus and other
decision making processes, explore interpersonal dynamics, and participate
in personal growth workshops.

Green Lifestyle Choices: Examine the ecological effects of various
lifestyle choices and everyday decisions, from your home to food
consumption to commuting to shopping.

An incredible team of experienced residential instructors and
nationally known guest instructors:

*Mark Lakeman, Founder of City Repair, Co-Organizer of Portland's
Village Builder Convergence.

*Toby Hemenway, Author Gaia's Garden, former editor of Permaculture
Activist.

*Rob Bolman, Founder of Maitreya Ecovillage, Co-Organizer of NW
Permaculture Gathering, natural builder.

*Rick Valley, International permaculture instructor, nursery operator,
Lost Valley Land Steward.

*Tree Bressen, Group facilitator, consensus trainer, founding member of
Eugene's Walnut St. Coop.

*Jude Hobbs, Associate with Agro-Ecology, landscape designer, small
farm consultant, and activist. She has presented Permaculture workshops
and courses throughout the West and Hawaii for 17 years.

*Joshua Smith, Ecological landscape designer, eco-forester, author of
Botanical Treasures of the West. Joshua has co-taught Permacutlure
courses with Bill Mollison (co-originator of Permaculture).

*Melanie Rios, Urban Farmer, educator, activist, and Co-originator of
Permaculture for the inner landscape. She has been teaching communication
skills for a couple of decades.

*Marc Tobin, Masters in Community and Regional Planning, Lost Valley
EPCP coordinator. He is also an avid musician, playing guitar and hand
drums, often using music as a vehicle to build community.

*Marisha Auerbach, Certified herbalist, ethnobotanist, permaculture &
edible landscape designer.

*Gra Linnea, co-founder of Walnut Street cooperative and other copperative
houses, facilitator of the Heart of Now personal growth workshop. He has
extensive experience in group facilitation.

*Tammy Davis, certified permaculture instructor, trained in Consensus,
Non-Violent Communication by Dr. Marshall Rosenburg, and Naka-Ima (now
Heart of Now). She has trained with local experts in beekeeping, weaving
baskets, and hunting and growing edible and medicinal mushrooms and herbs.

*Dianne Brause, Co-founder of Lost Valley and the only human resident the
entire 17 years.

The Location:
Lost Valley Educational Center is an intentional community and
nonprofit educational center dedicated to learning, living, and
teaching sustainable, ecologically-based culture. We live18 miles from
Eugene, on 87 beautiful acres of organic gardens, meadows, forests, hiking
trails, pond, and creek.
There is old growth hiking, hot springs, and mountains nearby.

Who should apply:
People who are interested in combining the theory and hands-on practice
of sustainability, and have a positive attitude about rural community
life. People involved in the following fields in particular will find
many opportunities for growth: Design fields such as landscape
architecture, planning, and architecture - Ecological fields such as
environmental studies, biology, ecology, horticulture, forestry, and
natural resource management - Social sustainability fields such as human
ecology,
environmental sociology, and eco-psychology. Business owners will
experience a holistic introduction to ecologically-based culture, and have
a deeper understanding of the changing values of consumer markets. Anyone
who is interesting in helping to start, design, or someday live in an
ecovillage,
intentional community, or green developments will find the course
especially useful.

For more information:

www.lostvalley.org
<mailto:Outreach%40lostvalley.org>Outreach at lostvalley.org
(541) 937-3351 ext.112

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