[Scpg] June 15- 29, 2009 Permaculture Design Certification Course/Creating an Ecovillage From the Earth Up Mendocino County, Northern California

Thu Apr 30 04:55:36 PDT 2009

  Permaculture Design Certification Course

Creating an Ecovillage From the Earth Up

June 15- 29, 2009

  http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Laytonville_Permaculture_Design_Course_2009.html

Mendocino County, Northern California

at the newly forming Laytonville Ecovillage   

Tuition & Registration

Course Tuition is $1250 U.S. dollars, which 
includes instruction, basic camping 
accommodations, and 3 delicious, nutritious meals 
a day for the duration of the course. 
Participants who successfully complete the course 
will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate.

Contact

For questions and more information regarding the course

e-mail: <mailto:forestgarden at livingmandala.com> 
laytonville at livingmandala.com or

call: (707) 634-1461

Course Description

A holistic approach to sustainable development 
begins with land use and community design. This 
is a two week intensive Permaculture Design 
Certification Course that will be hosted on the 
beautiful site of the newly forming Laytonville 
Ecovillage in Mendocino county of Northern 
California. This course will immerse participants 
in the design system of Permaculture to create 
and maximize the beneficial relationships between 
our natural resources, our daily needs, and the 
regeneration the Earth. The course will integrate 
the theory of sustainable living with social 
permaculture through hands-on, real experience. 
Course participants will experience living in 
community and contributing to the design and 
development of a real Eco-Village project lead by 
an amazing cast of teachers and special guests in 
a fun and supportive community learning 
environment. 

Laytonville Eco-Village

The course is being held on an emerging 
Eco-Village development project on a ten acre, 
beautifully forested property about a mile 
outside of Laytonville, California. Laytonville 
is a small, rural town in Northern Mendocino 
County located right off Highway 101, about a 
three-hour drive from San Francisco. The property 
is zoned for subdividing and is in the process of 
being subdivided into five two-acre parcels that 
together will consist of the EcoVillage. Existing 
infrastructure on-site includes a two-story, 
two-unit farmhouse that’s about 65 years old, a 
barn with loft, a carport, and storage buildings.

Laytonville Eco-Village Vision

The vision of the Ecovillage is to develop the 
land and homes with community and sustainability 
as the core values. All of the models of 
ecological design, permaculture, green building, 
etc. will be applied to the fullest extent 
possible. Lots are available to people who agree 
to a common vision, to community, and to working 
with a set of guidelines that are developed by 
the community. Individual lots will thus fit into 
a “commons” wherein they co-create and agree to a 
set of sustainable and community parameters.

Some of the sustainable lifestyle features we 
envision include microgrid, biodiesel, an 
electric car co-op, sauna/hot tub bath house, 
locally harvested materials, rainwater catchment, 
graywater, permaculture landscaping, etc

Including

PERMACULTURE & ECO-VILLAGE DESIGN

INTEGRATIVE ECO-SOCIAL CURRICULUM

HANDS-ON ACTION LEARNING

SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS

COMMUNITY BUILDING

SOCIAL PERMACULTURE

DESIGN TOOLS

& MUCH MORE

In Association With

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Affiliated_Organizations.html> 
Mendocino Ecological Learning Center

Facilitators, Instructors & Constants

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>John 
Valenzuela

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Emily 
Wacker

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Jay 
Ma

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Erik 
Ohlsen

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Max 
Meyers

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Julie 
“Bird” Moore

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Nan 
Kohler

<http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Facilitators_Trainers_and_Consultants.html>Dave 
Shaw

Additional Instructors & Special Guests

to be announced soon!

Topics to Include:

Certification Applicability

Participants who successfully complete the course 
will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate. 
Design Certification is applicable towards Gaia 
University Degree Programs.

Permaculture Design

Permaculture Principles

Natural Patterns

Pattern Application

Reading the Landscape

Nature Awareness

Forests

Soil Food Web

Water Cycles

Tropical, Arid & Cool Climates

Design Process

Sustainable Systems

Natural Building

Renewable Energy

Appropriate Technology

Rain Catchment

Graywater

Humanure

Home Gardens

Food Forests

Agroforestry

Fungi & Myco-Remediation

Bio-Remediation

Animal Systems

Aquaculture
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