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PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE: 10 AUGUST – 29 SEPTEMBER, 2018
The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute will be running a Permaculture Design Course in Bathurst, NSW on Friday evenings and Saturdays, weekly from Friday 10 August to Saturday 29 September, 2018. Permaculture is a regenerative systems design strategy for building… Read More
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PERMACULTURE TEACHER TRAINING: BLUE MOUNTAINS, 15-21 JUNE 2018
Join Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian for an intensive Permaculture Teacher Training Course in the World Heritage Listed Blue Mountains.
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ENOUGH! The story of a peace community in Kabul
The Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) organized a Permaculture Design Course in Kabul from February to March 2016 and invited Rowe Morrow to facilitate it. Here is her report on that PDC as well as a follow-up visit to… Read More
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A PDC for people living on the top of the world
In 2016, Rowe Morrow was invited to teach a permaculture course to students from Bhutan, Ladakh, Taiwan, and the Tibetan High School at the Dehradun monastery in India. Find out what she learnt in her report: “Melting glaciers,… Read More
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ALFRED DECKER: PERMACULTURE DIPLOMA
Alfred Decker’s Merit Diploma for Education and Community Development was awarded for establishing a permaculture website and a teaching team, as well as community outreach from Barcelona. His work is a model for others working from cities.
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Tina Lymberis: Permaculture Diploma
Tina Lymberis, a Greek woman who’s spent years in Australia, decided to take permaculture to Greek communities. Her Merit Diploma was awarded for pioneering Permaculture Education, Community Development and Media in Greece.
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New Bioregionalism Course in Italy
Traditional House – still occupied In August 2016 Rowe Morrow led a workshop on Bioregionalism in northern Italy. Here she brings that experience to life:
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New book: Permaculture Teaching Matters
We are happy to announce the release of the NEW book: Permaculture Teaching Matters, written by Rosemary Morrow and designed by Alba Teixidor. This book was funded by a crowdfunding campaign early in 2015. It is a step by step… Read More
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Launch of Advanced Permaculture Course in Community Disaster Mitigation
“Preparedness is always better than Response.” A course for disaster mitigation for communities has been developed at an IPC 12 Edge Event at the Sustainability Centre at Petersfield in the United Kingdom.
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Solomons Report
Video: Tide of Change by Aimie Batalibasi (view at https://vimeo.com/11588800 ) In February 2015, a crowdfunding campaign to create Permaculture Teacher Training Resources based on Rowe Morrow’s teacher training courses, successfully raised US$20,426 dollars (more than US$5,000 over… Read More
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A water design for every farm
From Australian Geographic 2008:The 140-m high Gordon Dam in Tasmania (Photo: Matthew Newton) The Federal Agriculture Minister recently released a green paper on agricultural competitiveness which listed 27 dams and irrigation projects across the country that could… Read More
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Permaculture Outcomes
Diploma Recipient: Lachlan McKenzie. In 2010, Lachlan McKenzie was awarded his Permaculture Diploma at the Australian Permaculture Convergence in Kuranda, North Queensland, for his substantial body of work in East Timor and Indonesia. Lachlan worked in a team… Read More
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Development
When the Old becomes New: An 800 year old Food Forest. Rosemary Morrow’s Case Study of her work in Tenganan, Eastern Bali. This project demonstrates the importance for permaculturists to apply themselves thoroughly to the history and conditions… Read More
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Education
At the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute we are advocates for non-formal education and have over one thousand graduates from around the world. We use merit processes and peer review to award Diplomas (see below). We specialise in learner-centred… Read More
Graduates
The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute has graduates in Asia, Europe, Africa, America, New Zealand and Australia and we have recently been contributing to courses internationally via Skype. The Institute is in the process of building a Graduates Register… Read More
Teaching Resources
The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute is creating a range of resources to support permaculture practitioners, and especially permaculture teachers. After a successful crowdfunding campaign in early 2015, we have produced a new book Permaculture Teaching Matters. Written by… Read More
Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian are looking forward to heading out to Bathurst in August to teach a Permaculture Design Course at the fabulous Rahamim Ecology Centre. There is accommodation on site.
Bookings now open via bit.ly/2sJbKeE
Early Bird Bookings for the Permaculture Teacher Training Course with Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian close on 30 April.
The residential course runs in the Blue Mountains from 15 - 21 June, 2018.
Read more here: bit.ly/2FkaSBD
You are Lucky guys who are joining this course with Rowe
Lis, do you and Rosemary have any plans for a book which lays out your coursefor those who can't attend? Or who want it as an ongoing reference?
what an amazing opportunity - I dream of attending again tho fresh from some Australia trainings last month might have to be next year...
Hello, I am very interested, could you please pm me with registration details? Thanks
Long live to my dear teacher Rosemary.
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Simone Novello
I'm just back from giving a presentation about The Big Fix at the Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Here's this week's Solutions Digest. You can sign up to receive it for free via email at our website www.thebigfix.org
Permaculture design, storytelling and collaboration for system change
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this week at the Australasian Permaculture Convergence in Canberra, I gave a presentation about The Big Fix and its mission to change the stories which are driving society down the path of environment...Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian both gave presentations at the Australasian Permaculture Convergence yesterday!Noise has been described as the new secondhand smoke, and cities are now introducing strategies to reduce it ... like quiet concrete; Girl Clubs are springing up in remote villages across India, and in one village, where most of the men are alcoholic, a group of girls took over the town and have brought about civic improvement "with a speed that would make any government bureaucrat envious"; and permaculture is now compulsory for all schools in Timor-Leste with 179 already implementing school gardens.
These stories and more in today's Solutions Digest:
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Lush (cosmetics) are set to buy a second 50 hectare plot in Sumatra to prevent the destructive methods of palm oil farming and to create an educational, regenerative permaculture site. Read more below:
"Here in Kabul, as the rising sun begins to warm our chilly rooms, I hear excited laughter from downstairs. Rosemary Morrow, a renowned Australian permaculture expert, has begun teaching thirty-five young students in a month-long course on low-resource farming.
In war-torn Afghanistan, there’s a desperate need to rebuild agricultural infrastructure and help people grow their own food. People verging on despair feel encouraged by possibilities of replenishing and repairing their soil.
The night before, over dinner, one of the students discussed news from his home town in Afghanistan’s Wardak province about U.S. aerial attacks. “The blasts have become so frequent,” he said, “that people can’t find spaces to bury their dead.”
via Robyn Williamson
Afghan Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death
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International teen solidarity could challenge both the U.S. military and the National Rifle Association to end assaults on human life. "Our goal must be to demand that every person around the world ag...Here's our Weekly Solutions Digest which you can also receive via email. We look at solutions happening in every sector: Individuals, Community Groups, Organisations, Businesses, Governments, Educators and Researchers, Collaborations and 'Art for a Change.'
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Permaculture turns 40, rebel bank reduces debt and turtles return to Versova Beach
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PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE: 10 AUGUST – 29 SEPTEMBER, 2018
The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute will be running a Permaculture Design Course in Bathurst, NSW on Friday evenings and Saturdays, weekly from Friday 10 August to Saturday 29 September, 2018. Permaculture is a regenerative systems design strategy for building… Read More
PERMACULTURE TEACHER TRAINING: BLUE MOUNTAINS, 15-21 JUNE 2018
Join Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian for an intensive Permaculture Teacher Training Course in the World Heritage Listed Blue Mountains.
ENOUGH! The story of a peace community in Kabul
The Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) organized a Permaculture Design Course in Kabul from February to March 2016 and invited Rowe Morrow to facilitate it. Here is her report on that PDC as well as a follow-up visit to… Read More
A PDC for people living on the top of the world
In 2016, Rowe Morrow was invited to teach a permaculture course to students from Bhutan, Ladakh, Taiwan, and the Tibetan High School at the Dehradun monastery in India. Find out what she learnt in her report: “Melting glaciers,… Read More
ALFRED DECKER: PERMACULTURE DIPLOMA
Alfred Decker’s Merit Diploma for Education and Community Development was awarded for establishing a permaculture website and a teaching team, as well as community outreach from Barcelona. His work is a model for others working from cities.
Tina Lymberis: Permaculture Diploma
Tina Lymberis, a Greek woman who’s spent years in Australia, decided to take permaculture to Greek communities. Her Merit Diploma was awarded for pioneering Permaculture Education, Community Development and Media in Greece.
