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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
Happy 2nd Birthday Blackheath Community Farm! 🎉🎂🍰 Check out these before and after videos - mowing on our first day in 2017 and mowing again two years later! Drop in for cake and ice-cold punch this Sunday 27 January between 10am and 1pm! We’re at the very end of Thirroul Avenue (60) Blackheath Community Farm
MattAnslow, who is developing a permaculture property with his family in the Kanimbla Valley, Lithgow, also co-founded Love Makes A Way, the largest faith-based civil disobedience movement in Australia’s history. Its focus has been on getting the kids off Nauru.
Read more here:
bit.ly/2W4j5DpMattAnslow, who is developing a permaculture property with his family in the Kanimbla Valley, Lithgow, also co-founded Love Makes A Way, the largest faith-based civil disobedience movement in Australia’s history. Its focus has been on getting the kids off Nauru.
Read more here:
https://bit.ly/2W4j5Dp
#permaculture #Banksy #Nauru #childrenindetention
Rowe Morrow will soon be heading off to teach Permaculture to refugees in Bangladesh and she gave an update on what will be happening with the Permaculture 4 Refugees (P4R) Program over the next few months.
The project in Bangladesh has been funded by Quaker Service Australia
View here: bit.ly/2VsWwbj
Does Rowe take volunteers with her on these trips?
So glad to know she's not backing off ! stella
A true permaculture legend.
Just astounding. Thank you for sharing.
Welcome to the Youth Edition of The Big Fix magazine: bit.ly/2QyErtL
Our lead story is about the Blue Mountains Launch of Australia's first Pluriversity. The pilot program for the Pluriversity is the free Youth Permaculture and Social Enterprise Design Project.Welcome to the Youth Edition of The Big Fix magazine: https://bit.ly/2QyErtL
Our lead story is about the Blue Mountains Launch of Australia's first Pluriversity.
A big thank you to all the young contributors to this issue! You can read it online or subscribe to receive a print edition.
Print editions will be distributed via a range of public locations in Lithgow, Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Penrith from Monday 17 December.
Blue Mountains City Council Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Community Bank Branch Sydney Water Blue Mountains Food Co-op Blue Mountains Food Services Ben Roberts Cafe Create NSW Secret Creek Cafe and Restaurant Penrith City Council Love Makes A Way The Plastic Lid Project Lucas Trihey Varuna the Writers' House Epicurean Harvest Lyttleton Stores Platform Youth Services Amelie Mareva University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury The Preatures Jacinta Tobin Roz Chia Keith Rowe & Kayo Yokoyama Glass Gallery Keith Rowe Illuminart Wollemi Common
Check out the great work done by the young people in our Permaculture & Social Enterprise Project.
Thank you to Blue Mountains Food Services and Ben Roberts Cafe for giving them the opportunity and for making this video!
This project has also been made possible because of support we've received from Blue Mountains City Council, Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Community Bank Branch and Sydney Water community grants program. #bendigobank #sydneywater #communitygrants
Blue Mountains Food Services
As part of the Grounded Permaculture Social Enterprise for Young People Project, The Big Fix ran a Permablitz in our garden 👍 This will enable us to not only compost all of our waste from Ben Roberts Cafe but also produce our own veggies! 🥒 🌶 🍠 🌱
We are currently recruiting 16-24ish olds to take part in an exciting new FREE Permaculture Design and Social Enterprise Project.
The Big Fix and Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute will provide internationally recognised permaculture training to help students work together to design two projects: a piece of land, and a social enterprise.
After the 12 day course, there will be ongoing support from a range of Blue Mountains businesses and organisations to help young people develop their social enterprise - creating a business that will benefit our society and the environment, and help strengthen the Blue Mountains community.
The Project has been funded by Blue Mountains City Council, The Big Fix Inc., Sydney Water and Bendigo Bank.
For more information contact lis(at)thebigfix.orgThanks to Oscar Dalkin and Annabel Pettit for your help at the Festival of Joy! in Katoomba on Saturday.
We are currently recruiting 16-24ish olds to write or take photos for the Youth Edition of The Big Fix magazine, and/or to take part in an exciting new FREE Permaculture Design and Social Enterprise Project.
The Big Fix and Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute will provide internationally recognised permaculture training to help students work together to design two projects: a piece of land, and a social enterprise.
After the 12 day course, there will be ongoing support from a range of Blue Mountains businesses and organisations to help young people develop their social enterprise - creating a business that will benefit our society and the environment, and help strengthen the Blue Mountains community.
The Project has been funded by Blue Mountains City Council, The Big Fix Inc., Sydney Water and Bendigo Bank.
For more information contact lis(at)thebigfix.org
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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.
