Permaculture Design Certification
Session I Febrary 24-27
Session II March 24-27
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE - UPDATES!!!
Wayne Weiseman is certified by the American Institute of Architects to offer continuing education credits in Permaculture. In this course architects will receive 16-20 credits, which is required for the year to keep licenses current. We will have two days of focus during the course on the built environment through lecture and hands-on projects, along with the general curriculum in the Permaculture system.
When: February 24-27 & March 24-27 2010
Where: ELIZABETH ANNA'S OLD WORLD GARDEN
2825 8th Avenue Fort Worth * TX 76110 * (817) 922-0930 (This is the office number)
What: The Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) is a 72 hour course which is based on the curriculum set by Bill Mollison of The Permaculture Institute. Wayne Wieseman is a registered teacher with this Institute. Upon completion of the course you will receive a certificate issued by the Permaculture Institute. Fee includes the course and certification, lectures, hands-on exercises, guest speakers, readings, videos, discussion, 7 lunch meals + am/pm tea and refreshments, handouts, course booklet, field trips and guest speakers. It does not include travel, lodging or course text.
Cost: $1,200.00 - This holds your place in class. Payments can be made via Paypal although fees do apply. Or save the fees and send your check to:
DFW Permaculture
c/o Elizabeth Anna's Old World Garden
2825 8th Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76110
More more info please email the host:
Elizabeth @ elizabethanna@mac.com
QUICK FAQS:
COST:
$1,200.00 is the cost for the course.
You will need to purchase the text ( A Permaculture Designers Manual, by Bill Mollison ) which is around $120.00. You can find online through Amazon.com
Incidentals and lodging. A huge lunch will be provided each day and and we will provide two tea/coffee breaks with snacks each day. Also, if you need an inexpensive home stay, hotel, hostel or camping information please email dfwpermaculture@gmail.com for recommendations.
CERTIFICATION:
(Permaculture is a copyrighted word of the Permaculture Institute of Australia. Graduates of the certificate course are permitted to use the word Permaculture in their choice of livelihood.)
WORK STUDY & SCHOLARSHIPS:
We want as many people to be able to take the course as possible. At the moment there are a few options to reduce cost:
-You may do work study up at the rate of $10.00 an hour for up to ten hours ($100.00 off tuition)
-If you refer a student who registers and pays by the first day of the course you will receive $100.00 off your tuition. If you refer three registered students, you will receive $300.00 off tuition and so on, up to six referrals, or $600.00 - half off tuition
-When we reach over 15 registered students, we will be able offer more work study and scholarships.
Other ideas -
-If you are a college student, approach your institution to sponsor your course or apply the course as life credit. We have documentation that may assist the accumulation of credit hours.
-If you are an employee, ask your employer about continuing education units. This course meets and exceeds the AIA's Mandatory Continuing Education Sustainability Standards.
-If you are an employer enroll your office in this course. It is invaluable training and will set your firm or business apart.
QUESTIONS ABOUT PAYING?
Please email the host:
Elizabeth @ elizabethanna@mac.com
or
Kirsten @ dfwpermaculture@gmail.com
What Wayne Weiseman's former students have said about this course...
"This course will forever change the way I look at everything. Thank you."
Matt Drewno - CSA Farmer - Grayslake, IL - July 08 Course
"The information, design methods, networking, and food were beyond my expectations. Taking this course has re-ignited a fire in me that had been only embers. There is hope for the human species."
Ron Nowicki—60– Landscape architect
"The Permaculture Design Certification Course offers the most comprehensive means for learning from nature how to think in terms of 'systems', and design for optimizing capacities that can function long term with the most efficient energy use, minimal material input, and little to no waste."
Rachel Lueke, Director of North Texas Society for Sustainability, hosted Wayne in 2007 in McKinney, TX
"An extraordinary design course. Inspiring, helpful, professional, very informative. I felt we were given a strong knowledge base to start our own Permaculture projects. Thank you so much."
Peter Lynch -45- New York Architect - Oct. 06
“From this course, things have crystallized for me. Being with these ideas and seeing them in practice has really helped me see more places where I can begin at home.”
Lisa Armstrong. - Mom & Small Business Owner - Columbus, OH - June 07 Course
“This course has been a life-changing, invigorating, and a nurturing experience for me.”
Kathy Crittenden -62- Retiring university professor
“Thank you for this deeply enriching experience.”
Judy Speer -40 Ecology educator
"I still think of my design course experience nearly every day. It definitely changed my life for the better."
Dave McMillianPennsylvania -2006 Course- Mechanical Engineer & New Homesteader
WHAT IS PERMACULTURE ?
Permaculture co-founder, Bill Mollison states:
“Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them & of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.”
Derived from Permanent and Culture, as follows: Permanent: From the Latin permanens, to remain to the end, to persist throughout (per = through, manere = to continue) - Culture: From the Latin cultura - cultivation of land, or the intellect. Now generalized to mean all those habits, beliefs, or activities than sustain human societies.
- Selwyn Polit, an Austin area Permaculturist refers to Permaculture as“practical sustainability.”
"The cornerstone of permaculture design is observing and mimicking patterns found in nature. People often arrive at permaculture through an interest in gardening. And certainly, growing food where people live is an essential component of creating a more sustainable society. But permaculture isn’t a gardening system per se, and it isn’t (necessarily) about growing your own food or living out in the country. In fact, the worldwide permaculture movement is as much about co-designing more sustainable cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods, workplaces, professions, companies, schools, economic arrangements, financial institutions, and social organizations as it is about making our agricultural practices more sustainable.Permaculture design draws on natural patterns to create human systems that are healthier and more productive. Using this design approach, human beings can actually have a positive impact on the land and on all other species (as opposed to merely reducing our negative impact)."
Permaculture is applied observation of nature and a design process for creating sustainable living systems on your land. It matters not if your land happens to be a suburban home on the outskirts of Fort Worth, TX, a rural farm in the Imo State of Nigeria or the second story of a three-flat on the south side of Chicago.
Permaculture is sustainability by design before sustainability by device. Observing patterns in nature is really no more than common sense. If we apply this common sense to our post modern lives we will save time and money and be better informed on which appropriate technologies we really need.
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Who Should Take This Course?
This Course is for everyone.
There are no prior qualifications required in the field of environmental studies or design. You should however familiarize yourself with the class text,
Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, by Bill Mollison.
The Permaculture Designer Course has revolutionized the lives and enriched the careers of thousands of architects, landscapers, design professionals, homeowners, artists and craft workers, builders, computer programmers, community developers, educators, students, farmers, gardeners, business owners, land managers, apartment dwellers, farmers, mothers, organic gardeners, chefs, entrepreneurs, orthodontists, trapeze artists, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. And you, if you want to learn how to create sustainable living systems in urban and suburban environments.
THE COURSE WILL COVER
* Plant Guilds, Polycultures and Succession Planting
*Aquaculture and Micro Livestock
*Urban Animal Husbandry
*Water Use & Reuse, Swales, Ponds, Rainwater Collection
*Pattern Understanding and Observation
*Climatic Factors and Climate and Microclimates
*Sustainable Building & Retrofitting Energy Conservation
*Trees and their Energy Transactions
*Guilds, Polycultures, Succession
*Various Climatic Factors: Focus on the Temperate Climate *Practical Work on Design
*Permaculture Ethics, Principles
*The Business of Permaculture: creating an urban livelihood
During the course we will have site work and visit urban farms, Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) farms, Green and natural building sites and eco-homesteads.
Please join us for this timely and rewarding course.
Anyone interested in actively creating a sustainable future should consider enrolling.
Sponsored in part by
North Texas Society for Sustainability.
The principal promise of North Texas Society for Sustainability is to inspire and enable participating individuals’ and organizations access to collective intelligence, which can become in this age of sustainable development, tools for personal and social transformation.