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Monday 22nd September through to Saturday 4th October 2008 . Melbourne University

“This course has already changed a lot of the world - Come help us finish the job!” ~ Bill Mollison April 27, 2005

BILL MOLLISON, the legendary Permaculture teacher, promoter and designer - who, over 26 years of non-stop travelling, designing, teaching and writing, personally planted the seeds of Permaculture in over 120 countries. Bill is the founding director of The Permaculture Institute, the first and longest running Permaculture Institute in existence.

GEOFF LAWTON who is world renowned for field expertise and extensive teaching experience in the ecological “badlands” of Earth, areas of extreme cultural conflicts, as well as more friendly environments. Founding director of the acclaimed Permaculture Research Institute, Geoff is working in more countries and co-ordinating more projects on the ground than any other Permaculture Institute today.

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GREG KNIBBS is a passionate Permaculture designer and teacher who has worked in Africa and the Philippines over many years. Greg is the founding Director of International Permaculture Services and brings to the course a wealth of experience and knowledge in all aspects of Permaculture Design.

Earth’s ecosystems are in crisis. Permaculture offers practical, sustainable solutions. You can be part of the exciting adventure of positive world change.

EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS! BE PART OF THIS HISTORIC EVENT!

To book in and register please contact us through our sales email address listed in the course brochure below.

We encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment and to take advantage of the early bird discounts available.

The venue for this course is Trinity College, Melbourne University. We have booked an excellent Lecture Theatre. Delicious morning and afternoon teas are provided and accommodation is available at Trinity College or nearby for students. Details are listed in the flyer below. If you have questions you can ring the Permaculture Institute 61 (0) 3 6445 0945, the Convenor, Tony Watkins 61 (0) 3 9762 6356 mob. 61 (0) 427626326 or The Permaculture Research Institute 61 (0) 2 6688 6578 and we will be pleased to assist you. Information is also available at www.permaculture.org.au

This course is the full 72 hour Permaculture Design Certificate course including all theory and practical exercises necessary to enable a student to become a Permaculture designer and teacher and can lead on to full teacher registration and Diploma of Permaculture Design with the Permaculture Institute.

Several evening events are also scheduled.

PDC Brochure Sept 08

PDC Costs 2008

PDC Melbourne September 2008

PDC Course Registration Form

Permaculture Design for Islands and Shorelines

With Bill Mollison

Bocas Del Toro PANAMA

16th, 17th 18th, 19th July 2008
Lectures begin on the 16th 9 am, please arrive on the 15th, Lectures end at noon on the 19th, please be prepared to leave on the 19th.

$1,500 AUD including accommodation and food.

About the Course

Energy Systems
Water handling
Padi culture
Sealing of sands and corals
Palm PolyCulture
Appropriate Building Strategies for the tropics
AquaCulture
Lagoon Culture
Mariculture

Class hours will be from 9 am to noon and from 4 pm to 7pm with the afternoon off.

About Bill’s island Experience

This is a rare event. Bill, retired from a heavy teaching and traveling routine sometime ago, but as the years go by he finds time to travel and teach subjects he is passionate about.

Having been born and reared on the island of Tasmania, Islands hold a special place in Bill’s heart and fascination. The first voyages of Bill’s Permaculture travels and teaching took place on the islands of Hawaii where Bill taught Permaculture and installed systems. One forest is in plain view from the window of plane as you fly into Honolulu. Elder Hawaiian’s reported they had not seen such taro as the taro yielded from the Permaculture Taro dryland Padis.

Work on the Canaries, due to their incredibly low annual rainfall took a quite a different approach, but calling on Permaculture skills and strategies the results were just as satisfactory and perhaps even more so, considering the challenge of the location.

In the Sechelles, engaged by His majesty, Sh’ Aran Pahlevi, Bill’s Permaculture skills were applied to the re-design and on-going management of a large coconut plantation in the Amarantes.

Many courses were taught by Bill in Palau where the need of the people centered around rehabilitation of shoreline and tidal padis.

And while Bill’s travel and Permaculture work has found him giving courses, designing or installing food production and energy systems on the Islands of Newfoundland, Iceland, Whiddy Island. Orcas Island, Flinders Island to name a few, this course will have a heavy emphasis on Permaculture Design for tropical and sub-tropical islands.

About the Venu
http://www.bocastesoroescondido.com

Please go to the web site to check out the venu and accommodation.

You need to arrive on the 15th of July and leave on the 19th of July. You don’t need to book in- We take care of that. The location is out-of-town and the rooms options are mixed. To make it easy, we will place each student into a room or bed that seems appropriate. All meals and accommodation are included in the price, so some will have a single bed and where appropriate and beds are available doubles will be available. We’ll do the best we can. And as it is only for three nights, everyone ought to be happy. Bill will be eating meals with students and evenings after lecture. This is a special experience for those who attend.

course-registration_form.pdf

Located in the rainbow region of the Northern Rivers in NSW, just outside the village of Tyalgum is this amazing property. Designed by Bill Mollison and owned by The Permaculture Institute.
Please open the pdf below for a flier.

Tyalgum Property advert

To find out more please contact Lisa
Phone: +61 (0) 3 6445 0945
Monday through to Thursday 9.00am-5.00pm AEST

Celebrating 30 years of achievement www.apc9.org.au The good folks at Permaculture North, in the Sydney area, have taken the reins of hosting this milestone in the history of Permaculture. Thirty years ago, Bill Mollison founded The Permaculture Institute and with its foundation began an unstoppable roll on of teachers training teachers who again train more teachers and it is thus that the world is changing, location by location. We all know, knowledge is power and giving the gift of knowledge empowers us all. If you are interested in Permaculture, come on down to this event. You’ll be amazed, inspired, you’ll laugh and you’ll, very importantly, think.
“Ingenio Patent Campus” The Field Lies Open to the Intellect, motto of The Permaculture Institute and The Permaculture Academy.

The Permaculture People’s Party , by Bill Mollison (Papers and Proposals)

The Clarion Call.

Preamble: Many of us, and all of us trained in good design for houses and farms, feel disgusted with the present political systems, which seem to prefer war to peace, and want or hunger to plenty. We feel we must act to reverse this intellectual decay and consequent global deterioration.

If we gather our friends, and students of good design, we vastly out-number the few who have joined “left right” parties. We can take control. We can legislate to restore the earth, to save and generate forests, to secure water and clean food supplies, and to live to assist all people to survive, not to war on them.

All permaculture graduates know how to design life-enhancing houses and farms. Many are involved in aid programmes, or consult with landowners and builders. We have, in effect, many thousands of people–years of experience in building sustainable systems. We have served our apprenticeship as worthy designers of living systems.

Thus, we believe it is time to take charge of legislating for sustainable living. Why should we, the majority, put up with the stupidities of the Liberal/ Labour, Republican/ Democrat, Tory /Socialist dichotomies, whose efforts are to defeat each other, not to assist all people?

No, we must now vote them all out, and start the urgent repair of society and the earth itself. Oil men, coal miners, and wood chippers can between them destroy all of us, for greed. In this, they are assisted by “our government”. To tolerate this is madness. To tolerate the use of biocides is ridiculous, and to subsidise destructive industries is stupidity. We must act for sanity and earth-care. Permaculture ethics require us to care for the earth. The permaculture lifestyle requires us to help others to care for themselves. Our ethics and lifestyle are the very best training for responsible government.

By supporting public trusts, Holland has greatly reduced and in fact largely eliminated the ‘public service’ (read: public stumbling block) to a very few people, thus, we must see the real function of government not to invent policies, but to discover existing policies that work well for problem solutions.

Most politicians arise from sportsmen, public broadcasters, film stars, lawyers, and businessmen. None of these can be trusted to evolve sensible policy; almost all of them operate on conviction based on personal beliefs. (no basis for sustainable society)

No, policy must be based on well-researched, extant, working models, and constantly refined by feedback from all levels of users or “consumers” of that policy. For instance, Finland is noted for the excellence of early education, Denmark for the volume of exports based on research, Sweden for developing energy systems that eliminate radio active wastes, or the risks of atomic energy. And so on……….

Bangladesh has a wonderful system for lending to the poor, involving small loans, support circles for repayments, and good advice. There are very few ‘bad loans’. We all need to adopt local cash management, credit unions, mini banks, economies of fair exchange of services and goods, not taxed expenditure. We do not live to support public servants and bankers in luxury, or politicians in great comfort, or C.E.Os in obscene wealth. No, it takes too much misery to keep a few manipulators too fat. We live to help our families and neighbours live a sustainable existence. This is what “policy” must be about.