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>  PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES WITH BILL MOLLISON AND SCOTT PITTMAN
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>    (Permaculture <-- Permanent AgriCulture / Permanent Culture)
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>The only classes with Bill Mollison in the Northern Hemisphere in 1997!
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>    Bill Mollison has announced his retirement from teaching!
>         This may be your last chance to take a course
>              from the creator of Permaculture!
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>Southern California June 16-27, Near Santa Barbara
>Northern California July 14-25, Near Half Moon Bay
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>This is a two week residential course with 72 hours of instruction.
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>What are some of the things you'll learn in this course?
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> How to:
>  - Turn deserts into prairies within a year or two.
>  - "Read the land" for it's potential.
>  - Design inexpensive, environmentally sound buildings and
>    incorporate them ecologically into the landscape.
>  - Find land to farm in your community for $1 per acre per year.
>  - More than double the yield from your rangeland while
>    increasing soil fertility & the health of your herds.
>  - Avoid disaster; fully and thoroughly check out a piece of
>    land, inventory it's resources and problems before buying it.
>  - Become an Ecological Land Developer and provide as many as
>    three middle class incomes per acre in land based, value
>    added, agricultural enterprises.
>  - Rehabilitate destroyed soils to support limited agriculture
>    in a few months.
>  - Assemble high yield food forests.
>  - Create Oases in drylands-Growing trees without irrigation
>    using only 6 inches of rainfall.
>  - Desalinate salted land
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>What's Special about these Courses?
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>  Of course, any time Bill Mollison teaches, the course is special.
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>Other unique aspects are:
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>  - Our strong international recruitment, you'll be learning
>    alongside colleagues from other countries.
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>  - New material developed since the publication of Permaculture: A
>    Designers' Manual. For instance, detailed information on the
>    nuts and bolts of CSA farming, retirement crops, how to devise
>    your farm/organization's legal structure to avoid paying
>    unnecessary taxes, examples of making a living in ways that
>    don't cause you to compromise your ecological/social values,
>    and Mollison's "Next Phase of Permaculture"-designing whole,
>    "self-building" fully self-sustaining towns.
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>  - Invaluable new written handouts, illustrations & resource lists.
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>  - Food will be largely organic and purchased or donated directly
>    from the farmers who produce it!!!
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>  - Special guest presentations in the evenings.
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>  - Scholarships to encourage participation by people of diverse
>    cultural and economic backgrounds.
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>  - "Trade show" day with suppliers and manufacturers of
>    appropriate tech products which may be relevant to your own 
>projects.
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>  - College credit, and PCA credits applied for.
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>For more information check out the Web site at:
>      www.permaculture-institute.org
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>Or write Dave Blume at: dblume@permaculture-institute.org
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>Or write "real" mail to:
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>International Institute for Ecological Agriculture(IIEA)
>PO Box 620930
>Woodside, CA  94062-0930
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>Tel: 415-365-2993, Fax: 415-355-2241
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