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Permaculture Course Info
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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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