Permaculture Certification: 

Designing and building the home ecosystem using Earth-friendly techniques and technologies.

Part Two will focus on Permaculture Design methodologies, zoning systems, careful planning, attention to energy and energy flow, and using site design to improve efficiency and promote conservation. By the end of Part Two, students will have learned techniques and technologies, both biological and technological, for designing and building a complete home ecosystem.

Weekend Three

This session covers the Permaculture concepts of zones and sectors to help land stewards and community designers foster the best use of a given site.

Permaculture practitioners utilize landscape profiles, base maps, and on-site observation and analysis to assist in the logical orientation of design elements. This session will explore broad-scale design, alternative transportation, wind and solar energy, micro climates, and the restoration of degraded lands. We will also contrast traditional home systems for cooking, heating, cooling, water use, and waste management with Earth-friendly biological and mechanical technologies that can be utilized for the same purpose. Students will investigate the relative appropriateness of these technologies to a given circumstance.

Topics:

• Zone and Sector Planning
• Permaculture Zones One through Four
• Home Scale Projects
• Habitation Design
• Green Interiors
• Cooking
• Cooling and Heating Techniques
• Strawbale
• Cob & Earthbag Building Technologies