Urban Permaculture Design Course
Spring 2006
Alameda Point Collaborative, Alameda, CA
6 weekends March 17-19 & 24-26 & April 21-23 & 28-30 & May 12-14 & 19-21, 2006
Register online at http://www.apcollaborative.org/classes.htm
Instructors: Christopher Shein, Kat Steele, Nik Bertulis, Erin Fisher & many truly fabulous local guest presenters Sliding Scale $750-950
Register before Jan 17th for $750 early bird price!
Contact: kat@urbanpermacultureguild.org , (510) 547 7889
This 72 hour Permaculture Design Certification Course has an unique Urban focus. The 18 day class is held on 34 acres in the center of an emerging urban ecovillage/supportive community sited on a former Naval Air Station. You will experience a collaborative permaculture design educational experience with a very dynamic team of instructors in a multi-cultural and progressive environment . All the usual Permaculture topics will be covered as well as additional attention given towards youth empowerment, green jobs, local environmental and social justice issues. Hands-on experience in a new Ploughshares Permaculture Nursery social-venture business will be offered as well as tours of the rich local East Bay Area landscape of urban ecological demonstrations sites. Come find and co-create community with us.
What kind of people take Permaculture Courses? People like you! People who want to see positive healthy change take place on our land and in our communities. Those seeking solutions to the problems we collectively face and needing and wanting a jolt of positivity and possibility!
Renters & Homeowners : Learn simple steps to improve your home ecosystem and your immediate surroundings while saving money, resources, and building a healthy habitat. Gardeners, farmers, homeowners/renters and prospective buyers of land will benefit from the energy-saving and productive insights of permaculture, while students and professionals in the fields of ecology, agronomy, resource management, architecture, and planning will find their work enlivened by the holistic and interdisciplinary perspective of the course. Community development and aid workers, real estate brokers, municipal officials, and religious leaders will find practical and creative applications for permaculture design in their respective fields of endeavor.
Planners & Managers : Learn how to integrate sustainable design methodologies into the planning process using a multi-disciplinary approach.
Municipal, State & Federal Employees: Improve public service & work efficiency and community benefits via creative land, water, and air resource management techniques.
Building Design & Construction Professionals: Learn about current practical systems of natural building, as well as how to integrate land-use design into the built environment.
Landscape Architects, Designers & Gardeners: Learn principles and techniques of sustainable landscaping, with an emphasis on functional plants and rainwater harvesting.
Social Workers: Acquire tools for empowerment and new dimensions of place-based professional practice applicable for micro through macro change processes.
Non-profit & Community Leaders: Integrate ecological design, professional networking, and social marketing approaches to advance your mission and programs.
Entrepreneurs: Explore how ecological models can be used to design, develop, implement, and manage a sustainable business venture.
Students & Educators: Integrate ecological systems design and social/environmental change practices into your academic studies.
You and your neighbors: feel connected to your homescape and neighborhood, develop the tools, resources and confidence to connect with your neighbors in a deeper more meaningful way and co-create plans and designs for catastrophe and emergencies as well as creative projects !