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Permaculture Design

From Friday, July 30 2010
To Sunday, August 22 2010
9:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, Friday Saturday - week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 every month

2010 Permaculture Design Course
Northern Arizona

Interested in making your home and yard more sustainable? Want to grow an abundance of food with a minimal amount of effort? Long to transform your community into an ecological paradise with fun, creative, community-building actions? If you dream of a greener life for you and your family, this course is for you.

The 2010 Permaculture Design Course will be held over four consecutive weekends beginning the weekend of July 30th and ending the weekend of August 20th, and will be taught by regional and national experts in various locations throughout Arizona. Some of the topics that will be covered include:
• Permaculture ethics
• Permaculture design principles
• Understanding natural patterns
• Creating healthy soil
• Plant selection, plant guilds & food forests
• Site analysis & design
• Mapping
• Climate and microclimates
• Water harvesting
• Energy
• Natural building
• Bioregional theory
• Local food systems & community land access
• Co-housing, eco-villages & City Repair
• Design for peak oil & ecological collapse
• Ecological economics & community currencies
Space is limited. For more information on this exciting and valuable learning experience, click here.

Location: Various in Arizona
Contact: http://www.edenonearthlandscaping.com/

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...we, in this generation, must come to terms with nature...we are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not over nature, but of ourselves. Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. Thomas Edison to Henry Ford in 1931

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict." Simone Weil 1949

Social movements are humanity's immune response to political corruption, economic disease, and ecological degradation. Paul Hawken

To regain our full humanity, we must regain our connectedness with the entire web of life. Fritjof Capra 1995

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

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