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Elfin Permaculture Announces
12th Annual Online Course
Elfin Permaculture's 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online, which begins Oct. 14, 2007, culminates a dozen years of the online courses and more than a quarter century of teaching permaculture.
The deadline for scholarship applications is Aug. 1 each year. Otherwise, students may register at any time. Students who are fully paid before the cycle begins receive a $100 discount.
Persons interning at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center during the course cycle may monitor the course at no charge. Monitoring is free with purchase of the course CD self-study version, or the full self-study reading package. See the Course Protocol, on our web site, for details.
The certificate course runs six months and includes the following learning approaches:
o extensive reading in books, papers, both in print and on the course CD-ROM;
o 21 modules of at least one week, mainly presented on the CD, representing the formal presentations of course instructors;
o at least four reports from each student, including a full permaculture design report;
o class discussion via email of readings and reports, as well as questions and issues raised by students or instructors;
o the opportunity to participate in student study groups where interested students can pursue any agreed-upon topic as long as they wish;
o support for students by three instructors: Dan Hemenway (USA), course designer leader; Cynthia Hemenway CNM (USA), designer and discussion leader for a special week on Design for Health, and Dr. Willem Smuts (South Africa), an earth scientist who has contributed to each of the previous course cycle, currently as discussion leader
The online course consists of three consecutive sections, plus work on a permaculture design which students undertake throughout the cycle in which they are registered. Samples of student design work are included in the course CD.
Registration is limited because of the time required to review and critique individual designs. To enable more students to participate, students may enroll in a fast track, 2-cycle track, or deliberate track, each with different design report deadlines.
Content of the course sections follow:
Section 1: Introduction and Basic Principles
a) World ecological problems and interrelationships.
b) Principles of natural design.
c) Permaculture design concepts.
d) Classical landscapes.
e) Patterning, edges, edge effects.
f) The Permaculture Design Report
g) Principles of transformation (Unique to Elfin Permaculture courses.).
Section 2: Appropriate Technologies in Permaculture Design
a) Energy--solar, wind, hydro, biomass, etc.
b) Nutrient cycles--soil, microclimates, gardening methods, perennials, tree crops, food parks, composting toilets, livestock, "pest" management, food storage, seed saving, cultivated systems, forests, etc.
c) Water--impoundments, aquaculture, conservation, etc.
d) Shelter/buildings and access.
e) Design for Health (NEW in 2000)
Section 3: Social permaculture. Design Report.
a) Design for catastrophe.
b) Urban permaculture.
c) Bioregionalism.
d) Alternative economics.
e) Village development.
f) Final design reports and critiques.
g) Final evaluation.
Online course participants have come from every continent on Earth and a number of island countries, from latitudes spanning the equatorial tropics to sub-arctic, and a comparable range of elevations, etc.. The course is suited to beginning permaculture design students, people seeking support in producing a permaculture design for their own homes, and, by special arrangement, people with some permaculture experience who wish work in advanced areas. Successful students receive certification as entry-level permaculturists. Advanced students pay no extra, but are expected to be additional resources to the regular students.
To review information about the course methodology, content, certification requirements, tuition & fees, registration process, scholarship policies, reading list & cost, and assignment schedule, download the course preregistration package from our web site, www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
>From the same site, prospective students may downolad a copy of the Course CD Contents Table. The course CD includes more than 300 separate items, including papers, data bases, weekly teaching modules, samples of design work, and other resources.
Donations are needed to support additional scholarships and to provide reading materials to scholarship students. (We cannot include these in our scholarships.) Inquire at BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com or send contributions to Barking Frogs Permaculture Center, PO Box 69, Sparr FL 32192-0069 USA. Please include the term “permaculture” in the subject field when sending email to us.
Elfin Permaculture is a project of Barking Frogs Permaculture Center operated by Dan and Cynthia Hemenway.
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To Editors: Permaculture publications, media, and closely allied publications may request a review copy the latest version (5.x) of the course CD for self-study by sending an email to Dan Hemenway at Permacltur@aol.com This version is substantially enlarged and refined from the review version we distributed at the inception of this online approach to the Permaculture Design Course. The self-study version omits a few files restricted to certificate course students, but is substantially the same otherwise.
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Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
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Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
Our 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online begins Oct. 14, 2007. The protocol for our Annual Permaculture Design Course Online is at http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Protocol4-23-06.pdf
A complete list of Yankee Permaculture publications by category may be downloaded from:
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/YPCpublicationsbycategory.pdf
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