[Scpg] 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online

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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 at 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 at 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
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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