The Permaculture Master Plan - Permaculture Centres Worldwide
Aid Projects, Community Projects, Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres — by Craig Mackintosh
Imagine a world of peace, health and low-carbon prosperity. Well, we’re going beyond imagination, and are working on full implementation. It’s our aim. Watch (and share) the clip below to get an idea of what we mean.
The answers to the world’s woes - waning energy supplies, depleted and contaminated soils and water, reduced biodiversity, the dismantling of communities, etc. - are all there. We know how to get the job done, we know how to restore natural abundance where before was only desolation. But, we can get the job done a great deal faster with your help!
There are many ways you can contribute:
- Donate, knowing your contribution is being put to work using the ‘teach a man to fish’ principle. Rather than endless aid campaigns that ignore root causes, we seek to solve problems at source.
- Get involved! Take a Permaculture Design Course, where you’ll discover that you can be a part of the solution to current world problems.
- Spread the word. Share this post with your family and friends. Follow our and other permaculture sites. Find out about permaculture groups in your area.
- Reduce the environmental impact of your life, improve your economic security and increase the health and vitality of yourself and your family by transforming your back yard.
Permaculture is a rapidly growing movement - a science of sustainable design systems for all human need. Don’t get left behind!
This is very exciting. Your locations are exciting too. I wonder whether you have interest in doing another North American site. There are permaculturists working on an Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota. Though I haven’t been there yet, I want to support them. I would be delighted to help make the connection if this is an option.
Comment by Shodo Spring — June 30, 2008 @ 7:48 am
Hi Shado Spring, the Permaculture Research Institute USA, the newly formed sister nonprofit to PRI Australia, is interested in MN rez projects. I, am a director, along with Geoff Lawton, for PRI-USA. Please email me at permacultureusa@gmail.com asap. I live in Minnesota.
Comment by Nichole Ross — July 1, 2008 @ 1:55 am
I’m digging the plan and want to help out in North America as well. I’m a designer living in Iowa and wish to get linked up with other people currently working on big projects. I’ve been apart of small workshops and “Introductions to Permaculture” but I feel I need more experience to take my impact the next level. Food prices are waking people up and new ideas of low cost, natural building are catching on as well. Just graduated college and am open to anything, need any help in Minnesota? Also, is there a national headquarters in the USA? Where can an Iowan go during the winter months to learn new skills? All the best, Kyle.
Comment by Kyle Sieck — July 4, 2008 @ 12:21 am
Wonderful development of a global network of practicing permaculture facilities in different bioregions. These regional facilities can serve as clearinghouses for teaching/learning resources pertinent to the bioregions. The permaculture centres worldwide master plan is indeed an exciting and excellent step towards solutions needed now. Bravo!!
Our Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM) at U. Wisconsin-Stevens Point has conducted three PDC courses and one keyline design training activity with the help of Geoff and Nadia Lawton and Darren Doherty. GEM staff are planning to offer the PDC again in summer 2009. We are happy to connect and interact with the Minnesota permaculture effort for cold climate applications. Fun and fabulous!
Comment by Victor Phillips — July 18, 2008 @ 1:12 am
Hello,
What I can do suggestion #1 - “Donate”. Is this sustainable. Why not make the money to apply to these issues? think outside the square . . . or perhaps in it by preparing a business plan to generate the funds to get the job done.
I am very concerned about the very idea of “solutions”. After co-teaching the first and PDC courses in the Amazon I published an article (My Bungle in the Jungle - PC Quarterly Magazine). I have now found that involving people in discovering their own solutions is much more sustanable and with much greater outcomes.
I am on a different tack which has allowed me recently to secure 500 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest to transfer to its resident comunity of 800 and make a profit to carry forward in to the next project.
No donations. No solutions. Just applying sound business principle to vital issues to generate the restorative economy . . . the biggest opportunity you may never even heard of. You will.
C’ya,
Cymon Fjell
Comment by Cymon Fjell — September 7, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
hey cymon, do u have a website. what is this different track u are on?
camelia
Comment by camelia — September 12, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
Could someone get this post to Geoff Lawton?
My partner and I want to support the roll out of Permaculture Centres around the world as outlined in GL’s video.
We want to donate via direct debit on a monthly basis (we are Australian residents). We don’t do credit cards or PayPal.
We previously donated to charities operating in developing countries but we have become disenchanted with their failure to achieve enduring improvement.
We have switched our donation focus to micro-finance and social entrepreneur initiatives. The self sustaining nature of the programme GL described fits our criteria.
Comment by James — October 14, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Hi, Your projects are amazing. I am quite impressed with what I see. What do you have that would help in a High Cold Desert, as in Utah, in the Great Basin. A plant list would be extremely helpful. Also my land is over 600 feet of alluvial granular fill. Water loss through absorption is as bad or worse than loss from evaporation.
Comment by David Remkes — October 20, 2008 @ 10:46 am
Hello to Camelia and partner,
I am an Australian citizen (was for years a resident) and my project is one of those listed on the worldwide masterplan for permaculture sites. It is called the Tamalalou Guinea Site.
I am working in a community setting in Guinea, West Africa, and have the land and the will, with an extended Guinean family, to build a housing prototype and training centre for sustainable housing, permaculture and other sustainable health necessities (such as water catchment and composting toilets). We are certainly looking for funding to begin. If you have any interest in a project in Africa, please contact me through Geoff Lawton.
Thank-you, Mardi
Comment by Mardi Kendall — November 3, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
Hello,
I’m a Permaculture Deisgner and Teacher here in the Pacific NW where we’ve lost over 87% of the Chill Temperate Rainforest. Our organization - Dancing Spirits Permaculture - is actively developing community and homestead sites here as Permaculture Design projects and workshops. We’d like to be one of your official centers in the network you are proposing, though we are
not seeking need based funding. We are trying to convert “first-world” citizens to a sustainable, permaculture lifestyle while repairing/reforesting our own local rainforest as a food and medicine forest. Anyone interested can contact us through the design-consultancy http://www.panearthdesigns.com
Blessings & Balance
Bruce Weiskotten for Dancing Spirits Permaculture
Comment by Bruce Weiskotten — November 4, 2008 @ 3:52 am
Hello, i’m a journalism student, working on my final paper. Im member of the Permacultural Net on Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil and im interested in knowing witch year the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia began. I’d be glad to recieve your answer as soon as possible, so i dont loose this important fact on my research on Permaculture’s story.
Thank you in advance,
Mari
Comment by Mariana Monteiro — November 17, 2008 @ 8:13 am
Hi Mariana
we first began in 1997.
Comment by Geoff Lawton — November 17, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
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