The New Permaculture Research Institute 10-Week Internship Program
Courses/Workshops — by Geoff Lawton November 29, 2009
At Zaytuna Farm here in NSW, Australia, we have been running a few variations of internships over the years, mostly on a very casual basis. The interest and enquiries continue to grow – especially focused on the need to gain experience as quickly as possible so that students, after taking the Permaculture Design Certificate course, can move into a professional permaculture career in design, consultancy and teaching in both international consultancy and project work. To this end, we’ve now created a higher quality curriculum-based internship program that covers a wide range of permaculture subjects, that are studied in depth over 10 weeks.
The new internship program is run three times per year, each beginning just after the first three PDCs end. The base requirement is that interns have taken a recognized PDC somewhere in the world. If a prospective intern has not completed a PDC, they can simply take one with us, then continue on with the ten week internship after that is complete.
Look for the internship indicator in our course listings to see more details.
Snippets of footage from the July 2009 Earthworks Course
Thanks to John Alexander Ericson and Misty Music AB for the music
Permaculture Main Crops of Special Importance – Salad Mallow
Food Plants - Annual, Recipes — by Geoff Lawton May 6, 2009
Salad Mallow (Corchorus olitorius)
(Mulaheyah, Egyptian Spinach, Jews Mallow)
Salad Mallow was the first name I knew for this amazing plant and it arrived into our extremely diverse selection of kitchen garden zone one crops in a seed packet from Shipards Herb Farm, Nambour, Queensland, Australia. Isabell Shipard has been a good friend, fellow permaculturist, and an incredible wealth of knowledge on herbs and useful plants for over 25 years – therefore, this little packet of seeds came from a very trusted source and, as usual, came with an information sheet that made it sound like it could possibly be a valuable addition if it was going to be reasonably easy to grow.
Report on our Iranian Consultancy Trip of December 2008
Aid Projects, Compost, Conservation, Courses/Workshops, Dams, Developments, Earth Banks, Gabions, Land, News, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Soil Conservation, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Swales, Trees, Water Harvesting — by Geoff Lawton February 24, 2009
Editor’s Note: Iran has been making headlines in the media a great deal over the last few years. Here’s a side to the story you don’t normally get to hear, as experienced by our own Geoff Lawton.
We are applying Permaculture techniques to restore the landscape
in the hottest place on the planet
In December 2008 it was our great pleasure and honour to be invited to Iran to work for the Forest Rangeland Watershed Management Organisation, originally formed in 1928 (see Word doc on their work here). We were working with different departments of the organisation, like the Sand Dune Fixation Department that was formed in 1958 for the Bureau of Desert Affairs. All of this falls under the central government’s main organisation of Jihad Agriculture Ministry. We were invited to teach a 10-day Permaculture course focusing mainly on desert rehabilitation.
Comments (8)BIll Mollison And Geoff Lawton At It Again!
Courses/Workshops — by Geoff Lawton June 3, 2008
It’s on again!
Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton will once again teach the full Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Trinity College, Melbourne University . This is a 12 day, 72 hours Permaculture Design Certificate Course. It commence on Monday the 22nd of September 2008 and runs through to Saturday the 4th October 2008.
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Permaculture Design For Islands with Bill Mollison
Courses/Workshops — by Geoff Lawton May 5, 2008
This is a rare event and one that shouldn’t be missed. Having been born and reared on the island of Tasmania, Islands hold a special place in Bill’s heart and fascination. In this course Bill will focus on Permaculture Design for tropical and sub-tropical islands. This will be a wonderful experience to study and spend time with the founding father of Permaculture.
When: Wednesday, July 16 through to Saturday, July 19, 2008
Where: Bocas Del Toro, PANAMA
Cost: $1500 AUD
(includes accommodation & food)
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Journeys To Africa With Warren Brush
Aid Projects — by Geoff Lawton April 14, 2008
Warren Brush, a Permaculture designer and educator and the co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm has a blog about the work he is doing in Africa.
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PermacultureUSA.org Coming Soon
Events, Resources & News — by Geoff Lawton
A new website for The Permaculture Research Institute USA will be launching soon.
Comments (1)PermacultureJordan.org Coming Soon
News — by Geoff Lawton April 11, 2008
A new website for The Permaculture Research Institute Jordan will be launching soon.
Comments (0)International Permaculture Design Course With Geoff Lawton In NZ
Courses/Workshops — Tags: geoff lawton, Maori, new zealand, PDC, Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Permaculture Research Institute, PRI, Whitianga Marae — by Geoff Lawton
International Permaculture Design Course with Geoff Lawton, Rikirangi Gage, Kay Baxter, Bob Corker and Others.
International Permaculture Design Course
Whitianga Marae, Whitianga, Eastern Bay of Plenty, NZ
5th – 19th July, 2008
Tutors: Geoff Lawton, Rikirangi Gage, Kay Baxter, Bob Corker and Others.
Fee: $1200 inc gst (includes Maori accommodation and food)
PDC With Geoff Lawton At Quail Springs
Courses/Workshops — Tags: geoff lawton, PDC, Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Permaculture Research Institute, PRI, Quail Springs — by Geoff Lawton
Permaculture Design Certificate Course with Geoff Lawton at Quail Springs August 16-27, 2008
For more Information or to register contact:
info@quailsprings.org
1 (805)886-7239
quailsprings.org
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Permaculture design course with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, 7th-19th Jan 2008
Courses/Workshops — by Geoff Lawton December 4, 2007
Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton
Combine forces to teach the
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE COURSE
Monday 7th – Saturday 19th January 2008 • Melbourne University
“This course has already changed a lot of the world –
Come help us finish the job!” ~ Bill Mollison April 27, 2005
BILL MOLLISON, the legendary Permaculture teacher, promoter and designer – who, over 26 years of non-stop travelling, designing, teaching and writing, personally planted the seeds of Permaculture in over 120 countries. Bill is the founding director of The Permaculture Institute, the first and longest running Permaculture Institute in existence.
And
GEOFF LAWTON who is world renowned for field expertise and extensive teaching experience in the ecological “badlands” of Earth, areas of extreme cultural conflicts, as well as more friendly environments. Founding director of the acclaimed Permaculture Research Institute, Geoff is working in more countries and co-ordinating more projects on the ground than any other Permaculture Institute today.
Earth’s ecosystems are in crisis. Permaculture offers practical, sustainable solutions. You can be part of the exciting adventure of positive world change.
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Appropriate solutions to the challenge of Tanzania
Aid Projects — Tags: africa, aid, Tanzania — by Geoff Lawton November 19, 2007
When we arrived in Tanzania, just as when we arrive in most third world countries to do this kind of work, the most serious issues to deal with initially are firstly sanitation, toilet systems, then drinking water, then fire wood systems or sustainable fuel systems, then diverse interactive food production designs.
Tanzania was the same. We stayed in the same town of Musoma where we taught the course regularly visiting the main proposed project site in a village called Kinesi which is 45 minutes by taxi boat across Lake Victoria. This is where the NGO Global Resource Alliance main work focus is situated.
The PDC course was conducted in Swahili which has a lot of Arabic in it and so I could understand some of the Arabic words that were spoken. 40% of the Tanzanian population is Muslim and having worked in a lot of Muslim countries, understanding the culture was therefore easy for me. This helped me relate to the students and the local people in the area.
Comments (1)The challenge of Tanzania
Aid Projects — Tags: africa, aid, Tanzania — by Geoff Lawton November 9, 2007
Westerners don’t realise how big the problems are in most third world countries. To a large extent they are created by the promise of modernism. Greatest of these problems however in third world countries include
- a need for good diversity of food production of an eco systemic style
- good waste system design for grey water
- appropriate toilets
- garbage disposal methods
- good drinking water systems
- a sustainable fuel system.
To first world countries these things are important not just because of the momentary guilt we feel when we see those pretty little starving children on tv commercials asking us for donations, but because the most important promises of “modernism” can provide solutions that will save millions of lives (mostly chilren) and millions of dollars in aid.
Third world people need to fully understand their own problems and the problems of their own lands, and then how they can deal with it themselves without any outside help.
It comes down to a few basic but important things and when these are understood, Third World Populations can actually design their own solutions to their own problems.
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