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Permaculture For Professionals
18
April 2013, 10-4pm
This
program is co-sponsored by The Center for Sustainable Living, Bethlehem, CT.
and The New Morning Natural Food Store, Woodbury, CT. and will be held at the New Morning.
Registration deadline is 15 April 2013. Please visit www.connsoil.com for a registration form.
This training is for professional Planners, Architects,
Engineers and Landscape Architects who want to understand and incorporate
the principles and techniques of Permaculture Design into their practice.
Permaculture is an interdisciplinary design system that mimics principles of
ecology to meet human needs while increasing the health of the ecosystem.
In this training participants will gain knowledge in the
following outcomes:
- Understand
permaculture history, ethics, principles and language
- Identify
connections between social, cultural, environmental, and political
challenges
- Recognize
and analyze patterns found in society and the natural world
- Apply
whole systems thinking to problem solving through design
- Observe,
analyze, and assess a site to determine its resources and constraints
- Gain
knowledge of a whole systems design process
- Learn
techniques for clean water, soil, food production, buildings, and
economics
Most importantly we will work together to find leverage
points to incorporate this into the work that you are already doing.
Workshop Leaders:
Lisa DePiano is a certified permaculture designer/ teacher
and professional planner. She initiated Feed Northampton, one of the first Food Security
Plans in the country. She runs the Mobile Design Lab, which focuses on
participatory design and planning.
