2008 Summer Permaculture Design Certificate Course

With Toby Hemenway and Larry Santoyo • August 16-29, 2008
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch • Woodbourne, New York in the Catskills

Permaculture Design Summer 2008

A Certificate Course for Urban and Rural Residents, Planners, Land Managers & Design Professionals. This training covers the fundamentals of ecological design, given by two of the country's most experienced permaculture instructors, and many local guests. Join us at a rural retreat center near Woodbourne, New York. Upon completion, attendees will receive a Permaculture Design Trainee Certificate from the Permaculture Institute.

Course topics include:

  • Re-Localizing Food Production
  • Organizing Eco-Neighborhoods
  • Simple Steps Toward Sustainable Lifestyles and Communities
  • Natural Building & Property Development
  • Adding Beauty & Value to Your Home
  • Strategies for Energy Descent & Peak Oil
  • Green Business Strategies and Finding your Right-Livelihood Career

Who should take this course: The Permaculture Design Course has transformed the lives and enhanced the careers of thousands of architects, landscapers, community developers, social workers, city planners, teachers, students, farmers, gardeners, homeowners, business owners and others. It's for anyone serious about creating a sustainable future! Permaculture principles apply to any scale of design, to highly urbanized areas, suburbs, and rural communities and properties.

Teachers

Toby Hemenway

TOBY HEMENWAY is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is Director of the Center for Pattern Literacy and Field Director for the Permaculture Institute (USA). Toby is the former editor of Permaculture Activist Magazine, and his articles have appeared in Fine Gardening, Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and other national magazines.

Larry Santoyo

LARRY SANTOYO is Vice President of the Permaculture Institute (USA), Co-director of The Terra Foundation, and is the founder of the MicroVillage Network. He has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide including UC Berkeley and California State PolyTechnic University. For over twenty years, he has assisted private individuals in the design and construction of "Home Ecosystems" and has assisted companies in developing industrial ecologies and sustainable business practices.

 

PLUS local experts and guest speakers to be announced.

Cost:

  Room Apartment
  Tent *Shared *Double **Shared *Private
Tuition $850 $850 $850 $850 $850
Ashram $600$720$840$900$1020
Total $1450 $1570 $1690 $1750 $1870

* Shared Bathroom; ** with bath, 2 or more persons

Make tuition and deposit checks out to “Green Phoenix Permaculture.”

The Ashram will contact you separately for your choice of accommodation which includes vegetarian meals and optional yoga classes before and after the class day. A hearty snack will be provided during the class day, as well.

Tuition and Ashram fees include all classes, course handouts, your choice of facilities, vegetarian meals, and optional yoga classes.

Note: $250 non-refundable deposit required to guarantee your space.

Directions

Where: Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch • Woodbourne, N.Y. Woodbourne is located in the Catskills near Monticello, about 100 miles north of NYC.

By Car Take 87N (the NY Thruway) to exit 16 (Hwy 17 West, the first Catskills exit), to Monticello exit 105B (Hwy 42N), and go 12 miles north to Woodbourne. At Woodbourne continue straight 3/4 miles on 52 to Budd Road (behind the Woodbourne Fire Station), on the left. The Yoga Ranch is 2.5 miles up Budd Road, on the right.

Passenger Van Leaves every Friday at 6pm from New York Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center at 243 W. 24th Street in Manhattan. Returns Sunday afternoon. Costs $60 round-trip, $35 one-way. Please call (845) 436-6492 to make a reservation.

Shortline Bus From NY Port Authority to Woodbourne (change buses in Monticello). Call the ashram before your departure and from Woodbourne to be picked up.

Scholarship Fund

Though this course has been purposely made affordable, it is still not affordable to everyone. We will gladly accept tax deductable donations to assist others atteding this certification course.

Contact

Sean Maley

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