By Maddy Harland | Wednesday, 13th March 2013 | Reprinted with permission | Original found here
2013 August PDC in Cloughjordan with Albert Bates
We are happy to announce our 5th straight year of hosting a fully-accredited (by UK Permaculture Association) Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Cloughjordan’s Ecovillage. Join us from 9 – 18 August 2013 for this changing-the-game event of a lifetime. The main course tutor will be Albert Bates! All details are on Cultivate’s main website.
2012 PDC Images
Have you seen Goska and Gudrun’s brilliant photos of the 2012 PDC? Check them out on our Images Page. The slideshow at top right of this site shows some previews of the images in our gallery.
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Cultivate’s 10-day Permaculture Certificate Course Confirmed for August 2012
We are excited to announce details about our 4th Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Cloughjordan’s Ecovillage from 17 – 26 August 2012. See here for the latest.
200 Photos of the August 2011 PDC in Cloughjordan
200 photos by Goska Smierzchalska in our image gallery here.
Straw houses are baling out council building plans
By Cath Harris
Reprinted from guardian.co.uk,
Building houses from straw is proving an attractive proposition to some councils and residents, thanks to their energy efficiency
Sharon Watkins wasn’t the first to be offered one of two new council houses in an isolated village in Lincolnshire. “Other people refused and I could have said no because I don’t drive and it’s in the middle of nowhere,” she recalls.
2011 Full Immersive Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Join us at Ireland’s EcoVillage, 19th – 28th August 2011, for a fully accredited, immersive, cutting edge ‘ PDC ‘ (Permaculture Design Certificate Course). All detail on www.cultivate.ie.
2011 Island-Wide Permaculture Gathering
A new island-wide Permaculture Gathering will take place in at a beautiful site at the base of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Co. Wicklow from the 12-14th August 2011. Our goal is to organize a weekend camp of anywhere from 80-200 people in a private location to support the growing number of Permaculturists in Ireland by… Read more
Permaculture Resources
- Permaculture Intro (from zone5.org)
- Peak Oil Intro (from zone5.org)
- David Holmgren’s PC Principles
- Martin Crawford’s article and video on forest gardening
- Ray Taylor’s Rainwater Harvesting
- Richard Douthwaite’s Emergency? What Emergency?
- Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Master Plan
2010 PDC Photos on Facebook
Permaculture Presentations
- Graham Strouts – Energy
- Ben Whelan – Resilience
- Professor Al Bartlett – Discussions of the Exponential Function
- Albert Bates – Biochar
If you want a higher resolution version of a Permaculture presentation to be sent by email, please contact us.
Interesting
Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium
Biochar article from Climate Progress – a respectable US Climate Science site – about different biochar experiments around the world. It estimates potential for carbon capture at around 12%, but focuses on potential for soil enhancement and also notes different qualities depending on materials used.
Albert recommends…
- The Karma of Kerma: Nuclear Wastes and Natural Rights
- Redesigning the World: Ethical Questions about Genetic Engineering
- The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written For Television?
- The W. Edwards Deming System of Profound Knowledge
- Continue reading
Graham recommends…
Contacts, Centres, Nurseries
The Hollies Centre for Sustainability | Castletown, Enniskeane, Co. Cork | 023-47001 | Permaculture and natural building courses throughout the year
Cultivate | The Greenhouse, St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 (map) | www.cultivate.ie | Ireland’s hub for sustainability. Conferences, courses, workshops and events throughout the year
Transition Towns Ireland | transitiontownsireland.ning.com
The Village | Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary | www.thevillage.ie | Ireland’s first eco-village
Feasta – The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability | 159 Lower Rathmines Road Dublin 2 | feasta.org | 01-4912773/ 01-4912203 | feasta@anu.ie