Updated 7 August 2014

Here we are collecting a range of resources for Permaculture students and practitioners, made available over the past 6 years of offering the Permaculture Design Certificate Course (the ‘PDC’) yearly at Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

New!  The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Handbook by Graham Bell 

• Microsoft docx (12.6 Mb)
• High resolution pdf (warning! 37.5 Mb)

The Weather in Cloughjordan (Weather Underground)

New! The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Timetable (V1.2)

Cloughjordan Wood-fired Bakery (get your breakie bread fresh!)

Presentations:

• David Holmgren’s Essence of Permaculture
• Graham Strouts – Energy
• Ben Whelan – Resilience
• Albert Bates – Biochar
• Davie Philip – An Introduction to Permaculture
• Eileen Flanagan – Aquaculture
• Eileen Flanagan – Green and Natural Building
• Graham Bell – An Introduction to Permaculture
• Graham Bell – Bugs in the Garden
• Graham Bell – Business Priorities for Transport
• Graham Bell – Creating and Maintaining Fertility
• Graham Bell – Ethylene Oxygen Cycle
• Graham Bell – My Path into Permaculture
• Graham Bell – Patterns
• Graham Bell – Permaculture : A Personal Journey
• Graham Bell – So You Want to Make a Community Garden
• Graham Bell – Twenty Five Years of Permaculture in Scotland

Videos:

• Professor Al Bartlett  – Discussions of the Exponential Function
• Richard Douthwaite – Emergency? What Emergency?
• Geoff Lawton – Permaculture Master Plan
• Martin Crawford – (article and video) Forest Gardening

Share by Participants

• Marian Farrell – Ram Pumps

Shared by Previous Course Tutors 

The 2013 Permaculture Design Course Handbook (includes species list)

Albert Bates recommends… (books, videos, etc.)

Graham Strouts recommends… (books, contacts, centres, nurseries, etc.)

Links / Linkages

Permaculture Networking in Europe

• European Permaculture Teachers’ Partnership
  • PLANT (Permaculture Learning Action Networking & Training)
    • UK LAND Network
    • DK LAND Network
  • Permaculture College of Europe
  • Children in Permaculture
  • PLAN (Permaculture Learning Action Network)
• Apprenticing and Mentoring
• The All-Ireland Permaculture Gathering

Free / Libre Open Knowledge 

• Open Source Ecology
• Open Everything Convergence – Cloughjordan, Sept 2014
• P2P Foundation
• WeCreate

Ecovillages

• Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
• Global Ecovillage Network Europe
• The Village – Cloughjordan
  • Cloughjordan Community Farm
  • Django’s Hostel
  • WeCreate

Transition

• Transition Network
• Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ireland

• IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association)
• GIY (Grow It Yourself)
• Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability)
• Cultivate
• Sustainable Ireland
• Éasca (Environmental and Sustainable Construction Association
• PHAI (Passive House Association of Ireland)
• Re-dress Better Fashion Initiative

Finance

• The Moneyless Manifesto
• Street Bank
• Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability)
• Permacredits
• New Economics Foundation