For the first half of class today Kevin Danaher, author of the Local Green Economy, co-founder of Global Exchange and Executive Co-Producer of Green Festivals, came to talk to us about business and green jobs. Most businesses, he told us, have a �business extraction model� where they �extract
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As each week goes by in this course, it’s hard for me to believe, but I am inspired and proactive more and more about living out and exploring the principals I have learned in this permaculture course. This week’s class on natural building really got me interested in this topic—I’ve already
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Today we talked about urban farming and planting. In the first half of class Saundra introduced us to the different aspects of urban farming. First we talked about the differences between urban and rural farming and things we have to keep in mind when farming in urban environments. The fact that urb
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*Permaculture Design Certification Course* *Ninth Class* *This is the ninth class/workshop in a series of twelve.* *Samuel Morales-Cotto* * * Although there are still such pockets of productivity left in the developing world, the modern need for more commercial�pushed food-growing beyond the outsk
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I really enjoyed the simplicity and approachability of this week’s class. Learning and talking about gardening, agriculture, and things of the like made me really remember that you can do something very simple and small like growing as much of your own food as possible and have a huge impact in ou
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This past week’s class on bioregionalism and the tour of the Berkeley “ecohouse” was wonderful. The first part of the class on food storage and bioregionalism was great. I had only heard of “bioregionalism” in passing before, so it was interesting to learn more about this connect, although
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Day 8 Today Sacha Verbean was our guest speaker and she came to talk about Natural Building. She is one of the founders of Vertical Clay Construction. First she talked about the bigger picture like, for example, she showed us different pictures of villages, towns, and cities and we were asked to det
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Today was soil day! For the first half of the class, Jay Ma, our guest speaker, came out again to talk a bit about fantastic life of Fungi and Soil. I walked into class today hardly knowing a single thing about mushrooms and left feeling so inspired! I immediately bought Paul Stamet�s book entitle
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This is the fourth class/workshop in a series of twelve. Samuel Morales-Cotto The main topics covered in this lesson were Soil and Mushrooms. Our morning began with a really simple and enjoyable activity: everyone had to share one silly thing from their memories; many mentioned their childhood silli
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I can’t believe that we are half way done with the course already! Once again, I truly enjoyed this past week’s class. I think that Sandra does a fabulous job of making the material interesting and accessible. There is nothing better than spending a morning learning and talking about humanure, g
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