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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In this third session of the PDC course we cover the topics of Needs & Function Products Analysis, Zone Planning, Sector Planning, Patterns, and Edge. We start the day talking about symbols, words and meaning; and why is so important to understand concepts. We listen to an Audio Clip that speak
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Day 3: We opened with a gratitude circle and today I was grateful for the long walk I had this morning. We took our seats and gathered around as Slav played a recording of John Trudell, a political activist and poet. In the Permaculture Design Course at Common Circle we of course learn about the [..
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This is the second class/workshop in a series of twelve. This second session of the PDC course was very dynamic and every one of the more than 13 apprentices had the chance of verbalize their ideas and points of view. The dynamic start with a brief checking of last week remarkable moments, my partne
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We started the day off with a gratitude circle. Today I was particularly grateful for my roomies making me breakfast this morning. We then did the elm dance but this time we said out loud names of places and people that we thought needed healing. Thousands of people around the world have done this s
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Another great class! First off, I would just like to say how much I really appreciate the interactive style of this course. I not only found today’s material to be engaging, but also it provided enough context and verbal exploration to take the ideas outside of the classroom. Often times, I find t
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Some introductory concepts and basic terms of permaculture that we cover in the first class were really general and easy to understand and I found my self really familiar with them. We learned and discussed the how’s and why’s of or present environmental disaster stage (situation) and so
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Riding my bike to the first PDC class on Saturday morning I was both excited and anxious. Half asleep, I thought to myself, why had I thought it was a good idea to take this class right now? I was swamped with 20 different projects and priorities and I was starting to wonder if committing [...]
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We began the class by standing in a circle and holding hands. We were instructed to each say our name and what we were grateful for at that moment. Hearing what everyone was thankful for was a great way to introduce ourselves and start off the day in a positive way. Then we did a [...]
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Class notes by Ron S. The first thing that I noticed is that the class seems to be shrinking. The other thing I noticed is the people who keep showing up are excited, motivated. I love being in a learning environment like this. There is no one here who is just going through the motions. [...]
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