Integral Permaculture Academy

The Mission of the Academy is to offer high quality training in Permaculture Design.    To that end we have created a series of unique action learning programs in Integral Permaculture which cover all aspects that we need to understand (& especially how to connect them all) for a transition toward a sustainable society. For this reason we especially enjoy making ever more accessible & inclusive this wonderful science which is so critically important today, & we are delighted now to have these three free initiatives to broadcast this knowledge as widely as possible:     *** NEW *** The Integral PermaCulture Designers' Manual online, started in Spanish in 2007, now bilingual, to which we are constantly adding new multimedia content. The Study Circles Network , launched with 6 groups during 2012, in which we are currently experimenting with various designs, like PermaVerano (currently only in Spanish) ...

We celebrated  International PermaCulture Day again, with a bilingual talk (in English & Spanish) that takes an integral perspective on this year's topic: Food Freedom  - now available as one of our series of free mini-courses -  (CourseB) On Sunday the 4th of May we started exploring this important topic in a more integral (radical, & for some, controversial) way than usual, exploring these different facets: We had a great conference during which we  questioned as many  permacuture 'holy cows' as possible   (which we called 'holy legumes' for the purpose of this conference, for reasons that will be revealed!) in order to evolve the dialogue  that we believe has gotten a little too stuck around 'do gardening' as a proposed solution to the most pressing problems we face today, like climate-change. We don't believe it comes even close, & that more realis...

Between 20 & 22 June Summer Solstice occurs for the northern hemisphere,  & winter solstice for the southern hemisphere of this wonderful blue-green planet.   We traditionally celebrate this with a newsletter as one of the most beautiful things that we learn as we advance as permaculture students is to become much more aware of natural cycles.     This is a time that is celebrated in different ways but in all cultures that carry an  ancestral awareness of earth-rythms, because it is the  day of the year in which the sun starts to descend or ascend (northern & southern hemisphere perspectives respectively) in it's visible path in relation to our horizon: we're half-way through the year. We have been very busy with our mission of teaching Integral Permaculture so we take a pause at this mid point on the wheel of the year to share some news. The Solstice The  Noche de San Juan  in Spa...