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...

We start another round  of free online conferences   about the most important issues of our times, with - possibly - the most critical of all:   Collective Intelligence, And as designers we ask:  How do we design for it? This conference was recorded in June 2012 & in 2014 we made it more interactive as Free Mini-Course D. This was the second  series of free conferences about Integral Permaculture science offered by NodoEspiral of the Permaculture Academy. Having completed most of the hard work of getting our quite unique & very comprehensive set of Integral Permaculture action-learning courses under way (yes, we're very proud of them :) we made some space in our schedules to offer another series. This is in part because we loved how popular they proved first time we run these, over a year ago, but especially because it is so critically important now when more & more people wake up to the realizatio...