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) ...

direct mini-link >> www.bit.ly/EPTacademyPres We were delighted to have an opportunity, at the end of May 2014, to be invited to participate in one of the  European Permaculture Teachers' Partnership workshop on Inclusion, via internet connection. This is Sandra (one of the participants in our workshop who helped to include us in the meeting) showing some of the results of a widening participation for permaculture courses survey that the EPT Partnership conducted.  << Click picture for article of that day's work. We hadn't been able to go to any of the EPT site-meetings because it required a lot of travel which we aren't able to engage in, as all of us who are involved in the core team of the Academy are mostly locally-based permaculture activists doing intensive projects at home.    Which describes quite well also the kinds of students we tend to attract, as we explained in this 12 minutes presentation about Inclusion for perma...

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 focus this first newsletter of the year on our students , who are constantly delighting us with their exciting evolutionary steps & with their beautiful artistic creations. Here are 5 articles written by some new sailors that have joined our Butterfly Ship* recently - & you can see more Testimonials here . *(we used this metaphor in the presentation we did a few years ago in the video with which we launched the PDC+++ ) The first steps for the crew when they're starting on the courses, include practicing editing their online design portfolios by discussing the free conferences we offer under 0. Free Self-Study Courses , so in this newsletter you can also navigate with them through some of the big self-learning resources we offer to everyone.                 by Victor M. in Córdoba My new "integral" adventure Article by Juan F, in Granada I've thought a lot about doing this course. Lots o...