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["Don" <ujgs2@4dirs.com>]

The Phoenix Permaculture Guild presents


The Holistic - Sustainability Design Course
(aka Permaculture Design Course)


What is this you ask?  Permaculture is a way of thinking and organizing 
intelligent ecological and ethical design. It does not focus on the elements 
of sustainability in themselves, for example the details of organic living, 
ecobuilding, appropriate technology, community building, green finance, or 
rainwater harvesting, but on the beneficial relationships between these 
elements. Further focusing on how they are put together to make them as 
energy efficient and sustaining as possible, for people, the planet and our 
ecosystem.


Permaculture (Holistic Sustainable Design) enhances our observation and 
understanding of natural patterns and universal principles. It teaches us to 
contemplate nature and natural systems and then to apply these ecological 
truisms to our own living environments.  (Partially excerpted from the 
Permaculture UK magazine editorial by Maddy Harland)


All this and more will be taught and learned at the Permaculture Design 
Course this coming spring here in Phoenix.   The course will be held on 
weekends, beginning January 27th (three weeks apart), with the final 
presentation day April 14th.  From the course you will build an understanding 
of holistic sustainable design that you can apply to your own space as well 
as the community.


The Phoenix Permaculture Guild with its numerous teachers have kept the cost 
as low as possible, while creating a versatile program. Four home sites will 
be hosts for each of the weekend classes plus other arranged trips and 
hands-on instruction.


This certificated course  (you will receive a Permaculture Design Course 
Certificate) is $650 with a $50 discount if a $100 deposit is received by 
December 31st 2006. For questions and/or an application form please  call Don 
at 480-962-6353 or email fdpc@4dirs.com.


For all the details of the course:  
http://www.permaculture.net/phxguild/course.html
To register online http://www.permaculture.net/phxguild/