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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

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Permacltur@aol.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:46:20 EDT
Subject: 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online
To:
Please post and/or announce


Elfin Permaculture Announces
12th Annual Online Course

Elfin Permaculture's 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online, which begins Oct. 14, 2005, culminates a dozen years 
of the online courses and more than a quarter century of teaching permaculture.

The deadline for scholarship applications is Aug. 1 each year. Otherwise, students may register at any time. Students 
who are fully paid before the cycle begins receive a $100 discount.

Persons interning at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center during the course cycle may monitor the course at no charge. 
Monitoring is free with purchase of the course CD self-study version, or the full self-study reading package. See the 
Course Protocol, on our web site, for details.

The certificate course runs six months and includes the following learning 
approaches:

o extensive reading in books, papers, both in print and on the course CD-ROM;
o 21 modules of at least one week, mainly presented on the CD, representing 
the formal presentations of course instructors;
o at least four reports from each student, including a full permaculture 
design report;
o class discussion via email of readings and reports, as well as questions 
and issues raised by students or instructors;
o the opportunity to participate in student study groups where interested students can pursue any agreed-upon topic as 
long as they wish;
o support for students by three instructors: Dan Hemenway (USA), course designer leader; Cynthia Hemenway CNM (USA), 
designer and discussion leader for a special week on Design for Health, and Dr. Willem Smuts (South Africa), an earth 
scientist who has contributed to each of the previous course cycle, currently as discussion leader

The online course consists of three consecutive sections, plus work on a permaculture design which students undertake 
throughout the cycle in which they are registered. Samples of student design work are included in the course CD.

Registration is limited because of the time required to review and critique individual designs. To enable more students 
to participate, students may enroll in a fast track, 2-cycle track, or deliberate track, each with different design 
report deadlines.

Content of the course sections follow:

Section 1: Introduction and Basic Principles
a) World ecological problems and interrelationships.
b) Principles of natural design.
c) Permaculture design concepts.
d) Classical landscapes.
e) Patterning, edges, edge effects.
f) The Permaculture Design Report
g) Principles of transformation (Unique to Elfin Permaculture courses.).

Section 2: Appropriate Technologies in Permaculture Design
a) Energy--solar, wind, hydro, biomass, etc.
b) Nutrient cycles--soil, microclimates, gardening methods, perennials, tree crops, food parks, composting toilets, 
livestock, "pest" management, food storage, seed saving, cultivated systems, forests, etc.
c) Water--impoundments, aquaculture, conservation, etc.
d) Shelter/buildings and access.
e) Design for Health (NEW in 2000)

Section 3: Social permaculture. Design Report.
a) Design for catastrophe.
b) Urban permaculture.
c) Bioregionalism.
d) Alternative economics.
e) Village development.
f) Final design reports and critiques.
g) Final evaluation.

Online course participants have come from every continent on Earth and a number of island countries, from latitudes 
spanning the equatorial tropics to sub-arctic, and a comparable range of elevations, etc.. The course is suited to 
beginning permaculture design students, people seeking support in producing a permaculture design for their own homes, 
and, by special arrangement, people with some permaculture experience who wish work in advanced areas. Successful 
students receive certification as entry-level permaculturists. Advanced students pay no extra, but are expected to be 
additional resources to the regular students.

To review information about the course methodology, content, certification requirements, tuition & fees, registration 
process, scholarship policies, reading list & cost, and assignment schedule, download the course preregistration package 
from our web site, www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

From the same site, prospective students may downolad a copy of the Course CD Contents Table. The course CD includes 
more than 300 separate items, including papers, data bases, weekly teaching modules, samples of design work, and other 
resources.

Donations are needed to support additional scholarships and to provide reading materials to scholarship students. (We 
cannot include these in our scholarships.) Inquire at BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com or send contributions to Barking Frogs 
Permaculture Center, PO Box 69, Sparr FL 32192-0069 USA. Please include the term “permaculture� in the subject field 
when sending email to us.

Elfin Permaculture is a project of Barking Frogs Permaculture Center operated 
by Dan and Cynthia Hemenway.

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To Editors: Permaculture publications, media, and closely allied publications may request a review copy the latest 
version (5.x) of the course CD for self-study by sending an email to Dan Hemenway at Permacltur@aol.com This version is 
substantially enlarged and refined from the review version we distributed at the inception of this online approach to 
the Permaculture Design Course. The self-study version omits a few files restricted to certificate course students, but 
is substantially the same otherwise.


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Barking Frogs Permaculture Center


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Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

Our 12th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online begins Oct. 14, 2007. The protocol for our Annual Permaculture Design 
Course Online is at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/P...df

A complete list of Yankee Permaculture publications by category may be 
downloaded from:

www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Y...df



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