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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Online permaculture design clinic
  • Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:16:03 -0500

Elfin Permaculture at the Barking Frogs Permaculture Center begins the first cycle of its new Online Design Clinic, Sept. 14, 2008.

This Online Design Clinic serves people who wish to receive support in the permaculture design process for their own homes. The clinic runs as a moderated 'listserve' type discussion group with scheduled topics following the format of our Permaculture Design Course Online. Anyone who is designing his/her home can participate in this program by paying tuition and completing the registration form. The program runs about six months.

The principal advantage to participating in the clinic is to obtain design support and consulting at a cost substantially less than comparable consulting by a professional permaculture designer. Because the entire group of clinic participants can critique designs, provide information, and make suggestions, including access to a highly qualified permaculture teacher, a much broader range of views, information and resources is available for consideration in each design effort than would be available from a single consultant.

The give and take discussion enables exploration of each idea far more fully than otherwise likely. Participants with permaculture certificates, in particular, gain opportunities for advanced work in supporting others in their personal designs.

The clinic is not certificate course, but rather complements such programs. The clinic offers more intensive design experience than possible in the certificate course. There are three levels of participation: Targeted Support, Class Design Support, and Full Design Support, each with a different tuition payment. Design elements for Targeted Support participants are reviewed by the class as part of the discussion. Class Design Support participants have their design discussed by the class and reviewed with detailed comments by Robert Waldrop. Full Design Support partipants receive "all of the above" plus a detailed review with comments by Elfin Permaculture founder Dan Hemenway.

More information is available at http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Clinic1.htm .

The moderator/discussion leader for the course is Bob Waldrop, of Oklahoma City. Bob is the president of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, www.oklahomafood.coop, which links urban customers with rural producers. He is one of the founders of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network, www.ok-sustainability.org. He publishes the Better Times Almanac of Useful Information at irregular intervals. He began to self-study permaculture in 1999, and has been involved with the Barking Frogs Permaculture Online PDC since 2005. He moderates numerous online discussion groups, including runningonempty2@yahoogroups.com, which has 7300 members and has been discussing Peak Oil since 2001. He is the founder of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House, which supports food security by promoting permaculture and delivering food to people in need who don't have transportation.

Dan Hemenway is the founder and lead designer of Elfin Permaculture at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center. He received permaculture training from Bill Mollison, permaculture movement founder, in 1981. Dan previously developed systems similar to permaculture that he had taught disadvantaged teenagers from 1978-81. After three years teaching permaculture, sustainable horticulture, and related topics to prison inmates (1981-1983), he founded what became The International Permaculture Solutions Journal (1983). From 1978-83 he was a leader in the Massachusetts food self-reliance movement. In 1983, Mollison named him one of three North Americans then certified to teach the full Permaculture Design Course.

In 1984, Dan taught the first such course given in Mexico. Since then, he has conducted hundreds of permaculture programs worldwide, often introducing permaculture to 'new' regions. In 1983, he received the Conservation Award from Friends of Nature and in 1984, the Community Service Award from International Permaculture Institute, which awarded him five advanced diplomas the next year. In 1987, he founded the Permaculture Education Project and taught permaculture around the world. In 1991, Dan accepted an invitation to the Roots of the Future NGO conference in Paris, that contributed suggestions to the Earth Summit later held in Brazil. In 1996, Permaculture Foundation/Network Kenya, named him honorary chairman. And, in 1996, he was listed in the 1996-97 edition Who's Who in America. Dan has also founded the Forest Ecosystem Rescue Network, published dozens of permaculture publications, authored many permaculture articles, served on boards of several related groups, and given talks, courses, and keynote addresses worldwide. Most recently, he designed a permaculture design course online which he has taught for 12 years.

Please feel free to pass this announcement along to others who may be interested.




  • [permaculture] Online permaculture design clinic, Robert Waldrop, 05/14/2008

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