permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Cory Brennan wrote:

> Every PDC I know of gives a certificate at the end of the course saying 
> "Permaculture Design Course" and none of them say "trainee." I was told by 
> my teacher that I should apprentice for minimum two years to become a 
> teacher, but not a designer.

Definitely get out and design, no matter whether you've taken a PDC or 
whatever. And design, and design some more. The issue is in calling oneself 
"certified," as the certificate is simply a certificate of completion of the 
PDC, not of certification as a designer (I'd hate to think there are 
certificates out there saying "certified Pc designer", but then, most people 
just make up their own. I use the one Mollison created, via the Permaculture 
Institute USA). It seems bizarre for someone who has done one team design 
project in a class to say they are a certified designer. 

And I totally agree that too many issues were begun in fairly vague terms by 
BIll. There are currently a number of efforts, in Oz, NZ, UK, and US, among 
others, to clarify them. The comments so far all suggest a high level of 
integrity, which is the saving grace for all this.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com

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