permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

There is already a certifying body in the US. In 1997 Bill Mollison and Scott 
Pittman founded the Permaculture Institute USA, a 501c3 non-profit based in 
New Mexico. Scott is director. I am one of the field directors, and I use 
their certificates. As a field director I also mentor people through the 
diploma process. PI-USA has given out a good number of diplomas and many 
hundreds of certificates. Scott doesn't make too much noise about it, but 
they've been quietly doing this work for 15 years. Their main page for 
diplomas and professional practice is at

http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/professional_practise_pages

Apparently they haven't been making enough noise if no one knows about them. 
Scott wouldn't mind some help.

PINA was re-started by Jude Hobbs. it was long ago founded by Sego Jackson, 
and went dormant about 20 years ago.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com


On Feb 26, 2013, at 7:31 PM, spiralridgepermaculture@gmail.com wrote:

> PINA is Permaculture Institute of North America.  It is suppose to be up 
> and running soon.  Still waiting.  I agree with Darrell that we need not 
> enforce standards but we do need them. 
> 
> Connected by Motorola
> 
> venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/26/2013 9:09 PM, spiralridgepermaculture@gmail.com wrote:
>>> This is crazy.  I pray that PINA can get up and running soon.  I do not 
>>> like this at all.
>> 
>> What is PINA?
>> 
>> To make matters worse Larry Korn, editor of a Fukuoka book has created 
>> the beginnings of an online permaculture course with videos in 
>> collaboration with that regenerawhatsis scambabble group trying to
>> use a kickstarter or indiegogo to fund an online permaculture course. 
>> The http://www.indiegogo.com/OpenPermaculture fundraiser has been taken 
>> offline. I guess they took the money and ran.
>> 
>> After all this I can't imagine anyone complaining about enforcing 
>> standards for permaculture, teaching, consultng or otherwise using it to 
>> earn a livelihood.
>> 
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