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Here's content details for the course running currently in the Hamilton/ Waikato area:
Modular Permaculture Design Certificate
- Philosophy and design
- Climate and Water
- Human Sphere
- Community Resilence
- Landscape and Site Assessment
- Large Animals and Forestry
- Small Animals and Orchards
- Soils and Gardening December
- Built Environments February
- Energy and Technology
- Urban Development
- Design presentations
A variety of sites throughout Waikato.
Contact Details:
Here is the information for the 2012 Permaculture Design Certificate run in the Hamilton/Waikato area. I'm doing the course this year:
Modular Permaculture Design Certificate
This permaculture design certificate will be run over 12 weekends throughout 2012. Each module beginning at 9am. & finishing at 5pm. The modules will be held at a variety of sites throughout the Waikato, enabling the participants to view different levels of permaculture in practice.
Participants who want to complete the certificate must do the first module at the beginning of the course but can complete the certificate over 2 years and attend modules in other regions. It is also possible to partake in chosen modules as a part time participant without receiving the certificate.
Module fee:
$100 / module for beneficiaries, part time workers & those completing the certificate.
$120 / module for full employment, and participation in chosen modules without completing the certificate.
Contact:
Hamilton Permaculture Trust
Ph: 834 2249 Mob: 0211390935
Email: permaham@actrix.co.nz
1. Philosophy and Design March 3rd, Hamilton
Introduction to the ethics & principles of permaculture.Explore realistic priorities for reducing your ecological footprint and designing abundance into your life. Design advice is provided to assist you to develop a concept plan for your site, or project that you chose to work at.
2. Human Sphere April 28th, Ngaruawahia
Cultural values, assumptions and perceptions. Indigenous resource concepts, kaitiakitanga and Maori metaphysics. An understanding of deep ecology. Radical citizenship and social ecology, designing for personal and social transformation. Cooperative decision making, legal structures
and ownership. Conflict resolution.
3. Climate and Water May 12th, Hamilton
Global and local weather patterns; climate change. Atmospheric conditions, types of climates and weather. Micro climates – shelter, shade, suntraps, harnessing the wind. Urban weather patterns (acid rain, urban heat sink, wind patterns & tall buildings). Air quality, pollution & re-vitalisation. Introduction to the hydrological cycle. Water conservation, devices and technology. Water harvesting and storage (rain water, dams, and swales).Water quality and quantity, purifying and treatment techniques. Riparian vegetation and aquaculture.
4. Landscape and Site Assessment June 9th, Raglan
Observation and interactions with nature and the landscape. Natures reoccurring patterns. Techniques for observation; measuring and recording landforms; sectors and aspect. Gathering information of natural conditions, cultural features and requirements. Including water sheds; water catchments & dams. Landscape management.
5. Built Environments Zone 0 June 30, Raglan
Principles of building biology and ecology; orientation and layout for site and surroundings. Building design - (warmth & ambience, insulation, passive & active systems, storage, heat pumps, sound, light & electromagnetism). Building materials and construction (local earth, straw, timber, embodied energy, toxicity, finishings). Reuse & recycling - compost toilets, grey
water systems, water harvesting & storage.
6. Healthy soils and Fertile gardening Zone 1 July 14, Hamilton
Nature of soils and soil structure; soil testing (visual assessment and plant indications). Soil health and fertilisers. Composting; revitalisation aids--seaweed, rock dusts, EM, biodynamic, etc.Gardening layout & design - sun, shelter, water access, companion planting, rotation, green manures; garden preparation digging or no-dig. Weed control & mulching. Plant health & diseases/pests/predators. Aquaculture. Water harvesting & irrigation. Seed saving.
7. Small animals and orchard Zone 2 Raglan, August 11
Selecting trees/vines/berries/crops etc. for climate and site; layout for needs in relation to
facilities, guilds & diversity. Planting and propagation; management for productivity and plant health. Integration with small animals (bees, poultry, pigs). Ecology of plants and animals. Management and care of small animals. Water requirements, swales & irrigation.
8. Large Animals and Forestry Zones 3-5 A rural site, September 8
Animal grazing and soil fertility. Grazing management and animal care (water, stock movement, shelter ,shade & health). Structures - fencing, yards, buildings etc. Forest diversity and habitats, forest effects & services; forest regeneration. Species for firewood, timber, amenity, habitat etc. firewood coppicing; plantation management.
9. Community Resilience Hamilton, October 13
Possible natural disasters for our bioregion, pest infestation, social-crime, war and
revolution. Recognising risks and hazards. Coping with dramatic and immediate change. Job loss and financial collapse, alternative financial systems. Food storage and natural food and medicine sources. Transition towns.
10. Energy and Technology Ruapuke, November 3rd
Nature and types of energy. Energy analysis, efficiency and life-cycle of energy. Examples of appropriate technologies (high tech & low tech solutions). Transport & energy alternatives. Energy storage; site specific and community based systems. The 4Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle & repair.
11. Urban Design & Living Hamilton, November 24
Healthy and sustainable living in cities. Community culture; education and values. Suburban retrofit and reduce your ecological footprint; engaging in local communities and councils. Layout and integration of urban systems; public spaces, transport & circulation, housing, energy supplies & distribution, urban waste cycles, urban food production, storm water, waste water & potable water management.
12. Design Project & Presentations Hamilton, December 8
- The design project can be completed individually or in groups.
- It should be completed in a minimum of 20 hours per person per project.
- Tutors will be available for feedback throughout the process.
- Projects can be on subject matter the student is interested in, so long it demonstrates the application of sustainable design principles introduced in the first module. This may take the form of a landscape design for an individual dwelling, a retrofit of a house, work with a community group, setting up a local alternative economic model, etc.
- It is intended that projects be undertaken in parallel to the course so that designs are built on by progressive learning throughout the course.
- Students will be required to do a 15 minute presentation of their project to the tutors and colleagues.
- Presentations should demonstrate how the design was conceived (design process), the project (final design) and a brief outline on implementation and/ or management.
If you have been following the work of the Institute over the last few years, you will have noticed the ever present move to addressing the wider issues of sustainability. How do we move towards a human ecology that works – long-term. We are faced with the question of re-design. Doing nothing is not an option, the industrial society we have is on a collision course which will play out sooner or later. This is a discussion that our whole community needs to have, but it seems we are not ready for it yet, as we are still being encouraged to ‘shop’ our way out of it.
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