[OKC] Full Permaculture Design Course coming to Oklahoma

[Shauna Struby]

Are you interested in learning about a whole systems approach to designing
human settlements?

 

Transition OKC is planning a full 72-hour Permaculture Design Course for
Oklahoma, tentatively scheduled for fall 2011 in Oklahoma City and other
locations to be announced. The course will be taught by Scott Pittman of the
Permaculture Institute
<http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/> , Santa Fe, NM, Bob
Waldrop of Prairie Rose Permaculture
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prairie-Rose-Permaculture/230186213049> ,
Oklahoma City, OK, and other instructors.

 

To help us in planning the course, we've created a very short online survey
(three questions) to gauge interest. Taking the survey does not commit you
in any way to taking the course, and nor do we require any personal
information, although if you wish to receive info as plans progress, the
survey offers that choice. 

 

Please click here <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NZLPKJ>  to take the
survey and thanks in advance for your time.  

 

About Permaculture

 

Want more info on Permaculture? We've provided links to info below. 

 

Simply put, Permaculture is a whole systems approach to designing human
settlements. Central to permaculture are the three ethics: care for the
earth, care for people and fair share. They form the foundation for
permaculture design and are also found in most traditional societies.

 

Some long-range planners, analysts, designers, sustainability advocates and
environmentalists believe Permaculture has the potential to guide humanity
through many of the challenges we face, such as economic instability,
volatile energy supplies and prices, peak oil, climate change and
biodiversity loss. The U.S. Army illustrated this last year when several
members of Oklahoma's 45th Infantry took the Permaculture Design Course in
Santa Fe prior to deployment to Afghanistan. 

 

Permaculture Principles <http://permacultureprinciples.com/>  (online
permaculture resource)

 

Greening the Desert <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6kTlz6Mk4>
(five-minute video)

 

The Transition movement <http://www.transitionnetwork.org/> , which now has
more than 350 initiatives throughout the world, is deeply rooted in
Permaculture. A recent article in the UK
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/06/totnes-transition-towns-e
thical-living> 's Observer provides background and context.

 

About Transition OKC (TOKC):

Transition OKC is a catalyst for thriving, localized communities meeting
their needs in a resilient, healthy and sustainable way. To this end TOKC
focuses on grassroots community engagement for the purpose of helping people
prepare for the changes associated with economic uncertainty, volatile
energy supplies and prices, and climate change. Using the Transition model
of engagement, TOKC collaborates directly with the public, to raise
awareness about these intertwining issues, and empower individuals and
communities to create their own vision of the future through a wide range of
projects, workshops, films, presentations and events. TOKC is a program of
Sustainable OKC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. More on Transition OKC at
www.goinglocalokc.org and on Sustainable OKC at www.sustainableokc.org.

 

Shauna Lawyer Struby

imagine, innovate, collaborate, transition

Co-chair, Transition OKC

Past-president, Sustainable OKC

www.goinglocalokc.org <http://www.goinglocalokc.org/> 

www.sustainableokc.org <http://www.sustainableokc.org/>  

Fresh Greens blog <http://freshgreens.typepad.com/> 

 

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