Permaculture Design Course

Alaska Center for the Environment is proud to support Red Edge Design in Alaska’s second-ever Permaculture Design course, held in Anchorage April 23rd - May 5th, 2012!  

Permaculture is a design system that works with nature to create sustainable human developments. It is grounded in the ethics of caring for the earth (and all its systems), caring for the basic needs of people (food, water, shelter, education, satisfying employment, and convivial human contact) and that all surplus time, energy, and resources be returned to the system to further those aims.  

Subjects covered include:

• Permaculture design principles
• Bioremediation ~ soil building ~ home garden design
• Catching, storing, and using rainwater & graywater
• Cold climate gardening strategies ~ tree crops and forest gardens
• Aquaculture, mariculture and aquaponics ~ integrating animals
• Sustainable home design, natural building, and retrofitting
• Renewable energy and appropriate technologies
• Strategies for self-reliance and community building

In addition to the standard Permaculture Design Course curriculum, we will focus on home-scale and community-scale applications in the far north. During these exciting two weeks, participants will engage in lectures, discussions, hands-on activities, field trips, a group design project, and optional evening workshops.

Members of ACE will receive a discounted registration!  For more information on this course and to register, please go to:  http://akpermaculture.wordpress.com or call Red Edge Design at 907.563.1119.