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Event:
Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Start:
April 28, 2012 9:30 am
End:
April 28, 2012 5:30 pm
Cost:
$44
Organizer:
Whatcom Folk School
Phone:
733-3541
miles58@yahoo.com
Updated:
April 23, 2012
Phone:
319-7495
Address:
United States
Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Time: April 28, 2012 from 9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: Contact WFS for exact location
City/Town: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-733-3541 for David or 360-319-7495 for Whatcom Folk School
Principles of sustainability, centered on the video teaching of David Holmgren, co-originator of Permaculture. The path to sustainability can be fraught with many confusions, false leads, risks and inefficiencies. A simple set of guiding principles that have wide, even universal application, can be extremely useful as a checklist when considering the inevitably complex options that lay before us. These “Beyond Sustainability” principles can be applied to our personal, economic, social and political structures. In addition to the videos, we will have class discussions and interactive exercises. A booklet summarizing the content of the class and more will be provided, and there will be a 1 hour lunch break.
Facilitated by David MacLeod, This is a Whatcom Folk School class is co-sponsored by Transition Whatcom.
  • Registration Fee: $15 (Min. # of students: 6, Max.: 30)
Instructors Fee: $25 (incl. $4 for materials)
  • April 28, Saturday,  9:30 am – 5:30 pm,   Bellingham
Must register by 4/25/12
Registration for this class needs to be done through Whatcom Folk School.  Register online here.
Primary Text for class:

The Essence of Permaculture E-Book by David Holmgren
This book is a short summary of the main points from the book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Download here for free:
http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/freedownloads.php

There will be other notes and reading material which will be handed out, plus optional additional reading suggestions.  I recommend the website permacultureprinciples.com. Peruse through all of the icons on this site, and you’ll get an overview of our class.

David MacLeod is a social permaculturist who was a co-initiator of Transition Whatcom, served on the Vision Team for Sustainable Bellingham, and co-initiated the city and county appointed Energy Resource Scarcity/Peak Oil Task Force. His writings have appeared in Whatcom Watch, the Whatcom Independent, and the Energy Bulletin. David was named an Environmental Hero in 2009 by RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, and was a panelist at Seattle Green Fest in 2010, and the Skagit Human Rights Festival in 2011.

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