Ecovillage at Ithaca

Join us at Gaia Ashram for this 18 days Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC in short) from the 3rd of October until the 20th of October, 2022.The Permaculture Design Course equips you with the knowledge and an understanding on how to design sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates.This PDC at Gaia Ashram will give you the Permaculture theory and the hands-on skills & experience. Gaia Ashram is an Ecovillage & Permaculture Education center established in 2012 on 6 hectares of land that we are actively regenerating in the North East of Thailand. Gaia Ashram design is based on Permaculture & Ecovillage principles therefore by joining our community you will also learn about community living. We strongly believe that there never was a bigger need for spreading knowledge of Permaculture and related sustainable living practices. Especially now after the COVID-19 pandemic and increased climatic changes. In these times people’s empowerment and community experience is the right response to change. The PDC has a team of experienced facilitators that will cover the PDC 72 hours curriculum. Usually a PDC takes 12-14 days to complete but at Gaia Ashram we belief in the importance of experiencing the knowledge. This is why we made the course 18 days to allow for time to incorporate hands-on activities to make sure you experience the knowledge through the hands. Here are just a few things you’ll learn: • Philosophies, ethics, and principles of permaculture • Patterns in nature • Methods of design; how to apply permaculture design tools and methodology • Climatic factors and strategies for all major climates and how to work with them • Trees, forests, and forest gardening • Agroforestry and propagation • Gardening techniques for self-sufficiency, plant guilds • Water management • Properties of soil • Natural building techniques • Urban permaculture strategies and approaches • Community liv

The New School Permaculture PDC is centred on the needs of the student so you get what you want and what you need with a course adapted to your projects, needs and dreams. This course is presented by creative non formal education methods, that are based on creating a bridge between the right and left side of the brain, so that the analytical and creative abilities of the students get fully stimulated and get the most out of the experience…for many people is the most empowering and inspiring transformative process of their lives…and they carry this with them everywere they go….and thats our goal. The course follows a set syllabus and leads to the internationally recognised Permaculture Design Certificate. Taught by Helder Valente of the New School Permaculture. Helder studied and worked with Bill Mollison, Sepp Holzer, Doug Bullock, Rosemary Morrow, Darren dougherty, Ernst Gotsh and others, and is now teaching all over the world, he started in 2009 teaching permaculture to students at the agriculture university and since then learning and teaching on many different climates. While living in the city he dedicated 3 years on developing a urban permaculture project in the center of Lisbon and co created several Permaculture Institutes worldwide. That’s how it all started. Helder never stopped and this last months spent his time working with Quechua farmers in the Andes and designing projects in the Amazon jungle. You can be part of the PDC and also chose to be part of the PFC, a course that will teach you for 5 days everything about food forests, Course will be in a beautifull farm in the North of Portugal. See you there.

Aldeafeliz invita a todas las personas a no perderse la increíble oportunidad de compartir con nosotros y miles de personas alrededor del planeta la asistencia virtual a las fantásticas conferencias de la cumbre online EL PODER DE LA COMUNIDAD. Puedes asistir desde tu casa conectandote una hora al día entre el 1 y el 10 de febrero, días en los cuales podrás conectarte sin costo a las conferencias, para esto registrate y conectate en la pagina https://summit.ecovillage.org/, o bien COMPARTIENDO en vivo con nosotros en ECOALDEA ALDEAFELIZ y con el anfitrión el evento Carlos Rojas, los días 9 y 10 de Febrero de 2019, fechas durante las cuales estaremos abiertos al publico para ver en pantalla gigante alrededor de 3 conferencias cada dia con la posibilidad de comentarlas en comunidad. Reserva tu cupo gratuito de asistencia al teléfono 3144443667 o al correo al********@***il.com.

AASHE 2015 Conference & Expo: Transforming Sustainability Education October 25 – 28, 2015 Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Founded in 2005, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is proud to lead a decade of sustainability achievements with our members and the larger campus sustainability community, thanks to all of you! AASHE 2015 Conference & Expo, themed Transforming Sustainability Education, will convene a diverse group of campus representatives including faculty, students, sustainability officers, staff, administrators and presidents together with business, non-profit, government and community members for a sustainable celebration. In the “City by Nature,” a culturally and historically diverse place for thousands of years located on the Dakota homelands, with exquisite green spaces and a cosmopolitan urban culture, we will gather for a look back and into the future to examine: How higher education institutions can come together to lead campus and community transformation on local, regional and global levels How we can work across disciplines and cultures to lead the charge on identifying educational strategies and solutions for advancing campus and community sustainability efforts How we can create learning and teaching opportunities that allow students and community members to work together on current environmental, social and economic issues Expected to draw approximately 2,100 participants, AASHE’s annual conference remains the largest stage in North America for sharing effective models, policies, research, collaborations and transformative actions which advance sustainability in higher education and beyond. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Are you involved in a sustainable campaign, initiative or activity that that is transforming sustainability in higher education and beyond? AASHE invites you to join us for our ten-year anniversary celebration by submitting a proposal and sharing yo