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2008, Living Mandala
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In Association With

Urban Permaculture Institute


Instructors

Kevin Bayuk

David Cody



Course Overview

Develop professional skills and get valuable sustainability education to enhance your current career, prepare you for your next venture and change your life at home. It is one of the few permaculture design trainings that match the schedule and tuition to the busy lives of urban professionals and full-time students.


Through a mix of classroom discussion time, small group work and hands-on activities, we explore methods of designing and establishing regenerative communities and economies. We visit and participate at several permaculture projects here in San Francisco and the Bay Area, observing and interacting with Permaculture principles in practice.


Join us and help build a healthy and happy community based on a common vision of harmony with nature and each other.


Course Description

Permaculture training will likely change your life.  This training offers the opportunity to develop professional skills and provides valuable education to enhance your current vocation, prepare you for your next venture and give you inspiration about solutions that you can implement in your life at home. It is one of the few permaculture design trainings that match the schedule and tuition to the busy lives of urban professionals and full-time students.  It is also a great way to meet and connect deeply with like-minded individuals that share your values.


There are many other wonderful PDC trainings in the region, but if you don't have time to take two weeks off and would prefer to learn permaculture skills in the city that you live in and work on designs that can be implemented in your city (and learn design principles and methods that can be applied anywhere), then this might be the permaculture certificate training for you.


Through a mix of classroom discussion time, small group work and hands-on activities, we will explore methods of designing and establishing regenerative communities and economies. We visit and participate at several permaculture projects here in San Francisco and the Bay Area, observing and interacting with Permaculture principles in practice.


Some people take the training just to share the experience with an enthusiastic group of like-minded community and meet new friends. Join us and help build a healthy and happy community based on a common vision of harmony with nature and each other.


Permaculture Defined

Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and production systems. It is a land use and community building system which strives for the harmonious integration of human dwellings, microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, and water into stable, productive communities.


The focus is not on these elements themselves, but rather on the relationships created among them by the way we place them in the landscape. This synergy is further enhanced by mimicking patterns found in nature.


It has been successfully used around the world to maximize food production, regenerate springs, cool homes without air conditioning, transform lives and reduce pollution, to name a few.


The essence of Permaculture is summed up by 3 ethics:


  1. *Care of the Earth

  2. *Care of the People

  3. *Share the Surplus


Urban Permaculture

We start with the standardized Permaculture curriculum and add onto it insights and strategies for applying Permaculture to the urban setting. This lengthens the course to a degree, we do not omit any of the standard materials.


Over 50% of the world's population now lives in urban centers and the number is growing. Adopting strategies to meet our needs in a sane and ethical way is critical. In this course, we will learn how to design those strategies.



 

Instructors

Kevin Bayuk

Kevin works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets cooperative organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life.  He is a partner with LIFT (http://www.lifteconomy.com) where he provides strategy and guidance for emergent next economy companies helping them access growth capital and sustainable growth plans.  He also frequently teaches classes, workshops, does public speaking, facilitates meetings, plans events and provides one on one mentoring as a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute San Francisco (http://www.upisf.com) .  He is as fluent with information technology as with perennial polyculture agriforestry. Writing, speaking, researching and mentoring are his strongest skills.  He's help raise millions of dollars of venture capital for companies he's co-founded and he raises ducks in his small urban garden in San Francisco.



David Cody





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Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Course

With Kevin Bayuk & David Cody

Spring: March 20 - June 1, 2013

Summer: June 26 - Aug 4, 2013

San Francisco, CA


Tuition & Registration

The standard tuition for this Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Course s $850 - priced to accommodate a non-residential training accessible to professionals, students and families.


$150 Discount via Living Mandala!

Urban Permaculture Institute is offering a special discount to this course through Living Mandala of $150 off standard tuition pricing (or $700 total tuition) to those who can register and pay in full.


To get this discount, enter discount code: LivingMa

To Register for this Course Click Here.


Payment Plans & Worktrade

  1. *Nobody is turned away due to lack of funds or ability to do work. If for any reason you are not able to pay for the course in part or in full and cannot work, please contact us and we will do our best to make accomodations.

  2. *We can offer payment plan arrangements to accommodate your financial situation.

  3. *Payment plans can include monthly installments of any amount customized to meet your needs to be paid over the duration of the course (or on another schedule that fits your needs)

  4. *A deposit of $100 is requested to express your commitment and register for the course

  5. *A payment of $425, the first half of tuition is requested to join the course, due on the first session

  6. *The remainder of tuition is due by the end of course

  7. *If you are doing work-trade for the first half of tuition, you can do these hours before the course begins

  8. *Work Trade is an "hour for hour" exchange. One hour of work is exchanged for one hour of class time. The class is a total of 85 hours.

  9. *We can accept a limited amount of Time Bank hours from the Bay Area Community Exchange (www.BACE.org). Please contact us directly to discuss details and availability.


Course Schedule

The course is designed to fit into busy urban lives, we meet in the evenings on Wednesday and our all-day sessions are on Saturday.


Wednesday Sessions: 6:30PM to 9:30PM


Saturday Sessions: 9:00AM to 5:00PM


Hands-on days:  Varies each season; typically on Sundays from 9:00am - 5:00pm  see calendar for details


Inevitably one or more trainees misses a session due to unforeseen circumstances or other plans. If you need to miss more than one or two sessions, please contact us. Students are offered the chance to attend any classes they miss during future seasons.


Course Dates

Spring 2013 Urban PDC

Location: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House


Wednesday Sessions: 6:30PM to 9:30PM

Saturday Sessions: 9:00AM to 5:00PM


  1. *March: 20, 23, 27, 30

  2. *April: 6, 10, 13, 24, 27

  3. *May: 4, 8, 11, 22, 25, 29

  4. *June: 1


Summer 2013 Urban PDC

Location: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House


Wednesday Sessions: 6:30PM to 9:30PM

Saturday Sessions: 9:00AM to 5:00PM


  1. *June: 26, 29

  2. *July: 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27, 31

  3. *August: 3, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24


Active Design Course

In this design course, participants will be working in teams producing a design for an actual project here in San Francisco. Throughout the course, we will share with you the tools and strategies required to complete the design which culminates in the final presentation at the completion of the course.  Review the course syllabus here.


To Register for this Course Click Here.

For $150 Off Tuition enter discount code: LivingMa


Contacts

For questions and more information contact:

Kevin Bayuk - 415-999-5354

David Cody - 415-260-6570