Welcome to the Summer 2009 Permaculture Design Certification Course wiki hosted by Big Green Summer in Fairfield, Iowa, May 31-June 13! Welcome everyone!


Course Outline and Resources at a glance (schedule here)
Introduction to Permaculture

Day 1 Powerpoint
Ethics and Principles
List of Films:

The Story of Stuff
End of Suburbia
In Grave Danger of Falling Food

Readings

Permaculture Way p 17-33

Concepts and Themes in Design (what is design?)

Design Power point
List of Films:

Ecological Design: Inventing the Future

Readings

Natural Capitalism
Orr on Design
Permaculture Way

Methods of Design

Tools for Designers

Zones and Sectors
Overlay
Analysis (inputs, outputs, characteristics)
Observation
Deduction from Nature
Options and Decisions Trees
Random Assembly
Flow diagram

Client Interview Process

Pattern Understanding

List of Films:

Rivers and Tides documentary about Andy Goldsworthy

Readings

Buildings and Structures

Powerpoint

Soils

Recipe for sheet mulch
List of Films:

Greening the Desert

Trees and Perennial Agriculture

• Plants for Iowa
  • Unusual Fruits and Nuts for Southeast Iowa - Lonnie Gamble (download)
    • link to article as published in the Iowa Source
• Midwest Native American Uses for Plants
  • Meskwaki Ethnnobotany Poster - back
  • Meskwaki Ethnobotany Poster - front
  • Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region - Melvin Randolph Gilmore
  • Ethnobotany of the Forest Pottawattamie Indians - Smith
• World Plant Resources
  • Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World

Energy

Readings:

Energy and the Wealth of Community by Lonnie Gamble
Village Power Generation and Energy Conservation Bill Mollison
Renewable Energy - text by Brent Sorensen

Gardens and Plants

List of Films:

Plants for a Future (no film online, but here's the website)

Water
Invisible Structures