Permaculture Design Certification

with the Global Ecovillage Network

Next PDC: September 17th 2022 to December 10th 2022

4

Months Duration
72

Hours PDC Certificate
online

Live

Course
5-7

Hours per Week
Ecovillage

Case Studies
Interactive

Learning Tools

Begin or continue your ecovillage learning journey today.

Join our global online classroom and learn from renowned educators from around the world.

Course offered only two times per year!

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What is included in your online global Permaculture Design Course?

Live classes (and workshops) with international educators, including Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren.
A vibrant online learning community with change makers from around the world
Live Q&As and design support with lead facilitators André Soares and Lucy Legan, founders of Ecocentro IPEC and Planet Schooling
Recordings of all live classes
Ecovillage Immersion Opportunities
Ecovillage Case Studies
Handouts, exercises and course texts that are yours for life
Free enrollment to our online GEN Introduction course
Follow-up resources to visit or create ecovillages

Join renowned instructors from around the world in our global online classroom.

Learn to apply permaculture in many different soils, climates, and social environments

André Soares

Lead Facilitator

Permaculture Design & Natural Building Expert

Since co-founding Ecocentro IPEC in Brazil in 1999, André Soares has understood the need for permaculture design to be both functional, culturally relevant and artistic. This has resulted in the Ecocentro IPEC demonstrating various natural building techniques/models that are low cost, energy efficient, use local materials and are beautiful.

Lucy Legan

Facilitator

Educator & Author of Planet Schooling

Lucy Legan is co-founder of Ecocentro IPEC in Brazil, the most comprehensive reference centre of sustainability in Latin America, demonstrating scalable social technologies models. She has been teaching sustainable education for over 20 years. Lucy has played an integral role in environmental education in Brazil.

Guest Speakers

David Holmgren

Permaculture Co-originator

Taisa Mattos

Researcher & Author

Roberto Perez

Programme Director, Foundation for Nature & Humanity

Laila Helena

Lahe Wellness, Integrative Medicine

Course Schedule

Live Classes every Saturday 9:00am - 11:00pm UTC

Live Support & Review every Thursday from 7:00pm - 9:00pm UTC

Recordings Available for later viewing

Module 1

Introduction to Permaculture and Ecovillages

Begin making a difference today by implementing Permaculture Design and Ethics.
Module 2

How to Live with Permaculture Principles

Learn and apply the four renewable ecosystem processes, resiliency thinking.
Module 3

How to Start a Permaculture Design

Gain tools to apply whole systems thinking to your Permaculture Design.

Module 4

Design with Climate and Patterns in Nature

Analyse and make connections between components to establish a self-maintaining system.
Module 5

Design for Human Comfort and Landscape Regeneration

Zoning, slope design, and techniques for applying your new knowledge in developing the permaculture project of your dreams.
Module 6

Design Value with Water

Design regenerative water systems with grey water system and waterless sanitation.

Module 7

Make Soil and Create Permaculture Gardens

Design for soil fertility with composting and garden designs.
Module 8

Build Permaculture Food Forests

Learn the secrets of food forest design with Lucy Legan’s expert guidance.
Module 9

Natural Building & Appropriate Technologies

Design and build a natural home with permaculture principles and appropriate technology.

Module 10

Design Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Hazards are natural, disasters are manmade. Design for a future with floods, storms, and wild fire.
Module 11

Strategies for Bioregional Self-Reliance

Integrate social permaculture and learn about permaculture’s relationship with bioregionalism.
Module 12

Design an Integrated Permaculture System

Final design presentations and celebration.

Join learners from around the world

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Get Inspired

“You created a wonderful space with global aspects. You gather us, envision us and share your amazing enthusiasm with us. We had a world tour, with whom, care for earth, care for people, and fair share. You plant big seeds that are blossoming in the worlds’ multiple regions. I really think we are really lucky for witnessing this course as providing the diversity within its all potentials.”

“I feel really uplifted… The world is now a more beautiful place. This has been so much more than the PDC I anticipated participating in. It has been so good to glimpse the diversity of our life situations – and our own very individual applications of permaculture. We have so much common ground too and to share on so many levels, to feel connected, is wonderful.”