Re: Regenerative Leadership, Sustainable Design and Sub/Urban Permaculture Training

2011-06-10 Thread kUDZO Agbeve
Dear Sir
Can you please let us know whether there is any scholarship facility
particularly transport cost for poor but very interested
Ghanaians/Africans? With this we can know how to prepare for this
course and bring the skill to Ghana/Africa and thank you

On 6/10/11, Vladislav Davidzon vladis...@commoncircle.com wrote:
 [BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE!  SEE DETAILS BELOW!]

 Hello friends,

 Join an unforgettable program in leadership, permaculture and
 sustainable design in Oregon with the world's most renowned
 instructors and change your life, your community and your
 planet.  Not only do Common Circle Education courses offer the
 most complete curriculum of any similar program, but the people
 who come to the programs make this the most powerful training
 offered anywhere.

 Gain cutting-edge skills in nature-inspired sustainable design
 that's applicable virtually anywhere design is used -- from green
 businesses to your own back yard.  Visit ecovillages, organic
 farms, the nation's first biofuel station (ever seen a gas station
 with solar panels and a green roof selling kombucha? ;), while
 spending two weeks with some of the most inspiring people around!

 Course:   Suburban Permaculture Design  Leadership Certificate
 Dates:July 9 - 24th [Eugene, Oregon]
 Dates:October 23 - November 4 [San Francisco Bay Area, CA]

 -- Sign up before June 25th and bring a friend FREE! --
 -- or come by yourself and take 25% off tuition --
 -- Payment plans as low as $200/month available! --

 -- More info @ http://www.commoncircle.com/pdc --

 During the workshop, we will talk about:

 * Smart nature-inspired design principles
 * Rainwater catchment and storage
 * Greywater - smart water re-use with plant filters
 * Food forests  garden design for food abundance
 * Eco-psychology and Regenerative Leadership
 * Intentional community design and dynamics
 * Bio-remediation and toxic waste cleanup
 * Natural building design - cob, strawbale and more
 * Soil biology and regeneration
 * Sustainable transportation and fuels
 * Green business and sustainable economics
 * Natural patterns and principles
 * Everything you ever wanted to know about plants and soil!

 My experience in the course was invaluable.  I find myself with a
 new permaculture lens that I can put on at will, and see the world
 around me in a way that I feel leads to making more conscious
 decisions and living better in harmony with the earth.
- Deborah F., Course Graduate

 This course will combine critical design skills with leadership,
 nature connection, and most importantly an urban focus, building
 and exceeding upon the internationally-recognized Permaculture
 Design Certification curriculum.  Our programs offer by far the
 most complete curriculum of any similar course -- with a huge
 focus on leadership, personal growth and community design as well
 as green business.

 You'll learn how to create sustainable, thriving human systems,
 from green houses and organic gardens, to local micro-economies
 and communities, using sustainable design principles that are
 applicable to every human system, from businesses, communities,
 and cities to personal relationships.

 Because of our unique focus on Urban and Suburban solutions,
 our courses are radically different from most other programs,
 teaching permaculture as a design science rooted in nature.
 With most of the world's population in cities, we must
 meet people where they live with real sustainable solutions.

 -- Sign up before June 25th and bring a friend FREE! --
 -- or come by yourself and take 25% off tuition --
 -- Payment plans as low as $200/month available! --

 -- More info @ http://www.commoncircle.com/pdc --

 Starting by learning the lessons from nature with some of the
 world's most renowned organic farming experts, we will then look
 at how to apply what we learned from the soil and the water to
 building sustainable, lasting institutions.

 Common Circle Education is the nation's ecological design and
 sustainable living school with courses in Oregon, Hawaii and
 California; our instructors are some of the most well-known
 leaders in sustainability, organics and permaculture design.

 We hope you will be able to join us for this incredible,
 life-changing experiential course!

 Much gratitude,


 Vladislav for Common Circle Education
 commoncircle.com

 --
 common circle education
 14525 sw millikan way, suite 17760, beaverton, or 97005


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What Will Fracking Do To Our Food Supply?

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Burns
The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be
next.

By Barry Estabrook
Originally published by Gilt Taste

There's a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland,
where a man touches a match to his running faucet—to have it explode in a ball
of fire. This is what hydraulic fracturing, a process of drilling for natural
gas known as fracking, is doing to many drinking water supplies across the
country. But the other side of fracking—what it might do to the food eaten by
people living hundreds of miles from the nearest gas well—has received little
attention...
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20110525_what-will-fracking-do-do-our-food-supply




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