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Natural Building and Permaculture
2-week Intensive Course
March 19-April 2, 2005
Global production of petroleum per capita peaked in the 1970s. From here on, we need to how to live with less, and yet our profligate lifestyles are still expanding, still straining the web of nature. This workshop combines -the first half of the Permaculture Design Course with introduction to straw, cob, wood and other natural building materials. Participants will learn ecology, energy and resource conservation, social and community skills, and the economics of environmental sustainability. Field trips will include visits to a bamboo nursery and local permaculture sites.
with Albert Bates, Matt English, Goodheart Brown, Scott Horton, Adam Turtle, Murad Al Khufash, Katey Culver and Howard Switzer
$1200 for two weeks ($2400 for couples), or $100 per day ($175/day for couples - see schedule below), with meals & lodging.
The second half of the Permaculture Design Course is offered July 22-30.
For all course dates in 2005 dates please see our Full Calendar.
Mud and stone. Turf and timber. Build with straw, cob, wood and other natural materials. Albert Bates is author of ten books on energy, environment and law and two films on ecovillages, and currently serves as advisor to the Global Ecovillage Network. He has studied natural buildings with master craftspersons on 6 continents and has built many innovative buildings at The Farm and elsewhere. Howard Switzer is an architect (and country music singer) who has studied with Ianto Evans, Sun Ray Kelley, and many other natural builders, and has designed and worked on scores of straw homes and other structures in Tennessee and the Southeast. Albert and Howard's friendly style and understanding of the subject make them an enjoyable and engaging instructor team. For this 2-week course in 2005 they will join with many guest instructors to combine our Permaculture Fundamentals curriculum with our acclaimed natural building immersion course.
Our instructors:
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Scott Horton has taught at the Permaculture Institute of Northern California, as well as in Oregon and Mexico. In 2001 he founded La Semilla Besada, a Permaculture site in Northern New Mexico he plans to develop into a retreat and teaching center.
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Biologist, wilderness forester, whale-watcher and artisan, Andrew Goodheart Brown is one of the best story-tellers you will ever hear, even when he is not teaching permaculture. |
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Matthew English is a holistic carpenter, gardener and yoga teacher who has studied natural building and bamboo construction and farming techniques from China, the Philippines and other parts of the world. A jack of all trades, he instructs in all aspects of natural building and permaculture. |
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Ily Longstocking, an urban designer, architect, researcher, and teacher on topics of sustainable settlements and building, is on the Faculty of Architecture, Dept of Sustainable Technology and Design, Delft University of Technology. She has lived in and designed experimental communities in The Netherlands and works for the DIOC, the Delft Ecological City. |
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Murad Al Khufash "The Crazy Palestinian" was a founding director of the Marda Permaculture Centre in Nablus, Palestine, and developed the heirloom seed collection project there. He now works for the Palestinian-Isaeli Peace thru Permaculture Project.
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Katey Culver has been a life-long Green activist with a focus on ecology and natural systems. She owns a local recycled paper supply company and has been teaching about, designing and building natural buildings since 1996. |
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Howard Switzer is an architect with more than 30 years experience in building solar homes and working with natural, ecological, and recycled materials and construction techniques. His architecture firm designs and builds many straw and native material structures for residential and business clients in the Southeast.
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Albert Bates is one of the founders of the ecovillage movement. An environmental attorney who represented scores of environmental organizations in fights over toxic wastes, deepwell injection, nuclear power and weapons systems, he now teaches permaculture, natural buildings, and appropriate technology worldwide. |
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Adam Turtle has been a preacher, trade carpenter, artist, and proprietor of a large nursery for edible landscape plants. With wife Sue, he is founder of Earth Advocates Research Center and publisher of the Temperate Bamboo Quarterly. He has taught permaculture for more than 20 years and was an originator of the Eastern Permaculture Teachers Association. |
$1200 for two weeks, or take it a day at a time: $100 per day or $175/day for couples, meals and lodging included.
Ecological design and natural building topics:
Growing Food with Minimal Labor
Natural wall systems
Foundations and drainage
Passive solar design
Alternative Money Systems
Hybrid natural building design
Agroforestry
Roofing and water collection
Specific building systems to be covered will be:
Cob for building and special applications
Rammed earthbags, earthship tires, and Cinva-ram brick
Adobe, fidobe, papercrete and other hybrid mud techniques
Natural paints and plasters
Wattle and daub, pacarcilla, pacarilla, zacatlantiloli
Dry stack and mortared fieldstone
Vaults, apses, domes
Rubble trench foundations, drainage, and pest-proofing
Strawbale construction
Living roofs and thatch
Through hands-on sessions each day, students will gain practical experience in integrating a number of simple and valuable technologies into appropriate working solutions for any situation.
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