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Designing our lives as well as our landscapes. Joining our understanding of the principles of natural systems with the perspective and criteria of permaculture design, we, as individuals collectively, are capable of determining the best and highest choices that meet the needs of all. --Dawn Shiner, MSc, Executive Director of Dancing Green 2010 Permaculture Design Course Formats (Apprentice Certification):
17-day PDC Certificate Immersives June 11 thru 27, 2010 -- Floyd VA at Turtle Rock August 13 thru 29, 2010 -- Freeland MD at Heathcote Community Information and Costs, Freeland, MD: www.heathcote.org/permaculture. To learn more about Dancing Green's 17-day Immersives, click here | 12-day, 6-weekend PDC Certificate Intensives Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 – Floyd VA at Turtle Rock
To learn more about the 12-day 6-weekend Intensives, click here. | Coming in 2010 1-day PDC Certificate Saturdays |
Dancing Green is committed to education that mentors the human journey toward increased sustainability. Driven by compassion for earth rights, we address the core need for understanding how to meet human needs working with nature's laws, respectful of all beings. In this recognition comes the awareness of those our culture has disrespected, ...all native to place, ...all decimated or dispersed for resource/economic gain--from native americans to community neighborhoods, "rearranged" for "progress." We are committed to inclusive, collaborative communication and empowering the self respect that comes from authentic cooperation for the good of the whole. We provide practical tools and model empathic and ethical strategies for daily nourishing the land and people. These techniques and strategies integrate humans into respectful and positive patterns. As sound ecological, environmental and economic actions, these patterns increase the diversity, stability and resilience of our nourishing earth systems. Dancing Green educates to: ...create a sustainable base of permanent agriculture systems that respectfully meet the needs of all. ...give health to people through soil-fertility-building activities that return efforts with exercise, fresh air, pure water, and foods of nourishing value. ...regenerate our forests, watersheds, fields, pastures, and backyards. ...sprinkle every estate and suburban yard with edges of forest gardens replete with mycellium, bamboo and layered perennial guilds. ...honor and steward harmony lessening the heroics of violence. ...nourish right-livelihood, diversifying the nourishing webs of people, places and organizations moving eco-entrepreneurship into stressless harmony with nature.
"We needn't shift the world, we'll all shift ourselves and be there for each other." BACK TO PDC's 2009
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