MODULAR PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM.

Hancock Permaculture Center,

Hancock NY. 13783

www.hancockpermaculture.net

greenman124@yahoo.com

917-771-9382

MODULAR PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM. 

The course is divided into five modules. This is a summary of topics. This course outline follows chapter headings from the official text,  Bill Mollison’s: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual. See our web sites for more information.

Course runs on Saturday, Sunday – 8:00am-5.30pm with evening session on Saturday.

MODULE 1. 
CONTEXT, EVIDENCE AND DESIGN THEORY.
Paths of energy descent, civic/economic disruption. Adaptation. Creating nodes of permanence. Holmgren principles.

History of Permaculture.
The rise of permaculture has paralleled the rise in environmentalism going back to Rachel Carson in the late 1950’s. Type One errors, constants, directives and principles.

Prime Directives of Permaculture.
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics following scale and patterns found in nature. We introduce the ethical basis for permaculture and the fundamental principles and directives.. Live Intervention Principle/chaos theory. The Basic Laws of Thermodynamics and entropy.

Methods and Patterns of Design
Scale of permanence and organizing principles for landscape, homestead and bioregion. Sectors and zones, connections. Reading landscape. Water. Access. Structures. Soft energy systems . Water management. Mapping and organizing tools. Guilds in nature and design. Succession and evolution of systems.

Concepts and Themes of Design.
Practical design considerations. Niches, yields and cycles. Principles of disorder, stress, harmony and stability. Yield, surplus and abundance.

Papua New Guinea Years: 1968-1975.

From my memoir: The Edges of my Life.
By Andrew Leslie Philips © 1985


Chapter 1

Leaving Home.

Adverting was not my first career choice. I’d wanted to be a traveler and a journalist. But I couldn’t get a job in journalism because I didn’t have the credential, the university degree, so advertising was my next, it was creative and better paid than journalism but I never got to the “better paid part”.
I spent five years in the ad business learning about copywriting and media and printing and design and finally I was an account executive selling the American dream that had become Australia’s.

An Interview with Cmdr. Paul Tibbets - the man who dropped the first atomic bomb.

Hiroshima Countdown.
 An Oral History Interview with Cmdr. Paul Tibbets. 1985.

Paul Tibbets dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I met him thirty-nine years later in Columbus Ohio where he ran the first corporate air charter company in the United States. After the “Good War”, Tibbets’ fame comprised cache and notoriety and business was prosperous

I’d conduced a telephone interview with Tibbets the previous year - in 1983 - for a 12-hour marathon radio production exploring Hiroshima on New York City Pacifica Foundation radio station, WBAI. I said at the beginning of this memoir that I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust and Hiroshima. This radio program was my chance to get to the heart of the matter.

At the time I was a volunteer producer. I brought audio and stories from my international travels with Australian Broadcasting to WBAI where I produced my own 90 minute weekly late-night radio program: Investigations: In Search of the Art in Radio. If one could get through the front door and volunteer, WBAI offered access to the weird and wonderful New York audience . After some years of weekend news and documentary specials I had the chance to produce an all-day broadcast about the atomic bomb and Hiroshima.

Riding the Waves at Pacifica

RIDING THE WAVES AT PACIFICA RADIO

By Andrew Leslie Phillips

A native of Australia, Andrew spent seven years in Papua New Guinea as a government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming to New York in 1975. He produced award-winning investigative radio documentaries on a wide range of environmental and political issues for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and WBAI Community Radio in New York City. He taught journalism, radio and “sound image” as an adjunct professor at New York University for 10 years. He is permaculture teacher and was interim general manager at KPFA, Pacifica Radio in Berkeley (2011-20013).

The Pacifica foundation was founded in 1946 by poet and journalist Lewis Hill and a small group of pacifists, intellectuals and experienced radio people They did not have the same political or economic philosophy but shared a vision which supported a peaceful world, social justice and creativity. At 3pm, April 15, 1949, Lew hill sat behind the microphone and announced: "This is KPFA, listener sponsored radio in Berkeley, the first such radio station in the world”.

The Unheeded Message of the Holocaust: An Interview with Jan Karski

 The Unheeded Message of the Holocaust:

Interview with Polish underground courier, Jan Karski.

Produced for Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Note that this is an incomplete transcription but contains most of the interview recorded in Jan Karski's home in Washington D.C in 1986. The original was recorded on a reel-to-reel, Nagra mono tape recorder by my wife, Arlene Krebs.

From air check from "Soundscapes: Explorations in Radio Sound and Music", WBAI New York.

WBAI New York.

INTRO: The program comprises an interview with Jan Karski, a Polish underground worker and himself a Catholic – he wrote a book a book called “Story of a Secret State” (Houghton Mifflin, 1944) after the war that describes his experiences during the war and particularly poignant among those is his visit to the Warsaw Ghetto, invited by the Jews and to a concentration camp to see for himself, an eyewitness, not a Jew but a Catholic, to take back word of the Holocaust to Britain and America.

Tikal and the Jaguar Inn

1989

The sky was changing quickly now and a red dawn was rising behind the city. Soon it would be time to leave. We were naked, with the smell of sleep and sex still infused on our creamy bodies standing in the frame of the doorway over looking the Hotel Colonial’s ornate courtyard waiting for the new morning to begin. I was silent, preparing my mind for the jolt back to New York. The air felt good, gentle and cool and I reached for Vivianna and held her close for a moment and then turned and went inside to dress.

Columbus: based on a radio feature commemorating the 500th Anniversary of His Arrival in the Americas.

A Radio Documentary Feature Program in Three Movements

produced for Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Radio Helicon
(Proposal to Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 

1.    COLUMBUS: Europe is in ferment. The Dark Ages are over and the Renaissance is beginning. The Moors and Jews are forced out of Spain. The Inquisition is unfolding to protect the weak and ignorant from evil doctrines. The printing press has arrived and soon Cervantes will write Don Quixote and El Greco will precursor Expressionism and Cubism, and his personality and works will source inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke. Martin Luther nails his thesis on a church door and Michiavelli is writing “The Prince”. Columbus has been plunged into the sea off Lisbon. He learns Latin and Castilian and reads ancient books of navigation from the pioneering work of Henry the Navigator and dreams of sailing west to Asia. In 1492 he sails to the Americas.