free info on saving the planet at www.permaculturevisions.com

go to http://www.permaculturevisions.com for 60 pages of free information and sigup for a design course. Learn now!

Permaculturevisions responds to student needs.

www.Permaculturevisions.com were the first to teach permaculture online 18 years ago. Since then they have a long list of graduates, run an online yahoo group and are respected in the Permaculture community.

There has always been debate whether a practitioner needs to do a Permaculture Design course and or needs formal qualifications.

However if a practioner in Permaculture intends to treat permaculture as a life long activity, and teach others, then surely they need to be able to show due diligence and prove to prospective clients that they do indeed have the training to do so. The standard training is a PDC - Permaculture Design course.
Once a Permaculture designer has 2 years of implementation and experience they can then apply for a Diploma in Permaculture.

This is now being offered to students and graduates of Permaculturevisions.
It has 1 core requirement- Design implementation - and 10 electives.
Compliance is assessed by evidence of external and or self study, and students can then elect to be on the Permaculturevisions on-line register of graduates and Diplomats.
This Diploma takes Permaculture to a next level and will be highly sought after as a reference for future employers. You can read more on www.Permaculturevisions.com

celebrate your amazing brain...

Meg put this post on the Permaculturevisions student yahoo group.

Did you know that the brain has amazing plasticity- moldability - is able to
make (and grow) more connections- so know that you are special..and science
now proves it. so tell your kids this.This is exciting because when you
accept this concept of plasticity, you realise that the brain is such a
powerful thing.

there was an experiment with 3 groups who have never played the piano.
group one watched the piano for 5 days (control group)
2nd group did piano practice for 5 days (basic scales)
3 rd group IMAGINED they were playing the piano.
and amazingly their brains improved as much as those who actually practiced
piano.
(what we don't know is this: did the ones who imagined they were playing
piano imagine scales or written music or particular pieces? I personally
would have liked to experiment with this..)
My mother started playing piano when she was over 65 and she believed in
keeping her brain active..
she never succumbed to alzheimers, but she did succumb to learned
helplessness in her last year at 81.

go to abc .net.au/big ideas - re Baronness Prof Susan Greenfield (oxford)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/09/14/3010298.htm
you can download the audio

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about My visit to diggers

I'm excited about my trip to St Kilda Community Gardens in Victoria last Sunday.

I have added some shots to the folder on facebook called the Problem becomes the Solution. The Facebook link is facebook/permaculturevisions fan page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mt-Kembla-Australia/Permaculture-Visions-fan-page/277131803179

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=167613&id=277131803179&saved#!/album.php?aid=167613&id=277131803179

The whole veg-out community garden project is an example of how the problem becomes the solution really.

Parts in the old lawn-bowls buildings had maintenance challenges that required volunteers, once the community garden was formed the volunteers maintain the gardens with great enthusiasm and a productive reward!


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Please consider your environment before printing this email on old-fashioned paper.
Now's your chance to save paper, save a tree, save storage, save ink, save on indoor air pollution control and medicine, save on repairs for leads and printer, save power, save money. Save on having to stand up to attend the printer, save filing, save having to locate the files later, save having to type it all back in somewhere, sometime later.
Now's your chance to take this millisecond to get outside and throw any tomatoe seeds from your lunch into a pot plant OR pour out the dregs of your drink as fertliser. more

ABC TV big Ideas Podcast on climate change

we put up a video podcast on http://climatechangeandyou.blogspot.com
about carbon change and effects by ABC.net.au/big ideas
Everyone should watch this.

Permaculturevisions minute video on youtube

At last, after nine years of illness, technical difficulties and computer breakdowns, we have succeeded in transfering an analogue video to digital and uploading to http://www.youtube.com/

it's under the name Megamoneybox and below is the link.
here's the blurb. Permaculture is about growing food and http://www.permaculturevisions.com/ teaches you online with heaps of free information. This one minute video shows Lloyd aged 9 explaining about eggs and you will see the moveable chookpen. also see video bar below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfJcQ6A2ps

Soil Carbon accreditation

Did you know that by keeping groundcover on the land you can increase the sequested carbon in the soil? even in low rainfall the grasses will collect moisture in the air.
and that the increase in carbon sequestion can be about 25 tonnes per hectare?

The Australian soil Accreditation scheme is working to changing the way farmers manage the land in order to "catch" or sequest carbon in the soil. They are paying farmers right now to trial the process.
This fascinating scheme might even rescue us from climate change.. It's the great seed of an idea. goto http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2008/s2490568.htm for more information.

read about it on http://www.amazingcarbon.com/Jones%20-%20Australian%20Soil%20Carbon%20Accreditation%20Scheme.pdf
also read their other info on http://www.amazingcarbon.com/
check out our climate change blogs. http://climatechangeandyou.blogspot.com/,
http://greenhouseclimatechange.blogspot.com/, http://reduceclimatechange.blogspot.com/