EDC - Ecovillage Design Course

 Ecovillage Design Course
EDC

Course taught by Helder Valente and
the New School Permaculture  Team

This course was made to create a positive change on our attitude on the way we look at each other and ourselves.

How do I keep the people involved in my project happy and inspired?

When challenges appear, how do I keep moving forward?
How can i transport my visions and ideas to reality.

I want to keep inspired and manifest my vision for the future. 
How can I get support and help others realise their own visions? 

Have you ever asked yourself one of these questions?

Managing people is so much harder than developing the land.

 How can I do it better?

Where do I start when trying to create and organize my project?

The EDC is a revolutionary course with the objective of helping people find the solutions for the social dynamics that we all have to face on our our everyday lives or our permaculture projects .

We look at what makes us move in this world of alternative thinking that permaculture provides.

How to bring our dreams, visions and ideas to reality, this course is used for people to dedicate time and space to really think about it....how would it be like?

We also put a focus on project development and management and how to deal with difference of opinions or conflict resolution.

We talk about positive and clear communication and decision tools like sociocracy. 

How can we live in community, have our own space and time and still be part of this social collective consciousness.

 
The subjects covered during the EDC include:

Positive communication

Intentional communities

Social organisation

Conflict resolution

Project management

Decision making

Power of celebration

Alternative economies

New School Education

 

 

We are planning some more SPCs 
for the next months
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Lammas, the UK's first planned ecovillage

This video series is an exploration of community and sustainability. The ecoVillage addresses many of the difficulties facing the modern world - offering shared resources; reduced consumption and waste, as well as companionship and support. 

Today, there are ecoVillages in 70 countries across six continents. This site is a sharing of ideas, imagination, techniques and discoveries.

Living in the Future 1: Introducing Lammas from Living in the Future on Vimeo.

To see all the videos click HERE  http://vimeo.com/livinginthefuture/videos/sort:date/format:thumbnail

People Care in Permaculture Course -12/15 Aug - Portugal

Permaculture People Care, with Helder Valente and

 New School Permaculture.

Monday 12th – Thursday 15th August 2013

http://www.casalinho.com/people-permaculture-aug/

Learning to design and care for ourselves, our communities, and the planet.

This four day course is designed to be useful to anyone who interacts with others. So unless you’re a hermit, that’s YOU!

Perhaps you’ve ever asked one of these questions?

Managing people is so much harder than developing the land. How can I do it better?

Where do I start when trying to create and organise my project?

How do I keep the people involved in my project happy and inspired?

When challenges appear, how do I keep moving forward?

I want to keep inspired and manifest my vision for the future. How can I get support and help others realise their own visions?

Then this course will help you find solutions.

During the course we will explore:

Decision making

Social organisation

Conflict resolution

Power of celebration

Alternative economy

Sustainable community

….. and much more …..!

This course will be taught in English by Helder Valente. Helder is native Portuguese, so Portuguese speakers need not worry about translation for troubling words or ideas.

More info @

http://www.casalinho.com/people-permaculture-aug/

Permaculture Social Course - S.Miguel Island - Portugal October 2017

 PERMACULTURE SOCIAL COURSE

Island of S.Miguel - Azores - Portugal 

 On this course you will discover:

Positive communication, conflict resolution, project management, decision making, alternative economies, intentional communities, new school education.
 Learning to design and care for ourselves, our communities, and the planet.

This 5 day course is designed to be useful to anyone who interacts with others. So unless you’re a hermit, that’s YOU!
Have you ever asked yourself one of these questions?

Managing people is so much harder than developing the land. How can I do it better?

Where do I start when trying to create and organise my project?

How do I keep the people involved in my project happy and inspired?

When challenges appear, how do I keep moving forward?

I want to keep inspired and manifest my vision for the future. How can I get support and help others realise their own visions?

During the course we will explore:
Decision making
Social organisation
Conflict resolution
Power of celebration
Alternative economy
Sustainable community
….. and much more …..!

Who is Helder Valente
Helder Valente was born in the rural countryside of Portugal and raised in a family of sustainably living farmers, times wen oil was not a part of the current culture, neither was television. Already as a child he began observing the phenomenon of patterns in nature and the way elements relate and interact,.The connection with the language of nature was present at a very early age.

Wille living in an urban situation and practicing his gardening knowledge at the same time, he was introduced to permaculture, by that time he was supporting the development of a social center near the Sintra mountains in Portugal and working as an artist. Since then he has been researching and implementing sustainable structures in different social and ecological situations.

This past years he has been learning and working with recognized permaculturists like the cocreator of permaculture Bill Mollison, and other pioneers of this movement like geoff lawton, Doug Bullock, Rosemary Morrow, Darren Doherty and sepp holzer, to name a few, and in the major world climatic regions. In this process Helder has been researching & implementing sustainability principles in a wide variety of environments ,from urban and rural plotting in the north and south of Europe to the the arid landscapes of Egypt & Turkey and lately big scale areas of tropical jungles of Peru and Brazil, having the deep pleasure of sharing knowledge with tribal communities of the Andes and the Amazon jungle with the Quechua and Shipibo indigenous people.

Helder is now part of the european permaculture teachers partnership that functions as a networking generator to create exchange of information around permaculture education.
He has been ever expanding his expertise in diverse social and ecological contexts and finished the permaculture diploma theses with the british permaculture association around the subject of non formal education in permaculture as a way to support the future generations and became a tutor for the permaculture diploma jouneymans.In this maturing process he has been developing his own teaching style and created a nomadic educational program called “The New School Permaculture”, that is a mixture of many different pedagogic methods, and adding some spices of game therapy, its a form of education in wich he provides permaculture knowledge , totally based on the needs of the student, so by that …learner centered…and with a big focus on the creation of connections between the right and left side of the brain, to support the development of the full potential of the learner… he calls that creative empowering education.

O mundo das ecoaldeias

Eco Truly Park - Peru

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Projecto Biosfera 2 / Project Biosphere 2

O Projecto Biosfera 2 foi um projecto realizado no ano de 1986 no Arizona, nos Estados Unidos e tinha como objetivo a recriação do nosso ambiente natural artificialmente em forma de laboratório de pesquisas.

                     

O projecto O principal objetivo do projeto era a recriação do ambiente natural em laboratório. Onde os pesquisadores poderiam sobreviver, ao lado de outras espécies, isoladamente do meio exterior de forma auto-suficiente, além de estudar como o ser humano interage com o ambiente e que tipos de problemas podem surgir em sistemas fechados. Nele, se estudariam as condições da Biosfera "natural" (apelidada, pelos organizadores do projeto, de Biosfera 1). Os cientistas deveriam produzir seu própria comida e reciclar sua água e ar.

Foi necessária uma área de 12.000 metros quadrados do Arizona, onde foi construído o laboratório em forma de domo e inseridas mais de 3.800 espécies. Entre elas, animais e vegetais. Biomas inseridos no projecto Para um estudo integrado, foram recriados artificialmente no domo os seguintes biomas: Uma floresta tropical úmida, um "oceano" com 4.000.000 litros de água, um pantanal, um deserto, e uma savana. Além destes, havia uma área própria para a sobrevivência dos participantes do projeto.

Para garantir o sucesso do projeto, foram usados os seguintes aparelhos: Uma imensa estrutura laboratorial, aparelho de ondas artificiais, aquecedores e resfriadores, geradores de energia movidos a gás e a diesel, medidores eletrônicos para medir os gases atmosféricos existentes no domo, medidores de temperatura, além de controladores da circulação do ar. As tripulações do projeto A primeira equipe era composta por quatro homens e quatro mulheres, que conseguiram permanecer no domo por dois anos inteiros, sendo substituídos logo em seguida por uma nova equipe, composta de sete pessoas. Na nova equipe haviam cinco homens e duas mulheres.

O fracasso O Projeto Biosfera 2 falhou. A responsabilidade para os tripulantes era enorme. Era dever deles cuidar de todo o complexo tecnológico e ainda cuidar deles mesmos. O isolamento foi fraudulento. A composição do ar presente no domo também se tornou um grande problema, principalmente no que diz respeito ao oxigênio, que caíra constantemente. A grande riqueza do solo na Biosfera 2 levou à proliferação de microorganismos, cuja respiração consumia muito oxigênio. As plantações começaram a ser atacadas por pragas. A luz no domo não garantia fotossíntese suficiente para todas as espécies, inclusive a humana. As espécies polinizadoras logo morreram, impossibilitando a reprodução de algumas plantas. Das 25 espécies originais de animais utilizadas no projeto, somente 6 sobreviveram. E, por motivos ainda não explicados, sobreviveu uma quantidade exageradamente grande de baratas.

Futuramente O domo utilizado como laboratório para o projeto tornou-se uma grande atração turística. Além de já estar sendo visto como futura área de estudos e testes, como as variáveis interiores de gás carbônico.

Se acharam interessante a informação podem visitar o site oficial : http://www.b2science.org/