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Call for Volunteers – Regional Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Turkey
Conferences,Courses/Workshops,General,News — by Dijan Albayrak
The Permaculture Research Institute Turkey is planning to host three prominent events in summer 2012. First a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course will be organized in Istanbul on 30 June — 12 July, 2012; held by two legendary trainers, Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. Following the PDC, a Regional Permaculture Conference will take place in Istanbul on the 14th of July. Last but not least the PIT would like to welcome you at its field practice venue; Marmariç village in Izmir, for the Regional Permaculture Convergence – the Mediterranean, Balkans Caucasus and Middle East.
This open call aims to inform you about these events and to form an international prep team for the preparations.
Below, further explanations are provided about the events. We wanted to reach out to a group of existing contacts of the institute, in order to ask for your support. We look for volunteers who would like to join our International Prep Team (IPT).
Comments (0)Posted on: 25 January 2012
Rocket Stove Course – Video
Courses/Workshops,Design,Events, Resources & News,Retrofitting — by Plassmann - Arbeiter
Below you can see a short film from the Rocket Stove Course.
Comments (0)Posted on: 02 September 2011
Rocket Stove Course with Carlotta Werner – 27/28 Aug 2011
Courses/Workshops,Events, Resources & News — by Yasin Sancak
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Each day more than half of world’s population burns almost three million tons of firewood on open fires or traditional stoves. This causes 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year and massive environmental consequences. Usually, traditional stoves are producing much more health damaging smoke and burn much more biomass fuel than needed. Energy efficient biomass-burning stoves can help to solve these problems. But to be sustainable they have to meet users’ requirements and local manufacturing possibilities.
Comments (1)Posted on: 29 June 2011
An Interview with Geoff Lawton
Events, Resources & News,Interview,News — by Senem Tufekcioglu
Interview: Senem Tüfekçioğlu, PDC Istanbul 2010, December, 2010
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During the PDC, you mentioned that in a real recipe book, the location and the season of the dish must be given. Can you please explain why?
Yes, it’s because we need to eat fresh food and we need to eat local food. With minimum distance from where it’s harvested to where it is consumed. Because that’s the local food that’s got the synergy of energy and undeniably rich. Local food that is absolutely fresh. Now, if we set those criteria on recipes, we end up with the ultimate food franchise of really fresh food that is grown in season and food that is grown throughout the year with no real season in the perennial food. And we end up with this wonderful mixture of identifying food to place to people. And that’s what we need for a healthy people and a healthy globe.
What do you would change if we built city farms all around Turkey?
I think, people’s happiness would change. People’s health would change. And people’s understanding of what we need to do to be sustainable would change. So, we would gain personal identity as well. That’s we need. We need identity, as in this is the culture of the people; this is the people of the land.
Comments (0)Posted on: 10 June 2011
Take a PDC with Bill Mollison & Geoff Lawton in Istanbul
Courses/Workshops,News — by Yasin Sancak
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Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton are coming to Istanbul, the ancient city flanking the strait of Bosphorus – the edge between continents, climates and cultures – to deliver a PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course. This is the first event bringing the two legendary permaculture teachers together in the Northern Hemisphere. The full 72-hour PDC course starts on the 21st of November and ends on the 4th of December 2010.
Since the first Permaculture Design Course was offered in 1972, people from widely diverse backgrounds and interests have graduated. Farmers, ranchers, landowners, foresters, landscape designers, architects, builders, planners, developers, accountants, financiers, bankers, publishers, attorneys, aid workers, educators, environmentalists and high school students have all brought Permaculture techniques into their homes, businesses and communities. This course is for anyone interested in gaining practical skills and perspective for sustainable living and productivity.
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