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Big Green Summer
Big Green Summer is the expansion of a successful internship program that has served hundreds of people over the last seven years. Big Green Summer provides education and practical experience in imagining, creating, and advocating for beyond-sustainable communities - human settlements that work with natures design to celebrate the abundance of life on earth. Students live in an environment that is a laboratory for what they are learning - high performance buildings built of natural, local materials, utilizing solar and wind power, with organic gardens, rain collection, and community service. Students do classroom study and hands on projects in renewable energy, organic agriculture and local food systems, perennial crops and agroforestry, edible landscaping, water and waste systems, building with local, natural materials, and using biofuels. We investigate the social service, cultural, and political institutions and organizations that make the renewable economy transition practical, possible, and desirable.
Big Green Summer 2008 will be May 24 - July 27. It includes a 2-week Permaculture Design Certification course, which may be taken separately. Successful completion of the Permaculture Design Certification course earns an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.
View Photos from Big Green Summer 2008 at Flickr.
- TOPICS
- Renewable Energy, Organic Agriculture, Tree Crops, Natural Building, Rainwater Systems, Living Machines, Urban Design, Ecovillages, Biofuels, Alternative Economic & Social Systems, the relationship of all this to the rest of life on earth.
- LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Workshops, conferences, independent study, hands-on, leadership training, & community service. Includes permaculture design certification course.
- FACILITIES
- Hosted in facilities that are a lab for what you learn - built of local natural materials, powered by solar & wind energy, with harvested rain for water, fed by our own organic gardens.
- Posters
- Email size, Letter size (8.5x11"), Legal size (8.5x14")
For more information about the 2008 program, click the links at left. You may also want to read about Big Green Summer 2007.
