Permaculture Diploma Accreditation
Peter Bane
- Address: PO Box 1209, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 28711 Tel: 828-669-6336 Fax: 828-669-5068
Email: pcactivist@mindspring.com
Format: One speaker, no presentation material, questions at end Peer review panel, assessing Peter’s work in terms of Design skills, Theory in Action, Evaluation and costings, dissemination, community building and symmetry. After presentation the panel discussed Peter’s work under these parameters and accredited him with his diploma the following morning
Summary
Peter Bane, Editor of ‘Permaculture Activist’ magazine, presented a synopsis of his work stretching over a decade.
Key Points
- Design Skills – done a number of designs
- Theory in Action – All in his presentation proved he is walking the talk
- Evaluation and costing – the business side of the magazine
- Dissemination - Work with the magazine – editor since 1990, used each edition as a teaching session for himself; radio interviews, written many articles for the magazine and others.
- Community building – ‘Earth Haven’ community is his home
- Symmetry – acknowledged his teachers and has present over 400 Permaculture Design Certificates, over twenty of whom are now teaching.
Wise words
- ‘Conflict is normal – its human make space for it and if you’re not used to it, take homeopathic doses until you are’
- ‘Consensus – don’t do it if you don’t know how’
[Scribe: Hannah Thorogood]