The Permaforst Trust, in partnership with National Environment Centre Campus of Riverina Institute of TAFE, is now offering Accredited Permaculture Training at Certificate 4 and Diploma levels at our program based in Byron Bay, Australia. Starts 2008.

Post Carbon Professionals

Our program is focused on helping you become a 'post carbon professional' by helping you apply permaculture principles and practices to the sustainability challenges of peak oil, climate change and other limits to growth. Training you to help communities transition to a lower carbon, sustainable future is our main goal. Our approach combines traditional training in hands on permaculture skills and design techniques with the latest in community development and project management. We focus on these post carbon strategies:

• Energy Descent Action Planning
• Community Climate Change Strategies
• Relocalization and Bioregional Planning
• Community Sustainability Initiatives
• Food Security
• Community Gardens
• Post Carbon Transition

Whether you are grafting permaculture skills onto an existing career, starting your working life or starting again, our course can give you the foundation skills to work as a sustainability professional in a meaningful career in a rapidly growing field.

What You Will Learn

• permaculture design
• permaculture principles and ethics 
• climatic factors in sustainability
• bioregional planning
• urban permaculture skills and strategies
• project management
• organic growing
• seed saving
• rainforest regeneration
• energy fundamentals
• sustainable forestry
• community networking and facilitation
• group development
• site analysis, surveying and mapping
• earth works design
• earth building
• appropriate alternative technologies
• soils and soil fertility
• administration and finance
• and much much more

Our Approach- Putting it all Together

Permaculture is a linking discipline based on understanding the natural patterns and principles for integrating many and different parts into healthy wholes. Our approach is to give you a new perspective in sustainability allowing you to create the patterns that connect the many and varied approaches and strategies found in sustainability work today. We have now entered the era of post carbon transition, and permaculture professionals will have a big opportunity to participate in putting it all together for a truly sustainable future.