What you will learn:

This 7-week online course is designed to give you both the theory and practical tools for using permaculture to enhance your life from the individual to community level. In this course, based on (but going deeper than) Toby Hemenway’s book,The Permaculture City, you will:

• Learn about growing food, designing comfortable, energy-saving outdoor and indoor living spaces, creating habitat, conserving and harvesting water, reducing and recycling waste, and reducing your energy footprint—all using permaculture principles
• Discover ways to empower your community and make your city more livable
• Explore ways to develop a meaningful livelihood and foster a more sustainable relationship with money
• Develop an urban permaculture toolkit using real examples from innovators
• Learn permaculture-based solutions for problems faced by our rapidly urbanizing world

01

Permaculture Design with an Urban Twist:

我们如何建设性地利用城市、郊区和城镇的特殊条件，以便种植粮食，建设栖息地，节约用水，合理使用能源，生活得更好?Permaculture有一个非常适合城市和城镇生活的工具箱。在这节课中，我们将探讨在城镇满足我们的需求与在乡村做同样的事情有何不同，我们将学习一套重要的设计和思考工具，以创造富足。我们将介绍永动机设计的四个基本工具——区域、部门、需求和产量，以及最高使用——并看到如何在小院子、家庭、人际关系和工作中使用它们的例子。

02

Super-Abundance in the Small-Yard Garden:

We’ll see how the design tools we learned in Session 1 can help us grow huge amounts of food in small spaces, reduce pest problems, save water, shrink heating and cooling costs, boost biodiversity, and shrink the amount of work needed to do that. We’ll also see how some classic permaculture ideas, such as guilds and herb spirals, can be tweaked to fit the special conditions of the small yard.

03

More Small-Space Strategies: Finding More Room for Gardening:

In this session you’ll get familiar with several specific methods for growing lots of food in tiny spaces, and also how to assess what plants (food, ornamental, and habitat) will be the right ones for your own conditions and lifestyle. We’ll look at vertical gardening, using walls, containers, and mobile garden beds, and also we’ll see how to deal with the toxic soils that often exist in city yards.

04

Water Wisdom, Metropolitan Style:

我们怎样才能减少水费，减轻城市基础设施的负担，如下水道和水库(这可以减少我们的税收)?这一环节将关注雨水收集，灰水在小院子的使用，以及如何在家庭中节约用水。

05

Energy Solutions for Homes and Communities:

这节课将提供一些思考能源的工具，以及如何在不严重影响你的生活方式的情况下减少使用能源。对于我们需要的不同任务，什么是最好的燃料或能源?我们将学习一些工具，以便在使用能源和减少碳足迹方面做出明智的决定。

06

Livelihood, Real Wealth, and Becoming Valuable:

Here we’ll look at ways to reduce our dependence on money with innovative ideas like the eight forms of capital, and see how to create income security by becoming more valuable to our community. We’ll also explore ways to find meaningful work and livelihood.

07

Placemaking and Tools for Creating Empowered Communities:

How can we make our cities and towns more livable? How can we help our neighborhoods become places of safety and community? This session will look at placemaking, re-shaping our neighborhoods to be more cohesive and vibrant, and see from examples how our local governments can be made more responsive to our needs.