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Section 10 - Glossary

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Online Permaculture Design Course
Section 10 – Glossary

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Section 10 - Glossary

April 27, 2025

10.1.1. Glossary

Online Permaculture Design Course

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Module 1

1 Chapter

Welcome!

Welcome

Module 2

2 Chapters

Section 1 - Permaculture Design Course (PDC)

Chapter 1.1. Permaculture Design Course

1.1.1. Welcome to Permaculture

1.1.2. The Aim of Permaculture

1.1.3. Why Permaculture?

1.1.7. Desertification

1.1.8. What is Permaculture

1.1.9. The Permaculture Flower

1.1.10. Land and Nature Stewardship

1.1.11. Built Environment

1.1.12. Invisible Structure

1.1.13. Finance and Economics

1.1.14. Governance and Land Tenure

Student Progress

Section 1 Completion Report

Module 3

8 Chapters

Section 2 - Permaculture Design Tools

2.1. Ethics

2.2. Class Assignments

2.2.1. Learning

2.2.2. Design Assignment

2.3. Principles of Permaculture

2.3.1. Principles of Permaculture

2.3.2. Observe and Interact

2.3.3. Catch and Store Energy

2.3.4. Obtaining a Yield

2.3.5. Apply Self Regulation and Feedback

2.3.6. Use and Value Renewable Resources

2.3.7. Produce No Waste

2.3.8. Design from Pattern to Detail

2.3.9. Integrate - Don't Segregate

2.3.10. Use Small and Slow Solutions

2.3.11. Use and Value Diversity

2.3.12. Use the Edge and Value the Marginal

2.3.13. Creatively Use and Respond to Change

2.3.14. Bill Mollison's Permaculture Principles

2.4. Additional Design Tools

2.4.1. Base Map

2.4.4. Client Interview and Assessment

2.4.5. Design Tools

2.4.6. Design Staging and Installation

2.4.7. Design Process

2.5. Pattern Language

2.5.1. Overview

2.5.2. Branching

2.5.4. Net or Cracking

2.5.5. Circles, Including Wheel and Spoke (Radial)

2.5.7.Overbeck Jet

2.5.8. Ekman Spirals

2.5.9. Windbreaks

2.5.10. General Core Model

2.5.11. Invisible Structure Patterns

2.5.12. Fibonacci (Optional study)

2.5.14. Summary

2.6. Scale of Permanence

2.6.1. Introduction

2.6.3. Landform

2.6.5. Roads and Access

2.6.7. Structures

2.6.8. Subdivision

2.6.10. Microclimate

2.6.11. Zones of Use

2.6.12. Aesthetics and Experience

2.6.13. Culture, Economics, Political, Social and Spiritual

2.7. Design Tool Appendix

2.7.1. Introduction

2.7.2. Client Interview

2.7.3. Site Assessment

2.7.4. Site Assessment Resources

Student Progress Section 2

Student Progress Section 2

Module 4

6 Chapters

Section 3 - Land and Nature Stewardship

3.1. Introduction

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Climate

3.2.2. Microclimates - Aspect

3.2.3. Altitude

3.2.5. Vegetation

3.2.6. Frost and Cold Air Drainage

3.2.7. Water Mass

3.2.8. Structures

3.2.10. Creating Microclimates - Case Studies

3.3. Water

3.3.1. Introduction

3.3.2. Water Techniques for Permaculture Landscapes

3.3.3. Earthworks

3.3.5. What CouldPossibly Go Wrong?

3.3.7. Net and Pan

3.3.8. Small Earthwork

3.3.9. Rain Gardens

3.3.10. Broadscale or Watershed Earthworks

3.3.11. Chinapas

3.3.12. Gabions

3.3.13. Half Dams

3.3.14. One Rock Dam and Zuni Bowls

3.3.15. Keypoint Dams

3.3.16. Keyline

3.3.17. Dam Building

3.3.18. Measuring Slope

3.3.19. Summary

3.4. Soils

3.4.1. Basic Soil Science

3.4.2. Physical Characteristics of Soil

3.4.3. Chemicals In Soil

3.4.4. Organic Aspects of Soil

3.4.6. Building Soil

3.4.7. Composting

3.4.8. More Soil Building Techniques

3.5. Food Systems

3.5.1. Succession

3.5.2. Food Forest

3.5.3. Nitrogen Fixing Plants

3.5.4. Low Water Tree Planting

3.5.5. Growing From Seed

3.5.6. Agroforestry

3.5.7. Animals In Permaculture

3.5.9. Florida Plant List

3.5.10. Syntropic Agriculture

Student Progress Section 3

Student Progress Section 3

Module 5

4 Chapters

Section 4 - Built Environment

4.1. Built Environment

4.1.1. Introduction

4.1.2. Care For the Planet

4.1.3. Strategies for Heating and Cooling

4.1.6. Putting It Together

4.2. Natural Building

4.2.1. Introduction

4.2.2. Straw Bale

4.2.4. Rammed Earth

4.2.6. Hempcrete, Kenafcrete & Aircrete

4.2.7. Repurposed Materials

4.2.8. Tiny Homes

4.2.9. Village Scale Design

4.2.10. Further Study

4.3. Appropriate Technology

4.3.1. Introduction

4.3.2. Ancient & Indigenous Examples

4.3.3. Appropriate Tech

4.3.4. Large Scale Solutions

4.3.5. Further Resources

Student Progress Section 4

Student Progress Section 4

Module 6

2 Chapters

Section 5 - Education and Culture

5.1. Invisible Structures

5.1.1. Introduction

5.1.2. Why Culture?

5.1.3. Why is Culture So Important?

5.1.4. Building Culture

5.1.5. What About Lost Cultures?

5.1.7. Regenerative and Permanent Cultures

Student Progress Section 5

Student Progress Section 5

Module 7

2 Chapters

Section 6 - Finance and Economics

6.1. What is Economics?

6.1.1. Introduction

6.1.2. Economics 101

6.1.3. What Is Money?

6.1.4. Financial Permaculture Tools

6.1.5. Design Tool

6.1.6. Land Access

6.1.7. Permaculture Businesses

6.1.8. Scaling Economic Solutions

6.1.10. Further Resources

Student Progress Section 6

Student Progress Section 6

Module 8

7 Chapters

Section 7 - Community Governance & Land Tenure

7.1. Strategies for Regenerative Culture

7.1.1. Why Community Building?

7.1.2. Childhood

7.1.5. Land Access (Land Tenure)

7.1.6. Community

7.2. Food In the Commons

7.2.1. Public Food Forest

7.2.2. Guerilla Gardening - Taking Back The Common

7.2.3. Community Gardens - Design for Connection

7.2.4. Hedgerows in England

7.3. Land Tenure

7.3.1. Introduction

7.3.3. Sweet Equity

7.3.4. Investor Owned Land

7.4. Sharing Economy

7.4.1. Introduction

7.4.2. Seed and Plant Swap

7.4.3. Tool Sharing Library

7.4.4. Create Clearwater

7.5. Intentional Communities

7.5.1. Introduction

7.5.2. Agreements Are Everything

7.5.3. Work Through Emotional Issues Up Front

7.5.4. Have Formal Ways to Resolve Conflicts

7.5.5. Building Community

7.6. Community Food Production (OPTIONAL)

7.6.1. Community Food Production

Student Progress Section 7

Student Progress Section 7

Module 9

2 Chapters

Section 8 - After the PDC

8.1. Where Do We Go From Here?

8.1.2. Continuing Formal Education

8.1.3. Specialty Studies

8.1.4. Hands On Learning

8.1.5. Community Opportunities

8.1.6. Further Study

Student Progress Section 8

Student Progress Section 8

Module 10

1 Chapter

Section 9 - Feedback

9.1. Feedback

9.1.1. Feedback

Module 11

1 Lesson

Section 10 - Glossary

10.1.1. Glossary

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