We have events all over the metroplex and into East and North Texas. Our mission is deepen an understanding of permaculture design through practical sustainibilty. Our Programs include an annual Design Certification program as well as applied Permaculture Design to help you start living more sustainably. Our programs include tours of local sustainable homes, classes, hands-on training, annual events and festival demonstration booths. WHAT IS PERMACULTURE?? (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies. Permaculture's practical development in modern times is credited to Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer[1] on his own farm in the early 1960s and then theoretically developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and their associates during the 1970s in a series of publications. The word permaculture is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture, as well as permanent culture. The intent is that, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of design principles, those individuals can design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce society's reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying Earth's ecosystems. While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has developed a large international following. This "permaculture community" continues to expand on the original ideas, integrating a range of ideas of alternative culture, through a network of publications, permaculture gardens, intentional communities, training programs, and internet forums. In this way, permaculture has become a form of architecture of nature and ecology as well as an informal institution of alternative social ideals.