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A Brief Introduction to Permaculture

What is it and what can it do for you?

July 20, 2015 by Douglas Barnes 10 Comments

Firefox users please note: You will get a pop-up warning. The course has been tested on Firefox and will run if you are running an up-to-date version of Firefox on Windows Vista (or newer), Firefox OS (for mobile), Linux, or OS X (10.7, or newer). If you have difficulty, please use another browser.

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About Douglas Barnes

I'm a sustainable designer. I live in the countryside in Tweed, Ontario after calling different parts of Ontario and Japan home.

Comments

  1. Mikal Lambert says

    January 19, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Thanks for your generosity in offering this course freely. Unfortunately the short voice clips and the constant need to keep clicking “next” doesn’t work so well. It would be great to have entire subjects covered in one click rather than single sentences. I couldn’t make it to the end.

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    • Douglas Barnes says

      January 27, 2016 at 11:49 am

      Mikal, sorry the formatting didn’t work out for you. I’ll keep your advice in mind with future courses.

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      • MarQ says

        May 26, 2017 at 11:19 am

        Perhaps you can offer a choice to follow with pauses for those who need it like people who speak and understand english a little and a without pauses for those that can understand clearly. this would allow people who like learn faster to engage

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  2. Brian Jones says

    June 10, 2017 at 4:24 pm

    3*** out of 5*****!!!

    +3*** for teaching B. Mollison’s original 3 ethics & not indoctrinating us with a bunch of Marxist hippie WOO-WOO;-)
    -1* for the course not working with Firefox thus forcing me to use Win. Explorer.
    -1* for the Password formation torture, time loss & way TOO many clicks to continue such a short course.

    However, NOT bad for a 1st try at formatting and creating educational content!

    Best,

    BJ

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    • Douglas Barnes says

      June 12, 2017 at 11:36 am

      Sorry about the difficulties, Brian.

      The program throws up a warning for Firefox but does actually run on Firefox. The issue had been that Firefox previously did not support mp3 (which they now do).

      Could you tell me about the password issue you had? This course is open to all without registration as an issue, so if something asked you for a password, there was a serious and mysterious error that I would like to fix.

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      • Brian Jones says

        June 16, 2017 at 6:18 pm

        Hello Douglas,

        The Membership password security setting is very high IMO. Not that it is a bad thing it just took me a while to come up with a password that would pass the security muster.

        Best,

        BJ

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  3. chrstine says

    August 19, 2018 at 10:00 am

    I didn’t mind hitting the next button, as I like to write things out to learn. I have been doing a lot of investigating around this topic, and I find this short course to: explain information well, simplify, and leave you looking to learn more. Thanks for inspiring me further, and making it available for people to learn without the risk !! This I feel is a great service in its self to help nurse the earth back to health . . . . . knowledge of this method, and creating inspiration, so people can use their power to simply create for themselves !!
    Thank-you
    Christine

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  4. Terrance Thompson says

    November 25, 2019 at 3:59 am

    Very encouraging and enlightening, thank you.

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  5. Brian Garrett says

    February 29, 2020 at 1:14 am

    I think this was a great breif summary of permaculture. good work.

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  6. kalpesh says

    June 1, 2021 at 6:48 am

    I generally searching Introduction to Permaculture kind of article and I found your article which is related to my interest. Genuinely it is good and instructive information. Thankful to you for sharing an article like this.

    Reply

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