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Permaculture offers positive solutions to the looming crisis of peak oil, energy depletion and climate change. It offers a better life and an abundant ecological future.
Permaculture directives can be applied on any scale in all climate zones and improve the triple bottom line - economics, environment and community.
Permaculture views pollution as misplaced energy. We see waste streams as potential profitable opportunities. Permaculture improves trashed environments, harvests water, builds soil and reduces fossil fuel consumption, saves energy.
We design to encourage high yielding sustainable production integrating landscape, people, animals, plants, buildings and community in harmonious soft-energy living systems.
Permaculture proves that by following nature’s patterns, human design can successfully preserve and improve productivity by mimicking nature’s self-maintaining systems. 
Watch “Greening the Desert” and you’ll get the picture.
Permaculture education and outreach. Permaculture design course information.
www.hancockpermaculture.org
CONTACT
Andrew Leslie Phillips
372 West Front Street
Hancock, New York. NY 13783. U.S.A.
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917-771-9382 (USA)
Andrew Leslie Phillips — Studied permaculture with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, in New Orleans and Melbourne, Australia. He is a certified permaculture teacher and founder of the Hancock Permaculture Center located in Hancock (Delaware County), NY, dedicated to the philosophy and practice of permaculture in the upper Delaware and western Catskills bioregion. 
Andrew Jones — A board member of the Permaculture Research Institute, with a background in international emergency response and post-conflict development and rehabilitation. He ran a 40,000-person refugee camp in Macedonia for CARE International and spent three years on the ground in Iraq following the first Gulf War. Andrew has seen the devastating affects of natural disasters working with the U.N. in Aceh Province, Indonesia on tsunami rehabilitation and in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. A native of Australia, Andrew is a leading U.S. based teacher and international consultant. 
Albert Bates — Director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee since 1994, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology to students from more than 50 nations. 
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Geoff Lawton — A world-renowned permaculture practitioner. Emigrated from England to Australia and studied permaculture with the originator, Bill Mollison, in Tasmania. Founded the Permaculture Research Institute on Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147-acre farmstead previously developed by Mollison. Since 1985, Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects in 18 countries for private individuals and groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, and multinational corporations. He has taught the Permaculture Design Certificate course in 20 countries.
Darren Doherty — Since 1993 Darren has been one of Australia’s busiest permaculture designer’s, delivering high quality sustainable property design services to over 1,100 clients throughout Australia and S.E. Asia. He gained his Permaculture Diploma in 1995. His specialization is designing & developing broad acre properties and he is a highly experience terra former/earth worker and designer of sustainable forestry systems. He has published many articles on these topics. He is also expert in GIS/GPS/CAD mapping technology applicable for large-scale planning, and an experienced machinery operator and agricultural machinery designer and developer. An approved Keyline Design® consultant, Accredited Permaculture Training™ and Whole Farm Planning Trainer, Daren has co-taught permaculture courses with the originators, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. Darren also manages two working broad acre permaculture research farms in Australia and Viet Nam on behalf of corporate clients.
