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Learn ‘How to Live Green’on a 7-day Travel&Learn™

Caribbean Vacation

The Tubagua Plantation Eco Village commands a spectacular panoramic view of the north coast of the Dominican Republic

Here’s a chance to enjoy a Caribbean vacation while

learning about the fast-growing Permaculture movement.

You’ll go home knowing how to transform your backyard, or high-rise balcony, with the latest landscape design trend,

an organic, beautifully sculpted garden—that you can eat!

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What is Permaculture?

Permaculture – from permanent and agriculture – is an integrated design philosophy. It draws from the patterns in nature and encompasses gardening, architecture, horticulture, ecology, even money management and community design. This pholosophy is gaining popularity and importance particularly now with people’s growing concern over the health of our planet.

Permaculture takes root with the following core values:

• Earthcare – recognizing that Earth is the source of all life, that Earth is our valuable home, and that we are a part of it, not apart from it.• Peoplecare – supporting and helping each other to change to ways of living that

do not harm ourselves or the planet, and to develop healthy societies.• Fairshare (or assessing consumption) - ensuring that Earth’s limited resources are used in ways that are equitable and wise.

The intent of the permaculture movement is to enable, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of principles, to be able to design and build their own, increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce society’s reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that threaten to destroy Earth’s ecosystems.

Bill Mollison founded the permaculturemovement in Australia in the 1970’s

Visit these links to learn more about

Bill Mollison and Permaculture:

• YouTube Documentary

• Published Interview

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CourseDetails

This course is ideal as a personal interest course and as fast-track primary education for career professionals — educators, architects, politicians, city planners—who need to quickly acquire practical knowledge and applications relevant to the current issues of caring for our planet. This is a cost- and time-efficient way to plug into the globally current and critical issues of sustainability and of ʻliving green.ʼ

While learning the principles of permaculture you will also learn how to apply the skills, through designing and creating organic food gardens in an environment that everybody lives in—their own home.

The tools you acquire work anywhere— on your high-rise balcony, front lawn or back-nine acres—providing you not only with practical knowledge but the promise of the perrenial pleasure and personal satisfaction that comes from seeing a

garden—one you can eat and then it grows back—come to fruition.

Topics covered include:

• The fundamentals and principles of permaculture design

• Raising & preserving most of your own food

• Gardening on concrete, on roofs & in apartments

• Techniques for dramatically reducing energy use

• Generating income from your home or lot

• Effective methods for harvesting rainwater

• Beautiful, functional and edible landscape design

• Garden designs that increase production while reducing labor

• Simple neighborhood re-works that promote community

• What is at the heart of creating a ʻpermanent-cultureʼ

About 65% of the course is spent in the

classroom. The rest of is spent outside,

exploring patterns and features of the landscape as well as participating in actual permaculture design work. Each student will be involved in the brainstorming of several permaculture designs while also working on a project of their own.

Click here to inquire or reserve... or visit www.tubagua.com

Permaculture Design Certification

This is not a Permaculture Design Certification Course (PDC). However

it does carry credit for those who might later want to acquire full

permaculture design accreditation. If you are interested in this please say

so in your inquiry email.

This Travel&Learn Vacation™ packages costs US$1,450 per

person and includes, tuition and course materials, lodging, meals,

airport transfers and planned local activitiies. Airfare is extra.MORE DETAILS ON LAST PAGE

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Tubagua Plantation Eco Village hosts your Travel&Learn™ permaculture experience in the Dominican Republic More and more people are saving time and money by compressing their vacation time and their personal development interests into one significant travel experience. Recognizing that travel is supposed to be playtime, while personal development can sound like work, we have created an ideal balance of study, personal and recreational time to ensure that you enjoy a unique travel adventure with plenty of fun built in, and that you go home feeling enriched and rejuvenated.

You will stay at Tubagua Plantation Eco Village, a rustic, mountainside lodge that commands awe-inspiring views of the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Getting here is easy; it’s just a short flight from the eastern U.S. seaboard (3 hours from New York, 90 minutes from Miami)

Instructor Wayne Weiseman

Accredited permaculture expert Wayne Weisemen enjoys a 25-year career in sustainable development and holds a teaching certificate from the Permaculture Institute of Australia, the original institute founded by the father of permaculture, Bill Mollison.

His experience in herbal farming, renewable energy and as a building contractor converge in Southern Illinois at Dayempur Farm, a self-reliant community that integrates organic farming, “green” buildings and renewable energy systems.

Dayempur operates as a learning center for permaculture, providing corporate and community consulting services as well as curriculum development for

academic and professional applications. He has worked extensively with corporate executives in the areas of team-building and strategic planning, by teaching how to harness the cycles and connections found in nature.

“Wayne’s depth of understanding and his ability to convey the concepts of permaculture are impressive and inspiring” says student Peter Lynch, a ‘green’ architect living in New York.

Wayne currently resides in Carbondale, Illinois, with his wife Frannie and their pre-teen daughter.

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to Puerto Plata International Airport, followed by a short, 20-minute ride into the mountains.

Conceived to provide an authentic Dominican countryside experience in comfortable surroundings for up to 30 people, Tubagua has been used as the location for magazine fashion shoots and a feature film. The social area centers around a grassy terrace featuring a spring-

fed cocktail pool and a bar/dining area looking out over the panoramic view. Accommodations are simple yet very comfortable single and queen beds in grass roofed palapas featuring canvas walls; some say it feels like “camping in luxury”. The 12-acre Tubagua Plantation is an ideal place to relax for a few days immersed in nature and village life.

Meals are important at Tubagua. Guests are invited to

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participate in meal preparation in the typical open kitchen. Bountiful and fresh, each meal is a pleasant social event featuring natural ingredients from the surrounding countryside.

Tubagua Plantation is dedicated to eco-tourism, philanthropic and educational travel, sustainable development and fair trade practices. For photos and more information about Tubagua visit www.tubagua.com

Booking InformationDates: December 1-8, 2010Participants: Min 10 - Max 20Cost: US$1,450 plus airfare. Companions sharing quarters pay $1,250 each. Inquire for group discounts (8+), private courses, etc. Package price includes: tuition and course materials, 7 nights lodging, meals, airport transfers and planned local activitiies (see schedule). Beverage, and meals offsite are extra unless indicated. Deadline for reservations: October 15, 2010.$100 discount for reservations made before September 1st.

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Schedule Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 87:00

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Breakfast8:30 Classroom Classroom Classroom ssroom Classroom Classroom12:30 Lunch2:00 Beach

ShuttleField Workor Trip

Field Workor Trip

Field Work Field Workor Trip

BeachShuttle3:30 Field Work

6:00 Personal Time7:30 Dinner Party!8:30 Movie Permaculture Discussion Personal

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