Argentine
Permaculture Institute http://www.gaia.org.ar/english/iinstituto.htm
The Argentine Permaculture
Institute(IAP) was created
by GAIA Association (a non-profit
civil organization).
The IAP works together with
grassroot organizations
and public or private institutions
that are committed to the
design of sustainable human
settlements in any biophisic,
social, ecological or cultural
context, and to preserve,
restore and understand natural
ecosystems, integrating
traditional and modern disciplines,
knowledge and technologies.
Associacion
Gaia Gustavo
Ramirez
and Silvia Balado
Almafuerte 1732, San Martin,
Buenos Aires 1650, Argentina
54+14-752-2197, 54+2-272-4-920072
http://www.gaia.org.ar
Jaqueline
Pithon cx .Postal
45 Gravatá, Pernambuco CEP
55640 - 000 (She was one of
our first Presidents of the
Bahian Institute, presently
owns a farm which is being
transformed into an agroforest
system)
Bolivia
Pc
Allyu Verde, Klaus Lotz,
Lot 2, Casilla, Cochabamba,
5279, Bolivia Ph: int+ (591)
0411 2605
The
latin American Permaculture
Institute - A grassroots
non governmental organization
working for the implementation
of ecologically well designed
ecosystems and ecovillage
building in Latin America.Contact:
Enrique Hidalgo, P.O.Box
3727 Correo Central, Marquina,
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel: 01968759 or 04-264693,
Email: ecovillas@hotmail.com
Brazil
Instituto
de Permacultura Cerrado-Pantanal Rua Horto da
Olivieras 738, Bairro Granja
São Luis, Campo Grande,
CEP 79074-070, Mato Grosso
do Sul, Brasil.
Tel 67 385 0546, email
. Main activities courses
in permaculture, reforrrestry
programs, seed collecting,
local development (in indigenous
and rural reform settlements),
local economic systems and
construction of demonstration
site/school. Ecosystems
in which we work, Cerrado
(tropical savanna) and Amazonia
(wet tropics).
http://www.permear.org.br/
A Rede Permear integra permacultores
de vários estados
brasileiros e do Distrito
Federal. Em muitos casos,
estes permacultores organizam-se
e mantém estações
de permacultura. Para melhor
lhe atendermos, sugerimos,
portanto, que procures contactar
diretamente algum permacultor
ou estação
de pemacultura mais
próximo de você.
Gui Castagna
+ 55 (12) 3832-1476
Ubatuba / São Paulo
Humid
tropics of Brazil Marcio Armando
He has taught many Permaculture
courses, specialist on Savannah
(“Cerrado”) and Amazonas
ecosystems , presently works
in the Brazilian germplasm
center
e-mail
André
Miccolis EQS 104/304 cx. Postal
002214 Brasilia, Brazil,
DS 70349 - 970
Brother of the founder
of “Fazenda Lua”, the
first Permaculture project
in Brazil, and himself
founder of "Instituto
Salvia". They are implanting
a demonstration project
near Brasilia.
+55 (061) 912 -1563
Débora
Geane Instituto de Permacultura
em Terras Secas (Drylands)
tel /fax c/o Garra +55 74
641 2570
Cx. Postal 73, Irecê, Brazil
Bahia e-mail:
Carlos
Miller Av. Torquato Tapajos
5408 Sala B, Flores Manaus
69048 - 000, Brazil
tel/fax +55 71 692 4011
Moacir
Bionda tel/fax + 926 54-4699
e-mail:
(Moacir is
a widely-recognized specialist
on Amazonian medicinal herbs)
Amazonas Contact for Ali
Sharif of the Instituto
de Permacultura de Amazonas
: email
Claudio
Sanchotene Trinidade Demetrio Ribeiro,
961/72
Centro Porto Alegre, RS
tel + 55 51 226 1436 fax
+55 51 221 4082
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande
do Sul ( extreme south,
sub-tropic /temperate)
Claudio is especially
interested in eco-villages
and cooperativism, and
is presently working with
associations of farmers
which occupy the edges
of natural reserves, to
create "green belts "
which preserve the natural
areas.
Adriana
Junqueira Fonseca Faz. Helena, Cx Postal
51, Guaracai,SP. 16950
- 000
tel +55 18 775 - 1268
Part of a group of young
farmers, all agronomists
graduates from Rio de
Janeiro, who meet regularly
to implant Permaculture
systems ( region of sugarcane
monoculture)
André Soares Permaculture teacher
in Projeto Novas Fronteiras
de Cooperativismo Ministério
de Agricultura Brasilia
e-mail
Has given many courses around
Brazil, contact in the federal
government. He and colleagues
are trying to bring Permaculture
into the federal agrotechnical
schools, apparently ( hopefully!)
with success.. For publications
in Portuguese (Brazilian
magazine, translation of
the Introduction, coursebook
of André Soares, etc.):
Fernando Soares
Permacultura
America Latina' (Brazil) Amad Ali Sharif (president),
and his friend Fernando
Soares,
other Brazilian email links:
Instituto
Gaucho de Permacultura,
Sitio Pe na Terra, Lomba
Grande, Novo
Hamburgo, Pe RS, 93 490
000, Brazil
Ph/Fax: int+
(55) 51 596 11 14
Pc
Institute of Brasilia,
Maria Indindoli, Fazenda
Lua (Moon Farm)
S.Q.S. 108, Bloco H, Apto.
305, Brasilia, D.F. 70347
- 080, Brazil
Ph/Fax: int + (55) 61
244 2218
Instituto
de Permacultura da Bahia,
Brazil
Marsha
Hanzi, http://www.permacultura-bahia.org.br/
permaculture@permacultura-bahia.org.br
Rua dos Colibris, 557,
sl 108
Imbui, Salvador, BA, CEP
41729-060
71-3232-4025
Fax 71-3461-7726
Our speciality has become
the training of young
professionals in the areas
of agriculture, biology,
architechture, and education.
We are particularly interested
in training "multipliers"
( changing paradigms,preparing
teachers etc.) and have
begun an apprentice program
Vale
da Esperança and
Lua Ecological Sanctuary A 10 year old
permaculture project featuring
Ethno-Botanical Gardens,
Permaculture, Agroforestry,
Eco-tourism, Retreats,
workshops, Research and
Work-exchange.
http://www.yatra.yage.net/vale.htm
Instituto
de Permacultura e Ecovilas
da Pampa (IPEP) Estrada
Higienópolis, 17
- Zona Rural, Bagé/RS
- CEP 96410-490,
fone: (53) 241-0665
(53) 9977-1220 http://www.permacultura.org.br/ipep
Instituto
de Permacultura em Terras
Secas - IPETERRAS
is a farm based in Bahia,
Brazil, based on Pc ethics
and principles. Foreign
visitors and volunteers
welcome. Contact: Estrada
do Mocozeiro, km 03, Caixa
Postal 27, Irecê,
Bahia, Brazil, Tel: (74)
9121 0776, Email: ongipeterras@yahoo.com.br
Chile
Instituto
Chileno de Permacultura http://permaculturachile.org
jose@permaculturachile.org
The ICdP, true to the authentic
definition of a permaculture
institute, is a broad national
permaculture organization,
a learning community designed
on chaordic principles.
The institute is based on
a national collective of
autonomous bioregional networks
organizing for transition.
Our organization is driven
by a core group of Permaculture
Design Certificate holders
and a Diploma Worknet founded
on the basis of Action Learning.
Ecoescuela
El Manzano
- A learning community,
self-organising for resilience,
practicing sustainable living
in the Biobío region
of Chile. Part of a local
community organising ourselves
for resilience, part of
a family taking responsibility,
a household trying to meet
its own needs from as close
to home as possible through
economy that regenerates.
Contact: Grifen Hope, Email:
grifenhope@gmail.com
Colombia
Fundación
CIPAV (Centro
para la Investigacion en
Sistemas Sostenibles de
Produccion Agropecuaria),
Carrera 2 Oeste # 11-54,
Cali, Colombia
Telef: +57(2) 8930931
- 8930898 - 8935492 Fax:
+57(2) 8935535
mailto:
http://www.cipav.org.co/
Costa
Rica
Punta
Mona (Monkey Point)
- Our Center for Sustainable
Living & Education
Punta Mona is a 30-acre
organic farm and educational
retreat center dedicated
to bringing about environmental
consciousness by creating
an example of sustainable
living through permaculture
design methods including
eco-technology, organic
farming, and a sense of
community. Surrounded
by primary rainforest
and fronted by the pristine,
coconut fringed Caribbean
Sea, Punta Mona is an
ideal retreat for student
travelers and groups wishing
to connect to the land,
its resources, and its
people.
El
Centro Verde, Paraiso,
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Tom Peifer 506-2658-8018
An awareness of global issues
drives El Centro Verde to
seek techniques and solutions
for “the problems
of tomorrow’s world.”
Innovation is based on observation,
respect for local knowledge
and feedback, and a constant
process of trial, error
and synthesis. Sustainable
solutions developed or under
ongoing research at El Centro
Verde:
Multi-tier agroforestry
Chinampas ancient growing
bed system
Perennial/annual crop research
Constructed wetlands
Composting in the wet/dry
tropics
Vetiver Plus Bamboo For
Lightweight/Grown-On-Site
Roofing System
Natural Materials For Seed
Pretreatment Of Corn, Beans
Squash
Vetiver Rolls And Palm Leaf
Rolls For Erosion Control
Pre-Vegetated Erosion Control
Rolls Planted Out When It
Rains
Native Wetlands Plants For
Constructed Wetlands And
Infiltration Basins
Bamboo And Native Stake-Sprouting
Trees For Streambank Retention
Native Fish For Mosquito
Control
“Living Gabions”
of bamboo - gabions are
baskets or cages that hold
material used to build a
support or abutment.
Mighty
Rivers Eco-farm
For those of you interested
in eco-tourism or eco-agriculture,
we now offer tours and budget
lodging at Mighty Rivers
Eco-farm. We offer simple,
affordable accomodations
including bed and breakfast
along with a first hand
view of our nature friendly,
sustainable farming operation
amid jungle, rivers and
wildlife in this tropical
Caribbean setting of Limon
Province, Costa Rica. info@mightyrivers.net
Nathan Lapp..011 506 386-8833
Phone in USA...001 540 801-0649
San
Juanillo EcoRetreat Center
Our 66-acre property is
located in the hills of
San Juanillo, Costa Rica.
San Juanillo is a small
fishing village in a tropical
dry forest ecosysyem, in
the middle of Guanacaste
province on the Northern
Pacific Coast. It is a relatively
remote area that has recently
begun to attract international
residents involved in establishing
communities. Nosara B&B
506-682-0209
nosarabandb@yahoo.com
Red
Permanezca - Permaculture
information, courses and
education in Costa Rica.
Contact: P.O.Box 419-1250
Escazu, Costa Rica, Tel:
(506) 8398 2364, Email:
redpermanezcacr@gmail.com
Ecuador
Fundacion
Golondrinas (Cerro Golondrinas
Cloudforest
Conservation Project)
Centro Productivo y Educativo
Agroforestal
in Guallupe / La Carolina,
Western Slopes of the
Andes
Piet Sabbe or Eliza Manteca
Onate, Calle Isabel La
Catolica 1559, Quito,
Ecuador.
Ph: int+ (590) 2 22 6602
Fax: int + (593) 2 22
2390
Permacultura
America Latina Ecuador
http://www.permacultura.org/ecuador.html
PAL
began its activities in
South America with its first
projects in Ecuador in 1989.
In the Andes a bilingual
education school was created
in Cayambe and on the coast
in San Lorenzo a series
of community programs were
developed around the nucleus
of a permaculture farm model
which has since become a
regionally important seed
bank. In the Amazon work
with the Huaorani has been
the subject of a prize winning
book and numerous articles
in magazines such as the
New Yorker. Our students
have been the recipients
of the Rolex Award and numerous
Community Service awards.
Peru
Permacultura
America Latina Peru http://www.permacultura.org/peru.html
PAL began working with the
Shipibo in early 1995 in
the Ucayali region of the
Peruvian Amazon. A village
development program resulted
in the construction of five
wells, a womens sewing and
kitchen cooperative and
an agroforestry system.
Working with indigenous
fishermen we pioneered the
development of the Shipibo
aquaculture model.
Maya
Mountain Research Farm
Tucked
into the foothills of
the Maya Mountains, two
miles up river from the
village of San Pedro Columbia
in southern Belize, Maya
Mountain Research Farm
is a registered non-governmental
organization and working
demonstration farm that
promotes sustainable agriculture,
appropriate technology
and food security using
permacultural principles
and applied biodiversity.
With over 20 years of
work, Maya Mountain Research
Farm is one of the oldest
ongoing permaculture projects
in Central America.
We cultivate hundreds
of species at MMRF in
our established agro-forestry
system, a lush, productive
tropical food forest.
We are building and fine-tuning
an agro-ecological system
that conserves natural
resources, and supports
the surrounding ecosystem
in providing valuable
ecological services such
as carbon sequestration,
soil and water retention,
and the creation of wildlife
habitat.
San Pedro Columbia, Toledo,
PO
153 Punta Gorda Town,
Toledo, BELIZE, Central
America
El
Salvador
CESTA Carlos
Canos & Silva Flores
Apdo 3065,Calle PTE 316,
San Salvador, El Salvador
Ph: int+ (503) 225 6746
Fax: int+ (503) 226 6903
The
Permaculture Institute of
El Salvador (IPES) was founded
as an independent organization
in 2002 by small farmers
concerned to halt the destruction
of their environment and
way of life. Over the past
6 years, we have built a
network of subsistence farmers
who work with ecological
farming methods. We have
a training centre and 4
demonstration permaculture
sites, the most important
of which is the ecological
community La Florida in
the La Libertad department.
Our aim is to train community
leaders within poor rural
areas to enable them to
tackle the environmental
crises that face them.
http://www.permacultura.org/elsalvador.html
Guatemala
Permacultura
America Latina Guatemala
Our work in Guatemala began
in 1995, in and around San
Lucas Toliman in the country’s
central highlands. Early
support led to a profitable
fair trade program for 300
indigenous organic coffee
growers. Building on this
achievement, numerous other
small cooperative projects
were initiated, among them
work with orphaned children
and local women. Our rapidly
growing mission led to the
formation of the Institute
of MesoAmerican Permaculture
(IMAP) in 2000, and a beautiful
parcel of land was purchased
on the shores of Lake Atitlan,
becoming the new, permaculture
reference center.
Asociación
Gaia
Colonia 10 de Junio, B-501.
Esquina suroeste del Colegio
Luxemburgo 2 cuadras al
sur, ½ arriba
Managua, Nicaragua
Telefax +505-2249-3127
Celular +505-8868-0642
info@asociacion-gaia.org
The
ITT is a project carried
out by the Group to Promote
Education and Sustainable
Development (GRUPEDSAC),
a Mexican non-profit organization
dedicated to providing
sustainable solutions,
mainly through appropriate
technologies for rural
communities. The ITT ("Mother
Earth" in Náhuatl)
was born out of the conviction
that a new vision is necessary
to accomplish positive
change in the Mexican
countryside, a vision
inspired in stewardship
of all that is sacred
in Nature and in human
beings.
Tierra
del Sol is
a Permaculture farm and
sustainable-living center
located in Tlacochahuaya,
within the central valleys
of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The
site was designed based
on the principles of permaculture
and one of our primary
goals is to experiment
and promote sustainable
living alternatives. Our
farm and learning center
is located 20 kilometers
(about 12.4 miles) to
the east of Oaxaca city
en the outskirts of Tlacochahuaya.Pablo
Ruiz Lavalle - pablo@tierradelsol.com.mx
cel 951 151 6769
Adriana
Guzmán - adriana@tierradelsol.com.mx
cel 951 128
4939
N.W.
Mexican PC Institute Jose
& Alejandro
Hotel American Colonial,
Guaymas , Sonora, Mexico
Pc
de Mexico/Mexico City Blanca Domingues
Apdo Postal #21, 140 Mexico
City, 04000 D, Mexico
Biocenosis
AC Levania y Mauricio
Causabon
Tel 726 61497 Fax 726
20336
Aztlan Centro de Rescate
Ecologico AC Apdo 1248 Queretaro
Qro. CP 76000
Tel 42 122262
Email
EDUCE AC - Edo. de Campeche
C, Alejandra Acosta
Bus Tel 982 20164 Email:
Laura Kuri (in Cuernavaca,
state of Morelos) 44 Circuito Conquistadores
Col. Alvero Lionel Jautepec
Tel 73 62730
Email:
Los Palomitas (in Puerto
Vallarta, Jalisco) C/0 Eric Saracho
Email:
New
Moon Foundation Great people and well
worth a visit, but contact
them first!!!!
Valerie Nadeau
Apdo 1296, Oaxaca, OAX
68000, Mexico
Ph/Fax: int+ (52) 951
7 5755
Judith
Katz
Domocilio Conocido,
San Juan Bautista Jayacatlan
Etla, Oaxaca CP 68210
MEXICO
judithkatz@yahoo.com
We are starting a small
pc demonstration site
in the northern sierra
and would welcome volunteers.
We offer opportunities
to speak or learn spanish,
practice pc design and
do cultural exchange.
The
Sexto Sol Center for Community
Action Escuela de Agro-Ecologia
"Tierra Linda"
Barrio Ecologico Tierra
Linda, 1a Poniente #200B
Motozintla, Chiapas CP 30900
Mexico
fax: 52-9-641-0088
We teach permaculture, bio-intensive,
organic agricutlure to subsistence
farmers in the Sierra Madre
of Chiapas & do sustainable
coffee work & reforestation,
solar ovens and more. We
would like experienced teachers
to come stay on the farm
to help. Need ideas for
creating an alternative
energy demonstration on
site. Volunteers welcome.
Like-minded travlers who
contact us first can stay
in exchange for work.
Global
Gardeners brings
together the skills of landscape
architects, regional planners,
site engineers, biologists,
agroecologists and other
professionals to create
comprehensive solutions
to land development and
community planning.
Calle Emilio Castelar 44
apto. 101 México,
D.F., CP 11560
cesarlopeznegrete
(at) gmail.com
Caribbean
Bahamas
Cape
Eleuthera Institute
Natural resources have been
the foundation of economic
development in The Bahamas
for hundreds of years. In
the 19th and early 20th
century, agriculture prospered,
especially on islands such
as Eleuthera, because of
a favorable climate and
red lateritic soils that
allowed large-scale production
of crops such as pineapple,
vegetables, and grains.
In fact, the island of Eleuthera
was a major supplier of
pineapple to the United
States until Hawaii became
a U.S. territory in 1900.
Unfortunately, changes in
market demand, in combination
with intensive growing practices
reducing the land’s
ability to sustain agriculture
at a commercial scale, eventually
relegated agriculture to
small-scale operations that
only support local demands
and subsistence living.
These trends in production
have resulted in a large
percentage of the food available
in The Bahamas being imported
from other countries, which
has increased food prices
and influenced diets. Moreover,
even small-scale agriculture
is dependent upon chemical
fertilizers and pesticides
that are costly and have
significant environmental
and human health risks.
Grupo
Para el Desarollo Integral
de La Habana Elio
Guevara & Mario Coyula
Calle 28 #113, e/ 1ra. y
3ra, Miramar,
Cuidad de La Habana, Cuba
Ph/Fax: int+ (537) 33 2661
The Green Team, Permacultura
de Australia Luis
Sanchez
Santa Fe Community, Havana,
Cuba
Ph/Fax:
int+ (53) 7 33 1788
We are a diverse group
of individuals from many
walks of life who work
together toward economic
justice, democracy and
alternative sustainable
development in Haiti.The
Lambi Fund of Haiti is
a 501(c)(3), tax exempt
not for profit organization.
The
Lambi Fund's mission is
to assist the popular,
democratic movement in
Haiti. Its goal is to
help strengthen civil
society as a necessary
foundation of democracy
and development. The fund
channels financial and
other resources to community-based
organizations that promote
the social and economic
empowerment of the Haitian
people.
The Lambi Fund supports
projects that embrace
the following principles:
non-violent, non-partisan,
community-based, promoting
the advancement of women,
using education and training
for empowerment, and promoting
the overall democratic
movement.
Puerto
Rico
Zorayma
Z. Navarro - Permaculture
Design & Consultancy
Services. Contact: RR-4
BOX 27520 Toa Alta, Puerto
Rico 00953, Tel: (787) 614-5797
or (787)484-0163, Email:
cefpr@yahoo.com and baraka.permaculture@gmail.com
Argentine
Permaculture Institute
Instituto
de Permacultura Cerrado-Pantanal
http://www.permear.org.br/
Instituto
Capixaba de Permacultura
Permacultura
America Latina' (Brazil)
Instituto
de Permacultura em Terras
Secas
Instituto
Chileno de Permacultura
Ecoescuela
El Manzano
Fundación
CIPAV
Punta
Mona (Monkey Point)
Costa
Rica International Center
for Sustainability
El
Centro Verde
Mighty
Rivers Eco-farm
San
Juanillo EcoRetreat Center
Maya
Mountain Research Farm
Asociación
Gaia
Tierramor
Instituto
Tonantzin Tlalli
Tierra
del Sol 
The
Sexto Sol Center for Community
Action
Global
Gardeners
Cape
Eleuthera Institute
Lambi
Fund of Haiti
Wa
Samaki Ecosystems
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