CENTER FOR BIOREGIONAL LIVING
FREE ONLINE COURSES

Applying Permaculture Design to retrofit NYC to be a healthier and happier place for people to live in. You will learn permaculture principles and applications in the Urban environment and how to create mutually beneficial city to country economic connections.

 

We will explore the foundations of this design discipline and give many examples of how it translates and yields many benefits when applied to our lives and the dynamics of the city.

 

Renewable energy solutions and approaches for the 5 boroughs and the region. Retrofitting NYC to be more self reliant and a healthier environment to live in. Cleaning indoor air with plants. Ways to clean up contaminated sites.

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Creating beautiful natural areas to connect people with healthy ecosystems in the midst of the city landscape. Gardening in the city with Permaculture design. Site analysis and design techniques for rooftop farms, city gardens and business models. Working with bees, chickens and other micro-livestock in urban settings.

 

You will learn how to design your life and your livelihood to be a part of creating a better and healthier world for all

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Climate change, economic collapse, flooding & wide spread pollution, are all pointing to a need for an articulate and comprehensive alternative. Permaculture is an ecological design science for creating fruitful and abundant communities. 

 

Permaculture addresses the major issues of our day with a whole systems approach.  It is a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies.
 

Andrew Faust lived completely off the grid in West Virginia for ten years, creating his Permaculture PHD.; Building a passive solar Straw-bale home, using as much on site material as possible, he developed spring fed water systems and ponds, establishing his regenerative farm thus selling produce he grew to restaurants and farmers markets. Faust moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and continued consulting, teaching and selling organic produce from his farm in Ellenville, NY. to restaurants While applying his knowledge to the urban landscape and the Hudson river valley creating a unique curriculum for their Permaculture Design Certification course, which is PINA endorsed.

 

After more then a decade of courses in the NYC region with thousands of graduates, Andrew is presently Co-Founder & Director of the Center for Bioregional Living on 14 acres in Ellenville, NY with his partner Adriana Magaña. The Center is a Permaculture demonstration, education and training campus for their students, and clients and their daughter Juniper.