Environmental Programs

      In partnership with teachers, The Permaculture Project creates programs that help students penetrate into a deeper understanding of land, plants and animals, springs, rivers, groundwater, oceans, and the effect of human beings upon the landscape. As Thomas Berry states, "There is presently no other way for humans to educate themselves for either their survival or fulfillment than through the instruction available through the natural world."

      We seek to restructure education so that it integrates holistic learning with school curricula and creates programs that promote personal self-discovery in the natural world by:

• Encouraging self-reflection on nature
• Increasing and defining ecological and bioregional literacy
• Studying cultural and natural diversity
• Teaching global thinking and the spiritual understanding of the natural world
• Celebrating change, observing and studying the rhythms and evolution of nature
• Creating sustainable designs for living within a region of study
• Recreating the life and folk-ways of local prehistoric and historic cultures
• Intertwining environmental, ecological, social, economic and political studies into all subject areas

The Permaculture Project
510 West Pecan Street
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-713-0537
permacultureproject@gmail.com
www.permacultureproject.com