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Free online permaculture design course someone posted this in a. Over the last few years, oregon state university have been giving free online intro to permaculture courses. Ive been putting up tutorials on using free software for permaculture design as a kind of free bonus on geoff lawtons pdc as attempt to reinvest the surplus i got out of it last year, and i thought some people here might be interested as well. Following this curriculum is what a permaculture design course is. Includes our lively forums and lots of support for your ecological design ideas. Using a computer is one of those decisions and choosing what operating system, as well as the software, can be done sustainably.
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