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Matt Bennett, PINA Board Member
PDC, Certificate in Teaching Permaculture Creatively, RDNA Immersion, Trackers Earth Immersion, BS Mechanical Engineering Matt Bennett is a cultural creative who brings years of experience in project management, urban ecology, and green career mentoring. Matt’s...
Restoring Forests With Fire – Video
With climate catastrophe becoming increasingly visible, permaculture designers and land stewards across the Earth are taking action combating humanity's neglect of the forests using novel tools and equipment to nurture the land in ways done for millenia by indigenous...
PINA’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
PINA’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion The Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) will challenge and work to dismantle systemic oppression in order to implement permaculture ethics across society. Our historic commitment to ethics of earthcare,...
Koreen Brennan
PINA Board Member, since 2016Brooksville, Florida Koreen has extensive experience in both permaculture design and in education. She has taught permaculture design at Pine Ridge Lakota reservation, various locations throughout the US, a number of universities, and...
Commercial Foodscapes & Social Permaculture
Commercial Foodscapes and Social Permaculture in Big Cities Can commercial foodscapes be community oriented? After years of quiet work, PINA's newest Board Member, Jane Hayes, and her team have been making headlines with two projects at prominent Toronto intersections...
Why I joined PINA – Darrell Frey
Sometime in late 2011 or early 2012 I was contacted by Peter Bane. I knew Peter from a series of annual permaculture teacher’s meetings and regional gatherings in the eastern states that had been held through the 1990s, and I had contributed to his publication The...
PINA Update, Report from the Executive Director
PINA is gearing up for a very full year, and I encourage all members to support our growth. Together, we can increase permaculture’s impact. Read on and learn how. Elsewhere in this newsletter, there is an announcement of the Finalists for the 2021-22 Design...
Facing the Fire: Innovative Uses of Biochar and Permaculture Design to Mitigate Wildfire
FACING THE FIRE Steamboat Springs, Colorado June 3-5, 2022 LECTURE: June 3 @ 5:00 pm - FREE to the public WORKSHOP: June 4-5, 9:00am - 5:00 pm Tickets $350 - $700 In Colorado, 2022 opened with a catastrophic wildfire that caused towns to be evacuated,...
New Design Contest Opens
2021-2022 Design ContestPINA's 2018 and 2019 Design Contests led to great things for the organization, its members and countless people across the continent. We received more than 50 entries, and as a direct result, produced nine videos, educated dozens directly in...
Growing Plants in Times Like These
by Bob Randall The Climate & Heat We continue to get shocked by what is happening to climate and weather. In late June of 2021, much of the northwestern states were above 110˚F, British Columbia had a temperature of 121.28˚F (about 50˚C) and much, much further...