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Short Films Created Through PINA’s Design Contest Awards Congratulations to Delvin Solkinson and Salina Duncan, who divided the 2019 Media & Communications prizes to make a variety of short films! Delvin Solkinson produced six films with the PINA Design Contest...

Verge Permaculture’s Building Your Permaculture Book Launch and Global Summit April 23-25, 2021 Spend 3 Days Learning from more than a Dozen of the World’s Top Permaculture Experts…. PINA is a proud sponsor of Verge Permaculture’s Building Your Permaculture Book...

-- Peter Bane PINA Executive Director’s Report Spring 2021 For many, 2020 was a lost year. We mourn the loss of friends, family, and relationships that took a back seat to social hygiene. PINA’s plans for a continental convergence in Colorado in August took a sharp...

How I Used My PINA Design Contest Award: Salina Duncan, Garden of Hope, Guatemala Beds and Water Distribution Remodel Thanks to the Permaculture Institute of North America, The Garden of Hope’s Beds and Water Distribution Project was a huge success! Despite the...

-- Peter Bane PINA’s North American Leadership Summit concluded three seasons of intense planning and problem solving on August 23rd with a four-day extravaganza of online talks, workshops, and networking. Nearly 200 registrants from across the continent took part in...

PINA’s Leadership Summit Report PINA’s first North American Leadership Summit (NALS), concluding August 23rd, was a roaring success. It brought participants up to date on major projects, added new members to the organization, and connected activists from across the...

Kitzia Kokopelmana PINA Board Member since 2020 Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden La Ribera, East Cape, by the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur (BCS), México Kitzia Kokopelmana is a seeds-woman, gardener, landscaper, writer and painter in La Ribera, Mexico.  In...

Melanie MindlinPINA Administrator 2012-2020PINA Diploma Program Coordinator Oregon Melanie Mindlin is a permculture teacher and designer in Southern Oregon, where she is a partner in Siskiyou Permaculture.  Melanie has worked with permaculture design, home design,...

Elizabeth LynchPINA Administrator, since January 2020Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Elizabeth is PINA's Administrator who works with logistics and organizing efforts behind-the-scenes.​She lives in the rolling hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania, where sheteaches...

Peter Bane PINA Executive Director Michigan Peter Bane has served PINA as a Director, Board Secretary, President, Chair of the Diploma Program Committee, Application Reviewer, and Field Advisor. In October 2018, he stepped off the board to take a part-time staff...