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Andrew MillisonPINA Board MemberCorvallis, Oregon Andrew Millison has been studying, teaching and practicing Permaculture since he took his first design course in 1996. He started teaching Permaculture at the college level in 2001, and has been an instructor at OSU in...

Marco Chung-Shu Lam, MSOM, L.Ac. PINA Board Member Colorado Marco has been practicing and teaching permaculture and sustainable living skills for over twenty five years in diverse climates from the Andes to the Hawaiian islands. Originally trained by the founder of...

(Alejandra) Liora Adler PINA Board Member since 2017 Huehuecoyotl Ecovillage, in the village of Sto. Dgo. Ocotitlan near Tepoztlan, Morelos in Central Mexico. Types of Permaculture Work:  Liora Adler has been deeply involved as a leader in ecovillage, permaculture,...

Darrell FreyPINA Board TreasurerWestern Pennsylvania Darrell Frey is a Permaculture Design Consultant and Educator based in Western Pennsylvania. Darrell is among the first wave of permaculture practioners, having begun studying permaculture design in 1980.  After...

Paula Westmoreland PINA Board Vice President, Joined Board in 2018 Location: USA, Upper Midwest, Minnesota Permaculture Work Paula Westmoreland is a permaculture designer, agroecologist, teacher, activist, and writer who started Ecological Design in 2000.  She is...

Bob Randall, PINA Board SecretaryHouston, TX PDC, Diploma in Teaching, Diploma in Design, Bob has been a food systems activist for more than five decades. After youth in the mid-Atlantic states, he spent two years teaching high school in the rural Nigerian Sahel and...

While we're Social Distancing, many of us are spending extra time at home.  Yes it's a great time to be gardening, but it's also a time you could be improving your knowledge and skills through education. Check out these videos, podcasts and articles online from the...

Executive Director’s Report — Contest awards, new projects and film Peter Bane - Feb 24 and March 20, 2020 PINA is evaluating constraints and opportunities during this historic period of economic contraction and pandemic illness. Paradigms are shifting as the...

Building a Great People’s Movement: PINA is convening a North American Leadership Summit (NALS), August 20-23, 2020, a co-creative learning process culminating in a unique event that will define the next steps in our evolution as continental leaders of Turtle Island....

Save the Date: The 2020 Northeast Pc Convergence is coming! The Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN), a PINA Regional Hub, is pleased to announce that we are working with a small group of Pc folks from around the region to organize a 2020 NE Permaculture...