Peter Bane

Peter Bane published Permaculture Activist from 1990-2015 and is now editor emeritus of its successor, Permaculture Design. Author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, he's taught the PDC since 1992, training over1800 students and offering courses in the eastern US plus Colorado, Hawaii, Ontario, Chile, Argentina, and Trinidad. He has more than 200 teachers and advanced design students in his lineage, which stems from Max Lindegger and Lea Harrison in 1990. A public speaker and delegate to three international and two continental convergences, Peter holds diplomas in Education, Media & Communications, Community Development, Trusteeship, and Site Design from Pc Academy of Britain, Pc Institute USA, and PINA. A founder or director of several non-profits working on regeneration, Peter served six years on the PINA board until recently being named its Executive Director. A co-founder, officer, and site planner for Earthaven Ecovillage in NC, where he built an off-grid tiny home of natural materials powered by photovoltaics, he went on to remodel 1950s stick-built houses and build cisterns and constructed wetlands in Indiana, and to design and build a passive solar, energy-efficient housing complex on his 10 acre farm in west Michigan with a greenhouse, workshop, teaching rooms, sauna, and earth-sheltered root cellars. There he lives with his partner Keith Johnson, and his children and grandchildren.