Verge Permaculture
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- Commenced: 01 Oct 2008
- Submitted: 03 Nov 2011
- Last updated: 16 Feb 2012
- Location: 227 Fonda Way SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Phone: 4037709789
- Website: www.vergepermaculture.ca
- Climate zone: Cold Temperate
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Verge Permaculture
Project Type
Urban, Rural, Residential, Commercial, Community, School Projects, Demonstration, EducationalProject Summary
VERGE PERMACULTURE is a Calgary-based company that specializes in a systems design approach to sustainable human habitat and a focus on interconnected elements: low energy buildings, water management, waste re-use, renewable energy & food production systems. We are passionate about helping Canadians regenerate degraded landscapes, build topsoil and improve our surrounding ecologies so both ours and future generations can lead healthy lives and benefit from natural resources. We are excited to be offering permaculture courses and looking to inspire people to embrace integrated solutions and empower them to bring connected design concepts into their own home, businesses and lives.
Project Description
VERGE PERMACULTURE can:
Incorporate permaculture principles and engineering design philosophy to present an integrated sustainable design for your urban home, backyard, business, community, rural homestead, or broad-acre farm.
Provide design, guidance and information on renewable energy solutions, green heating, cold climate buildings or perform an energy audit, economics and feasibility studies for custom energy plans.
Provide designs that protect and regenerate soil, air & water and minimize waste using tools such as re-vegetation, composting, nutrient cycling, water catchment & re-use, biological water treatment, swales, dam building and ecological landscape design.
Inspire your community, business or interest group by leading informative, practical and positive courses and workshops about permaculture and how to design sustainable human habitat.
Letters from Rob from Jordan: Part I - First Day
In mid September, 2011, I headed to Jordan to attended the tenth international permaculture convergence (IPC 10). This is Part I.
Photos and Stories from the Fall 2011 PDC (1/3)
What have our Fall PDC students been up to this year? Discovering the "edge", building compost piles,learning rural design, participating in a permablitz, installing an urban back-yard forest garden, eating pizza from our cob oven, and much much more! Rea