Argentine Permaculture Institute

The Argentine Permaculture Institute works together with grassroot organizations and public or private institutions that are committed to the design of sustainable human settlements in any biophisic, social, ecological or cultural context, and to preserve, restore and understand natural ecosystems, integrating traditional and modern disciplines, knowledge and technologies. Their philosophic principle is "To Work With Nature and Not Against It". They embrace the ethics of Permaculture: to Care for the Earth, to Care for the Human Being and to Share the Surplus Resources.

Specific objectives include:

To encourage the creation of ecologic projects that are feasible both economically and technically, and consider the agricultural, forest and animal-raising aspects as well as the human and educational components.

To promote the ecologic balance of the environment by including restoration in every design we face.

To develop agro-ecologic and eco-productive systems that require minimal external input and are extremely productive.

To honor, recover and adapt ancestral systems in order to create sustainable sociocultural systems for the present.

To include human shelter as an integrated component of the ecosystem and the ecological cycle of the Earth using Natural Building techniques, considering the natural patterns in the design process.

To search for the integration of ecology into the landscape, taking usefulness and the aesthetic value into account while preserving and restoring the natural patterns.

To establish strategic alliances with like-minded institutions, groups and networks, in order to develop joint activities.

They consult in the design, planning and implementation of rural and urban permacultural models and systems and promote, develop and carry out farming projects and integral programs as well as sustainable systems. They offer permaculture training at different levels address to professionals, university students, like-minded groups and individuals.
Areas of advisory and training include:

• Landscape interpretation.
  
• Planning and analysis of areas. Optimal distribution and usage of the land.
  
• Agroforestry.
  
• Forest garden.
  
• Erosion control.
  
• Bio-island creation for parks, gardens and golf camps.
  
• Wind-brakes design for the protection of houses, farms and productive systems.
  
• Waste recycling.
  
• Grey water treatment.
  
• Ecological dry toilet design.
  
• Alternative energy systems and appropriate technologies.
  
• Edible garden and landscape design for urban and suburban areas.
  
• Integral design of ecotourism centers, ecovillages, ecological neighborhoods, etc.
  
• Creation of Wild life corridors. Natural reserve management..
  
• Facilitation of Participate Design Process for communities and NGO.
  

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