Sustainable urban living: First ever urban permaculture course in Mumbai September 30, 2011

Focus on Mumbai - classroom learning & lots of practical demos covering may aspects of urban life, including:

How to think & plan sustainability with observation, system thinking and cycles
How to create zones & sectors in your urban habitat using natural flows, patterns & edges
Microclimates and buildings
Harvesting and working with grey and black water
Working with soil – vermicomposting, compost tea & soup, indigenous micro organisms (IMOs), toxins and bio-remediations
Plants and planting: plant guilds, mixed planting, hedges, jungle garden, windbreaks, growing in containers Integrated pest management
Appropriate technologies – passive systems & bicycle technologies, solar & wind energy
Urban agriculture – growing in city lots, terrace farming, animals in cityscape, community agriculture
Creating urban networks
Peak Oil and urban living in context to Mumbai
Games and exercises (Human Knot, Scavenger Hunt)
Documentary screenings followed by discussions

Hands-on projects:
Spiral garden bed
Building a small A-frame level
Making compost soup
Working with IMOs
Building a solar water heater, solar oven, haybox
Installing greywater systems
Making seedballs
Building a worm box
Sheet mulching instant garden
Making a Hessian planter

Also classroom sessions on matching patterns of urban as a natural landscape, retrofitting an urban life, creating a local community with governance and local currency, the urban gorilla.

Official Website: http://www.scribd.com/doc/62578259/Urban-Permaculture-Course-in-Mumbai-Brochure