40 hours of free permaculture lecture + urban agriculture opportunities in Africa

A supermarket in South Africa has embraced alternative technologies like no one else, by incorporating solar energy and aquaponics to get closer to being a fully sustainable supermarket.

-Watch, listen, revel in 40 hours of permaculture lectures from Bill Mollison!

 

-An urban agriculture internship, with flexible starting times and lengths from 2-8 months, has 

opened up in South Africa.

-Even better is an urban agriculture scholarship to pursue a PhD co-sponsored by schools in Sweden and Ghana!

Urban agriculture + horticultural therapy summer internships

A couple of GILA stories which have fallen through the cracks, but first it's that time of year again. If you're looking for summer work, here are a few of opportunities to whet your appetite:

-The Chicago Botanic Garden has a horticultural therapy internship and in Toronto there are multiple opportunities to work with kids and to garden.

-Switching to peak oil, it looks like Sweden wants to be oil free in 7 years and Europe's biggest living wall now resides in ?

A big step in vertical farming

Plantagon has completely set the vertical farming world abuzz. Last week ground was broken on the first one in Sweden. They hope to have "integrated solutions for energy, excess heat, waste, CO2 and water” in about 18 months. We should watch this story closely.

-Another college is now offering a permaculture course. Merritt College charges about $160 for 180 hours of instruction! This is 1/10th the cost of most programs for twice the education.