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- Training
courses:
- Listed below are a number
of places offering traing courses in aspects of sustainability
and self build. If you can get there, the Centre
for Alternative Technology offers a wide range of short residential
courses on environmental topics. Alternatively you can study
self build online through Mark Wicken's site Brick
and Mortar.
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- Aryana
-offers permaculture taster days as well as longer specialist
permaculture design courses.
- Brick and Mortar
-web-based self-build seminars from Mark Wickens based upon
his own year self build project in Ayreshire.
- Centre for Alternative Technology -run residential short and post graduate
courses in environment and energy management.
- Earthed
-hands on workshops on building with cob.
- Earthworks Trust
-Hampshire's sustainability centre offers courses in a range
of sustainability topics, from permaculture to wattle and daub
walls.
- Green
Dragon Energy -a range
of courses on renewable energy topics for individuals and groups
-various venues.
- Green Woodwork
-run by Gudrun Leitz in his own woodland -Clisset Wood, near
Ledbury in Herefordshire. Topics include chair-making, steam
bending, rush seating, sculptural furniture.
- Low Impact Living Initiative -run courses on a wide range of topics
from smallholdings to natural building products.
- Patrick Whitefield Associates -courses in Permaculture based in
Gloucestershire and Somerset by Patrick and Cathy Whitefield
and friends.
- Scandia Hus offer free monthly seminars on the various aspects
of the self-build process at their show home in East Grinstead,
Sussex.
- Self Build Courses -from Homebuilding and renovation magazine,
courses around the country -speakers include Mark Brinkley (author
of The Housebuilder's Bible) and David Snell (author of Building
Your Own Home).
- Spab
-run courses on the repair and conservation of of old buildings.
- Walter Segal Trust -self build and timber frame -short
introductory courses designed for anyone interested in self build.
- Yarner
Trust -educational
charity on the Devon-Cornwall border, offering a host of weekend
courses in traditional country crafts, such as rush furniture,
basketwork, willow structures, dry stone walling, garden mosaics,
wattle & daub, straw bale building, lime rendering and herbal
remedies.
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