Climate Solutions: Permaculture Fundamentals for Educators
New Horticulture Distance Learning online course coming Summer 2026.
This course is designed for K–12 educators who wish to integrate sustainability and solutions for climate resilience into their teaching. It introduces permaculture concepts as a practical framework for teaching about food systems, ecological relationships, and resource cycles.
Permaculture is a design method and philosophy, reflecting how nature designs its own resilient, waste-free systems. Participants explore how systems thinking can help students understand the connections between environmental challenges and real-world solutions.
Through videos, readings, practitioner interviews, discussion forums, and applied assignments, educators engage with core permaculture concepts and translate them into classroom practice. Throughout the course, participants develop a permaculture-informed curriculum unit tailored to their own teaching context.
Provides 3 CEUs or CTLE credits (30h) to New York State Teachers.
Check back in late April for more information and online registration.