| Michael Kelley Harris Permaculture Services for Ecological Regeneration and Sustainable Human Settlements mkh@mkharris.com 805-895-0634 5662 Calle Real, Suite 478, Santa Barbara CA 93117 |
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I
offer free brainstorming, from a Permaculture perspective, related to
food production, water catchment, energy use, saving the farm(s), real estate development,
community connections, disaster preparedness, sustainability, turning
problems into opportunities, long-term visions, recommendations to
other designers and experts, etc. I offer this to individuals,
families, communities, organizations, boards, governments, and
professional design teams. I'm happy to help on long-distance projects. I offer it free because I want to learn
more, and hopefully connect with some super-cool sustainability
projects. Someday I hope to be able to do it full-time.
I'm much more of a generalist than an expert in any of these areas. If you like to hear many options and perspectives, I can probably help. If you like to hear one authoritative answer, I can't help. I will most likely recommend that you get many more opinions from more knowledgeable Permaculture designers and topic-specific experts, before deciding on a final design.
I'm much more of a generalist than an expert in any of these areas. If you like to hear many options and perspectives, I can probably help. If you like to hear one authoritative answer, I can't help. I will most likely recommend that you get many more opinions from more knowledgeable Permaculture designers and topic-specific experts, before deciding on a final design.
If
I fail to convince you to use other experts, I can probably also help
in the details, including site assessments, design alternatives,
proposal writing, financial projections, information gathering, etc.
Related Background:
I'm
a Permaculture designer in training. I started experimenting in food
production and appropriate technology in the late 1970s. Early
influences included Buckminster Fuller, Bill Mollison (Permaculture 1
and 2), Masanobu Fukuoka, J. Russell Smith (Tree Crops), James Sholto Douglas (Forest Farming), John
Jeavons, Victor Papanek (Design for the Real World), David Wright
(Passive Solar architeture), Michael Corbett (Village Homes), and many
more. I attended the Permaculture Design Certification Course in
January 2010 on Maui, lead by Penny Livingston-Stark, John Valenzuela,
M. Kalani Souza, Brock Dolman. My main day job is software
development. (SourceCell) B.S Physics and B.A. Mathematics/Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Services I offer, short of being an expert in any one area
Services I offer, short of being an expert in any one area
- Brainstorming additional design ideas, possibilities, issues, concerns, resources, unusual income potential, etc.
- Research, information gathering, due diligence
- Locating expertise and materials
- Review
- Project cooperation.
- Proposal preparation
- Documentation and project-plan support.
- Calculations and estimates. e.g. rain catchment potential
- Software solutions - off-the-shelf or custom. Data acquisition & control, analysis and modeling, etc.
- Water and soil testing coordination. (Get samples, label, send to labs, etc.)
- Water catchment ideas, from land and roof.
- Mapping and measurements, in a rough quick way. Useful for design and rough planning. Not useful for final construction plans.
- Web sites and wikis. - Simple
- Photography (For simple communication. Not awards.)
Permaculture Resume: http://www.kelleyharris.com/resume/permacultureResume.html
Permaculture Notes: http://www.kelleyharris.com/notes/permaculture/permaculture.html
Wanted: Lot or Land Lease for Orchard or Food Forest
© Copyright 2010 Michael Kelley Harris
Permaculture Notes: http://www.kelleyharris.com/notes/permaculture/permaculture.html
Wanted: Lot or Land Lease for Orchard or Food Forest
© Copyright 2010 Michael Kelley Harris