Institute of Permaculture and Ecovillage of the Cerrado

The Institute of Permaculture and Ecovillage of the Cerrado is an experimental educational design center and international community located on the Cerrado savanna of Brazil. IPEC began on a bare, degraded cattle pasture in 1998 to teach and demonstrate permaculture and to apply this information in the construction of a prototype ecological village, or ecovillage. The community exists on 25 hectares (60 acres) of land and is located in Pirenópolis, in the state of Goiás, central Brazil. IPEC is connected to the national university in Brasilia as well as many government ministries, schools and other non-profit organizations.^[1]

Ecoversidade is IPEC’s educational arm and is dedicated to education for sustainable living.

References

^ Birnbaum, Juliana (2014). Sustainable revolution : permaculture in ecovillages, urban farms, and communities worldwide. Louis Fox. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-648-0. OCLC 841899095.

External links

Official IPEC website Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
Living Routes Study Abroad at IPEC Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
PAL information on IPEC
Australian Permaculture Association info on IPEC

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[1] Birnbaum, Juliana (2014). Sustainable revolution : permaculture in ecovillages, urban farms, and communities worldwide. Louis Fox. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-648-0. OCLC 841899095.

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