About Camassia Institute for Sustainable Communities
Our educational approaches include a mixture of class sessions, small group interactive formats, hands-on action learning based in real world projects, and opportunities to see and interact with demonstration sites and case studies. Most of our courses are residential and held at Lost Valley Intentional Community and Education Center (LVEC), where many of our instructors live. LVEC has been hosting Permaculture Design Courses and using permaculture techniques since 1990. We also offer a Ecovillage Design Education Certification EDE through the GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) and UNITAR (The United Nations Institute for Training and Research). LVEC is also known for its emphasis on fostering interpersonal relationship sustainability. While not perfect in sustainability, LVEC provides Camassia’s participants with a great case study and living laboratory for active learning.
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The mission of the Camassia Institute for Sustainable Communiites is to provide holistic experiential education in the area of sustainable community development, at the village and block scale, for adults at a variety of levels. We aim to facilitate our program participants’ growth in skills and knowledge to create regenerative ecological and social systems for ecovillages and sustainable communities. We focus on the scale of the village or block (we define this as from 30-100 residents), while also providing information and skills that are applicable for home-sites to entire cities. We include material relevant for rural, suburban, and urban contexts.