This is the slideshow i am using now (2013) to open design courses. This part goes over a bit of my background, a bit of history and inspiration for permaculture and its development, and the state of the world. It also begins to explore how permaculture is manifested in the world which is a reflection of the 14 chapters of the Designers manual which acts as a framework for how the course is structured.

1. Permaculture Design

8. What is Permaculture?
"
“Though the problems of the world are
increasingly complex, the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple.”
By Bill Mollison

9. 
Permaculture is the harmonious
integration through systems management
of all life kingdoms into agriculturally
productive ecosystems and socially just
environments, producing sound economic
consequences. It’s a design intention
reflecting patterns in Nature that seeks to
build interconnections allowing for
energy efficiency and abundance of yield.

10. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
1978 Landmark publication
PermacultureOne begins movement

11. Bill’s
Inspirations

15. Huge Monocultures
No Diversity-
Globalization

16. FOREST

17. FIELD

18. PLOW

19. DESERT
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20. http://annualreport.syngenta.com/e
n/overview/chairmans-letter.aspx
While the financial crisis grabbed the headlines, the
underlying challenge of ensuring food security for a
growing world population remained central to the agenda
of governments worldwide. The magnitude of this
challenge was reinforced by the UN's Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) which announced in June that the
combination of global economic slowdown and high food
prices had pushed another 100 million people into a state
of chronic hunger and poverty. The total number of people
on the planet who are malnourished has now surpassed
the one billion mark.

21. Which way will we go??

22. Design
Science
“A beneficial assembly of
components in their
proper relationships”

26. ...the greatest change we need
to make is from consumption
to production, even if on a
small scale, in our own
gardens. If only 10% of us do
this, there is enough for
everyone. " - Bill Mollison

27. 
In Observation
Root Yourself in this

28. In Ancient Wisdom

29. In Patterns

30. In patterns

31. In Climate

32. In Climate

33. In soil building

34. In Water Harvesting

35. In re-afforestation