PRACTICE AREAS
DESIGNERS
Daniel Halsey
CO-FOUNDER - HEAD OF DESIGN & EDUCATION
BIO
Daniel designs and consults for developing ecologically supported homestead systems, ecosystem restoration, and intentional communities. Bringing site-specific solutions based on local resources, site conditions, and improved cultural practices. The majority of his designs are farms, homesteads, watershed, and village systems supplying perennial harvests to support the community. Always raising the carrying capacity of the land.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
Global Designer: Senegal, Liberia, Nepal, Lebanon, The Netherlands, Costa Rica, Canada, South Africa, Haiti, Scotland, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United States.
CREDENTIALS
Board Director of PRI/USA
Owner/Director of the Natural Capital Plant Database
Internationally Certified Permaculture Instructor (PRI/AU)
Certified Permaculture Instructor (PINA)
Consultant, Designer, and Educator (USAID)
Masters of Professional Studies, Horticulture (UMN)
Weruschca Kirkegaard
CO-FOUNDER - HEAD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
BIO
Weruschca’s combined experience and knowledge of aesthetics, nutrition, health and communications, brings multidisciplinary expertise to the design table. Seasoned in large scale project management, she brings her skills to the larger ecological canvas with site science-based regenerative planning and design. From Adaptive Food Production, residential and commercial to Agroforestry and Municipal green space.
LANGUAGES
English, Dutch, Danish, Spanish & French
COUNTRIES
Europe, Australia, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Certified Designer (PRI/AU)
Advanced Permaculture in Action (PRI/AU)
Soil Food Web Analyst and Consultant (Ingham)
Owner of Mūla - Ecosystems by Design
Ambassador to The Ecosystem restoration Camps
Neil Bertrando
CONSULTANT - AGRO - ECOSYSTEMS
BIO
Neil has a passion for enriching bioregions and cultivating ecologies. He is the owner of RT Permaculture, an ecological design and education firm specializing in effective and regenerative landscapes. With over 12 years of experience in ecological design and watershed restoration, Neil brings a range of skills to his projects including horticulture, irrigation, water harvesting, erosion control, and small-scale farm development. Neil’s projects commonly include integrated water harvesting agroforestry systems, homestead production gardens with season extension, medicinal pollinator habitats, and ecological restoration.
LANGUAGES
English & French
COUNTRIES
USA, Mexico, Haiti, Senegal, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Master (MS) in Environmental Science
Bachelor (B.A) in. Biology
Erosion Control, Drip irrigation systems
Basic heavy machinery operation (excavator, skid steer, tractor, loader)
Bruce B. Blair
CONSULTANT - ECOLOGY
BIO
Park design for real experiences and ecologically intensive food production systems through permaculture are my passions and experience.
Designing landscapes that mimic nature and create rich experiences is what I do!
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
USA, Kenya, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Nigeria,
Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Park and Permaculture Consultant
Landscape Architect
Silvia Yordanova
LEAD DESIGNER - VISUAL ART - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
BIO
Silvia is a landscape architect and ecological designer. Her projects focus on agroforestry, homestead development, and graphic design. She specializes in creating graphics that merge hand-drawings with computer renderings. Silvia is an artist of all media with over 25 years of experience in the visual arts. In 2015 Silvia founded Maui Olena, an organic turmeric farm in Hawaii, USA.
LANGUAGES
English & Bulgarian
COUNTRIES
USA, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Master’s in Landscape Architecture University of Minnesota
Graphic design, Renderings, Visual art, Plant expert
Alan Booker
CONSULTANT - INTEGRATED REGENERATIVE DESIGN
BIO
Alan Booker is the founder and executive director of the Institute of Integrated Regenerative Design, the creator of the Integrated Regenerative Design standards, and the lead author of the Biocompatible Design standards. He has over 32 years of experience in engineering and over 20 years in sustainable and regenerative design.
In addition to teaching Permaculture and Integrated Regenerative Design, Alan provides consulting on large-scale projects involving watershed repair, ecosystem regeneration, regenerative land use patterning, net zero energy/carbon/water, sustainable buildings and infrastructure, and tools for transforming technologies to be deeply symbiotic with the Earth’s ecosphere.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
USA, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering with 32+ years of industry experience specializing in large-scale Systems Engineering
• Certified Permaculture Designer and Instructor
• Certified Watershed Management Practitioner
• Advanced training in Green Infrastructure, Low Impact Development, Sustainable Transportation, Soil Food Web and Soil Microscopy, Regenerative Earthworks, Keyline Design, Holistic Management, Natural Building, Off-Grid Energy, and Biophilic Design
Sara Garcia
LEAD DESIGNER - FORESTRY ENGINEER
BIO
Forestry engineer, permaculture designer and consultant. Her experience as a forest engineer in Madrid leads her to realize the importance and fragility of water management. She uses bioengineering erosion control systems combined with technical knowledge of Mediterranean ecosystems.
She believes that the sustainable management models learned in her work are applicable to permaculture urban designs.
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English
COUNTRIES
Spain, Hawaiian Islands, USA, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Forestry Engineer
Permaculture Design Certificate by PRI (AUS)
Advanced Permaculture Design by PRI/USA
Analog Forestry systems designer by IAFN
Rhamis Kent
CONSULTANT - DRYLANDS/TEMPERATE & TROPICS
BIO
Rhamis is a consultant, designer, and teacher/trainer with wide-ranging project experience including public, private, non-profit, and governmental entities. He has a particular interest in using regenerative design systems to rehabilitate landscapes fallen prey to degradation and desertification.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
Global: Middle East/North Africa region, GCC, Horn of Africa, Mediterranean/Southern Europe, Central & Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, North & South America
CREDENTIALS
Co-Director of PRI USA & PRI Australia, Supervisory Board Member of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation, Internationally Certified PDC Instructor (PRI Australia), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (University of Delaware, 1995)
Jessica Robertson
LEAD DESIGNER - BIOLOGIST & URBAN PLANNER
BIO
Jessica designs holistic permaculture systems for spaces from 200 sq. ft. to 150-acres and works on residential, commercial and public projects. She is involved in design implementation sharing her knowledge and guiding clients as they transform a site with sustainable systems.
LANGUAGES
English, French, intermediate Spanish and Portuguese
COUNTRIES
Canada. Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Permaculture Design Certificate
LEED Accredited Professional
M.S. - Urban Planning
B.Edu - Outdoor Experiential Education
B.S. Honours Biology
Tara Gayle
LEAD DESIGNER RESIDENTIAL - LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
BIO
Tara Gayle is a landscape designer with an emphasis on resilient ecological design. In addition to becoming a certified soil consultant, her education has taken her across the country and the world, studying permaculture design and regenerative agricultural systems.
At the core of her philosophy is a mission to encourage people to look at their environments holistically, while incorporating elements of time-honoured design and reinforcing our sacred relationship with the natural environment.
LANGUAGES
English & intermediate Spanish
COUNTRIES
USA, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Landscape Design, Construction & Implementation
Advanced Permaculture Design
BA Studio Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Board of Directors, Sheriff's Meadow Organization
Basic heavy machinery operation & Drip irrigation systems, Owner of Gayle gardens
Ross Martin
LEAD DESIGNER INSTITUTIONAL - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
BIO
Ross Martin brought his experiences, skills, and proclivities from the West to Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He developed a landscape design firm to promote permaculture, creating bio-swales, Hugel-kultur beds, food forests, and solar pavilions and worked with Gardens Rising to spread these efforts in the City. In Off the Rails, a train journey, Martin interviews, writes, and films about other sustainable works. Collaborations include Highview Creations green roofing concern and Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge on the Permaculture and Social Equity Team.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
USA, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Masters (MLA) in Landscape Architecture and Applied Ecology, Bachelor (BLA) in Landscape Architecture
Dr Shekhar Kolipaka
CONSULTANT - INDIA
BIO
Dr Shekhar Kolipaka is a biosocial conservation researcher and practitioner. He firmly believes that the success of nature restoration and nature conservation projects are dependent (to a tune of 80% +) on the human-dimension and 20% on nature-related issues. Shekhar’s focus is, therefore on interest groups or stakeholders, human-nature relationships and improving people’s support for projects. His well-thought-out approaches improve support for real multiple-use of landscapes, effective conflict management and human-wildlife coexistence.
LANGUAGES English, Hindi, Telugu, basic Dutch and several dialects spoken in the Indian sub-continent.
COUNTRIES
Indian sub-continent, Western Europe, Global availability
CREDENTIALS
PhD – BioSocial Conservation Research (Animal Behavioural Biology; Cultural Anthropology)
Theory U: Change Management – Application in conservation projects to support change and author of several books.
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Valerie Stow
SUPPORTING DESIGNER - EDIBLE & NATIVE LANDSCAPES
BIO
Certified Permaculture Designer. Having lived in the high desert of Colorado nearly her whole life, Valerie’s work focuses on restoring degraded landscapes, water management, erosion control, weed understanding and closing the waste loop. She designs for individuals and farmers helping them achieve their sustainability, profit and lifestyle goals while laying the groundwork for soil regeneration.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
USA
CREDENTIALS
PDC in 2018 through Geoff Lawton.
30 years of gardening experience
Wen Rolland
SUPPORTING DESIGNER - HORTICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT
BIO
Wen Rolland is a trained horticultural technician, ecological designer, permaculture teacher and consultant with 13 years of experience in cold climate permaculture. His solid training in horticulture gives him the essential foundations for designing productive and ecological systems. He has been a consultant and designer on numerous and diverse projects, thus nurturing his passion for design at all scales. Nature is the greatest teacher and his main inspiration.
LANGUAGES
English, French
COUNTRIES
Canada, USA
CREDENTIALS
Certified Designer (P3/Canada)
Certified Designer (PRI/AU)
Earthworks Course (PRI/AU)
Certified Horticultural Technician from the ITA (Institut de Technologie Agroalimentaire), Agricultural Food Technology Diploma, Masterclass with Elaine Ingham from Soil Food Web
Owner of “Design Écologique”
Ties van der Hoeven
CONSULTANT - HYDRAULIC AND CIVIL ENGINEER
BIO
Master of Science in morphological coastal engineering. With 15 years of experience in land reclamation, dredging and coastal protection work, design and execution. In the last 5 years, Ties has worked in setting up large scale ecosystem regeneration projects. From aquatic design to water cycle regeneration, to construction methodologies and guidance. Ties is a holistic designer to the fullest extent.
LANGUAGES
English & Dutch
COUNTRIES
All of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia
CREDENTIALS
Masters (MS) in Coastal Engineering
Morphological engineering, hydraulic engineering, with ocean conditions.
Owen Hablutzel
CONSULTANT - HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT, KEYLINE DESIGN & EDUCATION
BIO
Owen works internationally as an independent consultant, group-facilitator, and educator to collaboratively empower whole-systems transformations towards robust ecosystem health, social co-creative capacity, and whole-landscape stewardship. Former director of the Permaculture Research Institute, USA, his proficiency ranges from ranches, classrooms, NGOs, farms, non-profits, universities, to agencies/ministries and other land managing-policy-planning groups. Weaving together agro-ecological applications (Keyline Design®, Permaculture, and Holistic Management®) with social technologies (co-creative participatory process facilitation).
LANGUAGES
English & Spanish
COUNTRIES
North America, Africa, Australia, Near and the Middle East, Europe, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Certified Educator and Savory Accredited Professional of Holistic Management. Serves on the Resilience Task Force of the IUCN-CEM (International Union for Conservation of Nature – Committee for Ecosystem Management)
Kelly Bull
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER
BIO
With a professional background in horticulture, permaculture, and design, plus seven years of teaching experience, Kelly specializes in regenerative landscapes and educating others on how to achieve them. She has an infectious love for plants, an endless fascination for soil, a relentless case of wanderlust, and enjoys systems thinking and creative problem-solving
LANGUAGES
English & Spanish
COUNTRIES
USA, Colombia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
B.S. Horticulture (UGA)
Certified Professional Horticulturist
Certified Permaculturist (CRMPI)
Certified Organic Land Care Professional (NOFA)
Certificate in Regenerative Ecological Design (Ecosa Institute)
Licensed Educator
Joshua Rosenberg
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER
BIO
Joshua specializes in applying ecological design to urban landscapes. He works closely with local governments and community members to design and implement green infrastructure that is beneficial to the local ecology and community. Joshua's background includes a degree in international business and over a decade in real estate and hospitality. He has traveled the world learning hands on from the best permaculturists around in order to collaborate and initiate effective and efficient ecological systems that create resilience within a community.
LANGUAGES
English and Spanish
COUNTRIES
USA
CREDENTIALS
International Business degree: The University of North Florida
Permaculture Design Courses with Geoff Lawton, Natalie Bogwalker, Laura Ruby, and Ben Falk
Affiliate member of the Duval Soil and Water Conservation District
Basic heavy machinery operator (excavator skid steer, tractor)
Joshua Cook
GIS ANALIST
BIO
Josh has 14 years of experience in GIS within multiple industries and non-profits. His specialty is data
management, geostatistics, terrain analysis, research, and 3D modeling. He extracts landscape position
indices from LiDAR data for use in ecological designs. He uses open source tools such as QGIS and
LAStools to derive map layers for design support.
LANGUAGES
English, some Oromo and German
COUNTRIES
Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
M. S. Geographic Information Systems
B. S. Computer Science
Certified Technical Service Provider of Irrigation Water Management: USDA - National Resource
Conservation Service
Michael Lynn
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER
- ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
BIO
Michael has designed, installed, and consulted on projects ranging in size from small scale urban permaculture food forests to farm-scale agroforestry systems. He has experience with natural building techniques and is involved with ecological restoration, native plant restoration, watershed restoration/management, and designing systems that provide for people while regenerating the environment.
LANGUAGES
English, Intermediate Spanish
COUNTRIES
United States, Nicaragua, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Permaculture Design Certificate
Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum
Soil Food Web Consultant
Certified Chesapeake Bay landscape professional- Chesapeake Landscaping Council
Certified - Nature-Based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience- UNEP-PEDRR
Alicia Langton
GEOSPATIAL ECOLOGIST AND BOTANIST
BIO
Alicia is a geospatial ecologist who specializes in detailed landscape analyses. These include site topography, hydrology, geology-soil-vegetation dynamics, and spatial syntax. She can deliver GIS products to global clients by using satellite and drone-collected imagery, LiDAR, and photogrammetric point clouds. With her additional expertise in botany, she can provide habitat and plant species inventories. Software utilized includes QGIS, SAGA, R Studio, eCognition, and Adobe Illustrator.
LANGUAGES
English & Intermediate Spanish
COUNTRIES
USA, Chile, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
B.A. Environmental Analysis & Design
M.S. Ecology
Certified GIS Professional (GISP) - In progress
Brandon Dean
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER - INDOOR
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
BIO
Brandon's passion for holistic health has led him to become a Permaculture Designer, Building Biologist and Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist. He combines his knowledge of health with regenerative principles to create resilient ecological systems that support all forms of life. From land and building planning to agroforestry and ecosystem restoration, Brandon uses a multidisciplinary approach to heal ecosystems and people.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
United States, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Advanced Permaculture Design Certification
Building Biology Certification
Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist
Owner of Healthy Homestead Design
Wilderness Skills Education & Ecology
Ryan Copeland
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER - FARM MANAGEMENT & SOIL CONSULTANT
BIO
Ryan taught for many years in Asia and is proficient in the Chinese language. He has lived and worked in New Zealand and in Australia, studying permaculture. Back in Texas now, working on establishing an educational farm. Passionate about livestock management, regarding it as the deciding factor of damage or abundance for a lot of landscapes, particularly the semi-arid ones. He is a co-founder of the Eden - Ecovillage in Texas, and his passion for meeting human needs while regenerating the environment is what fuels his design work.
LANGUAGES
English, Chinese
COUNTRIES
United States, Taiwan, China, Australia and New Zealand
CREDENTIALS
Certified Permaculture Designer; Jack Spirko in Texas, Geoff Lawton & Tom Kendall / Holistic Management with Allan Savory / Pasture/Farm management with Joel Salatin and Jordan Green / Water Management (Keyline System) and Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard / Member of Texas Master Naturalist / Member of Eden Center for Regenerative Culture as farm manager
Moein Nodehi
CEO of BIOTONOMY - developing nature-based solutions for buildings & communities
BIO
Moein is the founder of Biotonomy, where he and his team design & build autonomous buildings with nature-based solutions. He is the lead architect at Biotonomy and specializes in creating customized autonomous solutions with local resources, providing groundbreaking and nature-based design principles that go beyond passive & green-building certification standards. He is also a teacher & instructor at the Earthship Academy, where he teaches people from all around the world how to build self-sufficient buildings out of natural & recycled materials. Together with our collective international network, we work to accelerate the transformation to autonomous development with nature-based solutions. Both in the landscape and now also in the homes and communities.
LANGUAGES
English, Farsi, Swedish, Spanish
COUNTRIES
Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Instructor & Teacher at Earthship Academy
Forman & Teamleader at Earthship Biotecture
Architectural Engineer & Instructor - KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden, United Kingdom & United States)
Chase Jones
SUPPORTIVE DESIGNER - GIS & ANCIENT SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES
BIO
Chase is a Permaculture designer and consultant for residential, commercial and community projects. Background in ancient sustainability practices, dendrochronology, and geographic information systems (GIS). Chase uses his long-time experience in visual art, painting, and computer design & illustration software to create educational materials, landscape designs, and concept maps & diagrams on projects involving community food forestry, homestead design, ecological restoration, and earthwork design.
LANGUAGES
English
COUNTRIES
USA, Global Availability
CREDENTIALS
Certified Designer (IIRD, USA)
Co-founder of Biodesic Strategies
B.A. Anthropology
Natalie Topa
Regenerative and Circular Resilience in Displacement and Development
BIO
Natalie Topa’s background in urban planning brings a unique perspective to restoring community agroecosystems, building resilient infrastructure, and built environments including marketplaces, refugee camps, rural roads, and water systems. For the last 17 years, her work in Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia has brought regenerative thinking and systems-based design to build the resilience of families, communities and landscapes. Ms Topa actively leads hands-on training in integrated design, erosion control, passive water harvesting, soil building, agrobiodiversity recovery and heritage security through indigenous food and seed systems anchored in local, traditional culture and context, building local resilience to extreme events including drought, flood and conflict.
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, Intermediate French, Basic Polish, Basic Swahili, Beginner Arabic (Standard Classical)
COUNTRIES
Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia
CREDENTIALS
Master of Urban and Regional Planning with a focus in Economic Development - Bachelor Arts in Sociology and Human Services
Low-Tech Erosion Control - Earthworks for Water Harvesting
Dam Building
