Kibbutz Lotan - Permaculture - The "Green Apprenticeship"

The Green Apprenticeship Program - Kibbutz Lotan's Center for Creative Ecology. This unique curriculum incorporates Permaculture, Ecovillage Design and intentional communal living into a practical training course designed to introduce and empower people of all ages and paths to employ permaculture technology and ethics into their everyday lives. Come learn and work with us for a college accredited semester, for an intensive 7 week course, for a five month program or as a www.GoEco.org volunteer. Visit www.kibbutzlotan.com for details.

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[JordanSiglo21]

Las cubiertas de automóviles en las paredes, es para hacer la paredes resistentes al fuego???

Me imagino en el verano Israeli la temperatura que deben tener esas cubiertas, deben ser una bomba de tiempo, cualquier chispa las debe prender fuego!!!

Saludos.

[KibbutzLotan]

Not at all. First, the mud plaster is fire resistant.  We build mud (wood burning) ovens out of it. Also, the straw-bale insulation doesn't burn in the temperatures here. I'm pretty sure it would need to get much, much hotter for that to happen.

Our biggest concern with these building are termites....and so far so good.

[KibbutzLotan]

I've lived, worked, and studied here for 5 months....and word's honest truth, I can never live the same as before.

[KibbutzLotan]

In case you're curious, the age range for participants in the "Green Apprenticeship" (GA) is roughly between 18-40.

[Aussiemoo]

The first scene looks like Survivor!

[Tranquil787]

where can you find out how to get an apprenticeship in green or renewable energy? ive been looking online and the more i look the more confusing it becomes

[SPOTFILMS]

Great work. Very inspiring. Could be replicated in India. Keep in touch please.

Pramod Mathur

SPOTFILMS

[1gaia]

divaesq: This is not such an unreasonable statement. Being an educational centre, Kibbutz lotan do a lot of good work educating and spreading the joy of building community, inclusive of how to embrace our neighbours(!) and respect and exist with often conflicting cultural nuances. Lotan does a lot of peace keeping work, acknowledging the hardships in all areas of conflict. These are just some of the joys of the ecovillage model. There is room to breathe. Room to think. Space to create balance.

[divaesq]

Perhaps the members of Kibbutz Lotan in all their ideology can build mud huts for displaced Palestinians forced out of their homes in East Jerusalem and displaced Bedouins in "unrecognized" communities in Israel.

[bananajohannna]

Yay filmmaker Danny P!

[inanoctopussgarden]

Aw man. I miss Lotan. And all my teachers!!

[KibbutzLotan]

All of our buildings are inspected by the Israeli Fire Department and are approved according to strict government standards for public safety.

[JordanSiglo21]

Bueno a mi me parece que es muy peligroso, los neumáticos son muy combustibles y yo no los pondría en una pared de una casa donde vive gente.

Saludos.

[ealts]

Mud covers the straw bale - mud is inflammable. Again, we make ovens out of it.

The straw bale has gone over rigorous tests and outperforms conventional insulation materials.

There is very little oxygen in the strawbales, and if anything, it will only smoke, not burn.