The Designer

Douglas Barnes  

Douglas Barnes is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher. He has designed and implemented permaculture systems in Japan and Canada as well as consulted on projects in Japan, Canada, India and Australia. He has taught permaculture seminars in Japan and Canada and is in the process of becoming a certified permaculture teacher qualified to teach the 72-hour design certificate course.

Douglas holds two Permaculture Design Course certificates: one from a course taught by Geoff and Danial Lawton in Brisbane, Australia in 2004 and one from a course taught by Geoff Lawton and permaculture founder Bill Mollison in Melbourne the following year. Douglas has been active in permaculture since 2004 and has been an educator for 16 years.

Associates

Permaculture businesses are not like most businesses. Designers openly share information and collaborate on problems. Here are our closest associates:

Dr. Paul Jasinski

Paul is a permaculture designer and a research associate at the University of Waterloo. Paul also operates Pureland Permaculture blog and design service.

Scott Meister

Scott A. Meister is a sustainable lifestyle designer from the United States. He is currently converting a B&B for sustainability on the base of Mt. Fuji and has been designing and consulting clients for projects in Japan, the U.S. and Italy.

Dr. Dan Palmer

Dan is a co-founder of Permaculture Solutions in Melbourne, Australia and a co-originator of the "perma-blitz." Dan has worked in Australia, New Zealand, India, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Adam Fenderson-Grubb

Adam is the co-founder of EnergyBulliten.Net and Very Edible Gardens as well as founding Eat the Suburbs! Adam is also a co-originator of the "perma-blitz."

Tomoko Sakano

Tomoko is a graduate of University in Tokyo and has studied permaculture under Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. She is currently based in Tokyo and is working on urban sustainability. Her site is Permaculture Log.

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