AUTHORIZED STATEMENT by Vladislav Davidzon of Regenerative Leadership Institute Regarding International Permaculture Certification Standards.

The Regenerative Leadership Institute is North America’s sustainable living and design school.  With over a quarter-million enrolled students, we are larger than any other permaculture education provider in the world and the entire North American permaculture community combined.  We are proud to take permaculture mainstream in absolutely unprecedented ways and the fact that we were the first to release a free complete training makes our intentions clear in enabling people to learn permaculture, regardless of their financial means.

Certain individuals in the United States are seeking to undermine the international standards as set out by Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture.  They wish to secure their personal income by ensuring that permaculture remains available only to the few people who can pay them thousands of dollars.  Aside from the obvious unfairness of such a proposition, the standards they desire include truly bizarre requirements, such as a dance and song “talent show” (literally) and other components very blatantly unrelated to permaculture.

We suggest you view this YouTube video where Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture, very directly addresses this issue. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r5hYa_rEp0)

Our position at the Regenerative Leadership Institute (https://www.regenerative.com) is clear – we believe this knowledge should be accessible to anyone, regardless of his or her financial capacities, which is why we’ve made the complete course available free of charge.  Our course strictly follows the curriculum standards laid out by Bill Mollison, as taught internationally including by the overwhelming majority of North American permaculture teachers.

If you pursue the certification from the Regenerative Leadership Institute and at any point your certificate is rejected by any party, our attorneys would love to hear from you.  As far as we are aware, our certification has never been rejected by anyone; should that occur in the future, you can be sure that we will take vigorous legal action if the basis of the rejection implies that our certification does not meet international norms as laid out by Bill Mollison.  Any claim that our program does not meet international standards is absolutely false and thus constitutes libel.

If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them.

Vladislav Davidzon, Founder and CEO

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