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Albert

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Albert Piqué

Contact details
Brief biography
Training
Projects / investigations
Offers and wants
References
Activism
Leisure and hobbies
Accounting

Contact details

Born: 17 of February 1971 in Barcelona, Spain

Address: Cal Casich, s/n Sant Martí de Llémena, Girona (Spain)

Email: albert.pique(at)gmail(dot)com

Telephone: +34 649 58 22 08

Skype: albert.pique

Twitter: http://twitter.com/BPermacultura

Blog: http://blocpermacultura.blogspot.com

I speak Catalan and (Castillian) Spanish fluently, and I understand English.

Brief biography

PDC in 1998 in Can Bosc (Lladó) in a course taught by Inés Sánchez & Richard Wade from the Instituto de Permacultura Montsant. The idea of alternative currencies brought me to permaculture and I discovered that all that I had been interested in and had been trained in was connected and made sense.

I began earning my diploma in permaculture, and I designed my own course, changing jobs, my home and my life.

Today I work professionally as a designer and consultant in permaculture on campaigns and projects with local administrations, and with individuals. I also give permaculture training at different levels. At the same time, I continue revising my designs and my knowledge to continue establishing relationships between the elements that shape my system of life in order to reduce my carbon footprint.

Training

I have always been a self-taught person and in the methodology of permaculture I have found a very powerful tool for organizing my learning. I do not possess any type of academic degree.

Three months of stay and apprenticeship in ecological agriculture. La Plana, Artés (1990)

One year of apprenticeship in ecological agriculture. Can Solanich, Llambilles (1996)

Three years of traditional Japanese martial arts (Bujinkan Dojo) with Sensei Renan Perpiñà, Girona (1996)

Use and management of the apiary (30 hours). Escola Forestal Can Xifra, Santa Coloma de Farners (1996)

Analysis of honey (30 hours). Escola Forestal Can Xifra, Santa Coloma de Farners (1997)

PDC in 1998 con Richard Wade y Inés Sánchez en Can Bosc, Lladó (1998)

Beginning of the course of Action Learning for the Diploma with Richard Wade (1998)

Self-employment (60 hours) in C'PaC, Girona (2000)

PDC in 2000 with Richard Wade y Inés Sánchez in Instituto de Permacultura Montsant, Arbolí (2000)

PDC in 2001 with Richard Wade y Inés Sánchez in Instituto de Permacultura Montsant, Arbolí (2001)

Introduction to working online (10 hours), in ANG (2001)

Design in Permaculture (12 hours) with Morag Gamble & Evan Raymond in Can Bosc, Lladó (2002)

Environmental ethics in UdG (20 hours), Girona (2002)

Local management of organic wastes (12 hours) in CILMA, Girona (2003)

Facilitation (60 hours) José Luis Escorihuela (Ulises) (2007)

Action Learning for the Diploma with Stella Strega and more tutore (2010) Visit my portfolio.

Projects / investigations

1998 Developer of the Permaculture Group of l'Alt Empordà.

1998 First course of the Introduction to Permaculture, Can Bosc (Lladó)

1998 Founder of LETS Canigó

2001 Commissioner of Permaculture of the Association of Naturalists of Girona (Associació de Naturalistes de Girona)

2001 Founder of LETS Gironès

2001 Programmer of the first webpage of the Instituto de Permacultura Montsant

2002 Founder of Cambium Permacultura en formación

2002 Developer and programmer of the first version of www.permacultura-es.org

2003 Campaign for domestic self-composting in Vilafant

2004 Coordination and design of the first phase of the civic participation course of Agenda 21 of Vilabertran (Alt Empordà)

2008 BlocPermacultura

Since 2003 Self-composting implantation projects in over 40 municipalities (Girona, Barcelona, Lleida and Gipuzkoa)

Since 2004 Projects for the procedure of vegetable waste
Since 1998 diverse courses of introduction to permaculture (12 hours) alone or in collaboration with Richard Torrington, Lara Ubago, Xavier Bagué, Ann Coveney and Antonio Scotti.

Since 1998 diverse design workshops in permaculture of variable content and duration, alone or in collaboration with Richard Torrington, Lara Ubago, Xavier Bagué, Ann Coveney and Sara Arnaiz.

Since 2001 diverse workshops, courses and collaborations with schools to design orchards, ponds and gardens

Since 2000 diverse projects in the design of gardens, landscape, agricultural management and consultation in ecological agriculture with specific clients.

I have recently become the interim coordinator for the Northeastern node of the Iberian Network of Permaculture

I currently work in:

Project for the management of vegetable wastes in Palafrugell from a course of civic participation

Organization of diverse courses about permaculture and the implantation of self-composting

Design of a protocol for linked projects of Transition Towns with Agenda 21

Creation of an index to facilitate searches in Fuente de Permacultura

The online updates of a biodynamic calendar for the northern hemisphere

Creation of the Aula de PermaCultura de la Xarxa de Decreixement with Sara Arnaiz

Diploma Action Learning

Offers and wants

I offer:

Help in making, designing or improving webpages.

Help in transmitting subsidies or presenting projects in the public administration

Experience in the design of courses and workshops in permaculture

Experience in the implementation of balcony and urban vegetable gardens and of permaculture

Seeds

I need:

A nearby support group

Material and help for installing the irrigation of the garden

More permaculture workers in the area :)

Seeds

Organic food

A bicycle with a large frame

Help making firewood

References

Activism

I have always been linked to ecological and leftist political entities of the local sphere, with very active periods.

I refuse to do military service and for five years was intensely active in the antimilitary movement and for the peace of Barcelona and surrounding areas. From those years, I preserve the conviction that with determination, perseverance and shoulder to shoulder, a different world is possible.

Leisure and hobbies

I work in what I am interested in and I have the opportunity to implement the designs in which I participate and bring them to reality. If I can also raise my two daughers (I have joint custody) and see them grow healthy and happy… I am very rich. Additionally, I really like to do things and spend time with Anna, to learn country dancing and to walk in the forest. And playing role or board games with friends and hosting guests in my home and passing time with the people that I appreciate.

I also dedicate time where I can to archery, and my dream is to one day be able to practice with a Japanese bow and construct my own arrows. Archery is very enjoyable and relaxing for me. Almost as much as reading haikus. :)

I am also an AFOL. It’s a shame that LEGOs are made of plastic, but the world isn’t perfect, is it? ;-)