Rescue Earth System

Regenerative Courses

The Rescue Earth System is a holistic suite of diverse regenerative solutions that can be applied to all levels of society, economy and the environment.

Regenerative Systems Design Courses

Regenerative Restoration & Community Resilience

The Regenerative Systems Design Courses will enable students of all ages and cultural backgrounds to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to design a thriving regenerative society on a local, bioregional and global scale.

Furthermore, the multi-lingual courses will cater for many levels of interest, education, cultural background, etc. from home gardeners to off-grid homesteaders to farmers and businesses to regenerative development consultants and community leaders.

For example, Level 1 of the Regenerative Systems Design Courses will be suitable to both unskilled students and well educated students who need to learn more about the art of growing nutritious food. At the other end of the scale, learners that have completed Level 12+1 of the Regenerative Systems Design Course would have the knowledge and practical experience to design the regenerative development of their bioregion — and they would also qualify to study towards a MSc.

Some of the third-party elective courses offer professional qualifications in specific fields. Good examples are the Prosocial Facilitator Course, Dr Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Consultant Course, and Permaculture Institute’s Permaculture Design Course. There will also be many short courses — available free or at a reduced price.

“Holism is a process of creative synthesis; the resulting wholes are not static, but dynamic, evolutionary, and creative. […] We are out of the bonds of the old crude mechanical ideas, and we enter an altogether new zone of ideas and categories.”
Jan Christian Smuts
South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher.

Regenerative Systems Design Courses

The Regenerative Systems Design Course is in the process of being developed. There are 15 qualifications, 12 at standard levels (5 Certificate and 7 Diploma) and 3 specialist levels (Advanced Diploma (Honours level course), MSc and PhD or DSc) . The standard levels are made up of 16 core tracks and hundreds of modules! Each qualification has many tracks and qualifies in a level. Each track has 6 standard phases and 1 master phase and a varying number of modules. Modules are also part of many threads (categories) e.g. composting, rocket stoves, biochar, etc.

The Regenerative Systems Design Course is a blend of online content provided by international experts, additional reading & videos, online tutoring, and in-person practicals where participants apply what they have learnt into a Rescue Earth project of their choice. The many elective modules can be studied as standalone courses or as electives. Level 12+1 requires a dissertation.

Even though they have been designed to be studied together, Core Tracks and Elective Tracks can be studied on their own. For example someone may decide to study Regenerative Food Production & Processing from Phase 1 to 6 without studying any other tracks.

Regenerative Systems Design Tracks

Core Tracks

CT1) Regenerative Food Production & Processing
CT2) Regenerative Resilience :: Marketing & Packaging
CT3) Regenerative Resilience :: Accounting & Finance
CT4) Regenerative Resilience :: Holistic Systems Design
CT5) Regenerative Resilience :: Hydrological Systems
CT6) Regenerative Resilience :: Infrastructure Systems
CT7) Regenerative Natural Animal Health & Nutrition
CT8) Regenerative Natural Human Health & Nutrition
CT9) Regenerative Resilience :: Building Systems
CT10) Regenerative Resilience :: Energy Systems
CT11) Regenerative Resilience in a Sustainable Economy
CT12) Ecology & Regenerative Conservation Practices
CT13) Integrated Strategic Resource Management
CT14) Integrated Community Resilience & Placemaking
CT15) Holistic Design for Bioregional Communities
CT16) Leadership Development in Community Resilience

Elective Tracks

Elective Tracks cover subjects that compliment the content of the Core Tracks. To enroll in the Advanced Diploma, the completion of a minimum 125 elective tracks is required — 14 at beginner level, 35 at intermediate level, 34 at advanced level, and 42 at specialist level. The Advanced Diploma, which requires 8 electives at master level, is a prerequisite for qualifying to enroll in the MSc which will be partially sponsored by the Rescue Earth System.

ET1) Building & Earthworks
ET2) Business & Economy
ET3) Carbon & Climate
ET4) Energy & Power
ET5) Farming & Food
ET6) GIS Mapping Systems
ET7) Health & Nutrition
ET8) Nature & Wildlife
ET9) People & Places
ET10) Regenerative Design
ET11) Water & Weather
ET12) UN SDG Solutions

Practical Tracks

PT1) Level 1, 2, 3 :: Local Volunteer RE Projects mainly Permablitz & Food Garden. (Modules: PT1L1, PT1L2, PT1L3)
PT2) Level 4, 5, 6 :: Local Volunteer RE Projects mainly Regenerative Food System
PT3) Levels 7, 8, 9 :: Local Volunteer RE Projects mainly Earthworks & Building
PT4) Level 10, 11, 12 :: Bioregional Volunteer RE Projects mainly Leadership Roles
PT5) Master Level (Module: PT5ML)

Advanced Diploma Tracks

CT1 to CT16 @ Phase AD Master Difficulty — all 16 Core Tracks are studied at an advanced Phase AD (7) level difficulty. The subject matter focuses on holistically incorporating the core tracks into the Regenerative Systems Design Framework.
Bioregional Project Practical — Students must use the principles of the Regenerative Systems Design Framework to design & project manage a Bioregional Volunteer RE Project. (Module: PT5ML)
Elective Courses @ Master Difficulty — 8 master difficulty elective courses need to be completed — courses are mostly third party professional qualifications. A good example are Dr Elaine Ingham’s 4 Foundation Courses which are Step 1 of the Soil Food Web Consultant Course.
Dissertation — with a focus on Regenerative Systems Design in Bioregions.

Qualifications

Holistic Design

* Certificate in:

Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

*Introduction* Level Certificate in …
Qualifies in Level 1
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Modules: CT1P1, CT2P1, CT3P1, PT1L1 plus 1 Elective Course
Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

*Basic* Level Certificate in …
Qualifies in Level 2
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Modules: CT1P2, CT2P2, CT3P2, CT4P1, CT5P1, CT6P1, PT1L2 plus 3 Elective Courses
Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

*Foundation* Level Certificate in …
Qualifies in Level 3
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Modules: CT1P3, CT2P3, CT3P3, CT4P2, CT5P2, CT6P2, CT7P1, CT8P1, PT1L3 plus 4 Elective Courses
Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

*Intermediate* Level Certificate in …
Qualifies in Level 4
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Modules: CT1P4, CT2P4, CT3P4, CT4P3, CT5P3, CT6P3, CT7P2, CT8P2, CT9P1, CT10P1, PT1L4 plus 6 Elective Courses
Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

*Advanced* Level Certificate in …
Qualifies in Level 5
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals

Holistic Design Diploma in:

Regeneratively Optimised Farming Systems for Sustainable Resilience

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 6
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Regenerative Hydrological & Infrastructure Systems for Sustainable Resilience

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 7
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Regenerative Animal & Human Health & Nutrition for Sustainable Resilience

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 8
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Regenerative Energy & EcoBuilding Systems for Sustainable Resilience

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 9
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Regenerative Ecological & Economic Systems for Resilience & Sustainability

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 10
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Strategic Resource Management & Placemaking for Community Resilience

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 11
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Bioregional Community Leadership in Regenerative Resilience & Sustainability

Holistic Design Diploma in …
Qualifies in Level 12
Earned from Core Tracks + Electives + Practicals
Advanced Diploma in Regenerative Systems Design for Bioregional Communities

Qualifies in Level 12+1 (honours degree level)
Earned from Advanced Tracks + Practicals + Research Report

Post Graduate Level Studies

MSc Sustainable Food and Natural Resources (Regenerative Systems Design)

Qualifies in Level 12+2 — offered by the Graduate School of the Environment
120,000 RE = 20% discount
240,000 RE = 40% discount
360,000 RE = 60% discount
480,000 RE = 80% discount
600,000 RE = 100% discount
PhD or DSc

Qualifies in Level 12+3 — offered by various Universities

Permaculture is about designing, implementing and maintaining permanent natural systems …

Volunteer to Rescue Earth

We must rise and face the environmental challenges of our time by reversing the economic, physical and social decline of places. This can be achieved by the practice of regenerative restoration of degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action.

research the issue,
identify challenges,
determine underlying problem(s),
produce viable solutions,
select criteria to judge and select the best solution, and
develop an action plan,
implement the action plan, …

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