The Resiliency Institute is building a community of people who are knowledgeable and committed to the permaculture ethics of care of the earth, care of people, and fair share. Our advisers generously share their wisdom so that we may in turn share it with you.

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” ~ Japanese Proverb

Peter Bane has published Permaculture Activist magazine for over 20 years and has taught permaculture design widely in the temperate and tropical Americas. He is a native of the Illinois prairie whose interest in good food and simple living led him at mid-life to become a writer and teacher of permaculture design. They also drew him into the arcane world of intentional community as fate presented the opportunity to help create and build Earthaven Ecovillage in the southern Appalachian Mountains. There he discovered his inner architect in the course of building a small off-grid solar cabin and later took on the more prosaic job of rehabilitating a pair of suburban ranch houses in the Midwestern college town of Bloomington, Indiana. That was the first step toward creating a small suburban farmstead where he now lives with his partner and apprentices. A prolific writer in journals and collections on forestry, building and all things sustainable, he consults with universities and municipal governments as well as for private landowners.

Wayne Weiseman is certified by The Permaculture Institute of Australia and the Worldwide Permaculture Network as an instructor of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. He is also certified by the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) to teach continuing education in Permaculture to licensed architects and landscape architects. Wayne has taught, lectured and consulted internationally for many years. He has worked as a school teacher and as a consultant to educators and administrators in curriculum and professional development. He has worked extensively with corporate executives in the art of team building, and the application of ideas in business and life developed through the observation of the cycles and connections found in the natural world. He has worked as a builder and contractor, herbalist, renewable energy expert, and farmer for the past thirty years. Wayne is Director of The Permaculture Project LLC and Permaculture Design-Build Collaborative LLC, full-service, international consulting and educational businesses promoting the ideas of eco-agriculture, renewable energy resources and eco-construction methods. He is also co-director of Permergy, an educational organization teaching Permaculture and sustainable systems to corporations. Wayne sits on the board of Mindful Generations, a non-profit guild of educators creating economic and community development in third-world countries through small scale agriculture training programs.

Fredric Miller, PhD
Professor of Horticulture, Joliet Junior College
Research Associate in Entomology, The Morton Arboretum

Dr. Fredric Miller is professor of horticulture in the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture Sciences at Joliet Junior College, a Senior Research Scientist – Entomology at The Morton Arboretum, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana where he is an instructor and faculty student advisor for the off-campus Master of Science horticulture graduate degree program. He is currently also an Illinois Forest Health Specialist with the Illinois Department Natural Resources (IDNR) and USDA-USFS North Central Regional Office and is a Board Certified Master Arborist (BCMA). Dr. Miller is the author or co-author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 popular and technical articles in regional and national publications.