PLAYtoGROW: The green learning revolution.

With the PLAYtoGROW initiative, we want to establish permaculture worldwide as a practical and exciting learning experience. Our reusable Infinity Tools combine theory, practice and design in a playful way. Together with an innovative training system, we make permaculture accessible to everyone and promote its sustainable application.

With Infinity Tools and permaculture, teachers can make their schools and learning spaces flourish - a concept that can work worldwide.

PERMACULTURE IN SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE - Start in Uganda

Since 2016, BEU Permaculture has been strengthening communities in Uganda through permaculture and promoting climate-resilient agriculture. The social enterprise has even managed to incorporate permaculture into the country's curricula.

Now the team around founder Charles Mugarara wants to make Uganda a global permaculture pioneer.

The plan: With the support of SolarPunk Now, the innovative Infinity tools for teaching and learning permaculture will become established in Ugandan schools and with them new learning places will spring up across the country.

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Permaculture in the learning places! And thus regenerate the earth.

Imagine if we could tackle climate change and solve food crises by bringing people and nature back into harmony - and all in a fun way! Permaculture opens up exactly this path: a sustainable method with global potential that combines traditional wisdom with modern knowledge. It offers answers to the most pressing problems of our time and shows how we can regenerate ecosystems and create a future worth living in.

The PLAYtoGROW concept

With individually customizable modules, we adapt PLAYtoGROW for different contexts.

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The modules

Infinity Tools in Action

Discover the endless uses of Infinity Tools for your context, especially in education. Learn how you can use Beenius - the construction tool - and Infinity Stonepaper to make group work more efficient, enrich creative lessons and develop exciting learning journeys. In the workshop you will learn practical tips and tricks to exploit the full potential of the tools and create new, interactive educational approaches.

ContextCraft

Learn how the Infinity Tools can be adapted to different contexts using the ContextCraft method. This module shows you how to use the tools individually for your needs - whether in adult education, in class or for team building experiences. Participants develop their own teaching methods and discover the transformative power of the Infinity Tools in their own context. Through practical exercises, you will experience intrinsically how the tools work and can be used sustainably.

Infinity Tools and AI

In this module, you will learn how artificial intelligence - applications such as Gemini, ChatGPT and other AI tools - can be used to support learning journeys with digital technology. Bridges are built between the analog and digital worlds to combine the best of both worlds. Especially in the field of education, AI offers the opportunity to adapt learning methods to the context and thus relieve the burden on teachers. Participants will learn how AI makes lesson preparation easier, covers a wide range of languages ​​and, in combination with Infinity Tools, enables innovative, practical teaching approaches. The aim is to integrate AI and Infinity Tools sensibly in order to design different teaching contexts efficiently and creatively.

Infinity Tools and Permaculture

Make permaculture the most exciting learning experience in the world! In this module, participants learn how the Infinity Tools can be used to learn and teach permaculture. At the same time, everyone - whether with or without prior knowledge - gets an exciting introduction to a concept that combines ecological, social and economic sustainability. The goal is to experience the transformative power of permaculture and to convey it in an understandable and inspiring way using the Infinity Tools.

Model2Reality

In this module, you will learn how ideas, concepts and prototypes that are built on a small scale with Infinity Tools can be implemented on a large scale. Beenius models can be used to create learning spaces, greenhouses or dome structures, for example - from small models to a 100 square meter Infinity dome. At the same time, you will learn in a practical way how model-to-reality works: how context-adapted ideas and prototypes can be planned and scaled. This includes not only physical structures, but also entrepreneurial concepts, sustainable ideas or the start of a social enterprise. The aim is to enable participants to turn their visions into reality.

Permablitz

A Permablitz is a community action in which a permaculture prototype or model is turned into reality. This module teaches in practice how permaculture works and how a group can work together to create a sustainable area. The focus is on ecological principles such as creating water retention zones, raised beds, herb spirals or compost systems. The aim is to work together through practical work to create a regenerative and permanently sustainable area that brings the basic idea of ​​Earthcare and permaculture to life.

Sevengardens natural colors

Learn how to use the sevengardens process to extract natural colors from your environment or dye gardens that harmonize perfectly with permaculture principles. These colors are ideal for markers on Infinity Stonepaper as they are easy to wipe off and promote a local circular economy. The module offers you the opportunity to lead your own natural dye workshops and receive a sevengardens certificate . The goal is to create sustainable learning tools with unlimited availability.

Production workshop

Learn how Infinity Tools can be manufactured locally and adapted for distribution. This workshop teaches the basics of building your own social enterprise around the Infinity Tools. The goal is to distribute the tools worldwide - especially in regions with little access to learning tools - and at the same time generate your own income.

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Maya & Mojo

In the short story series “Maya and Mojo,” two curious bees experience how children transform their school grounds into a blooming paradise with the help of permaculture principles and Infinity Tools.

Folge 3: Infinity Dome - Das grüne Klassenzimmer

December 22, 2024

Episode 3: Infinity Dome - The Green Classroom
Maya & Mojo watch the Infinity Dome evolve into a green classroom that invites learning, growth and connection with nature.
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Folge 2: Mulchen, Mulchen, Mulchen

December 22, 2024

Episode 2: Mulching, Mulching, Mulching
Maya and Mojo see how the children use mulching to make the lifeless soil fertile again.
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Folge 1: Mach mal ne Blumenwiese

December 21, 2024

Episode 1: Make a flower meadow
Beefluencers Maya and Mojo watch as the children transform a desolate lawn into a vibrant meadow of flowers.
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