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Creating Productive Human Environments
Permaculture design  solutions can be applied to any environment, at any scale; from dense urban settlements to individual homes, farms to entire regions At Edge 5, we collaborate with our clients internationally to deliver specialised environmental community engagement solutions in the, resources, government and aid sectors. We engage in projects at the early stage of feasibility, providing education, training , design and skills development to local host communities and stakeholders, in achieving positive beneficial community development and landscape restoration outcomes, we have specialised knowledge which will transform your social responsibility investment. Allowing stakeholders to transition from dependency to self reliance creating productive sustainable human environments that are ecologically sound culturally appropriate and economically viable, providing for their own needs today and for the future. Social reasonability is now a primary priority for companies and organisations , we offer community engagement and development programs in alignment with GRI and G 3.1 indicators to assist companies and organisations meet their corporate governance.  Host communities are well aware of the risk associated with  projects and impacts on communities, environment and community relationships. Poor community engagement programs can result in negative relationships and affect a projects commercial viability and future growth and reputation. Functional community development is fundamental to healthy communities and business. Edge5 can deliver the appropriate community development and reduce risks and build the right relationships , offering professional services and  unique skills to deliver local proven solutions to undertake functional community engagement that will deliver the  required cost benefits and outcomes. We operate and offer practical proven beneficial solutions in the three broad climatic zones of the globe: THE HUMID TROPICS, DRY-LANDS, HUMID COOL TO COLD CLIMATE. Capabilities:
  • community development and capacity building
  • education, training , skills development
  • mentoring ,monitoring and evaluations
  • ecovillage design
  • ecological landscape design and restoration
  • sustainable agricultural design and development( food security )
  • sustainable environmental , horticultural design for urban and rural environments
  • water harvesting
  • aquaculture freshwater and marine
  •  drought, flood  and wild fire minimization , erosion control and repair
  • tree-scaping systems and water harvesting
  • plant nursery development
  • positive signals to investors and government and communities
How do you achieve a positive cost benefit outcome and functional on the ground results for community engagement?   Your first step is to contact Edge 5 who can tailor a program to provide proven and practical effective and common sense outcomes from your investment for community engagement programs. View Edge5′s capacity statement