Tim currently lives in Byron Bay with his partner and two small daughters. He make his living as a sustainability consultant, land planner, designer and project manager with a specialty in sustainable forestry and organic agriculture.

He spends most of the rest of his time volunteering at Permaforest Trust, a sustainability organization he founded in 1997.

His CV is listed below.

CV     James Timothy Winton

Skills and Achievements

 Self-motivated, innovative, initiator equally at home working in own organizations or others. People orientated communicator, achieving results through strong leadership, clarity, commitment and fairness. Project management, financial and administrative skills in commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Skill base includes forestry, plantation forestry and sustainable forestry practices; permaculture design and education; business modelling, budgeting and accounting; web design- project start-up specialist.

 ·  Founder and principal of Outland Resources p/l, Australia’s leading tree planting and silvicultural services contracting company.

·  Founder and trustee The Permaforest Trust, a not-for-profit environmental education centre focusing on sustainability training and demonstration.

·  Principal of Permaforest p/l plantation forestry, permaculture and sustainability consulting company.

Education and Training

 BA English Literature, University of Western Ontario 1990

Dip Permaculture, The Permaculture Institute 1997

Certificate 4 in Workplace Training and Assessment 2004

Career

 New Forest Contracting (Silvicultural Contractor) Canada- Tree planter1991

Coast Range Contracting (Silvicultural Contractor) Canada- Crew Boss 1992

Charter 20, (Yacht Charter Company) Australia- Operations Manager 1993

North Coast Agro-forestry (Silvicultural Contractor) Australia- Supervisor/Trainer 1994

Permaforest p/l (Silvicultural Services and Sustainability Consulting Company) Australia- Principal 1995 to present.

The Permaforest Trust (not-for-profit Education Centre) Australia- Managing Trustee 1997 to present.

Outland Resources p/l (Silvicultural Contractor) Australia- Marketing/Development Manager 2000 to present.

Positions

 President, Tree Planting Contractors Association of NSW 1997,1998.

Board Member, Permaculture International LTD. 2003 to present.

Trustee, The Permaforest Trust 1997 to present.

Interests

 Aikido- Nidan (2nd degree black belt) Ki Society.

Integral Studies

Organic Farming- commercial producer.

Sustainable Forestry

Permaculture Experience

 I have taught on PDC courses for Bill Mollison (Permaculture Institute), Peter Wade, Robyn Francis(Permaculture Education), David Devries (Permaculture Works) and Sindhu Lawton (Permaculture Research Institute) at various times over the last 8 years.

 I have taught permaculture and permanent forestry courses of my own in Australia and Spain.

 Specialist areas include Trees and Energy Transactions, Patterns, Climatic Factors, Invisible Structures, Sustainable Forestry and Systems Ecology.

 I have attended national permaculture convergences in Adelaide 1995, Nimbin 1997, Nimbin 2001 and Noosa 2004; and an international permaculture convergence in Perth in 1996. I presented papers at Perth 1996 and Nimbin 1997 and 2001. I have published an article entitled, “Border Ranges Permaforest- Restoration Forestry for a Permanent Culture” in the Permaculture International Journal (Issue #69). Practical experience includes land selection consultancies and property designs, but is based primarily in establishing the permaculture and sustainability education centre at Barkers Vale, where I lived for 7 years, for The Permaforest Trust. This is a wide-ranging project that has allowed me to gain experience in all aspects of permaculture design, site establishment and project management.

 I did my PDC with Bill Mollison at Tagari Farm in 1994 and received a Diploma of Permaculture Design from the Permacultue Institute in 1998.

Personal

 Goals are to create and participate in organizations demonstrating and promoting sustainability, social justice and positive cultural change. To engage in positive commercial endeavours successfully in order to fund good work and provide for right livelihood; and to recognise the important achievements and advantages, as well as the flaws, of the society we now enjoy while actively moving forward to develop realistic, progressive and positive alternatives for the future.

Tim Winton

Born 13/03/1967 Canada- currently Australian citizen.

18 Armstrong St

Suffolk Park NSW

Australia 2481

+61 02 6685 9090

+61 02 9225 9536 fax

0427 937 904 mobile

timwinton@internode.on.net