The Institute of Permaculture and Ecovillage of the Cerrado is an experimental educational design center and international community located on the Cerrado savanna  of Brazil. IPEC began on a bare, degraded cattle pasture in 1998 to teach and demonstrate permaculture and to apply this information in the construction of a prototype ecological village, or ecovillage.
The Institute of Permaculture and Ecovillage of the Cerrado is an experimental educational design center and international community situated in Brazil's Cerrado savanna. IPEC started on a degraded cattle pasture in 1998 to instruct permaculture and apply this knowledge in constructing an ecological village.