General Information

• Tagari Publications – Bill Mollison’s permaculture publishing company; also the place to apply for a diploma after you’ve taken a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) and tracked your related work for two years.
• Permaculture Principles – David Holmgren’s site; excellent for getting a grasp of the conceptual underpinnings of permacutlure.
• Wikipedia on Permaculture – full of good links.
• Permie.net posts tagged “introduction” – a list of especially good introductory content on this site.

Books

• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture – possibly the best how-to book on getting started with permaculture in you own home.
• Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability – very recent book by David Holgren; an essential introduction to the subject.
• Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual – THE textbook on permaculture design, by Bill Mollison.
• One-straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka – a seminal text; written decades ago but still considered a must-read text.
• Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources

Directories, Publications, Portals

• Permaculture Activist, – magazine and web portal, published in the US.
• Permaculture Magazine – published in the UK

Institutes and Training Centers

• Regenerative Design Institute – in Bolinas, CA – where I did a two-week intensive PDC
• Occidental Arts and Ecology Center – also in Northern California, a site I’ve visited and volunteered at frequently
• Permaculture Institute (based in Santa Fe, New Mexico)
• Permaculture Research Institute of Austrailia
• A list of institutes from Permaculture Activist