Posts tagged with books

West Coast Food Forestry

West Coast Food Forestry: a Permaculture Guide is a tremendous resource for US West Coast permies…it’s a 143-page book by Rain Tenaqiya that’s available on a CD or as a PDF directly from the author, and it’s a critical reference for permies west of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains.
The book starts with [...]

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Permaculture Principles Website

Permaculture Principles is a website companion to David Holmgren’s book, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.

The site features a wealth of knowledge about the permaculture ethics and design principles. To see how these all connect, visit the Flower page, which includes an MP3 of Holmgren discussing this info graphic.
You can also download [...]

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Homegrown Evolution

Homegrown Evolution is a site you’ll want to return to again and again for all kinds of urban permaculture resources:
Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne write Homegrown Evolution, a blog that explores a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Kelly and Erik are the authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient [...]

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Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas

If you do much reading about permaculture, you’re going to find references to sixties counterculture, Stewart Brand, and the Whole Earth Catalog. Here’s how the genesis of the Whole Earth Catalog is described by Wikipedia:
Brand’s intent with the Catalog was to provide education and “access to tools” so a reader could “find his own [...]

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The Greywater Guerrillas: Welcome to the Water Underground

The Greywater Guerrillas are “are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.”
Their site is full of project resources, and they’ve published an anthology, Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, described as “a people’s history of water”. (Samples available on [...]

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