Compiled by Elizabeth Lynch, Troy Hottle, and Juliette Jones
Pc Communities, on-line or other
- Pittsburgh Garden Experiment: http://www.meetup.com/PittsburghGardenExperiment/
- Eastern Permaculture Guild: http://www.meetup.com/permie/
- Eastern Permaculture Guild: penn-permaculture-list@meetup.com
- Local Food Cleveland: http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/
- Three Rivers Permaculture Guild
Pittsburgh-local Resources
- Pittsburgh Permaculture: http://pittsburghpermaculture.org/
- Transition Pittsburgh: http://www.meetup.com/transitionpgh/
- Pittsburgh Garden Experiment: http://pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/
- Steel City Soils: http://steelcitysoils.com/
- Octupus Organics: http://www.octopusorganic.com/
- Urban Homesteaders: http://www.urbanhomesteaders.com/
- Three Sisters Farm: http://www.bioshelter.com/
- Sustainable Monroeville: http://www.sustainablemonroeville.blogspot.com/
Pittsburgh Permaculture’s Resources
- What is Permaculture? – A brief description of permaculture
- Pittsburgh Hardiness Zones – this article takes a detailed look at the USDA hardiness zones and the updated Arbor Day Foundation map
- Patterns and Design – a discussion about the pervasive patterns of nature and how they might be integrated in our designs
- Fruit Tree Guild - this page describes a permaculture design we installed at the Edgerton Avenue site in Point Breeze
- Permaculture Pond – a description of a pond install that is designed to function without pumps or filters while providing a beautiful, productive habitat
- Grape Vine Awning – a page explaining the placement of a grapevine on the south side of the home to help reduce energy costs
- Vegetable Seed Starting – color coded charts to help you time your vegetable starts
- Actively Aerated Compost Tea – a guide to making your own compost tea and constructing a cheap yet effective brewer
- Grafting at Home – an article explaining the theory of grafting fruit trees and how to do it with what you already have at home
- Stackable Worm Bin How-to – a picture guide to making your own stackable worm composting bin using 5 gallon buckets
- Addressing Concerns about Worms – a discussion about the recent concerns surrounding invasive worms and the relative risk they pose
National/ International Resources
- Northeaster Permaculture: http://northeasternpermaculture.wikispaces.com/
- Northeaster Permaculture Convergence: http://northeastconvergence.wordpress.com/
- Midwest Permaculture, Illinois: http://midwestpermaculture.com/
- http://www.tagari.com/ Co-originator of permaculture Bill Mollison’s Website and the International Permaculture Institute’s Home.
- Pc Institute in USA: http://www.permaculture.org
- Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute: http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org/
- http://www.holmgren.com.au/ Co-originator of permaculture David Holmgren’s web page
- www.permacultureactivist.net/ World’s oldest permaculture magazine and a great resource
- http://www.permaculture.net Net working site and home of a permaculture directory
- www.permacultureinstitute.com PC institute of Northern California
- www.earthaven.org/ A growing neo-tribal ecovillage dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating wholistic, sustainable culture
Pc List-serve
- The intention is to cross pollinate and create mutually beneficial and supportive relationships between the members of the list and to support and learn about their individual and community-based permaculture related endeavors. To post a message to all the list members, send email to permaculture@openpermaculture.org.
- To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://openpermaculture.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture_openpermaculture.org
Economics
- New Economic Institute: http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/
- Financial Permaculture: http://www.financialpermaculture.org/
- www.pcuonline.org/ Permaculture Credit Union – the first financial institution based on the ethics of permaculture
- Gross National Happiness: http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/
- Beyond Money: http://beyondmoney.net/2010/09/20/no-virginia-the-economy-will-not-recover/
- Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS): http://www.transaction.net/money/lets/
- World Resources Institute – Valuing ecosystem services: http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8381
- Article: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/12-simple-things-you-can-start-doing-right-now-to-prepare-for-the-coming-financial-apocalypse
- Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators: http://calvert-henderson.com/
- Social Investment Forum: http://socialinvest.org/
- Social Funds: http://socialfunds.com/
- Socially Responsible Investing Report: http://www.naturalcapital.org/docs/SRI%20Report%2010-04_word.pdf
- Portfolio 21: http://www.portfolio21.com/
- Domini: http://domini.com/
- Pax World Investments: http://www.paxworld.com/
Podcasts
- Sustainable World Radio: http://www.sustainableworldradio.com/Permaculture_Podcasts_7941.html
- C-Realm: http://c-realm.com/
- Agroinnovations: http://agroinnovations.com/
Other Resources
- Bioregional Congress: http://biocongress.org/
- International Permaculture Convergence: http://www.ipcon.org/
- Transition Towns: http://www.transitionus.org/
- Global Ecovillage Network: http://gen.ecovillage.org/
- Permaculture Research Institute: http://permaculture.org.au/
- Gaia University: www.gaiauniversity.org
- Wiser Earth: http://www.wiserearth.org/
Books
- Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
- Bill Mollison
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
- Dave Holmgren
- Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
– Dave Jacke
- Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
– Toby Hemenway
- The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition
- Joe Jenkins
- The Herbalist’s Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines (Chelsea Green)
- Nancy and Michael Phillips
- The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World’s Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs
- James A. Duke
- Invasive Plant Medicine: The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives
- Timothy Scott
- Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm
- Darrell Fre
- The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
- Fritjof Capra
- Entropy: A New World View
- Jeremy Rifkin
- The Secret Life of Plants
- Peter Tompkins
- Secrets of the Soil : New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet
- Peter Tompkins
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Cess Center for Environmental)
- Christopher Alexander
- The Timeless Way of Building
- Christopher Alexander
- Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
- Don Edward Beck
- Plants and Society
- Levetin & McMahon
- Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
- Thomas Elpel
- Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
- Tom Wessels
- Seeing Nature: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World
- Paul Krafel
- The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature
- Evan Eisenberg
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Charles C. Mann
- The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution
- Andrew Bard Schmookler
- Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition
- Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
- EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
- Richard Register
- Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan
- F.H. King
Pesticides/Pollution
Films
- A Farm for the Future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xShCEKL-mQ8&feature=related
- In Grave Danger of Falling Food: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3162503821561656641#
- Permaculture: the Growing Edge: http://www.belili.org/permaculture/Permaculture_GrowingEdge.html
- YERT: http://www.yert.com/
- The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php
- Josh Byrne in Australia – an amazing one year transformation of a suburban lot in Perth, Australia with Josh Byrne
- Sepp Holzer in Austria – this is a fantastic set of videos which capture the design and implementation of Sepp’s unique methods on his farm in the Alps
- Permaculture Trio in Great Britain – the collection of three segments in one video, this film captures the efforts on three very different sites, includes Robert Hart and Ken Fern
- Synergistic Gardening with Emilia Hazelip – a student of Fukuoka, Emilia explores how to apply his teachings to her garden
- David Holmgren Interviews – the cofounder of permaculture discusses a number of very relevant issues in the context of permaculture in this series of videos
Worktrade Opportunities
- http://www.wwoofusa.org/
- http://www.wwoof.org/
- http://www.wwoof.org/newsite08/
- http://www.wwoofinternational.org/
- http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/index.php?one=pnv&two=pnv
- http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm
- http://www.attra.org/
- http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/classifieds
- http://www.growfood.org/
- http://www.helpx.net/
- http://www.backdoorjobs.com/
- http://www.idealist.org/
- http://www.angelfire.com/hero/wwoof/
- http://www.backdoorjobs.com/farming.html
- http://www.workaway.info/
- http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/
- http://www.couchsurfing.org/
