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What Is Permaculture? / Permaculture Individuals / Fellow Travelers/ Publications and Organizations / Permaculture Discussions
What Is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a "a design system for creating sustainable human environments," according to Bill Mollison, one of its co-founders. Mollison and David Holmgren began developing permaculture in the 1970s in Australia.
- Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources by Steve Diver of ATTRA.
- What Is Permaculture? (Permaculture Magazine, UK)
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Permaculture - a Beginner's Guide by Graham Burnett (UK)
- A Toolbox, Not a Tool by Toby Hemenway (Whole Earth, Winter, 2001)
- The Ethics and Principles of Permaculture by David Holmgren (1994)
- The Essence of Permaculture (HTML) / (PDF) by David Holmgren (summary of his book)
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The Permaculture Papers by Russ Grayson (a personal history of permaculture) - Hopedance Magazine #31: Special Issue on Permaculture (several online articles)
Permaculture Individuals
Bill Mollison
Australian permaculture designer, writer and teacher. Co-originator of permaculture
with David Holmgren. Author of Permaculture: a Designer's Manual,
Introduction to Permaculture (co-author),
Permaculture One (co-author), Permaculture Two, etc.
- Homepage (Bill Mollison / Tagari Publications / Permaculture Institute)
- Interview by Alan AtKisson (In Context magazine)
- Interview by Scott London
- Interview by Scott Vlaun (Seeds of Change)
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
- "Making a mess of his life" (short biography) in The Age, Australia
David Holmgren
Australian permaculture designer, writer and teacher. Co-originator
of permaculture with Bill Mollison. Author of Permaculture One (co-author) and
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
- Homepage
- Writings
- Collected Writings (several PDFs of his articles are online here)
- Intervew on Energy Descent / alternate posting
- "Permaculture co-founder steps into limelight" (article about)
Aranya
English permaculturalist and garden designer
Graham Burnett
UK permaculture activist, writer, and teacher.
- Spiralseed, formerly Land and Liberty (homepage)
- Urban Permaculture (description of his plot)
- Articles
- Interview (part 1) / (part 2)
Food Not Lawns
Oregon permaculture activist group
Robyn Francis
Australian permaculture designer and educator. (Djanbung Gardens )
- homepage
- Persistence pays off at Djanbung by Russ Grayson
Russ Grayson
Australian journalist with a background in permaculture education and overseas aid.
- Pacific Edge (homepage)
- Journalism and reportage
- The Permaculture Papers (a personal history of permaculture and reflections on its future).
- Tagari - an experiment blooms and fades article on important permaculture center.
Green Fairy Farm
Urban homesteading in Berkeley, California
- "Berkeley: Urban farmers produce nearly all their food with a sustainable garden in their backyard (SF Chronicle July 22, 2004)
Folke Günther
Toby Hemenway
Oregon permaculture teacher and author of
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture.
Contributing editor of The Permaculture Activist (US magazine).
- Pattern Literacy (homepage)
- "Advice From Gaia's Garden Permaculture in your urban yard" (article about)
Jude Hobbs
Oregon permaculture instructor and landscape designer.
Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark
Permaculture designers and teachers. Point
Reyes, California
- Permaculture Institute of Northern California (homepage)
- Interview with Penny Livingston
- The Ecstasy of Ecology
Mark Ludwig
Semi-permaculturist from the US Midwest.
- Midwest Permaculture (three of his essays)
- Permaculture Mailing List (frequent contributor in past years)
Path to Freedom
"Living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting... Here we present a self-sufficiency resource center and on-going report on our urban 'homestead' which we have been recently developing... in Pasadena, California"
- Path to Freedom (home) (sort of an online magazine/newsletter dedicated to urban homesteading, organics, simple living, etc.)
- Path to Freedom: Projects & Resources
Scott Pittman
Scott has taught and designed permaculture systems for 22 years, six of those teaching and traveling around the world with Bill Mollison.
Plants for a Future (Ken Fern and others)
"Resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. We practice vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment using Perennial plants" (UK)
John Quinney
Former executive director of the renowned New Alchemy Institute.
- Designing Sustainable Small Farms - very long article (29 pages printed). Seems to foreshadow "Introduction to Permaculture."
Margaret RainbowWeb
Permaculture activist and eco-hermit, now in Australia. Her huge website is incredible: eccentric,
creative, with a wide variety of writings and ideas. For example: how-to articles, guinea pigs,
memories from
World War II England, spritual writings, etc.
Jack Rowe
Gardener and permaculturalist from US Southwest.
Knowledgeable about gardening, soils and native plants.
- Introduction to Permaculture LINK DOWN
- No-Till Gardening
- Garden Bed Shaping LINK DOWN
- Newsletter of Seeds of Texas, Seed Exchange (authored several articles) LINK DOWN
- Seeds of Texas' Vegetable Seed-Savers Handbook (written partly by Rowe?) LINK DOWN
- Permaculture Mailing List (frequent contributor in past years)
Jan Spencer
Oregon permaculturalist, painter and writer.
- homepage
- Suburban Renewal (an account of re-doing a suburban tracthouse, along sustainable lines).
Rick Valley
"Owner and operator of Northern Groves Bamboo Nursery in Corvallis, Oregon. Rick's experience in teaching permaculture emphasizes a hands-on approach. He is particularly knowledgeable about wetlands restoration, underutilized plants, seed gathering, culinary herbs and fiber plants."
- Growing for the future (newspaper article in Albany Democrat-Herald, July 8, 2004)
- Permaculture Mailing List (frequent contributor in past years)
Robert Waldrop
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Better Times many articles/links on food/gardening/permaculture in Middle America)
- Oklahoma Food (homepage) ("We're growing a grassroots network uniting Oklahoma folks interested in sustainably produced, locally grown food")
- Growing a beautiful edible landscape in an urban neighborhood
Fellow Travellers
Keith Addison and
Midori Hiraga
"... a pioneering expedition by a small, mobile NGO (Non-Government Organization) involved in environment and rural development work, starting from Hong Kong and travelling 40,000 kilometres through 26 countries in Asia and Africa to Cape Town, South Africa."
- Journey to Forever A big site with many good web pages on sustainable topics.
Bruce Caldwell
Green architect
- Principles of Sustainability
- What Makes for Cost-Effective Buildings?
- Co-housing's fundamental to a sustainabile society
- My Vision...
- What's the World Coming To: A Vision of a Sustainable Human Setting
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
Well-known eco-centre in Wales, UK
- homepage
- Articles from CAT
- What do we mean by being green? by Peter Harper and Paul Allen
- The whole home by Paul Allen
City Farmer
Canada's "Office of Urban Agriculture" in Vancouver, BC.
Anna Edey (Solviva)
Wrote Solviva: How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre, and Peace on Earth,
"...How We Can Provide Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Transportation, Food,
Solid Waste and Wastewater Managaement in Ways that Reduce Pollution and
Depletion..."
- homepage (has several chapters online)
Dolly Freed
Urban homesteader with her father in Philadelphia in 70s. As a teenager she wrote a book
about their philosophy -- a modern Huckleberry Finn, but with an attitude.
An intuitive permaculturalist.
- Possum Living: How To Live Well Without A Job and With (almost) No Money .
- To access the online version of her book, scroll down this page to the entry for Dolly's book, click on the entry, and fill out the form that appears.
Peter Harper
Biologist, gardener and landscape designer who has worked at the
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) since 1983.
- The Lifestyle Lab (PDF. Comparees two families: middle-class consumers vs gung-ho greens)
- Techno-anthropology in the home (another treatment of the comparison of two families mentioned above)
- Eco-Realism: An Emerging Paradigm? (short PDF)
- Lessons Learned by the Centre for Alternative Technology over 20 years (includes a chart comparing the habits of Eco-Chic, Light Greens, Gung-Ho Greens and Neolithic Greens in the middle of the article)
Other
- Eco-minimalism: getting the priorities right by Howard Liddell and Nick Grant (PDF)
- Eco style over content (PDF. author?)
- AT Links
- Bicycle Links
- Web Publishing Links
- Eating Links
- Fruitful Misconceptions (essay about my errors in permaculture)
Publications and Organizations
- Chelsea Green US publisher of many books on sustainability topics and permaculture.
- Rodale Institute Store (for permaculture books, search for "permaculture")
- Seeds of Change (bookstore) Has some permaculture books, including Mollison's Permaculture Designers Manual at a good price.
- The Permaculture Activist (main US permaculture magazine. much information. books for sale)
- Permaculture Magazine (main UK permaculture magazine, available in US newstands) / online articles (about 30)
- Permaculture Association (UK)
- Permaculture International Limited (PIL) (Australia) / newsletters
- EcoLandTech (a page of many links by Lawrence Landon)
- Market Farming (another page of links by Lawrence Landon)
Permaculture Discussions
- Worldwide Mailing List (Requires registration)
- PRI Chat Forum
- Forum on Garden Web