Links and Contacts
North America
• OUR Ecovillage: Shawnigan Lake Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Education: Permaculture with focus on Eco Building, children, gardening. Excellent example of whole systems management www.ourecovillage.org
• Permaculture BC – Education and Design focusing on theory and bioregional experience. www.permaculturebc.com
• Permaculture Activist www.permacultureactivist.net
• Permanet: www.permaculture.net Excellent worldwide pc web connection
• Friends of the Trees, PO Box 4469, Bellingham, WA 98227. Tel: (360) 676-7704. www.friendsofthetrees.net
friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com
• Eugene Permaculture Guild: www.eugenepermacultureguild.org
• Santa Barbara Permaculture Guild www.sbpermaculture.org
• Southern California Permaculture Guild www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/scpg
• Los Angeles Permaculture Guild: www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/lapg
• San Diego Permaculture Guild (includes area across Mexican border) www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sdpg
• Central Coast Permaculture Guild serves San Luis Obispo County www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ccpg
• Colorado Rocky Mtn. PC Institute: http://www.crmpi.org/
• Bullocks Permaculture Homestead (Orcas Island, Washington) www.permacultureportal.com
• Regenerative Design Institute: www.regenerativedesign.org
• Earthaven Ecovillage (Northern California) http://www.earthaven.org
Global
• Permaculture Online (excellent alt.permaculture web site resource) http://metalab.unc.edu/permaculture
• David Holmgren Holmgren Design Services (Australia) 16 Fourteenth St, Hepburn. 3461.Australia.Ph/fax 0353483636 Email holmgren@netconnect.com.au www.holmgren.com.au
• Tagari Publications (part of the Permaculture Institute) http://www.tagari.com/ tagaripb@norex.com.au
• Permaculture International (a must see Australian networking site) www.permacultureinternational.org
• Permaculture International Journal www.permaculturenews.org
• Permaculture Assoc. (Britain) www.permaculture.org.uk
• Marsha Hanzi Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia (South America) www.permacultura-bahia.org.br
Animals
• American Poultry Association www.ampltya.com
• American Dairy Goat Association www.adga.org
• National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) www.attra.org
Building/Appropriate Technology
•Northwest EcoBuilding Guild (Seattle) www.ecobuilding.org PO Box 58530 Seattle, WA 98138
206-575-2222 E-mail: membership@ecobuilding.org
• Solar Energy Association of Oregon www.solaror.org 205 SE Grand #202, Portland, OR 97214 Tel & fax: 503-231-5662 E-mail: solaror@teleport.com
• Homepower. Great catalog and articles. www.homepower.com
• Energy Source Builder. Nuts and Bolts Newsletter on building energy efficient homes www.oikos.com
•The Last Straw www.thelaststraw.org
• Greenbuilders, Inc. Masonry Stove, Russian Stove and other woodburning web resources www.greenbuilders.com
• Institute for Planetary Renewal www.planetaryrenewal.org/
• Solar Composting Advanced Toilets www.solartoilet.com
• Greenspec Directory www.buildinggreen.com
• Energy efficient appliances www.aceee.org
Forestry
•Agroforestry the Science of trees and land integration. http://www.agroforester.com/
Food Security
• Local Harvest: Nationwide directory of small farms, farmer’s markets and other local food resources www.localharvest.org
•Willamette Farm and Food Coalition: Local resources to support farmers, restaurateurs, processors www.lanefood.org
Garden
• Organic Gardening Magazine organicgardening.com
• The compost Resource Page: Everything from worms to poems oldgrowth.org/compost/index.html
• Webgarden www.gardenweb.com/forums/soil/
• Weekend Gardener: Weekly electronic gardening guide www.chestnut-sw.com/index.htm
• Garden Guides: www.gardenguides.com/
• Gardening hand tool source list: www.metalab.unc.edu/london/orgfarm/tools/gardening-hand-tools.faq
• Great nursery list compiled by the PC Activist: http://www.permacultureactivist.net/nurseries/PlntNursrys.htm
• North American Fruit Explorers resource for handbook and magazines on fruits http://www.nafex.org
Agriculture: Sustainable
• Community Supported Agriculture: http://www.tilthproducers.org
• Tilth: Oregon Organic Certification Program organic@tilth.org www.tilth.org
• Wild Ones Handbook- A voice for Natural Landscaping: Offers instructions: bird, bat houses, small pond building http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/greenacres/wildones/
Farming
• World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in the USA (WWOOF_USA) 654 Fillmore Street San Francisco, California 94117 415-621-FARM (3276) info@wwoofusa.org www.wwoofusa.org
• GrowFood www.growfood.org
• Community Alliance With Family Farms: http://www.caff.org
• The Organic Agriculture Information Clearinghouse of organic information: Excellent www.organicaginfo.org
• Rodale Institute http://rodaleinstitute.org/
Insects
• Biocontrol Network: Offers info and marketing alt. to conventional chemical pesticides and fertilizers
• Farmscaping to Enhance Biological Controls: http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/farmscape.html
• Northwest Coalition Against Pesticides (NCAP) www.pesticide.org
Land
• Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust: http://www.osalt.org/home.html
Mushrooms
•Fungi Perfecti Catalog: PO Box 7634 Olympia,WA 98507 206-426-9292
Plants
• The PLANTS Database maintains and generates data reports in specialized areas: Alternative Crops, Characteristics, Checklists & Searches, Classification, Culturally Significant, Distribution Update, Excluded and Anomalous Names, Fact Sheets, Invasive & Noxious, Plant Materials Publications, Threatened & Endangered, Wetland Indicator Status http://plants.usda.gov/
• Urban Agriculture Notes: Maintained by a group in Vancouver, BC-how to grow food in densely populated areas
• Plants for a Future Excellent site for exploring plants. descriptive of 7,000 plants http://www.pfaf.org/
Main Site: The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, England pfaf@scs.leeds.ac.uk (web related queries only)
• Oregon State University: excellent site for viewing plants that are hardy in the PNW www.oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/index.htm
• Oregon Plant Atlas http://www.oregonflora.org/atlas.php
Seeds
• Seedsaving and Seedsavers’ Resources http://homepage.tinet.ie/~merlyn/seedsaving.html
• Seeds of Change : Wonderful selection of heirloom, traditional, medicinal, and original seed varieties http://www.seedsofchange.com/
• Organic Seed Alliance: Supports the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed. http://www.seedalliance.org
Soil
• Sustainable Soil Management: http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/soilmgmt.html
• The role of microbial communities in recoupling Carbon and Nitrogen cycles in the transition to organic soil management http://vivo.library.cornell.edu/entity?home=5&id=16359
Water
• Ken Yeoman / Keyline Designs in Australia http://www.keyline.com.au/
• U.S. Geological Survey Launches Website For Nation’s Water Data: http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch
• Water Harvesting in Drylands: http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
• Harvested Rainwater Guidelines http://rainwater.sustainablesources.com/
Waste Water
• Oasis Design applies ecological principles to the design of greywater systems http://www.oasisdesign.net/
• Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design Nancy Jack Todd John Todd: Ecologically based working designs and prototypes. Restoration of pure water, bioremediation of wild aquatic environments, food productivity, and urban design
Economics
• Good Money and Green Money: Links to lists that help in screening companies www.goodmoney.com
Sustainable Investing
• Social Investing Forum Has a directory of financial advisers and planners www.socialinvest.org
• Green America: Dedicated to addressing social and environmental problems. www.greenamerica.org