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Swale Calculator
An online tool for calculating water-harvesting swale position and size.

NW Permaculture Community
NW Permaculture Community regional map

About Permaculture – Bending Oak
"...As it focuses primarily on design, permaculture mimics the relationships and patterns observed in nature to organize people, their buildings, food, water needs, daily routines and habits resulting in a design that yields an abundance of food, fiber, energy, building materials and all necessary provisions...

Bending Oak Farm
Bending Oak Farm is 25 acre woman-run permaculture educational farm committed to showing people what is possible when looking to create a more sustainable world. Through classes, workshops, school tours, community programs and hands-on experiences, the aim is to demonstrate attainable practices to better...

DIY Supper Clean Compost Toilet
DIY “Super Clean Composting Toilet” from Midwest Permaculture. A detailed photo essay for a 5-gallon and 26-gallon tote system in use at Bending Oak Farm guest accommodations

Permaculture at Tikkum
Permaculture at Tikkun: A story of radical transformation Fourteen years ago, the 7.5 acres at Tikkun was scrubby, semi-arid land with sparse trees, shrubs and cactus. There were no public services or electricity. Like millions of Mexican households, there was no reliable access to water. In the...

Calscape- California Native Plant Society
The goal at Calscape is to help Californians restore nature and save water one garden at a time. This is done by showing people which plants are really native to any location in the state, helping them figure out which ones they want, where to buy them, and how to grow them. True native plants are the...

Sustainable By Design :tools
Sustainable By Design provides a suite of shareware design tools on sustainable energy topics including sun angle calculators, window overhang calculators and more

Design Basics: Mapping the Sun on your Site
When creating a permaculture design, mapping where the sun falls on your site is crucial - here are our favorite tools to help you map light and shade.

Home Made 3 bathtub Greywater System
Greywater is a fabulous, though often underused, household resource that should be used wherever possible. Here's a home made 3 bathtub greywater system that's simple but effective.

American Herbalists Guild
The American Herbalists Guild was founded in 1989 as a non-profit, educational organization to represent the goals and voices of herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants.

Gardening Without Irrigation
Gardening Without Irrigation by Steve Soloman can help anyone whose garden depends on a limited or undependable well, anyone who gardens on natural rainfall, for any place faced with the possibility of drought. Originally published by Sasquatch Books a quality west coast publisher specializing in...

Wofati
Developed by permaculturists led by Paul Wheaton, wofati is a natural building method that can most practically be described as an unvarnished log cabin built into a hillside. Aside from homes, there are wofati-style coolers, freezers, and animal shelters.

Midwest permaculture
Educational programs on-site and virtual, videos, articles courses, design charettes and design services. We teach the internationally recognized 72-hr. Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course, honoring the original curriculum while updating students on the amazing progress that has occurred since...

Project Food Forest
Project Food Forest was founded in 2016 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The goal is to encourage, empower, and equip people to plant and care for edible plants all over. The scope of the work includes planting public food forests; implementing programs that add edible trees and shrubs to existing public...

Kootenay Lightweb Computing Service
The “Kootenay Lightweb” is a community owned cloud server, communication, Software and IT Educational service which provides community owned “Data” and “Social Network” alternatives to “Big Data”. The “Lightweb” also provides ethical and open-source technology (hardware and software)...

How to Create a Bird-Friendly Backyard
An article that provides useful tips on creating a safe and sustainable environment for birds, including, shelter, food, water and protection from predators. Whether in a sprawling backyard or a compact balcony, creating a bird-friendly environment is a rewarding and fulfilling endeavor. It involves...

FoodPrint
A project of Grace Communications Foundation, FoodPrint aims to increase public awareness of the critical environmental and public health issues created by the industrial food system, and to advocate for more sustainable alternatives.

natural capital Plant Database
Permaculture Plant Database for Ecological Design In 2001 Paula Westmoreland started designing and developing the Natural Capital plant database with the intent of creating a "living knowledge tool" to assist people in creating polycultures, guild designs, and testing the results. The initial focus...

Plant It Wild: Promoting the Use of Native Plant Species in the Home Landscape
PLANT IT WILD is an independent, non-profit 501 (c) (3) status, native plant group based in Benzie and Manistee counties in Michigan offering education and, a searchable website of local native plants.

Edible Landscaping
A selection of trees, shrubs, herbs, and an array of garden plants are available for purchase on this site or pick up directly from the fruit tree and garden nursery. Shipping is available year-round and plants are grown naturally without herbicides or harsh chemicals.

4 Berry Bushes that Fertilize, Too!
Permaculture gardeners look for plants that are multifunctional. These berry bushes can fix nitrogen in the soil while providing edible berries.

How Nitrogen-Fixing Works – And the Top 30 Plants
Nitrogen-fixing is an important part of any garden. Here's why you need to plant nitrogen-fixing plants, and the top 30 to consider.

11 Perennial Root Vegetables for Your Garden
An introduction to perennial root vegetables. These root crops come back year after year saving time and energy while providing a harvest.

Calcium in Soil: How It Helps Plants
Most gardens have calcium in soil blends or native soils, but what does it do? This dives deep into what calcium provides for plant growth.

Heat%20Information.pdf
Permies.com poster comparison of the cost, carbon use, DIY aspects and more of different types of home heating options for a cold climate

Eco Minded Club: Permaculture tools
Essential tools for permaculture gardening - multipurpose flat-cutters (ploskorez Fokina), recommended by Sepp Holzer, including the lifelong one, made of titanium; ploskorez "Heart" and what they call "Super-Spade" which is not actually a spade - but a tool for loosening the topsoil.

D & B Nelson Edible Landscapes
Offering to design, install, and maintain edible Landscapes, sometimes also referred to as "Food Forests", which are beautiful, sustainable, and functional landscapes based on natural systems, use no synthetic chemicals, and provide an abundance of fresh, organic, fruits and vegetables. Animal integrations...

Food Forest Cooperative
The Food Forest Cooperative is a locally operated sustainable enterprise created to empower community members and the challenge the patterns of our food system through the blending of environmental, social and economic goals.

Food Forest Farmers: Syntropic farming to regenerate land
Using a combination of permaculture and syntrophic agroforestry, Permadynamics in New Zealand are regenerating a 1.5 acre hillside that was left barren and lifeless after years of sheep grazing.

Mission Garden
Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum of Sonoran Desert-adapted heritage fruit trees, traditional local heirloom crops and edible native plants. The Garden is managed by Friends of Tucson's Birthplace, a 501(c)3 non-profit with no religious affiliation. Mission Garden is located at the foot...

Permaculture Design for Slope
Designing for slope in a permaculture system is a key aspect for being in beneficial relationships with water, soil, warm and cold air flows, forests, gardens, and the appropriate placement of all elements. This video is an animated summary of much of the information on slope provided by Bill Mollison...

Bean Tree Farm
A small wild foods farm and learning center offering seasonal products including; fresh salsa, desert fruits, chiles, lacto-fermented vegetables, mesquite and mixed floral honeys, Saguaro / Prickly Pear Elixirs cordials, herb salts rubs and oils, ferments, tinctures, plant starts and cuttings as well...

Permaculture Design Certificate Online
Oregon State University's one-of-a-kind online program allows participants to earn their Permaculture Design Certificate in just 10 weeks. OSU instructor-led Permaculture Design Course is an introductory course and a broad survey of the permaculture design system. The course teaches the design process...

The Orchard Community Learning Center
Creating a flourishing local food system by gathering all of the growers, local farmers, and nature lovers to empower real, local food. Providing programs to make it easier to grow good produce and help the community access it. These programs include a student run vegan café, a food-to-food composting...

How to recycle waste Water Using plants
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison presents a diagrammed process of the basics of waste water recycling using plants.

Permaculture Design Cards
Creative card deck sharing a collection of permaculture principles, strategies, attitudes, tools & frameworks. 230 cards to support permaculture practice, learning, teaching, designing and consulting. Serves as a design tool, game and oracle. This deck is a companion for the Permaculture Design Notes...

The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press
-- from Organic Gardening, April 1979, Rodale Press IN 2,500 SQUARE FEET, a family of four can grow each year enough sunflower seed to produce three gallons of homemade vegetable oil suitable for salads or cooking and 20 pounds of nutritious, dehulled seed -- with enough broken seeds left over to...

Piteba Nut and Seed Oil Expeller press
The PITEBA is a low cost expeller for the small scale oil seed processor. Almost any conceivable oilseed with more than 25 oil to seed can be processed, normally without any pretreatment. Oil and press cake can be sold in the local market respectively for household use or as protein concentrate in animal...

Artisans Cooperative
A member-owned cooperative online marketplace for hand-made goods.

Medicine Making Techniques
Free articles on harvesting, making, & using herbal remedies by Juliette Carr of the Old Ways Herbal School

Herbal Medicine Article Library
Free articles on basic concepts in herbalism, medicine making, family herbalism, specific herbs, food as medicine & medicinal herbs, and herbal farmcraft by Juliette Carr of Old Ways Herbal School

Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine
Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine offers both online and hands-on herbal learning in the midst of the forest Botanical Sanctuary, surrounded by native plants and venerable trees, with the sound of the river in the background. The central focus is to help people self-empower to reclaim lost wisdom...

Dragon Tech- Rocket Mass Heating Store
Building and using Rocket Mass Heaters since 2013. Finding products for any RMH build can be challenging. Hand made batchbox doors, secondary air tubes, Dealer for Schott high-temperature glass and Rolled Alloy RA330 high heat metals, and anything rocket stove related. Fireclay, bypasses, RA air tubes,...

International Herb Symposium Courses List
The Symposium holds a special place among herbal conferences, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and ways of working with medicinals. The backbone of IHS is its classes and teachers. The learning centre has over 150 online courses from dozens of esteemed teachers for herbal students of...

International Herb Symposium
Founded more than 25 years ago by Rosemary Gladstar, this biennial event continues to be a place for herbalists from across the globe to exchange information about the healing power of plants. The Symposium holds a special place among herbal conferences, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds...

Food Forest Nursery
Food Forest Nursery is a family owned nursery specializing in fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, fruiting vines, nitrogen fixers, and other perennial permaculture plants. We select the varieties we grow for disease resistance (the our humid climate in the Arkansas Ozarks), flavor, overall variety in...

The HomeGrown Herbalist School of Botanical Medicine
Online school, store with Herbal kits (first aid, travel, respiratory etc) Essential Oils, and formulas for cats, dogs, and livestock. Dr. Patrick Jones is a practicing veterinarian, Clinical Herbalist and traditional naturopath passionate about herbal medicine and a zeal to teach others about these...

Friends of the Trees Botanicals
Friends of the Trees Botanicals is based on the Olympic Peninsula and offers over 150 varieties of herbs both cultivated and wildcrafted. The wildcrafted botanicals are sustainably gathered to maintain healthy plant populations. The majority of the herbs are organically grown on the 1/2 acre herb farm...

15th International Permaculture Conference Taiwan 2024
The 15th International Permaculture Convergence Connecting Urban and Rural Communities for a Resilient Future The IPC has been held every 2~3 years since 1984, hosted in a different region each year by local practitioners. The IPC 2024 will take place on November 30th to December 1 2024 Taiwan with...

Earth Passengers
Earth Passengers‘ Permaculture Education Center is a developing home and classroom on one hectare of land situated between Dulan Mountain and the Pacific Ocean. The journey over the past few years has been applying permaculture design to transform a worn-out rice paddy to a thriving garden, food forest...

Cortes Community Resilience
Working for a hopeful future by growing community resilience, deepening connectedness, increasing local self-sufficiency, and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Cortes Community Resilience holds monthly gatherings for fellowship, discussion, and planning around the mission. Through newsletters...

Indigenous Agro-Ecosystems, Knowledge Restoration and Conservation Program
Indigenous Agro-Ecosystems Restoration is a not-for-profit network of Permaculture trainers and practitioners dedicated to introducing self-sufficient, regenerative agricultural practices and conserving and restoring Indigenous agroecosystems throughout East and Central Africa. They apply natural permaculture...

International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium Presentations Online 31 May-4 June 2021and on-demand
International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium, Symposium Video Presentations: Achive of many video presentations on food forests throughout Europe, Medicinal Food Forests, etc.

The Agroforestry Research Trust – | Forest Gardening | Fruit Trees | Nut Trees | Perennial Vegetables |
The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in 1992 in England, which researches and educates about agroforestry and perennial crops. They do practical research on our trial grounds, run courses, publish guides, and sell plants, seeds, and books. It is a carbon-negative...

Stone House Kachelofen
Stone House Kachelöfen is located in Guelph, Canada. Jessica Steinhäuser is an award–winning Canadian ceramic artist who works on a grand scale to create custom-designed, hand-made kachelöfen (Masonry Heaters) for a variety of applications. Her designs merge functionality with artistry breathing...

Batchrocket.eu - Introduction
Introduction of the Batch Box Rocket, a stove with an extremely clean combustion. Designer: Peter van den Berg This website is meant to be a central information resource of what is called the Batch Box Rocket, sometimes Rocket Batch Box or RBB. In U.S. English forums sometimes also referred to as PvdB...

Calluna Holistic Health
Whole medicine for whole people The practice of herbalism has deep roots in history and is still relevant today. Much like the whole food movement argues for less manipulation of the food we ingest, herbalists make the case for using whole medicine. Whole plant medicine empowers the individual...

Nature Collective
Find perfect places for immersing yourself in nature, spending time with others, and even having an outing solo. On our lands, you can get away from it all. Founded in 1987, Nature Collective is a conservation and science education nonprofit leader in San Diego County. We work to restore habitats...

Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds
Hawthorn Farm produces certified organic farm selected, open-pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds in Central Ontario (zone 5). Certified organic by Pro-Cert since 1996. They work to support the seed community by hosting workshops and educational tours on the farm, also part of a robust network...

Trees of Antiquity
Trees of Antiquity has been growing and shipping organic semi-dwarf fruit trees across the country for over 40 years from the small Sonoma County heirloom nursery. The nursery is centered on the rich history and discoveries of heirloom fruit, specializing in apples, but also including plums, apricots,...

Wild Water Botanicals
WildWaterBotanicals Plant-based medicine, teas, salves, and art. Locally-made wildcrafted flower essences, tinctures, salves, and teas shipped nationally. Pickup may be an option for local Victoria, BC orders.

By the Bluffs Nursery
By the Bluffs is an ecological farm encompassing a plant nursery, a mixed fruit and nut orchard with a native plant understory. The nursery focuses on medicinal, edible, and native perennials, including shrubs and trees. Permaculture tours, workshops, and site-consultations are available.

Gaia Garden
Gaia Garden offers botanical products for health and well-being. Products range from a unique and hard-to-find variety of herbs and teas, aromatherapy products, all-natural bath and beauty, custom products, and superfoods. With specialized and knowledgeable staff, and partner practitioners on-site, they...

Throne Composting toilet DIY
Make Your Own Composting Toilet For a fraction of the cost of most composting toilets on the market, you can build a your own that is easy to use, easy to clean, keeps smells away, and fits with your bathroom decor. There’s a cheaper and more convenient composting toilet option! Throne Composting toilet...

Northern Food Forest Nursery
Northern Food Forest Nursery specializes in growing cold hardy fruit and nut trees, berries, vines, and perennials to zone 4 and colder for the Canadian climate. . Bare-root trees and plants are available to ship to all of Canada excluding British Columbia in early spring (mid-April to mid-May). All...

PQB Fruit Tree Project
A public garden space at the McMillan Arts Centre in Parksville, 4000 square foot food forest garden oasis in downtown Parksville with accessible raised beds, fruit trees, berries, and a year-round greenhouse will be available for workshops and events. The PQB is an organization promoting local food...

Blackbird Hollow
blackbird hollow is many things, providing sanctuary to plants, humans, animals and wild things, a budding edible & medicinal perennial nursery, ever growing apothecary gardens (a medicinal library), and an off-grid homestead .

Triple Divide Seeds
Triple Divide Seeds is committed to improving and adapting open-pollinated, locally resilient seeds crops using organic practices. The seeds on offer are tried and true varieties suitable to the intermountain west’s diverse growing regions. These varieties have been selected and developed for years...

Mile 9 Farm
Mile 9 Farm is an organic farm in the Nine Mile Valley of western Montana. The aim is to empower home gardeners to raise their own healthy food by providing vegetable and flower seeds as well as garlic.

Living Soils Farm
Locally grown veggies, chemical free, nutrient dense produce. Non certified organic but don't use any chemicals and follow organic principles. Local produce at farm gate in spring and fall, farmers market thru the summer.

Cedar Down Farm
Cedar Down Farm is a small-scale, ecological farm that has grown certified organic vegetables for Community Supported Agriculture since 2010. The farm is certified organic and does not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides. Each season takes into account new methods and emerging...

A'Bunadh Seeds
A 155-acre chemical-free 4th generation family farm in NW Alberta providing short season open-pollinated and heirloom seeds. The farm also has a seasonal U-Pick garden and instruction in topics to do with seeds, self-sufficiency, soil, gardening and health.

Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes
Canadian supplier of seed potatoes. The Mills Family has farmed this land for nearly 100 years. They transitioned to using organic agriculture practices in 2015 and became Pro-Cert Organic certidied 2018. The seedpotatoes.ca website offers a large selection of seed potatoes all grown at Eagle Creek Farm...

RegenWorld '24
Regen World' 24 is a four-day Regenerative Living Expo, conference, networking, and co-intelligence event held November 14-17, 2024, at the 200-acre Sovereignty Ranch near Bandera, TX. Presentations from top regenerative thought leaders from diverse fields along with group participation in mastermind...

Kids Right to Know
Founded by teenager Rachel Parent, Kids Right to Know "seeks to inform youth about their right to make informed, healthy, and environmentally sound choices, with a focus on the need for proper testing and labeling of genetically modified food. By inspiring youth to care, protect, and take action, we...

Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival works toward a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.

Grameen Bank
"Grameen Bank has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on accountability , mutual trust, creativity and participation. Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest in Bangladesh, without any collateral." Founded by Muhammed Yunus,...

Tony Juniper
"A British campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and environmentalist recognised for his work as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000-2008. He was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate...

Temenos Academy
An Academy for Education in the light of the Spirit: the Temenos Academy is an educational charity which offers education in philosophy and the arts in the light of the sacred traditions of east and West. The word "temenos" means a sacred precinct.

Silva Forest Foundation
Founded by Herb Hammond, the Silva Forest Foundation (SFF) has pioneered an ecosystem-based conservation planning approach that protects biological diversity and ecological processes, while assisting communities and individuals to implement ecologically responsible human uses and develop conservation-based...

Living Machines
Living Machine Technology blends cutting-edge science and engineering with plants and beneficial bacteria to efficiently treat and reuse wastewater, providing lasting water solutions for communities everywhere. Based on the principles of wetland ecology.

The Rainforest Foundation
Founded by Trudie Sytler and Sting, The Rainforest Foundation is based on the idea of indigenous people — those intimately connected to their ancestral lands — having the legal right to protect the forests we all depend on. At the time it was founded, environmental organizations didn't generally...

Solar Cities
Solar Cities is an international platform with the intention of providing an open-source virtual hackspace for Biogas Innoventors and Practitioners and training for all those researching, developing and deploying sustainable solutions for flourishing societies.

Costa Rica Limpia
Costa Rica Limpia (Clean Costa Rica) was founded by Dr. Monica Araya with the mission is to "promote clean development from a citizenship approach."

Polyface Farms
Operated by Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms is dedicated to the principles of Transparency (anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime), grass based livestock (animals are moved frequently to new "salad bars," offering landscape healing and nutritional superiority), Plant and Animal Individuality (Respecting...

Paul Farmer
Paul Edward Farmer, Founder of Partners in Health, is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing "first world" health care for "third world" people, beginning in Haiti. He currently resides in Kigali, Rwanda

Gary Snyder
Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".

Wendell Berry
American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, academic and farmer. "At seventy-seven years old, Wendell Berry continues as a great contrary example to the compromises others take in stride. Instead of being at odds with his conscience, he is at odds with his times. Cheerful in dissent,...

Terry Tempest Williams
An American author, conservationist and activist. Williams' writing is rooted in the American West ; contributing ed. Orion

The Land Institute
The Land Institute is a non-profit organization based in Salina, Kansas, that was founded in 1976 by Wes Jackson. The Land Institute’s work, led by a worldwide team of plant breeders and ecologists, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically...

Joanna Macy
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, deep ecology and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects: "To those of us growing up in the Industrial Growth Society, a breathtakingly new view of reality arises from deep ecology, systems thinking, and the resurgence...

Sisters of the Earth
"Sisters of Earth was founded in 1994 by several Catholic Sisters from the US and Canada who were engaged in exploring the new cosmology and implications for this emerging worldview. Sisters of Earth is an informal network of women who share a deep concern for the ecological and spiritual crises of our...

Pam Cooley
Collaborator, Facilitator, Social Entrepreneur, Speaker and Founder of "The Continuum of Collaboration" model, "Choosethical Ventures Inc." and Founding Partner of "CarShare Atlantic Ltd.

Biogascentral
**Community Digesters** Here you can put your own bio-digesters on the map — those you've built or bought, those your friends built or bought, and those you've seen. You can also sort the map by digester types and other parameters to see who has what where. With this CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT the...

Patch Adams
"An American physician, social activist, clown and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people."

John Lundin
Spiritual writer and environmental activist--author of "The New Mandala: Eastern Wisdom for Western Living", written in collaboration with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and "Journey to the Heart of the World", written with the indigenous elders of la Sierra Nevada de Colombia.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
A Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Orderand author of: Spiritual Ecology, The Cry of the Earth.

Ecovillage Network of the Americas
The Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) ENA serves as the Western Hemisphere (North, Central and South America) representative of the Global Ecovillage Network

Living Mandala
The mission of Living Mandala is to serve, empower, and promote holistic educators and organizations in order to increase awareness of their work, to create educational programs, to catalyze project activities that implement ecologically and socially regenerative practices of human beings living in greater...

Worldwatch Institute
Through research and outreach that inspire action, the Worldwatch Institute works to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world that meets human needs. The Institute's top mission objectives are universal access to renewable energy and nutritious food, expansion of environmentally sound jobs and...

New Economics Foundation
Andrew Simms; author and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation, served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authored The Green New Deal and co-founded the Green New Deal Group, and the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org...

Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable
Promoting healthy and sustainable food systems through networking events and education in the Capital Region of Vancouver Island. Hosts an annual Farmer2farmer regional conference and quarterly events.

Global Ecovillage Network
"GEN builds bridges between policy-makers, governments, NGOs, academics, entrepreneurs, activists, community networks and ecologically-minded individuals across the globe in order to develop strategies for a global transition to resilient communities and cultures. "What is an Ecovillage? "An ecovillage...

Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners association
A series of workshops, covering theory and hands-on practice in organic fruit tree and orchard management. Designed for beginner to intermediate orchardists managing backyard plantings to larger orchards.

The Global Education Project
The Global Education Project is a Canadian non-governmental foundation with a 28-year history of publishing fact-packed educational wall posters, websites and producing live events to educate about important issues. The GEP's electronic publishing efforts have produced accessible web sites which now...

Cortes Island Free Store and Recycling Centre
The Recycling Center is dedicated to reducing, reusing and recycling what would otherwise be condemned to a landfill. The Cortes Free Store is staffed by volunteers and offers a unique shopping experience for islanders where everything is, of course: FREE!

New Economy Coalition
The New Economy Coalition is a network of 200+ organizations working for systemic economic change.

Musicians without Borders
An organization dedicated to "using the power of music to bridge divides, connect communities, and heal the wounds of war." Musicians without Borders runs music programs in conflict areas in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

Teaming With Microbes
This book introduces the non scientist to the significance of the soil biota at and the symbiotic relationship with plants. Written by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis it points towards gardening in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web and the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms...

Sovereign App by Democracy.earth
Software for blockchain based direct democracy decision making.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations.

Yarrow Ecovillage
A 20 acre organic farm and multi-generational cohousing ecovillage in downtown Yarrow, B.C.. Units for sale, senior housing in the planning phase and farmland available for members.

Do it for the Love Foundation
Do It For The Love is a non-profit wish-granting organization (founded by Michael Franti) that brings people living with life-threatening illnesses, children with severe challenges and wounded veterans to live concerts. To date, 2018, they have coordinated over 1,000 concert and music experiences for...

Music Heals
Music Heals Charitable Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of the healing powers of music. The Organization supports a wide range of music therapy services in BC and across Canada aiming increase access to music therapy for patients in children's hospitals, senior's centres, palliative care,...

A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability The book first introduced the concept of people designing buildings for themselves, and guaranteeing the comfort and functionality of the buildings they designed, because the elements...

Forstbauer Farm
Forstbauer Family Natural Food Farm uses Biodynamic farming methods and follows a soil food web approach. Founded in 1977 the Forstbauer farm is a certified organic farm in Chilliwack British Colombia, farmed using Biodynamic principals and certified through the Biodynamic society of BC (demeter) and...

Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit that provides free educational tools for learning math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history.

Ethelo
Ethelo is comprised of two entities: Ethelo Decisions, a technology company dedicated to helping organizations focus collective intelligence to make the best decisions more quickly; and Ethelo Democracy, a non-profit society dedicated to a more effective, citizen-engaged democracy. Ethelo Decisions undertakes...

Loomio
Developed by a worker co-op based in New Zealand, Loomio is an open-source tool for collective decision making and deliberation.

Bike Friday
Folding bicycle hand made in Eugene Oregon, with a commitment to environmentally benign products, materials, and manufacturing processes.

The Co-Intelligence Institute
The Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of co-intelligence and the tools and ideas that can be used to increase it. The CII explores the integrated application of these tools to democratic renewal, community problems, organizational transformation, national...

The Wise Democracy Pattern Language
The Wise Democracy Pattern Language highlights design principles which can make an activity, organization or community more wisely self-governing. Based on of real-life innovations, this evolving database of wise democracy "patterns" intends to help people understand, re-imagine and transform the ways...

Happyonomy
Happonomy is built on the idea that scientific research in biology and psychology have shown our existing economic system to be not aligned with human needs. The mission of the organisation is to drive this alignment through scientific research and technological development.

FairPhone
Fairphone is a social enterprise company that designs and produces socially and environmentally responsibility mobile phones. \r\n\r\nTheir mission is to create modular devices that are long lasting, easily repaired and upgraded, with ethically sourced materials and labor.

Cortes Natural Food Co-op
Cortes Natural Food Co-op is a community-owned cooperative business dedicated to bringing locally grown, organic, sustainably produced, healthy food to the Cortes Island community. The co-op includes a bakery, cafe, and grocery store, providing fresh natural food, baked goods, seasonal organic produce...

School of Evolutionary Herbalism
The School of Evolutionary Herbalism offers in-depth online programs and live workshops on a broad spectrum of herbal traditions. Courses range from traditional Alchemy and preparing Spagyric herbal medicines to Medical Astrology. They focus on Vitalist Western Herbalism and Ayurveda, providing a foundation...

A Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle
100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary.

Regeneration Canada
A Montreal-based NGO focused on soil ecosystem regeneration to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and other effects of degraded ecosystems.

Catfarm
The Catfarm is an off-grid community and educational non-profit located on a farm near the city of Poussan in Southern France. They host international volunteers through work exchange in partnership with platforms such as Worldpackers and Global Ecovillage Network. The community consists of travelers,...

Earth Mountain Edcuation Farm
Sustainable community eco village in Weston, United States.

Enota
A conservation project with a mountain retreat center, cabins, RV & camping sites and an organic farm. Enota, which means "the land that nourishes" in Cherokee, is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to protecting a 60 + acre land trust.

Francesca Baines
Music by Francesca Baines and 'muse-ecology': slow touring and regenerative design for the music trade.

Albert Bates
Author of "The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change" , former environmental rights lawyer, paramedic, brick mason, flour miller, and horse trainer. Board of directors member of The Farm, a pioneering intentional community in Tennessee for the past 40 years. A co-founder and past president...

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
By John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman. A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect,...

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
'Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams' is a science book about sleep by the neuroscientist and "sleep scientist" Matthew Walker. Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley.” Walker...

The New York Times Scientific 7-Minute Workout
12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfils the latest mandates for high-intensity effort — all of it based on science.

David James Duncan
David James Duncan is an American novelist and essayist.

Thích Nhất Hạnh
Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, founder of the Plum Village Tradition and the author of over 100 books. He is active in the peace movement, promoting nonviolent solutions to conflict. He also refrains from animal product consumption (veganism) as a means of nonviolence...

Herbalists without Borders
Health Justice & Humanitarian Aid\r\n​Herbalists Without Borders is an all volunteer membership based 501c3 nonprofit local to global network devoted to providing compassionate holistic care to communities and countries in need impacted by natural disasters, violent conflicts, poverty, trauma and other...

Fitness Blender
Created by Daniel and Kelli Segars, who believe fitness should be accessible to everyone, everywhere, regardless of income level or access to a gym. They offer hundreds of free, full-length workout videos, the most affordable and effective workout programs on the web, meal plans, and helpful health,...

Student Clinic | Pacific Rim College
The Student Clinic at Pacific Rim College provides services in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Western Herbal Medicine and Holistic Nutrition. The general public can receive treatments by advanced-level students under the supervision of a licensed practitioner, or by a licensed practitioner with...

Victoria Health Cooperative
VHC is a volunteer co-op run by individuals passionate about well-being. The VHC organizes and supports wellness programs for members and the wider community. On the fourth Sunday of each month a group of between 6 and 10 Wellness Practitioners donate their time and expertise providing “pay-what-you-can-afford”...

The Psychology of Inequality
Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor, and that it’s not greater wealth but greater equity that will make us all feel richer.

Anki
Anki is a free and open-source spaced repetition flashcard program.

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks for download or reading online. Including much or what has been catagorized as the world's 'great literature', with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment...

Patagonia
Patagonia makes clothing out of organic cotton, recycled down, and other ethically-sound materials, and will repair anything they sell for the flat fee of $5.

Nudie Jeans
A Swedish denim company that uses 100% organic cotton and offers free repairs for life. Nudie Jeans also resells second hand products, and recycles worn-out products.

Dr. Bronner's All-One!
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps is an American producer of organic soap and personal care products. The company is structured after the 6 principles that guide Dr. Bronner’s All-One mission: Work hard and grow, do right by customers, treat employees like family, be fair to suppliers, treat the earth like...

Rawganique
Rawganique makes chemical-free, allergy-free, vegan ethically made sustainable organic clothing and home products.

Abraham Jam
A Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian walk into a concert hall… Abraham Jam is a trio of internationally-renowned musicians who have teamed up to create music that is strengthened by the differences they bring to the table. Amidst divisiveness and alienation, Abraham Jam believes in the healing power of...

RepRap
An open-source 3D printer that is designed to be able to print all of its own plastic parts. Plant-based, biodegradable PLA (Polylactic acid) filament can be used in RepRap 3D printers.

Excalibur Dehydrators
Excalibur produces home-scale food drying products and has been focused on advancements related to the mechanics of dehydration since 1973.

Salt Spring Seeds
One of the oldest organic seed companies in BC, specializing in preserving heirloom varieties of beans, legumes, peas, flowers, vegetables, dye plants and medicines. Promoting growing and saving of heirloom seed. Classes, lectures, books. Also founders of the Seed and Plant Sanctuary, a charitable...

Seed and Plant Sanctuary
A charitable organization dedicated to the health and vitality of the earth through the preservation and promotion of heritage seeds. It is committed to maintaining, evaluating and keeping databases for all the edible, medicinal and useful crops that can be grown in Canada.

BC EcoSeed Co-op
BC Eco Seed Co-op is a producer's cooperative of farmers providing BC grown certified organic and ecological seeds all grown by farmers in BC.

World Community Fair Trade
A multi-faceted BC organization selling fair trade goods; organic coffee, tea, chocolate products, olive oil & spices to retail outlets and wholesale for fundraising efforts. Profits from coffee sales go toward sponsoring health care in Nicaragua. Organize and sponsor an annual (and traveling) film...

Permaculture Design Magazine
(Formerly the Permaculture Activist) "Permaculture Design is an independent quarterly serving the permaculture movement in North America. We publish articles dealing with the spectrum of permaculture thought and action—from gardening to ecovillages, renewable energy, natural building, ethics, and...

Permacultureprinciples.com
A site dedicated to Permaculture principles and publications with books and videos featuring David Holmgren and many other prominent permaculture designers and thinkers. Permaculture principles illustrated and explained, information exchange and methods clarified. A permaculture clearing house.

Carolyn Herriot
Author, A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide, The Zero Mile Diet, and The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook, and founder/operator, The Garden Path Centre

Guayaki
Guayakí is an organic beverage company specializing in yerba mate products. The company partners with farming communities in South America’s Upper Paraná Atlantic rainforest to produce shade-grown organic yerba mate and to reforest their land with native hardwoods. Guayakí uses "Market Driven Restoration"...

Dr. Joel Kahn
Dr. Joel Kahn is a plant based cardiologist who has developed an aggressive yet holistic approach to heart disease prevention and reversal. At his core, Dr. Joel Kahn believes that plant-based nutrition is the most powerful source of preventative medicine on the planet. Having practiced traditional...

Algebra Rules
The most useful rules of basic algebra, free, simple, & intuitively organized.

Mother Earth News
Among the most popular and longest-running sustainable-lifestyle magazines in the USA, Mother Earth News provides editorial coverage of organic foods, country living, green transportation, renewable energy, natural health, and green building.

Organic Seed Alliance
Grow seed for the common good Leading education, research and advocacy to advance organic seed Seed is part of our common cultural heritage – a living, natural resource that demands careful management to meet food needs now and into the future. Organic Seed Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that...

Vermiculture (worm composting)
A basic how-to and why-to use vermiculture to enhance compost and soil health; techniques, methods and benefits From the libraries of Mother Earth News.

No-dig Gardening Basics from Deep Green Permaculture
No-dig gardening is a highly productive method of using compost, mulch, microbes, vermiculture and know-how to create usable, sustainable and earth friendly gardens.

Permaculture Research Institute
The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is located on a Permaculture demonstration site in The Channon NSW, and is headed by Geoff & Nadia Lawton. We specialize in education & training worldwide. We also provide daily Permaculture news and information via permaculturenews.org. The Permaculture Research...

Hugelkultur gardening/rotting wood garden beds
An in-depth look at the hugelkultur method; instructions, benefits, photos, videos.

Welland Legacy Park & Community Orchard
The Welland Legacy Park houses a community orchard that is the largest & most diverse in Canada. Once the backyard of local conservationist Rex Welland, the mixed orchard features 100 varieties of rare heritage apples. It is also home to a heritage nursery and native bees habits. The Orchard is open...

EarthEasy Guide to Composting
An easy-to-follow practical guide for learning how to compost, including free-standing piles and container type methods

Viridian energy co-operative
Viridian Energy Co-operative provides solar energy systems. Assessments, design, installation and consulting by the worker owned co-op of Professional Engineers, Red Seal Electricians and Renewable Energy Technicians.

Firefox Web Browser
An open-source web browser supported by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Ubuntu Linux
The most popular and easy-to-use free, open-source alternative to proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.

Matomo Analytics
A drop-in replacement for Google Analytics that’s open-source and respects users’ privacy.

Thunderbird Email Client
A free, open-source, cross platform email client.

Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape is a free and open source professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers.

LibreOffice Foundation
LibreOffice offers a suite of free and open source office software that is compatible with many widely used document file types including spreadsheets, presentations and writing documents.

Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is a staff reporter for Truthout, currently focusing on issues of climate change. His most recent book is " The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption" (The New Press, 2019). He lives and works in Port Townsend, Washington.

Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle was a novelist, essayist and editor. His books include: "A Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary."

IslandWood
IslandWood is an environmental learning center created to improve access to meaningful, nature-based learning experiences for children, located on 250 acres on Bainbridge Island, WA.

North Cascades Institute
Founded in 1986, the North Cascades Institute connects people, nature and community through science, art, literature and exploration of the North Cascades natural and cultural history.

Bellingham Community Food Co-op
Voted Bellingham's best grocery store, the Bellingham Community Food Co-op organic, local, & natural groceries and to-go meals made in-house.

Skagit Food Co-op
The Skagit Food Co-op provides natural, organic, and locally-sourced food to Mt. Vernon, Burlington, La Conner, and the Skagit Valley.

Freesound.org
Freesound.org is a collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers.

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) is an online repository of free and public domain sheet music with over 145,146 works, including many iconic classical pieces, freely available to anyone. Launched in 2006, the IMSLP MediaWiki website is owned and run by Project Petrucci LLC, a company...

Roots Natural Foods
Maple ridge natural food store specializing in certified organic whole foods and healthy alternatives to conventional supermarket items including wide variety of wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, raw food, low sodium and sugar-free products.

350.org
Founded by author, educator, environmentalist, Bill McKibben, "350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350's...

Coop Directory Service
Online directory information source for natural food coops. The directory is maintained by the Data Commons Co-op and is focused on co-ops in the United States but also includes Canada, Australia, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Biodynamic Association
The BDA is a participatory, membership-based nonprofit organization that works to nurture the North American biodynamic movement as a diverse, collaborative, and thriving ecosystem. We help thousands of new people understand and practice biodynamics, bringing health to the land and vitality to the food...

Beekeeping for Beginners
Beekeeping is an important part of the growing cycle; as pollinators, bees are key to maintaining global food supply. There are 1,000s of articles, books, and websites devoted to this practice. This is a general information article about standard beekeeping with useful additional links and articles.

The Kind Life
TheKindLife.com was born as an extension of Alicia Silverstone's book, The Kind Diet, "which is all about living your healthiest and happiest life to the fullest, while taking care of mama Earth at the same time!" This website is a resource for those who want to delve deeper into the world of healthy,...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping
Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire process-from information on the inhabitants of a hive and how it works to collecting bees, keeping them healthy, raising a queen, harvesting honey and wax, and stor­ing...

Gaia University
Gaia University offers a blended system of online, guided course-work combined with on-the-ground, hands-on project work. They are a institution of higher learning that offers mentoring, online courses, diploma certificate programs, and externally-accredited Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science...

Klean Kanteen
A company that makes reusable, BPA-free stainless steel water bottles, cups, and thermoses. Klean Kanteen is a certified B Corp and a member of 1% for the planet, and purchases a combination of Renewable Energy Certificates (energy created from renewable sources like wind and solar) and Carbon Offsets...

Orion Magazine
Orion brings ideas, writers, photographers, and artists together, focused on nature, the environment, and culture, addressing environmental and societal issues. Orion is published by the Orion Society, a non-profit. The magazine is ad-free, and entirely supported by subscriptions and donations.

"Secrets of the Soil"
Secrets of the Soil tells the fascinating story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things that certain scientists, farmers, and mystics are doing to save our planet - such as using the techniques of Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic agriculture with its reliance on ethereal forces from the...

TED: Ideas worth spreading
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of conference and videos featuring short informative talks on topics from science to business to global issues. The ted website's large collection of educational videos are all freely available for viewing and download.

Mycellium Running
This book is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. Setting the stage for the mycorestoration revolution, Mycelium Running unveils new methods for growing mushrooms, generating mycelium, and implanting mushroom colonies into the environment. Capitalizing on the digestive power of mycelium,...

Marnie’s Books
An independent book store on Cortes Island with a great selection of books, including many titles on sustainable living, social justice, and environmentalism. The store is solar powered and wood heated.



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