Resources

Follow these links to learn about Permaculture and sustainable design. Many of the sites have extensive links to additional resources.

Educational Resources

• Intro to Permaculture (Fayetteville, AR USA). A good, basic introduction.
• Tagari Publications (Permaculture Institute of Australia), publications by Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture
  • Permaculture Academy Foundation Yearbook, by Bill Mollison. Explains how the Academy works. This is a PDF file, and you need the free Acrobat Reader to read it.

• • Permaculture Principles, based on the work of David Holmgren, co-founder of Permaculture with Bill Mollison
    • The Essence of Permaculture, by David Holmgren, a free electronic book. This is a PDF file, and you need the free Acrobat Reader to read it.
    • Permaculture Principles On-line Videos, including presentations by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison.
• Wikipedia article on Permaculture
• Another interview with Bill Mollison, from 1991
• Bill Mollison: Rural Legend
• PermaWiki, a free, community-built, permaculture designers’ manual
• The Permaculture Activist magazine (Bloomington, Indiana USA)
• Permaculture Design magazine (Tupelo, MS USA)
• Permaculture magazine (Great Britain)
• The Green Center, successor to the New Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts, USA, hosts articles on Permaculture and many other topics related to agriculture and sustainability.
• Permaculture Videos
  • Greening the Desert, an inspiring video.
  • Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, from courses taught by Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995
  • Permaculture Videos on You-Tube
• Permaculture Cairns: numerous videos, including the documentary In Grave Danger of Falling Food

Places and Teachers

Texas

• Austin Permaculture Guild (Austin, TX USA)
• Austin Permaculture Yahoo Group, an email discussion group (Austin, TX USA)
• Design – Build – Live, a sustainable learning center (Austin, TX USA)
• Sustainable Sources Building Directory (Austin, TX USA)
• Sustainable Sources Environmental Directory (Austin, TX USA)
• How to use the City of Austin on-line map viewers (Austin, TX USA)
• Animal Farm Permaculture Center, a design and learning center (near Houston, TX USA)

Elsewhere

• Permaculture Institute of North America, an umbrella organization for the continent
• Permaculture Net (Based in the USA; international listings)
• Regenerative Design Institute (California, USA)
• The Donella Meadows Institute: sustainable resource use, economics and community (Norwich, VT USA)
• Toby Hemenway, a Permaculture teacher in Portland Oregon USA
• Permaculture Institute USA (New Mexico USA)
• Permaculture Research Institute of the USA (Bloomington, Minnesota USA), affiliated with PRI Australia
• Eco-Living: Cultural and ecological design services (Hawaii, USA)
• Earth Activist Training (California, USA, and UK)
• Permaculture Research Institute (Australia). PRI, headed by Geoff Lawton, is a non-profit organisation involved in global networking and practical training of environmental activists. Source of the famous “Greening the Desert” video.
• Permaculture Australia
• David Holmgren, cofounder of Permaculture with Bill Mollison.
• Permaculture Visions, Australia
• Permaculture Institute of New Zealand
• Permaculture Association (Great Britain)