Patricia Michael, MFA
Landscape Designer and Permaculture Consultant
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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 Design Course Teacher Requirements. Contains guidelines and requirements for certification, and a list of teachers officially registered with the Permaculture Insitute of Australia.
- 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
- Fifteen pamphlets from a 1981 course on Permaculture by Bill Mollison
- Interview with Permaculture founder Bill Mollison from In Context magazine
- Another interview with Bill Mollison, from 1991
- Bill Mollison: Rural Legend
- PermaWiki, a free, community-built, permaculture designers' manual
- Permaculture Videos on You-Tube
- The Permaculture Activist magazine (Black Mountain, North Carolina USA)
- Permaculture magazine (Great Britain)
- Articles on Permaculture and many other topics related to agriculture from the Green Center, successor to the New Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts, USA.
- Greening the Desert, an inspiring video.
Places and Teachers
- Austin Area Permaculture Group (Austin, TX USA)
- Austin Area Permaculture Calendar of Events (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)
- Animal Farm Permaculture Center, a design and learning center (near Houston, TX USA)
- Permaculture Net (Based in the USA; international listings)
- Regenerative Design Institute (California, USA)
- The Sustainability Institute: sustainable resource use, economics and community (Hartland, 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
- 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 International Limited (Australia)
- David Holmgren, cofounder of Permaculture with Bill Mollison.
- Permaculture Visions, Australia
- Permaculture Institute of New Zealand
- Permaculture Association (Great Britain)
- PermAgro, The Permaculture Research Institute of Denmark, researching cold climate permaculture
- Permaculture The Earth (USA)
- Permaculture Institute of Europe