The following resource list is from a handout by Kate O’Brien (North Rock Permaculture in Whitefish). Includes suggested books, magazines, audio/video, websites and organizations.
Books:
- Permaculture: A Designer’s manual — Bill Mollison
- Gaia’s Garden — Toby Hemenway (great book to start with)
- The Edible Forest Gardens (Volume I & II) — David Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
- Getting Started in Permaculture — Ross & Jenny Mars
- Plants for a Future — Ken Fern
- Mycelium Running — Paul Stamets
- The Basics of Permaculture Design — Ken Mars
- Toolbox for Sustainable City Living — Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew from the Rhizome Collective
- Teaming with Microbes — Jeff Lowenfells and Wayne Lewis
- Water Storage — Art Ludwig
- Create and Oasis with Greywater — Art Ludwig
- When Technology Fails — Matthew Stein with forward by Richard Heinberg
- The Earthcare Manual — Patrick Whitefield
- The One-Straw Revolution — Masanobu Fukuoka
- Solar Living Sourcebook — John Schaeffer
- Naturally Clean/Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning — Jeffrey Hollender, Geoff Davis & Team
- Post Carbon Cities/Planning for Energy & Climate Uncertainty — Daniel Lerch / Post Carbon Institute
- The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience — Rob Hopkins
- Nourishing Traditions — Sally Fallon
- Wild Fermentation — Sandor Ellix Katz
Magazines
Audio & Video
- The Global Gardener — DVD about Bill Mollison
- Ppower of Community — How Cuba Survived peak Oil — DVD
- In Grave Danger of Falling food— about Bill Mollison; view online, 52 minutes
- Permaculture: Quiet Revolution (video.google.com link no longer valid)
- Great podcast interviews with permaculture gurus and groovy ecologists
Websites & Organizations
- Permaculture Research Institute — Cold Climate (Twin cities) — www.pricoldclimate.org
- Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas — www.rhizomecollective.org
- Garden Girl — Permaculture in Boston; Instructional videos — www.gardengirltv.com
- Permaculture Activist Magazine — www.permacultureactivist.net
- Growing Power in Milwaukee and Chicago — www.growingpower.org
- Plants For a Future — www.pfaf.org
- Greywater Systems Information — www.greywater.com
- Onestraw: Be the Change (Permaculture Blog) — www.onestraw.wordpress.com
- Occidental Ecology & Art Center in California — www.oec.org
- Regenerative Design & Northern CA Permaculture Institute — www.regenerativedesign.org
- Permaculturist Sepp Holer’s website — www.krameterhof.at
- The website for Paul Hawken and his amazing book — www.blessedunrest.com
- The Official Wiki for Transition Towns — www.transitiontowns.org
- Togy Hemenway’s site with articles, links, and info — www.patternliteracy.com
- Midwest Permaculture in Stelle, IL — www.midwestpermaculture.com