Reconnect - Rethink - Reduce - Reuse - Recycle The answers to the world’s woes - waning energy supplies, depleted and contaminated soils and water, Financial Permaculture -- "Our team contains local, national and international members of organizations working together to design and implement new economic models." Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture -- by Toby Hemenway Newly expanded introduction to permaculture for the home gardener, now with a new chapter on urban permaculture, earthcare peoplecare fairshare The Terrible Time of Day by Bill Mollison A wide ranging informal overview of permaculture principles and their application in evaluating useful and harmful human choices. Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change -- by David Holmgren, co-developer of permaculture. Applying scenario planning to issues facing a world confronted with peak oil and a warming climate. Permaculture Training The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia Very rich, comprehensive site, with examples from all over the world. They've been at it for three decades. Yestermorrow Design/Build School The Fukuoka Farming Website -- Exploring Masanobu Fukuoka's revolutionary method of sustainable agriculture. On this website the terms agriculture, farming, and gardening are considered to be synonymous and interchangeable, Resources for Permaculture Tripplebrook Farm -- Plants for permaculture plantings Out of Poverty -- by Paul Polak International Development Enterprises (IDE) develops affordable appropriate technology solutions for poor farmersAgricultural charcoal -- "Biochar" FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter I love Cob -- Photos Revolutionary sustainable fish farming method in Spain Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish"Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain."The Web site for Veta la Palma is http://www.vetalapalma.es/ . Q&A with Chef Dan Barber: Can organic farming feed the world? http://blog.ted.com/2010/03/qa_with_chef_da.php Dan Barber is the chef at New York's Blue Hill restaurant, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester, where he practices a kind of close-to-the-land cooking married to agriculture and stewardship of the earth. As described on Chez Pim: "Stone Barns is only 45 minutes from Manhattan, but it might as well be a whole different universe. A model of self-sufficiency and environmental responsibility, Stone Barns is a working farm, ranch, and a three-Michelin-star-worthy restaurant." It's a vision of a new kind of food chain. Barber's philosophy of food focuses on pleasure and thoughtful conservation -- on knowing where the food on your plate comes from and the unseen forces that drive what we eat. He's written on US agricultural policies, asking for a new vision that does not throw the food chain out of balance by subsidizing certain crops at the expense of more appropriate ones. In 2009, Barber received the James Beard award for America's Outstanding Chef, and was named one of the world's most influential people in Time’s annual "Time 100" list. "Dan Barber is increasingly becoming known as a chef-thinker, popularizing simple ideas that upend the way people think about the food we eat."Gothamist.com |