PERMACULTURE MATERIAL ON WWW AND THE INTERNET _________________________________________________________________ This page is currently under construction. Patience is a virtue :-) This page will eventually be as close as possible to a complete web of links orbiting a common memetic attractor, that being sustainable living, particularly permaculture. I aim to: * gather together all of the permaculture resources on the net, and link them in to this page, * gather together all of the resources on the net to do with sustainable agriculture, architecture, living, etc, * create a bundle of links to do with "alternative" living and communities, and then interweave and interlink the lot together to create a living hypertext document which will, hopefully, be used by those trying to live in a manner which is not the insane scrabble for something meaningful which seems to be destined to be the lot of those of us living in the "developed" world. To this end, I am busily leaping about all over the net and the WWWeb, gathering links and URLs wherever possible. If you feel that you know of something which may be useful, please feel free to mail me with any links or information you feel is at all relevant to the ideas above. If you have any text files or articles you feel are useful, mail them to me at dwayne@leri.edu or just click on the link above. _____________________________________________________________ In the meantime, while I'm getting it all sorted out: I'll just whack some URLs in here to keep the WWW-addicted of you out there sane. I'll hack this page up into something resembling a shape Real Soon Now. This has been written using a 386sx-16 linux box with 2 meg of ram over a 2400 baud dial-up link. Needless to say, there aren't any images in here yet. As soon as I get a decent system capable of running X (Real Soon Now) I'll play with making a nice, pretty page. Until then, well, information is the main thing, right? DeeAnna Weed posted a massively useful collection of Sustainable agricultural resources on the internet to alt.sustainable.agriculture recently, and I've managed to convert it to hypertext. Check it out. I'll merge it into one large file along with the rest of the info Real Soon Now. I am working on creating a hypertext index of the sunsite.unc.edu ftp archive. Check it out, mail me with any more descriptions, filenames, etc blah blah. (Tom Beale) mailed me with the following information on November 10th, 1994: hi, here's some information I had lying around already. You sound as if you might know all of it already, but just in case. For your interest, I am Australian but living in the UK (for the moment); Some of the references below are from the UK. Some of the info was obtained by a gopher/veronica search using the keyword "permaculture", about mid-september. I posted a brief summary about permaculture recently. Some resource information is below. In order to answer the question "what is permaculture?", I have included the following from Dr. Lee Barnes (ed. Permaculture Connections): Permaculture ("Perm"anent "agri"culture and "Perma"nent "culture") is a sustainable design system stressing the harmonious interrelationship of humans, plants, animals and the Earth. To paraphrase the founder of Permaculture, designer Bill Mollison: "Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things. Each component in a system performs multiple functions, and each function is supported by many elements. Key to efficient design is observation and replication of natural ecosystems, where designers maximize diversity with polycultures, stress efficient energy planning for houses and settlement, using and accelerating natural plant succession, and increasing the highly productive "edge-zones" within the system." Permaculture designs have been successfully and widely implemented in third-world countries, but there is current need to expand these principles in temperate climates, and especially urban areas to create more enjoyable and sustainable human habitats. Permaculture is one of many interesting and positive "grass-roots" initiatives, and represents a continually growing body of knowledge. It doesn't however try to be "the answer" but more of an application of knowledge from existing disciplines and study areas. The focus is the holistic "design" of land, habitation etc. This is what may be interesting to those who want to see an application of principles already known, rather than another body of theoretical knowledge. One word of warning: since permaculture is about practical applications of ecological principles etc, many publications are by their nature oriented to the climate and environment of the author. So a book written in sub-tropical Australia may not be directly appropriate to Temperate North America or the UK, since species and planting information is likely to be different. NEWSGROUPS alt.sustainable.agriculture sci.agriculture alt.co-ops USEFUL ADDRESSES ---------------- london@sunSITE.unc.edu (Larry London) Mail Larry London ORGANISATIONS ------------- The Permaculture Institute of North America 4949 Sunnyside Ave. North Rm 345, Seattle WA 98103 USA -- distributes International Permaculture Journal -- runs courses Permaculture Communications P.O Box 101 Davis CA 95617 USA -- publishes the "Permaculture Designers' Directory" Yankee Permaculture 40A Brooks St Worcester MA 01606 USA -- publishes International Permaculture Species Yearbook (TIPSY) -- runs courses JOURNALS Permaculture International Journal (Oz, intl) The Permaculture Activist (US) Permaculture Drylands Journal (US) The Permaculture Connection (US) P.O. Box 1303 Waynesville N.C. 28786 Tel: +1 704 452 5716 Permanent Publications Hyden House Limited /dd> Little Hyden Lane Clanfield Hampshire PO8 0RU England Tel: +44 (0)705 596 500 Fax: +44 (0)705 595 834 -- publishes Permaculture Magazine (UK) (ISSN 0967 5663) BOOKS Title:Permaculture - a Designer's Manual Author: Bill Mollison Publisher: Tagari Publications, Tyalgum Australia ISBN: 0 908228 015 Year: 1988 -- one of the original major source books for Permaculture. Title: Tree Crops Author: J R Smith Title: Your Edible Landscape Author: R Kourik Title: Your Permaculture Garden Author: Graham Bell Publisher: Thorsons Title: Earth User's Guide to Permaculture Author: Rosemary Morrow Publisher: Kangaroo Press There is an aquaculture discussion group (mailing list) called AQUA-L. To subscribe send Email to: listproc@upei.ca Leave the subject line blank, in the body of the message type only: SUBSCRIBE AQUA-L Your Name Sal Schettino, Organic Farmer check out his homepage EXtension TOXicology NETwork Gopher at Oregon State University. IPMnews: more info on this when I work out what it is :) Non Profit groups on the net. The Civic Network's homepage. The Student Solar Information Network (SSIN) is a communications network whose aim is to link people studying in the broad field of solar and renewable energy. It's core is the SSIN newsletter which comes out every two months and contains information on solar developments, issues and academic resources, both on and off- line. A bundle of links I grabbed off the net, will go through them and write up descriptions Real Son Now :) Communications for a Sustainable Future EnviroWeb EnviroLink Friends of the Earth Greenpeace Institute for Global Communications (IGC) EcoNet The International Institute for Sustainable The United Nations The Milarepa Fund Peace Corps Web Plugged In The Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide People for the Ethical Treatment of Software APC Home Page EcoNet's Guide to Internet Resources on the Environment Civic Nets, Community Nets, Free-Nets, and ToasterNets Stephen Gaskin's The Farm as reported by Al Gore PLATO: The Emergence of On-Line Community, by David Woolley Virtual Communities, an essay by Howard Rheingold [Jun '92 59kb] Book List of Communities, Co-ops, Collectives 2/93 About EFF-Austin (Grassroots Organizing in the Virtual Community) Biodiversity from Around the World permaculture directory aquaculture-bioremediation-hyperaccumulators directory Energywise Options Fire Resistive Plants Dwayne Jones-Evans, November Thursday, November 10th, 1994, 12:10pm.