Resources

This is a list of permaculture, gardening, and influential resources that I have read or had recommended to me. It is long but by no means exhaustive and serveral go...

This is a list of permaculture, gardening, and influential resources that I have read or had recommended to me. It is long but by no means exhaustive and serveral go far beyond our need to design to investigate larger systemic social and cultural issues.  I include those here because of the way that permaculture principles might be applied to designing a way past them.

Permaculture and Permaculture Education
Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Marrow
Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway(*)
Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison(*)
Permaculture One by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
Permaculture Two by Bill Mollison
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren(*)
Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier

Other Material:

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Ecology for Nonecologists by Frank Spellman
Ecology of a Changing Planet by Mark Bush
Water for Every Farm by P.A. Yeomans
You Can Farm by Joel Salatin
Environment, Power, and Society by Howard T. Odum(*) (This links to the latest update, which tackles the 21st century)
No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt(*)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon
One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn(*)
Invasion Biology, A Critique of Pseudoscience by David I. Theodoropoulos
The Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
Gaia, a New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Design With Nature by Ian McHarg(*)
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency by Rob Hopkins(*)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (DVD)

Online Videos
“6 ways mushrooms can save the world” by Paul Staments, from the Ted Talks (*)

Anything with an (*) next to it I have read, watched, or otherwise taken in.