The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

A site created by British permie Aranya. Here you will find both information about permaculture itself & the many ways in which I have incorporated its design principles into my own life. One common fallacy is that permaculture is only about organic gardening, but its principles can also be used to design anything from transport systems to housing & economics to community building. So why 'Aranya Gardens'? Because one of the principles of permaculture is that "Everything gardens", in other words 'alters their environment' in some way to suit themselves & that includes me too! So we need to redefine 'gardening' as the choices we make & the way in which we interact with our environment. That's not to say that I don't like to grow my own food too.....

Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.

Singing to the tune of nature. Farming to the sound of life.

Whole Systems Design For Self-Reliant Living

The permaculture directory from dmoz. Lots of very credible sites here.

Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, EcoVersity's 11-acre campus serves as a demonstration site and a community building center for the promotion of "hands-on" learning and sustainable living. EcoVersity is an educational and community center offering a unique land-based and ethics informed curriculum in all aspects of sustainability, directed to regenerate the Earth and revitalize the spirit. EcoVersity was founded in 1999 by Dr. Frances Harwood, a co-founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Edible Forest Gardens.com is dedicated to offering inspiring and practical information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings. We intend this website to grow into an information and networking resource for newcomers, amateurs, students, and serious practitioners and researchers alike.

The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute was created in 2005 by Michael Burns, Stephen Gabriel and Karryn Olson-Ramanujan in response to a need for an affordable and rigorous study of sustainable design typically found in permaculture design certificate courses. In May of 2006, the Permaculture Institute was invited to bring its educational programming to Ithaca's Cayuga Nature Center. Now as a project of the Cayuga Nature Center, we can reach an even larger audience of ecologically-minded citizens who not only will come to the Center to learn about and appreciate the ecosystems that sustain life, but also to learn the permacuilture approach to sustaining and regenerating our natural world.

Gaia University offers a unique approach to higher learning by offering students accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees, Certificates and Diplomas while actively engaged in planetary transformation. With Gaia University, students link their ideals with practical experience, acting as world changers by working for local and global sustainability and regeneration, justice and peace. Our self-directed action learning methodology enables students to study locally, in their own language, supported by Gaia University's Regional Centers, and a worldwide network of learning providers, tutors and mentors.

Celebrating 10 years of the Global Ecovillage Network at Findhorn, Scotland: Past, Present and Future with some of the pioneers of the ecovillage movement. After ten years of intensive and creative activity the ecovillage family today includes members on every continent and spans a wide range of human settlements.

GEM is a center for world class curricula and outreach education services in natural resources and environmental management. GEM's purpose is pioneering and applying practical learning methods and technology to solve natural resource problems by linking faculty, students, and citizens worldwide. GEM serves students and stakeholders with curricula and outreach programs that are integrated and international using the tools of technology and communication to solve real world problems. GEM is building hope for the future through its work on sustainability, international programming and leadership development.

We seek to create and provide an international network of hospitality for traveling Permaculture people.

Maya Mountain is a demonstration farm in rural southern Belize working to strengthen food security. They focus on developing sustainable agricultural methods that are accessible to small-holders in the lowland humid tropics.

Permacultura America Latina (PAL) is a 15-year old, Santa Fe, NM-based 501(c) 3 non-profit organization supporting grassroots sustainable development initiatives and low impact economic practices in poor and indigenous communities throughout Latin America.

The Association is an educational charity run by its members and helps people use permaculture in their everyday lives to improve their quality of life and the environment around them

Kia ora - this web site exists to help people interested in permaculture within Aotearoa to keep in touch and share information.

The Association is an educational charity run by its members and helps people use permaculture in their everyday lives to improve their quality of life and the environment around them. It supports individuals, projects and groups working with permaculture in Britain.

This leading environmental magazine is the vanguard of permaculture. Practical thought provoking articles on organic gardening, sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, eco-villages, alternative technology, eco-architecture and building, community development and much more, written by leading experts, plus useful tips from readers. Packed with informative articles, illustrations, designs, news, reviews, book, tool and product reviews, letters, contacts, and details of courses.

These pages are dedicated to bringing more music into permaculture; by using it in teaching this important subject, by raising funds for groups & projects through the sales of benefit CDs & by helping to get permaculture-minded musicians heard.

This is a search engine that learns from our community's search behavior and is specifically relevant to permaculture.

The primary purpose of this website is to facilitate communication, networking and information sharing amongst the UK and international permaculture learning community, especially those working towards the Permaculture Diploma, or who are involved in permaculture teaching or design work.

Leben und arbeiten mit der Natur

Ragmans Lane is a 60 acre farm in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. We produce shiitake mushrooms, willow, comfrey and apple juice. We also teach a range of courses from the farm throughout the year. Although it is a small farm a diverse mix of enterprises provides employment for four people.

Rainbow Valley Farm was established in 1988 by Joe Polaischer and Trish Allen. The 20 ha. organic farm was designed on permaculture principles and ethics.

RMI brings a unique perspective to resource issues, guided by the following core principles: Advanced Resource Productivity, Systems Thinking, Positive Action, Market-Oriented Solutions, End-Use/Least-Cost Approach, Biological Insight, Corporate Transformation, The Pursuit of Interconnections and Natural Capitalism

"To show how it is possible for society to develop a permaculture, a sustainable future for the 21st century and beyond through education, practical examples of sustainable landscape design, appropriate technology and communication"

A listing of "permacultura" references in Spanish.

The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture is dedicated to healing the planet while providing for the human community by education and implementation of socially just, ecological, resource conserving forms of agriculture; the basis of all sustainable societies.

In 2005, we celebrate our 20th year promoting the design of sustainable human communities. In North America's leading (and the world's oldest) permaculture periodical we offer information on permaculture design, edible landscaping, bioregionalism, cooperative action, aquaculture, natural building, earthworks, renewable energy, practical solutions to the challenges of Real Life, and much more.

A non-profit educational organization focusing on hands-on skills development. Achieving this goal requires a new model of education. RDI’s model of ecological education & training creates multi-disciplinary practitioners skilled in the art and science of regenerative design and construction practices and is offered through the Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness (RDNA) Training Program.

This site provides information on our permaculture holding at Tir Penrhos Isaf.

Permaculture is notoriously hard to define in a sound-bite. Here's one way to describe it: If you think of natural building, sustainable agriculture, solar energy, graywater recycling, consensus process, and the like as tools, then permaculture is the toolbox that helps organize those tools and suggests how and when to use them. Some of the writings and links here may help deepen your understanding of this vast subject. I make my living teaching, writing, and consulting about permaculture and related fields. On these pages you'll find a list of my upcoming courses, workshops, and public appearances with links to their venues, plus links to other resources for permaculture and ecological design. You'll also find articles I've written for the various publications, including the magazine Permaculture Activist, where I was associate editor for five years. More articles and reources will be added over time Here also are excerpts from my book, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, the first major North American book on permaculture.

Yayasan IDEP is an Indonesian non-profit NGO (Non-Governmental Organization). Innovative and effective, IDEP encourages program sharing with other grass roots projects through media and curriculum development. We are committed to developing self-sustainability and directly empowering local communities to improve their own situations. We believe that permanent results can be achieved through local empowerment.