Since so many of the top links on Google are for premium permaculture classes and products, I thought I'd share my list of free websites where you can find valuable information about permaculture and sustainability.
Sites Pertaining to Permaculture News and Awareness:
- Permaculture News - A niche magazine offering news articles related to worldwide permaculture efforts.
- Mother Jones Environment - Offers a handful of sustainability related news articles each month.
- Permaculture on Reddit - Offers user submitted articles and social commentary.
- Peace Corps Agriculture Channel on YouTube - offers a handful of success stories and how PCVs went about achieving their goals.
Learning About Permaculture:
- Permaculture on Wikipedia.
- PermaWiki - offering more extensive, in depth reading on permaculture values and design.
- Permaculture Institute - This page provides a list of the basic key concepts of permaculture.
- The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise by M.E. Hard - A guide to wild mushrooms - with pictures for nearly every listing and indication of edibility.
- Student's Handbook of Mushrooms in America by Thomas Taylor - with drawn pictures for many species and indication of edibility.
- How Big a Backyard Do You Need to Live Off the Land - An interesting infographic.
Free Online Permaculture Courses and Tutorials:
- Coursera - Offers free classes on sustainability.
- Permaculture Global - Offers user driven projects and courses.
- Urban Permaculture Channel on YouTube - Great instructional videos on various projects that you can do at home.
- MIT OpenCourseWare - Offers a handful of Undergraduate and Graduate level sustainability courses online for free.
- Sustainability on Instructables - Offers over 100 instructional how-to's on various user submitted projects.
If you know of any others, please share them in the comments below!
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