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Readings Audio Video Permaculture

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David Korten, Seattle Green Fest mp3, 39 mb

Man who Planted Trees avi, 245 mb

Course Powerpoints

• Introduction
• Ethics
• Principles
• Climate and Microclimate
• Design Methods
• Using Patterns in Nature in Design
• Invisible Structures
• Design Process Δ presented by Fred Meyer, Kyle Siek, and Molly
• Urban Strategies Δ presented by Kyle Siek
• Urban Agriculture Δ presented by Daniel Dermitzel

Reasons to Change

• End of Suburbia (film)
• Story of Stuff (film)

History and Roots of Permaculture

• Permaculture - SEED International Δ
• Buildings Like Trees - Wm. McDonough Δ

Design

• Fred Meyer handout on the design process Δ

Technology and Innovation

• A Good Scythe - Wendell Berry
• Technologies of Globalization - Jerry Mander

Patterns in Nature

Mapping

Climate and Microclimate

Energy

• Energy and the Wealth of Communities - Lonnie Gamble
• Village Power Generation and Energy Conservation - Bill Mollison
• Renewable Energy: Physics, Use, Impacts, Economy, Planning - a textbook by Brent Sorensen

Site Development Process and Client Interviews

• The Process of Permaculture Design Δ by Doug Bullock
• Designers Checklist Δ from The Permaculture Way by Graham Bell

Graphic Presentation of ideas: Drawing and Sketching

Buildings

• Hap and Lynne Mullineau's $7,000 cobb house

Field Trips

• Ernie Hinckle
• Vedic City Farms
• Pharam project (Brian and Kelly)

Wildness, Back to the Village (Agrestal and Arcadia)

• Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder, Pg 8-11
• Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder, entire book Δ
• Roger's Course Handout Δ
• Rediscovering the Territory - Roger Gipple
• The Wild and the Sacred excerpt form Thomas Berry's book The Great Work

Soil fertility and Gardens

Perennial Agriculture and Tree Crops

• General
  • Tree Crops by J Russel Smith - introduction
  • Ken Kern Tree Crops Chapter
• Plants for Iowa
  • Unusual Fruits and Nuts for Southeast Iowa - Lonnie Gamble (download)
    • link to article as published in the Iowa Source
  • Tom Wahl article on tree crops with commercial potential in South East Iowa.
• Midwest Native American Uses for Plants

  • Meskwaki Ethnnobotany Poster - back
  • Meskwaki Ethnobotany Poster - front
  • Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region - Melvin Randolph Gilmore
  • Ethnobotany of the Forest Pottawattamie Indians - Smith
• World Plant Resources
  • Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World

Water

• Ecovillage Constructed Wetland Plans
  • Wetland Section
  • Wetland Details
  • Wetland Schematic
  • Wetland Tank

Earthworks

Animals

Aquaculture

Ecocities, Urban Permaculture

• Transportation
  • Bike Sharing Programs web site
  • Paris Velib video
  • Lyon Velib video (professional news story
  • Report on bike sharing systems from around the world
• Ecocities
  • Ecocities by Richard Register - Excerpt including a critique of cars, a conceptual ride through an ecocity, and more
  • French Ecotopian Vision Δ

Invisible Structures: Money Alternatives, Land Tenure, Alternative Forms of Business Organization, steady State Economics

• The case for working with your hands

• Local Economy
  • Why Localism is Essential for Sustainability Δ by Richard Douthwaite
  • Short Circuit by Richard Douthwaite - economic theory and many practical examples for creating a true alternative to economic globalization. One of my favorite books and my favorite author on localism.
  • Short Circuit, Chapter 1 Δ excerpt, Richard Douthwaite
  • Bill Mollison audio Δ

Teaching resources

• Developing the Art of Teaching Permaculture by Kramer and Peck
• Permaculture Institute Course Outline

Marisha's Reader