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Montreal Sustainability Organizations
- MUCS is a non-profit organization dedicated to growing sustainable community in Montreal.
- A Montreal not-for-profit organization dedicated to social and environmental development through the establishment and operation of collectively-managed vegetable gardens.
- A community-based cooperative that offers ecological solutions for the home and resources for responsible consumption.
- Meet other people who share a concern for the environment to discuss and act on a wide variety of environmental issues both on a global and local level while taking part in fun activities in Montreal. Learn, share, act, and meet others with environmentally friendly motives.
- Join Emily Rose Michaud in her guerilla gardening adventures at the Roerich garden.
- Finding and Implementing Sustainable Solutions
- Portail d’information sur la permaculture en zone francophone
- Permaculture en climat froid
International Permaculture / Sustainability Organizations
- Living Mandala is a growing collective of educators, organizers and designers committed to eco-social regeneration based on the organizing intelligence of nature exhibited through the emergence of life. Members of Living Mandala design, facilitate and produce courses, workshops and events as well as offer consultation services that implement ecologically and socially regenerative practices within a diverse set of fields.
- A growing collective of educators, activists, ecologists, and designers committed to providing affordable and experiential learning events in the Finger Lakes bioregion of New York State.
- Since January 2005, permaculture activists throughout the Northeastern USA have been meeting and actively creating a network for mutually supporting each other and advancing permaculture solutions.
- Yestermorrow Design/Build School offers courses in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft and a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design.
- The Permaculture Research Institute, based in Minnesota, focuses on Cold-Climate strategies through outreach, networking and training.
- The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) is a non-profit educational organization with a vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the Earth. They offer courses on Permaculture, Nature Awareness and Wildcrafting to name a few.
- A non-profit organization based out of a warehouse on the East Side of Austin, Texas that operates an Educational Center for Urban Sustainability and a Center for Community Organizing.
- A registered non-governmental organization and working demonstration farm that promotes sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology and food security using permacultural principles and applied biodiversity.
- Pools the financial resources of people who believe in the ethics of Permaculture - care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly and socially responsible loans and investments.
Courses / Trainings
Ongoing
- Weekly classes through 2009 starting January 7th. Montreal, Quebec
Upcoming
- March 20th to April 1st, 2009 - San Pedro Columbia, Belize
- April 17th to 19th, 2009 - Finger Lakes, New York
- Forest Garden Immersion Course - Camp Epworth Permaculture Demonstration & Education Center
- April 23-26, 2009 ~ HIgh Falls, New York
- June 21st to July 5th, 2009 - Unity, Maine
- June 14-27, 2009 - Rock Point, Burlington, Vermont
- Radical Urban Sustainability Training - The Rhizome Collective
- "Creating autonomous communities with the tools of permaculture and social activism. An intensive seminar in urban ecological survival skills."
Books
- Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Magazines
Video
- permascience
Permaculture Science
- Peak Moment
Responses to a Changing Energy Future
- Garden Girl TV
Urban Sustainable Living
- Herb Mentor TV
from LearningHerbs.com
- Eat The Weeds, YouTube Channel
Green Deane shows how to identify and prepare wild edible plants.
Podcasts / Internet Radio
- Seeks out leaders in the Permaculture and Environmental movements and asks them to provide design solutions and guidance.
- Intelligent conversation touching on such Permaculture-related themes as, Peak Oil, the re-localization of community & agriculture, the trajectory of the decline of industrial civilization.
- Environmental news, green technology stories, tried and tested solutions for these times of global transformation.
Projects
- Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development through the use of appropriate technology and the sharing of project information.
People
- Toby Hemenway - Author of Gaia's Garden
- Starhawk - Author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality. A peace, environmental, and global justice activist and trainer, a permaculture designer and teacher, a Pagan and Witch.
- Paul Stamets - An American mycologist, author, and advocate of bioremediation.
- Heather C. Flores - Author of Food Not Lawns
Maps
- Interactive maps featuring Canada's soil landscapes, plant hardiness zones, and ecosystem framework.
Plant information databases
- Permaculture database of plants and their uses! You can search by common name, botanical name, use (edible, fibre, medicinal, oil, ...) and many other criteria.
Hardy trees, plants and seeds sources
- Ultra hardy plants and fruit trees in Alberta. Great variety of fruit trees for you forest garden!
