100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living If you've ever considered getting into Permaculture, or if you're a veteran Permaculturist who's looking for a new skill to master, the following resources are the absolute best places for you to get started. Each of these books has the potential to introduce you to a whole new skill that you can enjoy for literally the rest of your life! You will find here links to over 60 Free eBook previews and full eBooks! Feel free to post down at the bottom if there are other books you would include on this list. Enjoy and Share with Your friends! Sophia Permaculture - Introductions to the Subject Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway - The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. eBook preview: Gaia's Garden, Second Edition Permaculture - More in depth Forest Gardening
Permaculture Principles Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01 Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01 From Open Source Ecology Jump to: navigation, search Download PDF. First mention of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD has been made in Marcin's TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set. Foreword 1.0 Forward from the Founder – Video 1.1 What is Open Source Ecology? Introduction 2.1 GVCS in 2 Minutes Video 2.2 TED Talk Video 2.3 Kickstarter Video 2.4 Practical Post-Scarcity Video 2.5 OSE Enterprise Plan Video 2.6 How to Build the 4 Machines in a Basic Workshop CEB Press Note: this is Prototype III. 3.1 CEB Press Design Rationale, Product Ecology 3.2 CEB Press Master CAD File 3.3 CEB Press Bill of Materials 3.4 CEB Press Fabrication Master PDF - 89 pages 3.5 CEB Press Fabrication videos - Mechanical fabrication 3.6 CEB Press Electrical Fabrication videos 3.7 CEB Press Control Code 3.8 CEB Press Ergonomics of machine assembly - full assembly video (11 min) 3.9 Compressed Earth Brick Press: Fabrication Drawings 3.10 CEB Press User Manual Tractor Soil Pulverizer
Free eBooks Archive - Permaculture Media Blog See also: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. Plants For A Future: Survey and Research Project on 'The Field' - A report is now available of the recently completed survey and research project on the 'The Field', the experimental site of Ken and Addy Fern ( Plants For A Future founders) in Cornwall, where they carried out research and provided information on edible and otherwise useful plants suitable for growing outdoors in a temperate climate. Best of the Permaculture Drylands Magazine - Now Online!
Ixchel Ha | A Rain Forest Home Wikibooks Rainforest - mongabay.com Permaculture Magazine - Inspiration for Sustainable Living Rainforest Portal Conservation in Belize A bluehead wrasse in the Belize Barrier Reef, part of the world's second-largest coral reef system. Since declaring independence in 1981, Belize has enacted many environmental protection laws aimed at the preservation of the country's natural and cultural heritage, as well as its wealth of natural resources. These acts have established a number of different types of protected areas, with each category having its own set of regulations dictating public access, resource extraction, land use and ownership. Roughly 26% (2.6 million acres, or 1.22 million hectares) of Belizean land and sea is preserved within a total of 95 reserves, which vary in their purpose and level of protection.[1][2] This network of protected areas exists under a variety of management structures:[3] 1,900,469 acres (769,093 ha) of terrestrial reserves,392,970 acres (159,030 ha) of marine reserves,317,615 acres (128,534 ha) protected through officially recognised private conservation initiatives. Background[edit]
Birds of Belize and Central America With over 587 different, colorful species of birds in the country, Belize is a must for the professional or amateur bird-watcher and those into eco tourism. In the Orange Walk District alone, over 400 species of birds have been recorded. Of these, approximately 20 percent are migrants from North America. Almost every year new species are reported. Eight new records were confirmed in 2007, including the Crested Caracara, Canada Goose, and Spot-breasted Oriole. Belize blue crowned motmot bird The Blue-crowned motmot, (Motmotus motmota), can be seen throughout the country. The one feature that most distinguishes almost all motmots is their long tails. More so than anywhere else in the country, the Orange Walk District is the country’s leader as a birder’s paradise. Belize Birds – Neotropic Cormorants, Roseate Spoonbill, Great Egrets, Wood Stork and Raptor. Collared Toucan in western Belize Picture: Manolo Romero. Chaa Creek lodge and Maya Mountain Lodge offer delights to birders.