Listed below are books and other products we recommend and that you may also find useful.

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A Pattern Language
This is a great book for planning the design of towns, streets, homes and even rooms.
Creating a Life Together
This book provides practical tools for creating and living in ecovillages and intentional communities.
Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture
This book explains practical permaculture essentials that can be implemented locally to help restore global ecosystems.
Ecovillages Around the World
This book showcases 20 ecovillages from around the world including the Tasman Ecovillage.
Finding Community
This book provides all the information you will need when considering joining an ecovillage or intentional community.
Gaia's Garden
This book explains how to use permaculture in your home garden for better diversity, more productivity and less maintenance.
Getting Our Act Together
This book helps groups work better together including getting along in meetings and collaborative decision making.
How Buildings Learn
This book explains how buildings can be adapted with changing needs or occupants to increase the longevity of the living space.
How to Build a Villagetown
This book explains how to build human scaled settlements focused on local economies that can replace car dominated suburbs.
Introduction to Permaculture
This book introduces permaculture concepts and design strategies with detailed diagrams throughout.
One Straw Revolution
This book likely inspired the permaculture movement and explains how to grow food working with nature rather than against it.
Permaculture Designers Manual
This book is the permaculture bible and essential reading for permaculture practitioners and enthusiasts.
Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
This book explains permaculture design principles and how they can be used for a diverse range of ecological solutions not limited to working the land.
Retrosuburbia
This book explains how we can retrofit our homes, gardens, communities and lives to cope better with an uncertain future.
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
This book includes a wealth of permaculture lessons learned by Sepp Holzer farming at altitude in Austria.
The Art of Frugal Hedonism
This book explains how to lower your consumption while raising the quality of your life.
The Permaculture Transition ­Manual
This book explains how permaculture can help with the transition from fossil fuels to an alternative renewable energy future.
The Transition Handbook
This book is a manual to help communities manage the transition from oil dependency to a sustainable future.
We the People
This book explains Sociocracy which uses consent rather than majority voting in group discussion and decision making.
Who Gives a Crap Toilet Paper
This toilet paper is environmentally friendly and great value!