Listed below are books and other products we recommend and that you may also find useful.
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This book provides practical tools for creating and living in ecovillages and intentional communities.
This book explains practical permaculture essentials that can be implemented locally to help restore global ecosystems.
This book provides all the information you will need when considering joining an ecovillage or intentional community.
This book explains how to use permaculture in your home garden for better diversity, more productivity and less maintenance.
This book helps groups work better together including getting along in meetings and collaborative decision making.
This book explains how buildings can be adapted with changing needs or occupants to increase the longevity of the living space.
This book explains how to build human scaled settlements focused on local economies that can replace car dominated suburbs.
This book introduces permaculture concepts and design strategies with detailed diagrams throughout.
This book likely inspired the permaculture movement and explains how to grow food working with nature rather than against it.
This book is the permaculture bible and essential reading for permaculture practitioners and enthusiasts.
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.
This book explains how we can retrofit our homes, gardens, communities and lives to cope better with an uncertain future.
This book includes a wealth of permaculture lessons learned by Sepp Holzer farming at altitude in Austria.
This book explains how permaculture can help with the transition from fossil fuels to an alternative renewable energy future.
This book is a manual to help communities manage the transition from oil dependency to a sustainable future.
This book explains Sociocracy which uses consent rather than majority voting in group discussion and decision making.
