Resources 

The internet, if used well is such a fantastic resource for the sharing of information, it's quite incredible.  The more open information is, the faster and broader individual (and so whole) life learning can be. Our truths are stronger when backed up by our own investigation. So here are some resources that have fueled my own investigations, shared. For many of the books I've put links to sites where you can buy them, but I would recommend searching for ebooks or on a download site such as Vuze. If you have to buy it then consider passing on to your friends and make the most of the investment!

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Permaculture
Books

• Permaculture EBooks
• Permaculture Designers Manual By Bill Mollison
• Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren This lovely book goes through the principals of permaculture in a way that can be applied to all areas of our lives. Great stuff.
• Sepp Holtzer's Permaculture 1
• Creating a Forest Garden: Working with nature to grow edible crops -Martin Crawford
• One Straw Revolution- Masanobu Fukuoka 
• Kokopelli Seed Production Manual by Dominique Guillet I was shown this book at a real time of realization. Looking through it made real to me the insanity of  the supermarket food monoculture. Crazy just looking at the tomato pages at the 600 different varieties, in contrast to the flavorless 3 on the shop shelves. 

Films

• In grave danger of falling food-good old Bill, informative and funny!!
• Farming with nature
• A Farm for a Future
• Permaculture TV -Website for free Permaculture films etc
• Youtube Permaculture channel

Websites

• Permaculture Association- lots of resources including a list of Permaculture places to visit
• Permaculture Magazine
• Permaculture Global
• Permaculture a beginners guide -Spiral Seed
• Soil and Health Library- free e-books
• Permaculture media- a site full of permaculture resources all for FREEE
  
• Permaculture directory- listings of permaculture events, great forum 
  
• Temperate Climate Permaculture- a blog for the lesser written about climate in permaculture! 

                                    Other.....

Media

• Resurgence Magazine - 'for people who care about the environment, love reading, enjoy new ideas and are looking for inspiration on sustainable living'
  
• The Land magazine - a fantastic independent publication for 'people who believe that the roots of justice, freedom, social security and democracy lie not so much in access to money, or to the ballot box, as in access to land and it's resources.'
• Popshot Magazine - a lovely publication of current poetry and illustration. Submit something if you fancy!

Books
      Personal development, philosophy, science

• A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken wilber. 
• The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles and Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from here. -Both by Bruce Lipton. A total must read, I cant recommend enough. Seeing more of science fusing with 'spiritual' at the moment, and it's very exciting!
• Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition by Alastair McIntosh I found this little gem in my library at university. May be a bit dated now but has some good facts and nice message. Have a read.
• Find Your Power: A Toolkit for Resilience and Positive Changeby Chris Johnstone simple and well presented. Power in terms of ability to move in the direction you want to go, rather than the current social view of power as dominance. 
• 80:20 Principal With the idea that "if something is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly....then improving it!" Great ideas for leverage and productivity
• Tomorrow's Biodiversity- Vandana Shiva A must read book to know just why we need biodiversity and who is seriously threatening it
  

Web sites, other 

• Free man on the land A simple website explaining our rights and the law how it really is!
  
• Global Ecovillage Network to network and find out more about eco-village living
• Just for the love of it.org -A website set up by Mark Boyle promoting feeconomy and sharing
• we are not ants -The site for linking and optimists! Check out the directory
• Sustination- This is a definite site to have on your bookmarks, a platform to link producers and consumers
• 9 carrots- great site, helps you vote with your money, and get what you want as a customer, easily. 
• Seed saving handbook- Great site of free instructions and advice
• Grundtvic- Site to get EU funding to do courses abroad...very useful!! 
• Land partnerships free ebook- may be of use, a free book on linking land owners to entrepreneurs 

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