Resources

Web sites, articles & blogs

• The Relocalization Network
  
• Homegrown Evolution:
  vegetables, chickens, bicycles and cultural alchemy
• A recent Mother Jones series of articles on the energy crisis we face
• TheUrbanHomesteaders.com - documenting a Rochester, NY couple’s journey to living a sustainable lifestyle in the city.
  
• Urban Land Institute
• eco-pedia: the a to z of everything green
  
• WorldChanging - Change Your Thinking
• Bioneers Community - Revolution from the Heart of Nature
• Peak Aware
• Background on peak oil (Life After The Oil Crash)
• Background on global warming/climate change (NRDC overview)
• Cascadia Permaculture - the work of Jude Hobbs
• Our Earth/Ourselves a blog by Madronna Holden, writer and environmental ethicist

Background on voluntary simplicity:

•http://www.simpleliving.net/main/
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living
•http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Lifestyle_Choices/Voluntary_Simplicity/
•http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/

Background on permaculture:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
• http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/
• http://www.permacultureactivist.net/
• http://permaculturetokyo.blogspot.com/
Permaculture defined

Background on suburban property conversion:
• Jan Spencer’s website on suburban permaculture.

Background on economics:

Institute For Local Self-Reliance

Mindful Economics: WHAT EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ECONOMY TO SURVIVE THE 21st CENTURY
http://www.mindfuleconomics.com/index.html

Background on Communities of Faith involved with ecological culture change:

• http://gbgm-umc.org/global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=4336
• There’s A Sabbath In the Land: Reflections from the
  "Local Foods - Local Farms Advocacy Week" by the Rev. John Pitney
• http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/01/12/coverstory.html

Homegrown Evolution Resources

• How to Homestead
• Backwoods Home Magazine - Practical Ideas for Self-Reliant Living
• Self-Watering Containers (2.4 Mb PDF file)
• Cheese Making - books about making your own cheese
• Sheet Mulching: Greater Plant and Soil Health for Less Work
  by Craig Elevitch and Kim Wilkinson

Seeds/Worms

• Native Seeds
• Seeds of Change
• Worm Tea
• Seed Starters Handbook (PDF file)

Urban Farming

• Silver Lake Farms
• Farmlab
• South Central Farmers
• A group of rooftop gardens in Chicago (photos)

Greywater/Rainwater

• Greywater Guerrillas
• Aquabarrel (water catchment products) / Do It Yourself Rain Barrel Plans

DIY Solar

• Build it Solar
• Solar Cooking Archive

Biking

• Urban Velo
• Bike Tech Info
• Bike Now: Cyclists Inciting Change thru LIVE Exchange
• Center for Appropriate Transport
• International Human Powered Vehicles Association
• Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Magazines

Yes! Magazine (building a just and sustainable world)
Mother Earth News
Backwoods Home Magazine - Practical Ideas for Self-Reliant Living
Permaculture Activist
Ode Magazine
Utne Reader
Adbusters

Books

Solutions...

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food by Tanya L. K. Denckla

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals by Barbara W. Ellis (Editor), Fern Marshall Bradley (Editor)

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) by Steve Solomon

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques and Kent Whealy

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape by Brad Lancaster

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks by Art Ludwig

The New Create an Oasis With Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systms - Includes Branched Drains by Art Ludwig

Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities by Kenneth B. Hall and Gerald A. Porterfield
An introduction to the basics of community design and New Urbanism

The Urban Homestead (process Media, Inc.; due out in June 2008)

Problems/Analysis...

The Post-Petroleum SURVIVAL GUIDE and cookbook by Albert Bates. Recipes for changing times with a foreword by Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
and
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

Michael T. Klare
Resource Wars: Ther New Landscape of Global Conflict
and
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

James Howard Kunstler
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (1994)
and
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (1998)

Films

• The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and The Collapse of The American Dream (2004) www.endofsuburbia.com
• A Crude Awakening (2006)
  Produced by Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
  www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php
• What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire by Tim and Sallie
  A middle class white guy comes to grips with peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle. / www.whatawaytogomovie.com
• Scorched Earth: Beyond The Tipping Point (now in production)

Organizations

• The Post Carbon Institute
• Center for Appropriate Transport
• Urban Land Institute
• The Localization Network: Local Communities. Global Connections.
  (See the latest Relocalize Newsletter)
  
• The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee
• Global Public Media (podcasts of lectures by local/green minded thinkers)
• Wangari Maathai and the Greenbelt Movement
  
  

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