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Permaculture and Sustainability Research and Education Centers

 

Bullocks Brothers Permaculture Site, Orcas Island, WA

http://www.permacultureportal.com/

 

City Repair Project, Portland, OR

www.cityrepair.org

 

Cascadia Permaculture, Eugene, OR

 

Food Not Lawns, Eugene, OR

www.foodnotlawns.org

 

Lost Valley Education Center, Dexter, OR

www.lostvalley.org

 

Occidental Arts and Ecology, Occidental, CA

http://www.oaec.org/

 

Solar Living Institute, Hopland, CA

www.solarliving.org

 

Indigenous Permaculture, San Francisco, CA

http://www.indigenous-permaculture.org/

 

Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA

www.ecologycenter.org

 

Urban Permaculture Guild, SF Bay Area, CA

www.urbanpermacultureguild.org

 

Regenerative Design Institute (Permaculture Institute of N. California), Bolinas, CA

http://www.regenerativedesign.org/

 

Rocky Mountain Institute, Carbondale, CO

http://www.rmi.org/

 

Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Basalt, CO

http://www.crmpi.org/

 

Pikes Peak Permaculture, Denver, CO

www.pikespeakpermaculture.org

 

Sustainable Settings, CO

 

Ecoversity, Santa Fe, NM

www.ecoversity.org

 

Mountain Meadow Farm, Flagstaff, AZ

http://www.mountainmeadowfarm.org/

 

Sonoran Permaculture Institue, Tucson, AZ

www.sonoranpermaculture.org

 

The Farm Ecovillage Training Center, Summertown, TN

http://www.thefarm.org/etc/

 

Earthaven Ecovillage, Black Mountain, NC

http://www.earthaven.org/

 

Ashevillage Institute/Kleiwerks IntÕl, Asheville, NC

www.kleiwerks.org

 

Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow, Warren, TN

www.svionline.org

 

Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, Purcellville, VA

www.brces.org

 

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), Fayetteville, AR

www.attra.org

 

Yestermorrow Design Build School, Warren, VT

www.yestermorrow.org

 

Sirius Community, Shutesberry, MA

www.siriuscommunity.org

 

Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA

www.whrc.org

 

Tagari Publications, Australia

http://www.tagari.com/

 

Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

http://permaculture.org.au/

 

 

College and University Sustainability Programs

 

Associations for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

www.aashe.org

 

Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

www.humboldt.edu/~ccat

 

Oberlin Environmental Studies Center, Oberlin College, OH

http://www.oberlin.edu/envs/

 

SENS House, Berea College, KY

http://www.berea.edu/sens/ecovillage/

 

Sonoma State Environmental Technology Center, CA

http://www.sonoma.edu/ensp/etc/

 

Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, Ponoma Polytechnical Institute, CA

http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/

 

Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC

http://www.duke.edu/sustainability/

 

Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL), U Oregon, Eugene, OR

http://www.uoregon.edu/~casl/

 

Ecosa Institute, Prescott College, AZ

www.ecosainstitute.org

 

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

 

Economic Localization, Ecological Footprints, and Social Ventures

 

San Francisco Bay Area Re-localization Project

www.baylocalize.org

 

Empowerment Institute based out of Woodstock, NY offers consulting and training in empowerment for sustainable living. www.empowermentinstitute.net

 

Global Social Ventures Competition website contains resources and examples of calculating SROI. www.socialvc.net

 

Next Generation Consulting focusing on Òinforming, supporting, and inspiring your commitment to next generation companies and . . . communities.Ó www.nextgenerationconsulting.com

 

REDF is a philanthropic organization that assists non-profit social enterprises. www.redf.org

 

Redefining Progress focuses of sustainability through ecological economics and policy. Many great resources here. www.rprogress.org

 

USDA links to economic statistics related to food, agriculture, and land use: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?navid=FIND_STAT_DATA&navtype=RT&parentnav=RESEARCHERS

 

Vermont Earth Institute has some interesting programs and there are lots of links to ecological footprint and related sites. www.vtearthinstitute.org.

 

Vital Communities is a bioregional localization effort in VT and NH. Many innovative ideas and resources at www.vitalcommunities.org

 

Willits Economic Localization (WELL) provides a model and many resources for others interested in local economy: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org

 

World Business Council for Sustainable Development has all sorts of info on sustainable development and related topics. www.wbcsd.org

 

 

Building: Codes, Natural, and Green

 

United States Green Building Council has created a certification process called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for a variety building types. www.usgbc.org

 

Development Center for Appropriate Technology. DCAT is actively involved in rethinking the nature of the building codes. There is a wealth of useful info and links available on this site.

 

Building Codes and Natural Building by Coenraad Rogmans

 

Some thoughts on ÒAdobe CodesÓ by Dr. Fred Webster, a seismic engineer in California.

  

Sustainability and the Building Codes by David Eisenberg. This article was published in the Last Straw journal, and is from a paper presented at a national conference on building codes.

 

California Health and Safety Code guidelines for Strawbale structures. This code is being revised and must be adopted by each county in the State to be official.

 

The green home building website has some info and perspectives

on using natural materials and dealing with building codes.

 

The Cob Code Project is a work in progress to develop recognized codes for building with Cob, which has its own complications related to the variability that is inherent in every batch.