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Bullocks
Brothers Permaculture Site, Orcas Island, WA
http://www.permacultureportal.com/
City Repair
Project, Portland, OR
Cascadia
Permaculture, Eugene, OR
Food Not Lawns,
Eugene, OR
Lost Valley
Education Center, Dexter, OR
Occidental Arts
and Ecology, Occidental, CA
Solar Living
Institute, Hopland, CA
Indigenous
Permaculture, San Francisco, CA
http://www.indigenous-permaculture.org/
Ecology Center,
Berkeley, CA
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
Central Rocky
Mountain Permaculture Institute, Basalt, CO
Pikes Peak
Permaculture, Denver, CO
Sustainable
Settings, CO
Ecoversity,
Santa Fe, NM
Mountain Meadow
Farm, Flagstaff, AZ
http://www.mountainmeadowfarm.org/
Sonoran
Permaculture Institue, Tucson, AZ
The Farm
Ecovillage Training Center, Summertown, TN
Earthaven
Ecovillage, Black Mountain, NC
Ashevillage
Institute/Kleiwerks IntÕl, Asheville, NC
Sequatchie
Valley Institute at Moonshadow, Warren, TN
Blue Ridge
Center for Environmental Stewardship, Purcellville, VA
Appropriate
Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), Fayetteville, AR
Yestermorrow
Design Build School, Warren, VT
Sirius Community,
Shutesberry, MA
Woods Hole
Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
Tagari
Publications, Australia
Permaculture
Research Institute of Australia
Associations for
the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
Campus Center
for Appropriate Technology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Oberlin
Environmental Studies Center, Oberlin College, OH
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
Ecosa Institute,
Prescott College, AZ
Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ
San
Francisco Bay Area Re-localization Project
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
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.