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A Farm for the Future Film

"This documentary from the BBC is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen on TV for a long time. Highly recommended."  Realising that all food production in the UK (and the US) is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is and how to make a farm for the future.
A Guide to Raising Chickens (A Storey Animal Handbook) Book A comprehensive guide to everything from choosing a breed of chicken to raising chicks to housing, feeding and breeding and more. An excellent overview of what to expect when raising chickens..
A Pattern Language Book

is a book written to describe a new "language" of patterns of design based on problems that occur repeatedly in building human infrastructure. Over the course of years, the designers identified these and found core solutions, which are the patterns. The patterns start at the level of designs for towns, and go all the way to features for the home & garden. Specifically created to enable people to design their own living spaces.
A Permaculture Primer Website Dan Earle and Sue Hutchins describes the principles, components, concepts, resources and the associated movements of permaculture.
A Storey Guide to Raising Rabbits Book Bob Bennett tells you everything you need to know to raise rabbits successfully. Packed with practical information, this book covers every aspect of rabbit raising, including: best breeds, feeding and management, showing and selling, housing facilities and sanitation, marketing, disease, parasite and predator control.
Alcohol Can Be A Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century Book explains the history, whys, and how-tos of alcohol as a fuel. He illustrates the method by which alcohol fuel production is ecologically sustainable, revitalizes farms and communities, and creates new opportunities for small-scale businesses. The book is full of information, including study of the alcohol fuel program in Brazil. A detailed and inspiring application of permaculture design.
All That the Rain Promises and More Book

 a field guide to common western mushrooms.  All of the many pictures are in color, and many of them are quite whimsical.  It also includes recipes (including a very good one for blewitts and chantrelles) and recollections of memorable mushroom hunts.  

America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them Book Information on types of bats, misconceptions, how to keep them from nesting where you don't want them, attracting them where you do, and how to live in harmony with them.
Arborsculpture: Solutions for a Small Planet Book is natural building taken to the next level. He outlines the techniques for growing trees grafted, pruned & otherwise trained to form fences, chairs, tables, structures you can enter, and art. He recounts the history and writings of others who have experimented in this area, as well as his own creations, and includes lots of pictures of these tree "sculptures." Amazing and inspiring. His studio is located in Williams, Oregon.
Article about MFI: County chews on new food initiative Officials plan action summit to focus on how and what we eat Website

Multnomah County commissioners kicked off a 15-year campaign Thursday called the Multnomah Food Initiative. Their ambitious goal: mobilize the community to rethink what we eat and how we get our food.
Barnyard in Your Backyard Book Gail Damerow offers tried-and-true, expert advice on raising healthy, happy, productive farm animals: chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, and dairy cows. Each chapter focuses on a different animal, discussing the pros and cons of raising the animal, housing and land requirements, feeding guidelines, health concerns, and a schedule for routine care.
Beyond Three Days: Emergency preparedness and sustainability Slideshow

This slideshow came from the Portland Office of Emergency Management conference called "Ready, Safe, Go"
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving Book an important work on the small-scale development of new vegetable varieties. This is crucial to help assure our future in regards to nutrition and food security. Plants that perform marginally in our climate can be bred to be better-adapted, and those with especially desirable characteristics can be stabilized and propagated. And as Ms. Deppe asserts, it's also fun!
Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil "All New Straw Bale Edition" Book

Build your chickens a straw-bale coop and a chicken tractor for a run, and watch them eat your pests, till and fertilize your soil, and provide you with eggs and other useful products! Easy to read with photos and many line drawings.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Book is a wakeup call on something we usually take for granted - that manufactured products will degenerate and eventually need to be thrown away
Creating a Home Graywater System Film

Peak Moment TV, epsiode 141.  Trathen Heckman takes us on a step-by-step tour of how to make a safe, ecological and legal suburban home graywater system.
Cultivating Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Book a bible of mushroom growing, and even has a chapter on "Permaculture with a mycological twist." It covers a range of topics from outdoor growing systems to different growing mediums and describes the types of mushrooms most suitable for cultivation and their individual needs.
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape-Naturally Book is an amazing compilation of information by a professional edible landscaper. It is full of photos, diagrams and charts on everything from the root zones of common plants to studies on companion planting to IPM to tree heights on different root stocks to sun movement and many other topics relevant to permaculture gardeners. Even includes recipes for recommended edibles.
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices Film

Dmitry Orlov talks about the collapse of the Soviet Union and how people cooped and what lessons can be learned.

 
Edible Forest Gardens Volumes I and II Book

is an incredible fund of ecological & design information by a "first generation" permaculture instructor and designer. Volume I, Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture covers the vision of forest gardens and the ecology that governs them, along with case studies of featured forests. Volume 2, Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture covers design, maintainance, and includes an extremely comprehensive "plant matrix." This textbook-quality work is a landmark in temperate climate forest garden design.
Entertaining With Insects Or: The Original Guide to Insect Cookery Book

just what it sounds like: a cookbook containing recipes for grasshoppers, mealworms & bees. The authors have appeared on various TV shows like the Mike Douglas Show & The Johnny Carson Show demonstrating their delicious insect hors d'oeuvres, snacks, soups, salads, main courses, and desserts. Insects are a staple food in many parts of the world!
Essence of Permaculture Book

A 16 page summary of permaculture concept and principles taken from Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren.
Everything's Cool Film

EVERYTHING'S COOL is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.

Extreme Simplicity: Homesteading in the City Book written by a couple who have decided to practice homesteading in the city, in east Los Angeles county. Their efforts to live lightly on the earth in an urban setting are set out in this book. They grow much of their own food, forage for wild edibles, raise animals, catch rainwater, reuse everything possible (this section especially has many good ideas), and have worked out their "economics of self-reliance." A good introductory book towards increasing urban sustainability.
Film: The Crash Course Film

The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face.