Links
- Top 5 Links
- 'Heart' of Social Change
- Climate Change
- Communities Localising
- Economics
- Green Building
- Green Building Materials
- Green Design
- Natural Building
- Peak Oil
- Permaculture
- Renewables
Top 5 Links
- Energy Bulletin
- Permaculture Principles (David Holmgren)
- Positive Energy Conference, Findhorn March 2008
- Richard Heinberg
- Transition Town Totnes
'Heart' of Social Change
- Adaption
Evolving into the post-hydrocarbon century - Jan Lundberg’s Culture Change
An essential blog looking at the ‘culture’ side of transition culture, very passionate and informative
Climate Change
- Climate Camp
Annual planning & direct action camp (in the UK) highlighting climate change
Communities Localising
- City Repair
Portland, Oregon, USA - Community Solution
An excellent resource on community peak oil activism, and organisers of the Community Solution conference each year - Greening the Apocalypse
The beginnings of a site that Energy Bulletin’s Adam Fenderson is putting together to support relocalising work he is involved in in Australia - Sustainable Lansing
- Willitts Localisation
- Yellow Springs Ohio
Economics
- The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Dublin, Ireland)
Probably the leading resource on green economics and the economic aspect of localisation
Green Building
- Architype
London, UK - Association for Environment Conscious Building
- Constructive Individuals
- Ecological Building Network
Lots of very useful material on ecological building - Environmental Building News
USA - Gale & Snowden
- OIKOS
Green Building Materials
- Building Resources
In San Francisco, a community owned building materials salvage centre. Can we have one here please?! - Construction Resources
- Green Building Store
- Green Building Website
Prof. Tom Woolley’s website in Belfast - Natural Building Technologies
Green Design
- Centre for Sustainable Design
- Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language
- EcoDesign Checklists
- Gordon Clarke Architects
- O2 Global Network for EcoDesign
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Sustainability Works
Natural Building
- All Things Cordwood
- Amazon Nails
- Build Something Beautiful
Kevin McCabe’s cob building company in Devon - Chug’s World of Strawbale Building
- Cob Castle
Some people have the most amazing imaginations! - Cob Construction Company (UK)
- Cob Cottage Company
- Cobworks
- Development Center for Appropriate Technology
- Down to Earth Building Bee
Building solutions for sustainable communities - Earthships Biotecture
Thoroughly comprehensive, an excellent site with great articles and information - Earthwood Building School
- Green Building
An American directory of builders, consultants, architects, and experts - GreenHomeBuilding.com
- Groundworks
- Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability
- Low Carbon Network
Earthship Brighton - Mayglass 2000
A project renovating an old cob house in Co. Wexford, Ireland - Natural/Alternative Building Photo Gallery
- Patricks cob cottage
Pictures of Patricks cob cottage on Mayne Island - Rethinking Construction
- Simple and Sustainable Living
- Strawbale Central
Lots of information about natural building, especially straw bale - Suffolk Housing
- Surfin’ Strawbale
The mother of all strawbale sites – if it ain’t on here, it ain’t out there… - Sustainable Communities Initiatives
An Earthship in Scotland - That Roundhouse
- The Canelo Project
- The Last Straw Journal
- Walter Segal Trust
Low cost timber frame system often used in social housing projects
Peak Oil
- ASPO-USA
- Association for the Study of Peak Oil (Ireland)
Colin Campbell’s site - Community Solution
An excellent resource on community peak oil activism, and organisers of the Community Solution conference each year - Depletion Scotland
- DryDipStick
- Energy Bulletin
The MotherShip of Peak Oil sites - make it your homepage! - EnergyCrisisNow
Very good peak oil blog - From The Wilderness
- Global Public Media
- Life After the Oil Crash
- Living on the Cusp
A fellow Totnes peakoiler, with whom I am working on a Totnes Powerdown process - Local Energy
- Museletter
Richard Heinberg’s site - Peak Oil.com
- Portland Peak Oil group
A local peak oil group in the US - Post Carbon Institute
- Powering Down
An excellent blog site in a similar vein to this one - PowerSwitch
The definitive UK Peak Oil site - Surviving Peak Oil
- The Coming Global Oil Crisis
- The End of Suburbia
Where it all started - The Oil Crisis
- The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
- The Oil Drum
Permaculture
- Bendalls Farm (UK)
- Brighton Permaculture Trust
- Green Living
West Country Permaculture and sustainable living (UK) - Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability
- Holmgren Design Services
David Holmgren - Permaculture Association (Britain)
- Permaculture International
- Permaculture Magazine
- Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
- Plants For A Future
Resource and information centre for edible and otherwise useful plants - Ragman’s Lane Farm (UK)
- Tir Penrhos Isaf
Excellent permaculture site in Wales, check out their amazing insightful section on bracken and its place in permaculture