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Open Source Permaculture

Help create Urban Permaculture Book, Q&A site and Wiki for everyone!

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    20120131130917-sofi

  • Location:Prague, Czech Republic

  • Category:Education

We believe that sustainability is for everyone. That's why we're creating Open Source Permaculture, a free online resource for anyone who wants to create a more sustainable world. Imagine having all the resources you need at your fingertips to enhance the sustainability of your home or land. Anyone (including you!) could learn how to grow an incredibly productive backyard permaculture garden, just like this one:

Permaculture is a visionary design methodology for creating sustainable, and thriving livelihoods, from ecological farms to urban landscapes. Open Source Permaculture can heal broken communities with no money, and transform our cities into thriving ecological landscapes.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a promising path to creating sustainable communities, founded on a system of ethics emphasizing the importance of shared values among people. The ethics embrace care for the Earth, care for the people, and sharing the excess. The gardening techniques draw from several other disciplines including natural and organic farming, agro-forestry, sustainable development, and applied ecology.

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Open Source Permaculture

What will this comprehensive resource contain? This project will fund the creation of an Urban Permaculture Guide eBook and the Open Source Permaculture Q&A Website + Wiki:

Urban Permaculture Guide – FREE eBook (circa 400 pages)

This will be the first freely available, comprehensive ebook teaching the use of permaculture in urban spaces! You will find easy to understand DIY tips that can be applied in your flat, tiny backyard, rooftop or community garden, including topics like:

  • Indoor and Balcony Gardening – Permaculture Style
  • Vertical Gardens
  • Tree Crops and Edible Forests
  • Guerilla Gardening
  • School gardens
  • Community Supported Agriculture
  • Mushroom log cultivation
  • Spiral Herb Gardens & Medicinal Herbs
  • Composting and Vermi-composting
  • Rainwater collection
  • Micro-livestock
  • Wind and Solar Energy
  • Transportation
  • …and much More!

This FREE eBook will also include interviews with founders of successful Urban Permaculture projects and a comprehensive list of FREE online educational resources.

The eBook will be released under a CC BY-SA license.

Open Source Permaculture Q&A Website + Wiki

With the website and wiki, you will have access to an expansive database of trusted resources and permaculture experts at your fingertips, to help resolve all of your gardening and landscaping problems. The Open Source Permaculture Website and Wiki will be cultivated by a community of experienced permaculture practitioners, allowing for a deeper understanding of permaculture and sustainability to everyone. It doesn't matter if you're just growing a tiny container garden or if you're running a full-fledge urban farm business. Whatever your project is, Open Source Permaculture aims to provide a real, working solution.

Your Contribution

Your generous donation will support free, global access to an online database of comprehensive Permaculture resources, so that anyone with the passion to do so can create sustainability in their own homes and gardens. For a detailed budget, click here. See a summary of the budget here:


 

The Perks

We've prepared some awesome rewards in deep gratitude for your generosity. If you vibe with our mission and vision for a sustainable world, please help us by sharing and spreading the word about our campaign! You can receive handmade artisan crafts, or even a tree planted in your honor at The Wolf Private Natural Reserve in Slovakia. Listed at the bottom of the page is a full list of all available rewards.


 

 

Our Vision & Purpose

Open Source Permaculture intends to become the most comprehensive multimedia resource of free, quality materials for Permaculture education. It would empower people all over the world to easily learn sustainability skills on their own, opening the world to a whole new way of learning online. Future projects include a free online video archive of original Permaculture lectures, short DIY videos and entire Permaculture Design Courses.

Who is behind this project?

Sophia Novack is a documentary film student passionate about creating a more sustainable world. She is a passionate permaculture geek and environmental activist. She is the force behind Permaculture Media Blog and Permaculture Directory, the largest and FREE online directory of Permaculture educational resources and course listings around the world.

For almost two years Permaculture Media Blog and Permaculture Directory have brought together high-quality, sustainable-living and educational media for the worldwide eco-community. These projects inspire thousands of people every day and have helped many people to start their own homesteading projects.

 

Permaculture Media Blog is a continually growing archive of more than 2000 FREE videos, eBooks, podcasts and documentaries, divided into 4 main categories; Permaculture & Organic Gardening, Natural & Green Building, Renewable Energy and Environmental Activism.
 
Permaculture Directory is a FREE listing site for sustainable-living events from all over the world. Over 1300 events are listed, which have helped thousands of people to find life changing courses, workshops and festivals.

 

Other Ways You Can Help

If you want to help but can't afford to contribute, that's fine! There are things you can do that may be even more important. For example, click on the heart button below the video, (so that I know you like it, and I can communicate with you) and use the other buttons to share it on Facebook or via email, word of mouth, or any other way you can get the word out to people who you think might be interested.

Writing a short personal note to a few key people is the absolute best approach (far better than sending it as a forward to thousands of people). It is also really helpful, when you post it on Facebook, if you say why you support this, and suggest that people actually watch the video. Passing it along via word of mouth and personal messages rather than just "liking" something helps us all maintain our human dignity. Keeping our communication human and personal is one of the most important things we can do in the world right now. Thank you for keeping that tradition alive as you share this.

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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