Links we Like

www.awok.com
www.teach12.com
www.lessonsforhope.org
www.sevenstories.com
www.kk.org/cooltools
www.permacultureactivist.net
www.pfaf.org/leaflets/altfood.php
www.echotech.org

If Scott and I had to choose a small handful of books for tropical sustainable living our list would be:

• Permacopia
• Ferment and Human Nutrition (esp if you want to really get into producing your own food: your sweetener, your salt, your vinegar etc and store stuff in clever ways)
• Square Foot Gardening- for beginners and people who don’t want to make a career out of it!)
• Permaculture
• Solar Living Source Book (for basics on systems)

But, if we could have more:

For Building/Systems

• Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World –Komatsu, Komatsu and Steen
• A Pattern Language — Christopher Alexander
• Solar Living Source Book — Real Goods

For Medicinals

• Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs — Leslie Taylor
• Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook: A Home Manual — James Green

For Agriculture

• Permaculture — Bill Mollison
• Permacopia Books (1-3)– D. Hunter Beyer , Dr. Franklin Martin
• Square Foot Gardening — Mel Bartholomew
• Plants in Hawaiian Culture (ethnobotany) — Beatrice Krauss
• The Right Tree in the Right Place, Arbor Day in Hawai’i — Hawaiian Electric Company
• Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands — Craig Elevitch, Kim Wilkinson
• IL31 Bambus-Bamboo — Institute for Lightweight Structures, University of Stuttgart, Karl Kramer
• Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced) — Elbert Little, Jr, Roger Skolmen
• The New Oxford Book of Food Plants — Vaughan and Geissler
• How to Grow More Vegetables — John Jeavons
• Hawaii Organic Growers Guide –
• Tools for Agriculture: A Buyer’s Guide to Appropriate Equipment — Intermediate Technology

For Food

• Ferment and Human Nutrition — Bill Mollison
• For General Homesteading (i have to go down to our library and get the details on these)

ken kern

john seymore