Blogs, forums, email lists

Welcome to the wonderful world of online permaculture. There are a host of forums, blogs and email lists to choose from, and each offers a unique way to learn about permaculture and get the latest news, thinking and opinion.

Permaculture forums

http://www.permacultureforum.org.uk/forum this is the main forum for permaculture in the UK.

http://forums.permaculture.org.au/ is probably the most used forum in the world, linked to the Permaculture Resarch Institute website

http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums is more focused on "organic homesteading - natural living "

Blogs

Influential, quirky, thoughtful, amusing - these are some of the key bloggers.

http://transitionculture.org/ Transition Culture - Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He has many years experience in education, teaching permaculture and natural building, and set up the first 2 year full-time permaculture course in the world, at Kinsale Further Education College in Ireland.

http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/ - Keith Johnson, longtime american permaculture activist. Includes excellent list of permaculture

http://hackneypermaculture.org.uk/. - Follows the exploits and permaculture ambitions of Robin, Laura and Claudia, residents of... Hackney.

http://www.chickenshack.co.uk/blog.html Steve Jones, Chickenshack blog, following his work and life in a west Wales housing cooperative.

http://gardenapprentice.wordpress.com/ Jessie Marcham's new blog about being an apprentice at Sturts Farm.

Email discussion lists

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/permaculture_uk/ the main UK discussion list.

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
A well-used and lively list from the US with a broad range of topics, practical and philosophical, under discussion most of the time.

Know about other forums, blogs or lists? Let us know!