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Agroecologists therefore collaborate with traditional producers and agroecological movements. Permaculture is one such agroecological movement, with a broad international distribution and a unique approach to system de- sign. Despite a high public profile, permaculture has remained relatively isolated from scientific research. Though the potential contribution of permaculture to agroecological transition is great, it is limited by this isolation from science, as well as from oversimplifying claims, and the lack of a clear definition. Here, we review scientific and popular permaculture literature.

Permaculture teacher and author Aranya, talking about the value of using a design process, to a packed hall at the London Permaculture Festival on 21st July 2012. For more details of Aranya's book and courses see http://www.aranyagardens.co.uk

Great page from Permaculture in Action - its like many blog/journal posts with photos, FULL of info!

Toby Hemenway presents Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture

(First test at Group Share) This is a Resource Library I am creating of PDFs and Links related to Permaculture.

A Pattern Language of Sustainability - Ecological design and Permaculture - By Joanne Tippett - April, 1994

Many free online calls with renowned Permaculture teachers Oct 1-3

Free Permaculture Design Course Complete Online Self-Paced Program

The aim of this work is a cross-disciplinary integration of ideas specifically relevant to permaculture design and the physical structure of human settlements. Although this work is ambitious in scope, I feel this is an important element of the writing, to present an overview such that the reader is able to see the inter-relations of many ideas relevant to design. This is a synthesis of a kind which I believe has so far not been attempted.

Lots of great info being shared by lots of great people. 

awesome resource for temperate food forests. their plant index is very informative.

a GOLDMINE of scanned PDF books and other media on subjects such as: community, gardening, energy, media, economics, permaculture...

Great resource hub full of documents on Permaculture and sustainability.

Willi Paul's current passion and mission concerns how we can re-energize alchemy and mythology for the Sustainability Age. New Myths with Permaculture!

PDC syndrome can involve one or more of the following symptoms:  a belief that no till or mulching or forest gardening or polycultures or mob-stocking or chicken tractors or perennial crops or compost teas or various other techniques must invariably be practiced in preference to any alternatives  a belief that whatever Bill Mollison or David Holmgren or a handful of other authors have written is above criticism

"Lean Startup" is an approach for launching businesses and products, that relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback. In this way, companies, especially startups, can design their products or services to meet the demands of their customer base without requiring large amounts of initial funding or expensive product launches.

Hi, I'm taking a 10 week 'from idea to manifestation'-Eco-social entrepreneurship workshop to help me build our sustainability school. The basic model we use is of lean startup approach that is common now in silicon valley. for me it's seems like at home- remind me of the spiral way of planning and the permaculture principals.

and an easy to use online tool for lean start-up planning: http://leancanvas.com

An intresting passage from the articel that reminds me also of the permaculture zones: Some cultures do not perceive time as an exclusively linear phenomenon and their time calendars consist of multiple and simultaneously existing time categories such as 'practical time', 'social time', 'religious time', 'dream time', etc. Many Indigenous people and a number of non- Indigenous cultures do not perceive time as linear and describe it as having a 'circular' or 'cyclic' form. According to such a conceptualisation of time, time is perceived as 'static' and the individual person is 'in the centre of time' (i.e. surrounded by concentric 'time circles'). Life events are placed in time along and across the 'time circles' according to their relative importance to the individual and his or her respective community (i.e. more important events are placed closer to the individual and are perceived as being closer in time; unimportant or irrelevant events occupy peripheral time circles, although some of them could have happened very recently according to linear or 'practical' concept time).

Great free documentary site - I just watched one on the Biophilic City of Singapore it is also on youtube - http://youtu.be/XMWOu9xIM_k

The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now reached the point where we believe that there needs to be a move towards a Permanent Culture.