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Working towards a knowledge commons for people worldwide
who want to live sustainable and self-determined lives.

 

What is Permaculture?

A short intro into an amazing world of effective closed loop systems and infinity.

What are Commons?

Free licences are on the rise.
What is it all about?
Also check out out in depth explanation of some of the licenses out there.

Why do they belong together?

Permaculture and free licensing is a love affair about to happen.
Why should we care?

 

Collection

Permaculture Commons

What is already out there? Find videos, texts, images, recipies…

Use it and improve it!

15 Entries

And more every day. Choose from these categories:

  • Books (1)
  • Education (2)
  • Hardware / Tools (2)
  • Plants (4)
  • Videos (3)
  • Wikis / General Knowledge (4)
 

Stories

  • To: PlantBuddies

    Disclaimer: Also our project :) Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think!
    What other digital tools could help you with your permaculture work?

  • To: Soil and Health Library

    Most of the books are out of print, some are in the public domain, but be careful: There’s still a lot of copyrighted material as well.

  • To: Serlo Sustainability

    Disclaimer: This is our project :) Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think!

About us

We are a non-profit education initiative promoting free and open permaculture material.
Currently we are maintaining this collection and started permaculture as a subject on the free educational platform Serlo.

Read on.

Projects

What we work on

One of our main projects is creating free and open permaculture and sustainability education on the learning plattform serlo.org.

PlantBuddies is an easy to use tool to find companion plants. Try it now!

You like free birds? Find some here.

Author: Botho

Serlo Sustainability

Posted on December 30, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

Serlo.org is an education platform that offers Applied Sustainability as an subject. It’s far from complete, but evolving.

Posted in Education1 Comment

Permaculture Association

Posted on December 30, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

“Find out about permaculture ethics, principles, design approaches and useful information about over 200 practical solutions!”

 

Posted in Education, Wikis / General Knowledge

Soil and Health Library

Posted on December 29, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

“Health begins in the soil”
Their vision is to make works available that empower people to grow their own food, be healthy and think for themselves. Self-empowerment is true freedom.

Posted in Books1 Comment

Open Source Ecology

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

Super successful worldwide Open Source Hardware project. Look at the Global Village Construction Set. Wow!

Posted in Hardware / Tools

Open Source Seed Initiative

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

“The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) is dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide.”

Posted in Plants

Farmhack

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

“An open source community for resilient agriculture”
This nice little video explains the concept. Has nice projects and a lively community.

Posted in Hardware / Tools

Practical Plants

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

Very nice project, basically a fork of the PFAF-Database but editable and focused on community and practical use.

Mixed Licences

Posted in Plants

Plants For A Future

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

A registered charity that compiles a database featuring over 7500 plants with a focus on perenials.
They have names, images, uses, etc. It’s quite amazing.

Posted in Plants

Appropedia

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

Appropedia maintains a list of Permaculture Wikis and is also one of the most active Wikis in this space.

Posted in Wikis / General Knowledge

Red Wigglers / Vermicomposting

Posted on December 18, 2015March 10, 2023 by Botho

This video explains why you want to have worms as pets and how vermi-composting works. It’s super nice.

Posted in Videos1 Comment

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Red Wigglers / Vermicomposting

This video explains why you want to have worms as pets and how vermi-composting works. It’s super nice.

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