Links: Green Building

A wiki dedicated to appropriate technology and related issues. has an extensive selection of articles on Food and agriculture.

A Living and Learning centre in the heart of Brazil. The Ecocentre was designed and built as a reference centre for sustainable living in South America with focus on growing food, caring for water resources and building ecological structures to support an ecovillage. The Ecocentre offers a number of courses and internships and is a non profit organization with projects in several regions of Brazil and as far as Africa and Portugal.

A comprehensive directory of a wide range of green companies.

GreenHenge is an environmental-focused hub designed to provide one central source for locating web sites based on some aspect of our environment. This may include nature photographers, merchants offering solar products, wildlife preservation groups, science research sites, and more.

Lawn and Garden Yellow Pages is your home on the web for finding the plants, products and gardening tips you need for your home garden or other landscaping projects. LGYP offers a searchable database of plants, trees, perennials, landscape architects/contractors and garden centers/nurseries by location. LGYP covers all home gardener and plant enthusiast needs from plant descriptions to gardening facts.

Maya Mountain Research Farm is a small registered NGO working on issues of food security and biodiversity. Using agroforestry and ethnobotany, MMRF is a collection of hundreds of plant species of use to people. The farm is well developed. We do outreach, host interns and conduct training and courses. Our client base includes several universities and NGOs, Peace Corps, Government of Belize. Right now we are working on a vanilla project that is very exciting.

A permaculture project based near Lancaster. Pictures of the various projects they undertake. The project has a strawbale visitors center where the run courses and a camping barn which you can rent.

A permaculture project in the walled, kitchen garden of Towneley Hall, Lancashire, setup in 1997. Has four eco friendly buildings, wind and solar power and a community composting scheme. In January 2006 Offshoots won a Bura (British Urban Regeneration award). The site is managed by Groundwork East Lancashire.

Organic Smallholding in Central Portugal

We are a small landscape architecture practice with a special interest in promoting and encouraging traditional orchards. We work with schools, community groups and voluntary sector organisations as well as commercial clients to increase awareness of the wildlife and biodivesity advantages of retaining and preserving old fruit varieties. We built an award winning straw bale walled orchard garden at Westonbirt Arboretum with the help of Common Ground and the Brogdale Trust (home of the national fruit collection) to highlight this issue. We work all over the south west and are based just north of Bristol and also in the Wye Valley where the Reckless Orchard once existed.

Aims to develop, demonstrate and communicate accessible, low-tech methods of sustainability in a semi-arid environment. Runs an English speeking centre in Almerķa, Spain where the techniques such as solar cookers, low tec pumps and the use of Mycorrhizal fungi to stimulate plant growth are demonstrated.

We are a recentl upstart community and education center focused on natural building and permaculture design (as well as learning a lot and having a good time!). We host natural building and permaculture courses (including one in may and one in June of 2007). We are also welcoming of anyone who would like to come help out with our project during their time in Thailand. Check out our tribe site for more details.

A collection on articles on thatching. And links to thatching sites and associations.

World Wide Opportunity on Organic Farm - Work as a volunteer on Organic farms in Sweden or in the rest of the world.