Environmental And Conservation Organizations:

• NY/NJ Baykeeper
• Waterkeeper Alliance
• Hudson Riverkeeper
• NRDC NY
• Eco Watch
• Community Environmental Legal Defense
• Earth Justice 

Permaculture Resources:

• The Permaculture Project LLC
• Southwoods Forest Garden
• Midwest Permaculture
• Center for Bioregional Living
• New York Permaculture Meetup
• Permaculture Network of NJ
• Northeastern Permaculture
• Permaculture Design Build Collaborative
• Will Hooker at 610 Kirby Permaculture
• UMASS Amherst Permaculture
• UMASS Permaculture Newsletter
• VelaCreations  –  one family’s experiments with creating an off-grid, sustainable homestead
• Permaculture Design Course and Certification
• The Permaculture Research Institute 

Transition Resources:

• Transition US
• Transition
• Monmouth, NJ
• Transition Newton, NJ
• NJ Transition Hub
• Genesis Farm
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Transition Hub 

Local Food/Local Energy/Local Currency:

• Brooklyn Grange Farms
• CityFood
• American Farmland Trust
• Slow Money
• Slow Money NYC
• Slow Food
• Mother Earth News
• BerkShares
• Vermont Sail Trade Project
• Duke Farms 
• Harbor and River Vessel Transport Company 
• Wellbeing Farm 
• Duke Farms 

Links:

• The New Economics Institute
• 350.org
• Orton Family Foundation
• Post Carbon Institute
• Gaia University 

Books and Articles (buy from your local book store first):

• Permaculture books from Chelsea Green Publishing
• Climate books from Chelsea Green
• Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2008
• Lyle Estill, Small is Possible, New Society Publishers, 2008
• John Michael Greer, The Long Descent, New Society Publishers, 2008
• Darrin Nordahl, Public Produce, Island Press, 2009
• David Tracey, Urban Agriculture, New Society Publishers, 2011
• Chris Martenson, The Crash Course, John Wiley and Sons, 2011
• David Ehrenfeld, Beginning Again, Oxford University Press, 1993
• Bill McKibben, eaarth, Times Books, 2010
• Novella Carpenter, Farm City, The Penguin Press, 2009
• Plentitude by Juliet Schor, The Penguin Press, 2010
• Anything by James Howard Kuntsler 

 Blogs:

• Bowsprite, a New York Harbor Sketchbook
• Tugster a Water Blog,
• Top ten climate blogs from Climate Progress,
•  Experiences of food forest for chickens https://www.avianaquamiser.com/news/
• Temperate climate permaculture
• https://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/ ,
• Kerrplunk https://kerrplunk.org/ Great podcasts and follow up blog posts, https://agroinnovations.com/,
•  Great veg guild thoughts https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/,
•  ttp://www.yestermorrowschool.blogspot.com/
• https://www.permacultureproject.com/,
• The Climatographers, https://dark-mountain.net/blog/
•   http://southwoodsforestgardens.blogspot.com/
•  https://www.neweconomyworkinggroup.org/blog,
• The Vermont Sail Freight Project
•  the Sail Transport Network 

Preserving the past to Serve the Future 

• Hudson River Maritime Museum/Riverport Wooden Boat School 
• The recently launched “International Traditional Knowledge Institute” (ITKI) l is an ambitious effort to preserve, restore and promote the re-use of traditional skills and inventions from all over the world. It includes an online encyclopedia of low-tech know-how.
• WoodenBoat magazine can be a resource for wooden boat building apprenticeships
• The Museum of Old Techniques 
• Compendium of operating grist mills
• Low Tech Magazine

• Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
• Institute for Traditional Knowledge
• Appropedia
• The Whole Earth Catalog (ask your parents or dig it out from under the other stuff on your bookshelf)
• Ropes, Knots, and Hitches
• Maritime Museums
• One windmill source 
• A mill source, Mills restored by Rondout Woodworking 
• Rocking the Boat NYC
• East Hill Boat Shop Apprenticeships 
• Mystic Seaport workshops and classes
• Boat Building Center Buffalo NY 
• HARVEST The Harbor and River Vessel Transport Company, B9 Shipping, Tres Hombres ECO-freight,  Fairtransport
• The Sail Transport Network is a terrific site for anyone interested in sail freight.
• Woodworking Tools
• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information 
• John Leeks Historic Home Works
• Ralph Borsodi School of Living 
• Bob Yapp’s Belvedere School
• The Preservation Education Institute
• College of the Redwoods 
• Savannah College of Art & Design 
• American College of the Building Arts
• North Bennet Street School
• Traditional Trades Network
• Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
• Pine Mountain Settlement School