San Francisco is no stranger to the solar power industry, ranking as one of the cities at the forefront of America’s solar energy revolution. At SolarCity, we know that being one of the most populated cities in California has its advantages, such as the ability to generate a significant amount of solar power. Since 2006, we have become a leader among Bay Area solar companies because we stand behind energy consultants and reputation. We offer 24/7 solar system monitoring solutions as well as warranty product coverage.

The Certificate in Holistic Landscape Design at Bastyr University is a 12 month evening and weekend program grounded in the philosophy of working with nature to create resilient landscapes. The program offers an extended study of permaculture design throughout the seasons, far exceeding standard 72 hour Permaculture Design Certificate programs. Additionally, Bastyr has a unique focus on the therapeutic value of a medicinal and edible landscapes. Our unique curriculum includes courses such as Soil Ecology, Biodynamic Agriculture, Horticultural Business practices, and Medicinal and Edible Plants in the Landscape, utilizing hands on activities in the University’s wooded 51-acre campus –including the Bastyr Medicinal Herb Garden. The program is open to anyone with a creative eye and a passion for ecology and sustainability.

Domes are nature’s perfect structure and provide a unique environment for every use, including 360° projection domes, dome homes, glamping, eco-living resort domes, and party tent rentals. Pacific Domes has perfected the function and beauty of our portable Geodesic Domes since 1980 in Ashland, Oregon. We combine the sacred geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller with our progressively designed canopy covers to bring you this futuristic, Zen structure.

USPW is at the forefront of the green revolution, greening festivals and events, by educating consumers and providing self-serve water stations and reusable containers as an alternative to single-use bottles.

Our mission is to eliminate the damaging environmental impact of plastic waste worldwide, by providing municipalities, companies, events & festivals, as well as residences, with a ‘point-of-use’ water treatment option as an alternative to fuel intensive bottled water delivery, and/or the consumption of single use plastic bottles destined for landfill or to sully oceans, forests and cities.

The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) is a non-profit educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth. We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet. We envision humans as a positive, healing presence on Earth, creating more abundance on the planet than would be possible without them.

Our mission is to serve as a catalyst for a revolution in the way humans relate to the natural world. As we continue to develop Commonweal Garden into an educational center and demonstration site in permaculture and regenerative design, we serve as an inspiration of possibility for how people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the Earth. Through our programs and courses, we teach the skills and technology people need to become community leaders and create healthy solutions to the current environmental crisis.

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The Northwest Permaculture Convergence (NWPCC) is an inclusive annual weekend-long event that alternates between Oregon and Washington State. The Convergence brings together a remarkable diversity of people, all with creative approaches for designing living environments, and economic and culture systems that thrive within ecologically sustainable limits. Everyone who practices the ideals of Permaculture speaks a common language across the Northwest and all over the world.

Shareable is a public media outlet and action network that empowers people to share for a more resilient, equitable, and joyful world. We inspire change by publishing solutions-based news stories, analysis, and tools in collaboration with our global partners.

The Integral Center is an evolving community-powered organization who’s mission is to foster the emerging Integral wave of consciousness through relational and local community practice. We’re making an assertion: The Integral movement will continue to grow to the degree that all of its world-class theory becomes more deeply embodied and applied in our day-to-day choices and interactions.

Onchenda Open Global Food Cooperative is a social enterprise whose mission is to alleviate hunger and poverty by enabling small farmers, market gardeners and value-added food producers to sell their products directly to local consumers and institutional purchasers online, and to connect edible landscape designers and teachers as mentors to those who want to grow or raise their own food and sell the surplus online. We are a for-profit Utah public benefit corporation facilitating the local food movement with ecommerce and local delivery globally.

Friends of the Trees Society was founded in 1978 to double the world’s forest cover. We have been promoting permaculture since 1981. Activities include Earth restoration , tree sales, sustainable food production wildcrafting, event production, permaculture design courses, and more.

Bīja is a Sanskrit word that translates commonly to “seed.” Every sound in a mantra is a bija, so these are not literal seeds so much as metaphorical consciousness seeds. At Bija, our goal is to sow seeds of consciousness that will manifest to create the reality in which we want to live.

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Permie-journos Steven Saint Thomas and Trudy Thomas try to explain permaculture and Transition to the average American with articles, video and podcasts. Their first documentary, “Adventures in Permaculture: Australia” premiered at the 2014 North American Permaculture Convergence. The sequel, “Adventures in Permaculture: Transition West Coast,” will premiere at the 2016 Convergence.

The Southeastern Permaculture Gathering meets every year to learn new skills, serve the Earth, create community & celebrate life. During our Gatherings, we participate in Affinity Circles, “Open Space”, and various Classes & Workshops. We have a diverse schedule of events, for both adults and kids.

SolSolutions designs and manufactures portable solar power and lighting equipment. Complementing this is our Green your Grow products, like solar direct greenhouse fans and LED lighting, which help people reduce their energy usage. In addition, our Sustainable Event Services utilize solar power and energy management to promote sustainability at special events.

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House Kombucha is a family-run, community startup dedicated to
bringing the ancient tradition of fermenting a living, probiotic tea into modern light.

Beyond just making a great tasting and healthy beverage, they are a young, owner-operated, triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) endeavor. They value quality craftsmanship, local economic development, and community stewardship.

Gaia University nurtures systematic and conscious development of emerging leaders, visionaries, elders, and activists, through accredited action-learning in the formation of initiatives to co-create integrated, regenerative, ecological, communitarian and ethical human societies. Gaia University links organizations using the allied vectors of teaching and learning. Thus organizations may retain their unique missions while linking cooperatively to provide a learning ecology increasing the number and scope of global regeneration initiatives. Gaia University offers students accredited Bachelors and Master degrees as well as Graduate Diplomas through a pioneering, self-directed, action learning methodology that allows learners to combine short residential courses with home-based project work while being supported by a professional network of advisors, tutors, mentors and workshop providers. You combine your ideals with practical experience to promote local and global sustainability, regeneration, justice and peace.

Climate change may be one of the greatest challenges of our generation and Frey Vineyards understands the responsibility and practicality of passing along a healthy environment to future generations and we look forward to reducing and eventually eliminating carbon dioxide emissions.

Their goal is to make their impact on the climate “carbon neutral.” In the future, electric tractors will be used in their vineyards and there is a lot of excitement over the use of high carbon composts, called biochar, and they hope to evaluate some of these practices.

The Fellowship for Intentional Community supports and promotes the development of intentional communities and the evolution of cooperative culture. Our values include cooperation, sustainability, and social justice. We are a broad networking organization, in the US, Canada, and internationally, to network and provide resources to intentional communities and cooperative groups of all kinds.

Permaculture Design is an independent journal serving the permaculture movement in North America. We aim to provide information useful to people actively working to establish permaculture systems “on the ground.”