Permaworld Foundation

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Permaworld and Permaculture Community

We recently installed some new software similar to myspace and facebook to provide members with the ability to share blogs, video, music, articles, events and much more. Once we have it all setup we'll launch it.

Permaculture Courses Online

In 2005 we commenced development of a software application to replace the software we were currently using to manage Permaworld. We decided to call it BEAR Software (Business Enterprise Automation & Replication) with the nickname 'Grizzly'. The software is designed with a simple web installer, quick setup and the ability to automate many processes involved in managing an internet business.

The software is available free to anyone using PermaHOST web hosting. It can be used for replicating an unlimited number of websites and provide data collection and member management.

The Grizzly is approximately 80% completed. Due to our programmer's other work commitments, the software is yet to be completed and we are seeking an advanced PHP programmer who may be interested in working with us to complete the project.

Web Development and Technical Help for Permaculture and other Organizations

We have been active in helping organizations with setting up websites, web hosting and providing other technical help. Some of the projects we have assisted with:

Design, manage and host the website for the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) based in Ghana.

We've provided hosting for Permalot and the Travelling School of Life (TSOL) based in the Checz Republic.

Design, management and hosting of the website for the Mid Summer Music Madness in the U.K. which raises funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust ( www.teenagecancertrust.org ).

Donations to Environmental Organizations

Permaworld has donated over US$130,000.00 to a variety of Environmental Organizations since 2002. Other organizations we have helped with free website hosting, web page development and technical assistance. Some of the organizations are listed below....

Amazon International Rainforest Reserve, (AIRR) is a non-profit organization set up exclusively to preserve and safeguard the Amazon Rainforest an Acre at a Time, through the Creation of an International Park System. Since 1991, the AIRR has devoted its energies and resources to the preservation and safeguarding of a small but significant portion of the Brazilian Rainforest in the state of Amazonia in northern Brazil, inhabited by the Yanomani Indian Tribe.  Amazon International Rainforest Reserve is a non-profit organization headquartered in Dallas, Texas with a satellite office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  In keeping with its international character, its board and staff is comprised of both U.S. and Brazilian citizens and leaders in ecological business practices, international relations and environmental education.

Grupedsac (Grupo Para Promover la Educacion y el Desarrollo Sustentable A.C.) is a non-profit organization established in Mexico in 1987 to promote education in sustainable development for present and future generations. Their educational and demonstration center is located in a rural community in Huixquilucan, Mexico. This center teaches local inhabitants about sustainable living practices and alternative technologies for self sufficiency in water, food, energy and housing. Grupedsac have been a working example and inspiration for the establishment of 16 additional centers located in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. These centers help educate people from rural, urban and indigenous areas to increase the quality of life among poor farmers and to promote sustainable productivity practices and self development.

Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) is a non-profit, premier tropical agricultural college in Ghana, Africa. They network with local and global institutions to better the lives of rural farmers, unemployed youth, hungry and homeless families, women, aids victims and orphans, needy street children, the aged, and the disabled. KITA offers training, seminars and workshops, technology transfer, on-farm research, environmental conservation, volunteer exchange, seeds and food aid, input and clothing distribution and children’s sponsorship. Their goal is for environmentally sustainable development that enhances the local economy, the nation and the quality of life in Africa since 1984.

International Dolphin Watch (IDW) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the care and understanding of dolphins. Dr Horace Dobbs founded IDW in 1978. IDW has since campaigned for the preservation and protection of dolphins around the world. Dr Dobbs has also meticulously researched dolphins, in particular their relationship with humans. Finding that dolphins have an amazing and uplifting effect on people and having documented their ability to help clinically depressed people, Dr Dobbs has gone on to write books about a wonderful dolphin named Dilo, thus touching the hearts and minds of many adults and children. The latest venture by Dr Dobbs and IDW is to make the 'healing powers' of dolphins more accessible to humans without compromising their freedom to roam the oceans. The 'Dolphin Dome Project' uses modern technology to project picture and sound inside a 'tent like' dome providing a virtual dolphin experience for the audience.

Kids Against Hunger is a volunteer-run organisation, founded by Richard Proudfit. Their mission is to eradicate hunger among the children of the world by distributing a specially designed, fully nutritious meal, packaged by children, their families and volunteer organizations from around the globe. Kids Against Hunger believe that every person can make a difference in the fight against national and global hunger. It has therefore been designed to give people an opportunity to play a hands-on role in feeding the world by harnessing volunteer groups - such as school, church, civic and scouting troops - to package their food and to prepare it for distribution to areas of the world where people are starving. Watch the Video (15 minutes).

Permaculture International helps fund a world wide network and movement of individuals and groups working in both rich and poor countries on all continents. Largely unsupported by government or business, these people are contributing to a sustainable future by reorganising their life and work around the implementation and teaching of permaculture design principles. In this way they are creating small local changes but ones which are directly and indirectly influencing action in the wider environment, organic agriculture, appropriate technology, communities and other movements for a sustainable world.

Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is a non-profit organisation involved in global networking and practical training programs. It offers solutions to local and global ecological problems, and has an innovative farm design in progress. The Institute is also involved in design and consultancy work, and actively supports several aid projects around the world.

Permalot.......Over the hills, through the woods, and at the end of a dead-end road; that's where you'll find the little Hamlet of Bouzov Svojanov; a 600 year old village with a present-day population of only 16 people. It is also here that you will find our ecovillage initiative where we seek to create a model for rural sustainability and in doing so seek to return life to a village almost abandoned by the modern migration to the city. Permalot's vision is based on the following core elements:

To stimulate the final processing of local products within the microregion

To facilitate alternative education, with an emphasis on the environment and language

Low impact Ecotourism

Create systems that produce more than they use

Work with nature, not against it

Cooperation rather than competition

Trees for the Future (TFTF) is a registered non profit charitable organization dedicated to helping people of developing countries begin environmentally beneficial, self-help projects. In the most practical and cost-effective way they are working to help people plant the trees and bring back the forests that give them, and us, hope for a future. Every day 100,000 acres of forests are cleared by destruction, logging, and "slash-and-burn" farming. The program of TREES FOR THE FUTURE proves these lands can be saved. Their tree planting projects restore degraded soil, provide firewood for cooking and warmth, create buffers for forests, control erosion, help to maintain the water table and increase crop yields and sequester carbon and give back life giving oxygen.