ISLAND Links
Art, Writing & Music
Stephanie Mills - www.smillswriter.com
Little ARTshram - www.littleartshram.org
Earthwork Music - www.earthworkmusic.com
Deep Wood Press - www.deepwoodpress.com
Crooked Tree Arts Council - www.crookedtree.org
Alliance of Artists Communities - www.artistscommunities.org
Michigan Writers - www.michwriters.org
Dennos Museum Center - www.dennosmuseum.org
Works of Wendell Berry - www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html
Ran Prieur - www.ranprieur.com
Community Self-Reliance (includes Sustainable Living)
Bay Bucks Local Currency - www.baybucks.org
E.F. Schumacher Society - www.smallisbeautiful.org
Bioneers - www.bioneers.org
SEEDS - www.ecoseeds.org
Great Lakes Bioneers - www.glbconference.org
Eco-Learning Center - www.ecolearningcenter.org
Taste the Local Difference - www.localdifference.org
Aprovecho Research Center - www.aprovecho.net
Conservation Economy - www.conservationeconomy.net
Redefining Progress - www.rprogress.org
Sustainable Measures - www.sustainablemeasures.com
Sustainable Detroit - www.sustainabledetroit.org
Taking the Natural Step - www.context.org/ICLIB/IC41/Hawken2.htm
The Simple Living Network - www.simpleliving.net
Transition Culture - www.transitionculture.org
Environmental Organizations
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council - www.nmeac.org
Michigan Land Use Institute - www.mlui.org
The Land Institute - www.landinstitute.org
Clean Water Action - www.cleanwateraction.org
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council - www.watershedcouncil.org
Social Justice Organizations
The Neahtawanta Research and Education Center - www.nrec.org
Traverse Peace Alerts - traversepeacealerts.org
Sweetwater Alliance - www.waterissweet.org
Natural Design Sites
Pattern Language Online - www.patternlanguage.com
Building Living Neighborhoods - www.livingneighborhoods.org
Green Home Building - www.greenhomebuilding.com
Architypes - www.architypes.net
Build it Solar - www.builditsolar.com
House Alive! - www.housealive.org
Got Wind - www.gotwind.org
Guided Tour on Wind Energy - www.windpower.org/en/tour
Dirt Cheap Builder - www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
Our Cool House - www.ourcoolhouse.com
Solviva - www.solviva.com
Favorite Blogs of the Moment
Coffee Musings - qualitycoffee.gatheringblogs.org/
Drawn - drawn.ca/
Design Observer - www.designobserver.com
Indy Mogul - www.indymogul.com/
Make Blog - www.makezine.com/blog/
Seth Godin - sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
Things Magazine - www.thingsmagazine.net/index.htm
Permaculture Design Reference
Energy Design Tools - www2.aud.ucla.edu/energy-design-tools
Energy Plus Software - extended link
Permaculture Activist Magazine - www.permacultureactivist.net
Plants for a Future - www.pfaf.org
Sun or Moon Altitude/Azimuth Table - extended link
Convert your Address to Lat/Lon - extended link
Edible Forest Gardening - www.edibleforestgardens.com
The Best of Our Local Businesses (Antrim, Leelanau & Grand Traverse Counties)
Short's Brewing Company - www.shortsbrewing.com
Rooted to Nature - www.rootedtonature.com
Oryana Natural Foods Market - www.oryana.coop
Green Island - www.gogreenisland.com
Higher Grounds Fair Trade Coffee - www.javaforjustice.com
Pleasanton Bakery - www.pleasantonbakery.com
Shetler Family Dairy - www.shetlermilk.com
Odom Re-Use - odomreuse.com
Anahatna Balance - www.anahatabalance.com
Organic Kombucha Culture - www.organic-kombucha.com
Leelanau Cultured Veggies - www.culturedveggies.com
Tributaries Contemporary Art Gallery - www.tributariesart.com
Bellaire Smokehouse - www.bellairesmokehouse.com
Matt Joppich Furniture - www.mattjoppich.com
Did we forget one? Let us know!
Darlene with a Hula Whoop at the 2007 Earthwork Music Harvest Gathering. Thanks to Board Member John Lindenmayer for the photo!
Chad Pastotnik at Deep Wood Press, impeccable craftsman and board member of Parkside Arts Council.
Brandon Foote, Claudia Schmidt and Seth Bernard, three rare treasures who all call Michigan home.
Wendell Berry (pictured here 30 years ago), whose essays, poems and novels have been a constant source of inspiration and challenge.
Stephanie Mills, another one of those rare treasures we're honored to call a friend.
Chris and Jody Treter of Higher Grounds, a local fair trade coffee bar and model for social justice activism.
Sharon Flesher (Bay Bucks), Diane Conners (Michigan Land Use Institute) and Bruce Odom (Odom Reuse, one of the leading edge material re-use businesses in the country) at a meeting of the minds at our first Relocalizing Event in 2006.
Dave Jacke, author of Edible Forest Gardens and blower of minds.
How to tell if someone is worthy of your honor, friendship and esteem? A "Y" where usually there is no Y. Jayne Leatherman Walker (eco-learning center) and Jayson Spaulding (Great Lakes Bioneers), two permaculturally minded mentors to us.