I just added a new blog over on my blogroll -> The Green V. It’s the blog of a fellow I know through my participation in the Heart of Now Community. He’s got an interesting mix of personal, social, sustainability, and net-life commentary. It’s good stuff. One interesting bit of content he’s working on is his ‘PermaClips’, how to videos on permaculture. I’m not sure if he’ll be charging for access to the content or not.. I hope not, because it promises to be some good stuff (I got to see one of the first ones last year). And important dissemination of information to those of us who can’t seem to get to Lost Valley’s Ecovillage Permaculture Certification Program, or other workshops of similiar content.
At this point I don’t know much about permaculture, just that it’s a movement towards living more sustainably with Mother Earth. I do think though, that any movement that is that focused on Sustainability can lend something to others of us looking to build sustainable models around business, education, etc. At some point during this PhD process it is my intention to take time to head to LVEC for at least their 2 week course, though I’d rather go longer, so I can figure out what the links are between sustainable open education and sustainable living with Mother Earth.
I'm Brooke, a second year PhD student at Utah State University in Instructional Technology. My interests include digital resources, reuse and localization. Specifically I'm interested in the interplay between culture and reuse of oer's (open educational resources). How can we reuse instructional materials so that they are culturally relevant to users. What is culture? How do we define it in an educational setting? Is making something more culturally relevant more motivating and will that make it more instructionally effective? How can we quantify culture so that we can create processes to more easily adapt instructional resources for the complexities and depth of culture? It's a lifetime of work. 
Hey Brooke,
Good to see someone else thinking about Permaculture. There are a lot of resources on the topic, both online and from the library, so people can start small and pick it up bit by bit. One thing to keep in mind is that things like Permaculture are inherently local in terms of materials, design, plants, etc. so the closer you can get to a locally run program chances are the more useful you will find it to be. Presuming, of course, that someone is settled where they intend to practice the Permaculture.
Anyway, I blog about such things as Permaculture, sustainability, community, etc. @
http://wecanchangetheworld.wordpress.com and am going to be working on setting up a related forum @ barnraiser.net. Drop by if you have a chance…