Cartagen 0.5 – Mapping Tools

Cartagen (http://cartagen.org) is a vector-based, client-side framework for rendering maps in native HTML 5. Written in JavaScript, it uses the new Canvas element to load mapping data from various sources, including OpenStreetMap.
In short, Cartagen lets you make beautiful, customized maps with a simple stylesheet.
Maps are styled with Geographic Style Sheets (GSS), a cascading stylesheet specification [...]

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Solar cooker plans

There is a wide variety of solar cooker designs, many of them very simple to build from inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials. Start by choosing a cooker design type based on your requirements. The table below lists strengths and weaknesses of the most common types, and shows some popular cookers of each type. Below each table is [...]

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DIY Permablitz Kit

This is a useful Do It Yourself Permablitz kit.
DIY Permablitz Kit (PDF)
Source

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A Free Toolkit for NGOs and Social Enterprise

IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.
Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help [...]

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Draw your site in 3D using free Sketchup

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Build models and add them to Google Earth.  You can use SketchUp to draw your permaculture site and then simulate everything from shaddows (depending on the time of day/season) to site layout.
Google SketchUp 
The SketchUp Show (Youtube tutorials)

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Google Pack

Google Pack is software specifically selected by Google for you to use for free.

Always free – no trial versions or spyware
Ready to use in just a few clicks

Products include (depending on region of the world):

Google Apps - Google Mail, Calendar, Docs 
Norton Security Scan
Google Desktop
Google Photos Screensaver
Firefox with Google Toolbar
RealPlayer
Google Earth
Google Toolbar for IE
Spyware Doctor
Picasa
Adobe Reader
Skype

Google Pack

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Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software

osalt.com open source alternative – your quick guide to the best open source software.
Open vs. closed
Find open source alternatives to your favourite commercial products. Browse through our software categories and compare pros and cons of both commercial products as well as open source software.
Why open source
By choosing an open source product, the user obtains a [...]

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Free products to help you get your business started

Get your permaculture business started the easy way with free… you just pay for shipping.

Free Products
Free business cards (250)
Free websites (1 month)
Free rubber stamps
Free pens
Free logo design
Free car door magnets
Freee email marketing

VistaPrint

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Open Source Ecology

Building the world’s first self replicating open source self-sufficient ecovillage – to transcend survival and evolve to freedom. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to build the world’s first replicable, open source, self-sufficient village. The means of achieving that is an ecology, or ecosystem, of open source hardware and permaculture that works as an [...]

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