Check out these projects creating the conditions for sustainability to happen, from EarthFlow & Our Alumni...

• Black Cliff Monastery: Mumta and Taka Ito are working on a regeneration project of the community that once flourished in and around this ancient Tibetan monastery.

• CityRepairLA: Special Thanks to Jennifer Murphy for connecting LA's permaculture community to Portland-based City Repair's efforts and ideas to create community - one intersection at a time!

• Dancing Deer: A new retreat center in San Luis Obispo's wine country, fostering community while supporting practices to help restore and enhance the Earth's own systems. Contact Dr. Peter Huber and Linda Crawford.

• Everything Gardens: Vanessa Rutter has added to the success of her (same name) landscape design firm with this new plant studio and garden shop in Atwater Village- Los Angeles, CA.

• Heart Beet CSA: An organic urban Community Supported Agriculture in LA founded by graduates Sara Carnochan and Megan Bomba.

• Kombucha Botanica: A Kombucha tea company founded by Adam Goodman in Santa Cruz; now available throughout California and online.

• Lola's Treasure Beach Hideaway: An all-natural Retreat Center and Permaculture-planned village development on Jamaica's rural southern coast. Contact Sarah Scott.

• Neighborhood FoodShed: Old fashioned "meet your neighbors" weekend gatherings take on new life in Santa Barbara, CA neighborhoods. Thanks to Owen Dell for initiating this project.

• Orella Ranch: A seven-generation family-owned ranch on Santa Barbara County's Gaviota Coast. Now available for weddings/parties, film locations -plus natural building projects and urban-forest milled lumber products! Contact Guner Tautrim.

• Perma-Psychology Listserv: A new e-meeting place of the heart, soul and minds; created and moderated by EcoPsychologist Linda Buzzell.

• Permaculture-Ponds: Pond, Waterfall and Natural Pool Design in Arizona by David Crimmins.

• Phoenix Infinite: Composting Design and Consulting Services. Jenna Wadsworth McCarty

• Santa Barbara Organics: A Landscape Design and Consultation Service specializing in edible landscapes and food forests. Also offers a rare food crops nursery, propagation services, certified arborist and more. Contact Loren Luyendyk.

• The Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium (SARC): Co-founded in 2000 by Hunter Francis at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) SARC works to advance sustainable food and agriculture systems through education, demonstration and research, using the collaborative power of networks both on-campus and in the greater community.

• Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope: A new book from our friends at HopeDance. A collection of the magazine's best from the past ten years. Edited by Bob Banner.

• Sustainable Santa Monica: Traci Reitz is helping the residents, businesses and organizations of Santa Monica, CA find the information and resources needed to meet the goals of S.M's Sustainable City Plan.

• Tap Root Design Group: a Los Angeles based group of interdisciplinary designers who originated as a student design team in EarthFlow LA's Permaculture Course. Their focus continues in the design of private homes, restaurants, community projects, corporate offices and school campuses.