Permaculture Design Magazine Issue: 96 – May 2015

Building the Solar Economy

• The Gross Society: Why Energy Profit Matters by Richard Heinberg
• Enchanted Ecosystems: Bioshelters and Solar Greenhouses by Jason Workman
• Designing the Passivhaus by Christina Snyder
• Lemons in the Living Room by Sue Gray and Jerome Osentowski
• Solar Success in the Midwest by Woodie Bessler, Darrell Boggess, Anne Heddin, & Terry Usrey
• Planting Rain in the Desert by Jeremy Lynch
• Active Systems for the Passive Solar House by Christina Snyder
• Building a Solar Business by N. Ryan Zaricki
• Perennial Grains and Pseudocereals, Part 2, by Eric Toensmeier
• Revival of a Peer-Driven Permaculture Organization by Penny Livingston-Stark and Peter Bane
• Species Index (Issues #75-90)

Book Reviews: Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels by Richard Heinberg (review by Peter Bane); Seed Libraries and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people by Cindy Connor (review by Peter Bane); Around the World in 80 Plants by Stephen Barstow (review by Peter Bane).