The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy is a comprehensive reader in sustainability published by Green Books and offered in chapter-by-chapter form by both Brighton University's Faculty of Arts and on www.sustainability-literacy.org.

The book covers a huge variety of topics, but in this permaculture-oriented sample we've included chapters on the Art of Personal Sufficiency, by John Naish; Transition Skills, by Stephen Quilley, Permaculture Design, by Patrick Whitefield; Commons Thinking, by Justin Kendrick and Portobello Transition Town; Community Gardening by Alma Clavin; and Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design, by Mike Clifford of Nottingham University.