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Edmonton Resilience Festival

The Edmonton Resilience Festival is a community gathering for the curious at heart. Check out the festival schedule to start your quest to create a sustainable, creative and promising future. To support your learning at the festival, here are some EPL resources that reflect the wide range of topics being presented plus some others that will help you incorporate resilience in all aspects of your life.

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  • Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition

    How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family

    Appelhof, MaryOlszewski, Joanne
    Vermaculture or worm composting is a great way to reduce your waste and improve your garden!
    eBook, 2017Storey Publishing, LLC, 2017
  • A history of sustainability from planned yield forestry in the late 17th and 18th centuries in England and North America to today. A great overview of what sustainability was and has become.
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014] — 338.92709 CAR
  • Building Your Permaculture Property

    a Five-step Process to Design and Develop Land

    Avis, Rob, 1979-
    From Alberta-local engineer comes this guide to designing the property of your dreams. Resilient land design can be overwhelming, but this book will give you the tools you need to overcome that overwhelm and succeed!
    Book, 2021Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2021] — 631.58 AVI
  • Planting in a Post-wild World

    Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

    Rainer, Thomas (Landscape architect)
    Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually…
    Book, 2015Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2015. — 712 RAI
  • Making Wild Wines & Meads

    125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More

    Vargas, Pattie, 1941-
    After taking the honey mead workshop with the Edmonton Resilience Festival, check out this eBook to learn how to make apricot wine, marigold wine, dry mead, mint metheglin and more!
    eBook, 1999Pownal, Vt. : Storey Books, [1999] — Internet Access
  • Exhale

    40 Breathwork Exercises to Help You Find Your Calm, Supercharge Your Health, and Perform at Your Best

    Bostock, Richie
    More than forty simple breathing exercises to help you transform your physical and mental health and improve performance and emotional well-being.
    Book, 2020[London] : Penguin Life, 2020. — 613.192 BOS
  • The Permaculture Promise

    What Permaculture Is and How It Can Help Us Reverse Climate Change, Build a More Resilient Future on Earth, and Revitalize Our Communities

    Neiger, Jono
    The Permaculture Promise explains in simple terms why permaculture may be the key to unlocking a livable future on our planet.
    eBook, 2016[Place of publication not identified] : Storey Publishing, LLC, [2016] — Internet Access
  • The Resilient Gardener

    Food Production and Self-reliance in Uncertain Times

    Deppe, Carol
    Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields -- resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture,…
    Book, 2010White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., 2010. — 635 DEP
  • Author Claire Wellesley-Smith considers the importance of connection and ideas around wellbeing when using textiles for individuals and communities, including practical ideas around 'thinking-through-making', using 'resonant' materials and extending…
    Book, 2021London : Batsford, 2021. — 746 WEL