Permies is an active internet forum about permaculture.
It has around 84 sub-forums on topics from composting to farm income and permaculture singles.
Permies is founded and managed by Paul Wheaton, who also runs RichSoil.com[1], a site of permaculture articles, as well as the IT forum site focused on Java programming, CodeRanch, "A friendly place for programming greenhorns!"