Center for Sustainable Community

Links

StelleCommunity.com website presents various aspects of life in Stelle.

Midwest Permaculture is a Stelle based educational company providing in-depth permaculture training.

Stelle Telephone Company is America's first off grid solar powered telephone company.

Greenhouse Bed and Breakfast, located two miles south of Stelle, is affiliated with Center for Sustainable Community. Some CSC events are held on its premises. It is available for parties, meetings, and weddings as well as overnight stays.

Sunwize Technologies is a photovoltaic technology company with a sales office in Stelle.

Blackman Raku Pottery carries high quality raku pottery. It is owned and operated by long-time Stelle participant George Blackman.

Illinois Small Farms provides information for both the commercial small farmer as well as the small acreage landowner. The purpose of this website is to provide easy access to information for small-scale farmers and those who work with them.

International Institute of Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) is dedicated to healing the planet while providing for the human community by education and implementation of socially just, ecological, resource conserving forms of agriculture; the basis of all sustainable societies. IIEA taught the July 2004 permaculture course held in Stelle.

University of Illinois Building Research Council provides information on sustainable building from the School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In May of 2001 the Sustainable Architecture class from U of I created a design for a sustainable retreat/convention center for the community of Stelle.

Illinois Stewardship Alliance is a 30 year old citizen's organization that promotes a safe and nutritious food system, family farming, and healthy communities by advocating diverse, humane, and socially just and and ecologically sustainable production and marketing practices.