From 1971 to 1991, the New Alchemy Institute published its research and activities in a variety scientific journals, including its own journals and quarterlies. Decades later, this information still embodies the design-DNA that will enable the creation of ecologically-derived human support systems to direct the course of humankind towards a greener, saner world.

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Journal of the New Alchemists – Vol. 1, Pub. 1973

• New Alchemy: An overview of the Institute, including financial status, visiting and employment policies, and bibliography of research resources
  
• Energy: Wind Power (Earle Barnhart); A Windmill in India (Marcus M. Sherman)
• Land Use: A brief history & travel impressions (Nancy Jack Todd); The Endangered Tropics: A look at land use, restoration, and reconstruction in Costa Rica (John Todd)
• Aquaculture: Introduction to aquaculture; Studies of the ecology of the characid fish Brycon Guatemalensis in the Rio Tirimbina, Heredia Province, Costa Rica, with special reference to its suitability for culture as a food fish (William O. McLarney)
• Explorations: Traditional cultures in New Mexico (Will Wroth); “Earth Gypsies” (Laura & David Engstrom)

 Journal of the New Alchemists – Vol. 2, Pub. 1974

• New Alchemy: A report from the previous summer and foundation support, letters, and book review
• Energy: Water-pumping windmills (Marcus Sherman); Windmill electronics (Frederick Archibald); New Alchemy’s “Ark” : a proposed solar heat and wind-powered greenhouse and aquaculture complex adapted to northern climates (Robert Angevine, Earle Barnhart & John Todd)
• Land & Its Use: Towards Self-Sustaining Agriculture (Richard Merrill)
• New Alchemy Agricultural Research Report No. 1 (Hilde Atema) : A preliminary study of resistance in 20 varieties of cabbages to the cabbage worm fly; A Brief Natural History of the Imported Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
• New Alchemy Agricultural Research Report No. 2 (William O. McLarney)
  • Irrigation of Garden Vegetables with Fertile Fish Pond Water
• Aquaculture: Walden Two: A Compleat Guide to Backyard Fish Farming (William O. McLarney & John Todd); An Improved Method for Culture of Midge Larvae for Use as Fish Food (William O. McLarney)
• Explorations: The Dilemma Beyond Tomorrow (John Todd); On the Need for Studies of Food Consumption Ideas (E.N. Anderson, Jr. & Marja Anderson)

Journal of the New Alchemists – Vol. 3, Pub. 1976

• New Alchemy: Looking Back (Nancy Jack Todd); Trash Fish Cookbook (Bill McLarney & Bryce Butler)
• Energy: An Advanced Sail-Wing for Water-Pumping Windmills, the Savonious Rotor, and Solar Collectors for Heating Water (Earle Barnhart); Earth Breath: Wind Power (Jim Bukey)
• Design: An Ark for Prince Edward Island (John Todd); The Shape of Things to Come: An Architect’s View (Ole Hammarlund & David Bergmark)
• Land & Its Use: World of Miniature (John Todd); Confessions of a Novice Composter (Tyrone Cashman); Our Gardens… and Our Rabbits (Hilde Atema Maingay); Further Experiments in the Irrigation of Garden Vegetables with Fertile Fish Pond Water (William O. McLarney)
• Aquaculture: Midge Culture (William O. McLarney, Joseph S. Levin & Marcus M. Sherman); A New Low-Cost Method of Sealing Fish Pond Bottoms (William O. McLarney & J. Robert Hunter); Cultivo Experimental de Peces en Estanques (Anibal Patiño R.)
• Explorations: Meditation on the Dark Ages, Past & Present (William Irwin Thompson); Self-Heath: Exploring Alternatives in Personal Heath (Nancy Milio & Ruth Hubbard); Women and Ecology (Nancy Jack Todd)

Journal of the New Alchemists- Vol. 4, Pub. 1977

• New Alchemy: Reports on recent activities; opening the Cape Cod and PEI Arks; travels & technology appropriate to Costa Rica; the herb tea project; book reviews; Cookbook of the New Alchemists; The Trash Fish Cookbook Rides Again; Energy & the Oil Crisis
• Land Use: Intensive Vegetable Production (Hilde Maingay); Experimenting With Growing Beans (Susan Ervin); The Effects of Mulching with Seaweed and Azolla on Lettuce Productivity (Susan Ervin); Fertile Fish Pond Water Irrigation Trials (Susan Ervin)
• Aquaculture: The Saga of the Solar-Algae Ponds (Ron Zweig); Three Experiments with Semi-Enclosed Fish Culture Systems (Ron Zweig); An Introduction to Cage Culture (William O. McLarney)
• Bioshelters: Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address (John Todd); Bioshelters as Organisms (Ron Zweig); Bioshelter Primer (Earle Barnhart); The Six-Pack: A Backyard Solar Greenhouse (Laura Engstrom)
• Explorations: Return to the Feminist Principle (Evelyn Ames); Morningsong (Darwine Martinez); Political Prospects, Cultural Choices, Anthropological Horizons (Richard Falk)

Journal of the New Alchemists – Vol. 5, Pub. 1979

• New Alchemy: Report on activities of New Alchemy, Costa Rica, visiting New Alchemy, book reviews, computers or “calculating engines” and mathematical modeling
• Energy: The New Alchemy Sailwing (Earle Barnhart & Gary Hirshberg); The Green Gulch Sailwing (Tyrone Cashman); New Alchemy Hydrowind Development Program (Joe Seale)
• Land & Its Use: Mexican Bean Battles & Effects of Mulches (Susan Ervin); A Study of the Energy Efficiency of Intensive Vegetable Production (Hilde Maingay); Some Other Friends of the Earth (Jeffrey Parkin); On the Feasibility of Permanent Agricultural Landscape (Earle Barnhart)
• Aquaculture: Open System Fish Culture, 1977 (William O. McLarney & Jeffrey Parkin); Investigations of Semi-closed Aquatic Systems & The Birth and Maturity of an Aquatic Ecosystem (Ron Zweig); The Second Wave: The Application of New Alchemy Aquaculture Techniques to a Remote, Small-Scale Trout Farm (Meredith Olson)
• Bioshelters: Biotechnic Strategies in Bioshelters (Earle Barnhart); Soundings from the Cape Cod Ark (Kathi Ryan); Where Does All the Heat Go? (Joe Seale)
• Explorations: The Future of Latin America (William O. McLarney); The Life of the Naturalist Jean Henri Casimer Fabre, 1823-1915 (Meredith Fuller Luyten)

Journal of the New Alchemists- Vol. 6, Pub. 1980

• New Alchemy: Creation Myth & Ongoing Saga, Farm Saturdays & Beyond, No Nukes, Notes of an Alchemist’s Apprentice, Book reviews, Poetry & Report from Costa Rica fish culture projects
• Energy: A Water-Pumping Windmill Primer (Gary Hirshberg); An Integrated Wind-Powered System to Pump, Store & Deliver Heat & Cold (Joe Seale); Whatever Happened to Compressed Air? (Joe Seale)
• Land Use: Further Experiments on the Effects of Mulches on Crop Yields & Soil Conditions (Susan Ervin); Tree Crops: Creating the Foundation of a Permanent Agriculture (Earle Barnhart); New Alchemy Tree Crop Research (Paula Gifford & Earle Barnhart)
• Aquaculture: Where Have All the Fishes Gone (John Todd); Peek’s Milwaukee Sun, 1877; Cage Culture (Bill McLarney & Jeffrey Parkin); Biological Filters, Water Quality & Freshwater Clams (Michael Stewart Connor); Solar Aquaculture- Historical Overview & The Dome as a Nursery (Ron Zweig); Summary of Fish Culture Techniques in Solar-Algae Ponds (John Wolfe & Ron Zweig); Sunlight Patterns Without, Chemistry Patterns Within: The View from a Solar-Algae Pond (John Wolfe, David Engstrom, Ron Zweig); The Energetics of Solar-Algae Pond Aquaculture (John Wolfe); Dreaming in My Own Backyard (John Todd)
• Bioshelters: From Our Experience: The First Three Years Aboard the Cape Cod Ark (NAI Staff & Solsearch Architects)
• Explorations: Sensitive Societies: A Biological Perspective (Ron Zweig); New Horizon Economies & Renewable Resource-Based Economies (Joe Seale); Learning & Unlearning: Some Patterns & Connections (Jeffrey Parkin & Sava Morgan); Reflections on the Chilean War (Francisco Varela)

Journal of the New Alchemists- Vol. 7, Pub. 1981

• New Alchemy: Overview & introduction (Nancy Jack Todd); Adventures in the mail trade (Denise Backus); Reflections on apprenticeship (Scott Stokoe); Valentine season: Riverdale (Thomas Berry); Poem & another Earth Gypsy (Tyrone Chasman); Reaching Out (Robert Sardinsky); New Alchemy & Ecodevelopment in Costa Rica (William O. Mclarney)
• Energy: Greasing the Windmill (Sietze Buning); Scale & Diversity in Energy Systems (Joe Seale); Forming the Cape & Islands Self-Reliance Cooperative (Greg Watson & Michael Greene); Autologic (J. Baldwin)
  
• Land Use: Garden Notes (Susan Ervin); Introduction to Report from the Tree People (John Quinney); Surveying & Grafting Local & Antique Fruit Trees (Mavis Clark); Recycling Leaf Nutrients (Ed Goodell); Nitrogen-Fixing Trees & Shrubs (John Quinney); Hedgerows & Living Fences (John Quinney); Birds & Biological Pest Control (Loie Urquhart); Tree Crops for Structural Materials (Scott Stokoe); Weaving with Willow (Maryann Fameli & Earle Barnhart)
  
• Aquaculture: Alternatives to Commercial Feeds in the Diets of Cultured Fish (William O. McLarney & Jeffrey Parkin); Defining & Defying Limits to Solar-Algae Pond Fish Culture (David Engstrom, John Wolfe, Ron Zweig); Modeling Algal Growth & Decline in Solar-Algae Ponds (David Engstrom, John Wolfe, Ron Zweig)
• Bioshelters: Logging the Course of the Ark; Indoor Gardening & Controlling the Whitefly (Colleen Armstrong); Toxic Materials in the Bioshelter Food Chains & Surrounding Ecosystems (Dr. Han Tai, Colleen Armstrong, John Todd); Reglazing (John Wolfe); Modeling & Design of Future Bioshelters (Joe Seale, John Wolfe); Putting Ourselves on the Line; The BAM Greenhouse: Homemade Tapestry (Hilde Maingay); The BAM Greenhouse: It’s Great (Ate Atema); The BAM Greenhouse: Notes on Intent, Function & Form (Earle Barnhart); We Scrounged & Recycled (Denise & Dick Backus); From the Group Up (Christina Rawley, Ron Zweig); Why Not a Solar Greenhouse on the Second Floor? (Barbara Chase); Notes from a Professional (Rick Beck); We Threw Caution to the Sun (Nancy Jack Todd, John Todd)
• Explorations: The Village as Solar Ecology (John Todd); The Need for Villages (William Irwin Thompson); Ourkind (Keith Critchlow); Feng-shui: An Ancient Theory of Village Siting (Paul Sun/Sun Peng-Cheng); A Single Shared World (Mary Catherine Bateson); Solar Village Principles & Construction Ideas (Malcolm Wells); Soft-Energy Paths From Here to the Village (Amory Lovins); A Dome Bioshelter as a Village Component (J. Baldwin); Note on an Agricultural Cultural Solar Village in the American Southwest (John Todd); Some Considerations for Agriculture in a Solar Village (Susan Ervin); The Need for Trees (L. Hunter Lovins); Wastewater Reclamation Through Ecological Processes (Steve Serfling); The Sustainable Farm & Looking Back to Now (Wes Jackson);  The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (John Todd); A Maine Coastal Village (John Todd); Marin Solar Village (John Todd)