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I'm a sustainable communities builder in training and organic gardener, who earns money to pay the bills by programming computers. I work with Oracle databases, building client apps for same and for Website accounting, and used to build Websites. Once upon a time, I used to put insolvent businesses out of their misery. Before that, I sold consumer electronics and computer equipment. If you're not offended by explicit language, you can read my opinion on the Exon Amendment to the new Telecommunications Reform Act. I am a signer of the Cyberspace Declaration of Independence, and proudly display the new "flag of Cyberspace".
For additional information on any of the above projects, or simply to say hello, you can write me at loren@wombat.net. In the closing years of the 20th century, a singular event
occurred that has the potential to enrich lives by providing access to
information on demand. The internet as a form of communication is in its
infancy, with many bugs to work out(such as making it easy to use for the
computer moron, and the matter of speed and capacity.) It's potential to
enrich lives and to actually bring people together by creating communities
is evidenced by e-mail, newsgroups and chat. It is possible for people
to develop talents and express themselves-differently, but effectively
through web publishing. This web page is an attempt to facilitate the expression
of some of my own creativity. It is also to provide a forum for discussion
of some important issues(in my mind!) as we go into the 21st century. Because I don't want to spend my time learning fancy programming,
you won't find here another cute web page with fancy graphics and embedded
java applets. Doing so will lose the message. Technology needs to remain
humanistic and accessible, otherwise we are lost. This web page hopefully
will reflect an optimistic but responsible portrayal of the future of homo
sapiens, a successful if not weedy species on this speck of flotsam
on the edge of an ordinary galaxy among billions. I hope to update it,
improve it, expand it and above all, learn from it as I explore this new
communication tool.
To describe myself in a thumbnail: I'm employed as an
Registered Nurse at a local hospital and live, work and play on a 36 acre
farm with my spouse and two kids. We have a low key farming operation,
growing our own vegetables, raising cattle, and use our own wood products
for heat and building materials. We are organic, using cow manure and purchased
minerals, while relying on nature to provide by using nitrogen fixing crops,
and green manures. Working in the outdoors is very important to me as are
walking in the woods frequently and observing spring woodland wildflowers(I
seem to do less of this- regrettably- as time goes by) As you can surmise,
the health of the environment is of major concern(the word health ties
this into my livelihood-nursing-more later). To balance the budget as a
responsibility to the next generation is a trivial act, if in the meantime
we leave a toxic environment with its resources denuded, and with its inherent
beauty desecrated. We belong to an organization, Michigan
Land Trustees, from whom we bought this farm, and share many of their
values. It seems that a family value that we don't hear much about, is
land stewardship. Something else that people are unaware of, is that organic
farming-for many crops anyway- is perfectly capable of equivalent yields
to chemical farming. With either, management is key. Our backyard. Fun at Sleeping Bear Dunes
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My employment at a local hospital provides me with an income, a lot of challenge, and a way of helping people who truly need it. Since much of today's health problems are related to lifestyle choices, many of them ill-informed choices, as health care workers, education is a major component of our work. Of course, this education should have occurred many years earlier than when they are hospitalized. The challenges we face in reducing health care costs, would be much allieved if the necessary education and good life style choices were done early in our lives. In fact, I would venture to say, there would be no healthcare crisis if this were the case.
With the Voyager missions to the outer planets, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Galileo mission in progress, you would have to have your head in the sand, not to be aware of some of the exciting discoveries in space science and astronomy. A new perspective on our place in the universe that is somewhat humbling can be appreciated by observing the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus (making that planet the nearest thing to hell that I can think of). The possible(probable?) discovery of fossil life from Mars and its implications that we cannot be unique (already 2 examples in this solar system-although a strong argument exists that life may have originated on Mars then migrated to earth via meteoric impact before it went extinct there, since conditions were probably better on Mars during the early epochs of our solar system than on earth for life to evolve). To me this enlightening perspective of our insignificance in the scheme of things makes it all the more important to conserve and protect our planet and its biosphere. The internet is a huge repository of space images including the latest Hubble pictures, where you can see for yourself, these exciting discoveries.
Well this is my corner of cyberspace! Whether you want to hurl insults or just say hi, email me tomar@cybersol.com.
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What is MLT?
The MICHIGAN LAND TRUSTEES a non profit 401(c)3 corporation dedicated to preserving the health and vitality of the people-land interface. MLT works out of Southwest Michigan.
What do you mean by that?
Everywhere we see the results of wasteful land practices in the name of expedience and short term profits. MLT seeks to examine and improve connections between people and the land and thus enhance personal responsibility for environmental health.
Examples?
A land and capital intensive food production system that relies on short term chemical fixes that can result in the loss of small farms, meaningful employment, soil erosion, pollution of ground water and the general wasteful use of fossil fuel resources.
Another example is forestry which as commonly practiced
now, promotes short term expedient profits as a justification of even aged
management and clear cutting when mixed aged management and selective cutting
have been shown to be the most productive of quality wood and the other
forest products that a healthy forest produces.
So what is the MLT doing about these issues?
MLT has a 20 year history of promoting stewardship of soil and land resources. In 1978 we acquired through donation, a 36 acre run down farm and started a living-learning homesteading program affiliated with Western Michigan University. Many men and women learned small scale organic farming and self-sufficiency skills, by actually doing it. This program existed in various forms through 1984. Then interest and energy evolved to delving into permaculture.
Permaculture is the concious design of land and its biota in ways that mimic natural ecosystems and provide the stability, efficiency of resource use, and productivity found in healthy ecosystems. Appropriate productive species and varieties are used along with symbiotic structures that maximize both the "edge effect", and three story woody polycultures, and by assimilating animals-both domestic and wild-to exploit their additive and synergistic productivity. People function as components of this polyculture.
What other activities has MLT been involved in?
Many. Although MLT sold the land trust farm in 1994(It is still farmed organically with permaculture principles in mind.), the interests and activities of MLT has been diversified as is the membership and the board of directors. A newsletter is produced 2-4 times a year. The group has been involved, over the years and at present, with community gardens, a LETS program, and Moffa (Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance), among many others. The quarterly meetings of the board are always interesting and stimulating.
What does membership entail?
Five or more dollars a year depending on what you can afford. In return you receive a newsletter. Larger donations, of course, may be made to take advantage of our tax free status. Being a land trust we have a special interest in land donations which we can use to further our prime directive. Other avenues of involvement include the contribution of articles to the newsletter and contributing at the board meeting or the annual membership meetings.
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Bill Mollison is a living legend. He's known as the genius of permaculture,
"the David Brower of Australia," or a crusty old curmudgeon, depending
on the source. But whether it's glowing admiration or sneering dismissal,
reaction to Mollison is invariably strong. He is clearly one of the most
interesting specimens of the human species - which he has spent years studying
from a naturalist's behavioral perspective.
He passed through Seattle recently with a film crew shooting a documentary about the far-flung successes of permaculture, a radically new (or, some have said, radically old) way of gardening, designing, and living sustainably by cooperating with nature. Ironically, we met in a downtown hotel room - filled with traffic noise - as we stalked a definition of permaculture and considered the eeriness of modern life. For a more detailed exploration, see Mollison's book Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, available for $34.95 (plus $3 shipping) from Permaculture Drylands, PO Box 27371, Tucson, AZ 85726, 602/824-3465.
Alan: Permaculture is a slippery idea to me. But from what I read, it seems that not even those who actually do permaculture really know what it is.
Bill: I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
Alan: Why "eerie"?
Bill: There's no other book about design for living. Don't you think that's eerie? I mean, how can we possibly expect to survive if we don't design what we're doing to be bearable?
Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong. For example, if you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
But then, at least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
Alan: When you say "we," do you mean humans in general, or Western humans especially?
Bill: Human beings in general. There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.
But most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation. A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
Alan: And it's eerie that we don't do it.
Bill: And that we don't design the garden to assist the house is much more eerie. That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
Alan: There's an old Chinese expression: "If we don't change our direction, we'll wind up where we are headed."
Bill: Exactly so. I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to. We're happy to power on to the end - like Mr. Bush. He could have saved more oil than he needed from Iraq, but he preferred to go and "kick ass" - kill people - and use more oil in the process.
America is an eerie society. It seems to want to live on a dust bowl. But as one of your own Indians said, "If you shit in bed, you'll surely smother in it."
Alan: Let's get back to permaculture. What's your current best definition of it?
Bill: You could say it's a rational man's approach to not shitting in his bed.
But if you're an optimist, you could say it's an attempt to actually create a Garden of Eden. Or, if you're a scientist, you could liken it to a miraculous wardrobe in which you can hang garments of any science or any art and find they're always harmonious with, and in relation to, that which is already hanging there. It's a framework that never ceases to move, but that will accept information from anywhere.
It's hard to get your mind around it - I can't. I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.
You see, if you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them. We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
Alan: This reminds me of John Todd and his work with artificial ecosystem assembly [IC #25].
Bill: There are lots of words for it these days. But the day I brought out my first book, Permaculture One, there was no word for it, though that's what it means: artificial ecosystem assembly. I would agree with anyone who said that if Permaculture had to be written, I wasn't the person to write it. I'm sure the John Todds and Hunter Lovinses of this world would have done a far better job than I. But it had to be written by somebody sooner or later, and historically it was just bad luck that it was me.
Alan: How did you come up with the idea of permaculture? What led up to it?
Bill: I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests. Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
I soon got to know my animal fairly well - and I found out that it didn't matter what they were saying. What they were doing was very interesting, but it had no relation whatsoever to either what they were saying, or what questions they could answer about what they were doing. No relationship. Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."
Then I sort of pulled out for a while in 1972 - I cut a hole in the bush, built a barn and a house and planted a garden - gave up on humanity. I was disgusted with the stupidity of the University, the research institutions, the whole thing.
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough. Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.
Alan: At this point, permaculture is not just a way of designing things - it's a movement. What have you started?
Bill: Well, anything that's any good is self-perpetuating. I've started something I can no longer understand - it's out of control from the word go. People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
For example, one of the people I had trained in 1983, Janet McKinsey, disappeared with a friend into the bush - two women with children. They decided they could cut down their needs a lot, and they made a very scientific study of how to do that in their own houses. They've now started something called "Home Options for Preservation of the Environment" - HOPE.
They point out, for example, that there are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn't matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label - it still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
Alan: So would you call what they're doing permaculture as well?
Bill: Oh, I don't know what you call it. But they got there after a permaculture course. When they first came to town - Benala, in Australia - and lectured, all the women of the town said, "Oh this is marvelous, we'll all do it!" The women started to order these bulk canisters - so then the shops in the town had to change, because they couldn't sell them that other crap anymore. Then the Council had to change, to institute recycling.
So the women - and women spend the money of society on its goods - examined every item they bought in relation to its energy use and its necessity, and just eliminated those that were energy expensive and unnecessary. Simply by women learning exactly what to buy and how to buy, the whole thing can be brought back to sanity. That's spreading like mad - like every good idea does.
So my students are constantly amazing me. Here's another story: I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.
Alan: What can they teach the Bushmen that the Bushmen wouldn't already know?
Bill: Gardening. Because the Bushmen can no longer go with the game, and the game have been killed by the fences put up by the European Commission to grow beef. Just like the Australian Aborigine, 63% of what they used to live off is extinct, and the rest is rare now. You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
Alan: So permaculture seems to be as much a change in perception as anything else - a change in where one begins to look at things from.
Bill: I think that's right. For me, having suffered through a Western education, it was a shift from passive learning - you know, "this is how books say things are" - to something active. It's saying (and this is a horrifying thought for university people) that instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
Now, they may teach sophisticated physics at the university. But they go home to a domestic environment which can only be described as demented in its use of energy. They can't see that, and that blindness is appalling.
Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
Alan: Perhaps because we're so wealthy that we believe we don't have to.
Bill: Well, I don't call that wealth. You want a definition of wealth from Eskimos, the Inuit? Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.
Alan: If you want to do permaculture, and there isn't a teacher around, where do you start?
Bill: Just start right where you are.
Alan: I read somewhere that you've said, "You start with your nose, then your hands ..."
Bill: "... your back door, your doorstep" - you get all that right, then everything is right. If all that's wrong, nothing can ever be right. Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
Alan: Doing permaculture seems to be the opposite of abstraction.
Bill: Oh, I put it another way. I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher. But I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.
But if you get someone who looks after himself and those around him - like Scott Nearing, or Masanobu Fukuoka - that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.
Alan: Everything you've done suggests that turning around and going another direction is really not that hard.
Bill: I think mine is a very rich life. I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on. I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
Alan: Permaculture involves tampering with nature, but how far do you think we should go? Should we be doing genetic engineering, creating hybrids, etc.?
Bill: The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really. The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor. "Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death. The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together. We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
At the same time, anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests. You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
Alan: How has permaculture been received? What do reviewers say about your books, for example?
Bill: The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about." We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us. Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious. If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
You see, the worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
Alan: So that's worst from whose perspective?
Bill: Anybody that wants to extinguish it. It's something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
Alan: Is it an anarchist movement?
Bill: No, anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
Alan: Given all the study you've done of our behavior and your work in spreading permaculture, do you have reason to hope we'll make it as a species?
Bill: I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
I would say, use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. But if you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. And choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
It's us chickens that are doing it. There's no need for anyone else - we are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. We can do it.
The Swedish Institute for Social Inventions (abbreviated to SISU in Swedish) is a private foundation for the promotion of good social inventions. One of our important emerging areas of activity is a "nursery" where a few social inventions are given shelter until they can be "planted out" as independent organizations.
The first plant was, appropriately, permaculture. Member Peter Norrthon had heard and read a lot about permaculture, and he wanted help to introduce it in Sweden. A SISU group has worked to this end for about two years now. It has organized a number of courses and meetings and has published information about permaculture and ecological living.
The roots of permaculture are now well established in Sweden, and soon it should be time for planting out. SISU has also contributed to introducing permaculture in Poland, and currently has a permaculture project beginning in Israel.
SISU is linked to another not-for-profit association, called SUS, with members in all parts of Sweden plus a few in other countries. SISU publishes a magazine for SUS, bladSUSet, which appears about five times a year. Each issue also appears in summary in English.
For more information about our "nursery," our "Inventors' Day" celebrations, or our publications, write to us at Peter Myndes Backe 12:5, S-118 46 Stockholm, Sweden, or contact us at tel. (46) 8772 4587; fax (46) 8642 2641; or by electronic mail through Peacenet (pns:mmehlmann). A membership/subscription for twelve months is 150 Sw kronor.
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Permaculture: A Language for Gardeners
by Peter Bane
The Hawaiian people have a phrase in their
language which expresses deep understanding of their place on the
earth, "ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono." It
translates into English as, "the life of the land is
preserved in righteousness." This feeling of deep gardening
is the sensibility we must invoke to describe Permaculture or
"permanent culture."
Permaculture is a nation without borders and with no government.
It can be found on every inhabited continent among peoples as
diverse as Tswana herders in Southern Africa, apartment dwellers
in London and Sydney, desert ranchers in Arizona, jungle settlers
in Colombia, communitarians in northern Germany, and subsistence
villagers in Nepal. More than a form of organic gardening,
permaculture is a whole system of design for the creation of
sustainable human habitats. It is about culture; the use of tools
in our adaptation to the world around us, and what that means in
the post-industrial era.
Traditional peoples around the earth have known the limits and
the languages of their places. But along with biological
diversity, these unique human adaptations are being rapidly lost
at the frontier of economic globalization. Human beings
everywhere on earth are becoming increasingly dependent upon and
subject to centralized systems of production and control. The
consequences of this colonizing process are pollution,
desertification, poverty, famine, tyranny, and genocide. To move
beyond the destructiveness of our present culture, which is based
on continuing war and industrial capitalism, we must recover and
propagate knowledge and ecological linkages that sustain living
systems: air, water, and soil. We must reclaim the lands we
inhabit as we learn again to feed, clothe, house, heal, and
educate ourselves and our children.
Permaculture is an ethical approach to land use and economics
based on:
- Care for the Earth, its air, water, forests, soils, plants, and
animals;
- Care for people, who need not only the things of the earth, but
each other; and
- Care for Community, through limiting our own consumption and
population, and the distribution of that which is surplus to our
own needs.
In the words of Australian ecologist Bill Mollison, co-author
(with David Holmgren) of the permaculture concept,
"Permaculture is the design of sustainable human habitats.
It is the design of cultivated ecosystems where we work with, not
against nature. It uses the naturally inherent qualities of
plants and animals, including humans, combined with the natural
characteristics of landscape to create sustainable,
low-maintenance, and productive agricultures for both city and
country using the smallest practical area." Permaculture
empowers us to recreate living systems out of the devastation of
modern life.
How do we do it?
By observing patterns in nature and in traditional farming and
building systems we derive the principles which guide
permaculture design. To these principles we add the insights of
modern science, concoct a set of stories which convey these
essential understandings and begin repeating them to our friends.
You do the same. The effect is inspiring and contagious.
Because everything is connected to everything else and everything
must go somewhere, you cannot just do one thing and there is no
free lunch. Remember that everything gardens and "Nature
knows best." With that introduction to ecology, you are now
ready to learn permaculture.
A rough dozen principles can help us to design
sustainable systems:
1. Relative beneficial location. Put elements of the system near
other things with which they can have beneficial relationships.
Link rain barrels to roofs, and kitchens to gardens by bringing
them close together. If carrots love tomatoes, plant them
together; let the beans climb on (and fertilize) the corn.
2. Multi-functional elements. Make sure that everything in the
system has at least three functions. In this way space and cost
is saved while yields are increased.
3. Redundancy. Make sure every important function (like water,
warmth, food, and income) is supported by multiple elements.
4. Energy-efficient planning. Place elements in zones of
decreasing access and intensity of use radiating outward from the
center of activity (the home). Analyze outside influences (sun,
wind, weather, pollution, wildlife, views) on a site by sectors,
and let that guide your placement of elements also. Take account
of gravity by allowing elements to flow through the landscape
from high elevation to low.
5. Biological resources. Choose elements which are
self-propagating, self-healing, and which can be disposed of
without toxic residues. Living systems build real wealth. Prefer
wood to steel, bamboo to aluminum, worms to rototillers, legumes
to chemical fertilizer, trees to air-conditioners, and chickens
to bug spray.
6. Energy cycling and recycling. Energy flows and materials cycle
in ecosystems. Keep nutrients, water, heat, genetic material,
money, and other valuable resources in close circulation. Harvest
your own garden seed and begin to adapt plants for the
microclimate of your back yard. Water coming in as rain can be
collected, rather than drained away. If filtered, drunk or washed
with, it then flows out as greywater and urine from the
household. Instead of dumping it into sewers or septic tanks
where it can pollute, clean it on site with plants, harvest mulch
material from the artifical wetland, use the cleaned water for
fish habitat, and then irrigate crops with the pondwater.
7. Revalue appropriate traditional technology. Plants were our
first medicines; they are still our best health insurance. Grow
herbs in your garden and learn to use them in tinctures, teas,
poultices, and salves. The corn straw broom is still superior to
any plastic whatyamacallit ever made. Masonry stoves are the best
way to use wood for heating. Unglazed clay pots (called ollas in
Spanish) sunk into the ground and filled with water are the most
efficient way to irrigate gardens in drylands. Mud (earth) is a
healthy, low-cost building material available almost everywhere.
8. Stack yields in both time and space. All ecosystems evolve
toward greater complexity over time. Lawnmowers waste energy and
cause pollution trying to prevent this from happening. Go with
the flow instead. Plant perennial crops with different maturities
and different heights all at once. The forest yields at crown,
mid-level, near the ground, and under the ground. The 7-layered,
4-dimensional polyculture garden can do the same. Annual
vegetables succeed to berries to tree fruits and nuts as the
garden matures.
9. Maximize edge in cultivated systems. Use all the in-between
spaces. Edge is where the action is; where nutrients accumulate
and life grows fat. Our internal organs are small in size but
have huge surface areas for exchange of gasses and fluids.
Gardens can be designed on the same principles. They can remain
compact but gain enormous capacity.
10. Observe and replicate natural patterns. In permaculture,
observation is vitally important. If forests are the dominant
ecosystem in your area, it's because they are the most
thermodynamically efficient response to that kind of climate.
Streams meander, birds flock, cattle herds graze heavily in one
area then move on, not to return for many months. Model nature,
it's been around longer than humans.
11. Increase diversity. Natural systems become richer by
increasing the number of species and interactions between them in
a given area, not by adding more of the same. Adding diverse
elements into your system is a way to increase the sum of yields,
while enhancing stability.
12. Scale. Start at your back door and work outward on a
controlled front. Get your own life and your back yard in good
shape before you go anywhere else. A small, intensively
cultivated system will have surplus form which to expand or
create other systems. A large, spread-out system is an energy
sink, always requiring more energy to maintain than it produces.
Working on the edge. Permaculture has five
principal strategies which give it an "edge" over both
traditional and scientific agricultures. These are:
1. The use of recombinant ecologies and worldwide species
resources to achieve nutritionally and energetically superior
niches for humans in small areas.
2. Modelling the best of nature for highest energy yields, eg.
aquaculture and agroforestry model the most productive
ecosystems: marshlands and forests.
3. Managing time by pushing succession: stacking space and time.
We consciously acknowledge and participate in the evolution of
living systems.
4. Recognizing the information content of systems. Gardening is a
highly interactive or cybernetic practice which places humans in
the landscape and ensures continual re-adjustment. It
consistently outyields any other form of agriculture.
5. Use of the historical opportunity of cheap energy.
Permaculture seeks to establish sustainable systems by using the
temporarily available supply of fossil fuel and machine
technology to micro-engineer landscapes for long-term natural
productivity. This transformation of embedded energy in the form
of industrially derived knowledge, tools, and infrastructure into
ecological, humanly productive systems which can endure
indefinitely into the future is the paramount challenge of our
age.
In addition, permaculture spreads itself. It is inspiring and
empowering, and it promotes cooperation, furthering and fostering
environments in which it can thrive.
Origins and disseminations
In the early 70s, after a decade in "the bush" working
as a field biologist, Bill Mollison, then a lecturer at the
University of Tasmania, in conversation with his student David
Holmgren, gave shape to the permaculture ideas which were first
published in 1978 as Permaculture I. From about 1979, Bill began
teaching in Australia and soon after in America and Europe as
well. From this beginning, Permaculture has spread to more than
60 countries. Over 10,000 individuals have been trained in its
practices.
Education is built into permaculture as part of its internally
sustainable logic. Knowledge of permaculture design is
transferred primarily by short courses (10-15 days). Initially
Bill Mollison and a small cadre of teachers carried the system to
different regions. Now their second-, third-, fourth-, and even
fifth-generation students are teaching their peers in many
languages and most parts of the world.
Though most of the concepts in permaculture design are not new or
unique to it, their assembly into a coherent system is.
Permaculture is not traditional knowledge, though it borrows from
traditional systems; it is not science, though it applies
scientific learning; permaculture is not a belief system, though
it is based on ethical action. Permaculture is the edge between
all these different approaches. It is interdisciplinary and so
you will still have a hard time finding it in the university,
where departments strictly separate branches of knowledge.
Permaculture exists at the edge between agriculture,
architecture, and forestry. It is not a thing, but a way of
seeing all things.
How can I learn more?
The ideas in permaculture are universal, but every application is
local. And since humans learn best by example and by positive
reinforcement, the best way to learn to apply permaculture is to
seek out those in your area who are already doing it and work
with them to spread the knowledge.
Design courses are offered by qualified instructors in most
regions of the U.S., Canada, and overseas. Most events are
scheduled for the warmer seasons of the year, but may be offered
in southern venues during winter. Costs vary depending upon
facilities and accommodations, but range from $50-$80/day in the
U.S.
Publications
Permaculture networks have grown with the support of a handful of
journals. Those listed below are the most prominent
internationally.
The Permaculture Activist, P.O. Box 1209, Black Mountain,
NC 28711. Bi-monthly, $19/year. Since 1985 the source for North
American permaculture events, featuring report for grassroots
groups and designers working "on the ground." Each
issue presents a theme. Recent topics include Forest Farming
& Gardening, Animals & Aquaculture, Cities & Their
Regions, Useful Plants, and Village Design (current issue). Also
publishes a catalog of permaculture books and videos.
Permaculture International Journal, PO Box 6039, South
Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. Quarterly, US$24/year (in N.
America order from Permaculture Activist, in Britain from
Permanent Publications), elsewhere US$33. The flagship journal of
the Permaculture movement, now in its 20th year. Extensive
reports from Australia and regular worldwide coverage.
Periodically publishes a global directory.
Permaculture Magazine (U.K.), Permanent Publications,
Hyden House, Little Hyden Lane, Clanfield, Hampshire, PO8 0RU.
Quarterly, US$20/year (in N. America order from Permaculture
Activist, in Australia from PIJ), elsewhere from publisher (U.K.
£10/yr, Europe £12/yr, rest of world £16/yr). High-quality
production values, superior coverage of Europe, cool climates,
and urban applications. Occasional articles on Africa. Directory
of events in Britain.
The Permaculture Edge, Permaculture Assn. of Western
Australia, PO Box 430 Subiaco WA 6008 Australia. Irregular,
US$20/4 issues (in N. America order from Permaculture Activist,
in Britain from Permanent Publications), elsewhere from publisher
AUD$26 airmail. A spare and thoughtful publication emphasizing
development issues, the unexpected, and the Indian Ocean
littoral.
Permaculture Drylands Journal, Permaculture Drylands
Institute, PO Box 156, Santa Fe, NM 87504-0156. 3/year, US$25
includes support of the instituteÕs teaching work. An attractive
journal covering the arid parts of the U.S. and Mexico with
occasional articles on similar regions overseas.
Rhizomes, 592 Avenue Dolez, B-1130 Bruxelles, Belgium. A
Francophone journal edited by Kali de Keyser for readers in
Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Iberia.
The Villager, Box 319, Irene 1675, Gauteng, South Africa.
Handbook-sized journal of the Permaculture Assn. of South Africa.
A valuable source of information on the rapidly growing movement
in this cauldron of social change.
Groundcover, Zimbabwe Institute of Permaculture, PO Box
8515, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe. Newsletter of Z.I.P., the
senior permaculture institute in Africa. English-language news of
the region.
Other resources
For information about permaculture demonstration sites which may
be visited in North America, contact The Permaculture Pilgrim's
Guide, c/o Chuck Marsh, 55 Grove St., #15, Asheville NC 28801.
Permanent Publications (see address above) has available
"The Permaculture Plot," a guide to sites in the
British Isles. £5.50 U.K., £6.50 Europe, £7.00 rest of world,
airmail.
Literature
The standard Introduction to Permaculture, 2nd ed., 1994.
Bill Mollison & Reny Mia Slay. Tagari Press, Tyalgum, NSW,
Australia, is distributed to North America by Permaculture
Resources, PO Box 65, Califon, NJ 07830. Available by mail order
from The Permaculture Activist (address above), and in Australia
from PIJ, in Britain from Permanent Publications. This is the
best single-volume introduction to the subject.
The Permaculture Designers Manual, 1990. Bill Mollison
with Andrew Jeeves. The complete reference to permaculture
applications in all climates and ecosystems.
The Best of Permaculture, Max O. Lindegger, ed. 1986. A
collection of insightful essays drawn from the worldwide
permaculture literature on cutting edge subjects such as building
biology, urban forestry, land restoration, health, nutrition, and
energy.
The Global Gardener, video, 1991. Featuring Bill Mollison
in a global review of permaculture's accomplishment around the
world. Originally aired by Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
this brought Mollison national acclaim.
Some Internet Resources
Permaculture Intl. Journal, pcjournl@nor.com.au
WWW: http://www.nor.com.au/environment/perma
Global Ecovillage Network, ecovillage@thefarm.org
WWW: http://www.thefarm.org
The Permaculture Edge, paustin@cowan.edu.au
Permaculture Magazine, permaculture@gn.apc.org
WWW: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e415/home.html
Permaculture Activist, permaheart@aol.com
Peter Bane publishes The Permaculture Activist,
and lives in the Earthaven Village community. He has taught
permaculture for six years and is a member of the faculty of the
Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm.
Basil (Darin) Arrick, darrick@homestead.org
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Based upon the ethical use of our natural resources, Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive integration of landscape and people, providing food, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Permaculture is a philosophy and an approach to land use which weaves together microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, water management, and human needs into intricately connected and productive communities. Written for designers, students, farmers, gardeners, small and large property owners, agroforesters, ranchers, landscape designers, architects, engineers and planners, the Manual presents concepts, strategies and methods of designing and constructing sustainable systems.
The Professional Designers Package, by Bill Mollison. and David
Holmgren.
$85
In the 70’s Bill Mollison and David Holmgren developed the Permaculture concept. Here they are together again in the Permaculture package for serious designers. You get the most powerful works by the co-founders of Permaculture, Mollison’s Designer’s Manual and Holmgren’s Hepburn Permaculture Gardens, for the incredible price of only $85.
URBAN Permaculture: A Practical Handbook for Sustainable Living,
by David Watkins.
ISBN 1 85623 002 3. 162 Pages; Illustrations. $13.99
A do-it-yourself handbook for those living in more intensive temperate suburban or urban settings. Urban Permaculture offers many clear and simple ways to apply a sustainable living approach to any homestead, with or without access to open land.
Basics of Permaculture, by Ross Mars.
Now that you’re Getting Started in Permaculture, learn the basics of permaculture design. Presented in a straight-forward and informative manner, this book also provides numerous examples. Topics include: general principles, steps to design, basic tools, garden building, location, water harvesting, and appropriate technology. Whether you want to design your own property or someone else’s, get the basics.
Best of Permaculture: A Collection, by Max Lindegger and Robert Tap, eds. 136 pages; Illustrations. $16.99
An anthology of works that have appeared in newsletters published by various Permaculture groups and the Permaculture International Journal. Topics include articles on values, people, design, and practice by authors such as Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Max Lindegger, Stuart Hill, Terry White, David Wallingford, Kim Christie and others.
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture, by Rosemary Morrow.
ISBN 0 86417 514 0. 154 pages;Illustrations. $15.95
This book provides a series of practical exercises and real-life examples of how to design a Permaculture system on your land. It presents techniques for building a sheet-mulch vegetable garden, reduce your energy consumption, raise poultry and bees, create a food forest, design an aquaculture system, conserve water, and generally improve the quality of your life.Whether you own an inner city balcony, a suburban lawn, or a rural farm, you will find this book a useful guide to developing a more sustainable lifestyle.
Permaculture in a Nutshell, by Patrick Whitefield.
ISBN 1 85623003 1. 85 Pages; Illustrations. $8.99
A concise and accessible guide to the principles and practice of Permaculture in temperate climates. Nutshell explains how permaculture works in the city, in the country, and on the farm. It explores recreation of real community through Community-Supported Agriculture and other cooperative networks. Essential reading for everyone wishing to find creative solutions for reducing their environmental impact.
Getting Started in Permaculture, by Ross and Jenny Mars.
ISBN 0 646 20090 9. 60 pages; Illustrations. $12.50
A book of practical activities including fertilizers, composting, and pest control. Ever wonder what to do with old plastic bottles, paper, or tires? Getting Started has plenty of suggestions from dust pans to retaining walls. With designs for raised beds, ponds, animal tractors, a solar still, hothouses, and more, this is a great book for the beginner or permaculture enthusiast.
Living Community by Ben Haggard.
ISBN 0 9639546 0 1. 152 pages; Illustrations. $12.95
The story behind the design and evolution of Sol Y Sombra, a private learning center on the former Georgia O'Keefe estate in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Into a meticulous account of the project, Ben artistically weaves his philosophical observations of the challenges involved and the human impact of implementation.
Drylands Watershed Restoration: Introductory Workshop Activities, by Ben Haggard. 48 pages. $6.99
A project-oriented book that gives step by step procedures for remediating eroded arid lands. These techniques were the basis of workshops given at Sol Y Sombra.
Third World Resource Guide, by Michael G. Smith and Michael Pilarski. 40 pages unbound. $5.00
Compiled by Friends of the Trees, a non-profit organization dedicated to world reforestation, this is an extensive source book of names, addresses and descriptions of grass roots groups working in sustainable agriculture, forest management and community development in developing countries. Includes selected reviews of journals, newsletters, books, directories, films and articles.
Ferment and Human Nutrition, by Bill Mollison.
ISBN 0 908228 06 6. 288 pages; Illustrations. $29.95
A practical, encyclopedic collection of processing methods from around the world, to preserve and boost the nutritional content of foods. This book takes the mystery out of complex ferment processes and offers guidelines for the rich and varied diet we all need in this age of fast-food malnutrition. This is not a recipe book in any ordinary sense; it teachs people to store and process their own food and to make their own ingredients. It is a basic survival handbookof great use to gardeners, farmers, cooks and homemakers presented with science, humor, and common sense. An exciting journey towards understanding the basis of human nutrtion. "Good Eating!"
You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too
ISBN 0 646 28784 2. 260 pages,100% recycled paper and a "Sown and Drawn" binding. $34.95
A Permaculture book for gardeners and cooks. A cookbook for gardeners. A gardening book for cooks. A reference book on many varied topics including: Edible flowers, Healthy Food, Weeds and Abundant plants, Graden cosmetics, Companion planting, Bush tucker, Kitchen crafts, Garden gifts and income earners. Plus- Garden designs, Species lists, Tips, Exercises and After dinner games
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally,by
Robert Kourik.
ISBN 0 9615848 0 7. 370 pages; Illustrations. $25.00
Kourik's knowledge of landscape techniques and data is encyclopedic. This comprehensive guide presents his holistic approach to gardening. It gives one a simple understanding of soil conditions, gardening methods, and edible plant design ideas that will revolutionize your way of thinking about the beauty and practicality of edible plant design. Afraid the neighbors will think you a bit different for using edibles? This book will show you how to get them salivating over your aesthetically pleasing design and watching with wonder the insect and bird interaction.
How to Make a Forest Garden, by Patrick Whitefield.
ISBN 1 85623 008 2. 256 pages; Illustrations; Photographs. $24.95
A do-it-yourself guide to creating a low maintenance food producing garden on any scale. This book combines the practical approach of Permaculture design with the environmentally aesthetic woodland garden. Woodland/forest gardening has been used in tropical regions and has only recently been adapted to temperate climates. How to Make a Forest Garden gives you all the information and inspiration you'll need to create your own self-sufficient woodland garden.
Forest Gardening, by Robert A de J Hart.
ISBN 0-930031-84-9. 234 pages. $17.95
Designed to achieve the utmost economy of space and labor in agricultural production, a "forest garden" is a tiny replication of a natural forest. Hart describes the principles and practice of forest gardening, and shows its potential value for countering environmental devastation both in the West and the Third World. Includes guidelines on design and maintenance and lists of recommended species for temperate, tropical and sub-tropical climates
Energy-Efficient and Environmental Landscaping, by Anne
Simon Moffat, Marc Schiler, and the staff of Green Living.
ISBN 0 9638784 0 9. 240 pages. $17.95
A practical guide to environmentally conscious gardening techniques with an emphasis on cutting energy costs. The book's subtitle, "Cut Your Utility Bills By Up To 30 Percent and Create a Natural, Healthy Yard," says it all! The book includes landscape designs for the four major climate zones in the U.S. and specific guidelines for plant placement. Other topics include water-efficient landscaping, natural lawn care, nontoxic pest control, landscaping for wildlife, native plants, and a lazy-gardener's guide to composting yard waste. With a section on basic landscaping skills, anyone can create an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly landscape.
Backyard Market Gardening, by Andy Lee.
ISBN 0 96246448 0 5. 351 pages; Illustrations. $19.95
Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own backyard. This book covers the scope of both gardening and marketing aspects to start your own market garden. Small scale agriculture can be very rewarding to the soul, the environment and the household salary.
Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates,
by Robert Kourik.
ISBN 0 96158482 3. 128 pages; 76 drawings; Detailed index. $15.00
The only book on the topic of drip irrigation for the home gardener. Drip irrigation stimulates higher yields that any other type of irrigation, in virtually every climate. Detailed how-to drawings and step-by step advice.
Chicken Tractor: The Gardener's Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy
Soil, by Andy Lee.
ISBN 0 9624648 2 1. 230 pages. $15.95
A "Chicken Tractor" is a bottomless portable shelter-pen that fits over your garden beds. Inside, chickens peck and scratch the soil, eat pest bugs, wed seeds, and fertilize the beds with their manure. This revolutionary, practical, hands-on book shows you how to: custom build your tractor for your garden or farm; select, buy, and raise the best chickens for your needs; and build a better garden with super-rich soil.
Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being,
by Carol Venolia.
ISBN 0 89087 497 2. 225 pages. $12.95
This book takes the reader on a journey of self-exploration to increase the awareness of how the buildings we inhabit influence our mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Architect Carol Venolia outlines the factors involved in creating an integrated environment that nurtures body, mind, and spiritfactors that can be applied to remodeling home or workplace, as well as to a new construction.
Build it with Bales: A Step-by-Step Guide to Straw-Bale Construction,
by S.O. MacDonald and Matts Myhrman.
ISBN 0 9642821 0 0. 79 pages. $20.00
Baled straw, a safe and abundant natural resource, is an excellent construction material for homes and other buildings. Inexpensive, easy to work with, yet providing high insulative value, strength and stability. Build it with Bales is a detailed how-to manual for creating elegant, sturdy buildings from straw bales. This new, improved, much expanded book replaces MacDonald's Straw Bale Primer. Addresses load-bearing, non-loadbearing, and hybrid options. Detailed descriptions of every step in construction from planning to surfacing and finishing touches.
How to Build Your Elegant Home with Straw Bales Package, by Steve Kemble and Carol Escott. $59.00
A comprehensive "How-to" covering the specifics of building a plastered straw-bale structure. The 90 minute video informs and entertains. The 62 page companion manual allows for quick on-site review. The best "How-to" package around for the best price.
Gap Mountain Composting Toilet, by Doug Clayton & Dave Jacke. 32 pages; Illustrations. $12.00
Here's a new way to treat and re-use human wastes- the Mouldering Toilet! In a process patterned after the slow, cool decomposition of the forest floor, this system turns human waste into a "duff" which can be used to fertilize trees and shrubs in the home landscape. Concise manual shows you how to design, build, and use your Mouldering Toilet.
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, by
J.C. Jenkins .
ISBN 0 9644258 4X. 198 pages; 63 tables and figures; 9 sidebars; 19
photographs. $15.00
This book provides basic and detailed information about the ways and means of reclycling human excrement, or humanure, without the need for chemicals. Includes a detailed analysis of potential hazards and how to overcome them.
Gray Water Use in the Landscape: How to help your landscape prosper
with recycled water, by Robert Kourik.
ISBN 0 9615848 1 5. 25 pages; 11 illustrations. $6.00.
Plants grow better with gray water because it comes with fertilizer already added! Plumbing options and parts are fully described. Appendix of safe soaps and detergents.
Create an Oasis With Grey Water, by Art Ludwig.
ISBN 0 9643433 0 4, 47 pages, $7.
Includes: why use/not use grey water, health guidelines, sources, irrigation requirements, 20 system examples, grey water plumbing principles, and troubleshooting to name a few topics.
Builder's Grey Water Guide, by Art Ludwig.
ISBN 0 9643433 2 0, 46 pages, $13.
A supplement to above. Includes: building codes, legality, maintenance, and more to help builders or homeowners successfully include greywater in their new construction or remodeling.
Patterns of Wholeness, by Sister Rita Wienken. 64 pages. $5.99
Sister Rita applies her design of a sustainable community model to the Motherhouse property of the Brown County Ursulines of St. Martin, OH. Follow her observation and investigation of the area that leads her to find a healing relationship among the human community, the earth community, and the Divine.
Conceptual Permaculture Report - Crystal Waters Permaculture Village, by Max O. Lindegger and Robert Tap. 80 pages; Illustrations. $17.99
Crystal Waters is the world's first community designed according to the principles and concepts of Permaculture. This report for residents presents the philosophy and land design of this ecologically-designed development. The 260-hectare Crystal Waters property was designed to accommodate 83 residential lots, a village commercial center and visitors' lodging.
Crystal Waters Permaculture Village Owners Manual, by Nascimanere Pty ltd. 54 pages; Illustrations. $13.99
A companion to the Conceptual Report, the Owner's Manual reviews the human habitat "rules and regulations." It also offers house site location and construction design guides.
Hepburn Permaculture Gardens, 10 Years of Sustainable Living
A Case Study in Cool Climate Permaculture, by David Holmgren.
ISBN 0 646 26990 9, 62 Pages, Photographs and sketches. $39.95.
A new and exciting book for builders, planners, design consultants, and teachers. Follow the co-founder of the Permaculture concept over a 10-year period on his own site development. Its 8 sections include: Local Environment, Preparatory Words, House, Infrastructure, Growing Environment, Livestock Beyond the Boundaries, and Appendices (with analyses of inputs and yields). Required reading for anyone seriously interested in sustainable living.
The Permaculture Activist, Edited by Peter Bane, North Carolina.
"A Voice for Permanent Culture in North America." Full of articles and announcements on what neighbors across the continent are doing permaculturally.
The Permaculture Edge, Edited by Max Lindegger et al, Maleny, Queensland, Australia.
A magazine dedicated to permaculture ideas "at the edge" of change in our sustainable future.
Permaculture: Solutions for Sustainable Living, Permanent Publications, Hampshire, England.
Practical and enjoyable articles for integrating permaculture into your lifestyle. Published in the UK, its articles are geared toward temperate style living.
Permaculture International Journal, - Permaculture International Ltd., Lismore, Australia.
Focusing on solutions rather than problems, the Journal provides practical info and reports on projects around the world and is an international directory for permaculture services and events.
In Grave Danger of Falling Food Video, 52 minutes. $29.95
Part of a series of four documentary films, this video focuses on Bill Mollison, author of the Permaculture concept and recipient of the "Alternative Nobel Prize." Mollison believes that the single most destructive force on the planet is modern agriculture. He has designed a system of agriculture which uses the engineering principles of nature itself. This has taken hold in many developing countries. He combines hundreds of species - plant and animal - into a fertile self-regulating eco-system. His designs apply to the city as well as the country. They can work in any sort of climate and, once matured, have the potential to provide most of the food for any household.
Permaculture, It Grows Better All The Time, Audio Tape, 52 minutes. $10.00
A conversation with Bill Mollison taped in 1989. Hear the creator of Permaculture discuss the downfall of oil-dependent agriculture and the hope of creating sustainable food production in human settlements.
Permaculture Comes Home, Audio Tape, 52 minutes. $10.00
Dr. Bill Roley, the Director of the Permaculture Institute of Southern California, conducts a tour of "Sprout Acres" which implements permaculture concepts and strategies.
The Global Gardener Video, Approximately 2 hours. $24.95
Subdivided into four half hour parts describing and illustrating examples of Permaculture projects in four climates, this dramatic story proves the incredible results of sustainable development. The film features Bill Mollison and numerous teachers and practitioners of Permaculture throughout the world.
New Garden Journal Videos, Each approximately one hour. $24.95
Permaculture at Sol Y Sombra
Judy Barrett visits Ben Haggard at the renown Santa Fe estate, Sol y Sombra ("Sun and Shadow"), to learn how Permaculture can be adapted to all climates.
Harvesting Rainwater
Physician Mike McElveen explains his home's high-tech system for collecting rainfall, which provides water for his lawn, swimming pool, garden and orchard as well as his family.
Use Greywater for Irrigation
Gary Stewart of Los Angeles' Agwa Systems shows you everything you need to know about automated maintenance-free water recycling systems that can save up to 50% on water bills.
Wastewater Wetlands
Wetlands engineer Michael Ogden reveals how wetlands can be created as an alternative to septic systems using reeds, cattails and bulrushes to naturally cleanse wastewater back to near-drinkable purity.
Water Gardening
The Nelsons of Lilypons Water Gardens show you how to plan, construct and populate a backyard pond with submerged plants, water lilies, bog plants and friendly fish.
Edible Lanscapes
Joel Glanzberg and Roxanne Swentzell show you the gardens of their New Mexico home on the Santa Clara pueblo. Learn specific steps you can follow to restore barren landscapes and create an edible landscape.
The American Cottage Garden
Author Lucinda Hutson shows you the design and planting of an edible cottage garden landscape, then takes you into her kitchen.
The Backyard Herb Garden
Patty Johnson explains how she discovered a business in her backyard garden with culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers.
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Today the Huichol culture survives as a window to the past revealing a le= gacy of indigenous ways which have become, for most part, long extinct in= the Americas. The Huichol homeland is a refreshing reminder of how the w= orld used to be when entire communities worked together as caretakers of = reciprocity between people and the planet.
The Huichols believe themselves to be "mirrors of the gods" and= try to reflect this sacred vision of the world in the thoughtfulness and= the highly disciplined actions they display towards their numerous creat= or and nature deities.
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Their ritual practices invite the reciprocity of the deities, who teach t= heir Huichol "steward a variety of esoteric skills that are used by = the shamans to insure equilibrium in their communities. These shamanic te= chniques have worked for centuries to empower the religious practitioners= with the knowledge to maintain nature's delicate balance between opposit= es such as sickness and health, scarci and abundance, life and death. It = all worked quite well for the Huichol people, until recently.
In some areas of the Huichol homeland the traditions are still strong. In= other areas, the voice of the wind and the teachings of the deer have be= come echoes of the past.
The Huichol culture is in the throes of a difficult transitional period f= rom a flourishing tribe in a once remote location to an accessible, and v= ulnerable, ethnic group nakedly exp= osed to a global audience. In no uncertain terms, the Huichols have b= een invaded by modern "conquistadores" descending upon the Huic= hols via recently built roads and airstrips, standing in line to divide t= he "spoils." Social ills such as alcoholism, cultural alienatio= n, suicide and other consequences of extreme poverty and disorientation a= re taking root. Instead of entering into the limelight of the 21st centur= y as one of Mexico's most beautiful conserved native cultures, many of th= e Huichol people are lamentedly making the debut as displaced and debilit= ated beggars in the streets. As this pre-Columbian culture is teetering o= n the edge of cultural extinction, the whole world is about to lose a dir= ect link to humanity's ancient past.
There is so much to be learned from the healthy communities and balanced = way of life that characterize the few remaining traditional cultures like= the Huichol who have miraculosly survived against all odds into the mode= rn age. Our immense challenge is to use contemporary cultural and technol= ogical capabilities to insure the smooth transition of these people into = the 21st century, with their valuable troves of knowledge intact.
It is precisely for this reason that the Huichol Center for Cultural Surv= ival and Traditional Arts, a U.S. non-profit corporation (known in Mexico= as the "Centro Cultural Huichol") has been working for the pas= t 13 years to empower the Huichols with the strategic thinking they need = in order to understand what is happening in the world around them, and ho= w to be successful within it, without compromising the integrity of their= core belief system.
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The premise of the Huichol Center is that it is entirely possible to prov= ide the Huichols with the opportunities, technical skills, and problem so= lving abilities they need in order to interface with the world around the= m while at the same time protecting their traditional culture and way of = life.
The Huichol Center logo stresses the importance of "sustaining cultu= ral identity through trade and tribal wisdom" Center projects have b= rought together a network of tribal leaders, religious practitioners, hea= lers, artists, naturalists and others who have joined in a concerted effo= rt to solve problems with creative solutions generated from within the Hu= ichol belief system. The focus is on creating projects within three major= categories: environmentally sustainable projects that promote a self-suf= ficient economic base, educational programs that foster Huichol values, a= nd a holistic health program that integrates Western medicine with tradit= ional healing.
For example, one of the projects dealing with environmental sustainabilit= y is the ongoing Sustainable Futures program. This cross-cultural, educat= ional project has provided an opportunity for several Huichols to come to= the U.S. to learn about ecological restoration techniques, organic garde= ning, and how to creatively utilize their numerous renewable resources. T= he program is a joint project of the Huichol Center and the Sol y Sombra = Foundation, Permaculture Drylands Institute, and the Center for the Study= of Community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Other Center projects which contribute to the economic and cultural stabi= lity of the Huichol homeland include the documentation of tribal wisdom, = literacy development, skill training in traditional arts, and principles = of trade and marketing. In the area of health care, the Huichol Center pr= ovides a range of services including a primary care medical clinic with t= uberculosis treatment facitlities, a birthing center, and a soup kitchen.= Huichol public awareness activities include museum exhibits and cross-cu= ltural tribal interchange with other tribes of the Americas.
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It is the Huichol Center's experience that communities which derive a sen=
se of security based on group pride are the ones best prepared to make th=
e hard choices the future demands of them.
For more information contact:
Centro Cultural Huichol, A.C.
20 De Noviembre 452
Santiago Ixcuintrla, Nayarit, Mexico
Phone: 011-52-323-5-11-71
Fax: 011-52-323-5-10-06
Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts
801 2d Ave. Su 1400
Seattle Washington 98104 USA
Phone: 206-622-4067
Fax: 206-622-0646
email: plentyusa@mcimail.com
There is so much to be learned from the healthy communities and balanced = way of life that characterize the few remaining traditional cultures like= the Huichol who have miraculously survived against all odds into the mod= ern age. Our immense challenge is to use contemporary cultural and techno= logical capabilities to insure the smooth transition of these people into= the 21st century, with their valuable troves of knowledge intact.
It is precisely for this reason that the Huichol Center for Cultural Surv= ival and Traditional Arts, a U.S. non-profit corporation (known in Mexico= as the "Centro Cultural Huichol") has been working for the pas= t 13 years to empower the Huichols with the strategic thinking they need = in order to understand what is happening in the world around them, and ho= w to be successful within it, without compromising the integrity of their= core belief system.
Equally important, the Huichol Center teaches the Huichols to value and u= se their artistic talents, vision, and cultural integrity as assets. By p= roviding art materials used by the Huichols at a reduced price, and by pu= rchasing finished artwork to be marketed, the Huichol Center offers a dir= ect economic alternative to the debilitating migrant work. In addition, t= he Center's Design Archive collects, records and passes on traditional Hu= ichol patterns (many of which may otherwise be lost) to the artists. It i= s hoped these projects can help the Huichols achieve economic selfsuffici= ency through sale of their arts and crafts, so that they don't have to le= ave their homeland and seek outside work.
All Huichol Center projects are supported by the sale of Huichol art crea=
ted at the Center and contributions to our non-profit corporations in Mex=
ico and the U.S.
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Phone: 206-622-4067
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1-2 people, 5-15 lbs/week. In addition, we may be able to offer large quantities
of winter storage vegetables at a bulk rate as well as canning tomatoes,
pickling cukes, and extra veggies for freezing for those interested in preserving
the harvest beyond the harvest season. We welcome and encourage you to come work with us in the garden, or just
bring a picnic and enjoy the view! There will be work days and special events
for shareholders and growers to get together - kids welcome! We offer a
large discount to a few reliable, hard working shareholders in exchange
for substantial help in the garden. We'll make arrangements individually
- please contact us if you are interested. This will be our 6th year providing a bountiful array of fresh produce
for our CSA. Our farm is located at EcoVillage on Ithaca's West Hill. Jennifer
and John have studied sustainable agriculture at UC Berkeley. John, who
was GreenStar's produce manager for 3 years, made the leap to full-time
farming in 1995, and Jen is a graduate student at Cornell in Community Nutrition. The basic idea is to create a pedestrian village which maintains open
space and agricultural land within the urban area, by densely clustering
housing in appropriate-sized neighborhoods. It is thought that the EVI site
can eventually accommodate 4-5 such neighborhoods. The Danish Cohousing
model is being used as a taking off point. In cohousing, households cooperate
to design, build and manage their neighborhood. Key aspects of cohousing
are a Common House where meals can be shared, and pedestrian-oriented commons
areas. The development of the ecovillage will hopefully correspond to an
increasing proportion of the resident's energy and materials needs being
met by on-site or local sources. A big step has already been taken - West Haven Farm, a 3-acre organic CSA farm, has
been operating on the EVI land for five years. The first neighborhood is being built by EcoVillage
Cohousing Cooperative, and is due to be completed in July 1997. A second
neighborhood group, SoNG, is now in the planning
stage, with about 16 households involved. A third project, "Neighborhood
IIII" is in the early envisioning stage.mushroom@thefarm.org
Int'l Voice/Fax: (int. code +) 615-964-2200
U.S. Fax:
1-800-MYCOFAX
Or write us at:
Mushroompeople
PO Box 220 /
560 Farm Rd.
Summertown TN 38483-0220
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How To Order
GUARANTEE: We guarantee our spawn is healthy and vigorous, capable of
producing the strain you specified under the proper growing conditions.
Since mushroom production from spawn depends on many factors beyond our
control, we cannot guarantee crop production. In the event of problems
with any of our products, defective on receipt, we will gladly replace
them, however, replacements must be authorized by us.
WHEN TO ORDER SHIITAKE SPAWN: To assure a full selection and timely
delivery, it is best to order the shiitake spawn 3 to 4 months in
advance of use. Small orders will usually be filled within 24 hours, as
long as stocks last.
SHIPMENT: We attempt to turn
around all orders within 24 hours. We ship parcels by UPS whenever
possible. Parcels may go Priority Mail to ensure fast delivery. Please
provide both your street address and your post office box number (if you
have one), and your telephone number. Shipping and handling is paid
(unless price quoted is FOB Summertown) in continental U.S. only.
Hawaii, Alaska, and foreign orders estimate 40% shipping and handling
fee. There may be additional charges for heavy or foreign packages,
depending on actual shipping costs. Freight is charged on all COD
orders.
RETURNS: Merchandise (except for spawn) may be returned for credit only,
less shipping and handling. No cash refunds.
PAYMENT: Remittance in the form of money order, credit card information
(MasterCard and VISA accepted), or check should accompany all orders. As
we are a cash business, credit card accounts will be charged when the
order is placed, not when the goods are shipped. Personal checks may
take 14 working days to clear. Foreign checks may take 60 days. Prices
are subject to change without notice. All sales are final.
Mushroompeople - Box 220
Summertown, TN 38483-0220
Order/Fax:
1-800-386-4495 (1-800 FUNGI-95)
Questions: 1-615-964-2200
email: mushroom@thefarm.org
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LONG OVERDUE Mike's Bucket(tm) : everything (but the light) necessary for the
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your choice of fertilizer, blood, kelp, VITA-GROW tablets(see below),
Deluxe pH test kit, EC/TDS/conductivity meter for nutrient solution,
Pyrethrin spray insecticide (just in case), soil moisture & pH
probes, magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts (MgSo4)), dolomitic limestone,
your choice of substrate-media, nifty scissors, razorblades, Mylar,
pressure-pump sprayer, rooting/cloning hormone, magnifying lense,
(bucket not included (+$2 for a recycled 20L(5 gal.) bucket & lid))
EXC LUS IVE Parapluie 3000(tm) COLLAPSABLE-EXPANDABLE-MODIFIABLE ultra-ultra
-lightweight yet unbreakable (practically) skeletal reflectors. 54" X 54"
or Custom built to your specs. Same reflectivity as Mylar, with FULL
coverage. HOR/side-lume merely $34 (1.5 kg+), vertical a scant $24 (1 kg+).
Stands from $19 (4 kg+). Patents pending. NOW each comes complete with
Mogul socket. $SAVE$ $5 & shipping charges by opting to utilize
straightened coathangers instead of high-tech alloy frame.
(design approved by a certified electrical engineer)
---ALERT---some ESSENTIAL nutrients are missing from commercial chemical
fertilizers & soilless mixes produced today, try new VITA-GROW
tablets,containing Iron,Zinc,Selenium,Silicon,Folic acid,B1,etc.
makes mineral defficiencies obsolete : only $9
OLD OLD OLD Foolproof Tomato Cloning kit-enough cloning hormone (IBA) to
make 100 Litres (25 gal.) of cloning solution & instructions, found
to work very well when cuttings are soaked in the solution in
bottles in a cool, softly-lit area for 48 hrs., afterwhich the
"clones" should be transplanted to moist places, like trays
filled with 1/4 cloning solution & 3/4 floating perlite $9
NEW NEW NEW the Groundskeeper(tm) & Orbital(R) irrigation system fittings
(4 channel digital 1-99 min. timer & adjustable solenoid for watering $?)
NEW & FRESH just right 90L(22.5 gal.) heavy-duty HDPE reservoir/planter $9
EXC LUS IVE "Clean-Air Tube" how-to plans to build an odor/pollutant-
filtering tube out of pipe or a box or some vinyl tube or whatever
that can be filled with Activated Carbon or new Space-Age synthetic
environmentally friendly regenerable carbon (see below) & an air pump
(see below) can be attached to filter out unwanted odors, VOC's, etc.
to keep plants healthy, found to be very effective & cost-efficient.
OLD OLD OLD "Daylight, 5000, 6500, 10&20 000 K" reusable light filters for
regular MH bulbs allowing for modification of light source & simulation
of natural lighting in any region. Heat-resistant unbreakable gel
guaranteed not to melt unless you put it too close to the bulb &/or
NEW IR (infra-red) reflector to reduce heat in high-heat fixtures $?
e-mail me for price on custom size & colour.
Found to work best if clipped to the reflector as all reflected light
will be of desired wavelengths, reducing loss of light in filter.
sleeves for fluorescents available of course
From $?/square foot.
Ask for your FREE sample with any other order !
Wide selection of reflective specular sheeting such as Mylar with
varied physical & optical characteristics to line hoods available
OOOOOLLLLDD 1972 Volkswagen Westfalia camper,new brakes,rebuilt engine,orig.
ORGANICK!!! Sundew plants, frogs & toads for Fungus-gnat control
OLD OLD OLD Greenhouse-Nursery style hot water propagation-tray heater
OLD OLD OLD Live Canadian algae, moss, bog & other varieties of native plants
OLD BUT FUN Bug Zappin' lights
COMING SOON Zeolites, Azeotropes, Smectites, Isolite(tm) & Oocites !!!
COMING SOON Oysters (grown using aseptic technique)
OLD OLD OLD Cloning Wax ! (leaf coating anti-transpirant emulsion)
COMING SOON Lasers for sealing cuttings when "cloning" (use powder now)
OLD OLD OLD Localized Ozone generator for 4500 cubic feet $94 (2.6 kg)
(bacteria, fungi, mold & mildew will run or die !!)
OLD OLD OLD Yeast ! It's not just for bakin' anymore ; CO2 production
Float-valve to convert any reservoir into self-discharging &
refilling CO2 generator (pump on timer to expel water required) $?
Another option is to use a garden hose timer to fill, with a siphon-
fed glucose injector ($?) & an overflow fitting to drain.
COMING LATE Microwave-activated Sulphur light (still a novelty) $?
OLD OLD OLD Tissue-culture kit with everything, lab. grade $?
NEW NEW NEW FREE "Kitchen-Sink" plans 4 tissue-culture (Thanxs 2 Dr.A.Taji)
DOITYERSELF Greenhouse kits (galvanized or PVC pipe) $?
DOITYERSELF Flow tray kits-2X4's cut to size,bolts & heavy plastic liner
SPECIALIZED Mycorrhizae & Rhizobium `Grab Bag'-a festering mass of microbials
DOITYERSELF Orchid stands,fluor. light stands, etc. kits from galv. pipe
DOITYERSELF Grow-Bags:perlite,long-strand sphagnum peat moss & organic
fertilizer in black plastic or cloth bag
OLD OLD OLD FREE plans to convert any spare room into Grow-Room (see below)
BOOKED->JAN Plant Tissue Culture/micropropagation laboratory
OLD OLD OLD `Breathing Wall' installations available for reasonable price
FOR LETTUCE Germination bulb-ask me nice & I'll tell you what colour
LATE BUT IN Fog-It(tm) & Pa-Te(R) misting & propagation nozzzles
***All our system designs are approved by a certified electrical engineer***
Mike's Special Metal Halide 1000W complete vert. or hor. setup $?(20 kg)
400 " ?(15 kg)
(kit or assembled with Super 4000K or Sunny-Boy bulb,wires,box & reflector)
High Pressure Sodium 1000W kit or ready to plug in as above $?(22 kg)
400 " ?(16 kg)
430 " ? "
150W mountable unit spotlight all-in-one ?(11 kg)
"Pro-Ultralite" (tm) HOR reflector or Incredibly Reflective & lightweight
pebble-finish embossed Aluminum or Chrome-Mirror finish Large Horizontal or
Vertical reflector for any above +$?
OR
Mylar insert with clips to fit good-ol' white steel reflectors $9
**Bare-bones kits,ballasts,bulbs,sockets,wires,boxes,reflectors,etc.,etc.**
Mogul socket $?(0.8 kg)
HPS 1000W 5 kV pulse rated mogul socket ? "
SOW 16/3 600 V cabtire wire (for ballast to bulb) $?
grounded 3-prong plug with 6'SJTW 14/3 300 V cabtire wire $?
Wonderlite self-ballasted 160W Mercury flood with reflector $?(1.5 kg)
Son Agro 430 Watt bulb (more blue, can replace 400W HPS) $? "
(HPS bulbs have the highest Effective flux of all the HID's)
YOU CAN BUY A WHOLE 'NUTHER SYSTEM FOR LITTLE MORE THAN A CONVERSION BULB
Conversion bulbs 960W MH -> HPS $?(2 kg)
340 ?(1.7 kg)
250 ?(1.5 kg)
120 ? "
White-Lux(tm) or Chromfit(tm) lamps (HPS retrofit) HPS->MH 400W $? "
950 $?(2 kg)
High Pressure Sodium bulbs 1000W $?(2 kg)
(less U.V. than MH, universal mounting, 400 ?(1.5 kg)
250 ? "
150 ? "
Iwasaki Super X(tm) MH bulbs 1000W $?(2 kg)
400 ?(1.7 kg)
Good-old Universal MH's 4000K 1000W $?(2 kg)
also available in "Super" with 25% more lumens 400 ?(1.7 kg)
250 ?(1.5 kg)
175 ? "
Sunny-Boy MH bulb with Sodium peak (more yellow-orange-red)1000W$?(2 kg)
400 $?(1.7 kg)
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE "LUMEN" IS UNFORTUNATELY CALIBRATED TO THE HUMAN EYE ?
AgroSun MH bulb(35 % more red,125 lumens/Watt,HOR only) 1000W $?(2 kg)
400 ?(1.7 kg)
Iwasaki Super-Blaster 125 lumens/Watt (Base-Up only) 1000W $?(2 kg)
400 ?(1.7 kg)
Ballasts (multitappers) : MH 1000W $?(13 kg)
400 ?(8 kg)
250 ?(7 kg)
175 ?(6 kg)
HPS 1000W $?(16 kg)
400 ?(9 kg)
250 ?(8 kg)
150 ?(7.5 kg)
10"X10"X6" DUKO CSA UL electric box with knockouts & holes drilled $23(4 kg)
No "heat-sink" or "vented" boxes, add silicone to make 100% waterproof
Polyester resin/perlite encapsulated potting of core & coil +$?(3.5kg)
Please feel free to ask us our opinions about Spectral distribution vs.
CRI vs. Degrees Kelvin Temperature rating vs. Lumen/Watt output vs.
Photosynthetic response curve vs. Footcandle rating vs. Absorbance vs.
Action spectra vs. Spectral radiant vs. Effective flux vs. PAR value
Sylvania Gro-Lux wide spectrum 4' fluor. tubes (plant & aquar.) $?
High-Output,Power-Twist,Verilux(R),Vitalite(tm),Solux(tm),Durolite(R) also
Cool Whites (limited quantities) 99 cents
Daylights (low lumens, high PAR rating) ? "
U.V. producing bulbs :
180-220 nm. (ozone producing)
220-280 (germicidal,bactericidal,UVC,245 nm,253.7 nm peak)
280-320 (erythemal,tanning,UVB (for Vitamin D production kids))
320-380 (secondary luminance,UVA)
380->750 Visible
Super Actinic (380-480 nm.for aquariums,diazo,jaundice,420 pk)
Actinic "50/50"(300-460 nm.,counterfeit detection,blacklight)
Blacklight (310-400 nm.insect traps,photocopy inspection)
Blacklight Blue (350-380 nm. for discos,has filter for vis.)
15 kg. high quality fertilizer (any flavour,all essentials) $?
(most available in small quantites from $5 per kilo.)
18-9-27 popular complete 1-part Hydroponic formula
6-11-31 " " 2-part " " (high Mg)
7-11-27 " " " " " (high Fe)
0-10-10,15-30-15,21-7-7,10-52-10,20-7-10,15-15-18,12-0-44,15-0-0,etc,etc.
(NH2)2CO,NH4NO3,(NH4)2HPO4,Ca(H2PO4)2,MgSO4,NH4H2PO4,KCl,K2SO4,H3BO3,etc,etc.
Low-Nitrate formula available for lettuce in the North
Slow-Release 14-14-14 also
Mag-Amp (tm) 7-40-2 too
Chelated component trace elements for PMDD, MgSO4 & other sulfates,etc.etc.
Micronutrient mix :Bo(1.30%),Mo(0.06%),Fe(7%),Mn(2%),Cu(0.10%),Zn(0.40%)
& components available $? per pound (EDTA & DTPA chelating agents)
Cheap plastic fertilizer scale (0-450 gram, quite accurate) $3
Super-accurate & precise digital scale (1g-1kg) $?
Hand-crafted balance with alligator clips & 5 free 5g weights $9
**ORGANIC** fertilizers & ammendments :
Eco brand nutrients, all flavours
Kelp in super-concentrated soluble tablets (Excellent foliar feed,
absolutely chocked full O' trace elements, micronutrients,
hormones, minerals & many beneficial biocatalysts)
Blood
Fish 5-2-2
0-10-10
Seaweed 1-1-1
Bat Guano 2-18-0 call for prices
10-3-1
Shrimp compost
Mushroom compost
Worm castings
Bone/Alfalfa/Fish/Feather/etc. meals
Greensand (K2SixOy)
Algal puree (with or without cytokinin)
Old Growth & Rainforest tree ashes (I wonder if they could use
anything else to make paper ? hmmmmmmm)
Pumice, Limestone (Dol. or Cal.), Rock Phosphate, Gypsum (see below)
Ground Oyster shell
Malt
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
Recipe Booklet VOL.II with many, many of my favourites including :
-Organic Carbohydrate "Rinse" solution, with B1 $9
-Cloning spray with cytokinin to delay senescence
-Mike's Magic liquid
-Sphagnum stew with Kelp
-Coconut milk spritzer with or without Inositol
-Bitter pistillate cones of the vine liqueur (saturated with CO2)
-etc.
Many books also available :
Gardening Indoors George Van Patten
Hydroponic Home Food Gardens Dr. Howard Resh
The Expert Series (1-4) Dr. G.H. Hessayon
Propagation Handbook Geoff Bryant
Complete Book of Plant Propagation Wright & Titchmarsh
Orchids Simplified Henry Jaworski
Best of Growing Edge various
Gardening Indoors with Cuttings George Van Patten
Knowing & Recognizing (pests) J. Coppert
The Mushroom Cultivator Paul Tamets & J.S. Chilton
Growing & Displaying Bonsai C. Lewis & N. Sutherland
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
Biological control & Predators : Steinernema carpocapsae (Nematodes)
Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Aphid pred.),Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
(Australian Lady Beetles),Amblyseius fallacis (Field Mite pred.)
Hypoaspis sp.(Fungus Gnat pred.),Phytoseiulus persimilis
(Spider mite pred.),Chrysopa carnea (Lacewings),Hippodamia
convergens (ladybugs),etc.etc.etc.
Ultrasonic, Sticky Strips, Pheromones & traps, Diatomaceous Earth,
Insecticidal soap, etc. also available
Seeds : Richter's Herb seeds (Grab-Bag 5 for $5)tell 'em we sent U
Stokes seeds
Enza seeds
Also: Tropical Rainforest seeds
Ginseng (cold stored)
Coffee (fresh or cold stored)
Eucalyptus
Feverfew
Hen's 'n Chicks
St. Johnswort
Greek Mountain Tea
Hops
Irish Moss
Jacob's Ladder
Jojoba
Pig's Ears
Pyrethrum
Wallflower
Sweetgrass
Witch Hazel
White Pine
Neem
Prickly Pear
Mushroom cultivating kits including Malt/Cornsteep Dextrose
agar,cheese wax,substrate,petri dishes,filter disks,
etc. to grow any mushrooms found (avoid Death Angel)
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
Compost thermometer (95-135 deg.Farenheit) $?(0.5 kg)
Hydrofarm 6' light track (most efficient) $?(10 kg)
4' " $?(8 kg)
Light Rail 3 (no chains) $?(9 kg)
IR transmitting black plastic, regular black, clear, various mils. $?(?kg)
6 mil. black & white Agro. plastic UV resistant liner, 10'X100' $?(19 kg)
8 mil. " ?(23 kg)
20 mil. black, non-toxic PVC UV resistant flexible 10 yr. liner $?
40 mil. " ?
mylar 2 mil 54" X 25 feet $23(3.8 kg)
" 100 ?(15 kg)
Ionizers ! $?
Activated charcoal for odor control & VOC adsorption (per pound)$?
Space-Age synthetic environmentally friendly regenerable carbon $?/L(1 kg)
Happy plants need healthy air ! Kills Yeast smell too.
Furnace filter charged with activated charcoal (custom size) $?(1.5 kg)
Air pumps (Optima,Maxima) various sizes from 1500-5500 cc./min. $?(1-2 kg)
Copper Sulfate (can be used @ 0.16 mg/L to control algae) $3
H2O2 35% with stabilizing agent, 1 quart (no mail order) $?
HNO3, H3PO4, KOH, etc. call
Large 6' round HDPE plastic flow-tray/reservoir (115 gal./460 L)$19(4.5 kg)
small 4' " (~60 gal./240 L) 14(3.5 kg)
(because of the above trays' flexibility,durability & ability to be grouped
together using bolts, it allows for them to form huge growing areas with
very low $/square foot or metre values, making them very popular, both
now come with holes, pipe & fittings ready to attach to virtually any pump,
available in heavy-duty double-thickness rigid industrial model as well)
Fill/drain fitting for above(use 1 & drill holes in input line) 99 cents
Kevlar (tm) carbon fiber bulletproof flow trays coming soon
Polyester resin & hardener for use with above (pint, quart or gallon) $?
Vektran (tm) carbon fiber liners (same as on Mars-lander air-bags)
Epoxy resin & hardener for use with above (pint, quart or gallon) $?
ABS rigid seamless or expandable seamed (requiring silicone bead & screws)
commercial greenhouse quality flow trays $?->
Custom built Fibreglass flow trays with Silicone liners $?
Bromthymol-blue (pH 6.0-7.6 indicator) with colour chart $?
Methyl-red & litmus paper also available
Deluxe pH kit : either or both of above with 2 pints pH+ & pH- $9
Digital pH meter (accurate to hundredths) $?(0.7 kg)
(clean with a toothbrush & paste then dish soap when)
(dead, go in & out & a little side to side)
Replacement electrode $?(0.2 kg)
Digital waterproof salts pen (+/- 10 ppm) $?(0.7 kg)
PLANS to use cheap analog Ohm-multimeter as E.C. meter FREE
(required : 1K(1000) Ohm-meter with fresh batteries,3 cups & some sandpaper)
(stick yer probe tips in & shake 'em to get a steady reading every time)
Portable ORP/RedOx probe (-999 - +999 mV) $?(0.7 kg)
Analog Hydrofarm light meter (1fc=1lm/sq.ft & 1lux=1lm/sq.m) $?(0.8 kg)
Digital light meter $69(0.9 kg)
UV or O3 H2O sanitizer $?
Compressed Bale of Sogevex TBK Fibrous Blond Sphagnum Peat Moss $?
Expanded clay pellets (grorocks,hydrocorn,whatever) 50 L & up $?
Leca(tm) kiln-fired clay pellets,high CEC & indestructible,50 L $?(24 kg)
pea-gravel $?
4 cubic feet of Perlite or Vermiculite $?
Bail of 16 6" Rockwool slabs (chemical free unlike insulation) $?(10 kg)
Oasis aggro-foam LC-1 starter sheets, 104 cubes (slabs also) $?(0.5 kg)
Case of 216 4" Rockwool cubes $?(11 kg)
Aggrofoam polyurethane 10 year slabs $?
Bail of Coconut fibre $?
Pro-Mix "BX" "HP" "PGX" "NX" in 3.8-55 cu.ft. compressed bale $?
X-Large pack of Soil moisture-retaining polymer crystals $?
15 lb. compressed CO2 tank (empty only for mail-order) $?
CO2 injection system (0-60 CFM flowgage & solenoid, fully wired)$99(3.0 kg)
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Needle-valve for above $?
Fully wired & grounded industrial 150 psi. H2O or CO2 solenoid $19.99(0.8 kg)
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Digital Grounded 25 Amp heavy-duty timer for use with above $?(2 kg)
24 VAC UV resistant adjustable solenoid with power pack $?(0.8 kg)
Aquafizzzzz airstone to use with above for aquatic plants $(0.3 kg)
(bury the above or use a rock as a "reactor" to trap bubbles to dissolve)
Green Air CD-3 CO2 generator $?(8.5 kg)
50 lbs. sodium bicarb. (baking soda to mix with acetic acid) $?
(can also be mixed with activated charcoal for air purification)
Gypsum to convert Na+ for leaching from Sodic & Saline soils $?
50 lbs. Dolomite Lime (adds Ca & Mg & balances pH too) $?
4 l (1 gal.) glacial (~100%) acetic acid (mix with either above)$?(no mail)
Wicked paraffin unscented candles for CO2 gen. & O2 reduction $5/doz.
8 pail monster plant setup with pump,perlite,nutrients,etc. $?
Complete Quantum (special !!) $?(25 kg)
Cooling thermostat for vent fan (heavy duty agricultural model) $?(2 kg)
Dehumidistat, highly recommended over thermostat in cold areas $69(0.75 kg)
450 GPH Attwood 12V submersible pump with power pack for 5 more $?(3.5 kg)
GSW Diamond, Flotec, Oase, Pro, Little Giant 90-2000 gph fountain pumps $call
Filter bag for any pump to prevent drip-line clogging $?
12'-32' submersible Soil heating cable, thermosatat @ 74 deg.F $?
Submersible (fully) reservoir heater with thermostat (300 Watt) $?
Hydrofarm (tm) propagation heating mat (14" X 22") $?
250-1380 CFM vent blowers to fit in duct or dryer line $?
150 CFM Whisper (tm) box-fan with cord $?(2 kg)
(can easily be attached to reflector for cooling & circulation)
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3-buy a bilge-pump thru-hull fitting and connect to your pump which is now
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4-fill the res. with water and leave the pump on full blast to see if it is
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neighborhood development, by creating a model village on a site in the Town
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treatment, greywater recycling, and a Visitor/Education Center. Currently
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a more solid structure? What will happen as the roads and infrastructure
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regenerative assets? Our current issue, #17, contains the following articles:
Rainwater Catchments as a Way of Life by Karen and Daniel Howell, who live on 40 acres literally out in the middle of nowhere. They do not have a well on their property -- all of their drinking and irrigation water is rainwater which they have collected and stored.
Two Cultural Perspectives on Rain by Daniel Vallotton. This article contrasts the cultural attitude in Mexico, where people are totally dependent on rainfall to grow their crops, and the U.S., where people have lost their connection to the land and consider rain to be a "nuisance."
Dry Country News Builds a Solar Still by Gordon Solberg. Part 2 of a series showing how to build a solar-powered water still to convert salty, low-quality water into pure, distilled water.
Concrete Domes by Allen Newman. A brief description of how he built his dome-shaped house out of concrete.
Reviews. We review a book, The Humanure Handbook, and a video, Building with Straw, Volume 3.
Desert Herbs by Deborah Brandt. She tells us about Chaparral and Escoba de la Vibora (Snakebroom).
Gardening in the High Desert by Cathy Hope. Gardening at an elevation of 7800 feet.
Vegetable Varieties for Zone 8 by Lynda Goin. Veggies that like hot weather.
Protecting Frost Sensitive Seedlings with Wall-o-Waters by Gordon Solberg. Add an extra month onto your growing season.
Beetles, Hornworms and Grasshoppers, Oh My! by David Richman. What to do when your garden gets invaded.
Cheap Land in West Texas by Avalon Bruce. Unbelievable deals!
Our Solar Turkey by Vickie Aldrich. What could be more sustainably All-American than baking your Thanksgiving turkey in a solar oven?
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Dry Country News is back, and it is good. Very good. The writing is excellent, the photos and layout are good, and it is aesthetically pleasing. The magazine has a strong how-to flavor. Down-to-earth personal experience pieces dot the magazine. Humor is abundant and welcome. If you live in the Southwest, this magazine will help you live in your bioregion more firmly, more sustainably, and more joyfully. -- Permaculture Activist. The Wisdom of the Ancient Ones
These back issues are packed with timeless information. Limited supply. All prices are postpaid.
No. 2 Summer 1979 36 pages $5.00 -- Irrigation dam, buying land, Mimbres waterworks, water harvesting, alfalfa hay for breakfast, much more.
No. 3 Fall 1979 40 pages $5.00 -- The Alamosa Creek irrigation system, desert gardening, ultimate coldframe, grain amaranth, Phil & Polly's legendary outhouse, rainwater wonders, living without money.
No. 4 Winter 1979-80 36 pages $5.00 -- Solar hot water heater, bargain BTUs, desert soils, growing grain amaranth, desert herbs, herding goats on the Rio Grande, home-grown tortillas, laid-back gardening.
No. 5 Spring 1980 44 pages $5.00 -- Solar heat, desert milk goat experiments, dry country gardening, prickly pear jelly, native crops of the Southwest, birth alternatives, more.
No. 6 Summer 1980 60 pages $7.50 -- Bisbee fruit garden, building with adobe, goatwalking, goat milk cheese, summer planting, arid land agriculture, basic biking, cottonwoods, desert herbs.
No. 7 September 1980 24 pages $3.00 -- Poured adobe construction, solar heating, goatwalking, dry country hints & advice, sun tea, basic biking, much more.
No. 8 October 1980 20 pages $3.00 -- Goatwalking, the garden path, arid land agriculture, hot desert seed bank, sustainable living in Tucson, desert herbs, home remedies.
No. 11 Spring 1984 8 pages $2.00 -- Small scale desert gardening, Arizona cypress, tumbleweed soup, spring stars, reviews, more.
No. 14 Winter 1984-85 8 pages $2.00 -- An Albuquerque micro-farm, diving the soul in place, coyote magicks, more.
No. 16 Jan.-Dec. 1996 48 pages $5.00 -- Tire house, cob building, straw bale houses, rammed earth, adobe dome, solar still, Arizona apples, salty soil, community dialog, tumbleweed wranglers, reviews, much more.
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Mailing Lists
The following mailing lists have been gleaned over the months from people
who already are cross-subscribed to many. They are selected because each one
addresses some or several aspects of living in harmony with the Universe.
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to provide some kind of order to sorting through the many lists that are
out there.
Small community/neighborhood building
Re-visioning existing towns & cities
Interpersonal Relations
New Economic Arrangements
Building Methods
Energy
Growing things
Health
Environmental Awareness
Indigenous Peoples
NEWS
Spirituality
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ALLERGY
discusses all types of human allergies - how allergies influence
our health and lifestyles, treatments for allergies from the consumer
perspective and experience, self-help prevention of allergy symptoms,
allergy self-care, allergy support systems and basic facts about these
topics.
BD-L(bio-dynamics)
BK2BASICS
where we talk about issues related to return to basic ways
of living and achieving happiness. It is a discussion group for people
who wish to learn the know-how of the good-ole-days for future living
survival skills. We are interested in maintaining our self-reliance and
independence in the present-day and future. Topics may include living
off the land, medical self care, how to grow and use herbs as medicinal
plant foods, building community, home schooling, environmental
resotration, low input sustainable agriculture, collective gardening
techniques, making rather than purchasing products.
BIOENERGY
Discussion of biomass as a sustainable energy resource,
intended to involve industry, academia and government.
BIOREGIONAL The purpose of this list is to provide a forum to exchange
ideas and suggestions about bioregionalism across bioregional boundaries
-- a place for "global to meet local". Discussion should support
projects which foster design and evolution of healthy, interdependent and
self-reliant communities.
COHOUSING-L Is primarily a 'working' discussion among people heavily
involved in developing cohousing. As such introductory messages and even
messages about the joys of cohousing are infrequent. Our
WWW site
includes resources for newcomers to the idea
of cohousing.
COOPERATIVEN-L is a source of news from and about co-operatives
and co-operation. Subscribers are invited to provide news releases and
either full or edited extracts from their newsletters.
The list is moderated to guarantee the co-operative integrity of the list.
The purposes of the list are 1) To provide
education, training and information
for members, elected representatives, managers and employees so
they can contribute effectively to the development of their cooperatives;
2) To inform the general public - particularly young people and opinion
leaders - about the nature and benefits of cooperation; and 3) To
strengthen the
cooperative movement by working together through local, regional, national,
and international structures.
COMPOST
COMMUNITY_GARDEN
The Community Garden List is housed at the University of Arizona. This list
was established to allow Master Gardeners and others interested in devloping
or enhancing community gardening programs to communicate via email.
Please use this list to post information about community gardening events
and opportunities, to ask for information on community gardening projects,
and to connect with other community gardeners.
CSA-L
is for networking on Community Supported Agriculture.
We hope to see discussions on goals, distribution styles, outreach tools,
member retention, educational work, connections with non-CSA organizations,
etc. We also would like to see the exchange of newsletter articles and
information about resources on CSA such as networking organizations, books,
journals, videos, audio tapes from conferences, speaker tours of interest to
CSAs, etc. In short, we would like to take advantage of the collective
knowledge of as many CSA's as possible to help the CSA movement grow and
strengthen.
ECOBALANCE A discussion group dedicated to the creation and maintenance
of self-sufficient, sustainable communities, in which people live in
harmony with each other and with nature. A full range of human communities are
represented, from the individual household,to a cluster of households (cohousing),
to neighborhoods and cities. A number of participants are working
to form Ecovillages - newly created communities
embodying within them the principles of living in harmony with nature and each other.
ECOCITY - sustainable urban development
ECON-LETS
This list is intended for the open and informal discussion of
economic, social and telematics issues surrounding the
development of LETS and similar community currencies.
ENVIRONEWS
EVFINANCE - the discussion list
for financing and fundraising for
eco-villages and sustainable community.
The list will be open for discussions on all aspects of community
financing, i.e: local currencies, community banks, community insurance,
investment funds, soft loans, community businesses, fundraising, other
community-based economic initiatives, financial barriers etc, etc.
GAIA-L is to provide a forum for the discussion of Gaian theory and
practice, in order to help create and disseminate a worldwide Gaia
movement, a shared global postindustrial culture based on awareness of
humanity's embeddedness in, and dependence upon, a healthy biosphere.
GREENBUILDING - a discussion forum on green design and construction.
GREENCLIPS is a summary of recent articles in the media on sustainable
architecture and related government and green business issues. It
covers green building strategies and innovative case studies, new
technologies and products, research findings, legislation and green
business issues.
HEALTHE
is a moderated list with the following goals:
2) Develop management strategies to reduce the health risks and stay healthy
in an increasingly toxic world. Areas of consideration will include
lifestyle and dietary changes, exercise, conventional medicine, holistic
healing, and integrative medicine. Step-wise programs of reasonable changes,
starting with the individual and proceeding to community and global issues.
3) Work together with medical, scientific, legal, and industrial communities
and media towards finding solutions to prevent environmentally caused health
problems for the individual; as well as considerations regarding the
development of worldwide safeguards to protect our air, water, and other
valuable resources.
IMMUNE - We discuss immune system disorders such as
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Lupus,
Candida, Asthma, etc. It is a support group for people with the
conditions and those who know and work with them.
MV2SPK
is a mailing list for people who have been to a Community Building
Workshop sponsored by Scott Peck's "Foundation for Community
Encouragement, or who are interested in the Community Building methods of
Peck's books "Different Drum" and "World Waiting to be Born".
Individuals with other community building backgrounds and interests are
also welcome but the forum is expected to maintain an emphasis on Peck's
process.
NATCHAT is for discussing information and ideas about the
indigenous peoples of the world.
NATIVE-L is similar to a news service in which daily postings are
articles giving information about current affairs affecting indigenous
peoples of the world.
PARACELSUS The primary focus of this list is the clinical practice of
natural medicine, alternative therapies and complementary healthcare.
All schools of medicine and all therapeutic modalities are welcome, though
subscription to PARACELSUS is limited to health care professionals.
PERMACULTURE
is about designing ecological human habitats and food
production systesm. It is an approach to land use which integrates human
dwellings, microclimate, annual and perennial plans, animals, soils, and
water management into stable, productive communities.
There are two permaculture lists,
owned by some of the same people but hosted at different sites, and
yet a third list hosted independently at a third site. As yet,
it is not clear how these lists differ from one another.
POLY
The central topic of this list is Polyamory -- i.e. polyamorous
relationships, people who are polyamorous (or might want to be), and
directly related topics such as dealing with emotions, legal issues,
child-raising, being "out", etc.
STRAWBALE is intended to foster the free exchange of ideas regarding
straw bale construction.
TREE-HOUSE
is an eco-friendly Internet forum for all who care deeply
about the greening of public streets and gardens in their hometowns, who
think about "downtown" as a good place for growing trees.
VISIONS
is a mailing list that allows persons with a vision for a Light
Center in their community to express their vision and call for ideas,
comments and assistance from others to bring their vision a step closer
to manifestation in the earth experience. Discussions and messages on
this list are limited to creating community Light Centers.
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Throughout the evolution of the alternative agriculture movement, the Wallace Institute's fundamental goal
has remained constant: to ensure that farm production gains not only are efficient and equitable, but also
maintain the soil, water, and air on which farming -- and all human life -- depend.
The Wallace Institute advances this goal by providing the leadership, and policy research and analysis
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replicate these natural processes in our lives, homes, communities and businesses.
In how we build our homes, grow our gardens, collect and preserve rainwater,
revegetate abused lands, and even run our businesses. What is the easy way
to produce a result, rather than the hard way. Permaculture is a paradigm
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Topics covered include alternative construction methods (straw bale, cob, adobe, etc.), gardening in our difficult desert climate, solar energy techniques and applications, desert herbs for food and medicine, sustainable irrigation methods (rainwater catchments, drip, etc.) and much more. We are a reader participation magazine, so there's no telling what will be in each issue!
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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF
INSITU BIOREMEDIATION
Larry J. Forney and James M. Tiedje
NSF Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
BIOAUGMENTATION
There is considerable interest and debate about the efficacy of using
"specialized" microorganisms to enhance biological remediation processes --
so called bioaugmentation. In the typical scenario, pure cultures or
mixtures of microorganisms that are especially adept in degrading specific
classes of contaminants in the laboratory are selected. These specialized
cultures are then used to amend soils or injected into the subsurface with
the intent of increasing the rate of specific metabolic processes. To
perform their intended function, the introduced organisms must survive, grow
and function. However, ecological theory states that only species can occupy
any given niche. So each species introduced into the environment must
compete with the high numbers of different indigenous species present and
must displace one or more of the species present. This is a formidable task
given that each species, by definition, is well-suited and effectively
competes for the niche that it occupies. In many cases, the introduced
species will not be more fit. This is probably true because the indigenous
species for the introduced organisms would have been selected under
conditions that did not mimic the natural environment closely enough. Given
the heterogeneity of soils and the subsurface, and the obvious difficulty of
mimicking natural systems in the laboratory, the "specialized" microorganisms
selected might be used effectively in some but certainly not all environments
(sites). Thus, conclusions as to whether particular "specialized"
microorganisms would be effective in a given environment can only be made
based on empirical, site-specific data. Exceptions to this general principle
would be instances in which none of the indigenous species are able to
efficiently metabolize a contaminant. Under these circumstances, the
introduced species would occupy a 'unfilled' niche. Alternatively, other
perturbations (changes) in the environment might create ecological niches
that could be occupied by introduced species. In sum, it should be
recognized that it is very difficult to predict the efficacy of "specialized"
microorganisms because factors that determine the competitive ability of
microorganisms in the environment are not well understood.
Organic Matter influences the moisture-holding capacity of the soil, serves
as a supply of nutrients, feeds microorganisms, insects, earthworms, etc.,
and improves soil tilth and structure. The amount of organic matter depends
on temperature, rainfall, aeration and other factors. It tends to be a
characteristic of soil type in a given environment and is not easily changed.
Excessive tillage results in a loss of organic matter. Large additions of
crop residue, compost, mulch, manure, etc. cause only small changes in soil
organic matter. Ideal soils have about 5% organic matter. Excessive
applications of organic matter may tie up available nitrogen. More organic
matter found in mulches would not hurt the garden soil. Compost from the
compost piles is an excellent addition to the gardens, either worked into
the soil or placed on top as a superb organic weed control.
WHAT IS ZEROWASTE?
ZeroWaste is a planning principle for business and citizens in the
21st Century. Waste is inefficiency and businesses must be
encouraged to strive towards environmental efficiency. Just as
businesses don't want to waste time or money, they should be
discouraged from wasting natural resources. Nor should they be
allowed to pass their waste on to consumers, in the form of
"disposable" products and packaging. In a ZeroWaste marketplace,
businesses will create reverse distribution systems to take
products and packaging back into production, rather than
dumping the problem on community incinerators and landfills.
Nature is a ZeroWaste system. Business must learn to be more like
Nature.
Is ZeroWaste necessary?
If all businesses operated as wastefully as do businesses in the
"developed world", we would need THREE PLANET EARTHS to
support them. In our daily lives, we use much more than our fair
share of the earth's resources. As more and more people join the
human family, and all aspire to live the way we live in the
"developed world", the inefficiency we now take for granted will
not be tolerable. ZeroWaste is a discipline we must begin to
practice now. We must learn to eliminate unnecessary waste, in
order to preserve the true quality of life that we aspire to as
human beings -- the quality of life defined by having just enough
of what you want, rather than an abundance of waste -- which no-
one wants.
The North American economic system stands for...
Our economic system is built on the trust we have in the free
market to regulate the production and consumption of goods.
Consumers have the freedom to choose, and their choices guide
the producers in the production of goods. But a free market only
works if the prices of products tells the truth about the costs of
production. For many years, product prices have misled
consumers. Cheap, mass-produced convenience products bear
hidden costs that the consumer never thinks about. Landfills,
incinerators, litter clean-up -- these are all costs that are passed on
to local communities, not paid for by the producers of the
products that become waste. Taxpayer subsidies and tax breaks
that support the squandering of natural resources. Welfare checks
paid to the unemployed -- productive workers who lost their jobs
to automation and mass-production. These environmental and
social costs are hidden subsidies, ways in which the taxpayer
inadvertently encourages businesses to be wasteful and inefficient.
The Solution
A ZeroWaste economy will shift these environmental and social
costs back into the prices of the disposable products and
packaging where they belong, signalling to the consumer that
these are not such bargains after all. In a ZeroWaste economy, the
competitive producer is the one who learns to avoid waste and
invest in jobs that produce high-quality products and services.
The Grassroots Environmental Network is calling for a shift to a
ZeroWaste economy. We want to create jobs, not waste. We want
to end subsidies for waste.
From: Tim Myles t.myles@utoronto.ca
Re: Possible use of termites on spent mushroom substrate or other
agricultural byproducts.
Spent mushroom substrate is likely to be an excellent physical and
nutritional medium for termites. Termites are the main group of
invertebrate animals that digest low-nutrient, lignocellulosic, "brown"
matter. We northern hemisphere biologists have a profound blind spot
when in comes to appreciating the stupendous importance of termites in
the carbon cycle. Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant
cell wall matter into animal biomass on this planet. I'll just repeat
that: Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant cell wall
matter into animal biomass on this planet. In performing this they
support a huge percentage of small vertebrate insectivore biodiversity.
One popular misconception about termites is that they eat only wood.
This is true of only the most notorious pests. It is estimated that over
50% of all termite species are humivorous. Entire subfamilies of the
higher termite family Termitidae, such as the Apicotermitinae and
Termitinae are humivourous. Many other termites feed on surface litter,
dry leaves, grass, and even lichens. In arid areas, where animal dung
rapidly becomes too dry for dung flies and dung beetles, termites are
the major decomposers of herbivore dung. In fact, many of the most
abundant termites in arid and semi-arid regions of the world are dung
feeders. This is true in the American Southwest, where several species
of Amitermes, Gnathamitermes, and even Reticulitermes are commonly found
in dung. In fact, I am in the process of describing a new
dung-specialist genus which is found in the American southwest and
Northern Mexico.
Decompiculture, or the culturing of decomposer organisms, is the
inevitable next step in mankind's utilization of natural resources and
ecological integration in the biosphere. Large scale composting is the
first evidence that we are waking up to this ecological imperative.
The most important candidate decomposer organisms are bacteria,
actinomycetes, fungi, earthworms, termites, beetles and flies. Up until
now, these organisms (decomposers) have not been seen as sources of
production. Those of us who study these organisms tend to study the
relatively few that are pests. The majority however are beneficial and
essential cogs in the cycling of nutrients. Now that humankind has
progressed to the point of having numerous large organic waste streams
we must now develop intensive decomposition systems to match our
intensive production systems.
"Termite ranching" or termiticulture inevitably will be much more
important than vermiculture because termites are able to utilize lower
nutrient substrates, wood and humus. Termiticulture could probably be
easily integrated with mushroom production. However termites do not
develop quite as quickly as many other insects thus the start up time
might be several years before the population could consume at the rate
of spent compost delivery. Containment and rearing facilities would
have to take into account their social habits.
Termiticulture may not be feasible out of doors in the temperate part of
the northern hemisphere. The southern tier state of the US would be
adequate for a few genera such as Reticulitermes and Amitermes, but
large scale termiticulture would work best in conjunction with tropical
agriculture, especially wherever there is a large cellulosic waste
component in the food processing. Termite production could also be
integrated with dairy and livestock production as a manure management
system. Matching species to wastes and to stage of waste would be
necessary.
If anyone knows of an innovative tropical agribusiness that would be
interested in putting up the capital for a pilot study, I'd like to hear
from them.
Sincerely,
Tim Myles
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Dr. Timothy G. Myles, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33
Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B3, CANADA. t.myles@utoronto.ca
phone: (416) 978-5755
fax: (416) 978-2403
home phone (905) 877-9351
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Littera occidit, spiritus vivificat
The letter kills, the spirit breathes life
These pages are dedicated to the memory of John Lilburne (1614-1657).
"Is John departed? and is Lilburne gone?
LilburneIf no one else were alive, John would quarrel with Lilburne.
Farewell to both -- to Lilburne and to John.
Yet, being gone, take this advice from me:
Let them not both in one grave buried be.
Here lay ye John, lay Lilburne thereabout;
For if they both should meet, they would fall out."
John Lilburne was a contentious Leveller in the Commonwealth; so rancorous against rank that he could never satisfy himself that any two persons were exactly on the same level. (SOURCE: The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.)
So, here you are. These pages explore the collective history of groups such as diggers, quakers, rainbow family, christians, taoists, civil libertarians, democrats, republicans, socialists and other divers radicals. We generally travel in different circles, and our ordinary interests and concerns may vary, but perhaps we move in same spirit. Welcome. Come on into the vestibule, and see the rest of the pages. Also, for your reference...
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The emblem above is from Alciato's Book of Emblems,
published in the mid-1500s, which includes the following emblem poem:
Vipereos Cadmus dentes ut credidit arvis,(When Cadmus committed those viper's teeth to the fields, he sowed terrible seeds in Aonian soil: an armed band of men arose, born from the earth, and with murderous hands set to killing one another. Some of these men escaped; heeding Tritonian advice, they threw away their arms, made peace, and joined their right hands.) (This son of Agenor was first to pass on to teachers the letters of the alphabet and the first principles of learning, and to these he added sweet harmony. But scholars in these matters are vexed by many, many disputes, except when these are solved by the aid of Pallas.) |
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Cross Timbers is a non-profit educational institute. We were conceived in April of 1994 when Bill Mollison was invited to teach a two week permaculture design course at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas. The institute was incorporated and granted non-profit determination as of January, 1995. Its founders are Jack Rowe, Inger Myhre and Kirby Fry.
Cross Timbers has been relocated from Glen Rose to Rainbow Hearth, near Marble Falls, Texas.
"Permaculture philosophy is one of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation, rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them; of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolution." (Mollison '90)
The Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute's mission is to implement and teach sustainable living practices in north central Texas, and to help people make the transition from discovering permaculture and sustainability to living it.
Many of us would like to discuss and learn more about earning a sustainable livelihood. Please send us any ideas or success stories that you may have. Cross Timbers is also collecting information about job training, apprenticeships and careers in professions which are both sustainable and rewarding to their practicioners.
Cross Timbers shares interests with many other exciting web sites around the world.
Check out our resource list of other groups and folks in Texas who are also developing sustainable living systems.
This list of organizations includes the addresses of other permaculture institutes and groups closely associated with permaculture.
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Hey folks, hope you enjoy this website and find some things either interesting, or useful, or stimulating. Of course, it is under construction, and will hopefully become better with time and experience on my part. Any and all suggestions are welcome and encouraged. (Email me from the bottom of the page.)
Here are some of the Landscape
Architecture - Design - Planning sites that I frequent. I've found
them both useful and interesting at times.
The Planning
Commissioners Journal's -Planners Web-
Planning and
Architecture Internet Resource
Some of these "Conservation" sites
are also very useful in the world of landscape design.
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design Online Surfing the Net for Sustainable Development
A most relaxing hobby is
gardening. And when all goes well, it's so productive, too. I garden
organically, so the vegetables my garden produces are not only much
more delicious than "storebought", but healthier for me, my friends
and family, and the natural environment. And it's fun!
Reston home and garden bulletin board
One of the joys of my life is being
in the outdoors, hopefully with not too much "civilization" around.
And so, I go hiking. When I can't, rather than surf, I hike the net
(there are lots of great links here):
Backpacker Magazine's
BaseCamp
Outdoor Adventure and Recreation
One of the most important loves of my life is Tasha. After almost fourteen and a half wonderful, joyous years of love and companionship, she was taken from me by canine lymphoma. Although nothing can stop the missing her, I did find some comfort on the web. Here are some sites that might help you just a little, too, though it may feel like nothing will help. There are also sites here for pet health questions, among other things.
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Strike Pet Loss Page
Donaldson-Atwood Cancer Clinic
Electronic Zoo - NetVet - Dog Page
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Some Bay Area Progressive
Stuff - An easy to use site that gives you the who, what, where, and when on what is
going on in the Bay Area progressive community.
Earth Island Institute - A San Francisco
based organization that has a number of different projects that range in focus from local to
international. A few of their 20 projects include the Urban Habitat Program, Berkeley-Borneo
Project, International Marine Mammal Project, and the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.
San Francisco Chapter of the Surfrider
Foundation - The local chapter of an organization, made up of waveriders and anyone
else who loves the ocean, dedicated to promoting the health of Our Mother Ocean.
Sonoma State University - This is where I go to
school. I'm in the Environmental Studies and Planning Department as a city and regional
planning major. Check it out.
Our current issue, #17, contains the following articles:
Rainwater Catchments as a Way of Life by Karen and Daniel Howell, who live on 40 acres literally out in the middle of nowhere. They do not have a well on their property -- all of their drinking and irrigation water is rainwater which they have collected and stored.
Two Cultural Perspectives on Rain by Daniel Vallotton. This article contrasts the cultural attitude in Mexico, where people are totally dependent on rainfall to grow their crops, and the U.S., where people have lost their connection to the land and consider rain to be a "nuisance."
Dry Country News Builds a Solar Still by Gordon Solberg. Part 2 of a series showing how to build a solar-powered water still to convert salty, low-quality water into pure, distilled water.
Concrete Domes by Allen Newman. A brief description of how he built his dome-shaped house out of concrete.
Reviews. We review a book, The Humanure Handbook, and a video, Building with Straw, Volume 3.
Desert Herbs by Deborah Brandt. She tells us about Chaparral and Escoba de la Vibora (Snakebroom).
Gardening in the High Desert by Cathy Hope. Gardening at an elevation of 7800 feet.
Vegetable Varieties for Zone 8 by Lynda Goin. Veggies that like hot weather.
Protecting Frost Sensitive Seedlings with Wall-o-Waters by Gordon Solberg. Add an extra month onto your growing season.
Beetles, Hornworms and Grasshoppers, Oh My! by David Richman. What to do when your garden gets invaded.
Cheap Land in West Texas by Avalon Bruce. Unbelievable deals!
Our Solar Turkey by Vickie Aldrich. What could be more sustainably All-American than baking your Thanksgiving turkey in a solar oven?
Sample Copy of Issue 17: $3.00 postpaid
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THANK YOU! What a delight to find a copy of your publication. It is just wonderful! Bless you for publishing Dry Country News! -- Gwen Lyndsong, Tyrone, NM
I loved issue no. 16 of DCN! I read it cover to cover, this Sunday a.m. in my porch swing. It's GREAT! -- Avalon Bruce, Odessa, TX
Dry Country News is a great publication. We congratulate you on putting out such a good enviro-conscious rag. -- Carol Escott, Bisbee, AZ
Just picked up your magazine at our local Alfalfa's market & I love it. I look forward (w/bated breath) to your next edition. Thanks. -- English Nawrock & Bryan Bird, Santa Fe, NM
I got a copy of DCN from a friend whose sister lives outside of Albuquerque and enjoyed it very much. I look forward to the next issue! -- Mary Reimer, Oakland, CA
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DCN is certainly a turn-on. Great journal -- solid info, a great attitude, and very low on the BS level. -- Nick Morgan, Berkeley, CA
What a fine issue of Dry Country News. Good job. Both practical and philosophical. Good humor and poetry too. I found the reviews to be helpful. In general I think your positive vision is both important and admirable. Mark Schimoeller, Frankfort, KY
Great to see DCN! I loved the alternative building focus. -- Art Goodtimes, Norwood, CO
We have really enjoyed Dry Country News! -- Mary Brown, Las Cruces, NM
Best wishes to you and congratulations for the fine journal that you produce. -- Matt Meyers, Hillsboro, NM
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DCN is great! -- Dave McLean, Columbia, MD
I just wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed Dry Country News. I think you offer a lot of good info that we your readers want. -- Lola M. Pointer, Marlin, TX
Thank you for publishing Dry Country News. It is a wonderful magazine. -- Anne-Marie Eriksson, Las Cruces, NM
Issue 16 was ¡MAGNIFICO! -- Taalibah Mannan, Mesa, AZ
Your paper is awesome! Send us more! -- Maureen B. Poulas, Albuquerque, NM
Your magazine is WONDERFUL! We are really enjoying this! The articles in it are really great and very informative. We wish you much good fortune with your great magazine. -- June
Benoit, Butler, OK
Dry Country News is back, and it is good. Very good. The writing is excellent, the photos and layout are good, and it is aesthetically pleasing. The magazine has a strong how-to flavor. Down-to-earth personal experience pieces dot the magazine. Humor is abundant and welcome. If you live in the Southwest, this magazine will help you live in your bioregion more firmly, more sustainably, and more joyfully. -- Permaculture Activist. The Wisdom of the Ancient Ones
These back issues are packed with timeless information. Limited supply. All prices are postpaid.
No. 2 Summer 1979 36 pages $5.00 -- Irrigation dam, buying land, Mimbres waterworks, water harvesting, alfalfa hay for breakfast, much more.
No. 3 Fall 1979 40 pages $5.00 -- The Alamosa Creek irrigation system, desert gardening, ultimate coldframe, grain amaranth, Phil & Polly's legendary outhouse, rainwater wonders, living without money.
No. 4 Winter 1979-80 36 pages $5.00 -- Solar hot water heater, bargain BTUs, desert soils, growing grain amaranth, desert herbs, herding goats on the Rio Grande, home-grown tortillas, laid-back gardening.
No. 5 Spring 1980 44 pages $5.00 -- Solar heat, desert milk goat experiments, dry country gardening, prickly pear jelly, native crops of the Southwest, birth alternatives, more.
No. 6 Summer 1980 60 pages $7.50 -- Bisbee fruit garden, building with adobe, goatwalking, goat milk cheese, summer planting, arid land agriculture, basic biking, cottonwoods, desert herbs.
No. 7 September 1980 24 pages $3.00 -- Poured adobe construction, solar heating, goatwalking, dry country hints & advice, sun tea, basic biking, much more.
No. 8 October 1980 20 pages $3.00 -- Goatwalking, the garden path, arid land agriculture, hot desert seed bank, sustainable living in Tucson, desert herbs, home remedies.
No. 11 Spring 1984 8 pages $2.00 -- Small scale desert gardening, Arizona cypress, tumbleweed soup, spring stars, reviews, more.
No. 14 Winter 1984-85 8 pages $2.00 -- An Albuquerque micro-farm, diving the soul in place, coyote magicks, more.
No. 16 Jan.-Dec. 1996 48 pages $5.00 -- Tire house, cob building, straw bale houses, rammed earth, adobe dome, solar still, Arizona apples, salty soil, community dialog, tumbleweed wranglers, reviews, much more.
This site is still under construction. We will be adding a bulletin board soon. In the meantime, please send your questions and comments to us at drynews@zianet.com and we will print them here. Have you ever wondered why we fight nature? Why we don't put solar, gardening,
home building, water harvesting etc. all together in one plan to create
a more solid structure? What will happen as the roads and infrastructure
of our country deteriorates? How do we turn our deteriorating assets into
regenerative assets? CIAS is =
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Center for Dairy Profitability
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online version of the PCEI Environmental News.
Learn about the Carol Ryrie Brink Nature Park.
Serving north Idaho and eastern Washington state,
USA.
The program areas of PCEI are:
We are constantly updating PCEI's site. As a community
organization, we welcome any suggestions and comments or items you would like
included on our monthly calendar. Send these to pcei@moscow.com
As a grass roots public interest group, we are
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The mission of the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental
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that affect our region's environment. Through community
organizing and education, PCEI assists members of our
communities in making environmentally sound and economically
viable decisions that promote a sustainable future.
Through our efforts and success record, PCEI has established
itself as a credible grassroots organization capable of
mobilizing people and providing technical support for
individuals and community groups to become involved in solving
environmental problems. As the clearinghouse for information on
local and regional issues, we receive about 300 requests per
year for technical assistance. Community support and respect for
our work is strong.
PCEI is celebrating its tenth year as a goal oriented,
success driven instrument for local involvement in environmental
issues. We are well known for our capability in building
coalitions among diverse groups of people. Our seven project
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A quick look at the people of PCEI...
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Located in the Karuk Homelands, Sandy Bar Ranch is nestled
in a beautiful valley carved out by the Klamath River. Our six
riverside redwood cabins are fully
equipped with a kitchen/living room, bedroom, bathroom and outdoor
deck. The small rural town of Orleans encompasses a diverse community
of Native Americans, organic farmers, artisans,
Forest Service personnel and local merchants.
At the Ranch you'll find an organic garden,
a fruit tree nursery, and handmade crafts.
Ask for a tour or try your hand at gardening while you're here.
Shiatsu massage is also available.
We are a collective enterprise dedicated to stewardship of
the land and the practice of permaculture.
In a time of rapidly disappearing wilderness, Sandy Bar offers
an out-of-the-way retreat for exploring the few remaining wild
areas in California. We hope visitors will treasure this wilderness
as we do.
As Sandy Bar continues to grow, we continue to search for
new collective members. We also
offer a number of work exchange
positions each year.
Throughout the year we offer seminars on topics such as: sustainable
agriculture, herbalism, performing arts, massage, crafts, yoga,
conservation and watershed management. Check out our calendar of events for more info.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture soil scientist Cynthia Cambardella is passionate about macroaggregates. She and her colleagues at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, study soil structure and its effect on nutrient cycling in the hope of developing more efficient and environmentally friendly farming techniques. Soils with abundant macroaggregates do a better job of supporting plant life and lose fewer nutrients to leaching; therefore, much of Cambardella's work focuses on the formation and degradation of these rich crumbs in agricultural lands.
Cambardella has her graduate student Jeff Gale of Iowa State University use radioactive carbon 14, for example, to observe the aggregation process in soil as the debris from harvested oat plants decomposes. Gale sows his oats in large pots kept in a walk-in growth chamber. As the plants grow to a height of a meter, he periodically doses them with radioactivity by combining carbon 14-tagged sodium bicarbonate with a dilute acid inside the growth chamber. When the acid hits the radioactive baking soda, the mixture foams, liberating "hot" carbon dioxide that is fixed by the growing plants and incorporated into their tissues.
After the plants are harvested, Gale and Cambardella can trace the radioactive organic materials from the remaining roots and straw as they decompose and become incorporated into the soil structure. They are finding that the presence of relatively fresh plant matter in the soil helps to stabilize its structure--the number of macroaggregates peaks about 180 days after the harvest, and then the aggregates start to break down, potentially compromising soil quality.
Studying aggregate formation, Gale says, will help farmers learn to maintain good soil structure in the field. Cambardella believes that understanding soil structure is vital to developing agricultural practices that do not cause topsoil erosion or the contamination of aquifers and surface waters with fertilizer runoff. "We need to learn more about what's really going on in the soil," Cambardella says. "We can't black-box it anymore." --Rebecca Zacks
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We are based in Sante Fe, New Mexico and have bases of operation in Sante
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replicate these natural processes in our lives, homes, communities and businesses.
In how we build our homes, grow our gardens, collect and preserve rainwater,
revegetate abused lands, and even run our businesses. What is the easy way
to produce a result, rather than the hard way. Permaculture is a paradigm
shift from a user mentality to a caretaker mentality.
What is Permaculture? That's the first thing everybody asks me. Everyone
wants to make it a thing. A way of gardening, collecting rainwater etc.
Well it is all those things, but what Permaculture really is a shift in
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then using this offering to facilitate a process.
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Permaculture Web Links & Discussion Groups*
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*From: The Permaculture FAQ, Version 1.4
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1. Permaculture Mailing List in U.S.A. on University of North Carolina
listserv permaculture@listserv.unc.edu (post articles to this address)
To subscribe, send email to "listserv@unc.edu"
type: SUBSCRIBE PERMACULTURE YOUR NAME in body of message
2. Permaculture Mailing List in U.S.A. on EnviroLink listserv
permaculture@envirolink.org (post articles to this address)
To subscribe send email to "listproc@envirolink.org"
type: SUBSCRIBE PERMACULTURE YOUR NAME in body of message
3. Permaculture Mailing List in Western Australia
perma@eepo.com.au (post articles to this address)
To subscribe, send email to "listserv@eepo.com.au"
type: SUBSCRIBE PERMA YOUR NAME in body of message
4. Permaculture Mailing List in Germany (German Language)
permakultur-ml@petidomo.ml.deceiver.org (post articles to this
address)
To subscribe, send email to "petidomo@ml.deceiver.org"
ADD YOUR ADDRESS PERMAKULTUR-ML in body of message
5. Permaculture Discussion Group Archives
PERMACULTURE discussion group (listserver at U.N.C., Chapel Hill, NC):
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture-listserver/index.html
PERMACULTURE discussion group (listserver at Envirolink):
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture-listserver-envirolink/index.html
PERMACULTURE-MG archives:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture1/maillist.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/maillist.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture-mg-archives
6. InterGarden: Organic Gardening & Permaculture Information at U.N.C.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/The_Sustainable_Farmstead.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture.html
Email: london@sunsite.unc.edu
7. A Permaculture Primer
http://hueylong.cadgis.lsu.edu/lhin/visitor/html/primer/
8. Permaculture Guide at Communications for a Sustainable Future
http://csf.colorado.edu:8080/
9. Permaculture International Journal (Australia)
http://nornet.nor.com.au/environment/perma/
Email: pcjournal@peg.apc.org
10. International Permaculture Institute (Australia)
Email: perminst@peg.apc.org
11. Permaculture Global Assistance Network (Australia)
http://www.peg.apc.org/~pgan
12. Permaculture in Western Australia
http://www.eepo.com.au/perma/
13. Permaculture in South Australia - "What's Happening in Permaculture"
http://dove.mtx.net.au/%7Esteveo/wotsnu.html
14. Correspondence Course on Permaculture (Australia)
http://www.qldnet.com.au/acs/hort/permaculture.html
15. Permaculture Visions - International'Correspondence Course (Australia)
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~askpv/
16. British Permaculture Magazine/Permanent Publications Web Site
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e415/home.html
17. PermaWeb in Great Britain
http://www.sysmag.com/permaweb
18. Permaculture Association (Britain)
http://www.sysmag.com/permaweb/groups/pcbritain
19. Bay Area Permaculture Guild
http://www.nbn.com/people/bapg/
20. Permaculture Institute of Northern California
http://www.nbn.com/people/bapg/pinc.html
21. Central Valley Permaculture Group
http://arnica.csustan.edu/permaculture/
22. Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute in Texas
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ctpi/cross_t.htm
23. Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
Email: 103070.2354@compuserve.com
24. Permaculture on "MindoBodyoSpirit" Web Page (South Africa)
http://www.pix.za/mbs/body/perma.htm
25. Permaculture Fact Sheet (South Africa)
http://www.panda.org/research/facts/South_Africa_Facts/07perm.htm
26. Permaculture on Carmela's Home Page
http://www.ozoline.com.au/permaculture/index.html
27. Permaculture at Heathcote Intentional Community
http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~lfelch/heathcote.html
28. Plants for a Future On-Line
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html
29. Institute for Bioregional Studies
http://www.cycor.ca/IBS/
30. EcoVillage Information Service
http://www.gaia.org/
31. Crystal Waters Permaculture Village
http://www.gaia.org/crystalwaters/cw_toc.html#cw_toc
32. Eco-Logical Solutions, Ltd.
http://www.gaia.org/crystalwaters/els.html#els
33. The Farm EcoVillage Training Center
http://www.gaia.org/farm/
34. The Animal Farm Permaculture Center
http://www.neosoft.com/~animalfm/afpchome.htm
35. Dreamtime Village Permaculture Hyper-Media
http://net22.com/dreamtime/index.shtml
36. Exmouth Permaculture Group
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/exmperm/home.htm
37. Permaculture Japan Site
http://www.saitama-j.or.jp/~nexus/permaculture/perma.html
38. The Jarlanbah Permaculture Hamlet
http://www.nor.com.au/tourism/nimbin/jarl.htm
39. Eco-Village Resource List - Organisations and Networks
http://www.gaia.org/links/orgsnetworks.html
40. Eco-Village Resource List - Magazines and Newsletters
http://www.gaia.org/links/magsnewsletters.html
41. Eco-villages and Sustainable Communities: Models for 21st Century
Living http://www.gaia.org/evis/evbook/contents.html
42. Intentional Communities on the Web
http://www.well.com/user/cmty/index.html
43. Arcosanti (Arizona)
http://www.arcosanti.org
44. Auroville (India)
http://www.auroville-india.org/
45. Keyline Design - Water for Every Farm
http://www.keyline.com.au/
46. Alternative Technology Association (ATA)
http://www.ata.org.au/
47. Permaculture Drylands Institute
http://www.amug.org/~shadetre/Perma.html
48. Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
49. The Permaculture Activist - Zine Site
http://kumo.swcp.com/xines/
50. Dry Country News
http://kumo.swcp.com/xines/
51. Permaculture FAQ on the Web
Hyper-Text Version
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/faq.html
Ascii-Text Version
http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/faq.v1.3
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Re: permacultural resources
mray01@ccsf.cc.ca.us wrote:
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> Howdy All,
>
> I am new to this list, and have only a beginning understanding of
> permaculture. Would it be possible to email me (or post) a few good
> general resources on permaculture? Preferably on-line resources since
> those are the most easily accessible, but books are good.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mike Ray
Try these:
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ctpi/cross_t.htm
http://sunsite.unc.edu/InterGarden/
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
http://www.cityfarmer.org/urbagnotes1.html#notes
http://www.greenbuilder.com/
http://www.mgl.ca/~dlinton/enveng.html
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/
http://solstice.crest.org/
http://www.whidbey.com/lighthook/
http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Forestry/AppalFor/low.html
Some are probably more appropriate than others but all have
something to do with permaculture.
Hope this helps!
Holly ;-D
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Looking for more ways to enjoy the birds in your back yard? This site includes the details on the Audubon sponsored Project Feeder Watch and offers Ten Ways YOU Can Protect Birds in Your Neighborhood!
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See the World Through the Eyes of A Bee!
How do other creatures see the world? This site shows the world through simulated honey bee vision. A neuroscientist developed this interactive series of patterns and photographs so you can view images, other bees or spiders. Take your pick! Bee and spider photographs by the Smithsonian Institution.
ECOLOGY
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Going Native at Home!
The currently in vogue exhortation "Go Native!" is a great idea, but how ARE we supposed to do that at home? Put in a prairie, or what!!? This project is designed to test the hypothesis that pleasing, stable and low-maintenance (eco)systems CAN be developed using indigenous, prairie plant species.... "A Sense of Place: Native Plants for Locally Appropriate Landscapes" describes an ongoing project from the Chadwick Arboretum at the Ohio State University.
You should look at this one, even if you don't have a prairie!
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Biodiversity Primer
This article is thought-provoking and very interesting, but the title is totally intimidating. I still think it is worth reading. "The Role of Ecological Restoration In Biodiversity Conservation: Basic Issues and Guidelines" by Kenneth Towle and published by the Evergreen Foundation. Geared for professionals in the fields of ecosystem biodiversity, conservation biology, and restoration (naturalization) ecology, this article highlights both positive and negative impacts of our efforts. Join in examining the methods we use in the search for genuinely positive solutions to one of the biggest challenges we face!
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Reclamation and Restoration: Urban & Residential Land Included!
On-line issue of the "Restoration and Reclamation Review" from the University of Minnesota. Extensive articles about topics from urban and residential landscaping to large-scale reclamations, restoration of agricultural land, drastically altered land, areas with low resiliency...
who knew the land was so fragile?!
FLOWERS
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Perennials Par Excellence: The Buds Home Page
This extensive site from Buds of Toronto offers substantial information to help both beginning and experienced flower gardeners. The "tutorial#101" is excellent, the "flower finder" feature is good and there is a very thoughtful and intelligent guide to perennials for shady spaces.
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Ithaca Gardens Home Page and Plant Finder
Ithaca Gardens offers two useful plant finder tools, one for perennials and one for herbs. This site is growing and adds new features often.
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Wildflowers in the Garden
Pictures plus wonderfully factual descriptions of wildflowers suitable for the garden. This is a solid reference of performance plants. Check your hardiness zone and then dig through this list for some real winners!
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Water Wise Perennials
Searching for drought tolerant perennials? Here's a great tool! This information was compiled for gardeners in Nebraska, but it covers many widely adapted plants.
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The Wildflower Site As Introduced by Lady Bird Johnson
The National Wildflower Research Center is building a site to offer not only information about their own work, but also to serve as a compendium of information about native plants, as well public gardens, organizations and web sites oriented toward native plants. Please help them update their calendar and listings!
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Earth-friendly Landscape, Garden and Rose Care
If you are wondering how IPM could possibly fit into rose care, or need to check your USDA zone, or want to use xeriscape principles but aren't sure where to start, this is a good place to visit. Although this site is based in Texas, all gardeners will find lots of excellent practical information here!
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Composting Primer Including RECIPES!
Beginning and experienced compost devotees will find great information in this great guide "Succesful Composting Made Easy", a Better Gardening Bulletin from Gardeners' Supply Company. If you need to know about carbon and nitrogen ratios, or if you really need to know about psychrophiles and mesophiles, you'll find it here! Clear and simple instructions for getting started and comprehensive discussions of various phases of composting are included, along with basic "recipes" for gardeners who want to be absolutely sure they are doing it right. You can even order copies of the bulletin to keep for handy reference!
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Hydroponics Primer
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Lawn Mowers Plus
The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, the manufacturers' trade association, has developed some good general safety and maintenance tips for much of the power equipment homeowners are likely to own. There is also a section entitled "Earth Friendly Yard Care Tips". They look at all types of equipment from mowers to chipper shredders to tillers.
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Shrub Pruning Primer
Check here BEFORE you prune your shrubs! This simple how-to guide discusses how, when, how much, and how often to prune, and what results to expect. CLEAR SIMPLE DIAGRAMS plus a good dose of common sense complete the overview!
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Vermicomposting (Worm Compost) Made Simple
Vermicomposting is simply using worms to make compost. This site explains how it works. If you enjoy the book called "Worms Eat My Garbage", this site is for you!
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Xeriscape Primer
Seven Simple Steps to Saving Water in the Landscape! This site introduces the xeriscape concept with a "bare bones" approach. You can follow many of these steps whether or not you experience water restrictions in your area!
HERBS
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Henriette's Herbal Home Page
Incredible indepth site with links to herb contacts around the world. Henriette even runs a "name that plant" contest!
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A MODERN HERBAL
Modern -- NOT! Fantastic -- YES!
classic herbal with lots of wonderfully entertaining lore going way back. Written in England in 1931 by Mrs. M. Grieve. Be sure to read (hypertext) editor E. Greenwood's intro. Includes both common name and word search capabilities.
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Botanical.com Home Page
This site offers some offbeat herbal, medicinal and botanical links along with some useful tools such as measurement conversion charts. Also offers the Modern Herbal!
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Medicinal Herb Garden Tour
The University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden is a fascinating reference tool . Take the tour!
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Algy's Herb Page
This site is delightful! Something to suit every herb interest from beginning gardener and cook to experienced herbalist. Well organized, too!
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HerbNET Home Page
This is a service provided by the Herb Growing and Marketing Network. Broad ranging site complete with names and addresses of herb merchants of all kinds!
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American Botanical Council
The American Botanical Council(ABC) home page. The stated purpose is to disseminate factual accurate information on herbs and herbal research including phytomedicinals (medicines from plants). Emphasis on protecting endangered and threatened plants for their potential medical value and to maintain biodiversity. The ABC supports the Herb Research Foundation and together they publish the journal HerbalGram. Interesting links to USDA, among others.
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National Herbalists Guild
American Herbalists Guild home page. The AHG's overall purpose is education for herbalists who specialize in the medicinal uses of herbs.
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National Wildlife Federation
Get the scoop on gardening for wildlife in the Backyard Habitat Program! Schoolyard and Workplace Habitat Programs are now available, too! This is a wide-ranging site, with offerings as diverse as programs suitable for classroom use to alerts for action on current issues and calendars of events of special interest.
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Welcome to the Forest! How Sharp Are your Eyes?
National Geographic wows us again! This is an almost surreal but very informative interactive habitat exploration. Enjoy!
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Journey North: Tracking The Seasonal Migrations
Desperate for Signs of Spring in your own back yard? Check this site for the latest information on where the robins are and the NEW LEAF REPORT!
This site monitors the annual trips of diverse creatures such as monarch butterflies, whales, bats and hummingbirds... and robins.
On Groundhog Day, they started tracking the north bound trip. They will also log the south bound trip as it happens. People send in reports from all across the continent!
This site is presented by the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project, and is supposed to be geared for groups of school age children. I think adults will love it, too.
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Natural Heritage Network Central Server
Operated by the Nature Conservancy, this Network began in the 1970's and is now the largest collective ongoing effort to gather standardized data on endangered species, animals and ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere. "Biodiversity and the Web of Life" is but one of the many areas covered on this extensive site.
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"The Resource for Practical Conservation" from naturenet (UK)
From the United Kingdom, a self-described "resource for practical conservation". A good-natured and folksy site complete with an "Ask the Ranger" section, but also packed with useful technical information about topics such as biodiversity in the UK, what the various nature conservation rankings and designations mean, discussions of countryside issues, a guide to nature sites in the UK and some good links.
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Reconnect and Enjoy Nature at Home and School
The Evergreen Foundation is dedicated to reconnecting people with nature through the enhancement of healthy natural areas on school grounds and in communities across Canada...dynamite site full of all kinds of good stuff.
PONDS
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Northern Pond Links Galore
Northern Pond maintains what is probably the most extensive collection of links to water garden sites. Northern Pond proper is also a lovely site in its own right!
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Pam's Puddle: Wildlife and Water Gardening
Pam's Puddle is an excellent water gardening site, and has begun to expand into wildlife topics. It also serves as a contact for the free and uncommercial Internet Pond Society.
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The Guide for Water Gardens
Van Ness Water Gardens presents an impressive site where you can find tips on nearly every form of water garden and/or pond along with some nice photographs. The discussions on frequently asked questions (FAQ's) and Ecological Balance are especially helpful.
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HOT HOT HOT Chile-Heads Home Page
Every topic a chile pepper fan could ever need, from culture and recipes to preservation and even a mailing list. Need a positive photo identification of an obscure variety? Check here! Guaranteed to warm any chile-head's heart!
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Tomato Primer by TEAM TOMATO and Texas A&M
This step by step guide uses pictures to illustrate tomato growing techniques from seed to serve. Especially helpful is the rogues' gallery of pests and plagues!
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Absolute Ultimate Tomato Page
tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes ....
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!!!FROGLAND!!! She morphs -- and other cool stuff!
I hesitated about listing this site, but only because I couldn't categorize it.
It epitomizes the potential of what's available on the WEB, and yet the topic (Frogs, in case you haven't guessed) isn't necessarily of interest to all gardeners.
Well, frogs are an indicator of environmental health and as such should be of interest to all of us, along with toads and other hyper-sensitive critters.
But for gardening buffs who would like to know if they're hearing a bullfrog (or WHAT!), this site might help. And for all of us who thought the only sound frogs make is like a bullfrog well... we NEED this site.
This is a "MUST VISIT" in many senses of the word. It pushes the entertainment envelope AND is informative in terms of real technical information. Sort of the way I wish school could be.
You NEED to SEE it. (The designer morphs herself into a frog on demand.) And HEAR it. (This takes a while and can scare you late at night if you forget you clicked for sound.) And PLAY with it. The graphics and design are gorgeous, regardless of whether or not you like frogs.... As the lady says, she had to kiss a lot of ... whatevers...and since she did it, you don't have to!
If I were a movie review pair, I'd give this a TEN!
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