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Jackie Pitts | 1 Jan 2010 21:04
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Nicaragua PDC: February 2010...Don't miss it!

*Permaculture Design Course: Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua*

*February 2-16, 2010*

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Come join us! This course takes place from February 2-16 at Project Bonafide
(www.projectbonafide.com). Project Bonafide is a 43-acre permaculture site
that has been in development for nearly a decade. It has become an important
center for education and community development. Infrastructure includes:
natural buildings, terraced and medicinal plant gardens, an extensive
nursery, fruit and nut orchards, food forests, native timber forestry,
timber bamboo plantings, drip-irrigation and ferrocement technologies,
renewable energy systems, and composting toilets. Outreach includes social
programs that provide educational opportunities based in ecological
agriculture, community reforestation efforts, local seed and plant
exchanges, a children's nutritional kitchen, and a new community center and
library that allows Bonafide to be an area for cultural exchange on the
island and beyond.

*Course Description:* In this hands-on, intensive course, participants will
use the 43-acre permaculture site of Project Bonafide as a living classroom
to explore the principles and ethics of permaculture. Specific topics
include:

-site analysis and design from the tropics to temperate regions

-landscape master planning and microclimate design

-pattern recognition and reading the landscape
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 2 Jan 2010 03:07

Solar Closets and Sunspaces

http://www.ece.villanova.edu/~nick/solar/solar.html
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 2 Jan 2010 05:54

The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse


http://www.undergroundhousing.com/greenhouse_book.html

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Bob Waldrop | 2 Jan 2010 06:05
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Kitchen permaculture online workshop

Announcing an online workshop. . . 

Kitchen Permaculture
How to use permaculture design to create ecological, economical, resilient, and socially just household
food systems.

Commencing February 28, 2010 and running for 10 weeks thereafter, with a 2 week break at Easter.

The workshop will use a private listserv and a workshop resource CD.  More details, including the different
ways to participate, a tuition schedule, and an outline of the workshop, is online at
http://tinyurl.com/y94pkvw .

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
Celebrating the new year with the opening of my permaculture workshop teaching practice,  
Prairie Rose Permaculture

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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 2 Jan 2010 16:28

Re: Kitchen permaculture online workshop

Bob Waldrop wrote:
> Announcing an online workshop. . . 
> 
> Kitchen Permaculture
> How to use permaculture design to create ecological, economical, resilient, and socially just
household food systems.

That's a very big subject. What to eat, where to get it, how to grow it, 
how to process and store it and in what and where, kitchen equipment, 
grain mills, fermented foods incubators, blenders, food processors, 
juicers, hand crank grain mills, juicers, food grinders, soy products,
miso. tamari, natto, tofu, tempeh, kim chee and kraut making, 
refigeration, pressure cooking, cooking appliances, wood-fired, gas or 
electric, brick ovens, root cellars, solar and electric food 
dehydrators, tray sprouting, container sprouting, sprout farms, 
container growing, greenhouse growing esp. attached, aquaponics and 
hydroponics; raw foods, vegan, vegetarian, omnivore, lacto-ovo-pesco 
vegetarian, meat cooking, processing, storage, the list is endless.
> 
> Commencing February 28, 2010 and running for 10 weeks thereafter, with a 2 week break at Easter.
> 
> The workshop will use a private listserv and a workshop resource CD.  More details, including the
different ways to participate, a tuition schedule, and an outline of the workshop, is online at
http://tinyurl.com/y94pkvw .

This is a topic perfect for the new Permaculturist Health list at 
ibiblio. There's not much traffic but it could become a useful forum.

Permaculturist Health is a forum devoted to discussion of and 
information exchange on a wide range of health and nutrition issues
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SArjuna | 3 Jan 2010 01:30
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New US hardiness zones

You can see the changes in the USA hardiness zones that have been mapped by 
The Arbor Day Foundation at:    

http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm

Play will change the map from the 1990 USDA hardiness zones to the 2006 
Arborday.org hardiness zones.    Watch your area carefully as the colors slowly 
change.
 Reset will change the map back to show the 1990 USDA hardiness zones.
 Differences shows colors that represent how much each zone has changed 
since 1990. For example, the pink areas of the map have warmed up enough to 
change one hardiness zone (e.g. the top half of Nebraska has increased by one 
zone).  

Parts of Wisconsin, where I live, have also changed by one zone.   One area 
in Wisconsin has changed by two zones! (Can someone familiar with that part 
of the state tell me just where that is?) You can also enter your ZIP code 
to find what your new hardiness zone is.]

>From a posting on RealClimate:
> "Most US gardeners are familiar with the USDA hardiness zone map. The
> current (1990) USDA hardiness zone map uses minimum temperatures from
> 1974 to 1986. [ See that map at: www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html] 

The scheduled 2005 update of the map was delayed, and
> rumor has it that the the delay was due to the USDA's unwillingness to
> show how much the US had warmed since the last map. The USDA now plans
> to release an updated map, but this time, using the last 30 years of
> data. As the map reflects temperature minimums, that use of 30 years
> rather than shorter period used for the past two versions will hide the
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Udan Farm | 3 Jan 2010 05:00
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PermacultureUniversity

Just wanted to let you ALL know, We had been talking a while back about bogus permaculture
teachers-remember the place in Costa RIca-selling condos?I had asked on the "Permaculture University"
page on ning.com if their teachers were certified, and gave the exact information where to read about the
copyright of the word Permaculture, and they BANNED me from the site!
Hm.
Isabel

      
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 3 Jan 2010 06:28

Re: PermacultureUniversity

Udan Farm wrote:
> Just wanted to let you ALL know, We had been talking a while back
about bogus permaculture teachers-remember the place in Costa
RIca-selling condos?I had asked on the "Permaculture University" page on
ning.com if their teachers were certified, and gave the exact
information where to read about the copyright of the word Permaculture,
and they BANNED me from the site!
> Hm.
> Isabel

What a hoot, and four and twenty certified authentic bozos to boot 
Isabel. That's hilarious. I can just see those crooked scambags'
faces turning twenty shades of red at your accusation knowing they
had got caught red handed, puffing and blowing in indignation
and slamming the electronic gate in your innocent inquiring face.
What's their URL, I'd like to have a look at them in action.
Someone should call their state's attorney general's office and report 
them for fraud. That would make them pucker up real good.
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 3 Jan 2010 06:45

Re: PermacultureUniversity

Udan Farm wrote:
> Just wanted to let you ALL know, We had been talking a while back about bogus permaculture
teachers-remember the place in Costa RIca-selling condos?I had asked on the "Permaculture University"
page on ning.com if their teachers were certified, and gave the exact information where to read about the
copyright of the word Permaculture, and they BANNED me from the site!

Permaculture University Costa Rica is located on the amazing 780 acre, 
sustainable, ecofriendly, resort community of Osa Mountain Village, 
http://permacultureuniversity.ning.com

I guess you can pay them the buckolas, complete the curriculum and
be awarded their pc "sheep"skin, certifying you as an officially 
"fleeced" sheep.

Here's the kicker:

"Welcome to Permaculture University located on our beautiful property of 
780 acres in the southern Pacific region of Costa Rica.. We are a fully 
sustainable, ecofriendly, resort community on the Osa Peninsula. We 
offer condos/villas for sale starting at only $99,000 as well as run a 
fully functional "Sustainable Living School" with top notch 14 Day 
Design Courses every month of the year. Sign-up today and experience our 
Permaculture Design Course in true paradise!"

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grifenhope | 3 Jan 2010 19:07
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Re: PermacultureUniversity

Wheré can we read aboút the right to use the word Permaculture? Do we have a binding agreement aboút this?
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From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@...>
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:28:18 
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Subject: Re: [permaculture] PermacultureUniversity

Udan Farm wrote:
> Just wanted to let you ALL know, We had been talking a while back
about bogus permaculture teachers-remember the place in Costa
RIca-selling condos?I had asked on the "Permaculture University" page on
ning.com if their teachers were certified, and gave the exact
information where to read about the copyright of the word Permaculture,
and they BANNED me from the site!
> Hm.
> Isabel

What a hoot, and four and twenty certified authentic bozos to boot 
Isabel. That's hilarious. I can just see those crooked scambags'
faces turning twenty shades of red at your accusation knowing they
had got caught red handed, puffing and blowing in indignation
and slamming the electronic gate in your innocent inquiring face.
What's their URL, I'd like to have a look at them in action.
Someone should call their state's attorney general's office and report 
them for fraud. That would make them pucker up real good.
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