Nina Rinkes | 1 Apr 2010 02:09
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Re: Garden in Germany would like helper(s)


Dear Lawrence, 

Thank you for your reply!

> Your home cuisine really captured my 
> attention; it represents nearly the best nutritional regimen I could 
> imagine, and all home grown and prepared.

All home prepared, but not home grown (yet). But we are going to improve on that, hopefully!

> I spent a lot of time this past winter experimenting with wood fired 
> outdoor cooking stoves, mostly one made out of scrap metal stock, parts 
> and implements. Also a rocket stove type. If you have access to cutting 
> and welding equipment you can make some fancy stoves, otherwise a 
> masonry stove is probably a better idea. There are plenty of plans for 
> these on the Web. 

Your experiments sound very interesting! Wish I could have been there to join in experimenting... At the
PDC I attended two years ago we did build a simple rocket stove type. A portable thing, not very durable, but
it was finished fast from an old huge tin, some pieces of pipe and perlite and it was quite efficient
actually. Boiled quickly with little wood needed. I do not have access to cutting and welding equipment,
so I was thinking of building a simple thing like that rocket stove, but I'll definitely look into a masonry
wood fired cook stove, as you recommended. If you have any particular link in mind, as to where one can find a
plan on the Web which works, I'd be happy to hear about it. 

Talking of links, I looked at your blog. So many interesting links and photographs. Impressive!

For baking I was thinking of a cob oven. Any ideas on that?  

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ODE MAGAZINE Building the Blue Economy Gunter Pauli Issue 65 Dec 2009

ODEMAGAZINE.COM DECEMBER 2009 SPECIAL ISSUE 65.
Building the Blue Economy, with Gunter Pauli
   ~ April 23, 24, 25, 2010 ~
Santa Barbara City College Campus, Santa Barbara, California
Event  information, (805) 962-2571; margie@..., 
www.sbpermaculture.org.

Building the Blue Economy Gunter Pauli
Nature itself shows us how to innovate, generate wealth and create jobs
http://www.odemagazine.com/

HUMANITY'S LEAP TOWARD
Sustainability requires more than buildings with a green feature or a 
recycling program for a single waste stream. We will achieve 
sustainability when we design our systems the way ecosystems function 
and evolve. Ecosystems connect, creating networks of networks, where 
each contributes to the best of its ability, operates with clearly 
defined boundaries and endlessly cascades nutrients and energy using 
the enduring laws of physics. The same management principles apply in 
deserts, alpine mountain ranges, wetlands or tropical rainforests.

Traditional business thinks that only shedding jobs can increase 
productivity. Nature knows better. At a time of crisis, with millions 
out of work and hundreds of millions facing bleak futures, we need to 
put the blue job machine to work. Natural systems unleash local 
entrepreneurship.

They show us the ways of right livelihood, what is right for the 
planet, right for the commons and right for a generation of youth 
seeking useful, rewarding work.
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Keith Johnson | 1 Apr 2010 19:10
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Happy birthday?


      I just turned 58. One of the "gifts" I received was the news that
      my parents' retirement fund of $100,000 just evaporated as it was
      misspent by an investment broker who has now gone bankrupt. My 86
      year old father is now looking for work to pay their rent, food
      and medical expenses.

      I fear this kind of story will be repeated by someone near and
      dear to you or you yourself. I cannot urge strongly enough that
      you work to relocalize your food and economic security and join
      (or start) a local Transition Town group. If you have not yet done
      so, let this be the year you start growing your food or hire a
      farmer to do it for you (a la CSA, Community Supported Agriculture).

      The best time to plant an apple tree is five years ago. Don't
      wait. I'm serious. Get the books and information you need to
      survive and thrive. Preserve and store food! The government WILL
      NOT TAKE CARE OF YOU!!! We must take care of us. Earth Care,
      People Care, Fair Share. I will gratefully receive advice for help
      in caring for my parents. Thanks. Keith

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Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47407
(812) 335-0383
- Permaculture Activist <http://www.permacultureactivist.net/>
- Permaculture Trading Post <http://www.permaculturetradingpost.com/>
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Keith Johnson | 1 Apr 2010 19:33
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Online interview

An interview with me about Transition and Permaculture was posted this 
AM at http://www.radicalrelocalization.com/keith-johnson.php 
<http://www.radicalrelocalization.com/keith-johnson.php,-->
<http://www.radicalrelocalization.com/keith-johnson.php,-->

Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47407
(812) 335-0383
- Permaculture Activist <http://www.permacultureactivist.net/>
- Permaculture Trading Post <http://www.permaculturetradingpost.com/>
- Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting 
<http://www.permacultureactivist.net/design/Designconsult.html>
- Permaculture & Regenerative Design News Blog 
<http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/>
- Permaculture Politics Blog <http://permaculturepolitics.blogspot.com/>

- Transition Indiana <http://transitionindiana.blogspot.com/> - Blog 
<http://transitionindiana.blogspot.com/>

- TransitionBloomington.org <http://transitionbloomington.org/>

- TransitionBloomington.ning <http://transitionbloomingtonind.ning.com/>
- The Gardeners' World Blog <http://theecosystem.blogspot.com/>
- Renaissance Farm and Permaculture Center 
<http://bloomingtongrowers.locallygrown.net/growers/show/212>
- Bloomington Permaculture Growers Cooperative 
<http://bloomingtongrowers.locallygrown.net/>
- Bloomington Permaculture Guild Blog 
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Alan Enzo | 1 Apr 2010 19:40
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Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 87, Issue 1

Hi Keith,
I'm incredibly sorry and angry for your parents.  The CEO and brokers of
that investment house should be in jail or worse.  Please give us the name,
company and address of the investment broker who ripped your parents off.
I'll be happy to spread the information far and wide.  If this brokerage
house notices a drop in customers because of our "alerts" out there on the
internet, they just might see the light and change the way they're doing
things.  Unfortunately, every bank and brokerage house is in "take the money
and run" mode.  It seems to be the same with politicians, judges and lawyers
all over the U.S. (Lots of corruption in Tennessee!) They are stealing
whatever they can now, because they see the writing on the wall that the
game is about to be over.  I'm glad you decided to tell us about this.
Let's help stop the "game" by using our network!
Best Wishes.
Alan Enzo
Nashville Permaculture

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Michael Pilarski | 1 Apr 2010 22:07
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Happy Birthday, Keith,

Sorry tale about your father's retirement fund.  It could happen to my mother and father-in-law too.

Some young friends visiting me, are busy turning their parents yard into a food forest and have installed
two 1500 gallon tanks for water storage.  They are trying to make them prepared in case of an eventuality
like your dad's. This sounds like a nice way for children to help their parents prepare for retirement.   

Best wishes,

Michael Pilarski

Digging biomass pits in the city. 
I recently talked to a young couple who live in south Seattle who are converting their one-fifth acre lot to
food production.  One of their techniques is to dig big holes in the yard and fill them with hunks of wood,
wood chips, lawn clippings, lots of produce waste from a nearby grocery store and other available organic
matter. Their soil is a heavy clay with a clay pan one foot down.  The excavated soil from the big holes
provide raised mound areas with a greater depth of aeration and better drainage overall on the site. This
aeration increases fertility. They plant fruit trees, berry bushes and useful plants around the edges of
the holes.  The crop roots have access to the decomposing nutrients.  It is taking them a few years in
their spare time to gradually fill the yard with pits, fill them with biomass and plant around them. A side
benefit of this strategy is that there is more water storage in the soil, there will likely also be increased
 infiltration into ground water. This is another good strategy for a specific soil type.  They have also
bought two 1500-gallon tanks for roof water storage and are conducting many mushroom projects.

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From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@...>
Subject: [permaculture] Happy birthday?
To: "Permaculture ibiblio" <permaculture@...>,
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Douglas Woodard | 2 Apr 2010 02:25

India: Melia dubia tree holds promise of good returns

See
<http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article228515.ece>

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Robert Waldrop | 2 Apr 2010 14:53
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Re: Happy birthday?

I am 57 years old.  Every time I am interviewed by the press, I use this 
line  . . . "My retirement plan is a super-energy-efficient house, with 
passive solar, no mortgage, very low operating costs, and lots of edible 
landscaping."

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City

Michael Pilarski wrote:
> Happy Birthday, Keith,
>
> Sorry tale about your father's retirement fund.  It could happen to my mother and father-in-law too.
>
> Some young friends visiting me, are busy turning their parents yard into a food forest and have installed
two 1500 gallon tanks for water storage.  They are trying to make them prepared in case of an eventuality
like your dad's. This sounds like a nice way for children to help their parents prepare for retirement.   
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael Pilarski
>
> Digging biomass pits in the city. 
> I recently talked to a young couple who live in south Seattle who are converting their one-fifth acre lot to
food production.  One of their techniques is to dig big holes in the yard and fill them with hunks of wood,
wood chips, lawn clippings, lots of produce waste from a nearby grocery store and other available organic
matter. Their soil is a heavy clay with a clay pan one foot down.  The excavated soil from the big holes
provide raised mound areas with a greater depth of aeration and better drainage overall on the site. This
aeration increases fertility. They plant fruit trees, berry bushes and useful plants around the edges of
the holes.  The crop roots have access to the decomposing nutrients.  It is taking them a few years in their
spare time to gradually fill the yard with pits, f
 ill them with biomass and plant around them. A side benefit of this strategy is that there is more water
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Dick Pierce | 2 Apr 2010 17:51
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Fwd: April Fools - Monsanto - Jeff & Lisa's Post Yesterday

 PC Friends: From April Fools to Good Friday in 24 hours! Yesterday, I
received the "Mesage from Monsanto" copied below via our local PC-listserve
- it was an April Fools prank/message.

However, I so wish that it were true that I looked up Monsanto's web sit and
"Contact us" address. It is:
http://www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/contact_us.asp. Then I sent the following
message to Monsanto.

If any of you might be motivated to send the April Fools mock memo to
Monsanto with the same or your own version of my intro, I would appreciate
it very much. If any of you felt right in emailing this request to 4-10 of
your friends, asking them to do the same, it might become an effective
message to Monsanto. Thanks to all who can/will. It would be a "good" Friday
if you could. (ps, I thought that "Hugh Grant" was also part of the April
Fools caper, but that is the real name of their CEO per their website.
Amazing [isn't it],Grace.)

TO: Chairman's Office, Monsanto HQ

I am a consumer, resident, gardener, landscape designer, farm/ranch
consultant, and Permaculture teacher in Austin, TX. I received the email
copied below on April 1st as an April Fools joke. However, as I read it, my
heart soared - I would so wish for this to be true. If Monsanto could make
such a decision and declaration I, and much of the world, would view it as
at least as historical as Ronald Reagan saying: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down
this wall."

I send you the mesage below in part as just an FYI, but in a larger sense as
a prayer that in some way and sometime soon it might become the truth. Here
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Christian Skiba | 2 Apr 2010 20:23
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Re: Garden in Germany would like helper(s)

Hi Nina,

perhaps you get some more offers if you try the german permaculture 
mailing list or forum.

See more infos here:

www.permakultur.de
Mailverteiler: http://www.permakultur.de/index.php?id=56
Forum: http://www.permakultur.de/index.php?id=57

Greetings from bavaria

Christian
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