permaculture

["HS" <wal@pc.jaring.my>]

If I have just moved into an existing apartment, this is what I wud do:
1. sun-shading to reduce energy costs for cooling during hot weather
2. increase ventilation throughout by installing lourves where there are air
movement "dead" zones
3. talk to resident committee or management about installing a rain-water
storage system for watering of common grounds, etc.
4. look at a resident-wide voluntary project to have a common car-washing
area and to divert discharge into a wet-lands to filter and remove nutrients
prior to discharge.
5. plant food plants and herbs everywhere, in apartment and common areas,
landings, in lift lobbies, etc. (fire and safety requirements duly noted)


Regards

HS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude William Genest" <genest@together.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture Apartment


> Love this idea Charles !!
>
> Here's an initial two cents:
>
> I was thinking that any typical hanging basket that grows spider plants
> et.al could just as easily be growing greens.
>
> Also, I understand that John Todd's living Machines will evolve down to
"lap
> top" size soon (?)
>
> on 6/7/03 1:38 AM, Charles Knoles at charles@growfood.org wrote:
>
> > Hey Y'all
> >
> > Russ Grayson raised a question a while back about how to do permaculture
in
> > urban settings like apartments and such.  I thought it was an
interesting
> > design challenge but it got lost in the mix with the recent drama.  I've
> > been thinking about it and I thought maybe we could all throw in our two
> > cents worth about how it might be done.
> >
> > There's at least two types of situations that we could think
> > about.  Firstly an apartment that has already been built that an urban
> > permy moves into. Therefore windows are not necessarily aligned to the
sun,
> > conventional trash disposal procedure, flush toilet etc.
> >
> > The second situation is where an apartment is designed from scratch to
> > be permacultural, sky's the limit, dream away! Let's assume though that
> > there isn't any growing space around the base of the apartment building.
> >
> > Russ said something like: "don't assume it's all about food".  Russ, can
> > you expand on that so we know what other things you were referring to?
> >
> > On the other hand if there are cool ways to make food in that
> > circumstance, all the better. --> Raising guinea pigs for meat, fed on
> > mushrooms perhaps????
> >
> > Peace Out
> > Charlie Knoles
> >
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