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[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

I don't know how it would work in areas that freeze, but Sentient Landscapes 
has used a pine resin pavement for a 5-star hotel parking lot 
(senland@monitor.net ).  It doesn't allow water to percolate, but at least 
it's not made from oil.
 
Rain 

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:10:05 -0800
From: Toby Hemenway 
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Durable alternative to asphalt?
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Ben Haggard (ReGenesis Design) and partners in Santa Fe have done a 
number of parking lots that, although compromised by code restrictions 
and the engineering mentality (Water is your enemy! Banish it to the 
ocean!), work pretty well. They are asphalt, laid out more or less on 
contour, and have parking-space-sized slots and other well-planted 
interruptions in the pavement to intercept runoff and allow it to 
percolate (think "series of small swales"). The engineers have forced 
them to put drains in them too, but even in big storms, water rarely 
makes it to the drains, or so Ben told me. The plantings probably help 
filter out petroleum pollutants too. You might be able to design some 
of the swales so that snow from plowing could be piled onto them to 
melt. They get some snow in Santa Fe, but not as much as Organic Valley 
does.

Toby
http://www.patternliteracy.com

> Anyone have any
> experience in a northern clime with something other than gravel,
> asphalt, & these permeable tiles which shift around & would make it
> hard for snow plowing?
>



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:27:56 -0500
From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: [permaculture] good bugs
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Dr. Richard McDonald has a valuable website for Symbiont - Biological 
Pest Managment Co http://www.drmcbug.com/
Also check out The Beneficial Insect Co., PO Box 119, Glendale Springs, 
NC 28629 http://www.thebeneficialinsectco.com/

-- 
Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 1209
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828)669-6336

also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
Culture's Edge at Earthaven Ecovillage
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
http://www.earthaven.org
http://www.bioregionalcongress.org




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:09:03 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: SeldomSeen 
Subject: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 14, Issue 25
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thanks for your help and ideas. . . i'll start doing some research with the 
books you all mentioned and see what i can come up with. the wetland idea 
sounds good and i have the space. i've been trying to decrease the mowed area 
of the yard for some time, and this will take out a good chunk. 

thanks again
john


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