permaculture

[Sean Maley <semaley@yahoo.com>]

Congratulations on having a plan;  I think that is the
second most difficult task starting a business.

If you want to do any resource sharing, I am looking
to have a critical mass of web sites for maintaining a
server and high speed business quality connection to
the Internet.  I have a prospective location to house
the equipment, but am currently running out of my
bedroom for my site.  If you can deal with a faulty
current server and want a $9/yr temporary solution,
you are welcome to host your site with me. 
Eventually, I will be looking to spread the cost for a
$2k low end computer and $600/mo T1.  I will not move
forward until I have at least enough cash flow from my
own site to justify the costs; the domain name is
$9/yr or more from a variety of vendors which you need
to specifically target "DNS control"; most offer a
$15/mo and up site with name registration; having your
own computer in someone else's shop may cost $100/mo
and up, depeding on a few variables.

As for permaculture, I hope you have fish in mind.  In
my day job universe, investment accounting data
systems, the objective we target with our systems is
to have a system that can be spread evenly across
computer systems to the Nth degree.  In other words,
we don't write a system to handle each trade one at a
time, but rather design the system to handle trades as
independently as possible; allowing the potential for
as many systems to come online as needed for the
demand to make trades;  parallel processing mitigates
the need for faster programs and computers by
spreading the work over as many as you need (convert
software efficiency into a hardware cost equation). 
Imagine a computer program focusing only on it's own
snow flakes during a blizzard of trades.

This is how I see the multiple use of Permaculture; 
double and triple the use of available land with
protein production and composting over the same space
in parallel.  The fish, I am seeing in my own
thoughts, are one lair of many for a given spot in the
ground.  I happen to like Arctic Char the most, so I
have been studying thermo-electronics to chill ground
temperature water that the Char swim in my
visualization.  The water entering the Char pool will
be cooled via a Peltier module, while the exiting
water is heated by the complementary side of the
Peltier module.  The overheated water can hug some
compost, then water gravel beds of a greenhouse or
landscape.  Hopefully, the overall design sheds heat
for the Char to stay around 50F for optimum
reproductive rates; fans and copper cooling fins can
help insure a temperature drop from the grounds 55F.

If you need more information on aquaponics, let me
know.  A fourth layer could be mushroom production.  A
fifth could be a ground water loop for efficient
heating/cooling of a building structure.  A sixth for
windmill power.  Peltier modules have a secondary use
as power generation, albeit a small amount more
available +/- 60C from 0C and at less efficiency than
even solar modules; you can run a small fan from a
coffee cup.


-Sean.

--- Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com> wrote:

>   Maybe y'all can advise Jerod. Reply to
> envirofarming@earthlink.net
> k
> 
> My brother and I are starting a permaculture
> business in Jackson, Michigan.  First of all, we
> want to organically grow any and every possible
> produce.  However, in the future, our business plan
> states that we want to begin a permaculture
> landscaping business, in order to first education
> the community about the benefits of permaculture,
> and at the same time landscape and grow the plants
> and vegetation required.  Please send us any and all
> information you have, as well as any advice you
> might have on such an endeavor.  We are also looking
> for investors or funds in order to help with
> start-up.
> Thanks.
> 
> Jerod S Groulx
> 2683 Fairway Dr
> Jackson, MI 49201
> Mobile: 517-303-3778
> Home: 517-750-1366
> Email: envirofarming@earthlink.net
> 
> Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from
> you.
> 
> Jerod S Groulx
> -- 
> 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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