permaculture

[mitshell <mitshell@netvision.net.il>]

Is anybody aware of wood burning stoves/heaters that can be loaded with wood
once every 24 hours or something there about as opposed to the regular 
fireplaces that need
to have wood added every few hours ?

Thanx for any info
Mitch Schertz
mitshell@netvision.net.il
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>   1. Re: Tools for terraforming or Earth transformation,
>      permaculture systems landforms creation (Robyn Francis)
>   2. Re: Sweden Plans to Be World's First Oil-Free Economy
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>   3. call for volunteers (marijana@ofis)
>   4. Where do I pick up my Orchard Kits (Greg)
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> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:38:57 +1100
> From: Robyn Francis <erda@nor.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Tools for terraforming or Earth
> transformation, permaculture systems landforms creation
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> Pretty scary - the damage one of these could do in 2 minutes.....
> Give me a little bulldozer DC4 to DC7 with a good operator any day and 
> even
> then I wouldn't look away for more than 30 seconds
>
> Robyn
>
> On 8/2/06 6:48 PM, "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
>
> > Tools for terraforming or Earth transformation, permaculture systems 
> > landforms
> > creation
> > Just what you need - amazing equipment, nice pix:
> >
> > Giant Earthmovers
> > Toplist of the world-wide biggest hydraulic mining-machines
> > http://www.engeltron-x.de/mining-power/ehome.html
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:12:14 -1000
> From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Sweden Plans to Be World's First Oil-Free
> Economy
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> Aloha,
>
> Three cheers for them...!
> Not that I'm biased just because I have ancestry there... :-)
>
> One issue I think they will hit in a couple decades is use of their
> plantation wood for biofuels (and everything else they use it for too of
> course).  They have got to be getting on to their third rotation (at
> least) in lots of their tree plantations and some sustainably/holistic
> forestry practitioners predict/suspect that that's about when mass
> monoculture plantation forestry will start to collapse.
> Finland is likely to have a similar problem in a similar timeframe,
> along with any other similar contexts in N. Europe.
>
> Good news that they plan to stick to the no new nukes committment at 
> least.
> And they have a Minister of Sustainable Development, imagine that.  Hey
> W., can we get one of those please?  And a Department of Peace too while
> you're at it.
>
> If the Swedes can even come reasonably close to this goal, it will set a
> high bar for the rest of the industrialized world to aim for.  Sweden is
> fully a first-world industrial nation with all the mod cons we Yanks
> expect and then some - like national health care and national pensions,
> whatta concept!  And they have a looong cold dark winter too, it's not
> like it's easy for them because they're in the tropics or anything like
> that.
>
> The Euros are way ahead of the USA on use reduction anyhow - they've got
> "first-world" lifestyles plus considerably less deep/chronic poverty and
> homelessness and social injustice and so on (and did I mention national
> health care??)...and they do it on half the water and one-quarter the
> gasoline per capita.  Oh, and they've got national health care too.
>
> Maybe it's time to move to one of my ancestral homelands... :-?
>
> cheers,
> John S.
>
> Saor Stetler wrote:
> > Published on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 by the Guardian
> > <http://www.guardian.co.uk> / UK
> > Sweden Plans to Be World's First Oil-Free Economy
> > ? 15-year limit set for switch to renewable energy
> > ? Biofuels favoured over further nuclear power
> > by John Vidal
> >
> >
> > Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western
> > economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years -
> > without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
> ...
>
> --
>
> John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
> ------------------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:04:55 +0100
> From: "marijana@ofis" <marijana@kneja.hr>
> Subject: [permaculture] call for volunteers
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> Dear all,
> on our web page we have formulars for aplication of volunteers in
> beautiful places in Croatia, that are developing permacultural
> estates. If you would like to spend time helping to develop
> permacultural projects in Croatia or Bosnia, please fill the form on
> the web page
>
> http://www.ekosela.org/modules/volonter/
>
> or e-mail me!
> the page is still developing, so we don't have pictures from all the
> places to volunteer on, and also not translated the text, but, we
> would be happy to get some help anyway!
> thanx!
>
> Marijana, Croatia
> Balkan Ecovillage Network
>
> www.ekosela.org
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>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:20:46 -0700
> From: Greg <FarmerGreg@UrbanFarm.org>
> Subject: [permaculture] Where do I pick up my Orchard Kits
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> Hi,
>
> What is this about???  And where is it at???
>
> At the Urban Farm every year I do a fruit tree education program
> where I teach people about what fruit trees grow in the desert and
> then they have an opportunity to purchase some.  We usually find
> homes for about 400 trees.  This sounds like it might be an
> interesting addition to our education program.
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > This is a friendly reminder to come pick up your orchard kits tomarrow -
> > > Saturday Feb. 4th - between 10 am and noon at the Red Rock Community 
> > > Center.
> > > 114 Red Rock Road.  YOu will want to plant them as soon as possible that 
> > > day
> > > or the next.  The free planting class / demo is being held at 11 am.
> > >
> > > See you there!
> > >
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> > Greg Peterson
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> Having fun gardening
> Connecting with nature
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> Greg Peterson
> http://www.urbanfarm.org
> 602/565-7045
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