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  • From: mitshell <mitshell@netvision.net.il>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 40, Issue 29
  • Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:22:52 +0200

in our part of the world
it only rains in the winter - some 4-5 months
and even that is a bit erratic
even so collecting rain water from the roof to be used then in the summer is on the agenda but will require the building of a collecting cistern - in of itself not a cheap endeavor.


re the purification - as its the first time around - we are taking a safe approach especially since I would like to water the grass with it

Mitch
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Today's Topics:

1. Re: pumps and grey water systems (andrew phillips)
2. fwd [spiralseed] Spanish edition of Permaculture Beginners
Guide launched in Barcelona! (Graham)
3. (no subject) (Tyrone LaFay)
4. Giant grass to get larger role in energy supply - Yahoo! News
(Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
5. pumps and greywater systems (Rain Tenaqiya)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: andrew phillips <greenman124@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] pumps and grey water systems
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <20060524195056.53165.qmail@web34202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I guess you are talking about gray water, not rain
water. What about collecting rain water off the roof
and using gravity feed to get it to your garden.

If you are using the water for garden then why need to
purify so much? Acid rain kicks in at Ph4.5 - up unil
then plants tend to take up your coloidal compost
rather than nasty stuff - but you need the copost (and
mulch).


--- mitshell <mitshell@netvision.net.il> wrote:

Recently completed building a water purification
system using barrels filled
with stone and water plants. Water runs thru 14
barrels that are lined up
serially.

It then fills up 500 liter bucket that I then want
to use to water the
garden which is located uphill

I was thinking of using a pump to pump up the water
to the computerized
water irrigation system that I currently use to time
the watering. However
doing this is now problematic in that I can not hook
up the pump to turn on
only when the timed irrigation system turns on. If I
cant do this I run the
risk of having the pump on when the system is off
and thus bursting a pipe

Any body with experience in this area

All help welcome

Thanx
Mitch Schertz
Zichron Yaakov ISRAEL
mitshell@netvision.net.il


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:02:12 +0100
From: Graham <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: [permaculture] fwd [spiralseed] Spanish edition of
Permaculture Beginners Guide launched in Barcelona!
To: VegansUncensored@yahoogroups.com, veganorganic@yahoogroups.com,
"Tom (Idler)" <tom@idler.co.uk>, theveganwarrior@yahoo.com,
thekemps@21garden.fsnet.co.uk, Steve Stuffit <stuffit@riseup.net>,
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"pfaf@yahoogroups.com" <pfaf@yahoogroups.com>, PermaLearners
<permalearnersuk@yahoogroups.com>, Permakultur Akademie - Jascha Rohr
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<permaculture_uk@yahoogroups.co.uk>, permaculture
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For details and photo see http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/spain/

Spanish Permaculture Beginners Guide Launched

The weekend of 5th-8th May saw the launch of the first Spanish
language permaculture publication, 'Permacultura ? Una Guia para
Principiantes' at the annual Biocultura Fair held in Barcelona. The
book is a translation of Graham Burnett's 'Permaculture ? a Beginners
Guide' originally published by Spiralseed (www.spiralseed.co.uk) in
2000, and features an illustrated introduction to the ethics,
principles and applications of permaculture, such as urban gardens,
LETS systems, community building projects and farms. The translation
is the work of a team consisting of Antonio Scotti, Stefania Strega,
Sara Arnaiz and Zoe Costa, and has been jointly produced by Academia
de Permacultura (the Spanish Permaculture Academy),
PermaCultura-es.Org and EcoHabitar magazine (the Spanish equivalent of
Permaculture Magazine).

To celebrate the book's launch, the author was invited to the
Biocultura event, where he led two presentations and question and
answer sessions at the Olympic stadium, inside the main lecture
theatre and at a less formal event in the small teepee area outside,
both which were very ably translated by Antonio Scotti. Signed copies
of the book were also sold at the Permaculture stall at the fair.

'Permaculture a Beginners Guide' has also been translated into
Croatian, Hebrew and Belgian and Hungarian editions are in the works.
For more information or to order copies of the Spanish edition see
http://www.permacultura-es.org/public_html/index.php




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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:42:09 -0700
From: "Tyrone LaFay" <earthcaredesign@peacemail.com>
Subject: [permaculture] (no subject)
To: bellinghampermacultureclub@egroups.com,
outbackcommunity@yahoogroups.com, permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org,
permaculture@openpermaculture.org, vanpermaculture@yahoogroups.ca
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is a balance of head, heart and hands! The main tutors are Tui
Community residents, Robina McCurdy and Huckleberry Leonard. For their
backgrounds, check out their website: www.greenworld-earthcare.org
From time to time, other residents of Tui Community and Golden Bay may also tutor in their specialized fields.

The course includes covering the standard international two week
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full duration, culminating in a main design project, applied near the
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this is a very grounding way to learn it 'in your bodies'. For
participants already holding the Permaculture Design Certificate, this
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little tutoring. During the course, participants will be given guidance in the designing of their own properties/a property of their choice, and will be given research to do in this respect, in advance of the course.

Course programme broadly covers:
- organic growing (emphasis on vegetables),
- rural land management (eg orchards, pastures, trees),
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- intentional community integrated land-use (this community being one
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The home-base for this residential course is in the Tui Treefield - a
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Early Afternoon: Own time/self study
Mid Afternoon: Indoor tutored session on the theme of morning's
practical activity
Some Evenings: relevant slideshows, videos, cultural experiences.

Number of Participants: 8 - 12, full time.
Cost: Aiming to be affordable. Course is still being budgeted.

This is the first course of its kind on Tui, and so is somewhat of a
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:29:28 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
Subject: [permaculture] Giant grass to get larger role in energy
supply - Yahoo! News
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<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_britain_biomass_dc;_ylt=ApxR.4Ei8tPHBkMbYZvUYf9hr7sF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhcmljNmVhBHNlYwNtcm5ld3M->

Giant grass to get larger role in energy supply

By Nigel Hunt Thu May 25, 3:45 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Fields of swaying giant grass and patchwork patterns of willow plantations could become common sights
as Britain turns to crops for heating and electricity to tackle the effects of global warming.
ADVERTISEMENT

"The main difference is the height (compared with conventional crops)," said Angela Karp, deputy head of the plant and
invertebrate ecology division at Rothamsted Research center.

"People are used to looking at certain landscapes, such as fields of cereals, and this will change," she said.

The impact on the English landscape -- which has an almost mythical status in the nation's literature and psyche -- could be similar to the change after rapeseed acreage expanded in the 1970s and 1980s, covering the countryside with
fields full of distinctive bright yellow flowers.

The use of crops to generate electricity is touted by some experts as one of the best ways to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gases, blamed by many scientists for global warming.

Biomass -- products from forestry, energy crops and a variety of other materials which might otherwise be treated as
waste -- generates about 1 percent of Britain's electricity and provides a similar proportion of heat generation.

Miscanthus, or elephant grass, and short rotation coppice willow, are already helping fire up power stations, heat
schools, hospitals and factories.

Karp said research is being carried out on how best to blend energy crops into the landscape, noting in some areas they
could eventually account for 10 percent of agricultural land.

In late April, the government announced measures to promote biomass as it seeks to rapidly expand the proportion of
Britain's energy needs derived from renewable resources.

"We are going to need everything we can lay our hands on if we are going to reduce our carbon footprint in the world,"
said Ben Gill, a former president of the National Farmers' Union who leads the British government's Biomass Task Force.

"WATCH THE MONEY GROW"

Britain is seeking to produce 10 percent of its electricity from renewable sources such as biomass by 2010 and to double
that proportion by 2020.

A government-commissioned task force last year said biomass could reduce Britain's carbon emissions by almost three
million tonnes a year if used for heating -- the equivalent of taking 3.25 million cars of the road, according to the
government.

Miscanthus is a woody grass which originated in Asia and has very high growth rates. It can reach about 3.5 meters (11.5
ft) in height and can be harvested each year.

Short rotation coppice (SRC) are densely planted varieties of either poplar or most commonly willow. They grow to about
4 meters (13 ft) and are normally harvested every 3 years.

"Short rotation coppice could rise 5 to 10 times from the current area of 3,000 to 5,000 hectares by 2010," said biomass
trader Willie McGhee of fuel company Greenergy.

Greenergy said in May it had started taking deliveries of SRC willow wood chips for a 30 megawatt biomass power station
in northeast England, expected to come online next year.

One megawatt is roughly enough power for 1,000 homes.

As well as providing cleaner electricity, biomass crops require less care and maintenance, giving farmers the chance to
either semi-retire to spend time on other ventures.

"You just stare out of the window and watch the money growing," Greenergy trader McGhee said.

SPARE TIME

Energy crops could provide a boost for a strapped sector: total income from farming fell by 8.9 percent last year as
European Union reforms have cut back subsidies and exposed local produce to growing competition from cheaper imports.

Farmers have diversified to cope with the changes; sometimes directly marketing products through farm shops, running
farm zoos or converting old barns into commercial properties.

Energy crops offer another alternative and have received government grants since 2000, although the current scheme is
due to run out at the end of this year. The government has said it will continue its support in principle.

Britain is also turning to crops to help meet its other major energy need - transport fuel.

Oil from crops such as rapeseed can be used to make biodiesel while wheat is expected to be used to make bioethanol.
Biofuels are normally blended with petrol or diesel but can be consumed directly in some vehicles.

Just how much land will be eventually dedicated to growing crops for energy will depend on the wider effects of climate
change. If global warming begins to stunt the world's food production as consumption expands, priorities could change.

"The amount of spare land away from food production is going to become increasingly constrained as impacts of climate
change become more pronounced," Gill said.



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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>
Subject: [permaculture] pumps and greywater systems
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
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This idea may be less efficient than L.L.'s idea of pumping water to an uphill storage tank, but it's simpler in some ways and it's how I'm irrigating a small area that is above my spring elevation. Just use an on-demand water pump, with a pressure regulator, if necessary. The pump turns off at a designated pressure, so when the timer has the system off, the pressure builds up and the pump turns off. This layout does put more pressure on your timer valve, but not necessarily more than any other pressurized water system.

Good luck,

Rain


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