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  • From: Alan Enzo <ecoenzo@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 87, Issue 1
  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:40:56 -0500

Hi Keith,
I'm incredibly sorry and angry for your parents. The CEO and brokers of
that investment house should be in jail or worse. Please give us the name,
company and address of the investment broker who ripped your parents off.
I'll be happy to spread the information far and wide. If this brokerage
house notices a drop in customers because of our "alerts" out there on the
internet, they just might see the light and change the way they're doing
things. Unfortunately, every bank and brokerage house is in "take the money
and run" mode. It seems to be the same with politicians, judges and lawyers
all over the U.S. (Lots of corruption in Tennessee!) They are stealing
whatever they can now, because they see the writing on the wall that the
game is about to be over. I'm glad you decided to tell us about this.
Let's help stop the "game" by using our network!
Best Wishes.
Alan Enzo
Nashville Permaculture

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> Dec 2009 (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
> 3. Happy birthday? (Keith Johnson)
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> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 02:09:17 +0200
> From: Nina Rinkes <ninarinkes@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Garden in Germany would like helper(s)
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> Dear Lawrence,
>
> Thank you for your reply!
>
> > Your home cuisine really captured my
> > attention; it represents nearly the best nutritional regimen I could
> > imagine, and all home grown and prepared.
>
> All home prepared, but not home grown (yet). But we are going to improve on
> that, hopefully!
>
> > I spent a lot of time this past winter experimenting with wood fired
> > outdoor cooking stoves, mostly one made out of scrap metal stock, parts
> > and implements. Also a rocket stove type. If you have access to cutting
> > and welding equipment you can make some fancy stoves, otherwise a
> > masonry stove is probably a better idea. There are plenty of plans for
> > these on the Web.
>
> Your experiments sound very interesting! Wish I could have been there to
> join in experimenting... At the PDC I attended two years ago we did build a
> simple rocket stove type. A portable thing, not very durable, but it was
> finished fast from an old huge tin, some pieces of pipe and perlite and it
> was quite efficient actually. Boiled quickly with little wood needed. I do
> not have access to cutting and welding equipment, so I was thinking of
> building a simple thing like that rocket stove, but I'll definitely look
> into a masonry wood fired cook stove, as you recommended. If you have any
> particular link in mind, as to where one can find a plan on the Web which
> works, I'd be happy to hear about it.
>
> Talking of links, I looked at your blog. So many interesting links and
> photographs. Impressive!
>
> For baking I was thinking of a cob oven. Any ideas on that?
>
> > If I were younger and had the $$$ to travel I would really enjoy a few
> > weeks with you all. If you're ever over here in the USA you are welcome
> > to stay (kinda spartan accomodations but interesting and natural) a
> > while at my farm: http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com.
>
> Thank you very much! I don't have the ??? either, but if I ever get them,
> which should be well possible, hopefully, I'd very very much like to visit
> and learn from your experience. If ever you come over to Europe anyway,
> despite the age (how old are you?!), finances etc., please do visit, if you
> get the chance. And don't worry, we don't make old people work. You can sit
> under the cherry tree, play with the kids and give us your perls of wisdom.
>
> All the very best,
> Nina
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 05:40:30 -0700
> From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
> <lakinroe@silcom.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] ODE MAGAZINE Building the Blue Economy Gunter
> Pauli Issue 65 Dec 2009
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> ODEMAGAZINE.COM DECEMBER 2009 SPECIAL ISSUE 65.
> Building the Blue Economy, with Gunter Pauli
> ~ April 23, 24, 25, 2010 ~
> Santa Barbara City College Campus, Santa Barbara, California
> Event information, (805) 962-2571; margie@sbpermaculture.org,
> www.sbpermaculture.org.
>
> Building the Blue Economy Gunter Pauli
> Nature itself shows us how to innovate, generate wealth and create jobs
> http://www.odemagazine.com/
>
> HUMANITY'S LEAP TOWARD
> Sustainability requires more than buildings with a green feature or a
> recycling program for a single waste stream. We will achieve
> sustainability when we design our systems the way ecosystems function
> and evolve. Ecosystems connect, creating networks of networks, where
> each contributes to the best of its ability, operates with clearly
> defined boundaries and endlessly cascades nutrients and energy using
> the enduring laws of physics. The same management principles apply in
> deserts, alpine mountain ranges, wetlands or tropical rainforests.
>
> Traditional business thinks that only shedding jobs can increase
> productivity. Nature knows better. At a time of crisis, with millions
> out of work and hundreds of millions facing bleak futures, we need to
> put the blue job machine to work. Natural systems unleash local
> entrepreneurship.
>
> They show us the ways of right livelihood, what is right for the
> planet, right for the commons and right for a generation of youth
> seeking useful, rewarding work.
>
> Today's business models have failed. The path to success through
> mergers and acquisitions, leveraged assets, permanent debt and exotic
> financial tools was really a path to collapse. This generation and
> future ones are threatened with trillions in debt, with no promise or
> hope of increased well-being.
>
> Today's green business model has also failed to achieve its vision
> and goals. The idea that business would provide more capital and
> consumers would pay more to reduce our carbon footprint languished
> even when everyone believed the economy would grow forever. When
> governments are sinking into debt and millions are unsure they will
> have a job tomorrow, how can paying more motivate anyone?
>
> This model, rooted in romanticism, can only succeed for those who are
> wealthy enough to equate a cleaner conscience with a cleaner planet.
>
> Replacing a toxic process with a less toxic alternative is "doing
> less bad." This is exactly the approach that sees billions of dollars
> invested in less toxic and longer lasting batteries. Yet, even less
> toxic batteries rely on mining, smelting and toxic
> chemistry. Even less toxic batteries will be dumped into the
> environment and landfills, poisoning our ecosystem and posing long
> term health hazards. Is it enough to do less bad? A thief is a thief
> even if today's theft is less than the last. Companies receive
> environmental awards for polluting less even as they continue
> polluting!
>
> The Blue Economy replaces bad with good. For example, fire- and
> flame-retardants produced from food-grade ingredients protect without
> endangering our food supply or poisoning our homes. Blue transcends
> green because it does not depend on wealth or capital to afford
> economic or ecological savings. Instead, it orders and joins
> processes through the wisdom of nature.
>
> It works in the First World; it works in the Third World. It produces
> revenue rather than promises of something good downstream. It
> produces jobs. Biomimicry has shown us the wonders nature can teach
> us. Yet, these ideas have had no appreciable effect on even First
> World economies with capital, much less Third Word economies without.
> Blue transcends green because it does not simply marvel at nature but
> follows nature's systems and considers the whole. In a blue economy,
> sustainable efficiency is achieved by substituting what is not needed
> with what is functional and by combining several innovative
> technologies into an integrated whole, just as habitats and
> ecosystems do.
>
> Every people, every nation needs pragmatic means to achieve
> sustainability and resource efficiency. The principles of the Blue
> Economy will work because they can be, and have already been, adopted
> in commerce, large and small. Cheerleading people to do the right
> thing or incremental improvements in energy efficiency will never
> accomplish what can be achieved by producing income, cutting costs or
> improving marketability.
>
> The Blue Economy seeks sustainability by creating economic value.
> Business can use these principles to become more efficient, to
> provide jobs and to earn income while reducing the risks and social
> costs of pollution. Young entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs young at
> heart, can develop sustainable enterprises that offer meaningful
> work, valuable products and social equity.
>
> The Blue Economy articulates a set of principles. One central
> principle is to cascade nutrients and energy the way ecosystems do. A
> cascade is a waterfall. It requires no power; it flows with the force
> of gravity. It transports nutrients between biological
> kingdoms-absorbed minerals feed microorganisms, microorganisms feed
> plants, plants feed other species, with the waste of one becoming
> nourishment for another. Cascading energy and nutrients leads to
> sustainability by reducing or eliminating inputs such as energy and
> eliminating waste and its costs, not just as pollution but also as
> inefficient use of materials. In ecosystems there is no waste because
> the byproducts of one process are inputs to another process.
>
> These principles closely align with the ways ecosystems thrive: All
> aspects are sustainable; toxins are contained; use what is locally
> available, such as naturally recurring energy resources that depend
> on the laws of physics; respond to all environmental and human needs;
> always evolve to higher levels of efficiency, from efficiency to
> sufficiency to abundance; always cascade energy and nutrients,
> leverage multiple revenue streams to create a geometric return on
> investment; leave nothing to waste, everything generates value;
> everyone plays a unique role-full employment; use a bundle of
> innovations to solve a systemic problem.
>
> One example to light our way forward and exemplify the principles is
> the case of the silk worm: its nontoxic, natural biopolymer and its
> ecosystem. Millennia ago, when the Chinese faced a growing demand for
> food and limited land, they embarked on a quest for additional arable
> farmland. They learned that the wild moth's caterpillar, known as
> the "silkworm"- even though it is not a worm- converts leaves to
> nutrients, which easily blend with soil bacteria, quickly attracting
> micro-organisms. They hypothesized that this natural symbiosis of
> caterpillars and trees could regenerate and maintain soil fertility,
> thus guaranteeing food security for an expanding population.
>
> When, according to Chinese legend, the Chinese Empress Si-Ling-Chi
> ("lady of the silkworm") discovered the manufacture of silk, the
> experiment that had begun to regenerate topsoil led to the production
> of silk cloth. Thus, when synthetic polymers made from petrochemicals
> replaced a renewable (silk) with a non-renewable (petroleum),
> farmlands were deprived of millions of tons of fertilizer. The
> millennial experience of regenerating topsoil fell into oblivion
> since it's byproduct could not compete in the modern market. Worse,
> while plastics and polymers made their inroads into every segment of
> society, the land now required fertilizers for continued production.
> This increased the energy input for fertilizers, furthering our
> dependency on fossil fuels and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
>
> The Silk Group in Oxford University's Department of Zoology, directed
> by Professor Fritz Vollrath, is a creative resource for biocompatible
> polymers. While working in Panama, Vollrath encountered the "golden
> silk orb weaver" spider. By studying how this spider composed and
> recycled its silk, and its three-dimensional spinning techniques, the
> Silk Group is able to produce equipment and processes to manufacture
> silk tubes and filaments as conduits for nerve regeneration, medical
> sutures and medical devices to regenerate damaged cartilage and bone
> tissues, as well as replacing titanium in products as varied as
> airplane parts and razors. If we compare a the life cycle of titanium
> with the simplicity of converting mulberry leaves to silk, or to
> manufacturing processes that control pressure and moisture at
> more-or-less ambient temperatures, we quickly understand how we can
> move toward sustainability with the outcome of greenhouse gas
> reduction.
>
> Likewise, if you only sequester the CO2 produced by carbon-based
> electrical generation, you only reduce the load. If you use a
> generation station's existing water retention basins and produce
> algae with the exhaust CO2, you eliminate the CO2 and produce
> biofuel. Ninety percent of the infrastructuren is already in place
> and financed. Therefore, fixing carbon requires only a small
> additional investment and the new revenue stream from biofuel more
> than compensates for the cost. Compare this with pumping CO2 into oil
> wells or the deep under the
> ocean. In Brazil, applying this approach produces four cash flows:
> carbon credits, spirulina for nutrition, fuels made from the algae
> lipids and esters from the algae remains, which are ideal for
> cosmetics.
>
> The conversion of this massive waste, especially agro-waste, finds
> profound inspiration in ecosystems. Take the case of sugar mainly
> sourced from cane. The sugar content of cane is limited to 10 to 15
> percent. Thus, each ton of sugar produced accounts for only 10 to 15
> percent of the biomass. The rest is waste known bagasse."
>
> Bagasse is typically incinerated and provides a cheap source of
> energy. Where natural systems seldom use fire as a source of energy,
> we humans use fire all the time. To us, it so often seems the best
> way forward that we ignore better options.
> The only component of bagasse that really provides energy is lignin.
> The rest, hemicellulose and cellulose, creates massive carbon
> emissions because these substances burn without contributing useful
> heat. It makes ecological sense to use bagasse to produce paper and
> cardboard. Of course, paper industry officials will argue that it is
> not the right type of fiber. Given current production systems and the
> one-and-only myopia derived from decades of research and development,
> they are right. This tropical fiber does not fit their supply chain
> management, which is based on pines and eucalyptus, which are planted
> massively around the world. However, a quick calculation produces
> some astonishing figures. At a rate of 15 to 30 tons per acre
> annually, bagasse provides 100 to 200 tons of fiber during the seven
> years required to grow the fastest-growing pine trees to maturity. In
> terms of fiber, sugar cane beats the best genetically modified trees
> from temperate climates. Paper or pollution? Solar power
> concentration is already an emerging and proven industry in Spain.
> Concentrating solar energy using optical principles inspired by the
> dragonfly can power a generator, a technology that is well developed
> and easily implemented. By 2050, annual investments in concentrated
> solar power could exceed $100 billion, creating almost two million
> jobs and saving 2.1 billion tons of CO2.
>
> A vortex can remove air, salt and other impurities using only the
> force of gravity. Vortex technology allows the water that flushes
> toilets on the 10th floor to be reused just one or two floors below,
> thus reducing by a factor of 10 the water wasted flushing toilets.
>
> By employing gravity powered vortex devices to replace the toxic
> chemistry used to purifying water, or the energy required to make
> potable water from the sea, we move a bit closer to a sustainable
> world. If you produce ice, you freeze both water
> and air. Air is an insulator and the energy needed to freeze and
> maintain the ice in hockey rinks and ice arenas is dependent on the
> amount of air the water contains. Many cities around the world find
> that the energy costs of ice rinks are one of their highest
> expenditures. When a vortex eliminates the air, the energy savings
> are a positive contribution, reducing costs and decreasing the effect
> on climate change by eliminating the greenhouse gases from 100,000 kW
> hours per year of electrical generation.
>
> An initiative by Carmenza Jaramillo in cooperation with the Colombian
> Coffee Growers Association demonstrates the possibility of converting
> biomass wasted on coffee farms to food, providing proof that a cash
> crop's waste can provide food security. The research started in 1994
> and built on the pioneering work of Professor Shuting Chang of the
> Chinese University of Hong Kong, who generated as many shiitake
> mushrooms on coffee waste substrate as on oak trees that were logged
> and shredded to dust. Ivanka Milenkovic of the University of Belgrade
> contributed scientific research establishing that, after harvesting
> the mushrooms, the spent substrate is a quality animal feed. The
> supply of mushroom and
> animal protein increases disposable income while providing cash from
> exports. This system positively impacts the provision of food and
> creates local employment. As a result, today an estimated 10,000
> people have direct and indirect jobs, including distribution and
> packaging.
>
> An extension of the program in Zimbabwe headed by Chido Govero lifts
> orphans out of poverty. The employment potential exceeds 50 million
> jobs if all the coffee farms around the world were to apply this
> cascading of nutrients. If this
> program were extended to tea farms and apple orchards, the employment
> potential doubles to 100 million. The potential food generating
> capacity will exceed the present tonnage of all fish farming.
>
> Such projects will usher in the Blue Economy. Innovators and
> entrepreneurs around the world are finding ways to use natural
> physics and biochemistry to cascade matter and energy in fully
> harmonious and renewable flows. They are accumulating wealth,
> generating value and providing jobs using what is readily available.
> In a Blue Economy, the current unsustainable models of production and
> consumption will be outdated and eliminated. A vicious cycle of
> over-exploitation of labor and the Earth, with an ever-increasing
> burden of carbon emissions, will cease. It will become a virtuous
> cycle of using what is available, increasing social capital
> incrementally and bringing innovations to the marketplace that help
> meet the basic needs of all. The Blue Economy can enhance our
> lifestyles, benefit our planet and use and conserve materials and
> energy in remarkable ways.
> Let us cease to demand more of the Earth and those who toil. Let us
> do more with what we have, and with what nature generates unceasingly.
>
> Special offer for Ode readers:
> To order Gunter Pauli's book, The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100
> Innovations, 100,000,000 Jobs, please send an email to
> blueeconomy@paradigm-n pubs.com. You will receive notification when
> the book is available
> in early 2010
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:10:58 -0400
> From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] Happy birthday?
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> I just turned 58. One of the "gifts" I received was the news that
> my parents' retirement fund of $100,000 just evaporated as it was
> misspent by an investment broker who has now gone bankrupt. My 86
> year old father is now looking for work to pay their rent, food
> and medical expenses.
>
>
> I fear this kind of story will be repeated by someone near and
> dear to you or you yourself. I cannot urge strongly enough that
> you work to relocalize your food and economic security and join
> (or start) a local Transition Town group. If you have not yet done
> so, let this be the year you start growing your food or hire a
> farmer to do it for you (a la CSA, Community Supported Agriculture).
>
>
> The best time to plant an apple tree is five years ago. Don't
> wait. I'm serious. Get the books and information you need to
> survive and thrive. Preserve and store food! The government WILL
> NOT TAKE CARE OF YOU!!! We must take care of us. Earth Care,
> People Care, Fair Share. I will gratefully receive advice for help
> in caring for my parents. Thanks. Keith
>
> --
>
> Keith Johnson
> "Be fruitful and mulch apply."
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> - TransitionBloomington.org <http://transitionbloomington.org/>
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> - TransitionBloomington.ning <http://transitionbloomingtonind.ning.com/>
> - The Gardeners' World Blog <http://theecosystem.blogspot.com/>
> - Renaissance Farm and Permaculture Center
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> - Bloomington Permaculture Growers Cooperative
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Sustainable Business
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