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>   1. Bumblebees prefer stripes and red flowers,        research suggests
>      (Lawrence London)
>   2. Site analysis tools (wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk)
>   3. Re: Site analysis tools (Richard Archer)
>   4. Re: Site analysis tools (wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk)
>   5. Re: Site analysis tools (Richard Archer)
>   6. Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto,
>      Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont (mIEKAL aND)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:16:13 -0400
> From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [permaculture] Bumblebees prefer stripes and red flowers,
>        research suggests
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11520117
> 11 October 2010 Last updated at 19:55 ET
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> Bumblebees  prefer stripes and red flowers, research suggests
>
> Stripes direct bees to the flower entrance
>
> Gardeners are being encouraged to grow striped flowers to encourage
> bumblebee populations, after research suggested the insects are most
> attracted to them.
>
> Stripes on petal veins direct bumblebees to the flower's "central
> landing platform" and entrance to gather nectar and pollen.
>
> Researchers also found that red flowers were also attractive to bees.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:07:37 +0100 (BST)
> From: "wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk" <wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [permaculture] Site analysis tools
> Message-ID: <9063.97024.qm@web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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> I have been asked to put together a site analysis and I want to make it as
> accurate and informative as possible.  I am using transparencies to to
> display the various flow patters, but some are more difficult to establish
> than others.  Winter and summer sunlight for example.  Is there some
> equation based on my lat and long that will give me accurate figures for
> this?
>
> Wind patterns are easier thanks to windfinder.com.
>
>
> http://www.windfinder.com/windstats/windstatistic_hangzhou_xiaoshan_airport.htm
>
> This page for example shows that winds are easterly in the summer and N
> Westerly in the three winter months of Nov Dec and Jan.
>
> Any other tips on useful info that I can include?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:17:45 +1100
> From: Richard Archer <permaculture@juggernaut.com.au>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Site analysis tools
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> At 6:07 AM +0100 13/10/10, wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> >I have been asked to put together a site analysis and I want to make
> >it as accurate and informative as possible.  I am using transparencies
> >to to display the various flow patters, but some are more difficult to
> >establish than others.  Winter and summer sunlight for example.  Is
> >there some equation based on my lat and long that will give me
> >accurate figures for this?
>
> Here's a decent write up of a solar site survey:
>
> http://www.builditsolar.com/SiteSurvey/site_survey.htm
>
> It uses the solar chart generator at:
>
> http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html
>
>
> It's important to do the obstacle survey especially if
> your site is hilly or treed. It makes a big difference
> to the optimum orientation of sun-facing glass for
> passive solar homes and greenhouses.
>
>  ...Richard.
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:34:46 +0100 (BST)
> From: "wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk" <wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Site analysis tools
> Message-ID: <53091.52094.qm@web25406.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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> --- On Wed, 10/13/10, Richard Archer <permaculture@juggernaut.com.au>
> wrote:
> > Here's a decent write up of a solar site survey:
> >
> > http://www.builditsolar.com/SiteSurvey/site_survey.htm
> >
> > It uses the solar chart generator at:
> >
> > http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html
> >
> Thanks, I have read the info and generated the chart, but I am still unsure
> how to transform this info into two sun path plan diagrams, similar to those
> shown, just above the solar altitude digram.
> Any tips on how to convert?
> >
> > It's important to do the obstacle survey especially if
> > your site is hilly or treed. It makes a big difference
> > to the optimum orientation of sun-facing glass for
> > passive solar homes and greenhouses.
>
> Thanks, that is a useful addition to think about.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:52:08 +1100
> From: Richard Archer <permaculture@juggernaut.com.au>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Site analysis tools
> Message-ID: <p0623090bc8daf85e8e64@[192.168.1.2]>
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> At 6:34 AM +0100 13/10/10, wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> >--- On Wed, 10/13/10, Richard Archer <permaculture@juggernaut.com.au>
> wrote:
> >> Here's a decent write up of a solar site survey:
> >>
> >> http://www.builditsolar.com/SiteSurvey/site_survey.htm
> >>
> >> It uses the solar chart generator at:
> >>
> >> http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html
> >>
> >Thanks, I have read the info and generated the chart, but I am still
> >unsure how to transform this info into two sun path plan diagrams,
> >similar to those shown, just above the solar altitude digram.
> Any tips on how to convert?
>
> >From your solar chart generated at the uoregon site:
> Pick a day of the year (the blue lines)
> Pick a time of day (the red lines)
> >From the point of intersection, read the azimuth on
> the horizontal axis (this is the direction to the sun).
>
> Plotting the altitude of the sun wouldn't really make
> sense on a map, perhaps the best you could do would
> be to fill in the shadow areas. To do that, read off
> the altitude on the vertical axis of your chart and do
> some simple trig with the angle and the height of the
> object to work out the shadow area.
>
>  ...R.
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:00:48 -0500
> From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>,
>        midwestpermaculture@yahoogroups.com,    North American Fruit
> Explorers
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> Subject: [permaculture] Revealed: how seed market is controlled by
>        Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont
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> Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer,
> Dow & DuPont
>
>
> http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/625294/revealed_how_seed_market_is_controlled_by_monsanto_syngenta_bayer_dow_dupont.html
>
> Tom Levitt
>
> 7th October, 2010
>
> Graphic illustrates how just five biotech giants have increased their
> control of the global seed market, promoting monoculture farming and
> making it harder for farmers to find alternative sources of seeds
>
> Since the mid-1990s just five biotech giants - Monsanto, Syngenta,
> Bayer, Dow and DuPont - have bought up more than 200 other companies
> between them to dominate our access to seeds.
>
> Philip Howard from Michigan State university, who has produced a
> unique visual to illustrate this growing concentration of power in the
> hands of a few companies, says the takeover of the seed market has
> been 'dramatic' and that it is getting harder for farmers to find
> alternatives.
>
> In the US for example, where 90 per cent of the soybeans grown are
> genetically-modified varieties, many conventional farmers have had
> difficulty obtaining non-genetically modified seeds to plant.
>
> Howard says the increasing power of these seed companies is
> 'incompatible' with renewable agricultural practices such as saving
> and replanting seeds. He says one solution to restricting their
> control would be through banning the practice of granting patents on
> seeds, plants and genes.
>
> A patent gives a company exclusive rights to sell and develop a new
> invention. In the case of patents on plants and genes it grants them
> temporary monopolies and bans farmers from saving seeds, forcing them
> to buy new seeds from the company each year or pay a license to use
> patented seeds they have saved.
>
> Howard and others argue that 'excessive seed patenting' by the biotech
> giants is allowing them to control a large number of seeds and leading
> to an increase in seed prices and a decrease of seed choices for
> farmers.
>
> The groundbreaking IAASTD report in 2008, conducted by 400 scientists
> from around the world, criticised patents for driving up costs and
> restricting experimentation by farmers in developing countries.
>
> A report, 'Future of seeds and food', published last year by a
> coalition of campaign groups, including Greenpeace, called for an end
> to patents on seeds to halt the domination of biotech giants like
> Syngenta. It says only bigger seed companies can afford to apply and
> enforce a patent.
>
> 'Patents exacerbate genetic erosion as they promote monoculture by
> hindering the development of new seed varieties. In sum, the possible,
> long term consequences of patents are control of the whole food chain
> by a few companies.
>
> 'What is needed most is a clear legal ruling that exempts seeds and
> farm animals from patent protection,' said the report.
>
>
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