permaculture

[deston denniston <cobbuilder@yahoo.com>]

Boots to Roots Veterans Permaculture course hosted by 
Veterans Transition Corps.
 .
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCW6X8ib1A&feature=relmfu
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nc_OwHPdMM&feature=plcp
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33c1NycLmI&feature=plcp
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG60uGtM1sU&feature=player_embedded
Thank you Michael Walgrave for the 
filming/editing and Douglas Kuhl for the physical space
 to offer this up and for the inspiration to dig, and thanks Penny Dex 
and VTC crew for planning and logistics, + all the support from 
individuals, veteran and civilian alike- a success because of your 
generosity!
Peace,



Deston Denniston, M.S., C.P.I. 

Steward, Abundance Permaculture Consulting

www.abundancepermaculture.com

(360) 673-2124

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   1. Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] Would Rachel Carson Embrace GM    Foods?
      (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
   2. spread permaculture by doing the unthinkable... (Marjory)
   3. Share Permaculture Knowledge in East Texas? (Jennifer Nazak)
   4. Fwd: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles an emerging threat to    the food
      supply (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
   5. Re: Fwd: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles an emerging threat to the
      food supply (FranandDave Nokes)
   6. Re: OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the    Cruelty of
      Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers (ChildrensPeaceGuild)
   7. Deepen Your Design, Advanced Permaculture Online (Andrew Millison)
   8. Whos Practicing What They Preach and How? (Bellows,Wendi Lynn)
   9. Re: Whos Practicing What They Preach and How? (Hannah Roessler)
  10. PR Sept 5 Integrating Animals in Permaculture Systems With
      Paul Wheaton from Missoula, Montana Santa Barbara CA
      (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
  11. Re: permaculture, dentist. (Adam Grubb)
  12. BBC Nature - Bugs sunbathe to 'stay healthy' (Lawrence London)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:30:56 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] Would Rachel Carson
    Embrace GM    Foods?
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <50326640.90603@bellsouth.net>
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------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] Would Rachel Carson Embrace GM Foods?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:30:20 -0400
From: Michael Astera <michael.astera@GMAIL.COM>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

  Tomorrow's table - GM promoters show why Monsanto's data is untrustworthy

  Saturday, 22 May 2010 13:34
NOTE: As GM scientists go, Pamela Ronald's a spin doctor's dream, with her
marriage to an organic farmer with whom she's written a book promoting
genetic engineering as the way forward for sustainable agriculture -
Tomorrow's Table. That's probably why her blog of the same name is one of
just 4 "biotechnology blogs" promoted by Monsanto: 
http://www.monsantoblog.com/


The following commentary's taken from the excellent newsletter of the
Australian women's NGO: MADGE. MADGE stands for Mothers Are Demystifying
Genetic Engineering, which perfectly describes what MADGE very successfully
do, as you'll see below.

Check out the MADGE site: http://www.madge.org.au, and it's also well worth
subscribing to their fortnightly digests because, although written from an
Australian angle, they contain many items of general interest, like the
following.
---
---
*Tomorrow's table - GM promoters show why Monsanto's data untrustworthy *
MADGE Digest No #107, May 22nd 2010 (item 6)

Pamela Ronald is a scientist who wrote a book with her organic farmer
husband suggesting that organic and GM could co-exist: *Tomorrow's Table:
Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food* by Pamela Ronald and
Raoul Adamchak.

A keen MADGE was recommended this book by Terry Redman the WA [Western
Australia] agriculture minister. She commented:

"As the author is a highly qualified scientist involved in University
research over many years, I expected to find in this chapter some
scientific studies and outcomes. But no! It is a folksy-philosophical
discussion about risk....the only sign of any numerical data and associated
process is in the quantities of ingredients and the numbered steps in the
four recipes she provides!"

MADGE Madeleine Love also read it. "The book could be subtitled 'Anne of
Green Gables shares a GM recipe with Biopirates'. Its full of sunlight
sparkling off the dew drops on GM corn on textured hillsides with gentle
breezes, interspersed with recipes and arguments for why it's silly that we
think GM food might be worth a concern."

Since WA ag minister, Terry Redman, told our WA MADGE the book "contains
guidance to help the public distinguish rumours from high quality science,"
MADGE decided to rate the GM canola Monsanto material, that FSANZ [Food
Standards Australia New Zealand] used for their food approval, against the
checklist in Chapter 6 of the book:

1.Examine the primary source of information (Yes, we've got the Monsanto GM
RR canola data and we've examined it.)

2.Ask if the work was published in a peer-reviewed journal. (No, after
approval the trout production study was written up for publication.)

3.Check if the journal has a good reputation. (No, the Monsanto material
wasn't published.)

4.Determine if there is an independent confirmation by another published
study. (No, the GM RR canola is a patented product and there was no
independent confirmation. FSANZ relied solely on material provided by
Monsanto.)

5.Assess whether a potential conflict of interest exists. (Yes, Monsanto is
presenting its own work to advocate for the safety of its own product.

Astoundingly the authors also say:

"If governmental regulators were to rely solely on data supplied by parties
whose primary concern is not the public good but private interest, then the
public would have reason to question the integrity of the research."

This is exactly why MADGE has been questioning the integrity of the
research.)

6.Assess the quality of institution or panel. (No journal, no panel, no
university - just Monsanto.)

7.Examine the reputation of the author. (Here is a list of some of
Monsanto's achievements:

*2002 found guilty of conduct "so outrageous in character and extreme in
degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded
as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized
society<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54914-2002Feb22?language=printer>"
; Monsanto had released tons of PCBs into the city of Anniston and covered
up its actions for decades.

continued:
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12232



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:56:29 -0500
From: Marjory <forestgarden@gvtc.com>
Subject: [permaculture] spread permaculture by doing the
    unthinkable...
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <50326C3D.3060506@gvtc.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi Everyone,

Want to insprie people to grow thier own food?  Get healthy, live more 
fully?  Check out this short 2 minute video and please forward to 
everyone you know.

"Age Reversing Gardener Now Skateboards Like A Teenager"
http://youtu.be/tnh7pdZSmxI

Thanks!

Marjory Wildcraft
inspiring backyard gardens, everyday


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jennifer Nazak <jnazak@yahoo.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Share Permaculture Knowledge in East Texas?
To: "permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>,
    permielist <austinperm@yahoogroups.com>
Message-ID:
    <1345483406.85581.YahooMailNeo@web163003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Any permies available to give a free talk, presentation, or class in a little 
farming community in east TX? The town is Frost, which the person contacting 
me described as "a little rural farming community in North Central Texas, 
about 75 miles from Ft. Worth and about 40 miles from Waco between Waco and 
Waxahachie, 20 miles from Corsicana. We are kind of in the middle and not 
really close to anything."?

If you are available and interested, please contact me off-list.

jenny

Jenny Nazak
Austin Permaculture Guild
www.austinperm.com
Our Fall 2012 Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Austin is full - now 
accepting registrations for Winter/Spring 2013!


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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:46:24 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles an emerging
    threat to    the food supply
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <5032B030.6040003@bellsouth.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles  an emerging threat to the food supply
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:13:05 -0400
From: jcummins <jcummins@UWO.CA>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics contain tiny metal nanoparticles that
wash down the drain at the end of the day, or are discharged after
manufacturing. Those nanoparticles eventually end up in agricultural
soil, which is a cause for concern.

Priester, J.H., Ge, Y., Mielke, R.E., Horst, A.M., Cole Moritz, S.,
Espinosa, K., Gelb, J., Walker, S.L., Nisbet, R.M., Schimel, J.P.,
Palmer, R.G., Hernandez-Viezcas, J.A., Zhao, L., Gardea-Torresdey, J.L.,
Holden, P.A. 2012. Soybean Susceptibility to Manufactured Nanomaterials
with Evidence for Food Quality and Soil Fertility Interruption. Proc
Natl Acad Sci USA Published online before print August 20, 2012, doi:
10.1073/pnas.1205431109
abstract:Based on previously published hydroponic plant, planktonic
bacterial, and soil microbial community research, manufactured
nanomaterial (MNM) environmental buildup could profoundly alter
soil-based food crop quality and yield. However, thus far, no single
study has at once examined the full implications, as no studies have
involved growing plants to full maturity in MNM-contaminated field soil.
We have done so for soybean, a major global commodity crop, using farm
soil amended with two high-production metal oxide MNMs (nano-CeO2 and
-ZnO). The results provide a clear, but unfortunate, view of what could
arise over the long term: (i) for nano-ZnO, component metal was taken up
and distributed throughout edible plant tissues; (ii) for nano-CeO2,
plant growth and yield diminished, but also (iii) nitrogen fixation?a
major ecosystem service of leguminous crops?was shut down at high
nano-CeO2 concentration. Juxtaposed against widespread land application
of wastewater treatment biosolids to food crops, these findings forewarn
of agriculturally associated human and environmental risks from the
accelerating use of MNMs.



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:30:04 -0700
From: FranandDave Nokes <fdnokes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles an emerging
    threat to the food supply
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <SNT133-W26F4EB0753E2E537B87004B1B90@phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"


Thanks for sharing this, Lawrence.
I recently picked up a Vancouver Sun when I noticed this related article:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Nanoparticles+tiny+question+safety/7074100/story.html
Frances

> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:46:24 -0400
> From: lflj@bellsouth.net
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles an emerging threat to 
>    the food supply
> 
> ------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [SANET-MG] nanoparticles  an emerging threat to the food supply
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:13:05 -0400
> From: jcummins <jcummins@UWO.CA>
> To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
> 
> Sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics contain tiny metal nanoparticles that
> wash down the drain at the end of the day, or are discharged after
> manufacturing. Those nanoparticles eventually end up in agricultural
> soil, which is a cause for concern.
> 
> Priester, J.H., Ge, Y., Mielke, R.E., Horst, A.M., Cole Moritz, S.,
> Espinosa, K., Gelb, J., Walker, S.L., Nisbet, R.M., Schimel, J.P.,
> Palmer, R.G., Hernandez-Viezcas, J.A., Zhao, L., Gardea-Torresdey, J.L.,
> Holden, P.A. 2012. Soybean Susceptibility to Manufactured Nanomaterials
> with Evidence for Food Quality and Soil Fertility Interruption. Proc
> Natl Acad Sci USA Published online before print August 20, 2012, doi:
> 10.1073/pnas.1205431109
> abstract:Based on previously published hydroponic plant, planktonic
> bacterial, and soil microbial community research, manufactured
> nanomaterial (MNM) environmental buildup could profoundly alter
> soil-based food crop quality and yield. However, thus far, no single
> study has at once examined the full implications, as no studies have
> involved growing plants to full maturity in MNM-contaminated field soil.
> We have done so for soybean, a major global commodity crop, using farm
> soil amended with two high-production metal oxide MNMs (nano-CeO2 and
> -ZnO). The results provide a clear, but unfortunate, view of what could
> arise over the long term: (i) for nano-ZnO, component metal was taken up
> and distributed throughout edible plant tissues; (ii) for nano-CeO2,
> plant growth and yield diminished, but also (iii) nitrogen fixation?a
> major ecosystem service of leguminous crops?was shut down at high
> nano-CeO2 concentration. Juxtaposed against widespread land application
> of wastewater treatment biosolids to food crops, these findings forewarn
> of agriculturally associated human and environmental risks from the
> accelerating use of MNMs.
> 
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:56:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: ChildrensPeaceGuild <childrenspeaceguild@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace
    the    Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID:
    <1345503396.47866.YahooMailNeo@web161602.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

"Government would be so starved of resources that, by 2050, it wouldn?t have 
enough money for core functions like food inspections and highway 
maintenance."
?
No USDA or Dept of Transportation by 2050? Wow...that's what I want?to see! 
?

?
?
?
From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:28 AM
Subject: [permaculture] OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty 
of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers


This is such and alarming and accurate article I thought I would Xpost 
it here. There appears to be some ayn rand connection with ryan.
Anyone who thinks any rand is cool and therefore ryan must be cool too, 
read the following article. Romney-Ryan will be bad news for the world 
of permaculture, especially for those permaculturists trying to hang on 
financially and stick with their committment to that lifestyle and 
livlihood. Otherwise it will be the 60's revisited, tune in and drop 
out, survive with help of others (those "others" do not include the 
right wing). Don't bother turning on, a waste of time unless it is 
through meditation (ever wonder why the Tibetan Buddhist Monks are so 
important to world sanity?).

<>

The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty 
of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
http://act.alternet.org/go/23151?t=1&akid=9240.269594.lz8wgn

The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty 
of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent 
people wind up supporting horrific policies.
August 19, 2012? |

Earlier this year, Democratic operatives looking for the best way to 
define Mitt Romney discovered something interesting about Paul Ryan's 
budget. The New York Times reported that when the details of his 
proposals were run past focus groups, they found that the plan is so 
cruel that voters ? simply refused to believe any politician would do 
such a thing.?

In addition to phasing out the Earned Income Tax Credit that keeps 
millions of American families above the poverty line and cutting funding 
for children's healthcare in half, Jonathan Cohn described the ?America 
that Paul Ryan envisions? like this:

? ? Many millions of working-age Americans would lose health insurance. 
Senior citizens would anguish over whether to pay their rent or their 
medical bills, in a way they haven?t since the 1960s. Government would 
be so starved of resources that, by 2050, it wouldn?t have enough money 
for core functions like food inspections and highway maintenance.

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:53:15 -0700
From: Andrew Millison <amillison@gmail.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Deepen Your Design, Advanced Permaculture
    Online
To: Andrew Millison <amillison@gmail.com>
Message-ID:
    <CAKo1s6FU-8_Qd2ix2inKERLhQxjAd5wFh1Ogwx4H+m-Uqimwow@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Eden Gardeners and Earth Healers,

Fall is just around the corner ;>(
But keep growing season going with our Advanced Permaculture Design
Practicum ONLINE.
This 10 week course will help your evolution as a Permaculture practitioner.

Details can be found here:

http://www.beaverstatepermaculture.com/events/advanced-permaculture-design-practicum

You can see a couple of videos made for the course here:

http://www.beaverstatepermaculture.com/video/permaculture-keyline-water-systems-don-tipping-seven-seeds-farm
http://www.beaverstatepermaculture.com/video/permaculture-keyline-water-systems-tom-ward-wolf-gulch-farm

We've got the resources of Oregon State University making this a functional
online interface. You don't need to be an OSU student to take this course,
but you do need to have taken a PDC.

Best of luck in all you do,

-- 
Andrew Millison
www.beaverstatepermaculture.com


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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:00:43 +0000
From: "Bellows,Wendi Lynn" <bellows@ufl.edu>
Subject: [permaculture] Whos Practicing What They Preach and How?
To: "permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>,
    "permaculture@openpermaculture.org"
    <permaculture@openpermaculture.org>
Message-ID:
    <77209DA7B63FE64E9F22542463B9C351199C6F17@UFEXCH-MBXN02.ad.ufl.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hello fellow permies, 

I am in the middle of co-teaching a year-long PDC course through Leon County 
Extension in Tallahassee, Florida with an Extension Agent and two community 
members who are PDC graduates. We are at the midway point in the course and 
we would like to give the students and instructors in the course a survey to 
help them gauge the degree to which their individual practices follow 
Permaculture Ethics (Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share). In other words, we 
hope to be able to evaluate if and how folks practice what they preach... how 
people act upon their beliefs in permaculture philosophy and ethical 
principles. We have been trying to look at sustainability metrics and 
indicators out there to help us get the survey together, but we are 
struggling to find them very useful in this instance. The social justice and 
personal well-being dimensions are virtually absent from such indicators, 
with their main focus being on ecological footprint.  

I am wondering if any other instructors out there have done something similar 
in their courses, and if so, if they are willing to share their survey 
questions with us. I am hoping to eventually use this research instrument as 
part of my PhD dissertation work.

Thank you,
Wendi Bellows

University of Florida
Interdisciplinary Ecology Doctoral Student
bellows@ufl.edu


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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:44:39 -0400
From: Hannah Roessler <hannahroessler@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Whos Practicing What They Preach and How?
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID: <COL106-W1363CF93C6022843D1FC61CCB80@phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"



Hi Wendi,
A fellow researcher at the University of Victoria just presented her paper on 
levels of satisfaction in sustainable lifestyles - her work is titled "Inner 
Sustainability: Exploring experiences of needs, satisfaction, and frustration 
in sustainable lifestyle practices".  This is very recent research and she 
worked closely with the Transition community - her work may be of use to you. 
 Here is her contact amelnik@uvic.ca.
hope that helps!
Hannah

> From: bellows@ufl.edu
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org; permaculture@openpermaculture.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:00:43 +0000
> Subject: [permaculture] Whos Practicing What They Preach and How?
> 
> Hello fellow permies, 
> 
> I am in the middle of co-teaching a year-long PDC course through Leon 
> County Extension in Tallahassee, Florida with an Extension Agent and two 
> community members who are PDC graduates. We are at the midway point in the 
> course and we would like to give the students and instructors in the course 
> a survey to help them gauge the degree to which their individual practices 
> follow Permaculture Ethics (Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share). In other 
> words, we hope to be able to evaluate if and how folks practice what they 
> preach... how people act upon their beliefs in permaculture philosophy and 
> ethical principles. We have been trying to look at sustainability metrics 
> and indicators out there to help us get the survey together, but we are 
> struggling to find them very useful in this instance. The social justice 
> and personal well-being dimensions are virtually absent from such 
> indicators, with their main focus being on ecological footprint.  
> 
> I am wondering if any other instructors out there have done something 
> similar in their courses, and if so, if they are willing to share their 
> survey questions with us. I am hoping to eventually use this research 
> instrument as part of my PhD dissertation work.
> 
> Thank you,
> Wendi Bellows
> 
> University of Florida
> Interdisciplinary Ecology Doctoral Student
> bellows@ufl.edu
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:42:54 -0700
From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
    <lakinroe@silcom.com>
Subject: [permaculture] PR Sept 5 Integrating Animals in Permaculture
    Systems With Paul Wheaton from Missoula, Montana Santa Barbara CA
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Surfers Without Borders Presents :

Integrating Animals in Permaculture Systems :
With Paul Wheaton from Missoula, Montana

Wednesday Sept 5 , 2012
7-9:30pm
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
$5 suggested donation


     Join permaculture teacher and designer , Paul Wheaton, for an 
evening talk on Wednesday, September 5, 7-9:30pm, about integrating 
Animals in Permaculture Systems. Permaculture offers powerful tools for 
the design of regenerative systems, with fair ways to provide food, 
energy, and human livelihoods, while sharing the planet with the rest of 
nature.

     Paul starts with chickens, and spends a lot of time on them, not 
only because they are such a common, or even entry-level livestock 
critter to keep, but because he thoroughly explains pros and cons that 
are not always considered. He evaluates all the different housing 
techniques (including:  free range, coop and run, Salatin-style pens, 
chicken tractors, and paddock shift), feeding methods, predator issues, 
caretaker effort required and more.

With every type of animal system, from chickens to goats, to cows, or 
from chickens to cows and more, Paul focuses on (among other things):

     * the most healthy way to grow each breed according to its unique 
needs,
     * how to grow all or most of the feed,
     * minimizing predator problems, and
     * how properly managed livestock and integrated animal systems 
enhances your other "growies" (backyard gardens and small farms) or 
integrated systems of agriculture.


      Paul Wheaton is  the tyrannical ruler of two on-line communities. 
One about software engineering, the other, his true passion, 
Permaculture "Permies.com" (largest on line Permaculture Site) . Paul 
regularly uploads permaculture videos & podcasts for the permaculture 
community to promote to wider audiences.  In his spare time Paul has 
plans for world domination, hopefully incorporating permaculture 
strategies, and is currently shopping for a hollowed out volcano in the 
Missoula Montana area, with good submarine access...


     The evening talk takes place on Wednesday, Sept 5 , 7pm-9:30pm, 
2012, at the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 
East Anapamu Street, SB, 93101. $5 suggested donation. No reservations 
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:30:49 +1000
From: Adam Grubb <adam@eatthesuburbs.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture, dentist.
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FYI there's a free ebook here (designed for Aid work): Where There is No
Dentist

http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, venaurafarm 
<venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>wrote:

> On 8/16/2012 9:48 PM, Alia Tsang wrote:
>
> > Keeping your mouth alkaline (like by brushing/rinsing with baking soda)
> is
> > supposed to help your teeth remineralize. Also, you have natural tooth
> > decay fighting and remineralizing stuff in your saliva so avoid letting
> > your mouth dry out.
> >
> > Anyone here use home made tooth powders?
>
> I'll bet there are a lot of great homebrew formulas for that.
> Here's one I just found:
> Ingredients:
> 1/2 c. bentonite clay
> 1/8 c. aluminum-free baking soda
> 6-10 drops peppermint essential oil
> glass jar
> <>
> I would substitute fennel or anise flavoring for peppermint as it can
> affect digestion. I use Trader Joes's clone toothpaste of the various
> Tom's varieties, the fennell flavored being my favorite. Propolis is
> also good to add.
>
> I chew a lot of sugarless gum and only one brand: Trident which has
> xylitol in it which is said to conteract dangerous stomach bacteria,
> specifically, from Wikipedia:
> Helicobacter pylori (/?h?l?k??b?kt?r pa??l?ra?/; H. pylori), previously
> named Campylobacter pyloridis, is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic
> bacterium found in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Barry
> Marshall and Robin Warren, who found that it was present in patients
> with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers, conditions that were not
> previously believed to have a microbial cause. It is also linked to the
> development of duodenal ulcers and stomach cancer. However, over 80
> percent of individuals infected with the bacterium are asymptomatic and
> it has been postulated that it may play an important role in the natural
> stomach ecology.[1]
>
> More than 50% of the world's population harbor H. pylori in their upper
> gastrointestinal tract. Infection is more prevalent in developing
> countries, and incidence is decreasing in Western countries. H. pylori's
> helix shape (from which the generic name is derived) is thought to have
> evolved to penetrate the mucoid lining of the stomach.[2][3]
>
> <>
>
> So, HP may play an important role in stomach ecology so getting rid of
> it may not be wise. Still Trident seems to clean my teeth and I do not
> chew it all the time. I expect that the dangerous role HP may play is
> related to poor diet and lack of effective probiotics. Miso, kim chee,
> kraut, kombucha, kefir, yoghurt, Bragg natural, unpasteurized vinegar
> and other products will help sustain colonies of beneficial
> microorganisms in the digestive tract.
>
> LL
>
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:10:17 -0400
From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
Subject: [permaculture] BBC Nature - Bugs sunbathe to 'stay healthy'
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BBC Nature - Bugs sunbathe to 'stay healthy'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19319086


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