Why the caulking gun (and the thermal imager) are the best weapons in the war against energy waste. We have said it many times: sealing your house gives you the best bang for your buck. Take a tour of my house with a thermal camera for a real demonstration of what I mean. We're planning a renovation, downsizing and subdividing our hundred year old Toronto house and don't want to rip out the plaster and the lovely old windows, but do want to tighten it up a bit. Our contractor, Greening Homes, brought in a Flir thermal camera and the results were shocking. In the photos above, you can see that the single-glazed bathroom window isn't too dark, 11.9 degrees (all in celsius). Greening homes/CC BY 2.0 It's often cool in the bay window with the piano; sometimes too cool for my wife to even practice.
Greening Homes/CC BY 2.0 You would think it is coming from the bay windows themselves, and it is true that there is quite a bit of hat loss there, greening homes/CC BY 2.0 If this was the ceiling of the top floor, you might expect this kind of leakage around an electrical box. Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0. Appropedia. Geoff Lawton. Absolutely FREE videos by Geoff Lawton, World Renowned Permaculture Teacher, Designer and Consultant. In these free videos you will discover how: Geoff Lawton designed his farm to be totally self-sufficient and how you too can create a paradise on Earth with all the food and water that you need.Property Purchase Checklist. What you need to know when choosing the right kind of land to survive. How to ramp up an abundant Urban Food System in your small backyard.How Geoff Lawton designed a 5 acre parcel of land into an abundant paradise. These free videos will only be available for a limited time, to get access to watch these videos right now, fill out your name and email in the form on the right.
We will never sell, rent, give, or divulge your email information to anyone! We will keep you updated via your email as we release the free video series. >“Geoff: Let’s see if we can head off the crisis rather than go through it. Over 7,500 comments and thousands of views. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster. The Shifting Baseline, Food Myth Busting, and Food Forests - I just thought I would share some interesting information on the Shifting Baseline Theory, Food Forests, and Food Myth Busting. I came across these individual videos today while doing some research and some dots were connected in my brain. Each of these videos are short, less than 10 minutes, and together they are very powerful and absolutely inspirational (at least to me). I will give a brief explanation of each video with links and then give some extra credit to those that produced them. The first article video, by E. Ray Gard, is “The Shifting Baseline” by Daniel Pauley.
It’s a TED Talk that explains a very important systemic issue in how we perceive biodiversity loss from generation to generation. The second article video, by Geoff Lawton, is a Food Myth Busting video. The third article video, by Craig Mckintosh, “A Permaculture Food Forest in Belgium” really caps off the day by showing a rather average couple, in a temperate climate, and their rather small food forest.