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Instagram. Permaculture. With its system of applied education, research and citizen- led design permaculture has grown a popular web of global networks and developed into a global social movement[citation needed]. The term permaculture was developed and coined by David Holmgren, then a graduate student at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education's Department of Environmental Design, and Bill Mollison, senior lecturer in Environmental Psychology at University of Tasmania, in 1978. [1] The word permaculture originally referred to "permanent agriculture",[3] but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture", as it was understood that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming philosophy. It has many branches that include, but are not limited to, ecological design, ecological engineering, regenerative design, environmental design, and construction.
History[edit] Several individuals revolutionized the branch of permaculture. In Australian P.A. USDA Hoop Houses at the White House. Greenhouse with poultry. This fall and this winter I have been thinking about a greenhouse I would love to build. It integrates the heat of slowly decomposing hay bales, chickens, and two 2 foot deep, 16 foot long raised beds.
I have to admit that for now, its a dream as I do not have the financial means to put this together for now. A greenhouse that integrates the heat produced by chickens is something much talked about in permaculture thought. If you google a bit, there seems to be some doubt that people are able to make this happen. As I have not built and tested my concept, I can not make any claims. I think, though, that a lot of the doubt comes from arm-chair gardener types who do not know much about gardening or chickens. The hay bales are seen in the diagram, making up the north facing wall. (Raised beds I am referring to) On either end of the greenhouse will be housing for chickens (perches, areas to run, areas for feeding and watering) separated from growing areas by chicken wire. Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming and Permaculture | Permacultu.
Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does not plow the soil or use prepared compost and yet the condition of the soil in his orchards and fields improve each year. His method creates no pollution and does not require fossil fuels. His method requires less labor than any other, yet the yields in his orchard and fields compare favorably with the most productive Japanese farms which use all the technical know-how of modern science.
How is this possible? I had not heard of permaculture at the time, but I can see now that Fukuoka's farm is a classic working model of permaculture design. Mollison and Fukuoka took entirely different routes to get to essentially the same place. The key word here is design. The idea for natural farming came to Fukuoka when he was about twenty five years old. But where to begin? Zone 2 is his grain fields.
Larry Korn P.O. Visualising sustainability « Computing for Sustainability. New (Dec 2011): “Sustainable Lens: A visual guide” published by NewSplash available through Amazon. How to convey the essence of sustainability in a few sketched lines? I’m wading through the net and my bookshelves to find examples of the genre. I’m looking for schematics of the notion of sustainability itself rather than the underlying science – greenhouse, carbon, meso climate process, ground water, etc for which there are a zillion diagrams. The list is not meant to be exhaustive, but if I’ve missed your favourite diagram, leave a link and I’ll add it to the list.
In no particular order, here’s 100 125 137 158 179 188 218 255 of what I’ve found. 1. “This model recognises that the economy is a subset of society (i.e. it only exists in the context of a society), and that many important aspects of society do not involve economic activity. 2. This model is very very common (google search sustainability Venn). 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 Venn 3 with overlaps named (see also WKU) 8. 9. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17.
Welcome to Transition US | Transition US. Mozilla Firefox. Home (Hay River Transition Initiative) TLB’s Steering Team. Transition Cotati - Creating a Sustainable Future for Cotati. Www.letslivelocal.com. Transition Town Ashland - Welcome. Sustainable Berea. The Transition Initiative. Changing the scale of change by Jay Griffiths Art: Nikki McClure A WHILE AGO, I heard an American scientist address an audience in Oxford, England, about his work on the climate crisis. He was precise, unemotional, rigorous, and impersonal: all strengths of a scientist. The next day, talking informally to a small group, he pulled out of his wallet a much-loved photo of his thirteen-year-old son.
If the Transition Initiative were a person, you’d say he or she was charismatic, wise, practical, positive, resourceful, and very, very popular. Part of the genius of the movement rests in its acute and kind psychology. Many people feel that individual action on climate change is too trivial to be effective but that they are unable to influence anything at a national, governmental level. How big am I? Scale matters. We speak of economies of scale, and I would suggest that there are also moralities of scale. The grassroots. FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, nation-states have attacked communities. Transition Santa Cruz. Transition Towns. A transition town is a grassroot community project that seeks to build resilience in response to peak oil,[1] climate destruction, and economic instability.
Local projects are usually based on the model's initial '12 ingredients' and later 'revised ingredients'.[2][3] The first initiative to use the name was Transition Town Totnes, founded in 2006. The movement is an example of socioeconomic localisation. The term, "transition town", was coined by Louise Rooney[4] and Catherine Dunne. The transition model can be applied to any place where people live. The generic term is "transition initiative", even though "transition town" is in common usage.[2] Between late 2006 and early 2007 the Transition Network was founded as a UK charity. The Transition Network website contains a listing of the initiatives that have registered there.[6] While the focus and aims remain the same, the methods used to achieve these vary.
In the United States, transition initiatives have sprung up in many communities. Transition Los Angeles. Transition Denver - Transition Colorado. Welcome to Transition Ketchum - Community Rising. Transition Colorado. Transition Towns WIKI :: Main / HomePage. Transition Whatcom. Transition Town Montpelier - Transition Vermont. Transition Culture. Indiana's Transition Initiative. Sandpoint Transition Initiative | Helping to create a sustainabl. Sarvodaya. Soil science. A sylviculturist, at work Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.[1] Soil scientists have raised concerns about how to preserve soil and arable land in a world with a growing population, possible future water crisis, increasing per capita food consumption, and land degradation.[2] Fields of study[edit] Research[edit] Dependence on and curiosity about soil, exploring the diversity and dynamics of this resource continues to yield fresh discoveries and insights.
Mapping[edit] Most empirical knowledge of soil in nature comes from soil survey efforts. Classification[edit] Map of global soil regions from the USDA As of 2006, the World Reference Base for Soil Resources, via its Land & Water Development division, is the pre-eminent soil classification system. Europe[edit] Blog » Blog Archive » Soil Chemistry Guidelines. December 12th, 2009 by shrimppop This week saw the delivery of NOFA’s newspaper Natural Farmer, which is always chock full of amazingly useful information. The paper is quarterly and usually features a pull out section on a particular topic, this one being the topic of Nutrient Density.
There’s a fabulous long interview with farmer and consultant Mark Fulford of Teltane Farms in Maine. In talking about soil nutrients, Fulford offered a very concise useful nugget about soil chemistry, which I’ve tried to capture in the table below. UPDATE: 20100115: Here’s a better version of the table with original following: Fulford talks about a lot of things in this lengthy article which I highly recommend.
Fulford mentions a couple of good books on weeds: Weeds: Why They Grow, by J. Welcome to the Hancock Permaculture Center. Keyline Plowing with Compost Tea Application | Permaculture Rese. This article forms part of a series concerning the development of methods of compost tea application via the keyline plow which are published on taranakifarm.com. Read the first installments here. Part IV: Re-Inventing the Herbicide Tank – Giving Destructive Equipment New Purpose Compost tea brewing requires the use of specialist equipment.
Especially when you intend to apply tea to hectares of paddocks. I’ve opted to retrofit an old herbicide spraying unit, giving it a new life in the plant friendly business. A few specifications to begin. Since the original unit was fitted with only a single hose with trigger gun applicator, I’ve had to reconsider the tubing completely. For this flow control system, I’ve settled on inexpensive garden variety irrigation valves (available from any hardware store), plumbed on 12mm plastic tubing. The next stage will involve running a sequence of tests to ‘calibrate’ the flow valves. Part V: Farm Like a Gardener Healthy Soil : Accept No Substitutes. Official Transition Initiatives | Transition US. Transition PDX | The Dirt! The most critical issues and greatest opportunity of our time, a.
Transitionwestmarin.org. Transition Town OKC. Welcome to Transition Ann Arbor. Transition Town Santa Barbara. Transition Greater New Haven. Sustainable Tucson. Google Calendar. Welcome » Transition Whidbey. Transition Stelle - Networking Site of the Stelle Transition Tow. Transition Houston. Transition Carrboro - Chapel Hill - Home. Transition Town Media - Home. Transition Town Chelsea. Transition Town Hohenwald. Transition Olympia: Homepage. Transition Northfield. CSMC. Transition Austin. Welcome to Transition Louisville! Official Transition Initiatives | Transition US. Transition Sebastopol | building community resilience. Home Page. Transition Louisville - Transition Colorado. Northeast Seattle Neighbors' Sustainability Network - NE Seattle. Sustainable Flatbush: Promoting sustainable living in our Brookl.
Transition Town Dorchester | home page. Raw milk. History of raw milk and pasteurization[edit] Humans consumed raw milk exclusively prior to the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the pasteurization process in 1864. During the Industrial Revolution large populations congregated into urban areas detached from the agricultural lifestyle. Pasteurization was first used in the United States in the 1890s after the discovery of germ theory to control the hazards of highly contagious bacterial diseases including bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis that was thought to be easily transmitted to humans through the drinking of raw milk.[2] Initially after the scientific discovery of bacteria, no product testing was available to determine if a farmer's milk was safe or infected, so all milk was treated as potentially contagious.
Pasteurization is widely used to prevent infected milk from entering the food supply. Re-pasteurization occurs when pasteurized milk from the US mainland is transported by sea to Hawaii, and then pasteurized again.[7] Athens, GA Raw Milk Seizure, Part One. Haiti. Haiti i/ˈheɪti/ (French: Haïti [a.iti]; Haitian Creole Ayiti [ajiti]), officially the Republic of Haiti (République d'Haïti; Repiblik Ayiti[7]), is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti ("land of high mountains") was the indigenous Taíno name for the island. In French, the country is called "La Perle des Antilles" (The Pearl of the Antilles), because of its natural beauty.
The country's highest point is Pic la Selle, at 2,680 metres (8,793 ft). Haiti's regional, historical, and ethno-linguistic position is unique for several reasons. With 10.4 million people, Haiti is the most populous full member-state of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). History[edit] Pre-European history[edit] The five caciquedoms of Hispaniola at the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Taíno cultural artifacts include cave paintings in several locations in the country. Haitian cuisine. A table setting of Haitian food. Haitian cuisine originates from several culinary styles from the various historical ethnic groups that populate the western portion of the island of Hispaniola, namely the French, African, the Taíno natives, Spanish and Middle Eastern influence.[1] History[edit] Haitian food is similar to the rest of the Latin Caribbean, (the French and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Antilles), however it differs in several ways from its regional counterparts.
While the cuisine is unpretentious and simple, the flavors are bold and spicy that demonstrate a primary influence of African culinary aesthetic, paired with a very French sophistication[2] with notable derivatives coming from native Taíno and Spanish techniques. Though similar to other cooking styles in the region, it carries a uniqueness native only to the country and an appeal to many visitors to the island. Manje Ayisien[edit] Regional dishes also exist throughout Haiti. Beverages[edit] Beer[edit] Rum[edit] Disaster Cuisine. [When I donate during disasters, like the Indonesian Tsunami, I give to the UN World Food Programme. Please do the same for Haiti through THIS LINK] Just like you, I have been struggling with the contrast between our cozy home life and the cataclysm in Haiti. We are snuggled away in our snowy retreat, planning our gardening, animal husbandry, and permaculture projects for the year.
In Haiti, they are in shock and bleeding and dying and starving and in enormous extremis. We are on the cool side of the moon, they are crackling on the surface of a cruel sun. Haiti has suffered an enormous blow but lets all be honest, they have been suffering, in our backyard, for a VERY long time. Hunger has stalked her streets for decades, centuries? Unfortunately, people can adapt to very poor diets nutritionally and calorie wise.
What is happening since the earthquake has magnified this problem tremendously. Thats the short term problem. Guess what happened to that port during the earthquake? Infrastructure.