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Agro-Ecosystems Series: Permaculture Farm & Homestead Resiliency. Spiral Ridge Permaculture Homestead444 Walker Road - Summertown , TnDetails Map Data Map data ©2015 Google Date Date(s) - 10/09/2015 - 10/18/2015 Location Spiral Ridge Permaculture Homestead.

Agro-Ecosystems Series: Permaculture Farm & Homestead Resiliency

Transition Streets - Living better together, one street at a time. Permaculture Principles - thinking tools for an era of change. Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller's Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975) Think of the name Buckminster Fuller, and you may think of a few oddities of mid-twentieth-century design for living: the Dymaxion House, the Dymaxion Car, the geodesic dome.

Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller's Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975)

But these artifacts represent only a small fragment of Fuller's life and work as a self-styled "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist. " In his decades-long project of developing and furthering his worldview — an elaborate humanitarian framework involving resource conservation, applied geometry, and neologisms like "tensegrity," "ephemeralization," and "omni-interaccommodative" — the man wrote over 30 books, registered 28 United States patents, and kept a diary documenting his every fifteen minutes. In January 1975, Fuller sat down to deliver the twelve lectures that make up Everything I Know, all captured on video and enhanced with the most exciting bluescreen technology of the day.

Parts 1-12 on the Internet Archive: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. DIY Spirulina Superfood Micro-Farm Can Prevent Starvation and Help you Survive Tough Times — Grow it Yourself. Written by Carolanne Wright Create a micro-spirulina farm as an alternative to maintaining a full-fledged aquaponics garden and grow your own superfood to maintain good health, detox and provide nourishment during tough times.

DIY Spirulina Superfood Micro-Farm Can Prevent Starvation and Help you Survive Tough Times — Grow it Yourself

Economical and easy, growing spirulina is one of the best ways to ensure food security when times are rough. Exceptionally rich in vitamins, minerals and protein, spirulina can enhance the diet and even prevent starvation when food is in short supply. One of Nature’s Most Powerful Plants. Resource Center. Frequently Asked Questions : Get TickSmart!

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Use our TickSmart categories to find appropriate links to additional content in TERC. 1. NEW BioLite KettleCharge. Wild Stoves. Book_of_mistakes [unMonastery wiki] It is written somewhere that history may inform our current endeavors.

book_of_mistakes [unMonastery wiki]

History has indeed dictated that the lessons of The unMonastery be collected in a singular fashion. Although earliest known sources have the title as The Book of Greater and Lesser Omissions this is not the language of the street. Part III. Weathering Together: Resilience as a Vehicle to Reshape and Reimagine Policy, Political Will and the Public by the Praxis Project. By The Praxis Project | thepraxisproject.org View / Download PDF View / Download (BW PDF) I.

Part III. Weathering Together: Resilience as a Vehicle to Reshape and Reimagine Policy, Political Will and the Public by the Praxis Project

Introduction There’s an old adage: “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Activists today are proving it wrong by breaking through millennia of long held beliefs about our powerlessness and helping people connect the dots between human/corporate behavior and climate change. Resilience as a concept is gaining caché across a wide variety of sectors. Following the gathering, additional framing issues as well as policy priorities were added. What we mean by framing for change At the heart of The Praxis Project’s analysis guiding this paper are four assumptions that we believe guide the interplay between messaging and effective policy development: Ticks & Lyme Disease. The_life_changing_magic_of_tidying_up_by_marie_kondo_is_a_best_selling_guide.

What is Appropriate Technology for Self-Reliance? - Walden Labs. Building a self-reliant community requires decisions on what types of technology to use.

What is Appropriate Technology for Self-Reliance? - Walden Labs

Some technologies require energy or specialized knowledge that can be easily lost. Back to Nature. Photography credits (in order of appearance) Laurisilva forest, Laurus azorica among other trees and geraniums, Garajonay National Park, Spain (credit: Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / naturepl.com).

Back to Nature

Morning mist clears to reveal the sea of sand surrounding Mount Bromo, Java (credit: BBC / Paul Williams). Archers, dogs and a hoofed animal, cave painting, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria (credit: De Agostini / C. 2 Resilience: Western Washington. Black_Briefing. Talk outline for Jan 7th in London – Infrastructure for Anarchists. Vinay Gupta on Twitter: "Here's last night's interview for #astonconversations on bitcoin, @stacktivism, @ethereumproject, one man treaty org" Community Discussion: Should we colonize space? With America’s climate agenda in the hands of deniers. some people are considering leaving the country.

Community Discussion: Should we colonize space?

Love Is the Answer to Empire. The following has been adapted from remarks delivered by Bill Kauffman to the Campaign for Liberty’s 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference in Alexandria, Virginia.

Love Is the Answer to Empire

16 tips for avoiding climate burnout. Cross-posted from The Skywriter — 1Sky’s Blog. I have spent my lifetime face to face with some of the most brutal and inhumane acts ever committed, but nothing has been as traumatizing for me as trying to get action to tackle the climate crisis. As a long time human rights defender and prior Executive Director at WITNESS, I helped produce and direct films on rape as a weapon of war and amputations in Sierra Leone’s recent bloody conflict, I conducted an undercover investigation into the Russian mafia’s involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution, I investigated hit squads in apartheid South Africa, and I spent countless hours in editing rooms watching first hand images of death, destruction, and devastation. But spending my days and nights trying to get our country to tackle global warming is more emotionally demanding than any job I have ever done. Living a free and abundant life without money @elfPavlik.

Embed Code options 1 day ago, Graz, Stmk., Austria. Vinay_gupta_thoughtmenu_on_enlightenment. The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal. The Future We Deserve - a curated collaborative collection of 100 essays about the future. Winning the Oil Endgame. N 2004, Rocky Mountain Institute's Chief Scientist, Chairman and Co-founder Amory Lovins and a team of RMI collaborators accomplished a highly complex and innovative task—the drafting of a roadmap for the United States to get completely off oil by 2050, led by business for profit. The result became a thoroughly researched, highly analytical yet practical book called "Winning the Oil Endgame" (WTOE). Following its release, RMI began working with key industry stakeholders to accelerate key components of the WTOE strategy. To aid in its implementation, RMI raised $3.6 million from private donors and foundations.

This has led to many critical projects, including: Supporting the initial stages of Walmart's efforts with its suppliers to increase the efficiency of the firm's new heavy trucks by 25 percent through 2008 (the actual reduction in fuel intensity vs. 2005 was 38 percent), and to set a goal of doubled efficiency by 2015. The Innovation Dial The Road Ahead Richard N. Robert C. George P. The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times. I’ve just released 4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org. You can browse, watch and download individual files there. There is the start of a collaborative “reader’s guide” on Appropedia. You can also download the entire set as a TAR file from Archive.org or try bit Bittorrent version here.

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50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship (Dover Fine Art, History of Art): Salvador Dali, Haakon M. Chevalier: 0800759271320: Amazon.com: Books. The Invisibles. Promethea. Promethea is a comic book series created by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray, published by America's Best Comics/WildStorm. It tells the story of Sophie Bangs, a college student from an alternate futuristic New York City in 1999, who embodies the powerful entity known as Promethea whose task it is to bring the Apocalypse.

Plot summary[edit] Amazon.com: Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality (9780939266241): Frederick S. Perls, Ralph Hefferline, Paul Goodman: Books. Prometheus Rising: Robert Anton Wilson, Israel Regardie: 9781561840564: Amazon.com: Books. On being a mad cultist. Templars of Earth.