Photos - Toronto Survivalism Meetup Group (Toronto, ON. Intro to Permaculture. Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to accept this setting, or click "Cancel" to set your location filter to "Worldwide". The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results. Untitled. Work Weekends. - Yoruba Living.org. Sylvia Bernstein Discusses Feeding The World With Aquaponics.
What is Aquaponics?
With the growing demand for organic food production, more and more people are looking at sustainable models that will produce a high yield without necessarily having to farm a large acreage. Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society Permaculture Research Institute. By Nikos A.
Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio Abstract This essay presents desirable social functioning as basically a matter of free individual decision. I discuss two basic polarities: Left versus Right, and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) versus Global-mass-society. Each polarity takes certain distinctions and concerns as key to understanding political life. Introduction I would like to respond to Michel Bauwens’ article published on 3 April 2010, which examines the nature of a broad alliance that could be expected to adopt a new P2P (Peer-to-Peer) worldview. What I have learned from Bauwens is that the political/economic spectrum consists of a myriad of contrasting approaches, and that any simplistic interpretation is not only wrong but also dangerous.
Bauwens summarizes the difference that I discuss here in other terms. Independent Progressive Bittorrent Community! Download permaculture Torrents. Discussion Forum - Seeds of Sustainability.
Sprouting. The Biogas/Biofertilizer Business Handbook: Preface. If you've heard of biogas, odds are you connect it with one of the following: a technology that could make the world or at least the Third World completely or partly independent of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal; or, a "small is beautiful" idea that flopped.
As a Peace Corps Volunteer (Philippines, 1979-81), I spent much of my time working with biogas systems. Most of my first year back in the United States was devoted to the study of biogas technology. The product of my experiences and studies is The Biogas/Biofertilizer Business Handbook. To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts. Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is "community.
" What happened to community, and why don't we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the "whys" a few levels down, they all implicate the money system. How much money does it cost to go Off-Grid and to live on the Land? 1.
One of the most important items to find when preparing to go off grid is land with running water on it. Everything else can be brought in but water is essential, one must have a good water source. Ideally, it would be nice if you also had a well on the land. It doesn't matter if there is a house on the property because you can build your own house for as little as $1,000 or for as much as you want, but water...running water would be a nice luxury.
Vertical farming.
Five Legumes that Pack a Nutritious Punch and Help the Environment Too. 6inShare Share By Christina Wright As nitrogen-fixers, legumes are a great crop for farmers because of their ability to enrich soil fertility by depositing nitrogen in the soil.
In addition to this service to the environment, legumes provide an important source of protein. UrbanFarmOnline.com - Sustainable city living at your fingertips. DIY Aquaponics - Aquaponics made easy so you can do it yourself - Benefical Bacteria for the Growbed. Bacteria play an important role the health and well being of your aquaponics system by removing the ammonia from the water.
This is not a special or magical thing unique to aquaponics, filters in home aquariums as an example use the same families of bacteria to perform the necessary task of removing the ammonia in a very similar fashion. The Nitrogen Cycle When our fish excrete waste (we'll call it poo or poop from now on because we're all friends here) the fish poo contains a very high percentage of ammonia. Ammonia in concentrations higher than five parts per million in your tank water is harmfull to fish and in concentrations not much higher than that very toxic and would result in a rapid painfull death.
This is not to say that five parts per million is acceptable either, long term exposure would result in your fish dying slowly and painfully instead and they would be more susceptable to disease and illness as well. This is where our bacteria come into play. Aquaponics.
Low tech. High tech.