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On the demand side of the equation, there are three sources of growth: the addition of 80 million people per year, some 3 billion people moving up the food chain consuming more grain-intensive livestock products, and the massive conversion of grain to fuel ethanol in the United States. What can we ...

kenneal wrote:I think we ought to let this thread run. It's useful spam.

Hmm ... except, there are lots of groups and very little activity ...

Has anyone here experimented with Sasmox:
http://www.ecologicalbuildingsystems.co ... cle-board/

JohnB wrote:I was scraping several inches of ice and snow off a polycarbonate roof that could collapse at any time yesterday. As I was scraping, it was being replaced by another layer :roll:.

Really interesting to be reading about all your challenges, John. Hope I can be some use when I see you ...

goslow wrote:Yes, I understand there will be the equivalent of ROCs for solar hot water available very soon.

Is this HotROCs?

A question someone else implied:

Is there any way at all to redesign the situation, so that the place where you need to use the water is in a better location relative to the water collection zone?

... Launch 20th, 21st and 22nd of March ... http://www.ageofstupid.net/weekone I got a message saying there's a People's Premiere across the country on Sun 15 Mar 2009, and they'd like to make it the biggest Premiere in history. Unfortunately, I have to work that day ... http://www.ageofstupid.net/...

Permaculture is about planning and design, yes. Also, observation, and using principles abstracted from ecosystems, and patterns which have worked in other places but modified to your context.

Permaculture principles and design methods are a toolkit which is accessible to everyone.

puscat wrote:"Done. 20 posts there now."

I've just accidentally posted twice, because I didn't twig that new posters on moderation - so many more people may have posted than have yet been published.

1100+ members on this forum, how about cross-posting to the It's Not Easy Being Green forum?

WolfattheDoor wrote:Has anybody examined the process of turning an intensive, monoculture farm with "dead" soil into a permaculture-based "future farm"? Is there any sort of article on the problems and actions?

This is covered in summary in the Power of Community film.

P.S. how is it possible that we can live in a society that has a documentary covering a subject like that on one channel, while on another channel they are showing 'place in the sun'? That was my thought - as soon as the credits rolled, it was like a bubble of sanity had burst and we were back to '...

It's apparently only available on iPlayer for 25 days from original broadcast.

I would certainly like to have a DVD of this for introducing Transition!

See: http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=10532

and also: http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=10723

(Available on iPlayer until mid-March 2009). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp "Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. "With her father close to reti...

Depending upon your exact location, there's a number of interesting Transition-related groups: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_House and this is a map of groups which have contacted the Transition Network to say that they are mulling it over: http://maps.google.co.uk/...