A-Z of NON TIMBER BUILDING MATERIALS

A-Z of NON TIMBER BUILDING MATERIALS

www.rainforestinfo.org.au/good_wood/nont_bld.htm

Reverend Billy & and The Church of No Shopping

Hi All,

This is something to ponder over the holidays. Thought you may like it. Only in America eh!.

http://www.revbilly.com/

Hope you are enjoying yourselves! I am. Out on my bike.

Meggs

Sepp Holzer's Open Letter

Sepp Holzer's open letter to the scientific and economic community is found here:

http://www.krameterhof.at/en/

I've put all this on facebook, but am doubling up here for my non-facebook colleagues!

Iconic farm in Austria

"By growing up insulated from Nature and the creatures co-existing with us, we lose the natural relationship to our environment. Growing up in symbiosis with plants, animals and humans, however, enables an experience of meaningful belonging and sharpens the task and ability to act as a thoughtful individual, the task of mastering the challenge of Directing rather than Fighting. By observing the life all around us, our environment, do we discover that Nature is perfect already and that Creation has considered everyone; that everything is in relationship one with the other and that there is nothing to improve." Sepp Holzer

Have a look at this man's farm at these links:

http://www.krameterhof.at/en/index.php?id=holzersche_permakultur

http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/2007/02/sepp-holzer-krameterhof.html masses of interesting links on this site also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7mQZHfFVE

Podcasts

Hi,All.
Today ,Virginia recommended a podcast, here is a link to it:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2592909.htm

and Paul Gilding's webpage-Let's not go shopping http://paulgilding.com/



I like to recommend one myself tooday.Have you heard of James Lovelock?
He is the one that proposed the Gaia hypothesis

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/foraradio/stories/2009/2600053.htm

Ground source heat pump

Here is a link to a few pages that explains how a groundsource heatpump works.
This is the system that i was talking about today.Using water from a well as a source of heath/coolth

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=groundsource+heat+pump&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Bela

How to make a great drawing board

Hi All

I just found this great plan for making a drawing board.

http://www.sampletheweb.com/2005/01/26/how-to-make-your-own-drawing-board-for-use-with-an-easel/

Keyline Article

Here is a link to a Keyline article i found really interesting:
"Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ – Building Soils, Harvesting Rainwater, Storing Carbon"
A tall order ?Read all about it here:
http://permaculture.org.au/2009/03/16/keyline-design-mark-iv/#more-1177
It is free for download,see link at end of article.
foggyforge

How to design fire breaks

For some more info on creating fire breaks go to:

http://www.webphotos.com.au/viewarticle.aspx?page=designfirebreak

Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic:

http://cli.gs/1ry33N

second hand books sellers

http://www.biblio.com/bookstores/tomthumbbooks.html

http://www.biblioz.com/

http://www.biblio.com/bookstores/brhowes.html

sheds

Hello everyone
Hope your designs are coming along nicely, can't say mine is:( :)
Found this when I was browsing the net. It's this really long blog about sheds. I thinks it's cute. Check out the 2nd last pic.

Liana

http://www.shedworking.co.uk/2008_11_01_archive.html

I LOVE RAIN GARDENS

http://www.auroraliving.com.au/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1186764081287&ssbinary=true&blobheadername1=Content-Type&blobheadervalue1=application/pdf&blobheadername2=Content-Dispostion&blobheadervalue2=attachment%3B+filename%3DAurora%20-%20Rain%20Gardens%20Installation%20Guide%20for%20Verification%20Manual.pdf

CSIRO sacks soil scientist

Hello all,
Australian Story, 1st of June 09 was about a soil scientist with a mission who got himself sacked for going against the pro GM management of the CSIRO and is going his own way, educating farmers about soil health. Read the article below. It opened my eyes to how my taxes are being used to prop up GM research via the CSIRO, whilst funding into research of sustainable farming practices is being denied. I wrote a comment in support of Maarten Stapper on that site. Felt it's the least I could do, and also took the opportunity to draw attention to Permaculture. If Bela knows of any way for you guys to see that ABC show again, you'd all probably enjoy it.
Rosemarie

http://www.celsias.com/article/public-resources-for-private-profit/

Hello,

This is a great movie about a post" Peak Oil" farm in England. I really enjoyed watching this.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/PermaScience/videos/4/

Rosemarie

Gaviotas Community

Hello all,
I found this inspirational story about a community in Colombia. Have a look at both the links. Well worth it.

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Colombia.htm

http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Home.html

Rosemarie