From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Oct 29 03:51:44 1999 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:51:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail System Internal Data Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0916295289 0000000149 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. From mlhuff@tenet.edu Mon Jun 30 10:40:52 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA19064 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:40:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gaston.tenet.edu (mlhuff@Gayle-Gaston.tenet.edu [198.213.2.8]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA19133 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mlhuff@localhost) by gaston.tenet.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA24661; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:37:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:37:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "M.L.Huff" To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: No traffic? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: A X-Keywords: X-UID: 1 I signed up for Permaculture on Friday and am surprised to find NO messages in my box by Monday. I also do not understand the password which I have been given, nor how to use it. I sent a help request, but didn't get any useful information. Can you help me? M.L.Huff From london@sunsite.unc.edu Tue Jul 1 12:13:07 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA15018 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:13:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA07882 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:10:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:10:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: test post Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- From london@nuteknet.com Wed Jul 2 09:49:25 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA25968 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA10458 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05926 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:47:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BA4EFE.6C8B@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:52:14 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: [Fwd: Permaculture Design Course CA] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------35D551515438" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------35D551515438 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------35D551515438 Content-Type: message/news Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: ladybird.oit.unc.edu!fddinewz.oit.unc.edu!unc-cs!news-relay.ncren.net!nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!gatech!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.igc.apc.org!cdp!joed From: Joe Dalsin Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture Subject: Permaculture Design Course CA Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:06:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org Xref: ladybird.oit.unc.edu alt.sustainable.agriculture:982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES WITH BILL MOLLISON AND SCOTT PITTMAN -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Permaculture <-- Permanent AgriCulture / Permanent Culture) The only classes with Bill Mollison in the Northern Hemisphere in 1997! Bill Mollison has announced his retirement from teaching! This may be your last chance to take a course from the creator of Permaculture! Southern California June 16-27, Near Santa Barbara Northern California July 14-25, Near Half Moon Bay This is a two week residential course with 72 hours of instruction. What are some of the things you'll learn in this course? How to: - Turn deserts into prairies within a year or two. - "Read the land" for it's potential. - Design inexpensive, environmentally sound buildings and incorporate them ecologically into the landscape. - Find land to farm in your community for $1 per acre per year. - More than double the yield from your rangeland while increasing soil fertility & the health of your herds. - Avoid disaster; fully and thoroughly check out a piece of land, inventory it's resources and problems before buying it. - Become an Ecological Land Developer and provide as many as three middle class incomes per acre in land based, value added, agricultural enterprises. - Rehabilitate destroyed soils to support limited agriculture in a few months. - Assemble high yield food forests. - Create Oases in drylands-Growing trees without irrigation using only 6 inches of rainfall. - Desalinate salted land What's Special about these Courses? Of course, any time Bill Mollison teaches, the course is special. Other unique aspects are: - Our strong international recruitment, you'll be learning alongside colleagues from other countries. - New material developed since the publication of Permaculture: A Designers' Manual. For instance, detailed information on the nuts and bolts of CSA farming, retirement crops, how to devise your farm/organization's legal structure to avoid paying unnecessary taxes, examples of making a living in ways that don't cause you to compromise your ecological/social values, and Mollison's "Next Phase of Permaculture"-designing whole, "self-building" fully self-sustaining towns. - Invaluable new written handouts, illustrations & resource lists. - Food will be largely organic and purchased or donated directly from the farmers who produce it!!! - Special guest presentations in the evenings. - Scholarships to encourage participation by people of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. - "Trade show" day with suppliers and manufacturers of appropriate tech products which may be relevant to your own projects. - College credit, and PCA credits applied for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check out the Web site at: www.permaculture-institute.org Or write Dave Blume at: dblume@permaculture-institute.org Or write "real" mail to: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture(IIEA) PO Box 620930 Woodside, CA 94062-0930 Tel: 415-365-2993, Fax: 415-355-2241 --------------35D551515438-- From london@nuteknet.com Wed Jul 2 09:53:26 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA26100 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:53:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA11625 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:50:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05981 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:51:08 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kbtf4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.228] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BA4FE5.31A7@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:56:05 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: http://www.qpages.com/organic/ Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------3ECA741274F9" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3ECA741274F9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.qpages.com/organic/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------3ECA741274F9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Base: "http://www.qpages.com/organic/"


submit a site to the

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A web ring is a group of web sites connected through www.webring.org by some simple HTML. This is a free service allowing surfers to visit sites with a common theme by clicking on 'next' or 'previous' links at each web site. This web ring is for sites about organic gardens and gardeners. No commercial sites will be added.

 

To submit your site to the Organic Gardens Web Ring, fill out the information on this page and press the 'Submit Site' button. You will be sent some HTML to paste onto the page of the URL you submitted. After you have done this, send email to JoeT@optima-systems.com and you will soon be added to the ring.

 

Please note that the URL you submit is for the page to which you will add the web ring HTML. This page should be your organic gardening page; it should not be a general 'home page' that has a link to your organic gardening page. This is to reduce confusion for those travelling the web ring.

 

If you have questions about any of this, please send email to the above address. Happy gardening!

 

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The HTML to paste into your page is below. Your will need to replace YOUR_EMAIL_HERE, YOUR_NAME_HERE, and YOUR_SITEID_HERE appropriately. You will also need to copy the graphic 'orgring.jpg' from this page.

 

<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=640>

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This <A HREF="http://www.qpages.com/organic/">Organic Gardens Web Ring</A> site is owned by

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--------------3ECA741274F9-- From london@nuteknet.com Thu Jul 3 23:21:17 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA18857 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 23:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA25309 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 23:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbtf9.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbtf9.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.233]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA19865 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 23:19:25 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kbtf9.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.245.233] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33BC5EC8.59F@nuteknet.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 22:24:08 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re: GBlist: Dangers of CCA Pressure Treated Wood Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------74B559CF126D" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------74B559CF126D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/renewable-energy/mailarchives/greenbuilding2/msg00565.html -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------74B559CF126D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="msg00565.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg00565.html" Content-Base: "http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/renewabl e-energy/mailarchives/greenbuilding 2/msg00565.html" Re: GBlist: Dangers of CCA Pressure Treated Wood
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Re: GBlist: Dangers of CCA Pressure Treated Wood



There is a citizens group that may be of interest to those concerned
about CCA treated wood and human health:

Citizens Concerned with Pressure Treated Lumber
P.O. Box 504
Porter Square Station
Cambridge, MA 02140

-- 
John Bower, The Healthy House Institute
http://www.hhinst.com/    email: healthy@bloomington.in.us
430 N. Sewell Road, Bloomington, IN 47408
Phone/fax 812-332-5073
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Global Directory


Permaculture International maintains this directory and relies upon feedback to keep the entries up to date. If you have a correction or a new listing please email us now.

The codes listed at the end of each entry indicate what services etc are provided.
1 General Information
2 Consultancy related services
3 Demonstration site
4 Courses /workshops provided
5 Teachers
6 Traineeships /employment
7 Publication
8 Vendor of pc related books
9 Vendor of pc related products
10 Other services
11 Visitors welcome
12 WWoofing
13 Volunteers sought
15 Sponsorship sought
14 Nursery supplies



AFRICA

PC Trust of Botswana
Dorothy Ndaba, Willem Boers & Russell Clark
Privat Bag 47, Serowe, Botswana
Ph: int+267 431 463
Fax: int+267 431 463
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Forces of Light Kudzo Agbeve
PO Box B - 15, Tema, Ghana
codes 1,5.

FIOH / WWOOF (The Future In Our Hands)Ghana
Ebeneser Nortey-Mensah
PO Box 154, Trade Fair Site 1a, Accra, Ghana
Ph: int+(23321) 712939
Fax: int+(23321) 712220
codes 8,9,12,13,15.

PC Network - Malawi
June M Walker
Thanthwe, PO Box 46, Monkey Bay, Malawi
Ph: int+ (265) 587 656
Fax: int+ (265) 587 656 phone first
codes not specified

David Paul
Post Office Box 2815, Blantyre, Malawi
Ph: int+(265) 620 677
Fax: int+(265) 634 067
codes 1,2,3.

PC In Action
Jeremy Burnham
PO Box 235, Noordhoek Cape 7985, South Africa
Ph: int +(27) 21 789 1818
Fax: int + (27) 21 789 2031
codes 1,2,3,4,7,8.

Tholego Development Project
Paul Cohen
PO Box 1668, Rustenburg, North West 0300, South Africa
Ph:int+0142 25322
Fax: Int+0142 27090
email: vildev@icon.co.2A
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,14.
codes not specified

Permaculture Villager
Box 319, Irene 1675, Gauteng, South Africa
Ph: int+ 012 631 415
Fax: int+012 667 2770
codes not specified

Mlawula Nature Reserve
Community Outreach Officer
PO Box 312, Simunye, Swaziland
Ph: int+ 268 38885
Fax: int+ 268 61875
codes 1,3.

National Trust Commission.
National Environ. Education Programme
Jessenia Lopez or Julie Cairelli
PO Box 100, Lobamba, Swaziland
Ph: int+ (0)9 268 61178 & 61151
Fax: int+ (0) 268 61875
codes 1,3,4.

PASA
Box 68929, Bryanston 2021, South Africa
codes not specified

PC Association of Sth Africa
Jeremy Burnham
22 Aronby Ct, 42 Hopkins Rd, Yeoville 2198, South Africa
codes not specified

Tanzania Organisation of PC Promoters
Mr Rwechungura
Box 9421, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ph: 246 4 7431471
codes 1,3.

PC Association of Uganda
Stanley Ndekera
Po Box 2581, Kampala, Uganda
Ph: int+ (256) 41 231 47?
Fax: int+ (256) 41 255 408
codes 1,4,5,6,15.

Nkayi Rural District Council (Dept of Sust. Agr.)
Preacherd Donga
PO Box 20, Nkayi, Zimbabwe
codes not specified

Pelum
John Wilson
Box CY 301, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
Ph: int+ (263) 4 792 223 & (263) 4 794 470
Fax: int+ (263) 4 723 056
codes not specified

Kuyamamurana Store
Ernest Mhungu
Post Bag 778, Kadoma, Zimbabwe
codes not specified

Zimbabwe Institute fo PC (ZIP) & Fambidzanai Training Centre
Mrs CS Mgwerume
PO Box 8515, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
Ph: int+ (263) 4 397 037 & 726911
Fax int+ (263) 4 726 911
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,14.


ASIA

Moudubi Health & Agricultural Development Project
Main Akbar Hussein
House #122, Road #13/A, Dahnmandi R/A, Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
Ph: int+ 880 02 313 623
Fax: int+ 880 02 813 095
codes 1,2,4,6,8.

Community Health & Development Program
Omar Faruque
I.T.W.A. Building, PO Galachipa, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
Ph: int+ 880 441 2770 242
Fax: int+ 880 02 813095 att: CHDP
codes 1,4,5,6,8.

Pitchandikulam Forest
Joss Brooks and Anita Truchanas
PO Box 605 101, Auroville, Tamil Nardu, India
Ph: int+ 91 413862290, +91 413862365
Fax: int+ 91 413 862274 alt 91 41338132
joss@ilauro.frlht.ernet.in
codes not specified

Biorama Trust
C.R. Ramanathaa Ganapathipalayam
Post Udumalpet Taluk, Tamil Nadu, 642122, India
Ph: int+ 91 04252 23136
codes 1,2,4.

Coastal Development Planning Centre
Mihir R. Bhatt
25 Vasundhara Colony, Gulbai Jkrd, Ahmedabad, Gujurat State, 380006, India
Ph: int+ 91 79 656 8421
Ph: int+ 91 79 642 0056
codes 1,2,4,6,7.

PC Association of India
Dr Venkat
117, East Marredpalli, Secunderabad, A.p 500026, India
codes 1,3,4,7.

Self Employed Womens' Association (SEWA)
Reema Nanavaty
SEWA Reception Centre, opp Lok Manya Tilka, Baug Bhadra, Ahmedabad,
Gujarat 380 001, India
Ph: int+ 91 79 5320 477 or 5320 444
Fax: int+ 91 79 5320 446
SewaMahila@axcess.net.in
codes not specified

Centre for Education & Documentation
John D'Soura
3 Suleman Chambers, 4 Battery Street, Bombay 400039, India
Ph: int+ 91 022 202 0079 or 285 1156
admin@cedbom.ilbom.ernet.in
codes 1,8,9.

E.L.A. Ashram (Ecology Learning Action) Shyamananda and Yoga Ratna
Atma Darshan Yogashram
589 10th Cross, 7th Block, Jayanagar West' Bangalore, 560082, India
Ph: int+ 91 80 663 9490
codes1,3,7,13,14.

Jajarkot PC Programme
Chris Evans & Khadga B. Regmi
PO Box 10908, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ph: int+ 977 1 225 277
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Nepal Community Support Group (NECOS)
Prasad Chhetry
GPO Box 3724 Thapathali, Katmandu,Nepal
Ph: int+ 977 01 213 827
Fax: int+ 977 01 225 277
codes not specified

Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Nepal(INSAN)
Badri N Dahal
GPO Box 6716 Tangal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ph: int+ 977 1 422 482
Fax: int+ 977 1 524 509 Attn. INSAN
codes not specified

Vacvina , PC Research & Training Dept
Nguyen Van Gia, Nguyen Van Man
C2B-Thanh Cong Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
Ph: int+ 844 345 216
Fax: int+ 844 353144
codes 1,3,4,6.

PC Asia Ltd
Chris Lonsdale
I/F No 63 Tai Wan New Village, Lamma Island DD3, Hong Kong
Ph: int+ 852 891 9298
Fax: int+ 852 982 1452
Permacul@HIL.Super.Net
codes not specified


ISRAEL

The Green Kibbutz Group
Jan Martin Bang
Kibbutz Gezer, CN Shimshon 99786, Israel
Ph: int+ 972 8 9270 646
Fax: 972 8 9270 736
codes not specified



AUSTRALIA

New South Wales

PC Institute
Marlyn Wade
PO Box 1, Tyalgum, NSW 2484, Australia
Ph: 066 793 442
Fax: 066 793 567
perminst@peg.apc.org
codes 1,2,3,4,5,8.

PC International Ltd
PO Box 6039, Sth Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
Ph: (066) 220 020
Fax: (066) 220 579
pcjournal@peg.apc.org
http://www.nor.com.au/environment/perma
1,2,3,5,7,8,9.

Permaculture Inner West
Bobbie Faucett
23 Essex Street, Marrickville, NSW 2204
Phone: 02 9560 3972
Catagories: 4,7,11,13

Trevallyn Permaculture Centre
June Andersen
PO Box 22
Paterson
NSW 2421
Phone: 049 389 528
Email: june.andersen@hunter.link.net.au
Catagories: 2,3,4,5,6,12.

Permaculture North
David and Christina Leese
10 Darley Street
Neutral Bay 2089
Phone: 02 9955 7590
Catagories: 1,7,11, 13

Permaculture Central Coast
14 Branga Avenue, Copacobana NSW 2251
Phone: 043 682 802
Codes: 1,7,11,13

APACE (Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment)
Russ Grayson, Peter Vail, Donnella Bryce, Lisa McMurray
Development NGO using permaculture
UTS, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
Phone: 02 330 2554 Fax: 02 330 2611
Email: pacedge@magna.com.au/ peterv@acslink.net.au
Codes 1,2,7,8,10,11,13,1

Hunter Permaculture
PO Box 1022, Newcastle 2300

Bodalla Permaculture
Lot 16, Waincourt Road, Eurobodalla NSW 2545.
Phone: 044 735 392

Permaculture Association Far Western NSW
PO Box 406, Broken Hill NSW 2880.
Phone: 080 877 992

Manning Bioregional Association
Tony Dove
PO Box 720, Taree, NSW 2430, Australia
Ph/Fax: (065) 565 120
codes 1,7.

Permaculture Blue Mountains
Supapon Raffan
Phone: 047 823 506
1,3,4,5,10,11,13

PC Sydney Association
PO Box 350, Marrickville,
NSW 2204. Phone 02 9560 3972 (Bobbie).
codes1,4,7,8,9.

PC Education (Nimbin)
Robyn Francis
PO Box 379, Nimbin, NSW 2480, Australia
Ph/Fax: 066 891 755
1,2,3,4,5,9

PC Southern Highlands
Ralph Long
18 Gibraltar Rd, Mittagong, NSW 2575, Australia
Ph: (048) 712 467
codes1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,14.

Cornucopia PC Nursery Mullumbimby
Hector Hill andJulian Hartman
PO Box 793, Mullumbimby, NSW 2482, Australia
Ph: (066) 843 811
codes 1,2,3,4,5,9.

Seed Savers Network
Michael & Jude Fanton
Po Box 975, Byron Bay, NSW 2481, Australia
Ph/Fax: (066) 856 624
codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8.

PC Tamworth
Tony Vlatko
87 Crown St, Tamworth, NSW 2340, Australia
Ph: (067) 659 175
Fax: (067) 668 099
codes 1,2,3,4,5.

PC Solutions
James Travis
62 Monkittee St, Braidwood, NSW 2622, Australia
Ph: (048)-422-602
codes1,2,3,4,5.

PACIFIC EDGE PERMACULTURE
Russ Grayson & Fiona Campbell
PO Box 446 Kogarah , NSW 2217, Australia
Ph: 02 9588 6931
pacedge@magna.com.au
codes 1,2,4,5,7.

PC Dryland
Mark Courtman
PO Box 631, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia
Ph: 068 423 110
codes 1,2,3.

Holy Goat Ranch Inc.
Bernie Jordan-Petry
HGR, Dorroughby, Dorroughby NSW 2480, Australia
Ph: 066 895 344
codes1,2,3,4,5,11.

PC Hills to Hawkesbury
Suite1, Level 1, 33 Windsor Rd, Kellyville, NSW 2155, Australia
PH: (02) 629 3773, Fax:6292146
codes 1,2,3,4,5,7.

Riverina PC Group
Martin & Sandie Ducker
26 Mimosa Street, Coolamon, NSW 2701, Australia
Ph: 069 273512
codes 1,2,4,5,7.

South Coast PC
John Champagne
"Westbrook", Hawks Head Rd, Brogo, NSW 2550, Australia
Ph: 064 927 306
codes 1,2,5.

Leisure Coast Permaculture Visions
April Sampson-Kelly
280 Cordeaux Rd. Mt Kembla 2526
askpv@ozemail.com.au

ACT
Perm Curlies
Dennis Argall
PO Box 3534, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia
Ph: (06)-288-2958
Fax: (06)-288-2958
No codes specified

Permaculture ACT
c/- Mike Smith
10/6 Antis St, Phillip, ACT 2606, Australia
Ph: (06) 269 0425
codes not specified

NT
PC Lifestyle Assoc. NT Inc.
Carolyne Wilkinson
GPO Box 2997, NSW Australia
Ph: 089 832 308
codes not specified

Tangentyere Council, Landcare Unit
Andy Kenyon
PO Box 8070, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia
Ph: (089) 524800
Fax: (089) 523185
codes 1

Top End PC Group
Roger Curtis
PO Box 937, Katherine, NT 0851, Australia
Ph: (089) 723 839
Fax: (089) 723 100
codes 1,3,8.

Queensland
Morag Gamble,
107 Victoria Street, Windsor, Qld 4030.
Phone: 07 3857 8775.
Email: syzygy@mailbox.uq.edu.au

PC Consultancy (QLD), Eco-Logical Solutions Ltd. & Nascimanere
Max O Lindegger
59 Crystal Waters, MS 16 Crystal Waters, QLD 4552, Australia
Ph: 74 944 741
Fax: 74 944 578
ecosol@peg.apc.org
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

PC Noosa
Geoff Lawton
Cooroy Butter Factory, Maple St, Cooroy, QLD 4563, Australia
Ph: (074) 425 029
Fax: (074) 425 030

Green Harvest
Jeff Michaels & Frances Lang
Lot 52, Crystal Waters PC Village, MS 16 Maleny, QLD 4552, Australia
Ph: 074 944 676
Fax: 074 944 578
codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9.

Edible Landscapes Nursery (PC Nursery)
Mal McKenna
37 Bangalla St, Auchenflower ,QLD 4066, Australia
Ph: 07 870 3872
codes 1,2,3,4,5,9.

Crystal Waters PC Village
Co-op Clerk
Kilcoy Lane, MS 16 Maleny, 4552, Australia
Ph: 074 94 4620
.Fax: 074 94 4690 (b/h)
codes1,2,3,4,5

Earthcare Enterprises
Robin Clayfield & Skye & Friends
Lot 58 Crystal, Waters, MS 16 Maleny, QLD 4552, Australia
Ph: 074 944 707 or 944 666
codes 2,3,4,5,6,8,9.

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
Max O Lindegger
59 Crystal Waters, Maleny, Qld 4552, Australia
Ph: (074) 944 741
Pax: (074) 944 578
ecosol@peg.apc.org
Codes not specified

PC Patterns
Ms Lyn Cameron
11 Wighton St, Sandgate, QLD 4017, Australia
Ph: 07 369 3399
codes 2,4.

PC Townsville Inc.
John Weil
Po Box 290, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia
Ph: 077 780 118
codes 1,3,7,8.

Sapote Grove PC Demonstration Farm
Jill & John Weil
PO Box 5712, Townsville , QLD 4810
Ph: 077 780 118
codes 1,2,3,4,5,9,12.

PC Institute of Central QLD
Andre Soares
PO Box 478, Yeppoon, QLD 4703, Australia
Ph: 079 336 719
codes not specified

Victoria
Permaculture Melbourne
PO Box 2408, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia.
Ph/Fax; (03) 9853 6828
codesnot specified

Noel Blencowe, CERES, 8-10 Lee Street, Brunswick East Vic
3057. Phone: 03 9387 2609. Fax: 03 9381 1844.
Codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,10,11,13,15

PC Two Bays
Dianne Orr
1 Melaleuca Rd, Mt Martha, VIC 3934, Australia
Ph: 059 751 303
Codes not specified

PC Chiltern
Vries Gravestein
RMB 1130, Chiltern, VIC 3683, Australia
Ph: 057 261 596
codes1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9.

"The Green Team",
P.G. A. N. c/-Kate & Greg
The Community House, 6 Derby St, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia
Ph: 03 537 1648 or 03 481 4452
Fax: 03 481 8209
adamt@peg.pegasus.oz.au
codes not specified

Earthcare PC
Graeme George
"Blackwood" 35 Deering Ave, Healesville, Vic 3777, Australia
Ph: (059) 625 070
codes1,2,3,4,5,8,9.

Permaculture Melbourne
PO Box 2408, Kew, VIC 3101, Australia.
Ph/Fax; (03) 9853 6828
codesnot specified

Goldfield's Pals (PC & Landcarers)
Judy Munro and Joy Finch
PO Box 793, Castlemaine, Vic 3450, Australia
Ph: 054 705 040
Fax: 054 705 040
codes 1,7,14.

Mountain District PC Group
Jane Scott
30 Sunnyside Tce, Emerald Vic 3782, Australia
Ph: 059 686 120 or (059) 681 769
codes1,2,3,4,5,8.

Holmgren Design Services
David Holmgren & Su Dennett
16 Fourteenth St, Hepburn, VIC 3461, Australia
Ph: 053 483 636
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,8.

PC Geelong Inc & PC Design Collective
Peter Lockyer
12 Union St, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Australia
Ph: 052 297 361
Fax: 052 297 151
codes not specified

PC Education and Design Systems
Rick & Naomi Coleman
RMB 2302, Bass Hwy, Leongatha South, VIC 3953, Australia
Ph: 056 643 301
codes not specified


South Australia


Ed Wilby,
Salisbury High School, Farley Grove,
Salisbury North SA 5108.
Phone: 08 258 1077. Fax: 08 250 0834.
Email: ewilby@peg.apc.org

PC Network in South Australia
Sue Carver
1st Floor, 155 Pine St,c/- Global Education Centre, Adelaide, S.A. 5000, Australia
Ph: 08 277 6056
Fax: 08 303 4374 att. Sue Carver
codes 1,7.

Western Australia
Candlelight Farm
Ross & Jenny Mars
100 Falls Rd, Hovea, WA 6071, Australia
Ph: 09 295 4627
Fax: 09 295 4627
ross@mars.eepo.dialix.oz.au
codes 1,2,3,4,5,7.

PC Association of WA
The Convenor
PO Box 430, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia
Ph: 09 417 2274
Fax: 09 295 4627
pat@dare.eepo.dialix.oz.au
No codes specified

Yilgarn Traders
Julie Firth & Iain Stewart
Lot 12 David Rd, Waggrakine, nr Geraldton, WA 6530, Australia
Ph: (099) 381 628
codes 2,3,5,6,7.

Living Waters PC Foundation
Dave Coleman, K Martin
RMB 1495, Mt Shadforth Rd, Denmark, WA 6333, Australia
Ph: (098) 482 171
Fax: (098) 482 291
codes1,2,4,5,6,8,9.

Boranup PC
Peter & Joanne Dorrington
c/ Post Office, Witchcliffe, WA 6286, Australia
Ph/Fax: 097 573 541
codes ,2,3,5.

Tasmania
Tasmania Organic Dynamic Producers Co-op. Ltd.
PO box 351, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Ph/Fax: (002) 971 773
codes not specified

Australian City Farms, Community Gardens and Enterprise Centres
Contacts: ACT, Tasmania - Darren Phillips, Symbioun Australia, 2nd
Floor, 158 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000.
Phone/ fax: 002 248 767 Email: darrenp@netspace.net.au


NEW ZEALAND

PC Hokianga
Miriam & Jim Tyler
Taheke Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand
Ph: int+ (64) 09 401 4882
codes 3,4,5,8.

Tui Community
Robyn McCurdy
Tui Community, Wainui Bay, RDI Takaka, NZ 7172, Aotearoa, NZ
Ph: int+ (64) 3 525 9654
Fax: int+ (64) 3 525 8659
codes 2,5.

Duncan and Judy Smith
"Pooh Corner", Rural Bag 7417, Gisborne, New Zealand
Ph: int+ (64) 06 867 0372
codes not specified


SOUTH AMERICA

Pc Allyu Verde
Gao Klaus
Lot 2, Casilla, Cochabamba, 5279, Bolivia
Ph: int+ (591) 0411 2605
codes 1,2,3,4,9.

Instituto Gaucho de Permacultura
Sitio Pe na Terra, Lomba Grande, Novo Hamburgo, Pe RS, 93 490 000, Brazil
Ph: int+ (55) 51 596 11 14
Fax: int+ (55) 1 596 11 14
code 1

Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia
Marsha Hanzi
Condiminio Aguas Finas QELU, Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, CEP 42700-000, Brazil
Ph: int+ (55) 713 78 2676
Fax: int+ (55) 713 78 2676
Codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9.

Permacultura America Latina
Amad Ali Sharif
Casilla 17-07-9833, Quito, Ecuador
Ph: int+ (593) 256 8661,3,13,15.


CENTRAL AMERICA

Fundacion Augusto C Sandino (FACS)
Apdo. 2458, Managua 5, Nicaragua
Ph: int+ 505 2 74773 &505 2 75706
Fax: int+505 2 675670
facs@nicarao.apc.org
codes 1,4,7

Cesta
Carlos Canos & Silva Flores
APDO 3065, San Salvador, El Salvador
503 26 6903

Permacultura El Salvador
Juan Nelson Rojas
Apdo Postal 68, Centro di Gobierno, San Salvador, El Salvador
Ph: int+ 503 260 888
Fax: int+ 503 260 888
cebes@nicarao.apc.org

N.W. Mexican PC Institute
Jose Ramon Valdes
Hotel American Colonial, Guaymas Sonora, Mexico

PC de Mexico/Mexico City
Blanca Domingues
APDO Postal #21, 140 Mexico City, 04000 D, Mexico
codes not specified

Mexican PC
Keith Burnett
APDO 27 San Miguel de Allende, GTO 37700, Mexico
Ph: int+ 52 415 21598
Fax: int+ 52 415 20026
codes 2,4,5,6,8,9.

New Moon Foundation
Valerie Nadeau
Apdo 1296, Oaxaca, OAX 68000, Mexico
Ph: int+ 52 951 7 5755
Fax: Int+ 52 951 7 5755
codes 1,3,4.

Grupo Para el Desarollo Integral de La Habana
Elio Guevara & Mario Coyula
Calle 28 #113, e/ 1ra. y 3ra, Miramar Cuidad de La Habana, Cuba
Ph/Fax: int+ (537) 33 2661
gdic@tinored.cu
codes not specified

The Green Team, Permacultura de Australia
Luis Sanchez
Santa Fe Community, Havana, Cuba
Ph: int+ 53 7 33 1788
Fax: int+ 53 7 33 1788 ring first
gtcuba@tinored.cu


NORTH AMERICA

Institute for Bioregional Studies
Phil Ferraro, Director
449 University Avenue Suite 126, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, C1A 8K3, Canada
Ph: int+ 1 (902) 892 9578
pferraro@peinet.pe.ca
codes not specified

The Permaculture Activist
Peter Bane
PO Box 1209, Black Mountain, North Carolina, NC 28711, U.S.A.
Ph/Fax:1 704 683 4946
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10.

Yankee PC & Elfin PC
Dan Hemenway & Cynthia Baxter Hemenway
7781 Lenox Ave, Jacksonville, Florida 32221, U.S.A.
codes not specified

Central Rocky Mt Permaculture Ins. (CRMPI)
PO Box 631, Basalt, Colorado, 81621, USA
Ph/Fax: 1 303 927 4158
email 103070.2364@compuserve.com
codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9.

HAPI (High Altitude Permaculture Institute)
Sandy Cruz
PO Box 238 Ward, Colorado, 80481, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 (303) 459 3494
codes 1,2,3,4,8.

Friends of the Trees Society (Permaculture)
Michael Pilarski
PO Box, 4469, Bellingham, WA, 98227, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 360 738 4972
Fax: int+ 1 360 738 4972
trees@pacificrim.net
codes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8.

Portland Permaculture Implementation Group PPIG
Rick Valley
PO Box 8691, Portland, OR 97286-0291, USA
Ph: int+ 1 (503) 774 6353
codes not specified

Forestcare Co
Curtin Mitchell
PO Box 27, Lorane, Oregon, 97451, U.S.A.
codes 1,3,4,8.

P/C Drylands Institute
Vicki Marvick
PO Box 133, Pearce, Arizona, AZ 85725, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 602 824 3465
Fax: int+ 1 602 924 3452
codes not specified

Design Works Consult. & Urban Perm. Demo Site
Dan Dorsey
221 E Linden, Tucson, Arizona 85705, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 602 624 8030
codes 1,2,4,5.

Permaculture Drylands
Greg Peterson
6750 N 13th Pl, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 602 279 3713
Fax: int+ 1 602 279 1874
codes not specified

Permaculture Resources
Beth Lambert
PO Box 65, Califon, New Jersey, NJ 07830, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 908 689 6955
Fax: int+ 1 908 689 6941
codes 7,8,9.

Gap Mountain Pc
Doug Clayton
50 bullard Rd Jaffrey, New Hampshire, NH 03452, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 (606) 532 7321
codes 2,3,8.

Rodale Institute
Bill Landesman
611 Siegfriedale Road, Kutztown, PA, 19530, USA
Ph: int+ 1 610 683 1458
Fax: int+ 1 610 683 8548
r6831459@postoffice.ptd.net
codes not specified

Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute
Kirby Fry
Route 1, Box 210-A, Glen Rose, Texas, 76043, USA
Ph: int+ 1 817 897 9402
Fax: int+ 1 817 897 3785
72530.1353@compuserve.com
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6.

Eastern PC Teachers Ass. (EPTA)
Matthew Arnsberger
Rt.4 Box 169, Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Ph: int+ 1 (540) 894 5126
Fax: int+ 1 (540) 894 4112
twinoaks@mcimail.com
codes 1,2,3,4,5.

Twin Oaks Community
attn. Mathew Arnsberger
Rt 4 Box 169, Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Ph: int+ 1 (540) 894 5126
Fax: int+ 1 (540) 894 4112
twinoaks@mcimail.com
codes not specified

Flowering Tree PC Inst.
PO Box 4302, Fairview, NM 87533, USA.
Ph: int+1 505 753 6590P

Sol y Sombra Foundation Thomas Mack
4018 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, USA
Ph: int+ 1 (505) 982 2752
Fax: int+ 1 (505) 982 9201
macksys@roadrunner.com
codes not specified



Hawaii

Maui P/C Institute & Harmonious Earth Research
Marianne Scott
PO Box 1805, Kihei, Hawaii, HI 96753, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 808 879 0930
codes 1,2,3,4,5.

Permaculture Hawai'i
Po Box 5167, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, HI, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 808 929 9028

Permanent Argriculture Resources
Craig Elevitch & Kim Wilkinson
PO Box, 428, Holualoa, Hawaii
HI 96725, U.S.A.
Ph: int+ 1 808 326 4670
Fax: int+ 1 808 324 4129
agroforester@igc.org
codes 1,2,4,5,6,7.

Future Forests Nursery
Kim Wilkinson
(see Source Ecosystems address above)]
codes 1,14.



EUROPE

Economic Evolution, Projekt Laban Art Und Viefalt
Georg Parlow
Roemerstr. 1 KGC3, Zurndorf, A-2424, Austria
Ph: int+ 43 (0)2147 23 93 55
Fax: int+ 43 (0)2147 23 93 40
codes 2,7,8

PermaKultur Austria
Andreas Infuhr
c/o Inst.F & Landschaftsflege- Uni fur Bodenkultur
Peter Jordan- Str 82 Wein A 1190, Austria
Ph: int+ 43 147654 3489/3480
Fax: int+ 0043 1 47654 3486
freiaum@mail.boku.ac.at
codes not specified

Semailles
C/- Rudolf Koechli
Les Hayettes 126, 6920 Wellim, Belgium
codes not specified

Rhizomes
Kali de Keyser
592 Avenue Dolez, Bruxelles, 1180, Belgium
Ph: int+ (32) 374 66 90 or 732 77 20
Ph: int+ (32) 02 732 77 20
codes 1,2,3,4,5,7,8.

Marek Petrivalsky
Lazecka' 46, 772 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
codes not specified

Gaia Trust
Hamish Stewart
Skyumvej 101, DK 7752 Snedsted, Denmark
Ph: int+ 45 97 93 6655
Fax: int+ 45 97 93 66 77
hamish@gaia.org
codes 1,5,6,7


Permaculture Institute of Europe
Istegade 79, 1650 Kobenhavn V, Denmark
Ph: int+ 45 31315694
Fax: int+ 45 3325 7179
codes not specified


Permakulturgruppen 1 Denmark
Tony Andersen & Inga Axelsen
Istdgade 79, 1650 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Ph: int+ 45 3325 7079 or +45 3131 5694
Fax: int+ 45 3325 7179
codes 2,8.

Kolding Hojskole (Global Gardener Education)
Jesper Saxgren
Skovvangen 18, 6000 Kolding, Denmark
Ph: int+ 45 75 53 0600
Fax: int+ 45 75 50 8210
1,2,3,4,5,6.

PC for Renewable Energy
Eric Tybirk
P.O. Box 208, DK-7760 Hurup Thy, Denmark
Ph: int+ 45 97 95 6600
Fax: int+ 45 97 95 6565
fcenergy@inet.unic.dk
codes not specified

Permanent Publications
Tim Harland
Hyden House Ltd, Little Hyden lane, Clanfield, Hampshire, PO 8 ORU England
Ph: int+ 44 705 596 500
Fax: int+ 44 705 595 834
codes 1,6,7,8

Earth Village Network
Persh Hannah Sassoon
6 Edinburgh Crescent, Leamington Spa, CV 313LL, U.K.
Ph: int+ 44(0) 1926 424480
Ph: int+ 44 (0) 1926 882457
earthvill@compunication.nl
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Designed Visions (The Star Trading System)
Jane Hera
8 Helen Rd, Oxford OX2 0DE, England
Ph: int+ 441 865 721922
Fax: int+ 441 865 244412
heraford@gn.apc.org
codes,5,7,8.

PC Association of Britain
Steve Jones, Sue Cameron, Rachael banks
PO Box 1, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ110LH, England
Ph: int+ 44 6547 12188
gn.pcbritain
codes not specified

Carapa
C/- Olivier
Chateua de Vaugran, F30480 Cendras, France
Ph: 33 663 04342
codes 1,4

PC Pyrenees
Emilia Hazelip
B.P. 217, Limoux F-11300, France
Ph: Fax: int+ 33 68 31 51 11
codes not specified

PC Inst Germany
Prof Declan Kennedy
Ginsterweg, 4-5, Steyerberg, D-31595 Germany
Ph: int+ 49 5764 2158
Fax: int+ 49 5764 2368
dkennedy@lebensgarten.gaia.org
codes 1,2,4,5

Permakultur-Germany
Michael Worseg
Brandenburgerstr 6, Neuss, D-41462, Germany
Ph/Fax: int+ 49 2131 541 763

Richard Webb & Associates
Dr. Richard Webb
"Springfields", 3 Hollybrook Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Ph: int+ 353 1 286 6154
Fax: int+ 353 1 286 6990
codes 2,4,5,7.

Irish PC Worknet
Marcus McCabe
Corrany, Roslea, County Fermonaghan, Northern Ireland
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,14.

De Waard Edible Landscapes
Fransje de Waard
Po Box 93108, 1090 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ph/Fax: int+ 31 299 684 227
fransje@x34all.nl
codes 2,4,8.

Earth Village Network
Sarah & Ishi Crosby
Maasstraat 168, 7417 AM, Deventer, The Netherlands
Ph: int+ 31 05706 633 628, c/o Erikh@box.nl
WWW:http://intouch.info.nl/evn/
codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

PC Center Gaia
Ishi & Sarah Crosby
Schoterlandse weg 22, Katlijk Freisland JG 8455 , The Netherlands
Ph: int+ 31 (

Norsk Permakulturforening
Ingvald Erga
Erga Gard, 4343 Orre, Norway
Ph: int+ 47 5142 8122
codes 1,4,5.

Norwegian PC Association
Marianne Leisner & Frederica Miller
GAIA NESODDEN, Gamle Bomansvikvei 42, 1450 Nesoddtangen, Norway
Ph/Fax: int+ 47 669 60459
codes 1,2,4,5.

Scottish PC
Graham Bell, Derek Mackenzie-Hook, Dr Nancy Woodhead
c/ Earthward, Tweed Horizons, Newtown St Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 0SG Scotland
Ph: int+ 44 1835 822122
Fax: int+ 44 1835 822199
GrahamBell@earthward.scotborders.co.uk
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Permaculture: A Language for Gardeners
by Peter Bane

The Hawaiian people have a phrase in their language which expresses deep understanding of their place on the earth, "ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono." It translates into English as, "the life of the land is preserved in righteousness." This feeling of deep gardening is the sensibility we must invoke to describe Permaculture or "permanent culture."

Permaculture is a nation without borders and with no government. It can be found on every inhabited continent among peoples as diverse as Tswana herders in Southern Africa, apartment dwellers in London and Sydney, desert ranchers in Arizona, jungle settlers in Colombia, communitarians in northern Germany, and subsistence villagers in Nepal. More than a form of organic gardening, permaculture is a whole system of design for the creation of sustainable human habitats. It is about culture; the use of tools in our adaptation to the world around us, and what that means in the post-industrial era.

Traditional peoples around the earth have known the limits and the languages of their places. But along with biological diversity, these unique human adaptations are being rapidly lost at the frontier of economic globalization. Human beings everywhere on earth are becoming increasingly dependent upon and subject to centralized systems of production and control. The consequences of this colonizing process are pollution, desertification, poverty, famine, tyranny, and genocide. To move beyond the destructiveness of our present culture, which is based on continuing war and industrial capitalism, we must recover and propagate knowledge and ecological linkages that sustain living systems: air, water, and soil. We must reclaim the lands we inhabit as we learn again to feed, clothe, house, heal, and educate ourselves and our children.

Permaculture is an ethical approach to land use and economics based on:
- Care for the Earth, its air, water, forests, soils, plants, and animals;
- Care for people, who need not only the things of the earth, but each other; and
- Care for Community, through limiting our own consumption and population, and the distribution of that which is surplus to our own needs.

In the words of Australian ecologist Bill Mollison, co-author (with David Holmgren) of the permaculture concept, "Permaculture is the design of sustainable human habitats. It is the design of cultivated ecosystems where we work with, not against nature. It uses the naturally inherent qualities of plants and animals, including humans, combined with the natural characteristics of landscape to create sustainable, low-maintenance, and productive agricultures for both city and country using the smallest practical area." Permaculture empowers us to recreate living systems out of the devastation of modern life.

How do we do it?

By observing patterns in nature and in traditional farming and building systems we derive the principles which guide permaculture design. To these principles we add the insights of modern science, concoct a set of stories which convey these essential understandings and begin repeating them to our friends. You do the same. The effect is inspiring and contagious.

Because everything is connected to everything else and everything must go somewhere, you cannot just do one thing and there is no free lunch. Remember that everything gardens and "Nature knows best." With that introduction to ecology, you are now ready to learn permaculture.

A rough dozen principles can help us to design sustainable systems:

1. Relative beneficial location. Put elements of the system near other things with which they can have beneficial relationships. Link rain barrels to roofs, and kitchens to gardens by bringing them close together. If carrots love tomatoes, plant them together; let the beans climb on (and fertilize) the corn.

2. Multi-functional elements. Make sure that everything in the system has at least three functions. In this way space and cost is saved while yields are increased.

3. Redundancy. Make sure every important function (like water, warmth, food, and income) is supported by multiple elements.

4. Energy-efficient planning. Place elements in zones of decreasing access and intensity of use radiating outward from the center of activity (the home). Analyze outside influences (sun, wind, weather, pollution, wildlife, views) on a site by sectors, and let that guide your placement of elements also. Take account of gravity by allowing elements to flow through the landscape from high elevation to low.

5. Biological resources. Choose elements which are self-propagating, self-healing, and which can be disposed of without toxic residues. Living systems build real wealth. Prefer wood to steel, bamboo to aluminum, worms to rototillers, legumes to chemical fertilizer, trees to air-conditioners, and chickens to bug spray.

6. Energy cycling and recycling. Energy flows and materials cycle in ecosystems. Keep nutrients, water, heat, genetic material, money, and other valuable resources in close circulation. Harvest your own garden seed and begin to adapt plants for the microclimate of your back yard. Water coming in as rain can be collected, rather than drained away. If filtered, drunk or washed with, it then flows out as greywater and urine from the household. Instead of dumping it into sewers or septic tanks where it can pollute, clean it on site with plants, harvest mulch material from the artifical wetland, use the cleaned water for fish habitat, and then irrigate crops with the pondwater.

7. Revalue appropriate traditional technology. Plants were our first medicines; they are still our best health insurance. Grow herbs in your garden and learn to use them in tinctures, teas, poultices, and salves. The corn straw broom is still superior to any plastic whatyamacallit ever made. Masonry stoves are the best way to use wood for heating. Unglazed clay pots (called ollas in Spanish) sunk into the ground and filled with water are the most efficient way to irrigate gardens in drylands. Mud (earth) is a healthy, low-cost building material available almost everywhere.

8. Stack yields in both time and space. All ecosystems evolve toward greater complexity over time. Lawnmowers waste energy and cause pollution trying to prevent this from happening. Go with the flow instead. Plant perennial crops with different maturities and different heights all at once. The forest yields at crown, mid-level, near the ground, and under the ground. The 7-layered, 4-dimensional polyculture garden can do the same. Annual vegetables succeed to berries to tree fruits and nuts as the garden matures.

9. Maximize edge in cultivated systems. Use all the in-between spaces. Edge is where the action is; where nutrients accumulate and life grows fat. Our internal organs are small in size but have huge surface areas for exchange of gasses and fluids. Gardens can be designed on the same principles. They can remain compact but gain enormous capacity.

10. Observe and replicate natural patterns. In permaculture, observation is vitally important. If forests are the dominant ecosystem in your area, it's because they are the most thermodynamically efficient response to that kind of climate. Streams meander, birds flock, cattle herds graze heavily in one area then move on, not to return for many months. Model nature, it's been around longer than humans.

11. Increase diversity. Natural systems become richer by increasing the number of species and interactions between them in a given area, not by adding more of the same. Adding diverse elements into your system is a way to increase the sum of yields, while enhancing stability.

12. Scale. Start at your back door and work outward on a controlled front. Get your own life and your back yard in good shape before you go anywhere else. A small, intensively cultivated system will have surplus form which to expand or create other systems. A large, spread-out system is an energy sink, always requiring more energy to maintain than it produces.

Working on the edge. Permaculture has five principal strategies which give it an "edge" over both traditional and scientific agricultures. These are:

1. The use of recombinant ecologies and worldwide species resources to achieve nutritionally and energetically superior niches for humans in small areas.
2. Modelling the best of nature for highest energy yields, eg. aquaculture and agroforestry model the most productive ecosystems: marshlands and forests.
3. Managing time by pushing succession: stacking space and time. We consciously acknowledge and participate in the evolution of living systems.
4. Recognizing the information content of systems. Gardening is a highly interactive or cybernetic practice which places humans in the landscape and ensures continual re-adjustment. It consistently outyields any other form of agriculture.
5. Use of the historical opportunity of cheap energy. Permaculture seeks to establish sustainable systems by using the temporarily available supply of fossil fuel and machine technology to micro-engineer landscapes for long-term natural productivity. This transformation of embedded energy in the form of industrially derived knowledge, tools, and infrastructure into ecological, humanly productive systems which can endure indefinitely into the future is the paramount challenge of our age.

In addition, permaculture spreads itself. It is inspiring and empowering, and it promotes cooperation, furthering and fostering environments in which it can thrive.

Origins and disseminations
In the early 70s, after a decade in "the bush" working as a field biologist, Bill Mollison, then a lecturer at the University of Tasmania, in conversation with his student David Holmgren, gave shape to the permaculture ideas which were first published in 1978 as Permaculture I. From about 1979, Bill began teaching in Australia and soon after in America and Europe as well. From this beginning, Permaculture has spread to more than 60 countries. Over 10,000 individuals have been trained in its practices.

Education is built into permaculture as part of its internally sustainable logic. Knowledge of permaculture design is transferred primarily by short courses (10-15 days). Initially Bill Mollison and a small cadre of teachers carried the system to different regions. Now their second-, third-, fourth-, and even fifth-generation students are teaching their peers in many languages and most parts of the world.

Though most of the concepts in permaculture design are not new or unique to it, their assembly into a coherent system is. Permaculture is not traditional knowledge, though it borrows from traditional systems; it is not science, though it applies scientific learning; permaculture is not a belief system, though it is based on ethical action. Permaculture is the edge between all these different approaches. It is interdisciplinary and so you will still have a hard time finding it in the university, where departments strictly separate branches of knowledge. Permaculture exists at the edge between agriculture, architecture, and forestry. It is not a thing, but a way of seeing all things.

How can I learn more?
The ideas in permaculture are universal, but every application is local. And since humans learn best by example and by positive reinforcement, the best way to learn to apply permaculture is to seek out those in your area who are already doing it and work with them to spread the knowledge.

Design courses are offered by qualified instructors in most regions of the U.S., Canada, and overseas. Most events are scheduled for the warmer seasons of the year, but may be offered in southern venues during winter. Costs vary depending upon facilities and accommodations, but range from $50-$80/day in the U.S.

Publications
Permaculture networks have grown with the support of a handful of journals. Those listed below are the most prominent internationally.

The Permaculture Activist, P.O. Box 1209, Black Mountain, NC 28711. Bi-monthly, $19/year. Since 1985 the source for North American permaculture events, featuring report for grassroots groups and designers working "on the ground." Each issue presents a theme. Recent topics include Forest Farming & Gardening, Animals & Aquaculture, Cities & Their Regions, Useful Plants, and Village Design (current issue). Also publishes a catalog of permaculture books and videos.

Permaculture International Journal, PO Box 6039, South Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. Quarterly, US$24/year (in N. America order from Permaculture Activist, in Britain from Permanent Publications), elsewhere US$33. The flagship journal of the Permaculture movement, now in its 20th year. Extensive reports from Australia and regular worldwide coverage. Periodically publishes a global directory.

Permaculture Magazine (U.K.), Permanent Publications, Hyden House, Little Hyden Lane, Clanfield, Hampshire, PO8 0RU. Quarterly, US$20/year (in N. America order from Permaculture Activist, in Australia from PIJ), elsewhere from publisher (U.K. £10/yr, Europe £12/yr, rest of world £16/yr). High-quality production values, superior coverage of Europe, cool climates, and urban applications. Occasional articles on Africa. Directory of events in Britain.

The Permaculture Edge, Permaculture Assn. of Western Australia, PO Box 430 Subiaco WA 6008 Australia. Irregular, US$20/4 issues (in N. America order from Permaculture Activist, in Britain from Permanent Publications), elsewhere from publisher AUD$26 airmail. A spare and thoughtful publication emphasizing development issues, the unexpected, and the Indian Ocean littoral.

Permaculture Drylands Journal, Permaculture Drylands Institute, PO Box 156, Santa Fe, NM 87504-0156. 3/year, US$25 includes support of the instituteÕs teaching work. An attractive journal covering the arid parts of the U.S. and Mexico with occasional articles on similar regions overseas.

Rhizomes, 592 Avenue Dolez, B-1130 Bruxelles, Belgium. A Francophone journal edited by Kali de Keyser for readers in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Iberia.

The Villager, Box 319, Irene 1675, Gauteng, South Africa. Handbook-sized journal of the Permaculture Assn. of South Africa. A valuable source of information on the rapidly growing movement in this cauldron of social change.

Groundcover, Zimbabwe Institute of Permaculture, PO Box 8515, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe. Newsletter of Z.I.P., the senior permaculture institute in Africa. English-language news of the region.

Other resources
For information about permaculture demonstration sites which may be visited in North America, contact The Permaculture Pilgrim's Guide, c/o Chuck Marsh, 55 Grove St., #15, Asheville NC 28801.

Permanent Publications (see address above) has available "The Permaculture Plot," a guide to sites in the British Isles. £5.50 U.K., £6.50 Europe, £7.00 rest of world, airmail.

Literature
The standard Introduction to Permaculture, 2nd ed., 1994. Bill Mollison & Reny Mia Slay. Tagari Press, Tyalgum, NSW, Australia, is distributed to North America by Permaculture Resources, PO Box 65, Califon, NJ 07830. Available by mail order from The Permaculture Activist (address above), and in Australia from PIJ, in Britain from Permanent Publications. This is the best single-volume introduction to the subject.

The Permaculture Designers Manual, 1990. Bill Mollison with Andrew Jeeves. The complete reference to permaculture applications in all climates and ecosystems.

The Best of Permaculture, Max O. Lindegger, ed. 1986. A collection of insightful essays drawn from the worldwide permaculture literature on cutting edge subjects such as building biology, urban forestry, land restoration, health, nutrition, and energy.

The Global Gardener, video, 1991. Featuring Bill Mollison in a global review of permaculture's accomplishment around the world. Originally aired by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, this brought Mollison national acclaim.

Some Internet Resources

Permaculture Intl. Journal, pcjournl@nor.com.au
WWW: http://www.nor.com.au/environment/perma
Global Ecovillage Network, ecovillage@thefarm.org
WWW: http://www.thefarm.org
The Permaculture Edge, paustin@cowan.edu.au
Permaculture Magazine, permaculture@gn.apc.org
WWW: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e415/home.html
Permaculture Activist, permaheart@aol.com

Peter Bane publishes The Permaculture Activist, and lives in the Earthaven Village community. He has taught permaculture for six years and is a member of the faculty of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm.

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PERMACULTURE WORKSHOPS. Permaculture Drylands Institute offers four weekend courses in Permaculture design January 27 and 28, February 10 and 11, February 24 and 25 and March 9 and 10, in Cave Creek, AZ. Permaculture is a method of designing sustainable environments that are based on observation of natural systems, organization contained in traditional farming, and modern science and technology. Cost is $125 for the first weekend, $450 for all four, with some scholarships avaiable. Call Greg Peterson at (602) 279-3713 for registration and information.

SOLAR ENERGY WORKSHOPS. Solar Energy International offers a series of Tucson workshops in February and March. Workshops are for owner-builders, solar career seekers, industry technicians, those working in lesser developed nations, and all other interested people. Topics include: Solar Water Pumping, February 5 through 8; Solar Cooking, February 9 through 11; Solar Home Design, February 12 through 24; PV Design and Installation, March 4 through 15; and Advanced PV, March 18 through 29. Write to: Solar Energy International, P.O. Box 715, Carbondale, CO 81623; or call (970) 963-8855. Call Ed Eaton locally at 327-8558 for information.

RECYCLING CENTERS. The following neighborhood drop-off centers are open 24 hours daily: Cholla High School, 2001 W. 22nd St.; Booth-Fickett Magnet School, 7240 E. Calle Arturo; and Morrow Education Center, 1010 E. 10th St. All city and county landfills also have recycling centers. Call 791-5000 for hours and locations. Multi-material recycling facilities are located at Recycle America, 945 S. Freeway Blvd. Call 622-4731 for hours.

RETHINKIT LINE. Don't know whether to throw it, hoe it or stow it? The RETHINKIT Recycling Information Line, 791-5000, offers information for callers with recycling questions and concerns.

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OLD OLD OLD Yeast ! It's not just for bakin' anymore ; CO2 production 
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 refilling CO2 generator (pump on timer to expel water required) $?
 Another option is to use a garden hose timer to fill, with a siphon-
 fed glucose injector ($?) & an overflow fitting to drain.
COMING LATE Microwave-activated Sulphur light (still a novelty)	$?
OLD OLD OLD Tissue-culture kit with everything, lab. grade	$?
NEW NEW NEW FREE "Kitchen-Sink" plans 4 tissue-culture (Thanxs 2 Dr.A.Taji)
DOITYERSELF Greenhouse kits (galvanized or PVC pipe)		$?
DOITYERSELF Flow tray kits-2X4's cut to size,bolts & heavy plastic liner 
SPECIALIZED Mycorrhizae & Rhizobium `Grab Bag'-a festering mass of microbials
DOITYERSELF Orchid stands,fluor. light stands, etc. kits from galv. pipe
DOITYERSELF Grow-Bags:perlite,long-strand sphagnum peat moss & organic
	 fertilizer in black plastic or cloth bag
OLD OLD OLD FREE plans to convert any spare room into Grow-Room (see below)
BOOKED->JAN Plant Tissue Culture/micropropagation laboratory
OLD OLD OLD `Breathing Wall' installations available for reasonable price
FOR LETTUCE Germination bulb-ask me nice & I'll tell you what colour
LATE BUT IN Fog-It(tm) & Pa-Te(R) misting & propagation nozzzles

***All our system designs are approved by a certified electrical engineer***

Mike's Special Metal Halide 1000W complete vert. or hor. setup	$?(20 kg)
			     400 	"			 ?(15 kg)   
 (kit or assembled with Super 4000K or Sunny-Boy bulb,wires,box & reflector)
	
High Pressure Sodium 1000W kit or ready to plug in as above	$?(22 kg)
 		      400     	"				 ?(16 kg)
		      430     	"	 			 ?   "
		      150W mountable unit spotlight all-in-one	 ?(11 kg)

  "Pro-Ultralite" (tm) HOR reflector or Incredibly Reflective & lightweight
 pebble-finish embossed Aluminum or Chrome-Mirror finish Large Horizontal or
  Vertical reflector for any above +$?
	OR
   Mylar insert with clips to fit good-ol' white steel reflectors $9

**Bare-bones kits,ballasts,bulbs,sockets,wires,boxes,reflectors,etc.,etc.**
Mogul socket							$?(0.8 kg)
 HPS 1000W 5 kV pulse rated mogul socket			 ?   "
SOW 16/3 600 V cabtire wire (for ballast to bulb)		$?
grounded 3-prong plug with 6'SJTW 14/3 300 V cabtire wire 	$?
Wonderlite self-ballasted 160W Mercury flood with reflector	$?(1.5 kg)
Son Agro 430 Watt bulb (more blue, can replace 400W HPS)	$?   "
    (HPS bulbs have the highest Effective flux of all the HID's)

YOU CAN BUY A WHOLE 'NUTHER SYSTEM FOR LITTLE MORE THAN A CONVERSION BULB

Conversion bulbs 960W MH -> HPS					$?(2 kg)
		 340 						 ?(1.7 kg)
		 250						 ?(1.5 kg)
		 120						 ?   "
White-Lux(tm) or Chromfit(tm) lamps (HPS retrofit) HPS->MH 400W $?   "
						      	   950	$?(2 kg)
High Pressure Sodium bulbs 			    1000W	$?(2 kg)
	(less U.V. than MH, universal mounting,	     400         ?(1.5 kg)
						     250	 ?   "
						     150	 ?   "
Iwasaki Super X(tm) MH bulbs			    1000W	$?(2 kg)
						     400	 ?(1.7 kg)
Good-old Universal MH's 4000K 			    1000W	$?(2 kg)
    also available in "Super" with 25% more lumens   400 	 ?(1.7 kg)
						     250	 ?(1.5 kg)
						     175	 ?  "
Sunny-Boy MH bulb with Sodium peak (more yellow-orange-red)1000W$?(2 kg)
							    400	$?(1.7 kg)

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE "LUMEN" IS UNFORTUNATELY CALIBRATED TO THE HUMAN EYE ?

AgroSun MH bulb(35 % more red,125 lumens/Watt,HOR only) 1000W	$?(2 kg)
                 					 400	 ?(1.7 kg)
Iwasaki Super-Blaster 125 lumens/Watt (Base-Up only)	1000W	$?(2 kg)
							 400	 ?(1.7 kg)
Ballasts (multitappers) : 			MH 1000W	$?(13 kg)
						    400		 ?(8 kg)
						    250		 ?(7 kg)
						    175	         ?(6 kg)
						HPS 1000W	$?(16 kg)
						     400	 ?(9 kg)
						     250	 ?(8 kg)
						     150	 ?(7.5 kg)

10"X10"X6" DUKO CSA UL electric box with knockouts & holes drilled $23(4 kg)
No "heat-sink" or "vented" boxes, add silicone to make 100% waterproof
Polyester resin/perlite encapsulated potting of core & coil	  +$?(3.5kg)

Please feel free to ask us our opinions about Spectral distribution vs. 
   CRI vs. Degrees Kelvin Temperature rating vs. Lumen/Watt output vs.
   Photosynthetic response curve vs. Footcandle rating vs. Absorbance vs. 
   Action spectra vs. Spectral radiant vs. Effective flux vs. PAR value

Sylvania Gro-Lux wide spectrum 4' fluor. tubes (plant & aquar.)	$?
High-Output,Power-Twist,Verilux(R),Vitalite(tm),Solux(tm),Durolite(R) also
Cool Whites (limited quantities)				99 cents
Daylights (low lumens, high PAR rating)				 ?  "

U.V. producing bulbs :	
	180-220 nm. (ozone producing)
	220-280     (germicidal,bactericidal,UVC,245 nm,253.7 nm peak)
	280-320     (erythemal,tanning,UVB (for Vitamin D production kids)) 
	320-380     (secondary luminance,UVA)
	380->750    Visible
	   Super Actinic (380-480 nm.for aquariums,diazo,jaundice,420 pk)
	   Actinic "50/50"(300-460 nm.,counterfeit detection,blacklight)
	   Blacklight (310-400 nm.insect traps,photocopy inspection)
	   Blacklight Blue (350-380 nm. for discos,has filter for vis.)

15 kg. high quality fertilizer (any flavour,all essentials)	$?	
	(most available in small quantites from $5 per kilo.)
		18-9-27 popular complete 1-part Hydroponic formula
		6-11-31    "       "     2-part      "        "   (high Mg)
		7-11-27    "       "       "         "        "   (high Fe)

  0-10-10,15-30-15,21-7-7,10-52-10,20-7-10,15-15-18,12-0-44,15-0-0,etc,etc.
(NH2)2CO,NH4NO3,(NH4)2HPO4,Ca(H2PO4)2,MgSO4,NH4H2PO4,KCl,K2SO4,H3BO3,etc,etc.

Low-Nitrate formula available for lettuce in the North
Slow-Release 14-14-14 also
Mag-Amp (tm) 7-40-2 too
Chelated component trace elements for PMDD, MgSO4 & other sulfates,etc.etc.
Micronutrient mix :Bo(1.30%),Mo(0.06%),Fe(7%),Mn(2%),Cu(0.10%),Zn(0.40%)
	& components available $? per pound (EDTA & DTPA chelating agents)

Cheap plastic fertilizer scale (0-450 gram, quite accurate)	$3	
Super-accurate & precise digital scale (1g-1kg)			$?	
Hand-crafted balance with alligator clips & 5 free 5g weights	$9

**ORGANIC** fertilizers & ammendments :
	Eco brand nutrients, all flavours
	Kelp in super-concentrated soluble tablets (Excellent foliar feed,
		absolutely chocked full O' trace elements, micronutrients,
		hormones, minerals & many beneficial biocatalysts)
	Blood
	Fish 5-2-2						
	     0-10-10
	Seaweed 1-1-1
	Bat Guano 2-18-0		call for prices
		  10-3-1
	Shrimp compost
	Mushroom compost
	Worm castings
	Bone/Alfalfa/Fish/Feather/etc. meals
	Greensand (K2SixOy)
	Algal puree (with or without cytokinin)
	Old Growth & Rainforest tree ashes (I wonder if they could use
		anything else to make paper ? hmmmmmmm)
	Pumice, Limestone (Dol. or Cal.), Rock Phosphate, Gypsum (see below)
	Ground Oyster shell
	Malt
  etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

   Recipe Booklet VOL.II with many, many of my favourites including :
	-Organic Carbohydrate "Rinse" solution, with B1 	$9 
    	-Cloning spray with cytokinin to delay senescence
	-Mike's Magic liquid
	-Sphagnum stew with Kelp
	-Coconut milk spritzer with or without Inositol
	-Bitter pistillate cones of the vine liqueur (saturated with CO2)
	-etc.

   Many books also available : 	
	Gardening Indoors			George Van Patten
	Hydroponic Home Food Gardens		Dr. Howard Resh
	The Expert Series (1-4)			Dr. G.H. Hessayon
	Propagation Handbook			Geoff Bryant
	Complete Book of Plant Propagation	Wright & Titchmarsh
	Orchids Simplified			Henry Jaworski
	Best of Growing Edge			various
	Gardening Indoors with Cuttings		George Van Patten
	Knowing & Recognizing (pests)		J. Coppert
	The Mushroom Cultivator			Paul Tamets & J.S. Chilton
	Growing & Displaying Bonsai		C. Lewis & N. Sutherland
		etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

Biological control & Predators : Steinernema carpocapsae (Nematodes)
	Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Aphid pred.),Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
	(Australian Lady Beetles),Amblyseius fallacis (Field Mite pred.)
	Hypoaspis sp.(Fungus Gnat pred.),Phytoseiulus persimilis 
	(Spider mite pred.),Chrysopa carnea (Lacewings),Hippodamia
	convergens (ladybugs),etc.etc.etc.	

	Ultrasonic, Sticky Strips, Pheromones & traps, Diatomaceous Earth,
	Insecticidal soap, etc. also available

Seeds : Richter's Herb seeds (Grab-Bag 5 for $5)tell 'em we sent U 
	Stokes seeds
	Enza seeds
		Also:	Tropical Rainforest seeds
			Ginseng (cold stored)
			Coffee (fresh or cold stored)
			Eucalyptus
			Feverfew
			Hen's 'n Chicks
			St. Johnswort
			Greek Mountain Tea		
			Hops
			Irish Moss
			Jacob's Ladder
			Jojoba
			Pig's Ears
			Pyrethrum
			Wallflower
			Sweetgrass
			Witch Hazel
			White Pine
			Neem
			Prickly Pear

	Mushroom cultivating kits including Malt/Cornsteep Dextrose
		agar,cheese wax,substrate,petri dishes,filter disks,
		etc. to grow any mushrooms found (avoid Death Angel)

		etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

Compost thermometer (95-135 deg.Farenheit)			$?(0.5 kg)
Hydrofarm 6' light track (most efficient)			$?(10 kg)
	  4'		"					$?(8 kg)
Light Rail 3 (no chains)					$?(9 kg)
IR transmitting black plastic, regular black, clear, various mils. $?(?kg)
6 mil. black & white Agro. plastic UV resistant liner, 10'X100' $?(19 kg)
8 mil.				"				 ?(23 kg)
20 mil. black, non-toxic PVC UV resistant flexible 10 yr. liner $?
40 mil.				"				 ?
mylar 2 mil 54" X 25 feet					$23(3.8 kg)
	"        100						 ?(15 kg)
Ionizers !							$?
Activated charcoal for odor control & VOC adsorption (per pound)$?
Space-Age synthetic environmentally friendly regenerable carbon	$?/L(1 kg)
	Happy plants need healthy air ! Kills Yeast smell too.
Furnace filter charged with activated charcoal (custom size)	$?(1.5 kg)
Air pumps (Optima,Maxima) various sizes from 1500-5500 cc./min.	$?(1-2 kg)
Copper Sulfate (can be used @ 0.16 mg/L to control algae)	$3   
H2O2 35% with stabilizing agent, 1 quart (no mail order)	$?	
HNO3, H3PO4, KOH, etc. call

Large 6' round HDPE plastic flow-tray/reservoir (115 gal./460 L)$19(4.5 kg)
small 4'			"		(~60 gal./240 L) 14(3.5 kg)
(because of the above trays' flexibility,durability & ability to be grouped
 together using bolts, it allows for them to form huge growing areas with
 very low $/square foot or metre values, making them very popular, both
 now come with holes, pipe & fittings ready to attach to virtually any pump,
 available in heavy-duty double-thickness rigid industrial model as well)

Fill/drain fitting for above(use 1 & drill holes in input line)	99 cents
Kevlar (tm) carbon fiber bulletproof flow trays coming soon
Polyester resin & hardener for use with above (pint, quart or gallon) $?
Vektran (tm) carbon fiber liners (same as on Mars-lander air-bags)
Epoxy resin & hardener for use with above (pint, quart or gallon) $?
ABS rigid seamless or expandable seamed (requiring silicone bead & screws)
	commercial greenhouse quality flow trays		$?->   
Custom built Fibreglass flow trays with Silicone liners		$?    
Bromthymol-blue (pH 6.0-7.6 indicator) with colour chart	$?
 Methyl-red & litmus paper also available
Deluxe pH kit : either or both of above with 2 pints pH+ & pH-	$9
Digital pH meter (accurate to hundredths)			$?(0.7 kg)
	(clean with a toothbrush & paste then dish soap when)
	     (dead, go in & out & a little side to side)
Replacement electrode						$?(0.2 kg)
Digital waterproof salts pen (+/- 10 ppm)			$?(0.7 kg)
PLANS to use cheap analog Ohm-multimeter as E.C. meter	FREE 
 (required : 1K(1000) Ohm-meter with fresh batteries,3 cups & some sandpaper)
  (stick yer probe tips in & shake 'em to get a steady reading every time)
Portable ORP/RedOx probe (-999 - +999 mV)			$?(0.7 kg)
Analog Hydrofarm light meter (1fc=1lm/sq.ft & 1lux=1lm/sq.m)	$?(0.8 kg)
Digital light meter						$69(0.9 kg)
UV or O3 H2O sanitizer						$?
Compressed Bale of Sogevex TBK Fibrous Blond Sphagnum Peat Moss $?
Expanded clay pellets (grorocks,hydrocorn,whatever) 50 L & up   $?
Leca(tm) kiln-fired clay pellets,high CEC & indestructible,50 L $?(24 kg)
pea-gravel 							$?
4 cubic feet of Perlite or Vermiculite				$?
Bail of 16 6" Rockwool slabs (chemical free unlike insulation)	$?(10 kg)
Oasis aggro-foam LC-1 starter sheets, 104 cubes (slabs also)	$?(0.5 kg)
Case of 216 4" Rockwool cubes					$?(11 kg)
Aggrofoam polyurethane 10 year slabs				$?    
Bail of Coconut fibre						$?   
Pro-Mix "BX" "HP" "PGX" "NX" in 3.8-55 cu.ft. compressed bale	$?
X-Large pack of Soil moisture-retaining polymer crystals	$?
15 lb. compressed CO2 tank (empty only for mail-order)		$?
CO2 injection system (0-60 CFM flowgage & solenoid, fully wired)$99(3.0 kg)
 (dual-dial regulator flowgage & FREE Teflon (tm) tape to prevent leaks)
Needle-valve for above						$?
Fully wired & grounded industrial 150 psi. H2O or CO2 solenoid  $19.99(0.8 kg)
  (unions, nipples, couplings & adapters available for above)
Digital Grounded 25 Amp heavy-duty timer for use with above	$?(2 kg)
24 VAC UV resistant adjustable solenoid with power pack		$?(0.8 kg)
Aquafizzzzz airstone to use with above for aquatic plants	$(0.3 kg)
 (bury the above or use a rock as a "reactor" to trap bubbles to dissolve)
Green Air CD-3 CO2 generator 					$?(8.5 kg)
50 lbs. sodium bicarb. (baking soda to mix with acetic acid)    $?     
   (can also be mixed with activated charcoal for air purification)
Gypsum to convert Na+ for leaching from Sodic & Saline soils	$?
50 lbs. Dolomite Lime (adds Ca & Mg & balances pH too)		$?
4 l (1 gal.) glacial (~100%) acetic acid (mix with either above)$?(no mail)
Wicked paraffin unscented candles for CO2 gen. & O2 reduction $5/doz.	
8 pail monster plant setup with pump,perlite,nutrients,etc.	$?   
Complete Quantum (special !!)					$?(25 kg)
Cooling thermostat for vent fan (heavy duty agricultural model) $?(2 kg)
Dehumidistat, highly recommended over thermostat in cold areas	$69(0.75 kg)
450 GPH Attwood 12V submersible pump with power pack for 5 more $?(3.5 kg)
GSW Diamond, Flotec, Oase, Pro, Little Giant 90-2000 gph fountain pumps $call 
Filter bag for any pump to prevent drip-line clogging		$?	
12'-32' submersible Soil heating cable, thermosatat @ 74 deg.F	$? 
Submersible (fully) reservoir heater with thermostat (300 Watt)	$?
Hydrofarm (tm) propagation heating mat (14" X 22")		$?
250-1380 CFM vent blowers to fit in duct or dryer line		$?
150 CFM Whisper (tm) box-fan with cord				$?(2 kg)
   (can easily be attached to reflector for cooling & circulation)
	
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1-buy a wading pool or build a flow tray out of 2X4's and line with plastic 
  & use garbage pails or an iron pipe stand with hardboard on top or a table 
  to support your tray
2-buy a 12V bilge pump which can then be connected to a car battery charger 
  or other 12V power supply (or sump or fountain or fish pump) 
3-buy a bilge-pump thru-hull fitting and connect to your pump which is now 
  in your garbage pail or other reservoir
4-fill the res. with water and leave the pump on full blast to see if it is 
  going to overflow your tray, if it does, drill a couple of holes in the 
  hose which will reduce the flow, or use plastic insert `T' fittings,
  or add an overflow fitting, make sure that your pump doesn't run dry
5-fill the tray to 4-8 inches with Perlite & soilless mix (I haven't tried
  compost yet myself) at 10:1, I know it will float at first, so leave your 
  reservoir empty and top fill to moisten, it will stop floating in a 
  while, or use pea gravel or river stone, make sure to add some 
  dolomitic limestone to balance pH, ,also use plastic patio door 
  screen on your fill/drain fitting
6-mix a complete soluble fertilizer according to the instrucions on the 
  label,(I didn't say non-organic), also add a super-concentrated soluble 
  Kelp tablet to your reservoir to ensure all trace elements & minerals 
  (Zinc,Silicon,Selenium,etc.etc.) are present and grow away, add a 400 
  or 1000 Watt MH or HPS light on a mover  & supplemental CO2 for best 
  results

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Aqueous your name here your name here your name here your name here your name here --------------2EE3578A749D-- From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Jul 17 13:21:07 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA17847 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA27839 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:17:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:17:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: BEN # 169 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 11 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:47:07 -0700 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 169 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 169 July 17, 1997 aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- HEINZ ELLENBERG, 1913-1997 A very sad news from Germany was the recent death of Heinz Ellenberg, on May 2, 1997 in Goettingen. His scientific works and outstanding personality have touched and influenced several generations of vegetation and plant ecologists, not only in Europe, but also throughout the world. The fifth edition of his life's synthesis work (in German), "Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen", Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996, had only recently arrived on my desk. His fourth (1986) edition was translated into English and appeared under the title "Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe", Cambridge University Press, 1988. An earlier book in English, "Integrated Experimental Ecology", edited by H. Ellenberg was published by Springer-Verlag in its now well-known "Ecological Studies Series" as Volume 2 in 1971. It dealt with methods and preliminary results of the German contribution to the IBP (In- ternational Biological Program), the first internationally coordinated big biological science program. In Germany, this was directed by Heinz Ellenberg and was known as the "Solling Project." The complete results appeared as a 20-year study in 1986 in an Ulmer book entitled "Oekosystemforschung - Ergebnisse des Solling Projekts 1966-1986", edited by H. Ellenberg, R. Mayer, and J. Schauermann. I had the great fortune to sit in H. Ellenberg's introductory botany lectures in 1948/49 at the University of Stuttgart- Hohenheim. At that time, he had just obtained his habilitation as university lecturer and was teaching the course in tandem with the botanical institute's director, Professor Heinrich Walter. As I later realized, both were impressive teachers, whose lectures and personalities inspired me for the rest of my life. Dr. Ellenberg, at that time, introduced vegetation ecology by field excursions in which we learned how to do releves (vegetation samples). Later, after I had immigrated to Canada in 1952, and when I was inspired by Vladimir J. Krajina to continue my studies with a Ph.D. in forest ecology, I resumed active contact with both, Profs. H. Walter and H. Ellenberg. One of Ellenberg's fundamental questions in vegetation ecology was, "what controls the combination of plant species in field communities?" For this, the "Hohenheimer Groundwater Experiment", suggested by H. Walter and carried through by H. Ellenberg, gave a compelling answer. Ellenberg clearly demonstrated the difference between physiological and ecological behaviors of plants, the first relating to the absence of com- petition, the second to plants growing in competition with other plants. He coined the term physiological optimum and ecological optimum, which helped to clarify the causality of plant dis- tribution patterns in nature. These and other aspects, such as Ellenberg's "ecological group concept", were retained in the book Mueller-Dombois/Ellenberg "Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology", Wiley and Sons, 1974, which represented the first synthesis of European and Anglo- American approaches to vegetation ecology. The book could be written because of Ellenberg's prior work, and it undoubtedly contributed to a broader familiarity with Ellenberg's name among English-speaking ecologists. Heinz Ellenberg produced over 200 scientific papers, including several books, listed in part in his first "Festschrift", pub- lished by the German Ecological Society (Goettingen 1983) at the occasion of his 70th birthday. A second "Festschrift" in honor of his 80th birthday appeared in Phytocoenologia Vols. 23(1993) and 24(1994). Excellent accounts on H. Ellenberg's professional life and his impact on modern ecology, including ecosystem analysis and landscape ecology as well as the application of vegetation science to agriculture and forestry, are summarized in both his "Festschrifts" by Wolfgang Haber, Gisela Jahn, and Otti Wilmanns. Heinz Ellenberg's great contributions were increasingly and repeatedly recognized. For example, he was invited by the British Ecological Society to give the prestigious "Tansley Lecture" in 1977, which was subsequently published with the title "Man's influence on tropical mountain ecosystems in South America" in Journal of Ecology 67: 401-416, 1979. Moreover, he received honorable degrees from four universities: Dr. agr. h.c. (Munich), Dr. rer. nat. h.c. (Zagreb), Dr. phil. nat. h.c. (Muenster), and Dr. phil. h.c. (Lueneburg). His major works, the five successive editions concerned with the "Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe", were always dedicated to his closest and strongest supporter, his wife of 60 years, Charlotte Ellenberg, herself a professional geographer and partner in his life's work. I cannot conclude this short obituary without thinking of her unimaginable suffering by losing her husband, the man who will continue to live in the memory of all those who were touched by his outstanding per- sonality. Dieter Mueller-Dombois Kailua, Hawaii June 26, 1997 WEB SITE: INDICATOR VALUES OF VASCULAR PLANTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE From: Adolf Ceska Ellenberg's indicator values ("Zeigerwerte") of vascular plants of central Europe are available on the following web site: http://www.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/data/db/ellenberg.html [If you are using search engines, "Ellenberg-Zeigerwerte" (no apostrophes) will find you this site. You can search the database by the family (Familie), genus (Gattung), species (Art), or the combination of a genus & species (Gattung + Art).] Indicator values of about 2720 central-European vascular plants are listed with ranking of species for the following ecological factors: light (L), temperature (T), continentality (K), mois- ture (F), soil pH (R), nutrients/nitrogen (N), and others (salinity, heavy metal resistance) (sonst). Life forms of plants and plant communities in which the plant occurs are also listed. The web list is based on Ellenberg et al. (1992). Ellenberg suggested that the simplest use of the indicator values is to calculate "mean indicator value" for the releve or community under consideration. The recent paper by Hawkes et al. (1997) deals with the applica- tion of Ellenberg indicator values in Britain. Ter Braak & Gremmen (1987), Mountford and Chapman (1993), and Thompson et al. (1993) also discussed the use of indicator values in vegeta- tion studies. In coastal British Columbia, the ranking of in- dicator forest species was published by Klinka et al. (1989). Literature cited Ellenberg, H., H.E. Weber, R. Dull, V. Wirth, W. Werner, & D. Paulissen. 1992. Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18: 1-258. Hawkes, J.C., D.G. Pyatt, & I.M.S. White. 1997. Using Ellenberg indicator values to assess soil quality in British forests from ground vegetation: a pilot study. Journal of Applied Ecology 34: 375-387. Klinka, K., V.J. Krajina, A. Ceska, & A.M. Scagel. 1989. In- dicator plants of coastal British Columbia. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver. Mountford, J.O. & J.M. Chapman. 1993. Water regime requirements of British wetland classifications of Ellenberg and Londo. Journal of Environmental Management, 38: 275-288. Ter Braak, C.J.F. & N.J.M. Gremmen. 1987. Ecological amplitudes of plant species and the internal consistency of Ellenberg's indicator values for moisture. Vegetatio 69: 79-87. Thompson, K., K.G. Hodgson, J.P. Grime, I.H. Rorison, S.R. Band, & R.E. Spencer. 1993. Ellenberg numbers revisited. Phytocoenologia 23: 277-289. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions, subscriptions, etc.: aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca BEN is archived on gopher freenet.victoria.bc.ca. 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Fear in the fields: how toxic wastes become fertilizer

A Seattle Times investigation found that, across the nation, industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process, which is legal, saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes.

Part I: Spreading heavy metals on farmland
Part II:How hazardous wastes become fertilizer
Across the nation: hazardous wastes being turned into fertilizer
Tag-along toxics
From factories to fields
Two approaches to toxins in fertilizer
Chart: heavy metals in fertilizers
What's known, and not known, about toxics, plants and soil
Experts: How to reduce risk
Resources on the World Wide Web
Here are some officials to call or write


HUD:  From Deregulation to Disgrace

Across the nation -- in tribe after tribe, state after state -- the Indian-housing program is riddled with fraud, abuse and mismanagement. The Seattle Times spent six months visiting reservations, interviewing tribal and government officials and reviewing records to find out what deregulation has wrought. The answer: It turned the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development into a cash machine, spitting out dollars with few restrictions.

Part 1: Tribal housing: From deregulation to disgrace
Part 2: The key to HUD's cashbox
Part 3: How a few got the best part of the HUD pie
Part 4: Federal aid for the wealthy
Part 5: HUD program is changing - for better or worse
The series
What to do
Where to write


Safety at Issue:  the 737
A five-part series examines the debate over safety that surrounds Boeing's 737.

The Seattle Times Top Stories archives - Safety at issue: the 737, part 1
The Seattle Times Top Stories archives - Safety at issue: the 737, part 2
The Seattle Times Top Stories archives - Safety at issue: the 737, part 3
The Seattle Times Top Stories archives - Safety at issue: the 737, part 4
The Seattle Times Top Stories archives - Safety at issue: the 737, part 5
About this series
Now it's your turn


Mariner '97

Try your luck at online games; read daily Mariner reports, stats, profiles and commentary


Your Financial Future

We show you how you can look ahead and start planning right now for a secure financial future no matter how old you are or what your situation is.

Personal Finance: Handing down a treasure that money cannot buy
Charting your course: Here's an outline by age
It's worth a careful search to find your ideal planner
Divvying up assets is key to top investment returns
`At least 20 percent in stocks' (and other guidelines)
The ABCs of CFPs (and other financial pros)
Where there's a will, there's less confusion
House isn't just a home, it's a piggy bank for some
When you're insuring, add-ons often a poor buy
Life insurance is still an important safety net
Debt Lite: Shedding ugly pounds of plastic
Money management
It's never too late, advisers say
Readers write
If you're denied credit, you're entitled to a report
Self-employed? Look at SIMPLE retirement plan


1997 Planting Calendar

The Seattle Times planting calendar, developed each year in time for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Month-by-month advice on how to make your garden grow. Also here are the winners of this year's Pacific Gardens Contest, sponsored by Pacific Magazine and the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in cooperation with the Arboretum Foundation.


Snow Sports Special

It's turning white outside so it's time to dust off your skiis and snowboards and head for the slopes. The Seattle Times gives you comprehensive information on ski areas in the Northwest and into Canada.

Snow Sports Special: Southern Exposure
About Mount Hood Meadows
What's new
The best & worst
The world comes to Whistler
Snowboard wars are over
Ski-lift rates
Nordic Skiing directory
Alpine skiing directory
Skiing Web sites


Marriage in the '90s
Who's getting married these days, and why? The answers might surprise you. "Marriage in the '90s", a series by The Seattle Times' Scene staff, chronicles the state of the institution today.

Marriage in the '90s: For better, for worse
Marriage in the '90s: Children of divorce
Marriage in the '90s: 15 years later, where are they now?
Marriage in the '90s: Marriage in training
Marriage in the '90s: Marriage, the second time around
Marriage in the '90s: A "good" divorce"

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London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: biointensive-gardening CC: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Termites Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 14 From: Tim Myles t.myles@utoronto.ca Re: Possible use of termites on spent mushroom substrate or other agricultural byproducts. Spent mushroom substrate is likely to be an excellent physical and nutritional medium for termites. Termites are the main group of invertebrate animals that digest low-nutrient, lignocellulosic, "brown" matter. We northern hemisphere biologists have a profound blind spot when in comes to appreciating the stupendous importance of termites in the carbon cycle. Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant cell wall matter into animal biomass on this planet. I'll just repeat that: Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant cell wall matter into animal biomass on this planet. In performing this they support a huge percentage of small vertebrate insectivore biodiversity. One popular misconception about termites is that they eat only wood. This is true of only the most notorious pests. It is estimated that over 50% of all termite species are humivorous. Entire subfamilies of the higher termite family Termitidae, such as the Apicotermitinae and Termitinae are humivourous. Many other termites feed on surface litter, dry leaves, grass, and even lichens. In arid areas, where animal dung rapidly becomes too dry for dung flies and dung beetles, termites are the major decomposers of herbivore dung. In fact, many of the most abundant termites in arid and semi-arid regions of the world are dung feeders. This is true in the American Southwest, where several species of Amitermes, Gnathamitermes, and even Reticulitermes are commonly found in dung. In fact, I am in the process of describing a new dung-specialist genus which is found in the American southwest and Northern Mexico. Decompiculture, or the culturing of decomposer organisms, is the inevitable next step in mankind's utilization of natural resources and ecological integration in the biosphere. Large scale composting is the first evidence that we are waking up to this ecological imperative. The most important candidate decomposer organisms are bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, earthworms, termites, beetles and flies. Up until now, these organisms (decomposers) have not been seen as sources of production. Those of us who study these organisms tend to study the relatively few that are pests. The majority however are beneficial and essential cogs in the cycling of nutrients. Now that humankind has progressed to the point of having numerous large organic waste streams we must now develop intensive decomposition systems to match our intensive production systems. "Termite ranching" or termiticulture inevitably will be much more important than vermiculture because termites are able to utilize lower nutrient substrates, wood and humus. Termiticulture could probably be easily integrated with mushroom production. However termites do not develop quite as quickly as many other insects thus the start up time might be several years before the population could consume at the rate of spent compost delivery. Containment and rearing facilities would have to take into account their social habits. Termiticulture may not be feasible out of doors in the temperate part of the northern hemisphere. The southern tier state of the US would be adequate for a few genera such as Reticulitermes and Amitermes, but large scale termiticulture would work best in conjunction with tropical agriculture, especially wherever there is a large cellulosic waste component in the food processing. Termite production could also be integrated with dairy and livestock production as a manure management system. Matching species to wastes and to stage of waste would be necessary. If anyone knows of an innovative tropical agribusiness that would be interested in putting up the capital for a pilot study, I'd like to hear from them. Sincerely, Tim Myles ++ Dr. Timothy G. Myles, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B3, CANADA. t.myles@utoronto.ca phone: (416) 978-5755 fax: (416) 978-2403 home phone (905) 877-9351 From london@nuteknet.com Fri Jul 18 23:57:10 1997 Received: from fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA14750 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:57:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA23141 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:53:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9hi.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9hi.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.50]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA02114 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:53:41 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9hi.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.50] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33D02DAB.5B38@nuteknet.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:59:55 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Best of the Humusphere Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------7302A084E71" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 15 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7302A084E71 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.composter.com/bestof.html -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------7302A084E71 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="bestof.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bestof.html" Content-Base: "http://www.composter.com/bestof.html" Best of the Humusphere

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"Best of the Humusphere" are hand-picked essays of interest, announcements, releases, etc. that the managers of the Humusphere believe represent the core of the issues and discussions surrounding composting and sustainability. Read on to get a taste. If you like it, try other topics.


THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF INSITU BIOREMEDIATION

Larry J. Forney and James M. Tiedje
NSF Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

BIOAUGMENTATION

There is considerable interest and debate about the efficacy of using "specialized" microorganisms to enhance biological remediation processes -- so called bioaugmentation. In the typical scenario, pure cultures or mixtures of microorganisms that are especially adept in degrading specific classes of contaminants in the laboratory are selected. These specialized cultures are then used to amend soils or injected into the subsurface with the intent of increasing the rate of specific metabolic processes. To perform their intended function, the introduced organisms must survive, grow and function. However, ecological theory states that only species can occupy any given niche. So each species introduced into the environment must compete with the high numbers of different indigenous species present and must displace one or more of the species present. This is a formidable task given that each species, by definition, is well-suited and effectively competes for the niche that it occupies. In many cases, the introduced species will not be more fit. This is probably true because the indigenous species for the introduced organisms would have been selected under conditions that did not mimic the natural environment closely enough. Given the heterogeneity of soils and the subsurface, and the obvious difficulty of mimicking natural systems in the laboratory, the "specialized" microorganisms selected might be used effectively in some but certainly not all environments (sites). Thus, conclusions as to whether particular "specialized" microorganisms would be effective in a given environment can only be made based on empirical, site-specific data. Exceptions to this general principle would be instances in which none of the indigenous species are able to efficiently metabolize a contaminant. Under these circumstances, the introduced species would occupy a 'unfilled' niche. Alternatively, other perturbations (changes) in the environment might create ecological niches that could be occupied by introduced species. In sum, it should be recognized that it is very difficult to predict the efficacy of "specialized" microorganisms because factors that determine the competitive ability of microorganisms in the environment are not well understood.


Why Organic Matter?

Organic Matter influences the moisture-holding capacity of the soil, serves as a supply of nutrients, feeds microorganisms, insects, earthworms, etc., and improves soil tilth and structure. The amount of organic matter depends on temperature, rainfall, aeration and other factors. It tends to be a characteristic of soil type in a given environment and is not easily changed. Excessive tillage results in a loss of organic matter. Large additions of crop residue, compost, mulch, manure, etc. cause only small changes in soil organic matter. Ideal soils have about 5% organic matter. Excessive applications of organic matter may tie up available nitrogen. More organic matter found in mulches would not hurt the garden soil. Compost from the compost piles is an excellent addition to the gardens, either worked into the soil or placed on top as a superb organic weed control.


WHAT IS ZEROWASTE?

ZeroWaste is a planning principle for business and citizens in the 21st Century. Waste is inefficiency and businesses must be encouraged to strive towards environmental efficiency. Just as businesses don't want to waste time or money, they should be discouraged from wasting natural resources. Nor should they be allowed to pass their waste on to consumers, in the form of "disposable" products and packaging. In a ZeroWaste marketplace, businesses will create reverse distribution systems to take products and packaging back into production, rather than dumping the problem on community incinerators and landfills. Nature is a ZeroWaste system. Business must learn to be more like Nature.

Is ZeroWaste necessary?

If all businesses operated as wastefully as do businesses in the "developed world", we would need THREE PLANET EARTHS to support them. In our daily lives, we use much more than our fair share of the earth's resources. As more and more people join the human family, and all aspire to live the way we live in the "developed world", the inefficiency we now take for granted will not be tolerable. ZeroWaste is a discipline we must begin to practice now. We must learn to eliminate unnecessary waste, in order to preserve the true quality of life that we aspire to as human beings -- the quality of life defined by having just enough of what you want, rather than an abundance of waste -- which no- one wants.

The North American economic system stands for...

Our economic system is built on the trust we have in the free market to regulate the production and consumption of goods. Consumers have the freedom to choose, and their choices guide the producers in the production of goods. But a free market only works if the prices of products tells the truth about the costs of production. For many years, product prices have misled consumers. Cheap, mass-produced convenience products bear hidden costs that the consumer never thinks about. Landfills, incinerators, litter clean-up -- these are all costs that are passed on to local communities, not paid for by the producers of the products that become waste. Taxpayer subsidies and tax breaks that support the squandering of natural resources. Welfare checks paid to the unemployed -- productive workers who lost their jobs to automation and mass-production. These environmental and social costs are hidden subsidies, ways in which the taxpayer inadvertently encourages businesses to be wasteful and inefficient.

The Solution

A ZeroWaste economy will shift these environmental and social costs back into the prices of the disposable products and packaging where they belong, signalling to the consumer that these are not such bargains after all. In a ZeroWaste economy, the competitive producer is the one who learns to avoid waste and invest in jobs that produce high-quality products and services.

The Grassroots Environmental Network is calling for a shift to a ZeroWaste economy. We want to create jobs, not waste. We want to end subsidies for waste.


From: Tim Myles t.myles@utoronto.ca

Re: Possible use of termites on spent mushroom substrate or other agricultural byproducts.

Spent mushroom substrate is likely to be an excellent physical and nutritional medium for termites. Termites are the main group of invertebrate animals that digest low-nutrient, lignocellulosic, "brown" matter. We northern hemisphere biologists have a profound blind spot when in comes to appreciating the stupendous importance of termites in the carbon cycle. Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant cell wall matter into animal biomass on this planet. I'll just repeat that: Termites are the major animal bioconverters of plant cell wall matter into animal biomass on this planet. In performing this they support a huge percentage of small vertebrate insectivore biodiversity.

One popular misconception about termites is that they eat only wood. This is true of only the most notorious pests. It is estimated that over 50% of all termite species are humivorous. Entire subfamilies of the higher termite family Termitidae, such as the Apicotermitinae and Termitinae are humivourous. Many other termites feed on surface litter, dry leaves, grass, and even lichens. In arid areas, where animal dung rapidly becomes too dry for dung flies and dung beetles, termites are the major decomposers of herbivore dung. In fact, many of the most abundant termites in arid and semi-arid regions of the world are dung feeders. This is true in the American Southwest, where several species of Amitermes, Gnathamitermes, and even Reticulitermes are commonly found in dung. In fact, I am in the process of describing a new dung-specialist genus which is found in the American southwest and Northern Mexico.

Decompiculture, or the culturing of decomposer organisms, is the inevitable next step in mankind's utilization of natural resources and ecological integration in the biosphere. Large scale composting is the first evidence that we are waking up to this ecological imperative.

The most important candidate decomposer organisms are bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, earthworms, termites, beetles and flies. Up until now, these organisms (decomposers) have not been seen as sources of production. Those of us who study these organisms tend to study the relatively few that are pests. The majority however are beneficial and essential cogs in the cycling of nutrients. Now that humankind has progressed to the point of having numerous large organic waste streams we must now develop intensive decomposition systems to match our intensive production systems.

"Termite ranching" or termiticulture inevitably will be much more important than vermiculture because termites are able to utilize lower nutrient substrates, wood and humus. Termiticulture could probably be easily integrated with mushroom production. However termites do not develop quite as quickly as many other insects thus the start up time might be several years before the population could consume at the rate of spent compost delivery. Containment and rearing facilities would have to take into account their social habits.

Termiticulture may not be feasible out of doors in the temperate part of the northern hemisphere. The southern tier state of the US would be adequate for a few genera such as Reticulitermes and Amitermes, but large scale termiticulture would work best in conjunction with tropical agriculture, especially wherever there is a large cellulosic waste component in the food processing. Termite production could also be integrated with dairy and livestock production as a manure management system. Matching species to wastes and to stage of waste would be necessary.

If anyone knows of an innovative tropical agribusiness that would be interested in putting up the capital for a pilot study, I'd like to hear from them.

Sincerely,

Tim Myles
++
Dr. Timothy G. Myles, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B3, CANADA. t.myles@utoronto.ca phone: (416) 978-5755
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--------------7302A084E71-- From saralein@unity.ncsu.edu Mon Jul 21 19:35:06 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA22636 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.35]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA12896 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.1.58.155 (maclab2.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.58.155]) by cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/US19Dec96) with SMTP id TAA18550 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33D3F15D.52B3@unity.ncsu.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:44 -0400 From: Sarah Lein X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Resources list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 16 Add to list Granja Permacultural Valle Patal Tactic, A.V.Guatemala From saralein@unity.ncsu.edu Mon Jul 21 19:35:30 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA22641 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.35]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA13044 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.1.58.155 (maclab2.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.58.155]) by cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/US19Dec96) with SMTP id TAA18565 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:32:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33D3F175.14A9@unity.ncsu.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:32:08 -0400 From: Sarah Lein X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture list Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 17 From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Jul 24 22:35:08 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA10566 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:35:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA26387 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:31:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:31:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: New Book Announcement - Toxicology (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 18 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 17:52:07 -0700 From: "David B. Hannaway" To: forage-mg@web.CSS.ORST.EDU Cc: david@forages.CSS.ORST.EDU Subject: New Book Announcement - Toxicology Forage Colleagues: This note is to announce the availability of a new book entitled "Natural Toxicants in Feeds, Forages, and Poisonous Plants." The book is authored by Dr. Peter Cheeke, Department of Animal Science, Oregon State University. His email address is cheekep@ccmail.orst.edu The publisher is Interstate Publishers, Inc., Danville, Illinois. They have a WWW segment, URL is http://www.ippinc.com/ We have developed a WWW page describing the book. The page lists the name, author, publisher (with a link to the publisher's WWW segment), description, and contents information. The URL for the book description is: http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/Resources/Media/Publications/Cheeke.html Purchase price is $39.95 plus shipping. Here's one of the paragraphs from the book description brochure: "Natural Toxicants in Feeds, Forages, and Poisonous Plants, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of natural toxicants in plants consumed by domestic animals and in crop plants used in human nutrition. It emphasizes the occurrence of toxins in plants, their metabolism and toxilogic effects in animals, and means of overcoming their effects. The book will be useful as a text for students in disciplines such as Animal Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Range Management, Forestry, Wildlife Science, Veterinary Medicine, Toxicology, Food Science, and Nutrition." I believe it is also an important reference for forage and livestock extension folks, consultants, and perhaps producers as well. I've already found the book useful and am confident many of you will find it an important resource. ========= If others have books of potential interest to the forages mailing group, feel free to send me information for posting or send an informational note to the mailing group. Although this group is not intended to be "advertising space," I believe it is appropriate to announce items that would be of educational interest to the group. David **************************************************** David B. Hannaway Forage Extension, Research & Teaching Department of Crop & Soil Science Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-3002 Phone: 541-737-5863 Fax: 541-737-1589 E-Mail: david@forages.css.orst.edu URL: http://www.forages.css.orst.edu **************************************************** From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Jul 24 22:52:55 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA10687 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA26662 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:49:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:49:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Wanted: old reed canarygrass varieties (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 19 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:10:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Charles Brummer To: forage-mg@web.CSS.ORST.EDU Subject: Wanted: old reed canarygrass varieties Do any of you have access to the following varieties of reed canarygrass that I'm trying to track down for establishment next month? Ideally, I'd like about a pound of each. Auburn Castor Flare Frontier Grove Ioreed Rise Superior Thanks for any leads. Charlie Charles Brummer Forage Breeding and Genetics Agronomy Department Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 515-294-1415 (phone) 515-294-6505 (fax) brummer@iastate.edu From earthship@earthship.org Sat Jul 26 16:46:58 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA01423 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:46:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bueno.newmex.com (bueno.newmex.com [206.183.203.1]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA25649 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:43:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ankh-em-maat by bueno.newmex.com via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id OAA12747; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:37:53 -0600 Message-Id: <199707262037.OAA12747@ bueno.newmex.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 From: "Earthship Global Operations" To: "Atlanta Journal - Consitution" , "Associated Press" , "Arkansas Democratic Gazette" , "Arizona Republic - Assistant managing Editor" , "Anthology - Pheonix, AZ" , "Ames ISU Tribune (GA)" , "Alburquerque Journal - Letters to the editor" , "Albuquerque Tribune" , "Albuquerque Journal - Columnist" , "Africa Link" , "Advertising Age - Media & Marketing" , "Advertising Age - Letters to the Editor" , "Front Pages - NC + SC" , "Global Environmental Change Report" , "Go World - CA" , "Greenwire" , "Growing Edge Mag" , "GW Hatchet (Univ of Washington)" , "HERD it on the Internet" , "Hollywood Reporter" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Home Education magazine" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Honolulu Star Bulletin" , "Houston Chronicle - Electronic Media" , "Houston Chronicle - Tank McNamara" <76057.2423@compuserve.com>, "Houston Chronicle/Electronic MediaCommunit" , "Houston Public News" , "Idaho State Journal - Environment" , "Idiot Wind" , "Interactive Permatculture Sun Site" , "International Business Magazine" , "Internet: Marketing & Technology Report" , "Keith Lindauer" , "Karin Last" , "Karlis D Viceps" , "Marketing & Technology Report Jan Loomis" , "The Indiana Daily Student" , "The Innovator - IL" Subject: Earthship Alliance Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:37:56 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 20 Announcing the Earthship Alliance WebSite within the Earthship Global WebSite! http://www.earthship.org/ally.htm Including: (@) Treatise article I (a) Purpose article II (b) Specifics article III (c) Clarification of Membership article IV (d) Benefits article V (e) Procedures article VI (f) Earthship School article VII (g) Certification article VIII (h) Requirements article IX SOLAR SURVIVAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM The Solar Survival Certification Program is for people who have read the Earthship books and are interested in having a hands-on in-depth learning experience beyond what the week-end seminar can provide. This program is designed to accommodate all levels of skill and abilities. The certification program is scheduled to begin each month with the seminar week-end and continues for ONE MONTH. During this month the entire Greater World Community is part of the school. Building projects in progress will be the "classrooms" with various stages of building available for participation by the certification trainee. You will be notified about what particular stage or system is being worked on at various sites so that you can choose what is of particular interest to you. If, by chance, none of the buildings are doing a particular aspect that you want to learn (for instance, erecting a front face) you may come back any time for up to one year after your initial fee is paid. Many people wish to go through this program simply to learn enough to build their own home. Other people wish to become actual certified Earthship builders. If becoming certified is your interest, please go to http://www.earthship.org/ally.htm which explains in more detail what is required to become certified and how we will continue to work together regarding Earthships. Cost for the program is $1,000 which includes the seminar. We prefer that you come to a seminar for $350.00 and see what we are all about before you commit to the Certification Program and pay the rest of the tuition. Your seminar payment will be applied to the certification program should you decide to participate. Thank you for your interest. Jonah Reynolds Earthship Global Operations PO Box 2009 El Prado, NM 87529 505.751.0462 http://www.earthship.org Become Part of Lemuria and reclaim a Gravel Pit ! http://www.earthship.org/lem.htm From london@sunsite.unc.edu Tue Jul 29 23:19:01 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA18057 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:19:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA01789 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:15:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:15:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: WebGarden Resources--Ohio State University--Factsheet Database Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 21 WebGarden Resources--Ohio State University Factsheet Database http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/webgarden/FactsheetFind.html Plant Dictionary http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/TR2/pmTOC.html Two excellent resources in the Ohio State University's WebGarden, provided by OSU's Horticulture and Crop Science in Virtual Perspective site, are the Factsheet Database and Plant Dictionary. The first is a browsable and searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural factsheets in eleven categories ranging from flowers to perennials to trees and shrubs. These factsheets have been produced by over 40 (mostly university extension) institutions. The Plant Dictionary is a searchable and browsable ornamental plant database of over 1,400 "images and horticultural descriptions for 385 unique species and numerous cultivars." Searching is available on scientific, family, or common name, and a small database of images relating to insects, diseases, or culture of ornamental plants is also available. [JS] From earthship@earthship.org Wed Jul 30 16:37:49 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA06203 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bueno.newmex.com (bueno.newmex.com [206.183.203.1]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA12060 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ankh-em-maat by bueno.newmex.com via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id OAA22157; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:19:02 -0600 Message-Id: <199707302019.OAA22157@ bueno.newmex.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 From: "Earthship Global Operations" To: "San Luis Obispo County Telegram - Tribune" , "Advertising Age - Media & Marketing" , "Africa Link" , "Albuquerque Journal - Columnist" , "Albuquerque Tribune" , "Alburquerque Journal - Letters to the editor" , "Ames ISU Tribune (GA)" , "Anthology - Pheonix, AZ" , "Arizona Republic - Assistant managing Editor" , "Arkansas Democratic Gazette" , "Associated Press" , "Australian Broadcast" , "Balance Magazine" , "BLK - Los Angeles, CA" , "Boston Globe - Health and Science Section" , "Boston Globe - Letters to the Editor" , "Boston Globe - Plugged In" , "Boston Globe - Story Ideas" , "Boston Globe - submission for Living Section" , "Boston Herald" , "Boston Pheonix" <71632.63@compuserve.com>, "Boston Pheonix - Media Reporter" , "Business Week" , "CBS - \"Late Show w/ David Letterman\"" , "CBS - News Up to the minute" , "Chicago Sun Times - Online Productions" , "Chicago Tribune" , "Christian Science Monitor" , "City Paper" <71632.57@compuserve.com>, "City Sun" , "CM Magazine" , "CNN (DC) - Global News" , "Community News (Toledo, TX)" , "Congressional Quarterly" , "Conus Washington / TV Direct" , "Cornell Daily Sun" , "Creative Edge" , "CSPAN - Requests for Coverage" , "Daily Pacific Builder - San Francisco" , "Dallas Morning News" <74774.2236@compuserve.com>, , "Democrat" , "Denver Post" , "Details - NY" , "Detroit Free Press - Tech Columnist" , "Detroit Free Press -Business News Dept." , "Earth Times (NY)" , "Earth: The Science of Our Planet" , "EarthFirst! Journal" , "EARTHSHIPS and SELF-SUFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE" , "EE Times" <70212.14@compuserve.com>, "Electronic Information Report" , "Energy Conservation News - Managing Editor" , "Evansville Courier" , "Fairfax Journal" , "Farmer's Market Online" , "Fayetteville Observer Times" , "Final Frontier" <72075@sunsite.unc.edu>, 516@compuserve.com, "Forbes" <5096930@mcimail.com>, "Fox TV" , "Free Times" <71632.165@compuserve.com>, "Front Pages - NC + SC" , "Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel" , "Global Environmental Change Report" , "Go World - CA" , "Greenwire" , "Growing Edge Mag" , "GW Hatchet (Univ of Washington)" , "HERD it on the Internet" , "Hollywood Reporter" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Home Education magazine" , "Home Education Magazine" , "Honolulu Advertiser" <76322.2012@compuserve.com>, "Honolulu Star Bulletin" , "Houston Chronicle - Electronic Media" , "Houston Chronicle - Tank McNamara" <76057.2423@compuserve.com>, "Houston Chronicle/Electronic MediaCommunit" , "Houston Public News" , "Idaho State Journal - Environment" , "Idiot Wind" , "Interactive Permatculture Sun Site" , "International Business Magazine" , "Internet: Marketing & Technology Report" , "Karin Last" , "Karlis D Viceps" , "Keith Lindauer" , "Marketing & Technology Report Jan Loomis" , "The Advocate - Letters" , "The American Spectator" , "The Collegian (KC State Univ.)" , "The Columbia Daily Spectator" , "The Columbus Dispatch" , "The Cornell American" , "The Daily Bruin" , "The Daily Universe" , "the Dialogue (Duke University)" , "The Executive Educator Magazine" , "The Indiana Daily Student" , "The Innovator - IL" , "The Mesa Tribune" , "The Pasadena Star News" Subject: In Defense of Earthship Communities Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:19:05 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 22 for general press release: as soon as possible. The following facts can all be substantiated: Solar Survival Architecture, under direction of Michael Reynolds has developed three SELF-SUSTAINING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES over the last five years near Taos, New Mexico. These communities are a forum for the demonstration and evolution of the Earthship concept which is a result of almost 30 years of research and development and which presents serious steps toward solutions to the following global problems: HOUSING, DEFORESTATION, WATER, SEWAGE POLUTION, ENERGY, EMPLOYMENT, RECLAIMATION OF DAMAGED LANDS AND REUSE OF PROBLEM BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. These self-sustaining communities were formed with extensive legal supervision and have been in existence for over five years. Over 50 building permits have been issued in these communities during this time by the State of New Mexico and Taos County. The most visible community (The Greater World Community) has become a school and an environmental theme park of sorts as a result of world wide interest in the many environmentally appropriate energy, water, sewage, and building evolutions on display. This community represents the results of almost 30 years of research by Architect Michael Reynolds and promises to continue to provide very pragmatic methods of using natural phenomenon to provide utilities for energy efficient housing made from problem by-products of our society. All research and developmental work both leading up to and during the existence of these communities has been hand in hand with the Uniform Building Code and the New Mexico Construction Industries Division as the objective of this work is to provide solutions that will dovetail into existing dogma. Officials of the Taos County Planning department (pressured by local conventional developers) challenged the nature of these communities in late 1993 regarding a possible violation of subdivision law. At that time an examination of the communities was conducted by the county attorney and the communities were given a "green light". As a result of this "green light" by the Taos County Attorney, many individuals became involved and much more time, energy and money was invested to take this evolution and demonstration project to new levels specifically at the Greater World Community. Now in 1997, new people are in office as county attorney and county planner and private developers have again urged a challenge on the research and development work going on in these communities, specifically The Greater World Community. President Clinton has recently declared that the green house effect is now fact not just theory. He is urging the encouragement of more environmentally appropriate methods of living as well as more creative methods of encouraging citizens to use these methods. In that the Greater World Community needs no public utilities, no infrastructure, and is being used as a single tract of land with many people building on it, thus eliminating expensive surveying costs; the price for an individual to (on a membership basis) purchase the right to build an energy efficient home here is radically less expensive than conventional land developments. This, in turn, results in a very creative method of encouraging people to build an energy efficient and more environmentally appropriate home. The result is that private individuals are actually supporting and participating in the evolution of energy-efficient housing. As a result of the recent challenge by current Taos County politics, building permits have been held up at the Earthship Communities of Taos, New Mexico and "Stop Orders" have been issued. In view of the current condition of the planet and the resulting urgency there of, we do not feel the actions of local authorities are appropriate. The people of the Greater World Community who are actively participating in the evolution, development and presentation of more appropriate and sustainable ways to live on this planet are now being forced to defy the local politicians and stand to suffer serious consequences for their actions. We feel our right to survive is being threatened and we feel we are acting in self defense. Our solution is to declare the Greater World Community an Environmental Research and Development Institute. People already come from all over the world to observe and stay in Earthships and to participate in our school which has been in existence for six years. In a State the has designated several thousand acres for the development and testing of nuclear devices for the destruction of humanity, it would only seem appropriate to designate 650 acres for research and development toward the survival of humanity. For those interested in writting a letter, we have written an endorsement letter for you to copy, print, sign or use in any way in this matter: To Whom it may concern: We are aware of the work and research of Michael Reynolds in the realm of energy efficient housing in the Taos, New Mexico area. We are aware of the fact that this work touches upon solutions to many State, National and Global problems. These passive solar homes, which are built from recycled automobile tires, collect their own power and water, treat and contain their own sewage, heat and cool themselves and produce some food. These homes are being built in an intentional community funded by its participants which also involves a school that has been in existence for six years teaching the results of almost 30 years of research. Part of this project is even reclaiming an existing gravel pit with architecture that "greens up" around itself due to the contained sewage systems. We are aware of the fact that Michael Reynolds has worked very closely with the New Mexico C.I.D. regarding code compliance and specific permission to conduct this ongoing research for almost thirty years. We understand that his projects have received global recognition and exist in many foreign countries such as Bolivia, Japan, Mexico , Australia, etc. In view of the Presidents recent proclamation regarding global warming and the resulting urgency of the environmental situation, we support and urge action to be taken regarding Mr. Reynolds request to have his 650 acre project site be proclaimed an Environmental Research and Development Institute. It is our feeling that this act will pacify the local developers and county planning officials that are harassing Mr. Reynolds with regard to basic subdivision law (which we understand has not been legally violated anyway). This harassment has resulted in a "stop order" on Mr. Reynolds work. We feel that Mr. Reynolds 30 year body of work on a global level of environmental and energy issues warrants priority over local politics. In a State that designated several thousand acres for testing of nuclear devices for the destruction of humanity, it only seems appropriate to designate 650 acres for research toward the survival of humanity. Michael and Jonah Reynolds Earthship Global Operations 505.751.0462 http://www.earthship.org Become Part of Lemuria and reclaim a Gravel Pit ! http://www.earthship.org/lem.htm From london@sunsite.unc.edu Fri Aug 1 23:47:41 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA28668 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:47:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA13060 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:44:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: RODALE GardenFest '97 and BIODYNAMICS (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 23 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:42:55 -0400 From: BD Email List To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: RODALE GardenFest '97 and BIODYNAMICS RODALE's Annual GardenFest '97 will be held in Kutztown, PA on Saturday, August 2. John Jeavons (ECOLOGY ACTION) is the keynote speaker. Howard Yanno Shapiro, founder of Seeds of Change is giving two workshops on diversity and beauty plus many many more speakers and workshops will be available throughout the day (and GREAT SALES on RODALE PRESS BOOKS!!) -PLUS- the BIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION will staff and stock an information table at this event. Please drop by and pick up a FREE COPY of Issue 212 (JULY AUGUST) of "BIODYNAMICS, Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century," the bi-monthly journal of the BIODYNAMIC Farming and Gardening Association. (This issue features several articles on BIODYNAMIC approaches to viticulture as well as a STUNNING study of the cost/benefits of 'forced' composting vs classic composting.) (If the printer is on the ball, the 1998 STELLA Natura planting calendars will be available at the BD table also!) Hope to See You There Tomorrow!! 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Biorealism: READING NATURE'S BLUEPRINTS

by Robert Frenay, Audubon September-October 1995

"WE NEED A NEW DESIGN." William McDonough's voice carries above the crowded pews of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. McDonough, an architect, is speaking at the cathedral's centennial. But by design he means something more fundamental than architecture. "We have to recognize that every event and manifestation of nature is design," he says, and that nature is a proven concept, a system that works. McDonough believes there are logical principles in how the earth creates and maintains life, principles that could give new shape and meaning to human endeavor. But first, he says, we must learn to live within the laws of nature, to accept our interdependence "with forces larger than ourselves."

If McDonough sounds like a missionary, it's due to more than the setting. Now dean of architecture at the University of Virginia, he has throughout his career shown a knack for turning up at the heart of visionary projects. In 1986 he steered an eco-renovation of the Environmental Defense Fund's New York City headquarters. He is a central figure in the sustainable-cities movement, and with German colleague Michael Braungart, he wrote the guiding principles for Expo 2000, the green world's fair scheduled for the turn of the century in Germany. But beyond that, he's part of a loosely affiliated group of biologists, chemists, physicists, economists, engineers, designers, city planners, corporate executives, and government officials who in recent years-with no common plan-have found themselves becoming a movement.

That movement stands at the juncture of technology and biology, two fields whose interaction has traditionally meant the conquest of nature. But McDonough and his colleagues aim to redesign human systems, basing them on principles found in nature.

"The first industrial revolution is over," says businessman Paul Hawken, who often works with McDonough. "It's brought us a long way, but its day has passed." Hawken has written a book, The Ecology of Commerce, which serves as a central text for the new movement. In it Hawken explores the question of how, with the continued growth of human populations, we can sustain the natural world that ultimately sustains us. He shows why the industrial revolution's effort to impose on nature the linear thinking of classical physics has reached its limit. With its focus on single cause-and-effect relationships, it's too narrow a view of how the living world works. Ultimately, according to Hawken, the issue is not whether we can save the environment but whether we can save business.

Many of our environmental problems stem from structural flaws in the world's economic system. For example, our current system considers it "realistic" to cut down a century-old tree in Alaska, sell it for the price of a pizza, ship it to Japan, render it into snack-chip bags, then ship the bags back to the United States for sale. Such practices are commonplace, but compared with the resilient, economical systems nature has maintained for billions of years, they are far from realistic.

McDonough and his associates reject the view that there's an intrinsic conflict between a healthy environment and a healthy business climate. Instead, they're calling for a new way of thinking. As they see it, evolution provides the surest guide to what is ultimately realistic. In his 1954 book, Survival by Design, the influential architect Richard Neutra proposed an architecture based on a comprehensive knowledge of biology and behavioral science. An early environmentalist, Neutra came to call his integration of nature and human design "biorealism." Though few of McDonough's colleagues are aware of Neutra's writings, their work is in many ways a realization of his dream. But Neutra was concerned primarily with architecture and city planning. The new biorealists are using nature as a model for reshaping science and industry as well.

In doing so, they are going beyond the old romantic notion of living in tune with nature. With the current explosion in knowledge of how nature actually works, today's biorealists have access to deeper and more precise insights as they design new industrial materials and processes. They have also developed a new vocabulary - with terms like industrial ecology, technical cycles, living machine, dematerialization, throughput, externalization, waste equals food - which helps simplify and clarify the complex ideas involved. Biorealism is a nascent idea, but its potency as a unifying concept, the quality of the minds it attracts, and its potential for reshaping culture suggest that it could become a guiding theme for the next century.

MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM

When a fish swings its tail, it leaves behind a swirl of spinning water. As the tail swings back, it stirs another eddy. Each stroke sends a swirl spinning in the opposite direction. Though that seems a commonplace observation, new research shows that fish use their tails to arrange the swirls in precise patterns, and that this behavior is the key to their exceptional speed and maneuverability. Each swirl reduces drag from the wake even as it provides something for the fish to press its tail against on the return stroke, giving it more power. The developers of that insight, marine engineers Michael and George Triantafyllou, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the City College of New York, have designed a four-foot model "tuna" that wriggles through water with an efficiency approaching that of a living fish. Few propeller craft can equal even half that standard. Given the vast amounts of cargo transported by propeller-driven ships, the Triantafyllou brothers' work could lead to an important new type of propulsion.

"The information of nature is not just beauty," says Tom Eisner, a Cornell University entomologist. "And harvesting the information of nature doesn't have to be as invasive as harvesting the minerals of nature." People tried making gold for centuries, he points out; in fact, chemistry was born through the failure of alchemy. But the new alchemy, as he calls it - which is resynthesizing the chemicals of nature - is generating piles of gold undreamt of by medieval tinkerers.

What is the property, Eisner asks, of the hinge of a fly's wing that allows it to beat hundreds of times per second without breaking? Resilin, the stuff fly and dragonfly hinges are made of, is the most perfect rubber ever found. Or consider spiderwebs: The dragline silk of the golden-silk spider has a tensile strength greater than that of steel, and it can stretch to and rebound from 20 percent beyond its original length. Lynn Jelinski, a biophysicist at Cornell, is exploring how spiders make that silk. She sees a time when genetically altered plants will produce the feed-stock for spiderlike silk to be used in the fabric of sails and even in the construction of bridges. The strength of this research, says Eisner, is that it's "biorational."

German chemist Michael Braungart notes that many of the colors in a bird's feathers, ranging from green to purple, are produced without blue pigment. Rather, the blue that gleams on a jay's wing is created by refractions of light, a result of prismatic structures in the feathers. Blue fabric dyes can be highly toxic, but Braungart believes it will someday be possible to design fabrics and even car finishes colored by optical properties, not by toxic pigments.

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, biophysicist Elias Greenbaum and his colleagues have devised practical ways to mimic plant photosynthesis and channel the energy to electrical terminals. Their work opens the door to the development of "biomolecular electronic devices," such as optical sensors, organic solar cells, and computer "biochips." Developments like these suggest powerful reasons for fully understanding such things as dragonflies and blue jays, as well as the diverse habitats that support them. They give scientists like Tom Eisner new ground to stand on when they talk about the need to preserve the "natural library" of information.

NATURAL CYCLES

The earth is often pictured as a sunlit blue globe, but on the night side it reveals a different face: It crackles with more than 100 lightning flashes per second as it turns through space. Beyond being an arresting display for weather satellites, those bolts of lightning are part of what Robert Socolow calls the grand nutrient cycles of nature.

Socolow, a physicist, heads Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. (He is also a National Audubon Society board member.) His work includes research in concert with Robert Ayres, a professor of environmental economics at INSEAD, the European business institute, and William Schlesinger, a Duke University professor of botany and geology. They are charting the flow of carbon and nitrogen, the two nutrients most critical to life, through natural systems. For instance, each year lightning converts more than 3 million metric tons of atmospheric nitrogen to nitrogen dioxide. Forest fires set by that lightning release additional nitrogen into the sky; decomposing plant and animal matter contributes still more; then rain carries nitrogen back to water and soil, where, after passing through various microbial stages, it's taken up once more by plants and then animals. In the course of this elaborate flow, nitrogen separates and recombines with hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, as virtually all life forms absorb it, then pass it on in altered form.

"Earth knows no desolation," said the poet George Meredith, "She smells regeneration/In the moist breath of decay." Meredith's graceful line points to one of the defining qualities of living systems: their perpetual conversion of energy and material into different forms, with the decay of one organism serving always as a bed from which new life springs. From the global to the microscopic, nature is permeated by cycles within cycles. And as our knowledge of those cycles has grown, it has cast growing doubts on the linear thinking that virtually defines the world economy. Even such recent concepts as cleaner production through cradle-to-grave product analysis come up short. As McDonough often remarks, "It's not cradle to grave, it's cradle to cradle."

Braungart heads a research center in Germany, the Hamburg Environmental Institute, which has designed a small farming system based on several natural cycles that intersect through a connected series of deep ponds. The ponds process local sewage and farm waste by growing aquatic plants and algae. As the plants grow, they draw off excess nutrients from the water, leaving it clean enough to provide habitat for fish. The plants are harvested to provide food for livestock or are used with waste from the livestock as fertilizer for nearby fields. Pigs feed on vegetables and snails that grow at the site; ducks and geese consume the algae and provide nutrients for the fish. Water purified by the process flows back into the local watershed.

Various forms of the German system are being demonstrated in Silva Jardim, Brazil; in China's Zhu River delta, near Hong Kong; in Madras, India, and along the Bay of Bengal; and in Thailand and Vietnam. Similar projects are being developed by research groups in Sweden, Denmark, and Hungary. In the United States, a leader in this field is biologist John Todd, a lifelong proponent of cleaning water through the use of treatment facilities he calls "living machines." These are different from ordinary machines, says Todd, in that "most of the parts inside them are alive."

Coming upon a John Todd waste facility can be a little like stumbling onto some New Age hanging garden. In one treatment plant, in the entrance atrium of a Toronto high school, wastewater moves through a descending spiral of large, translucent cylinders as it passes along a carefully designed food chain that begins with bright-green layers of algae and duckweed, then features higher plants such as bulrushes and, eventually, clear water populated with minnows.

One of Todd's recent projects is the Ocean Arks trailer, an 18-wheel living machine that can be trucked from one site to another. Now parked in San Francisco, it upgrades 50,000 gallons of secondary wastewater each day and dispenses bait fish and striped bass for fisheries. Magical transformations of that kind are routine in nature, and they are now being tried by human designers who have begun to understand, as McDonough puts it, that "waste equals food."

For instance, he and Braungart, with the New York City firm Designtex, have developed a line of compostable upholstery fabrics. Working with European chemical giant Ciba-Geigy, they vetted a list of 300 dyes, using what McDonough terms "knockout criteria": Is it carcinogenic, mutagenic, bioaccumulative? Is it an allergen, an endocrine disrupter? Does it contain heavy metals? The process yielded just 16 acceptable dyes, which Designtex is using to color a wool-and-ramie fabric. When it wears out, McDonough says, you can toss it into the backyard to feed the soil.

However remarkable, these efforts work within longstanding natural cycles, which biorealists see as only half the issue. As Socolow puts it, "We and the plants both speak organic carbon, but only we speak PCBs." Just as there are organic cycles and organic nutrients, says McDonough, we need to start thinking in terms of technical cycles and technical nutrients.

INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

The town of Kalundborg lies on one shore of a deep fjord along the Great Belt, a body of cold salt water that flows through the heart of Denmark to connect the North and Baltic seas. It's a postcard town of 20,000, with a medieval Nordic cathedral and a pedestrian main street of storefronts painted in bright colors - the kind of place where one sees laughing schoolkids whirring by on bicycles.

In 1990 three of those schoolkids got an assignment to prepare an environmental report on the area's industries. They produced a model showing how wastes were being exchanged among several companies- a power plant, an oil refinery; a pharmaceutical plant, and a wallboard manufacturer. In each case, the recipient used the waste as a raw material, uniting the companies through a web of material flows. The students likened the system to the food webs in the natural world. That was news to Kalundborg's business leaders. Their integration of water, energy, and solid waste - their "industrial ecology" - had evolved piecemeal over three decades through informal talks among managers and CEOs who meant only to save a few kroner here and there.

Water drawn from a nearby lake enters the system at one point through the Statoil refinery, which uses it for cooling, then pipes it down the road to the power plant, where it's used as coolant again. The power plant, Asnaesvaerkert, is Denmark's largest and the hub of the interchange. It burns coal to make electricity, but - as is typical of coal-fired plants - it converts into electricity only about a third of the energy released. The rest is thrown off as waste heat, which is then absorbed by the coolant water. The steam produced in that process is pumped through pipelines back to the Statoil refinery as well as to Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company; both use it to drive their internal processes. Another pipeline supplies steam heat to most of the town, eliminating the need for some 3,500 oil-fired furnaces. The power plant also draws salt water from the fjord and, after heating it, feeds it into the 57 ponds of a nearby fish farm. Fish grow more rapidly in the warmed water, enabling the farm to produce 250 tons of sea trout and turbot each year.

Back at Statoil, sulfur is removed from the refinery's waste gas, which was formerly burned off from a tall stack. The purified gas is now used internally; it's also piped as fuel to Gyproc, the wallboard maker, and to the power plant-where it saves some 30,000 tons of coal a year. The sulfur Statoil removes from the gas gets trucked to another company, Kemira, which produces sulfuric acid.

Asnaes, the power plant, cleans sulfur from its emissions with a stack scrubber that converts 90 percent of the sulfur into calcium sulfate, or industrial gypsum. Gyproc buys as much as 85,000 tons of the gypsum each year to make wallboard.

A meandering pipeline runs east for about a mile from Asnaes, like a new shoot from a spider plant. Painted light green to match the roadside shrubs, it delivers the live steam to Novo Nordisk, where the steam is used to make insulin and enzymes. The fermentation vats at Novo also yield 700,000 tons each year of a thin, nitrogen-rich slurry that was once dumped in the fjord but is now piped free to local farmers, who use it as fertilizer. They in turn grow biomass for the fermentation vats. Yeast cake from the vats is used to feed rural Kalundborg's hogs.

Compared with natural systems, industrial ecologies like this still have some distance to go; as Hawken points out, we have yet to design anything even remotely as complex as the interactions in a single cubic foot of rich soil. Still, "the Kalundborg success speaks to the wealth of exchanges that are possible between industries, without design or preplanning," he says. "Imagine what a team of designers could come up with if they were to start from scratch."

In fact, such planning is already under way. In 1992 Socolow chaired an international conference called Industrial Ecology and Global Change, which was documented in a 1994 book of the same name. It was an early session in what has since become a movable feast of conferences and workshops on industrial ecology. As the new thinking paves the way for a shift from "end-of-pipe" pollution control to cleaner processes modeled on nature, industrial-ecologies are being developed in Matamoros, Mexico; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Yorkshire, England; Rotterdam; and Tokyo. In the United States, the President's Council on Sustainable Development is working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide guidance and technical support for pilot projects in Chattanooga; Baltimore; Cape Charles, Virginia; and Brownsville, Texas (with Matamoros). Other areas - including Pittsburgh; Seattle; Rochester, New York; and Willapa Bay, Washington - are also working to develop projects.

In Brownsville, EPA-funded consultants are working with local residents and businesses to write a casebook for the development of an industrial ecosystem modeled on Kalundborg's. "I find that communities are very receptive to these concepts," says Ernest Lowe, a member of the team. "Most of this stuff is common sense. It's just that we've been in a departure from common sense for some time."

TECHNICAL CYCLES

"Industrial ecosystems are an exciting development," says Don Huisingh, a Dutch environmental engineer and consultant, "but they're no excuse for carelessness about energy and resource use. In walking through a factory, I often identify fifteen problems in the first hour." Picking cherries off the tree, he calls it. But harvesting the low-hanging fruit is just a start.

Since industrial processes so often begin with the depletion of resources and end in the corruption of natural systems, concern about the overall amount of material, labor, and energy used by today's industries, and the waste they produce - their "throughput" - has helped spur a global search for cleaner production methods. McDonough calls this part of the "dematerialization" of industry.

It's an urgent problem. The growth of consumption has begun to slow in the West, but the sheer quantity of products - and the amount of solid waste produced - remain almost beyond comprehension. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it spewed a 600-million-ton ash cloud that darkened the sun across vast areas of the United States. Within two weeks ash from the blast had spread around the globe. It buried tens of thousands of acres of forest. It destroyed crops, disrupted air travel, buried roads. In Washington State, 900,000 tons of it were removed from highways and airports alone. Yet the United States generates 12 billion tons of solid waste - roughly 20 times the total amount of ash unleashed by Mount St. Helens - every year.

The growth of consumption may be leveling off in the saturated markets of the West, but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization - through a series of international treaties aimed at eliminating trade barriers - now seek to extend that unsustainable system throughout the developing world. "In order to give everyone our standard of living, we'd have to increase our throughput by a factor of twenty," says Hawken. "That's impossible."

Huisingh agrees. Last October he hosted a roundtable in Graz, Austria, on cleaner production. It included such nuts-and-bolts workshops as Inventory and Evaluation of Possible Software Applications for Lessons Learned From Defense Organizations. But it also served as a forum on biorealist ideas for hundreds of engineers and consultants from dozens of countries, including a delegation from Kalundborg and representatives from developing and transitional economies such as India, Zambia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

Cleaner production is a hot topic in the United States, where 3M Corporation is one of the more prominent success stories. During the past 20 years 3M has launched some 4,200 cleaner-production projects company-wide; as a result, it has cut pollutants released into the air, soil, and water by 1.3 billion pounds and realized savings of $750 million.

McDonough applauds such efforts but raises a question. When corporate managers say, We think environmentalism can be good for business because our engineers redesigned our systems and we cut our costs by 30 percent, he asks, Doesn't that indicate that until now there were massive inefficiencies you ignored, despite your obligation to your stockholders, and that you only addressed them because a bunch of environmentalists pushed you into it?

Robert Bringer, staff vice-president of 3M's environmental technology and services, says large companies have had efficiency programs for years, but he acknowledges that "the contribution of the environmental movement is in increased awareness of pollution as a byproduct of inefficiency."

Socolow agrees that cleaning up production lines is an important accomplishment but adds that it's only a first step. "they get awards for being clean," he says, "but the products they make are still not clean." That is, the products themselves are a prime source of the solid waste piling up in landfills and of the toxins disrupting the natural systems that support all life.

Biorealists acknowledge that calculating the real costs of making, using, and disposing of products as they move from "upstream" to "downstream" through their useful lives is one of the more important challenges facing business. One effort to quantify those costs is under way in Germany, where Braungart heads a group called the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency. EPEA does complete toxicological breakdowns of everyday products, noting, for example, that there are more than 4,000 chemicals in a television set and 800 in a videocassette recorder. Many of them emit toxins such as benzene and tuolene vapor when running. Many of the dangerous emissions from appliances are caused by the use of cheap materials in their construction, says Braungart. But if a VCR were disassembled at the end of its life and its materials reused instead of being lost in landfills, safer, more expensive plastics and chemicals could be used with no overall increase in cost.

Braungart's great-grandfather was a cobbler. "They produced shoes that were ugly, and they were very expensive," he says, "but you could throw them away and you could compost them. Today, shoes are relatively nice. They're relatively cheap. But they are hazardous waste. About twenty percent of the world's chromium is used for leather tanning. And chromium is rare. In one kilogram of shoe waste there are about forty grams of chromium." It's foolish, Braungart argues, to use chromium that way when we need it for steel manufacturing. What about plastic soles and sneakers? "We have twenty-six thousand pounds of PVC (polyvinyl chloride, a plastic) being used for shoe soles each year in Germany, and...lead is used as a stabilizer for the PVC." The lead in dust from PVC soles is carried by rain into sewers, which makes it difficult to recycle sewage sludge for agriculture.

"You can use (treatment) plants to take out the lead." Braungart says, "but this is ridiculous - all instead of solving the design problem. Our proposal is simply to create shoes that are nice, that are cheap, and that are environmentally sound. It's a third category of quality. So it's only a quality issue, not a moral challenge."

COMPLEXITY

Light cars use less material and get higher mileage than heavy cars but aren't as safe. Cloth diapers seem preferable to disposables, but the pesticides used on cotton, the constant pickup and delivery involved in using a diaper service, and the cost of washing diapers with detergent make the choice less clear. Unanticipated trade-offs are a natural part of complex systems.

Life Cycle Analysis, or LCA, is an effort to deal with that complexity. It monitors the streams of energy, materials, and information that feed into and emerge from a manufacturing process. What resource does this deplete? it asks. How much does this pollute? What are the health effects? LCA aims to rule out the "externalization" of costs, that view of the bottom line that says killing fish populations with PCBs has nothing to do with the cost of manufacturing widgets.

Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, is currently a leader in LCA. Its Environmental Priorities Strategy, based on the expertise of scientists, engineers, and economists from several industries, rates more than 600 materials by "environmental load units." For instance, according to Sven Ryding, one of the system's designers, it can measure how much energy is used to make a given part from aluminum. It can also distinguish between the environmental costs of smelting that aluminum with coal, oil, or hydroelectric power.

One outcome of life cycle analysis has been a rising interest among manufacturers in designing for disassembly and recycling. Audi, the German automaker, has displayed a prototype for a fully recyclable sports car. It is also joining with Volkswagen and Preussag, the steel company, to set up 80 auto- disassembly plants. Mitsubishi makes washing machines that can be fully disassembled with only a screwdriver. Xerox now recycles nearly 1 million used parts each year, for savings of $200 million. AT&T Bell Labs is using LCA to develop a "green telephone." IBM used LCA in the design of its Personal System/2 computer, which, among other innovations, uses a single, recyclable polymer for all its plastic parts.

Still, McDonough has concerns about much of the recycling now practiced by industry. If the recycled materials are good only for making park benches or packing material, he says, they're still going to end up in a landfill sooner or later -the problem is only being put off. "That's not recycling," he says, but "downcycling."

He would prefer to see 800 numbers on all products. When a television is beyond repair or a synthetic rug wears out, customers would call the manufacturer and the items would be reclaimed, then used to make something else. Pesticides and similar compounds would be tagged with molecular markers so they could be traced and in certain cases recycled. Eventually, McDonough believes, increasing numbers of products will be leased rather than purchased outright.

Within these rude beginnings lie the roots of what McDonough calls the technical cycle, complete with its feedback loops and technical nutrients. Just as nature combines elements such as nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon to make a cherry blossom or a dragonfly, then reabsorbs them when their lives are done, materials in a fully evolved technical cycle would take specific form only to provide services - a car for transportation, a washing machine for cleaning clothes, a phone for communications - before being absorbed back into the web of material flows.

Changes of the magnitude and complexity indicated by biorealism - which are not only technological and economic but cultural as well - will take time. Large companies project their capital investments over decades. And simple human habit is a powerful force: Many people take pride in doing things as they've always done them, and they will continue that way until change is unavoidable. Hawken quotes a Somali saying: "You can't wake a man who is pretending to be asleep."

Like federal groundskeepers raking and trimming around the capital's cherry trees, Washington lawmakers have - with the best of intentions - restricted the growth of industrial ecology. For instance, antitrust regulations discourage extensive connections between companies. Laws against manufacturing with used parts affect recycling - although those laws exist for good reasons and should be amended only with caution.

"Expectations over the past fifty years have been shaped by an unsustainable structure," says Braden Allenby, a research vice-president in AT&T's technology and environment division. "Many of the disciplines involved in this problem are fundamentally flawed because they were developed in a time of unlimited resources."

Until now, says Allenby, industry has evolved along the lines of a young ecosystem, in which resources exceed demand, making rapid growth common. Simplicity and quantity are guiding principles, and byproducts may be left unused. But the industrial world is now entering a mature phase, and with that the rules of the game are changing. Mature biological systems are dynamic but highly diverse and complex, and they're more stable than younger ones. Resources are no longer plentiful, so the waste-equals-food equation emerges. Quality becomes a more effective survival strategy than sheer numbers.

Of course, there are reasons not to emulate nature in every way. Nature is indifferent to suffering, for example. But in the end, what McDonough, Braungart, Socolow, Eisner, Todd, Hawken, and the others are trying to tell business is relatively simple: Nature is a system that works, and it works by being essentially a closed system.

McDonough tells a story from anthropologist Gregory Bateson about New College, in Oxford, England. The main hall there was built in the early 1600s with oak beams 40 feet long and 2 feet thick. Recently they began to suffer from dry rot, and administrators couldn't find English oaks large enough to replace them. A young faculty member said, "Why don't we ask the college forester if some of the lands given to Oxford might have enough trees to call upon?" They brought in the forester, who said, "We've been wondering when you would ask this question. When the present building was constructed three hundred and fifty years ago, the architects specified that a grove of trees be planted and maintained to replace the beams in the ceiling when they suffered from dry rot." Bateson's comment was, "That's the way to run a culture."

The question facing our culture is, What kind of foundation are we laying for the world of three centuries from today? Hardin Tibbs, a business consultant now living in Australia and one of the first to write about industrial ecology, says, "There are a number of extremely powerful technologies on the horizon - genetics, nanotechnology, parallel computers. The ability to manage and control current practices from an ecological perspective is a window on our ability to handle those more powerful developments in the future."

To anyone concerned about the future of plants, animals, and habitats, the use of nature as a model means new hope. For it suggests a philosophical basis for human endeavor that runs deeper than arguments over exploitation or regulation. It offers a new design, a set of principles from which we may yet raise a greater structure, one that will fit human enterprise to the highly evolved lessons of the natural world.

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Books

Renewable Natural Resources

  • The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, 1985.
  • Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison.
  • Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by Russell J. Smith, 1929.
  • The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell, 1994.
  • Holistic Resource Management by Alan Savory.

Social Studies

  • _Living the Good Life and _Continuing the Good Life_ by Helen and Scott Nearing.
  • Dumbing Us Down by John Gatto.
  • Communities Directory by the Fellowship for Intentional Community, 1995.
  • Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge, 1991.
  • Invest Yourself Commission on Voluntary Service and Action, New York, New York, 1993. "The catalogue of Volunteer Opportunities."

Building

  • Thermal Delight in Architecture by Lisa Heschong, 1979.
  • The Straw Bale House by Steen, Steen, and Bainbridge, 1994.

Food Preparation

  • Stocking Up III: The All-New Edition of America's Classic Preserving Guide by Carol Hupping, 1986.
  • Ferment and Human Nutrition by Bill Mollison, Published by Tagari Press, 1993.

Catalogues

  • Peaceful Valley Farm Supply P.O. Box 2209, Grass Valley, CA 95945. Phone: 916-272-4769.
  • Real Goods 966 Mazzoni Street; Ukiah, CA 95482-3471. Phone: 800-762-7325; Fax 707-468-9486.
  • Island Press Environmental Sourcebook "Books for better conservation management." P.O. Box 7; Covelo, CA 95428. Phone: 800-828-1302; Fax 707-983-6414.

Periodicals

  • The Permaculture Activist P.O. Box 1209; Black Mountain, NC 28711. Contact, Peter Bane.
  • The Permaculture International Journal P.O. Box 6039; South Lismore; NSW 2480, Australia. Phone: 066-220-020; Fax: 066-220-579; pcjournal@peg.apc.org (electronic mail).
  • Permaculture Drylands Jounal P.O. Box 64184; Tucson, AZ 85728.
  • Communities

Return to home page. --------------FF686A4BE44F3F8ABE72C89D-- From sandybar@earthlink.net Thu Aug 7 18:23:05 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA04427 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bw.cea.edu (bw.cea.edu [206.14.112.225]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA14000 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:19:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 206.14.112.28 (nickel.cea.edu [206.14.112.28]) by bw.cea.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA26221 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33EA49C2.7847@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 15:18:44 -0700 From: @cea.edu Reply-To: @cea.edu Organization: cea X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Community Seeking Members Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 26 SANDY BAR IS LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN OUR COLLECTIVE Sandy Bar Ranch is a collective of four fun-loving hard workers creating a sustainable living/working alternative in the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains of Northern California. We're committed to working with the land and with each other. Our process is based on consensus and non-hierarchical organization. We run a variety of businesses including private cabin rentals, educational workshops, a fruit tree nursery, dried flower arrangements and other crafts. In addition, we have a 2 acre garden area which we are designing along permacultural principles and 40 other acres to tend. Our vision, as we learn and teach about our Bioregion, is to engage in constructive dialogue with all sectors of society to develop ways of living lightly on the earth. We are seeking people interested in collective living and permaculture, with experience in general maintenance, gardening, hotel management, marketing and computer skills. Good communication, self-motivation and a sense of humor are essential. Prospective members would start with a 2-month work exchange position. Contact us at: PO Box 347, 797 Ishi Pishi Road, Orleans, CA 95556. Tel: (916) 627-3379. You can also e-mail us at: sandybar@earthlink.net, or visit our Web site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~sandybar From cfm@theriver.com Sun Aug 10 11:12:45 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (npc.press.org [152.2.254.83]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA27943 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pantano.theriver.com (pantano.theriver.com [205.216.137.2]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA01766 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown (p16.pm6.theriver.com [206.26.122.113]) by pantano.theriver.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17303 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:08:58 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: Read-Receipt-To: "Catherine F. Montijo" Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Catherine F. Montijo" Subject: help- TICKS Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 08:07:15 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 27 Help! We live SE AZ and have recently been inundated with ticks at our house. On dogs, in house, in grass. We've been flea/tick spraying dogs about every 2 days, yesterday "bombed" the house with foggers and put in carpet powder and sprayed all exterior bottom corner with insecticide. Plan on continuing to spray dogs and re-bomb/spray in 2 weeks....then again in another 2 weeks. Anybody have suggestions on alternative plan - possibly more organically friendly? Any products known to hold up in rain on outside areas? (It's our rainy season & we got rain a couple hours after dirt/exterior was sprayed.) Thanks! From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Aug 10 22:50:58 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA14811 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA21248 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:47:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Spader Clinic at BD Conference (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 28 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 07:32:06 -0400 From: Intergalactic Garage To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: Spader Clinic at BD Conference FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Great News!! Eugene Canales (BIODYNAMICS #210-212) of Ferarri Tractor has offered to conduct a "spading" clinic at the East Coast Biodynamic Conference Oct 3-5. The Claymont Court Agricultural Project, the site of the conference, has been using a 7ft Tortella spader with a recent model 70-hp John Deere tractor with optional low gearing for the past year. It is Eugene's intention to use this equipment to show in the field the 'whys and hows' of spading as well as demonstrate some 'tricks of the spade' and answer questions from spader users and those interested in using spaders on their beds and fields in the future. The Claymont growers will be on hand to discuss their experiences with this appropriate approach to tillage. (They LIKE their spader!!) The presentation is in addition to the lecture on 'Walking Tractors' by Eugene Canales which was announced previously. This presentation will be demonstrated with the BCS line of walking tractors and may even include a demonstration of the BCS walk-behind spading machine!!! (Highly recommended by Elliot Coleman for the 'small' producer.) Other European 'walking tractor' lines will be discussed and there will be a slide show and questions and answers. [I hope my enthusiasm for these two events is not construed to be commercial. I have not seen many opportunities for alternative growers to find experienced information on these worthwhile and practical approaches to tillage and cultivation and am happy that we will get an opportunity to provide this information at the East Coast Biodynamics Conference.] The East Coast Biodynamic Conference ("Alan Chadwick: 30 Years Later") is being held at Claymont Court in Charles Town, WV (about 90 minutes from downtown Washington DC) Oct 3-5, 1997. It is being partially sponsored by the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association and the Demeter (BD Certification) Association with a little help from Record Tools (marketers in North America of the famous Sheffield England D-handled "Bulldog" spades popularized by Alan Chadwick). Trade Show space is available at this conference. (Yes, there will be stirring machines AND flow forms demonstrated!) For more information about the East Coast Biodynamic Conference, Contact: Allan Balliett POB 3047 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 (304) 876-2373 FAX:(304) 876-9414 email: biodynamics@biodynamics.com or check out the web page at www.biodynamics.com. For more information about the Spading Clinic or the Walking Tractor Presentation, or general questions about alternative farm implements, contact Eugene Canales, Ferarri Tractor, POB 1045, Gridley, CA 95548 (916) 846-6401 FAX: (916) 846-0390. =========================================================================== To Post to the Bio-Dynamics Mailing list: bd-l@biodynamics.com =========================================================================== Subscribe to BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century the Bi-Monthly Magazine about Developments in the Art and Science of Biodyamics. Noted viticulturist, orchardist and Biodynamic growing consultant, Alan York, editor. BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century is the journal of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America. 6 issues a year for $35 1-800-516-7797 The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 USA VISA/AMEX/MasterCard accepted (International Subscriptions are higher. Contact the BDFGA for a quote). ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. Opinions expressed in mail through this list, whether by the moderator or by list members, are simply the opinions of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BDFGA. ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. The BD-L e-mail list is open to all and subscribing is easy: simply send an e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "subscribe BD-L" in the Subject. (I'll need your name and physical address in the Body of the message, but it will be released to no one) You'll soon start getting messages. If you don't like what you see, send another e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "unsubscribe BD-L" in the Subject. Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE: http://www.his.com/~claymont/bda.html Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L =============================== From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Aug 10 22:54:39 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA14929 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:54:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA21305 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:50:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:50:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Spader Clinic at BD Conference (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 29 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 07:32:06 -0400 From: Intergalactic Garage To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: Spader Clinic at BD Conference FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Great News!! Eugene Canales (BIODYNAMICS #210-212) of Ferarri Tractor has offered to conduct a "spading" clinic at the East Coast Biodynamic Conference Oct 3-5. The Claymont Court Agricultural Project, the site of the conference, has been using a 7ft Tortella spader with a recent model 70-hp John Deere tractor with optional low gearing for the past year. It is Eugene's intention to use this equipment to show in the field the 'whys and hows' of spading as well as demonstrate some 'tricks of the spade' and answer questions from spader users and those interested in using spaders on their beds and fields in the future. The Claymont growers will be on hand to discuss their experiences with this appropriate approach to tillage. (They LIKE their spader!!) The presentation is in addition to the lecture on 'Walking Tractors' by Eugene Canales which was announced previously. This presentation will be demonstrated with the BCS line of walking tractors and may even include a demonstration of the BCS walk-behind spading machine!!! (Highly recommended by Elliot Coleman for the 'small' producer.) Other European 'walking tractor' lines will be discussed and there will be a slide show and questions and answers. [I hope my enthusiasm for these two events is not construed to be commercial. I have not seen many opportunities for alternative growers to find experienced information on these worthwhile and practical approaches to tillage and cultivation and am happy that we will get an opportunity to provide this information at the East Coast Biodynamics Conference.] The East Coast Biodynamic Conference ("Alan Chadwick: 30 Years Later") is being held at Claymont Court in Charles Town, WV (about 90 minutes from downtown Washington DC) Oct 3-5, 1997. It is being partially sponsored by the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association and the Demeter (BD Certification) Association with a little help from Record Tools (marketers in North America of the famous Sheffield England D-handled "Bulldog" spades popularized by Alan Chadwick). Trade Show space is available at this conference. (Yes, there will be stirring machines AND flow forms demonstrated!) For more information about the East Coast Biodynamic Conference, Contact: Allan Balliett POB 3047 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 (304) 876-2373 FAX:(304) 876-9414 email: biodynamics@biodynamics.com or check out the web page at www.biodynamics.com. For more information about the Spading Clinic or the Walking Tractor Presentation, or general questions about alternative farm implements, contact Eugene Canales, Ferarri Tractor, POB 1045, Gridley, CA 95548 (916) 846-6401 FAX: (916) 846-0390. =========================================================================== To Post to the Bio-Dynamics Mailing list: bd-l@biodynamics.com =========================================================================== Subscribe to BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century the Bi-Monthly Magazine about Developments in the Art and Science of Biodyamics. Noted viticulturist, orchardist and Biodynamic growing consultant, Alan York, editor. BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century is the journal of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America. 6 issues a year for $35 1-800-516-7797 The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 USA VISA/AMEX/MasterCard accepted (International Subscriptions are higher. Contact the BDFGA for a quote). ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. Opinions expressed in mail through this list, whether by the moderator or by list members, are simply the opinions of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BDFGA. ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. The BD-L e-mail list is open to all and subscribing is easy: simply send an e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "subscribe BD-L" in the Subject. (I'll need your name and physical address in the Body of the message, but it will be released to no one) You'll soon start getting messages. If you don't like what you see, send another e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "unsubscribe BD-L" in the Subject. Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE: http://www.his.com/~claymont/bda.html Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L =============================== From london@sunsite.unc.edu Mon Aug 11 22:37:34 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA08307 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA13693 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:33:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:33:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Washington and Idaho Farm Tours (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 30 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. ----=+=---- InterGarden mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden Venaura Farm mailto:london@nuteknet.com http://nuteknet.com/london ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:06:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tom Hodges (moderated newsgroup)" To: Principles of Sustainable Agriculture Subject: Washington and Idaho Farm Tours ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:08:11 -0700 From: Colette DePhelps To: sustag@beta.tricity.wsu.edu, sawg@lists.desktop.org Subject: Washington and Idaho Farm Tours ORGANIC, SUSTAINABLE AND DIRECT MARKETING FARM TOURS OFFERED IN WASHINGTON AND IDAHO The Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI) is offering its third annual series of farm tours in Idaho and Washington. This year's tours series, which runs from August to October, will emphasize the importance of local food production and marketing. The purpose of the tours is to increase community knowledge and support of local agricultural products produced using sustainable and organic production methods. Featured farms range from sustainable hay production on steep Palouse slopes, to small-scale organic vegetable and flower production. The tours will provide an opportunity for regional producers to learn about the benefits and challenges of local production and direct marketing, and for consumers to better understand how they can participate in their local food systems. Tour participants will see, first hand, the environmental benefits of alternative production systems. Participants will also participate in active discussions of how local production and marketing enhances the quality of life and economic viability of local communities. The tours are open to all -- farmers, consumers, extension agents, policy makers, 4-H youth, Future Farmers of America, environmental advocates and university students. For the first time, tours will be held in the late summer and fall, providing returning university students with an opportunity to attend. Tours will be offered in: Sandpoint (Greater Sandpoint area) August 16, 1997 Wenatchee Valley (Wenatchee, Chelan) August 21, 1997 Palouse Region (Pullman, Moscow, Potlatch area) September 20, 1997 Kootenai and Spokane Counties (Coeur d'Alene, Spokane area) September 24, 1997 Clearwater Valley (Lapwai, Lewiston, Clarkston area) October 18, 1997 Each tour will include a catered meal featuring local, sustainably grown food and transportation in an air-conditioned bus. Cost per person, per tour, is $20.00 for persons registering at least one week prior to the tour date. The registration fee for late registrants is $25.00. The tours are co-sponsored by the PCEI Community Food Systems Program, University of Idaho Cooperative Extension, Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources and local chambers of commerce. Financial support comes from Patagonia, Inc. and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. For more information or to receive a tour brochure, contact: Colette DePhelps Community Food Systems Program Coordinator "Looking more deeply than usual at things, one wonders at how immense tiny things are, and how tiny immense things are too. Like dinosaurs (used to be) and like neutrons. ~Stine" =================================================================== Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute P O Box 8596; 112 West 4th St; Suite #1 Moscow ID 83843-1096 Phone (208)882-1444; Fax (208)882-8029 url: http://www.moscow.com/pcei Thomas C. Lamar, Executive Director: lamar@pcei.org Kathleen Lester, Office Manager: lester@pcei.org Adam R. Thornbrough, Watersheds: thornbrough@pcei.org Colette DePhelps, Community Food Systems: dephelps@pcei.org Kathy Roos, Transportation Education: kroos@cyberhighway.net Celebrating eleven years of connecting people, place and community. =================================================================== From jocurrie@enternet.com.au Fri Aug 15 08:18:54 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA18990 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:18:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from entoo.connect.com.au (entoo.connect.com.au [192.189.54.8]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA20138 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:15:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from acc3-ppp36.syd.enternet.com.au (acc3-ppp36.syd.enternet.com.au [210.8.3.36]) by entoo.connect.com.au with SMTP id WAA21813 (8.8.5/IDA-1.7 for ); Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:14:54 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33F537BC.1AEF@enternet.com.au> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:16:44 -0700 From: jocurrie X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: PERMACULTURE IN BRASIL X-URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/msg00098.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 31 Hi, I just grabbed your contact off the net and am interested in doing some permaculture related volunteer work in Brasil. I have a wide range of experience in community based action and community based work - eg organic food co-operatives; solid waste minimisation; organic farming; urban design and planning etc. Mmm I would love to be able to work there and dance with the locals, please contact me soon Andy Cabban From london@nuteknet.com Sun Aug 17 13:29:58 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (helios.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.3]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA17237 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA14249 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.118]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01227 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:26:08 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.118] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33F727A4.4989@nuteknet.com> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:32:36 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Scientific American: Technology and Business: GETTING THE DIRT ON DIRT: 8/97 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------65A54F5133C2" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 32 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------65A54F5133C2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.sciam.com/0897issue/0897techbus4.html -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------65A54F5133C2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="0897techbus4.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="0897techbus4.html" Content-Base: "http://www.sciam.com/0897issue/0897tec hbus4.html" Scientific American: Technology and Business: GETTING THE DIRT ON DIRT: 8/97


AGRONOMY

GETTING THE DIRT ON DIRT

It may look like just a speck of dirt to the naked eye, but under an electron microscope a crumb of prairie soil is really a carefully constructed "apartment building," home to the small critters that recycle decaying organic matter into usable nutrients. About a millimeter across, a soil crumb--or macroaggregate--is riddled with water- and air-filled pores that shelter such organisms as bacteria, fungi and nematodes. As these organisms dine on dead roots, fertilizer and even one another, they release the nitrogen compounds that feed growing plants.

U.S. Department of Agriculture soil scientist Cynthia Cambardella is passionate about macroaggregates. She and her colleagues at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, study soil structure and its effect on nutrient cycling in the hope of developing more efficient and environmentally friendly farming techniques. Soils with abundant macroaggregates do a better job of supporting plant life and lose fewer nutrients to leaching; therefore, much of Cambardella's work focuses on the formation and degradation of these rich crumbs in agricultural lands.

Cambardella has her graduate student Jeff Gale of Iowa State University use radioactive carbon 14, for example, to observe the aggregation process in soil as the debris from harvested oat plants decomposes. Gale sows his oats in large pots kept in a walk-in growth chamber. As the plants grow to a height of a meter, he periodically doses them with radioactivity by combining carbon 14-tagged sodium bicarbonate with a dilute acid inside the growth chamber. When the acid hits the radioactive baking soda, the mixture foams, liberating "hot" carbon dioxide that is fixed by the growing plants and incorporated into their tissues.

After the plants are harvested, Gale and Cambardella can trace the radioactive organic materials from the remaining roots and straw as they decompose and become incorporated into the soil structure. They are finding that the presence of relatively fresh plant matter in the soil helps to stabilize its structure--the number of macroaggregates peaks about 180 days after the harvest, and then the aggregates start to break down, potentially compromising soil quality.

Studying aggregate formation, Gale says, will help farmers learn to maintain good soil structure in the field. Cambardella believes that understanding soil structure is vital to developing agricultural practices that do not cause topsoil erosion or the contamination of aquifers and surface waters with fertilizer runoff. "We need to learn more about what's really going on in the soil," Cambardella says. "We can't black-box it anymore."

--Rebecca Zacks


--------------65A54F5133C2-- From london@nuteknet.com Sun Aug 17 13:34:17 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (npc.press.org [152.2.254.83]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA17276 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:34:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from svr1.nuteknet.com (root@svr1.nuteknet.com [207.100.118.20]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA15122 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.118]) by svr1.nuteknet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01264 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:30:27 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: svr1.nuteknet.com: user-37kb9jm.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.166.118] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <33F728A7.2E79@nuteknet.com> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:36:55 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Scientific American: Technology and Business: FARMING WITH LINT: 8/97 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------76BB53FF6912" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 33 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------76BB53FF6912 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.sciam.com/0897issue/0897techbus3.html -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------76BB53FF6912 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="0897techbus3.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="0897techbus3.html" Content-Base: "http://www.sciam.com/0897issue/0897tec hbus3.html" Scientific American: Technology and Business: FARMING WITH LINT: 8/97


RECYCLING

FARMING WITH LINT

Lint from blue jeans as plant boosters and bricks

Imagine the dinner conversation at David Dotson's house when he told his parents he was going to put his brand-new graduate degree to good use--collecting lint. Yes, those lowly bits of clothing fiber found between one's toes and clinging to the screens of dryers. Dotson, who had just received his master's degree from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, had signed on with Livingston Associates, an environmental consulting group based in Alamogordo, N.M. And his first job would be to help El Paso, Tex., figure out what to do about its overabundance of lint.

El Paso is the garment-finishing capital of the world, where six major plants wash blue jeans for Levi-Strauss, Gap, Polo, DKNY, Kmart and others. One large finisher, International Garment Processors (IGP), estimates that it stonewashes, sandblasts and otherwise weathers some 300,000 pairs every week. That leads to a lot of lint: IGP can throw away up to 70 cubic yards, about three full garbage trucks of the stuff every week. It was eating up profits at the rate of $900 a week for disposal.

Al Romero, IGP's director of environmental health and safety, suspected there was a solution to their lint problem. "I knew it was cotton fiber, just organic matter, so there had to be something we could do with it besides put it in a landfill," he says. He approached agricultural engineer Dana Porter, then at N.M.S.U., who enlisted Dotson, one of her graduate students. "I knew at the very least it could be composted," Porter recalls. "But I wanted to see if we could do something simpler with the fiber."

That something simpler was mixing it with farmland. Porter and Dotson started with cotton and wheat seeds in five-gallon buckets. One bucket had just local soil; three others had varying amounts of IGP's lint mixed in. The results were dramatic. Germination rates improved in all the lint-filled buckets, some increasing by 60 percent. The lint boosted the water-holding capacity of the soil 300 percent, not an insignificant finding for parched El Paso.

Suddenly, there seemed to be endless potential for IGP's "problem." The unprocessed lint could be applied directly to alfalfa fields that IGP also maintains, allowing it to plant another profitable 70 acres with 25 percent less water.

Dotson had also noted that in their preliminary tests the lint increased soil permeability, a quality that might aid land reclamation efforts. He went to White Oaks, N.M., to test his theory on soil that had remained largely sterile for the past 100 years because an especially harsh cyanide-leaching process had been used to mine the area. Dotson found that by using a mixture of fertilizer and lint (which also acts as a slow-release fertilizer), he could increase the grass yields by 1,000 percent over untreated soil. Dotson is now looking at using lint sludge to make a superior kind of compost for gardeners.

Porter and Dotson aren't the only ones collecting lint in El Paso. Naomi Assaidan of Texas A&M University's agricultural outreach center in El Paso has been working with American Garment Finishers (AGF) to turn their sludge into bricks and cement. Each garment processor relies on a proprietary finishing process; AGF in particular incorporates alum in its wash water. As a result, its lint sludge differs from IGP's. "It comes out looking like feathery blue chalk," Assaidan says. She fired up chunks of the claylike sludge in a kiln and discovered that they did indeed turn into the first lint bricks. "They're blue, but that's okay. Albuquerque is pink from all the clay it uses in construction. I don't see any reason why El Paso can't be blue," Assaidan says.

In the meantime, IGP's Romero finds that he doesn't send his lint to the landfill anymore. Last year he shipped seven to 10 tons of sludge to N.M.S.U. for its projects. Shipping costs have kept IGP from seeing a profit in lint, but Romero anticipates that within the next year, he'll be applying it to the IGP farms on-site, which will be more cost-effective. "Within a year, the sludge will be a direct source of income," Romero says, "and we'll be in the green--or, I should say, in the blue."

--Brenda DeKoker


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AGE NAME SIGNATURE From julia@cea.edu Mon Aug 18 20:49:24 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (npc.press.org [152.2.254.83]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA10066 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:49:24 -0400 (EDT) From: julia@cea.edu Received: from bw.cea.edu (bw.cea.edu [206.14.112.225]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA17065 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:45:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 206.14.112.70 (ytterbium.cea.edu [206.14.112.70]) by bw.cea.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA09729 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33F88B04.238@cea.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:49:21 +0000 Reply-To: julia@cea.edu Organization: CEA X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Community Seeking Members Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 35 SANDY BAR IS LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN OUR COLLECTIVE Sandy Bar Ranch is a collective of four fun-loving hard workers creating a sustainable living/working alternative in the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains of Northern California. 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You can also e-mail us at: sandybar@earthlink.net, or visit our Web site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~sandybar From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sat Aug 30 12:06:21 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA01810 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:06:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA16042 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:02:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:02:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Habitat builders newsgroup formed! 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London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Western SARE Grant Opportunity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 38 To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Subject: Calls for Proposals From: lizacker@vt.edu (Elizabeth Ackermann) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:43:42 -0400 Reply-To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Sender: owner-permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Greetings all! Just getting into permaculture and enjoying this list very much. Educational _and_ entertaining ;-) Got a notice of these research funding opportunities during the course of my 9-5 job. Thought some of you might be interested. Please note that each of these Calls for Proposals have different criteria and areas of interest, as well as geographic limitations. **************************************************************** (from: http://carousel.lis.uiuc.edu/~iris/iris.htm?sp={Research%20and%20Education%2 0Projects}&fmt=F ) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) is a USDA competitive grants program supporting profitable, environmentally sound, socially acceptable agricultural systems. Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Educ Prog (SARE) Research and Education Projects The SARE Program's purpose is to encourage research and education to increase knowledge concerning integrated systems of plant and animal producation practices having a site specific application that will, over the long-term: satisfy human food and fiber needs; enhance environmental quality and the natural resource base upon which the agriculture economy depends; make the most efficient use of nonrenewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls; sustain the economic viability of farm operations; and enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole. DEADLINES ANNOUNCED: 10/29/97 http://ext.usu.edu/wsare/ -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu mailto:llondon@mindspring.com http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden From dmay@ilhawaii.net Wed Sep 3 20:16:30 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (npc.press.org [152.2.254.83]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA18057 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:16:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lehua.ilhawaii.net (ilhawaii.net [206.127.242.100]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA23459 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown (pm2-28.ilhawaii.net [206.127.242.137]) by lehua.ilhawaii.net (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA26463 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:10:45 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Don May" Subject: permaculture on the big island Date: Thu, 04 Sep 97 01:59:31 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 39 Aloha, Check out our web site at http://permaculture-hawaii.com we a month long design course coming up Oct. 1 its a great way to learn permaculture and see the Big Island of Hawaii. From dmay@ilhawaii.net Wed Sep 3 20:59:31 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA18405 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:59:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lehua.ilhawaii.net (ilhawaii.net [206.127.242.100]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA02171 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:55:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown (pm2-21.ilhawaii.net [206.127.242.130]) by lehua.ilhawaii.net (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA29289 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:53:49 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: Read-Receipt-To: "Don May" Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Don May" Subject: Big Island Permaculture Date: Thu, 04 Sep 97 02:42:36 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 40 Aloha, Could you please add the following to your list of demonstrationa sites and resources La'akea Permaculture Gardens P.O.Box 1221 Pahoa, HI 96778 (808)965-9203 http:\\permaculture-hawaii.com thanks From london@nuteknet.com Wed Sep 3 23:14:57 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (helios.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.3]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA20132 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:14:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA04506 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:10:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d00091.rdu.bellsouth.net (d00091.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.92]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA25973 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:11:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.rdu.bellsouth.net: d00091.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.92] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <340E1A29.20C@nuteknet.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 22:17:13 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Table Of Contents Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------563E73682C" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 41 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------563E73682C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.cowan.edu.au/~paustin/ipc6/toc.html -- Lawrence F. London, Jr. mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden --------------563E73682C Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="toc.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="toc.html" Content-Base: "http://www.cowan.edu.au/~paustin/ipc6/ toc.html" Table Of Contents

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--------------563E73682C-- From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Sep 4 11:40:04 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA27628 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA07903 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:35:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Organic Farmer Needs Your Help!! (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 42 ---------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden ---------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:06:03 -0400 From: bd-l To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: Organic Farmer Needs Your Help!! "Long Hungry Creek Farm is a self-sufficient, small farm that Jeff Poppen tends with his partner. It is a certified biodynamic, organic farm with five acres of vegetables for market, experimental orcahrds, extensive herb and flower beds, grains, hay, cattle, and a fruit tree nursery." from the intro to "Barefoot Farmer" Ecological farmer Jeff Poppen, author of 'A Barefoot Farmer,' 'A Barefoot Farmer II,' 'A Barefoot Farmer III,' and 'A Barefoot Farmer's Handbook of Medicine,' requested a court injunction last month to prevent Tri-Country Electric Membership Corporation (TMC) from spraying "Escort" and/or "Arsenal" (herbicides) from a helicopter along powerlines on his Demeter-certified BD farm and along powerlines on adjoining properties in Macon County, TN. Jeff goes to court on September 19th at 9:00 a.m. at Trousdale County Courthouse in Hartsville, TN to ask for a permanent injunction against aerial spraying, in effect asking TMC 'to show cause why a permanent restaining order should not be issued.' It is likely that TMC will counter-sue Jeff because his "interference" which has cost them time and money. Jeff is not a rich man and he could use any possible support from the sustainable agriculture community. He needs: 1. Any scientific proof that the aerial spraying of herbicides poses a health risk; 2. Financial help; 3. Positive thoughts OR your presence at court that morning. Jeff can be reached at: 615-699-2703 or by writing to P. O. Box 163, Red Boiling Springs, TNB 37150. Email for Jeff can be directed to biodynamics@biodynamics.com. Discussions on this list about the use of herbicides in proximity to certified farms by utility companies or any other matters related to Jeff's legal situation will be forwarded to him. 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Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE for BIODYNAMIC resources: http://www.biodynamics.com Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L =============================== From johnvalenzuela@hotmail.com Sat Sep 6 21:38:08 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA18123 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 21:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (F8.hotmail.com [207.82.250.19]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA17894 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 21:33:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 21873 invoked by uid 0); 7 Sep 1997 01:33:21 -0000 Message-ID: <19970907013321.21872.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.104.139.13 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 06 Sep 1997 18:33:20 PDT X-Originating-IP: [207.104.139.13] From: "john valenzuela" To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Design Course on Moloka'i, Hawai'i Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 18:33:20 PDT Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 43 PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE on the ISLAND of MOLOKA'I, HAWAI'I Dates: November 29 to December 12, 1997. Location: Hui Ho'olana, a 77 acre retreat center on Moloka'i, Hawai'i. This island was the first place Bill Mollison ever visited in the US. It is a very rural island with many native hawaiians on homestead land, extensive ancient hawaiian fish ponds, and permaculture sites. Description: The main purpose of the course is to impart permaculture principles and methodologies which can be applied anywhere in the world. This design course will cover the standard two week cerificate Permaculture Design Course curriculum. Through lecture, discussion, slide shows, observation, field trips, and hands-on experiential learning, permaculture design students will develop the practical skills and knowledge to design and implement sustainable systems in harmony with the natural world. There will be an emphasis on designing permaculture and agroforesty systems adapted to Hawai'i and other subtropical/tropical oceanic islands. This will range in scale from urban, backyard and small acreage to village and whole island design. Instructors: Michael Pilarski has taught permaculture in the USA, Canada, Belize, Nepal, and Australia, and teaches herbal wildcrafting. He is the founder of Friends of the Trees in Washington state. Douglas Bullock is a horticulturalist with wide experience in Washington state, California, New Zealand, Australia, and Hawai'i. Bruce Hill was raised in Argentina and lived in other Latin American countries. He manages the Kanahena Farm Nursery in Maui. John Valenzuela is an educator and horticulturalist based on the Big Island of Hawai'i. He also has wide experience in California, from urban gardening to forestry. The instructors are avid and knowledgeable plantsmen with international experience. Cost: US$950 including two weeks lodging, meals, and materials. Campers pay a reduced fee. Some partial scholarships are available The course is limited to 25 participants. Contact: Hu'i Ho'olana PO Box 99 Kualapu'u, Hawai'i 96757 Tel. and Fax:(808)567-6430 or: Friends of the Trees Society PO Box 4469 Bellingham, Washington 98227 Tel:(360)738-4972 Fax:(360)671-9668 URL: www.geocities.com/rainforest/4663 PS: Please send me any e-mail addresses or URLs that this event should be listed at. MAHALO John Valenzuela Permaculture Services PO Box 1280 Pahoa, Hawai'i 96778 e-mail: johnvalenzuela@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From llondon@mindspring.com Sun Sep 7 22:02:19 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (npc.press.org [152.2.254.83]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA03463 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:02:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brickbat9.mindspring.com (brickbat9.mindspring.com [207.69.200.12]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA02120 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbobg.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbobg.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.225.112]) by brickbat9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05805 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:57:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: brickbat9.mindspring.com: user-37kbobg.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.225.112] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <34134F23.72ED19B2@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 21:04:35 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Reply-To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Dragonfly Entomology Bibliography X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------C272CA670C6DF1056E3D965D" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 44 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C272CA670C6DF1056E3D965D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.flyfish.com/flybase/dragbib.htm -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - Dragonfly Market Gardens mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------C272CA670C6DF1056E3D965D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="dragbib.htm" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="dragbib.htm" Content-Base: "http://www.flyfish.com/flybase/dragbib .htm" Dragonfly Entomology Bibliography

Dragonflies
and
Damselflies



Gloyd, L. K., and M. Wright. 1959. Odonata, p. 917-940. In W. T. Edmondson (ed.) Freshwater biology (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, N.Y. 1,248 pp.

Masteller, E.C. 1993. Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies) of Presque Isle State PArk, Erie County, Pennsylvania. J. PA Acad. Sci. 67(3): 137-140.

Needham, J. G., and H. B. Heywood. 1929. A handbook of the dragonflies of North America. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 378 pp.

Needham, J. G., and M. W. Westfall, Jr. 1955. A manual of the dragonflies of North America (Anisoptera) including the Greater Antilles and the provinces of the Mexican border. Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley, 615 pp.

Walker, E. M. 1953. The Odonata of Canada and Alaska. Part I. General, Part II. The Zygoptera-damselflies. Vol I Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto, 292 pp.

Walker, E. M. 1958. The Odonata of Canada and Alaska. Anisoptera. Vol. 2. Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto, 318 pp.

Walker, E. M., and P. S. Corbet. 1975. The Odonata of Canada and Alaska. Anisoptera, Libellulidae. Vol. 3. Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto, 307 pp.

Westfall, M. J., Jr. 1978. Odonata, pp. 81-98. In An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America (R. W. Merritt and K. W. Cummins, eds.). Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, IA.

White, H. B., and W. J. Morse. 1973. Odonata (Dragonflies) of New Hampshire: an annotated list. N. Hampshire Agric. Exp. Sta. 30: 1-46.




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--------------C272CA670C6DF1056E3D965D-- From llondon@mindspring.com Mon Sep 8 15:52:58 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA17505 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:52:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brickbat8.mindspring.com (brickbat8.mindspring.com [207.69.200.11]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA14616 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user-37kbn2g.dialup.mindspring.com (user-37kbn2g.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.220.80]) by brickbat8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28393 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:48:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: brickbat8.mindspring.com: user-37kbn2g.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.220.80] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <341449F9.E9789BE3@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:54:50 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Reply-To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Organization: Venaura Farm -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Dancing Rabbit: An Ecovillage Community X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------96E605F0D7FB0D7A83C8E7E6" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 45 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------96E605F0D7FB0D7A83C8E7E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.woodwind.com/dancing-rabbit/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - Dragonfly Market Gardens mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------96E605F0D7FB0D7A83C8E7E6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Base: "http://www.woodwind.com/dancing-rabbit /" Dancing Rabbit: An Ecovillage Community

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The Dancing Rabbit Project is a group of individuals who desire true environmental sustainability. Rather than the "quick fixes" or band-aid efforts of the mainstream, we are interested in long-term societal and technological changes that will ensure the integrity of the ecosphere, and the well-being of humans, far into the future.

We believe that it is impossible to live sustainably while enmeshed in the consumer culture, but humanly difficult to live independently in isolation. Therefore, we envision a locally self- reliant town committed to radical environmental sustainability -- a place where one can get one's livelihood and happiness without causing environmental degradation. We intend to build such a town.

Fully realized, Dancing Rabbit will be a small town with about 1000 residents. We will be housed in a variety of living arrangements, eat a variety of foods, and work on varied projects. It will be a society flexible enough to include egalitarian communities, cohousing, individual households, and hermits. But while we may have different approaches to some issues, the common desire for environmental sustainability will underlie all key decisions at Dancing Rabbit.

Although Dancing Rabbit will strive for self-sufficiency and economic independence, we will not be sequestered from mainstream America. Rather, outreach and education are integral to our goals. We will vigorously promote ourselves as a viable example of sustainable living and spread our ideas and discoveries through visitor programs, academic and other publications, speaking engagements, and the like.

Currently, Dancing Rabbit is living nearby and in a close relationship with Sandhill Farm. Sandhill is an egalitarian, income-sharing community that has been living and farming in Northeast Missouri since 1973. We are hoping to buy land within a few miles of Sandhill and move onto it by Spring of 1997. Besides the cooperative relationship with Sandhill Farm, we are currently discussing the possibility of Chicago-based forming community Fiddler's Green joining Dancing Rabbit. At this point all members of DR are members of the income-sharing subcommunity called Skyhouse (after our abode in Berkeley), and we make decisions by consensus.

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Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_01BCBE0E.989EE120 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:25:55 -0500 From: "D.B.Sullivan" To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Fw: Dung Beetles for manure control ---------- > > Subject: Dung Beetles for manure control > > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 1997 12:37 PM > > ---------- > > > > > I have been researching Dung Beetles for ecological based manure control > > to prevent non-point pollution. Dung beetles can dispose of 1ton of manure/year over 2.5 acres >> resulting in: > > Soil fertility is enhanced > > Pollution reduced > > Moisture is return to land > > Promotes earthworm production > > and a potential new source of drugs > > > > Generally the beetle buries the manure within 36 hours thus preventing > > fly problems, disposal problems and nonpoint pollution. And I am >> wondering whether the drug industry would find merit it exploring raising Dung >> Beetles as new source of nature-based pharaceuticals. With the numerous current uses of >> Cyclosporin from heart transplants to Aids > > (a drug made from a a mold derived from dung beetles). >> I would think this has merit??? > > > > Does any one do research in this area ??? > > or Who can I contact ??? ANY thoughts??? > > How do I get support on promoting this ecological based waste disposal > > solution?? > > I would like those persons or institutions that are interested in promote > > sustainable solutions to help petition the USDA to keep this facility > > open...Funding could be cut in the next session of Congress. > > > > > > Currently funding for research by the USDA is being cut, and the only > > Quarantine facility in US ( down in Texas) is threathen with closing and > > chief Scientist Truman Fincher will be retiring if this facility > > closes. > > > > I would like to see the medical community support the continuing the > > research by USDA or APHIS (ARS) regarding Dung Beetles or have a white knight > > (Drug manufacter) come to rescue, estimated funding is less than $ 1.5 >> for the next 5 years to keep the facility open.... > > > > I hope this is proper application of this Listserve... > > . > > > > >--============= > > > BACKGROUND > > Cyclosporin synthetase (cysyn) is a multifunctional enzyme responsible > >for the biosynthesis of cyclosporins from their precursor amino acids. It has > > firstly been isolated from the fungusTolypocladium niveum in 1986. > > > http://www.chem.tu-berlin.de/Institute/Biochemie_und_Molekulare_Biologie/Arb /eitskreise/AK_Zocher/mirko/cyclosp.htm ====================> > > http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/Sept96/cyclosporine.hrs.html > > Knowing the true family history of T. inflatum/C. subsessilis will help > > target the search for other nature-based pharmaceuticals, according to > > Thomas Eisner, the Cornell biologist whose Institute for Research in > > Chemical Ecology (CIRCE) will send "chemical prospecting" teams into the > > world's first temperate zone biodiversity preserve, less than a mile from > > the woods where students found the fungal fruiting bodies. One close > > relative of C. subsessilis already is known to Chinese athletes as the > > performance-enhancing "caterpillar fungus." > > > > "There are so many molds that we don't know the life cycle of. All the > > cyclosporin in the world -- for hundreds of thousands of transplant > > patients who need anti-rejection drugs -- has been made from > Tolypocladium > > inflatum cultures without that mold ever reaching the sexual state," said > > Kathie T. Hodge, the Cornell graduate student of systematic mycology who > > identified the New York fungus for what it is. "T. inflatum is commonly > > found in soils, but it does not make the sexual state without very >> special conditions -- until it is on its favorite host -- which seems to be the > > dung beetle." > > ------ > > > > The question I have how important is it or what might be the implications > > of have Tolypocladium inflatum cultures reaching the sexual state???? > > > > I > > > > > David B. Sullivan, Public Relations Director > > > Wisconsin Bison Producers Association > > > Telephone (608) -723-6213 > > > email: Buffalob@mhtc.net > > > email : Buffalo-Falls@juno.com Text only > > > > > > Mailing address: > > > Buffalo Falls Ranch, LLC > > > 7744 Irish Hollow Road > > > Potosi, Wi 53820 > > > > ------=_NextPart_000_01BCBE0E.989EE120 Content-Type: TEXT/HTML; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: Content-Description:



----------
> > = Subject: Dung Beetles for manure control
> > Date: Wednesday, = September 10, 1997 12:37 PM
> > ----------
> > > =
> >  I have been researching Dung Beetles for ecological = based manure control
> >  to prevent non-point pollution. =   Dung beetles can dispose of 1ton of manure/year over 2.5 = acres
>>   resulting  in:
> > =  Soil fertility is enhanced
> >  Pollution = reduced
> >  Moisture is return to land
> > =  Promotes earthworm production
> >  and a potential = new source of drugs

> >
> >  Generally the = beetle buries the manure within 36 hours thus preventing
> > =  fly problems, disposal problems and nonpoint pollution. And I = am
>>  wondering  whether the drug  industry = would find merit it exploring raising Dung
>> =   Beetles as new source  of  nature-based = pharaceuticals. With the numerous current uses of
>> =   Cyclosporin from heart  transplants to Aids
> = > (a drug made from a  a mold derived from dung = beetles).
>>   I would think this has = merit???
> >
> > Does any one do research in this = area ???
> > or Who can I contact ??? ANY thoughts???
> = > How do I get support on promoting this ecological based waste = disposal
> > solution??
> > I would like those persons = or institutions that are interested in promote
> > sustainable = solutions to help petition the USDA to keep this facility
> > = open...Funding could be cut in the next session of Congress.
> = >
> >
> > Currently funding for research by the = USDA is being cut, and the only
> > Quarantine facility in US = ( down in Texas) is threathen with closing and
> > chief = Scientist Truman  Fincher will be retiring if this facility
> = > closes.
> >
> > I would like to see the medical = community support the continuing the
> > research by USDA or = APHIS (ARS) regarding Dung Beetles or have a white knight
> > = (Drug manufacter)  come to rescue, estimated funding is less than $ = 1.5
>>  for the next 5 years  to keep the facility = open....
> >
> > I hope this is proper application of = this Listserve...
> >  .
> >
> > = >--=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > > = BACKGROUND
> >  Cyclosporin synthetase (cysyn) is a = multifunctional enzyme responsible
> >for  the = biosynthesis of cyclosporins from their precursor amino acids. It = has
> > firstly been isolated from the fungusTolypocladium = niveum in 1986.
> >
> http://www.chem.tu-berlin.de/Institute/Biochemie_und= _Molekulare_Biologie/Arb
=             &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = ;    /eitskreise/AK_Zocher/mirko/cyclosp.htm
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> = > http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/Sept96/cyclospor= ine.hrs.html
> > Knowing the true = family history of T. inflatum/C. subsessilis will help
> > = target the search for other nature-based pharmaceuticals, according = to
> > Thomas Eisner, the Cornell biologist whose Institute for = Research in
> > Chemical Ecology (CIRCE) will send = "chemical prospecting" teams into the
> > world's = first temperate zone biodiversity preserve, less than a mile = from
> > the woods where students found the fungal fruiting = bodies. One close
> > relative of C. subsessilis already is = known to Chinese athletes as the
> > performance-enhancing = "caterpillar fungus."
> >
> > "There = are so many molds that we don't know the life cycle of. All the
> = > cyclosporin in the world -- for hundreds of thousands of = transplant
> > patients who need anti-rejection drugs -- has = been made from
> Tolypocladium
> > inflatum cultures = without that mold ever reaching the sexual state," said
> = > Kathie T. Hodge, the Cornell graduate student of systematic = mycology who
> > identified the New York fungus for what it is. = "T. inflatum is commonly
> > found in soils, but it does = not make the sexual state without very
>>  special =  conditions -- until it is on its favorite host -- which seems to = be the
> > dung beetle."
> > ------
> > =
> > The question I have how important is it or what might be = the implications
> > of have Tolypocladium inflatum cultures = reaching the sexual state????
> >
> > I
> > =
> > > David B. Sullivan, Public Relations Director
> = > > Wisconsin Bison Producers Association
> > > = Telephone (608) -723-6213
> > > email: Buffalob@mhtc.net =
> > > email : Buffalo-Falls@juno.com = Text only
> > >
> > > Mailing address:
> = > > Buffalo Falls Ranch, LLC
> > > 7744 Irish Hollow = Road
> > > Potosi, Wi 53820
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------=_NextPart_000_01BCBE0E.989EE120-- From london@sunsite.unc.edu Wed Sep 17 10:04:06 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA18716 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA27474 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:59:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:59:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Rodale Institute Professional Training - NEW PRICE (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 47 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:25:16 -0400 From: Bill Landesman To: 'AS-PTA - Centro de Documentacao' , 'Fred Zahradnik' , 'Greg Bowman' , "'Lawrence F. London, Jr.'" , 'FADR RARC' , 'Richard Niesenbaum' , 'National Organic Directory' , 'Senegal RARC' , "'WormDigest@aol.com'" Subject: Rodale Institute Professional Training - NEW PRICE REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOR THE 21st CENTURY Rodale Institute's Natural Resource Management Professional Training Series October 28 - 31, 1997 The Rodale Institute, which for three generations has been making the vital connections between Healthy Soil, Healthy Food and Healthy People, announces the opportunity for interested individuals and institutions to participate in the first of its Natural Resource Management Training Series, Regenerative Agriculture for the 21st Century. The focus of the seminar will be on the use of regenerative technologies for enhancing soil fertility and managing natural resources, as well as on the relationship between soil health and human health. Utilizing the case study approach, participants will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and practical experience directly from the expertise of the Rodale Institute's Regenerative Agriculture Research Centers staff, including such topics as Soil Conservation from Senegal, West Africa, Community Forest Concessions, Peten, Guatemala, and Composting and Soil Health from Rodale Institute's Experimental Farm in Kutztown, PA. The purpose of this seminar is to familiarize emerging professionals in the fields of agriculture, international and community development, and natural resource management with concepts of regenerative agriculture technologies that recognize the interdependency between agriculture, human health and environmental responsibility. Recognizing that many of the solutions to the world's health problems are linked to our agricultural production and distributions systems, a new agenda for food and agricultural development is needed, one for a "greener revolution" directed at increasing the production of nutritionally adequate food supplies in ways that protect and maintain community health, socioeconomic environments, and ecological sustainability. The seminar is designed to be participatory and will make the transition from scientific research to practical field experience. The seminar should be particularly beneficial for NGO's, international development agencies, prospective or returned Peace Corps Volunteers, and students who plan to work in international development and project management. Cost of the four day training is $450.00. Price includes registration, all workshop activities, materials, lunch each day, and reception. Those who are unable to attend the entire workshop may attend individual workshop days at a rate of $150/day. Full payment must be received by October 14. If you need to cancel, registration fee less than $25 service charge per person will be refunded if cancellation is made more than one week in advance. Once payment is received, participants will receive an information packet which will include a full schedule of workshop events, hotel information, maps to the Rodale Institute and advance reading materials. Participants are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. Please make checks payable to "Rodale Institute" and mail to: NRM, The Rodale Institute, 611 Siegfriedale Rd, Kutztown, PA 19530. For more information please call John Sabella at (919) 795-5243 or e-mail Jsabella@Coastalnet.com PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Tuesday, October 28 Day one will focus on the theoretical framework of Regenerative Agriculture, Food Systems and the implications to Human Health. Regenerative Agriculture: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective A visionary in rural Pennsylvania: the life and times of J.I. Rodale Presenters: Anthony Rodale, Vice-Chairman & John Haberern, President, Rodale Institute Regenerative Food Production & Distribution Systems Presenter: Ms. Jennifer Abel: Program Manager, Rodale Institute Health, Culture, and Agriculture: Healing the Planet; Healing Ourselves The relationships of human health to the land, using perspectives from Native American and African-based cultures Presenter: Dr. Gay Wilentz: Professor of Ethnic Studies, East Carolina University Gender and Regenerative Agriculture: A new Paradigm for the 21st Century Presenters: Dr. Gay Wilentz & Ms. Vore Seck: Director, Senegal Regenerative Agriculture Resource Center Evening Presentation The Rodale Institute/Muhlenberg College Public Seminar Environmental/Natural Resource Management Through The Lens of Other Cultures Wednesday, October 29 Day two: Utilizing the case-study approach, we will examine critical issues relating to Natural Resource Management. Case Study Moderator: Dr John Sabella, Training & Education Coordinator, International Programs, Rodale Institute Stabilizing Shifting Cultivation in Tropical Forests Projecto Centro Maya, Peten, Guatemala Presenter: Ing. Mauro Salazar: Coordinator for Forestry Management Soil Conservation and Regeneration in the Sahel Rodale's Regenerative Agriculture Resource Center, Senegal, West Africa Presenter: Ms. Vore Seck: Director Thursday, October 30 Day three will focus on the use of Analytical Frameworks for the Design and Evaluation of Natural Resource Management Projects Project Implementation and Data Collection Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Presenter: Dr. Jonathon Landeck: International Programs, Rodale Institute Data Management and Analysis Diffusion of Results: New areas for Collaborative Research & Development Presenter: Dr. Amadou Diop: Interrnational Programs, Rodale Institute Friday, October 31 Day four will focus on Soil Health and Regeneration Composting Principals of Compost Management; Compost site design; Evaluating Compost Quality; Management strategies Presenter: Cary Oshins: Compost Management Specialist, Rodale Institute Healthy Soil Composition, Structure and Texture; Organic matter; Soil Micro-Organisms; Natural soil amendments Soil Building, Conservation & Management Legume's, Cover Crops and Green Manure; Rotational Cropping; Vermiculture Presenter: Dr. Laurie Drinkwater: Coordinator for U.S.A. Programs, Rodale Institute From london@sunsite.unc.edu Wed Sep 17 21:52:54 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA06331 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA10482 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:48:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:48:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: 1997 East Coast Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 48 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:39:23 -0400 From: BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: 1997 East Coast Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference CONTACT: Allan Balliett POB 3047, Shepherdstown, WV (304) 876-2373 FAX: (304) 876-9414 biodynamics@biodynamics.com http://www.biodynamics.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ===================== NORTH AMERICA'S OLDEST ECOLOGICAL FARMING AND GARDENING ASSOCIATION TO HOLD 1997 EAST COAST CONFERENCE IN CHARLES TOWN, WV, OCT. 3-5. SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV: The 1997 East Coast Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference will be held October 3-5 at Claymont Court, a 400 acre organic estate outside of Charles Town, WV. The conference, which features national speakers on sustainable agriculture, herbalism, nutrition and water quality starts at 5 pm on Friday and ends late Sunday afternoon. Biodynamics is a practical approach to organic sustainable agriculture and gardening. Biodynamics, which was founded by German educator Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf Schools) in the 1920's, seeks to further soil and water conservation while increasing soil fertility in order to improve nutrition and health. It is a practical and proven approach to growing without dangerous chemicals or costly amendments. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for people with an interest in growing ecologically, in quality herbalism, in water quality, and other topics related to taking care of ourselves and the earth to gather with like-minded people for three days. Dozens of lectures and workshops on topics of interest to both commercial and hobbiest organic growers and wellness workers are certain to stimulate discussion and networking among attendees. The conference is designed to be accessible to beginners while being stimulating to experienced practitioners.  Among the topics addressed will be the American teachings of British horticulturist Alan Chadwick, whose approach to high productivity through knowledge of the cultural needs of plants, carefully executed cultivation, and artfully 'brewed' composts is typical of the biodynamic approach to 'Garden Quality Farming;' walking tractor and spading machine clinics; kitchen table tests that can determine produce or compost quality; vortexes and flow forms; using the biodynamic preparations; growing herbs and making tinctures; organic cut flowers and preservation; sustainable ag and the global climate change; Clay 'sprays' for insect control and disease prevention; dowsing and radionics. Among the featured speakers are Dr. Paul Lee; Peter Tompkins; Hugh Courtney; Hugh Lovel; Jennifer Greene; Bruce Blevins; Eugene Canales; Craig Siska and Jimmy Foltz REGISTRATION: $149 for the entire conference & 6 organic/biodynamic meals. Camping/On-site Lodging/Child Care are available. FULL PRESS RELEASE is available at http://www.biodynamics.com/conference/bde.html FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Allan Balliett, Conference Coordinator (304) 876-2373; (304) 876-9414 FAX biodynamics@biodynamics.com http://www.biodynamics.com This conference is sponsored by the Biodynamic Association of America and by the Demeter Biodynamic Certification Association and the West Virginia Herb Association. Join the BIODYAMIC Farming and Gardening Email list by sending mail to biodynamics@biodynamics.com with 'subscribe bd-l' as the subject and your FULL NAME and PHYSICAL ADDRESS in the body of the mail. ##### */*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ East Coast BD Conference Oct 3-5, featuring Jennifer Greene, Hugh Courtney, Hugh Lovel, Bruce Blevins, Harvey Lisle and an incredible SPADING MACHINE CLINIC (both field size machines and garden size machines) + many other events of interest to ecological growers. http://www.biodynamics.com for more information!! =========================================================================== To Post to the Bio-Dynamics Mailing list: bd-l@biodynamics.com =========================================================================== Subscribe to BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century the Bi-Monthly Magazine about Developments in the Art and Science of Biodyamics. Noted viticulturist, orchardist and Biodynamic growing consultant, Alan York, editor. BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century is the journal of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America. 6 issues a year for $35 Call the BDA at 1-800-516-7797 to start your subscription. The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 USA VISA/AMEX/MasterCard accepted (International Subscriptions are higher. Contact the BDFGA for a quote). ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. Opinions expressed through this list, whether by the moderator or by list members, are simply the opinions of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BDFGA. ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. The BD-L e-mail list is open to all and subscribing is easy: simply send an e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "subscribe BD-L" in the Subject. (I'll need your name and physical address in the Body of the message, but it will be released to no one) You'll soon start getting messages. If you don't like what you see, send another e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "unsubscribe BD-L" in the Subject. Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE for BIODYNAMIC resources: http://www.biodynamics.com Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L =============================== From london@sunsite.unc.edu Wed Sep 24 00:59:57 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA04472 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id AAA29066 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:55:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:55:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Conference Focus Session: Farming the Urban Fringe (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 49 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:51:50 -0700 From: "Stienbarger, Douglas" To: "'csa-l@prairienet.org'" Subject: Conference Focus Session: Farming the Urban Fringe i believe this announcement is appropriate and I apologize for any cross postings. ************************************************************************ *************** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Food & Natural Resource Systems: Integrating Diversity, Inquiry, Action, & People Third North American Conference of the Farming Systems Research & Extension Association in collaboration with Oregon State University Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources And Other Groups November 2-5, 1997 Resort at the Mountain Welches (Mt. Hood), OR Focus Session: Farming the Urban Fringe Organized by the WSU Western Washington Small Farms Team (see URL: http://smallfarms.wsu.edu/UrbFarm.htm) Farming the Urban Fringe is one of four concurrent focus sessions at the Farming Systems Research & Extension conference. Focus sessions integrate knowledge and experience with focused and facilitated discussion. Focus session discussions will highlight integrated research or inquiry along with facts, analysis, and feedback. The other three focus sessions at the conference are: Community Food Systems; Watershed Inquiry and Action; Crop and Livestock Production Systems. Farming the Urban Fringe will explore social, economic, and environmental issues associated with agriculture in the urban-rural interface. Voices will be heard from individuals and organizations shaping this issue such as farmers and their neighbors, consumers, government agencies, activists, media, and the business community. Call for Presentations (Deadline: October 15) 1. Submit an abstract and indicate your interest in presenting a 5-minute summary to serve as an introduction to one of the following four major topics for this focus session for the Monday program: * Economics and Farm Profitability - value added, niche markets, marketing, maintaining viable farms in face of high land prices & taxes * Land Use Planning and Preservation - preservation and use of agricultural lands, land resource availability, regulations, incentives (taxes, right to farm, etc), urban food policy * Community Relations, Communication, and Learning - demand for locally grown food, rural-urban understanding/interaction, media role/coverage * Resource Stewardship - water quality, waste management, pesticide use & management, fertilizer & nutrient management, recycling, composting 2. Submit a description or short summary for a poster, photo display, agency exhibit, etc. to present at the Learning Bazaar on Sunday. 3. Volunteer to tell a story to lead off the Story-Telling session on Sunday. Stories should describe the complexity and connections of food and natural resource systems. Session Agenda: Farming the Urban Fringe Sunday Nov 2 2 - 9 pm: Learning Bazaar, Food, Fair, and Reception Look, listen and learn by attending poster sessions, photo displays, agency exhibits and a systems thinking/action bazaar. 4 - 7 pm: Story-telling, which describes the complexity and connections of food and natural resource systems. All participants will be invited to tell their story. Monday Nov 3 7:00: Breakfast in the Ballroom. 8 - 8:30: Introductions and expectations of the conference format will be explained. 8:30 - 9:20: Plenary session: Farming the Urban Fringe (speaker to be announced). Introduction to systems thinking in simple and understandable terms: * Patterns, relationships, interconnections; * Building the rationale for systems; * Value of systems' diverse context and bringing diverse interests together. 9:30 -1:30 pm: Four themes of Farming the Urban Fringe - Two 5-minute presentations will be made for each topic followed a 30 minute discussion. 9:30 - 10:15: Economics and Farm Profitability (2 presentations / discussion) 10:15 - 11:00: Land Use Planning and Preservation (2 presentations / discussion) 11:00 - 12:00: Brunch 12:00 - 12:45: Community Relations, Communication, and Learning (2 presentations / discussion) 12:45 - 1:30: Resource Stewardship (2 presentations / discussion) 1:30 - 2:40: Self-selected Break-out Groups Participants will remain in one meeting room but will form break-out groups to further discuss one of the four major topics or other topic(s) identified by the group. The charge will be to: * Look for common trends and issues; * Fit commonalties to what will be seen on the field tour. 2:40 - 3:30: Break-out groups will provide 5-minute synopses of findings / discussion to the whole focus group, followed by general dialogue 3:30 - 4:00: Break 4:00 - 4:30: Focus Group Presentation. Focus groups present 5 minute summaries to the whole conference. 4:30 - 5:00: Remarks & Reflections. Whole conference session (speaker to be announced). 6:30 - 7:30: Dinner 7:30 - 9:30: Spontaneous Learning Groups ********************************* Tuesday Nov 4 Field Tour: A box lunch will be provided for tour participants The tour is designed to complement the four major topics of Farming the Urban Fringe and to enable participants to assess: * What are people researching? * How are they doing the research? * What relationships/connections are they making? * Who will use the results; how will the results improve the situation? These questions will be considered in the context of the following tour schedule: * Ornamental nursery stock production - the leading agricultural industry in Oregon is based near Portland; * High-value horticultural food crops in southwest Washington - ginseng and red raspberries; * Animal waste management - tour an award winning dairy on the Portland urban fringe that excels at working with nearby neighbors; * State-wide land use planning that preserves farm land - Oregon leads the nation in agricultural land preservation efforts. Wednesday Nov 5 7:00 - 8:30: Working Breakfast Break-out groups will meet over breakfast and prepare a list, poster, diagram, story, or some other summary of their discoveries about researching/integrating agriculture in the urban fringe environment. Flip chart paper, pens and other supplies will be available along with breakfast. 8:30 - 10:00: "Going To The Fair" For the first 40 minutes, half of each break-out group will be "exhibiting/presenting" the groups' discoveries/summaries to the entire conference group while the other half will be touring the "exhibits" prepared by all the focus groups. After 40 minutes, the "presenters" switch roles so that everyone has an opportunity to view and learn from the exhibits. 10:00 - 10:30: Break 10:30 - 12:00: Whole Systems Research Focus group will reconvene and break-out groups will re-form to discuss: 1) What is whole systems research? 2) What is working, what ought to be improved? 3) How/what can citizens or multiple agencies contribute? 4) How/when can causal research be integrated? 5) What might be changed in how we currently do research and inquiry? 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch 1:00 - 2:00: Break-out groups will provide 5-minute synopses of findings / discussion to the whole focus group, followed by general dialogue. 2:00 - 2:30: Break 2:30 - 3:30: Discoveries, Critical Analysis, & Reflections - Wrap-Up. Each focus group will make a 10-minute presentation of their cumulative discoveries to the whole conference. 3:30 - 5:00: Town Hall A Town Hall meeting featuring citizens and agency heads along with conferees will discuss the conference themes which were identified in the previous session. 6:00: Gala Dinner, Theater and Farewells To Submit Presentations for This Session/ For More Information/Farmer Scholarships: Carol Miles, PhD Area Faculty, Agricultural Systems Chehalis, WA (URL: http://smallfarms.wsu.edu/UrbFarm.htm) Douglas M. Stienbarger Area Faculty, Agriculture and Natural Resources WSU Cooperative Extension 700 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3700 Seattle, WA 98104-5037 tel: 206-205-6390 Fax: 206-296-0952 e-mail: douglas.stienbarger@metrokc.gov For General Conference Information/ Registration Packet: Stefan Seiter (e-mail: seiters@bcc.orst.edu) Ray D. William (e-mail: williamr@bcc.orst.edu) Oregon State University Horticulture Department, 4017 ALS Corvallis, OR 97330 Tel: 541-737-5441 Douglas M. Stienbarger Area Faculty, Agriculture & Natural Resources, King & Pierce Counties Washington State University Cooperative Extension 700th Fifth Ave., Suite 3700 Seattle, WA 98104-5037 Direct Line & Voice Mail: 206-205-6390 mailto:douglas.stienbarger@metrokc.gov fax: 206-296-0952 Office telephone: 206-296-3900 From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sat Sep 27 13:57:58 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA07026 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA29479 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:53:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:53:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Tt: DuPont goes biodegradable (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:51:38 -0400 (EDT) From: RT Ellsberry Reply-To: Community_Forestry To: Community Forestry Subject: Tt: DuPont goes biodegradable ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In a fancy pro-environment advertisement in September's 'Scientific American,' the chemical giant claims that its next generation of affordable plastics will rapidly compost into viable topsoil. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ... DuPont scientists have created a new family of highly versatile polymers based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) technology and known commercially as DuPont Biomax(R) hydro/ biodegradable polyester. Depending on the application, up to three proprietary aliphatic monomers are incorporated into the polymer. The monomers create weak spots in the polymeric chains, thereby making them susceptible to degradation through hydrolysis. The large polymer molecules are cleaved by moisture into smaller molecules, which are then consumed by naturally occurring microbes and converted to carbon dioxide and water. A polyester that microbes find tasty. ------------------------------------ Biomax(R) can be recycled, incinerated or landfilled, but is intended mainly for disposal by composting and in-soil degra- dation. Researchers performed a series of tests to determine environmental impact, including plant germination and seedling emergence, earthworm weight gain and mortality, and microbial population density. In all tests, the materials were found to be harmless to the environment at every stage in the decom- position process. They are virtually undetectable to the un- aided eye in about eight weeks. Because Biomax(R) is a modified PET polymer, it can be manu- factured with existing equipment using existing bulk monomers. This means that it is only marginally more expensive to produce than PET itself. Currently available degradable materials, on the other hand, can cost twice as much ... Further info available by fax from DuPont, Dept. SA, at 302-695-7615. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Owner-Treetown@listbox.com Sat Sep 27 12:54:44 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA06737 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:54:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from listbox.com (majordomo.pobox.com [208.210.124.23]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA18819 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:50:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20161 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 1997 16:50:04 -0000 Delivered-To: treetown-outgoing@listbox.com Received: (qmail 20150 invoked by uid 516); 27 Sep 1997 16:50:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:51:38 -0400 (EDT) From: RT Ellsberry X-Sender: rtells@navigator.smart.net To: Community Forestry Subject: Tt: DuPont goes biodegradable Message-ID: X-URL: (www.flora.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Owner-Treetown@listbox.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Community_Forestry Organization: Treetown(C)1997 X-UnSub: [Majordomo@Majordomo.Flora.Com] unsubscribe treetown X-Digest: [Majordomo@Majordomo.Flora.Com] subscribe treetown-digest X-URL: (www.Flora.Com/tree/town/) Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 51 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In a fancy pro-environment advertisement in September's 'Scientific American,' the chemical giant claims that its next generation of affordable plastics will rapidly compost into viable topsoil. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ... DuPont scientists have created a new family of highly versatile polymers based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) technology and known commercially as DuPont Biomax(R) hydro/ biodegradable polyester. Depending on the application, up to three proprietary aliphatic monomers are incorporated into the polymer. The monomers create weak spots in the polymeric chains, thereby making them susceptible to degradation through hydrolysis. The large polymer molecules are cleaved by moisture into smaller molecules, which are then consumed by naturally occurring microbes and converted to carbon dioxide and water. A polyester that microbes find tasty. ------------------------------------ Biomax(R) can be recycled, incinerated or landfilled, but is intended mainly for disposal by composting and in-soil degra- dation. Researchers performed a series of tests to determine environmental impact, including plant germination and seedling emergence, earthworm weight gain and mortality, and microbial population density. In all tests, the materials were found to be harmless to the environment at every stage in the decom- position process. They are virtually undetectable to the un- aided eye in about eight weeks. Because Biomax(R) is a modified PET polymer, it can be manu- factured with existing equipment using existing bulk monomers. This means that it is only marginally more expensive to produce than PET itself. Currently available degradable materials, on the other hand, can cost twice as much ... Further info available by fax from DuPont, Dept. SA, at 302-695-7615. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From llondon@bellsouth.net Sat Sep 27 14:42:26 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (helios.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.3]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA07308 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA12881 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:37:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d00050.rdu.bellsouth.net (d00050.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.51]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA11628 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.rdu.bellsouth.net: d00050.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.51] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <342D4601.29A5@bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:44:33 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Dragonfly Market Gardens -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: test post Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 52 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. 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London, Jr." Organization: Dragonfly Market Gardens -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Farming in Los Angeles Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D7E5A7CC6D" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 57 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D7E5A7CC6D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.marketreport.com/lafarm.htm -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - Dragonfly Market Gardens mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------D7E5A7CC6D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="lafarm.htm" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="lafarm.htm" Content-Base: "http://www.marketreport.com/lafarm.htm" Farming in Los Angeles
  IN SEASON
A report on locally grown produce

Agriculture in a Megalopolis

Farming in the Heart of L.A.
Presents Opportunities
Along With Challenges

By Frances Anderton
and
Mark Thompson
Bruno Luconi farms under powerlines


Top Veg Farm
Is a Vestige
of the City's
Bucolic Past


































Utility Company
Rents Out
4,000 Acres to
400 Farmers Under Power Lines
























Short Commutes to
Farmers Markets
Compensate for
Urban Woes
































High Costs Force
Urban Farmers

to Maximize
Return Per Acre




























Rows of carrots on
the MOA farm


Just past a steel fabrication plant and not far from the immense ARCO refinery in Wilmington lies a large stretch of land neatly divided into rows of vegetables, herbs, greens and root crops. It is called Top Veg Farm. A chorus of barks announces the arrival of a visitor. Dusty, disheveled cats cast mildly curious glances, and laborers look up from their work in the fields. Large trucks line the bumpy track alongside the fields. At the helm of one of them sits Top Veg patriarch Frank Takahashi. His daughter Katchi and her daughter Naomi, still lively after a working day that started at 4:00 a.m., emerge from a row of chicken-wire sheds to say hello.

To an outsider, Top Veg Farm is an enchanting rural oasis in an urbanized sprawl of metal, chemicals and glass-and-steel office buildings. But to the Takahashis it is simply the farm that three generations of family members have tended for 35 years. Top Veg Farm has dwindled from 200 to 35 acres in that period of time, as the once open fields of Carson have been transformed into an industrial adjunct of Long Beach. But the Takahashis fully intend to keep on working the fertile parcel that is left.

Top Veg Farm is a vestige of a time at the turn of the century when the coastal plain south and west of Los Angeles was a breadbasket, producing exportable quantities of produce ranging from milk to cherimoyas. As recently as the 1960s, there were 100 urban farms covering 3,500 acres in the coastal stretch running from Santa Monica to Long Beach, according to a UCLA study of Southern California's food distribution system, "Seeds of Change," published in 1993. By the time of the study, 98 percent of that urban farmland had disappeared. Just 60 acres were left in crops.

Top Veg Farm is perhaps the only commercial "family farm" left in the heart of the city. But a surprising array of other commercial agriculture enterprises are thriving in the midst of the city -- from backyard gardens that produce a small stream of crops for sale at farmers markets, to burgeoning sprout growing operations, to diversified farms under power lines.

L.A.'s urban farmers are part of a global phenomenon, judging from a report recently published by the United Nations Development Program. Though they are "overlooked, underestimated and underreported," there are perhaps 800 million urban farmers worldwide who produce about 15 percent of the world's food supply, the report concluded.

In the Los Angeles area, Southern California Edison is probably the largest owner of what passes for farmland in the city: the thousands of acres of grassy rights-of-way under high-voltage power lines. The utility company rents out 2,000 acres to 300 growers of nursery stock and another 2,000 acres to 100 farmers for all-purpose farming, an Edison spokesman said. Edison's tenant farmers include Jim Weiss, who owns The Orchid Garden in greenhouses in Torrance, and Bruno Luconi, who with a group of other people runs the MOA Farm on six acres in Long Beach.

The Takahashis, Weiss and Luconi all sell their crops at farmers markets, highlighting the role that the open-air markets play in keeping urban farmers on the land. There are now nearly 100 growers in the county who are certified to sell at farmers markets, said David Kruger, an inspector in the Los Angeles County agricultural commissioner's office.

The markets play to one of the most obvious advantages of farming amidst millions of people: proximity to customers. Urban farmers face commutes to markets measured in minutes, not hours. Weiss goes himself to seven in six days, dashing from Venice back to Torrance in the course of a Friday. The MOA Farm is just 15 or 20 minutes away from farmers markets that Luconi attends in Long Beach, Torrance and Westchester. The farm also supplies several dozen members of a community supported agriculture network with a box of food each week.

Top Veg Farm has evolved over the years to exploit the advantages of farmers markets. The Takahashis used to sell all their produce through conventional channels. They now sell almost everything they grow at farmers markets. Different members of the family travel to 18 markets throughout the Los Angeles area every week and they have one of the most varied and heavily laden display tables in every market they attend. Their vegetables are at most only a day out of the ground. As Katchi Takahashi observed, while out-of-town farmers often have to send employees to represent them, her family can control what is sold at the Top Veg table, making sure customers get the best vegetables. The family members are also able to establish relationships with market regulars.

To be sure, being close neighbors with millions of city folk brings plenty of headaches along with marketing opportunities. The Takahashis got a taste of the downside of urban farming when they once owned land near their present farm that was gradually surrounded by residential growth. The new inhabitants insisted the farmers install a fence to conceal what was perceived as the unsightly workings of the farm, and that they foot a bill for the cost of cleaning the streets after their muddy trucks had passed through. Occupants of new condos near their present farm complain insistently about the noise of farm machinery.

Michael Ableman of 12-acre Fairview Gardens in Goleta, several miles north of Santa Barbara, and author of "From the Good Earth," a photographic documentary of sustainable agriculture around the world, has written eloquently of his struggle to defend his farm from systematic harassment by local officials and new neighbors. Despite the fact that Fairview far preceded the residential development that subsequently enveloped it, the locals once kicked up a fuss about his crowing roosters, even suggesting that the bird's voice-boxes be removed.

Stealing and vandalism are other problems that are ever-present for urban farmers. It got to the point where the Takahashis had to bring in guard dogs a couple of years ago. Weiss, whose orchid greenhouses are located near a high school, suffers from the same problem. But he can't use dogs. Southern California Edison doesn't want its employees attacked when they work on the lines, so dogs aren't allowed.

This lack of security is compounded by the unavailability of insurance for Weiss. The cost of insurance is so prohibitive that he and other small city farmers in the same position must shoulder losses themselves.

There are still more extraordinary costs associated with urban farming. Farming equipment is hard to obtain and move around. There are no suppliers of fertilizer, seeds and other necessities nearby. And land and water are very expensive.

The Department of Water and Power has a special agricultural rate for farmers who have five acres or more, said a spokesman for the department. The rate of 62 cents were 100 cubic feet is much cheaper than the $1.70 that residential users pay. But it's steep by rural standards. The DWP's special rate for agricultural uses comes to $270 per acre foot, more than 10 times higher than what many Central Valley farmers pay.

Weiss said his water bill has doubled since he started five years ago. He said his supplier has dropped its special agricultural rate for water to discourage farming in the city. The Takahashis, who use Dominguez Hills water, recycle theirs in an effort to economize.

Luconi, who conserves by using a drip system, said there is one compensation for using costly city water: unlike the Central Valley's untreated irrigation, it is clean.

The unusually high costs of urban farming forces farmers to seek the highest possible dollar return on their crops. And yet, due to the proximity of neighbors, they can't spray pesticides at will, further narrowing their options. Beth van Gunten, who organizes meetings in Ventura County for the Community Alliance With Family Farmers on reducing chemical inputs, said urban and suburban farmers respond to these circumstances in one of two ways. Some, like the MOA Farm, turn to organic farming, which is labor-intensive but also enjoys a higher financial return. Other farmers choose a lucrative crop that is even more costly to grow, strawberries, which due to its susceptibility to micro-organisms is one of the most chemically-intensive crops. Lacking extra land to use in a crop rotation, urban strawberry growers must fumigate the soil with methyl bromide, one of the most toxic and controversial pesticides and herbicides presently in use.

Air pollution is another matter. The Takahashis and Luconi, who farm near the coast, say it has not harmed their crops. Katchi Takahashi said Top Veg's vegetables got a clean bill of health when they were surreptitiously tested by a biochemist who was searching for produce that could be consumed by a patient with severe allergies. Contrary to expectations, Takahashi said the researcher, who later reported his findings to the family, found Top Veg's produce to be the purest, beating out supermarket-bought organic vegetables.

Organic farmer Luconi of nearby MOA Farm also had his vegetables tested. The lab found a very low content of lead. Luconi believes that it is not the location -- whether rural, suburban or urban -- that matters. "If you do real farming," he said, "nature protects."

The MOA Farm is named after Mokichi Okada, a Japanese philosopher who advocates "nature farming," which involves long-term enhancement of the soil. The technique has paid off in soil that is vastly improved from four years ago, when the MOA association first started to farm the Edison right of way, said Luconi. The trouble is, Luconi and his farming partners have no guarantees about how much longer they'll be able to farm their piece of land. The MOA farmers, and all other Edison farmer-tenants, operate with licenses from Edison, not leases, and they are subject to eviction at any time. The MOA Farm narrowly avoided eviction last year when Long Beach shelved plans to turn the farm into the parking lot for a container company.

Kevin Kelly, a spokesman for Edison, denied that the company would ever summarily evict a farmer. But his words aren't terribly reassuring to farmers striving for perpetual viability of farmland. "The implication that we can get rid of them at any time may be legally correct. But it has certainly never happened," said Kelly. "We work with our farmers very, very well."

The MOA farmers saw the writing in the pavement of the proposed parking lot last year. "There is no long life for farming under power lines," Luconi said. His group is looking seriously at land elsewhere, in particular a parcel in San Juan Capistrano. It, too, is in close proximity to urban development, surrounded by a park and baseball diamonds. But the land is in an agriculture preserve that the city is committed to keeping in farming.

Patrick Madden, president of the World Sustainable Agriculture Association, who works with the MOA Association and many other groups to promote sustainable agriculture, is helping negotiate an arrangement for use of the Orange County parcel. If that doesn't work out, there are other possibilities.

"It's not a lack of land," said Madden, who believes urban farming has a bright future. "It just takes people with the will to make it happen," he said.


Copyright 1997 In Season

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I've looked in all the obvious places but bombed out. Anybody seen it? From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Oct 16 11:58:27 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA25747 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA10382 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:53:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:53:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Fwd: Seed Source (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 62 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - InterGarden - Venaura Farm mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:07:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Elfpermacl@aol.com To: owner-permaculture@envirolink.org, permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, permaculture@listserv.unc.edu, permaculture@envirolink.org Subject: Fwd: Seed Source In a message dated 10/16/97 3:28:40 AM, echo-network-forum@xc.org wrote: >Originally from: "ECHO, Inc." >Originally dated: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:51:51 +0000 > >NEW FORESTS PROJECT WORLD SEED PROGRAM 1997. >The New Forests Project >provides packets of tree seeds, technical information and training >materials free of charge to groups worldwide who are interest in >starting reforestation projects with fast-growing, nitrogen- fixing >trees. Available for immediate distribution are high quality seeds of >Leuceana leucocephala (ipil-ipil), Prosopis juliflora ( squite), >Gliricidia sepium (madre de cacao), Cajanus cajan (pigeon pea), Acacia >nilotica (Egyptian thorn), Cassia siamea (yellow cassia), Acacia >auriculiformis, Acacia mearnsii (black wattle), Ac tortillis (umbrella >thorn), Albizia lebbeck (East Indian walnut), Dalbergia sissoo >(yette), Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) and Gleditsia triacanthos >(honey locust) > >For more information or to receive a reforestation packet, write to: >Felicia Ruiz, Coordinator, World Seed Program, The New Forests >Project, 731 Eighth Street, SE, Washington DC 20003, USA; Phone ( 2) >547-3800, Fax (202) 546-4784. Please provide an environmental >description of your area, including elevation, average annual >rainfall, length of rainy and dry seasons, high and low temperatures, >il characteristics and how you intend to use the trees (fuelwood, >lumber, forage, soil conservation, soil enhancement, etc.). --------------------- Forwarded message: From: echo-network-forum@xc.org ("ECHO, Inc.) Sender: owner-echo-network-forum@xc.org Reply-to: echo-network-forum@xc.org To: echo-network-forum@xc.org Date: 97-10-16 03:28:40 EDT Originally from: "ECHO, Inc." Originally dated: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:51:51 +0000 NEW FORESTS PROJECT WORLD SEED PROGRAM 1997. The New Forests Project provides packets of tree seeds, technical information and training materials free of charge to groups worldwide who are interest in starting reforestation projects with fast-growing, nitrogen- fixing trees. Available for immediate distribution are high quality seeds of Leuceana leucocephala (ipil-ipil), Prosopis juliflora ( squite), Gliricidia sepium (madre de cacao), Cajanus cajan (pigeon pea), Acacia nilotica (Egyptian thorn), Cassia siamea (yellow cassia), Acacia auriculiformis, Acacia mearnsii (black wattle), Ac tortillis (umbrella thorn), Albizia lebbeck (East Indian walnut), Dalbergia sissoo (yette), Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) and Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust) For more information or to receive a reforestation packet, write to: Felicia Ruiz, Coordinator, World Seed Program, The New Forests Project, 731 Eighth Street, SE, Washington DC 20003, USA; Phone ( 2) 547-3800, Fax (202) 546-4784. Please provide an environmental description of your area, including elevation, average annual rainfall, length of rainy and dry seasons, high and low temperatures, il characteristics and how you intend to use the trees (fuelwood, lumber, forage, soil conservation, soil enhancement, etc.). *********************** ECHO 17430 Durrance Rd. N. Ft. Myers, FL 33917 U.S.A. phone: 941 543 3246 fax: 941 543 5317 ECHO@xc.org http://www.xc.org/echo ********************** From llondon@bellsouth.net Thu Oct 16 16:47:23 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA00067 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:47:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA26826 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d00273.rdu.bellsouth.net (d00273.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.9.18]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA15736 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:43:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.rdu.bellsouth.net: d00273.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.9.18] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <34466FC1.77F6@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:49:21 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Dragonfly Market Gardens -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Life in the Soil video update/Nature Farming Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------156535916FB3" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 63 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------156535916FB3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture-UNC/msg00081.html -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - Dragonfly Market Gardens mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------156535916FB3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="msg00081.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg00081.html" Content-Base: "http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permacul ture/mailarchives/permaculture-UNC/ msg00081.html" Life in the Soil video update/Nature Farming
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Date:          Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:37:45 +0000
Reply-to:      AGRISYNERGY <AGRISYNERGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
From:          Steve Diver <steved@NCATARK.UARK.EDU>
Subject:       Life in the Soil video update/Nature Farming
To:            AGRISYNERGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU

> >Steve;
> >
> >Glad you signed on.  I think you once had information on purchasing
> >the video "Life In The Soil"  for a really good price.  Could it
> >have been as low as $10? Anyway, could you check your files and
> >repost? -- Rex Harrill

The reference above refers to a post containing not-exactly-correct information
I put on sanet over a year ago. The following threads on sanet provided the
pertinent information, but since it has re-appeared here on Agrisynergy and
has fueled further confusion, I offer the following information.

World Sustainable Agriculture Association
8554 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood, CA  90069
Tel:    310-657-7202
Fax:    310-657-3884
Email:  Wsaala@igc.apc.org
Web:    http://www.igc.org/wsaala/wsaa.html
    Sells a $50 video titled "Life in the Soil"

Nature Farm Research and Development Foundation
6495 Santa Rosa Rd.
Lompoc, California  93436
Tel:    805-737-1536
Fax:    805-736-9599
  Sells a video titled something like "The Living Soil" for about $20

And there you have it....plain and simple.

I am simply reporting on a well established fact.  There
are two organizations in California that promote Nature
Farming and each group has a video with similar sounding
titles.

The ATTRA Resource Center has a video titled "Life in the
Soil", and it is excellent.  I highly recommend it to EVERY
farmer and agriculture professional.  It fully supports the
emerging consciousness that soil "life" is far more critical and
holistic than our old way of thinking ever imagined.  Using
root rhizotron microphotography, it provides a glimpse into the
very active underground world of soil life.

To make this story even more interesting, there is a third video
which is produced by the Luebke family of Austria that is (also) titled
"The Living Soil."  It uses advanced light microscopy to view
underground images of plant roots and microbial activity, but focuses
mainly on the humus crumb.  The video compares soils managed via
conventional farming practices that produce a flat 2-D humus crumb in
contrast to soils managed organically with CMC Compost, green manures,
and rotations to arrive at a 3-D humus crumb.  The 3-D humus crumb is
the image that blew my mind, because it looks like a cross between a brain
with all its undulating patterns and a cave with all its stalagtites and
stalagmites.  This image was so powerful and magnificent that I aquired
one slide for use in my workshops.

To compare the combined learning experience of viewing the beautiful humus
crumb and life in the soil, I am reminded of a passage Annie Dillard
writes in her book "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"...."I had been my whole life
a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."

I mention the Luebke video in the same post as the Nature Farm video
because for me, they speak volumes and volumes about the science and
art of organic agriculture.  A third image I would add to this
photographic/cognitive learning experience, is the images and understanding
of the soil foodweb developed by Dr. Elaine Ingham.

OK, back to the story....

Very briefly for an historical insight, Nature Farming is a method
first advocated in 1935 by Mokichi Okada (1882-1955), a spiritual
philosopher and holistic health advocate in Japan, as an alternative
to chemical farming practices.

Jump to the present, due to internal strife in the decades-old
core organization in Japan, there are now TWO Nature Farming
organizations:

* MOA Nature Farming, which is associated with WSAA
  in its efforts to promote sustainable agriculture around the world

* Kyusei Nature Farming, which is associated with NaturFarm and
  NFRDF in Lompoc, California

Dr. Patrick Madden, former Penn State ag economist and prominent
spokesman for sustainable agriculture, is associated with WSAA
and therefore more closely aligned with MOA Nature Farming.

Dr. James Parr and Dr. Sharon Hornick, retired USDA soil
scientists and prominent researchers in organic/sustainable soil
management, are associated with Nature Farm Research and Development
Foundation researh efforts and are therefore more closely aligned with
Kyusei Nature Farming.

Having said all this, I should add that I am confident both organizations
are accomplishing honorable goals and helping organic agriculture in their
own way.  Diversity is a universal principle of sustainable agriculture.

More....

NFRDF is the group associated with sponsoring four international
conferences on Kyusei Nature Farming.  The proceedings of the
international conferences are the most informative publications on
Kyusei Nature Farming that exist.  Like the IFOAM proceedings,
they should be in every land-grant university library.

Kyusei Nature Farming is the group working with Effective
Microorganisms, or EM, developed by the Japanese research
horticulturist Dr. Teruo Higa, University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa,
Japan.

Kyusei Nature Farming, in addition,  is the group more closely aligned
with the spiritual organization called Johrei Fellowship which
promotes the energetic healing system known as Johrei.

It is in this latter regard that Kyusei Nature Farming and Biodynamic
Farming have something in common.  They are both based on sound
agronomic husbandry practices akin to traditional organic farming, but in
addition to all of the regular organic farming practices such as crop
rotation, strip cropping, green manures, composts, rock minerals,
etc., NF and BDF rely on inoculants to enhance microbial activity or
infuse homeopathic energies.  Lastly, Nature Farming and Biodynamic
Farming are grounded in an underlying spiritual philosophy.

==============================================
Some helpful URL's on Nature Farming:

MOA International
http://www.moa.or.jp/

Nature Farming International Research and Development Center
http://www.saitama-j.or.jp/~nexus/nature/jino.html

Johrei Fellowship
http://www.johrei.com/

Johrei Centers
http://www.lovelight.com/johrei.html
============================================

Steve Diver
ATTRA


--
steved@ncatark.uark.edu


--------------156535916FB3-- From txtwosom@shelley.dbstech.com Sun Oct 26 22:40:06 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA01010 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:40:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from shelley.dbstech.com (root@[208.2.95.3] (may be forged)) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA27419 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:34:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from default ([208.2.95.133]) by shelley.dbstech.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10239 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:41:35 -0600 Message-Id: <199710270441.WAA10239@shelley.dbstech.com> Reply-To: From: "Margie & John Evjen" To: Subject: Avocadoes Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 21:32:25 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 64 Dear Permaculture, I have rooted an avocado in water. The sprouts face down in the water. How do I plant the sprouts. Do they need to be up or down in soil? Thank you, Margie Lacy Evjen From elses@bjorgvin.vgs.no Tue Oct 28 03:01:44 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA16157 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 03:01:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from gudmund.hordaland.vgs.no (gudmund.vgs.no [193.212.239.72]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id CAA06922 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:56:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from pc19 (gw2.hordaland-f.kommune.no [193.212.239.97]) by gudmund.hordaland.vgs.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA07068 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:57:44 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <34561A22.4DCC@bjorgvin.vgs.no> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:00:18 -0800 From: Else Svendsen Organization: Bjørgvin v.g.skole X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Information X-URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/msg00593.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 65 I would like to get some information about the Amish people, like their history, and some facts about the organisation today. From kurt@enterprise.net Tue Oct 28 15:18:51 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (helios.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.3]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA23458 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:18:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.enterprise.net (root@mail.enterprise.net [194.72.192.20]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA05041 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:13:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from kurt (max01-040.enterprise.net [194.72.197.40]) by mail.enterprise.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA26397 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:13:23 GMT Message-ID: <34564580.14D3@enterprise.net> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:05:20 +0000 From: Kurt Lawlor Reply-To: kurt@enterprise.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Magazine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 66 Hello http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/msg00041.html I followed the above link and found the information to be out of date. Is it possible to update the link to the Permaculture web site to http://www.permaculture.co.uk Thanks! But does the msg00041.html page being a mail archive makes upgating a problem?? Regards Kurt Lawlor (For Permaculture Magazine) From B.M.Kikuvi@reading.ac.uk Fri Oct 31 10:34:30 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.cearch.org [152.2.254.84]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA04501 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:34:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from sumh1.reading.ac.uk (sumh1.rdg.ac.uk [134.225.16.4]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA06096 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:29:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from suma3.rdg.ac.uk (actually host suma3-e4) by sumh1.rdg.ac.uk with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:29:07 +0000 Received: from localhost by suma3.rdg.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA07285; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:29:05 GMT Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:29:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Boniface Mutuku Kikuvi To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu cc: B.M.KIKUVI@reading.ac.uk Subject: ADDRESS FOR COLLEAQUE-KENNETH AYUKO Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 67 Dear sir/madam The above named person is colleaque from kenya and i would like to pass some infomation to him ,but i don't kwow his E-MAIL.He is doing a msc in SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE and he started in october.PLEASE assist .I can be contacted using the above e-mail. Thanks in advance KIKUVI. From llondon@bellsouth.net Mon Nov 3 09:05:10 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA21169 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:05:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA14242 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:59:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from d00151.rdu.bellsouth.net (d00151.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.152]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24125 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:59:51 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.rdu.bellsouth.net: d00151.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.152] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <345DDA89.2AC0@bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 09:07:05 -0500 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Dragonfly Market Gardens -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: New Book Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------208822611A98" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 68 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------208822611A98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.ext.vt.edu/vvac/news/newbook.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence F. London, Jr. - Venaura Farm - Dragonfly Market Gardens mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - mailto:llondon@bellsouth.net - Support your local organic market farmer, buy products bearing the SUSTAINABLY GROWN (ecological & biointensive) label - http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture.html http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden/orgfarm ------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------208822611A98 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="newbook.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="newbook.html" Content-Base: "http://www.ext.vt.edu/vvac/news/newboo k.html" New Book
For Immediate Release . . .

Farmers' Market Experiences Lead to New Book for New Virginia Farmer

Staunton - When Augusta County's Jeff W. Ishee joined as a participant in the local farmers' market a few years ago, he not only got involved, but grew passionate about direct marketing local farm products. "I'm a listener by nature, and my customers at the market were avid conversationalists. They repeatedly told me how important it was that small farmers come to town on Saturday mornings to provide fresh food products straight from the farm" said Ishee. "They were thrilled about not only buying our farm products, but they really wanted to vocalize their concerns. Routinely, customers would ask questions about this year's crop of so and so. They also wanted to know how everything on the farmstead was going. It was readily apparent to me that many wanted to keep the vital farmer-consumer link intact."
     Ishee found the subject of farmers' marketing so fascinating that he started taking notes and keeping journals. He recorded customers' buying habits, the most profitable and consistent items that were selling, and how other vendors effectively displayed their farm products. He was asked to become a member of the Staunton/Augusta Farmers' Market executive committee, serving in the role of  farmers' representative. Having helped launch the flourishing Middlebrook publication Augusta Country as marketing director and columnist, Ishee was well armed to delve into researching farmers' markets across the country.
     He learned that during the previous two years (1994-1996), there had been a 40 percent increase in the number of public farmers' markets across the nation. Apparently, there was enough keen interest in the topic to warrant some sort of written publication for the typical 30-odd vendors at the 2,200 markets in the United States. "The original idea" said Ishee "was to put together a small booklet, report, or collection of marketing ideas that I could share with other farmers' market vendors." In autumn of 1996, Ishee decided to proceed with the idea and made it his self-described "winter project."
     The first-time author made hundreds of phone calls, interviewed dozens of prosperous small farmers, and visited several farmers' markets in other states. He logged every interesting story that  he heard, photographed the best display methods that he came across, and listened closely to what successful market organizers were doing. "By the time I had finished the research phase, I knew that there was more material than would fit into a 20 or 30-page booklet of ideas. This winter project of mine was slowly becoming, unintentionally I might add, a publication that would be of interest not only to the farmers, but to market managers, market organizers, and city planners. During a couple of off-season seminars, word got out about what  I was writing and people started asking the price of  the  'book' and how they could get a copy. Well, I gave  the  'book' a title and then created  a little homespun brochure with price and ordering directions. Within a few weeks, I had prepaid orders from 25 different states! This was before the first page was ever printed."
     Ishee articulated "As far as I know, this is the only  book currently available that is dedicated to the sole topic of selling your farm products via the local farmers' market. Others may have a chapter or two about the topic, but I have dedicated the entire book to both the vendor's success and the efficient organization of a public farmers' market.  I've also included an appendix of actual testimonials from the  'frontlines' of the marketplace, an appendix of sample market rules, and yet another appendix of assorted stories and news releases concerning the Staunton/Augusta Farmers' Market.
     "Magazine editors, book distributors, and retailers have inquired about the book, and now I'm getting orders for multiple copies from municipal governments, agricultural institutes, and grassroots farm organizations" Ishee continued. "National Public Radio even taped an interview concerning a story they were doing on the economic viability of small farms as we enter the 21st century. More than anything, I hope this effort can facilitate the survival of a few more small family farms by their becoming more profitable via the local farmers' market. That is really important to me."
     Jeff Ishee lives near Middlebrook, Virginia with his wife Sheila and three children. He is the host of a daily, farm-oriented radio program on WSVA in Harrisonburg. Ishee has spoken on numerous occasions to farmers' market organizations, and has produced a slide presentation of the best farmers' marketing ideas in use today. He has written numerous articles for weekly and monthly publications across the United States.
     The title of Ishee's book is "Dynamic Farmers' Marketing: A Guide to Selling Your Farmers' Market Products." It  sells for $14.95 and is illustrated with b/w photographs and charts. The book is 148 pages cover-to-cover and is softbound.

Contact:  Bittersweet Farmstead
Phone:  (540) 886-8477
FAX:   same, by appointment
e-mail:   ish-bittersweet@juno.com
 

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UN: mm9712.12303 PW: 47309 From hanzibra@svn.com.br Sun Dec 21 06:44:08 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.cearch.org [152.2.254.84]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id GAA01384 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 06:44:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from svn.com.br (sv1.svn.com.br [200.254.15.33]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id GAA26332 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 06:43:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from Default (sp12.svn.com.br [200.254.15.12]) by svn.com.br (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA26269 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 09:48:53 -0200 Message-ID: <349EA51F.47A6@svn.com.br> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:36:31 -0800 From: Marsha Hanzi Reply-To: hanzibra@svn.com.br X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re: Help with understanding mesquites References: <349E036C.4758@svn.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 80 Marsha Hanzi wrote: > > Hello over there! > > I would like to correspond with someone in Mexico-New Mexico who can > tell me more about mesquite in its native habitat. It has been widely > introduced here in Brazil, and is quickly taking over waterways. > > I would like to know about its native ecosystem, if it has known > alelopathic factors, what you have observed to grow well with it ( here > nothing does!) , how it is used in Permaculture systems, how it is > planted ( here the goats do it all over the place....), and has it been > a problem for invasive properties? Although it undoubtedly is useful for > producing its pods at the end of our dry season here ( in one drylands > town where I went to give a PC course , several people made a living > selling mesquite pods from the public squares to goat-owners!) its > tendency to take over more privileged situations is worrying us here > in the Bahian Permaculture Institute.... Thank you for your help. > > Marsha Hanzi From apihin@igc.apc.org Sat Dec 27 18:59:40 1997 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu ([152.2.254.87] (may be forged)) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA07429 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 18:59:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from igcb.igc.org (igcb.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.46]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA15061 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 18:58:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igcb.igc.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA24621 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 15:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp6-2.igc.org (apihin@ppp6-2.igc.org) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA08730 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 15:57:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34A598B3.462C@igc.apc.org> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 16:09:23 -0800 From: apihin X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Raising natural hemp X-URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/InterGarden/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture-info/msg00075.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: apihin@igc.org Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 81 I would like to receive some information on how to raise hemp naturally and get information on to wether it is legal to raise in certain countries, for example the Phillippines. As well as some information concerning proper procedures to take for exporting hemp legally. From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Dec 28 23:53:20 1997 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA06798 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 23:53:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA03603 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 23:52:29 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 23:52:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Thoughts on pollination (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 82 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Support your local organic market farmer, buy products with Sustainably Grown, Natural, Ecological or Biointensive labelling http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/vfm/ VIRTUAL FARMERS' MARKET http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:59:13 EST From: Pollinator To: ecogardens@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Thoughts on pollination My work is now slowing down a bit and I'd like to do some work on the pollination portion of the FAQ. My first concern is that I would like to see it placed under Cultural Practices, where it is now placed under Gardening for Wildlife. My experience is that pollination is the least understood part of gardening, and inadequate pollination is frequently a problem, often without the gardener even knowing the reason. When placed under Gardening for Wildlife it: 1. Implies that we are seeking the benefit of the bees, when we are generally more interested in the benefits the bees can bring us. 2. Implies that we can attract bees, when they often (sadly) are not present to attract. I used to think that pollination management was only a concern of commercial growers; that there would always be sufficient wild pollination for gardeners. Today I am convinced that even gardeners in many areas already have to be proactive on pollination, and that more and more will be joining the group. Putting pollination under Cultural Practices will place us on the cutting edge. My suggestion is to place it immediately under Pruning, bumping down Problem Cultural Practices one tic, or including the info, as seems to be happening, under soils. Here is a possible outline E.09. Pollination E.09.00 Primary and Secondary Pollinators overview: uses, strengths, weakness of each. Why pollinator populations are declining. Cultured bees (honeybees, bumblebees, orchard mason, hornfaced, alfalfa leafcutters. Wild bees (about 2000 species) Butterflies & Moths Hummingbirds Bats Others E.09.10 Symptoms of inadequate pollination. Basic pollination biology. E.09.20 Crop by crop pollination techniques. Use of Pollenizers E.09.30 Hand pollination techniques. E.09.40 Beekeeping for garden pollination Honeybees: basic cultural overview, sources of more detailed info; beekeeping tools equip, and bee sources. Orchard Mason Bees, Hornfaced Bees and Leafcutter bees, culture, equipment, sources for purchase. Bumblebees, basic culture, sources of info, bees. E.09.50 Enhancing wild pollinator populations, Providing nest sites to attract wild solitary bees. Plantings to feed bees. E.09.60 Pollinator protection from Pesticide misuse, including legal tools to protect your pollinators from your neighbor's misuse. E.09.70 Butterfly gardening, raising and/or attracting butterflies and moths to enhance pollination. E.09.80 Birds and Bats, (including tropical and subtropical gardening, where these are more significant pollinators) E.09.90 Catch-all of topics not covered above. From hanzibra@svn.com.br Thu Jan 1 18:07:01 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.exploris.org [152.2.254.85]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA22316 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:07:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from svn.com.br (sv1.svn.com.br [200.254.15.33]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA29938 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:06:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from SVN (sp235.svn.com.br [200.254.60.13]) by svn.com.br (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA11530 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 21:10:46 -0200 Message-ID: <34ADC568.6E22@svn.com.br> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 20:58:16 -0800 From: Marsha Hanzi Reply-To: hanzibra@svn.com.br X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Global directory-email problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 83 I have been trying to e-mail the IPJ for some time now, and it is always returned as "unknown". Could someone please verigy the correct e-mail for this directory, please? I have tried to correct our e-mail many times... Marsha Hanzi Instituo de Permacultura da Bahia COndomínio ÁGuas Finas QE L$ Lauro de Freitas, Bahia Brazil tel/fax +55 781 378 2676 e-mail hanzibra@svn.com.br From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Jan 4 23:31:53 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA23434 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 23:31:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA29390 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 23:30:54 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 23:30:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Eco-Ag Situations Wanted 1/98 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 84 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Support your local organic market farmer, buy products with Sustainably Grown, Natural, Ecological or Biointensive labelling http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/vfm/ VIRTUAL FARMERS' MARKET http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:12:10 -0500 From: BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: Eco-Ag Situations Wanted 1/98 ****************************************************************************** ECOLOGICAL FARMING-RELATED SITUATIONS WANTED Jan 1998 - (reproduced from BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century, the Journal of the Biodynamic Assoc. of North America Issue #215). See below for instructions for posting your 'Help Wanted' or 'Position Sought' announcements in the next issue of BIODYNAMICS. ****************************************************************************** GROWER and ASSISTANT GROWER POSITIONS OPEN at The Food Project, a youth development and farming program in Lincoln, MA. Grower and Assistant will plan, implement and supervise organic crop production on 8 acres of farm land in Lincoln and 2 acres of production food lots in inner-city Boston. Past experience in organic farming, education, and/or service work important. Grower Position is full time year round. Assistant Grower position is seasonal, with full time employment April - November. Send cover letter, resume, references to Greg Gale, CO-Director, The Food Project, P.O. Box 705, Lincoln, MA 01773. Foodproj@aol.com *** APPRENTICE POSITIONS at Beneficial Farms CSA, Santa Fe, NM Feb-Nov 1998. We are looking for enthusiastic women or men interested in learning more about biodynamic gardening, the CSA process, and the laying hen business in our unique setting. Do you enjoy physical work? Are you organized, creative, neat, self-reliant, flexible, good-humored/natured, have leadership qualities and work well with others? Mechanical and machine skills, cooking, garden/farm experience? If most apply, call or write! Great shared vegetarian meals, rustic living quarters, weekly planning meetings, wonderful silence, and lots of sunshine in exchange for your hard work and commitment of service. We are seeking Apprentices, visitors and guests who are willing to commit to work for from 1 day to 9 months. (505) 422-2238. *** FARMER-MANAGER WANTED. Laganza Farm is seeking an experienced farmer familiar with organic and preferably bd methods to farm and further develop an existing 20-acre organic orchard and farm beginning 2/98. Housing is available on site, and the farmer will receive a modest stipend plus a share in farm income. An application letter, resume of experience, and at least two references should be mailed to Laganza Farm, P.O. Box 714, Aguanga, CA 92536. For more info call (714) 497-2218. *** INTERNS/APPRENTICES WANTED. Laganza Farm is a CCOF and Demeter organic-certified CSA and demonstration site and field station for the EOS Institute and Permaculture Institute of Southern California.The farm comprises some 1100 trees (more than 20 varieties of apple plus peach, pear, almond and cherry) and several hundred grape vines along with several acres for vegetable gardens. An application letter, resume of experience, and at least two references should be mailed to Laganza Farm, P.O. Box 714, Aguanga, CA 92536. For more info call (714) 497-2218. *** APPRENTICE wanted for 1998 growing season, to help tend a research garden of botanicals used in traditional Chinese medicine. Full-time work, start and end dates flexible. Agricultural and/or perennial gardening experience helpful but not required. Excellent verbal and observational skills,precision and detail orientation necessary. Room, board, stipend and stimulating learning environment provided. Reply in writing to Ms. Jean Giblette, High Falls Gardens, P.O. Box 125, Philmont, NY 12565. No phone calls, please. *** CARETAKER WANTED: Flowers by the Sea is a highly diversified 45 acre farm on the coast of N. California. Esta. at this site last year, the operation has been BD from the start, with uncontaminated and fertile soil, pure water, clean ocean air and a long, mild growing season. The farm is surrounded by forests, creeks and wildlands, yet only a few minutes from services and recreation. Due to family problems, the status of the operation is in flux. Planning for the 1998 growing season is taking place now, with many changes likely to take place. An immediate need exists, which I would like to bring to the attention of the BioDynamic community at large: I am looking for a resident caretaker to assist me in caring for the basic needs of the farm. This is a very flexible position, and could be filled by someone who worked only a few hours a week, or by a person who wished to participate full time. The primary requirement is compatibility with me and the philosophy of the farm, and a genuine caring attitude that shows in their work. The right person could become involved in planning and management of the business, if so desired. A separate living facility with an ocean view is available. The position is available immediately. If you have interest in becoming a part of this beautiful and dynamic operation, please contact me via email, kcarter@fbts.com. Kermit Carter General Manager *** DAIRY INTERN WANTED: Two interns needed for SE WI dairy farm starting 3/1/98. In conjunction with Michaael Fields intern program we offer a hands on learning experience in all aspects of managing a 225 acre BD seasonal grazing operation. We offer room and board plus $400 per month. Contact Walter Moora 2728 Rt 90, Genoa, NY 123071. (315) 364-7067. *** EXPERIENCED GARDENER WANTED for 1998 season (Mar. 1 - Oct. 31) on a DEMETER-certified BD farm on Vancouver island, BC. Approx. 3 acres in vegetables, grapes, fruit and nut trees. The work will incl directing WWOOFers and training of 1 or 2 apprentices. The farm is the center of a larger initiative that also includes a bakery and a store, and it has developed markets for all of its products. There is also potential for further development and expansion. the farm can offer living quarters, board, plus 50% share of crop sales. For the right individual this situation has the potential for long term participation in this established an growing community initiative. For further information contact Christoph or Octavia Altemueller, Phone: (250) 746-4117 FAX (250) 748-4287. *** INTERNS WANTED: Little Seed Gardens is a 7 acres NOFA certified organic farm in Stuyvesant, NY. We offer positions for interns from May through November. The 50-60 hr work week incl. all areas of growing and marketing. We provide housing, stipend ($400 month), some meals, farm produce, workman's comp. and medical insurance. training is provided on farm and through biweekly visits to other Organic farms for study through the CRAFT program (Cooperative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training). Applicants should have their own transportation, the ability and desire to do physically demanding work and good cooperative living skills. We require and interview and farm visit. Contact: Willy Denner/Claudia Kenny, Little Seed Gardens, P.O. Box 158, Stuyvesant, NY 12173. (518) 758-1754 or (518) 828-1570. *** INTERNS WANTED: Roxbury Farm is looking for people who are physically and emotionally fit, with a dedication to agriculture and an interest in a mechanized operation. We offer on-farm housing, food budget, $300 monthly stipend and Worker's comp to 3 interns for the growing season. Roxbury Farm is a 190 acre BD farm near Hudson, NY owned and operated by Jean-Paul and Kelly Courtens and Betsy Cashen. We cultivate 25 acres of vegetable crops and distribute through a CSA membership to 500 households. We raise livestock which provide for a portion of our fertility needs and suppy meat to our members. The farm also participates in the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT), a 6 mo. program in which interns visit 12 organic and BD farms in the region. If interested, contact Betsy Cashen or Jean-Paul Courtens at 124 Roxbury Rd., Hudson, NY 12353 or call (518) 851-3809. *** MATURE BD GARDENING COUPLE interested in nutrition, ecology, Biodynamic/organic gardening, in a shared living arrangement, (available in a La Mesa hilltop home) to maintain and produce veggies and fruits (including tropical) for you and homeowner, whole food preparation and house keeping. Offered: Private quarters, small stipend and board plus much free time for your own pursuits. If interested please call Pat at the office between 10 and 3 p.m. M-F, (619) 574-7763 or FAX to (619) 574-1314. *** DEMETER FARM WANTED by German family to spend summer holidays (Summer 1998) Contact: Peter Kroll, Heussweg 18, 25337 Eimshorn, Germany; Telephone +49-4121-78275; email:Peter.Kroll@de.eyi.com. *** VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for BIODYNAMICS journal projects. Please contact Allan Balliett at biodynamics@biodynamics.com ============================================================================== Public announcments of ecological farming positions vacant, positions sought and offers to sell or buy appropriate land or equipment for the same, will be published for free in "BIODYNAMICS:Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century" (both in the journal itself and via the BIODYNAMICS email list) as a service to the natural farming community as a whole. BIODYNAMICS reserves the right to edit all submissions and to reject any submissions without explanation. Space is limited and inclusion will be determined by date received and appropriateness for the publication. All submissions directly related to biodynamics will be given priority. Send your TYPED or very, very, neatly printed submissions to: BIODYNAMICS, POB 3047, Shepherdstown, WV 25443, FAX (304) 876-9414 or biodynamics@biodynamics.com (no attachements, please). Submissions are due on the first of the month PRECEDING the issue date. (BIODYNAMICS appears on: Jan 1, March 1, May 1, July 1, Sept 1 and Decemer 1). If you still have questions, please contact managing editor ALLAN BALLIETT at biodynamics@biodynamics.com For a sample copy of BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st Century contact The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of America, POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 USA 1-800-516-7797 or join the association for only $35 per year and receive the journal for free. VISA/AMEX/MasterCard accepted. (International Subscriptions are higher. Contact the BDFGA for a quote). The BD-L e-mail list is open to all and subscribing is easy: simply send an e-mail to: bd-l@biodynamics.com and put "subscribe BD-L" in the Subject. (Include your name and physical address in the BODY of the message.) The Biodynamic Association Home Page: http://www.biodynamics.com From london@sunsite.unc.edu Mon Jan 5 00:04:16 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA24233 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:04:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id AAA29937 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:03:16 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:03:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Credit Union (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="=====================_883937368==_" Content-ID: Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 85 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --=====================_883937368==_ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Support your local organic market farmer, buy products with Sustainably Grown, Natural, Ecological or Biointensive labelling http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/vfm/ VIRTUAL FARMERS' MARKET http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: swrpi@igc.apc.org Reply-To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Credit Union Please pass this information on! --=====================_883937368==_ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: Content-Description: P e r m a c u l t u r e I n s t i t u t e =20 Permaculture Credit Union Organizing Committee PO Box 1812 =95 Santa Fe, NM 87504=20 Dear Friend of Permaculture: I am writing you on behalf of the Permaculture Credit Union Organizing= Committee to tell you about one of the many exciting events taking place= this year in permaculture - the formation of a Permaculture Credit Union. = I have been teaching permaculture for ten years now, and have used the= example of the Maleny Credit Union in Australia to illustrate a sustainable= financial institution. I have also pointed to the Grameen bank in= Bangladesh as representative of socially responsible lending. But it has= taken me all this time to realize that, if we are to truly change the= world, we have to take control of our own money just as they have done in= the small town of Maleny. "Putting our money where our mouth is", in this= case, means we are no longer willing to participate in non-ethical use of= our financial resources. That is why those of us in the organizing= committee decided to undertake the task of forming a credit union based on= permaculture ethics. This will be a credit union that is licensed by the= government, and insured up to $100,000 per account. By creating our own credit union, we will be able to reward sustainable= behavior by offering better interest rates for loans for building energy= efficient houses, or supportive loan programs for those who lack credit= ratings. Our own credit union will provide all the ordinary services at= fair rates and fees, while lending or investing in activities that are= compatible with our own ethics. We thereby are creating an alternative to= conventional banks' high rates and fees, and to lending and investing= practices which disregard the environmental and social consequences in= favor of satisfying shareholders or investors. We need your help to create the Permaculture Credit Union. Part of the= chartering process requires that we prove to the regulators that there is= sufficient interest and support for the Permaculture Credit Union to make= it economically viable. Please fill out the accompanying questionnaire and= return it to us promptly. We also need you to get the word out. If know= others who might be interested, we encourage you to copy and pass on this= information. Completing this form does not represent any financial= commitment. The Organizing Committee is a volunteer group but, unfortunately, the= printing and mailing cost of this effort is not volunteered so your= contribution of $5.00 or more will be a great help in this effort. Please= make checks out to the Permaculture Institute U.S.A./PCUOC. Donations are= tax deductible.=20 We look forward to having you join us in this exciting endeavor. For a better world,=20 Scott Pittman, Chairperson, Permaculture Credit Union Organizing Committee email=09 ****************************************************************** What Our Own Credit Union Can Do For Us =95 Provide us with a place to collectively save, borrow, and receive= financial services =95 Provide us with information about using our money wisely to support, not= take from, natural and human resources. =95 Provide us with a means to direct our surplus financial power to promote= sustainable and responsible individual and commercial activities. =95 Provide us with democratic control over our financial resources. Consumer Federation of America1 compared =20 banks and credit unions and found =20 the following credit union advantages: =95 Higher Interest Rates on Savings Accounts. Credit unions pay almost a= full percentage point higher than banks on money market accounts and= interest-bearing checking; on CDs, the difference averages 2/3 of a= percentage point. =95 Significantly Lower Consumer Loan Rates. Credit union rates are 1.5%= to 5% lower than bank rates. =95 Lower credit card interest rates. Credit unions, on average, charge 13% compared to the 18% banks average. Most credit union cards have no annual= fee. The study also found that credit card users could save about $8= billion annually by shifting their credit cards from banks to credit= unions. =95 Much lower rates on new car and home equity loans. For example, new car= loan rates at credit unions averaged 7.7% in April 1996. =95 Checking account fees. Only a minority of credit unions, but a large= majority of banks, charge fees.=20 =95 Account minimum charges. Less than half of the credit unions-but all= banks, charge monthly fees when minimums are not met. When credit unions do charge= fees, they average almost half of what banks charge. __________________________ 1 Sources: Joint Press Release, "Banks Charge More and Higher Fees than= Credit Unions", Feb. 21, 1996, Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and= Credit Union National Association (CUNA); Joint Press Release, "Consumers= Overpay on Loans and Underearn on Savings, Losing Tens of Billions of= Dollars Annually", June 5, 1996, CFA & CUNA; Press Release, "Save Hundreds,= Join a Credit Union, if Bankers Will Let You...", Dec. 2, 1996, CUNA. T A K I N G C O N T RO L OF YOUR M O N E Y CREATING A PERMACULTURE CREDIT UNION >From Bill Mollison An important step toward attaining sustainable livelihoods and a better= world is creating our own credit union. Our own credit union will aggregate= our financial resources, provide us with loans and economical financial= services. It will also free us from participating in the human and= environmental destruction funded by banks seeking increasing profits any= way they can. The Permaculture Credit Union is taking form through the= efforts of an organizing committee chaired by Scott Pittman. It is now the= time to show the credit union regulators that the permaculture community= wants and will use its own credit union. If you want to participate, please= show your support now by filling out the accompanying pledge form. WHAT IS A CREDIT UNION? A credit union is a cooperative financial enterprise organized by a group of= people who wish to pool their financial resources to promote their common= mission and to benefit their common financial interests. Modern credit= unions provide members with a full range of financial services including= savings and checking accounts, certificates of deposit, individual= retirement accounts, credit cards, vehicle loans, real estate and= commercial loans, insurance, and other financial services. A credit union= is a non-profit entity that is owned and controlled by its members. Income= above that allocated for operating expenses (the "profit") is paid to members through dividends. Members= participate in governing the credit union by electing the board of= directors from the membership on the basis of one member, one vote. This= board represents all members of the group when making decisions regarding= its assets. On the other hand, conventional banks and other commercial financial= institutions are owned by investors who seek profits. Their primary loyalty= is to those who will offer the greatest profit rather than to the well= being of their customers or their community. For commercial banks, current= record profits become the next standard of performance in a never-ending= upward spiral of dividend production to keep their heaviest investors from= seeking greater returns elsewhere. Organized under credit union laws, the Permaculture Credit Union will be= insured for amounts up to $100,000, and will eventually provide the same= range of services to its members as those offered by a typical bank. During= the formative stage, it may operate in cooperation with one or more other= credit unions for computer processing of transactions and other record= keeping. The Permaculture Credit Union plans to provide financial= counseling to individuals and small business borrowers. WHAT IS THE MISSION OF THE PERMACULTURE CREDIT UNION? Our mission is to pool the financial resources of the people who believe in= the ethics of permaculture - "care of the earth, care of people, and= investment of surplus time, money and materials toward care of the earth= and its people." The Permaculture Credit Union will provide a meaningful= alternative to traditional banks that are unconscious or uncaring about the= consequences of their investment activities on the earth and its = inhabitants. Beyond providing financial services for fair rates and fees,= this cooperative venture will give members the satisfaction of knowing that= their money is being used by others with whom they share a common bond, and= in financial opportunities that are consistent with the ethics of= permaculture. WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE TO CREATE THE PERMACULTURE CREDIT UNION? Interest in a permaculture credit union has been steadily growing among= design course participants and others in our community who have inspired us= with their enthusiasm. Based on this support, we began the formal process= of organization. Our organizing committee is already meeting with credit= union personnel to complete the application and licensing requirements. We= expect to hold a charter-organization meeting in late 1997. We will= announce the date of the meeting on the Internet and also in the journals= and newsletters that serve the permaculture community. The meeting will be= open to everyone dedicated to the ethics of permaculture and interested in= creating and using our credit union. We hope to open for business by early= 1998. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING The regulators want to know if there is enough interest and support to make= a credit union viable. We need to hear from you. Please fill out the form= on the reverse side. Tell us what level of financial participation you can= see for yourself. A full-service credit union offers everything your= present bank does only for less and more ethically. Filling out this form= does not constitute a commitment on your part - it represents your vote of= confidence, and it's what we need right now to make the credit union= happen. The forms we receive will be used only for proof that the= permaculture community wants and will use its own financial institution.= The Permaculture Credit Union will give us the power of cooperative= financial action and will make it easier to attain sustainable lifelihoods.= Thanks for your support. ******************************************************************* Please Cast Your Vote to Establish a Permaculture Credit Union We are in the process of organizing the first permaculture credit union in= the United States. The purpose is to help each other by promoting thrift,= providing economical credit and financial services, and education. The= membership to be served includes all persons and businesses dedicated to= the ethics of permaculture. Credit union officials need to know if a sufficient number of people= committed to permaculture ethics will support and use the Permaculture= Credit Union. Your "vote of confidence" is needed now. Further questions= can be directed to organizing committee members listed below. We greatly= appreciate your interest. We need this information to prepare a business= plan, and ask that you fill out the enclosed form and send it back= immediately. Scott Pittman, organizing committee Chairperson,can be reached at swrpi@igc.apc.com. =20 Manuel Abascal, Assistant Chairperson, can be reached at mgabascal@aol.com. PERMACULTURE CREDIT UNION MISSION STATEMENT Permaculture embraces a threefold ethic: care of the earth, care of people,= and investment of surplus time, money and materials toward care of the= earth and its people. Within permaculture, money is to the social fabric as water is to the= landscape. It is the agent of transport, the shaper and mover of trade. = Like water, it is not the total amount of money entering a community that= counts; it is the number of uses or duties to which we can divert money,= and the number of cycles of use, that measures the availability of that= money. Leakage from the community must therefore be prevented and recycling= made the rule. Where we choose to borrow and conduct our financial activity has significant= political, economic and ecological consequences. The Permaculture Credit= Union exists to promote thrift, and provide education, credit, and other= financial services to members to achieve the objectives of permaculture. = The Permaculture Credit Union is a nonprofit, cooperative credit union= providing financial services and socially responsible investments. = Membership is open to all individuals and businesses dedicated to the= ethics of permaculture, without regard to a member's sex, race, age,= disability, sexual orientation, religion, or financial condition. The Permaculture Credit Union gives members more than an ethical charter and= ethical use of assets-the credit union belongs to and is governed by its= members. There are no nonmember investors or borrowers. A Board of= Directors is elected from the membership-one person, one vote. The National Credit Union Administration, a United States government agency,= insures deposits of chartered credit unions to $100,000. Yes! I will Support the Permaculture Credit Union I would like to use the following financial services at our credit union ( ) Checking account ( ) Commercial Loan ( ) Certificate of Deposit ( ) Debit Card Account ( ) Credit Card Account ( ) Auto Loan ( ) Savings Account ( ) Insurance ( ) Individual Retirement Account ( ) Other I would open account(s) with deposits of about: ___ $100 ___ $500 ___ $1000 _____$10,000 ____= other ______ ( ) Please put my name on the mailing list to receive further= information. This list will not be used for any other purpose. ( )=20 Name ______________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________ Suggestion or comments: ________________________________________________ Mail completed form to: Permaculture Credit Union Organizing Committee PO Box 1812, Santa Fe, NM 87504 I understand this form is not financial obligation, and will only be used in= a presentation to credit union regulators to establish community support= for organizing the Permaculture Credit Union. --=====================_883937368==_ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Content-Description: ************************************************************************* Permaculture Institute Scott & Arina Pittman PO Box 3702 Pojoaque, NM 87501 Ingenio Patet Campus --=====================_883937368==_-- From canx@ix.netcom.com Thu Jan 8 09:56:57 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA16316 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:56:57 -0500 (EST) From: canx@ix.netcom.com Received: from dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.15]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA10157 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:55:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA03699 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:55:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:55:20 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801081455.IAA03699@dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com> Received: from ant-ca2-37.ix.netcom.com(207.93.62.101) by dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma001767; Thu Jan 8 08:53:40 1998 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: I am looking for information anti-cancer agents Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 86 Please excuse me for interrupting, I am looking for specific protocals for testing suspected anti-cancer agents, I was looking at just using p53 deficient mice and evaluating the cause of their deaths at termination. I have a promissing botanical agent which is only avaliable naturally in limited amounts. Please reply to this email if, anf only if, you can help, Kerry Masterson From jhonas@relics.com Fri Jan 9 15:54:39 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA12789 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:54:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from mb1.mailbank.com (mb1.mailbank.com [204.244.193.15]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA12410 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:53:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from sdn-ts-001njprinP02.dialsprint.net [168.191.44.21] (HELO relics.com) by mb1.mailbank.com (AltaVista Mail V2.0H/2.0H BL25H listener) id 0000_005f_34b6_8d62_421a; Fri, 09 Jan 1998 12:49:38 -0800 Message-ID: <34B68E40.CD945C83@relics.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:53:20 -0500 From: Mike Beaumont X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Harmonious EcoSystems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 87 Harmonious EcoSystems Environmental Planning Soil & Ground Water Issues Land Use, Zoning & Subdivisions Regulatory & Health Issues Civil Work Environmental Alternatives Government Issues Conflict Resolution Long Term, Staged Infrastructure Planning - Water, Sewer, Power & Waste Management Small Wastewater Flows, Land Application, Composting & Alternative Treatments for Community & Individual Systems Jim Willits, BioRemediation Specialist - I have spent the last twenty-five years working for town & city governments, land developers, realtors, architects & engineers. Designing & building unique alternative projects has won me awards & government acceptance for community design & waste water treatment. My family and I have homesteaded and lived communally, my intentions are to now begin giving back what I’ve learned to Community projects. I will provide free design & consulting services to small appropriate projects (I may need room & board during site visits, if required). I will select projects based on my own criteria and if projects become too large or time consuming I would consider some barter. I do not want money for this work. Jim Willits voice: 1-609-265-9135 or 1-609-702-1500 home email: dwn2erth@pics.com office email: willits@bioactive.com website: www.bioactive.com From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Jan 11 17:52:27 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id RAA07286 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:52:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA25022 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:51:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:51:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: BEN # 181 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 88 http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:08:33 -0800 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 181 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 181 January 10, 1998 aceska@victoria.tc.ca Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- GERALD BANE STRALEY (1945 - 1997) On December 11th, 1997 British Columbia and North America lost a superb botanist and plantsman. Dr. Gerald Straley is survived by his mother, father, brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew all of Eggleston, Virginia. He is also survived by hundreds of friends and acquaintances in the botanical and horticultural world. As Research Scientist and Curator of Collections at UBC Botanical Garden he was botanist, gardener, taxonomist, naturalist, hiker, photographer, author, teacher. Above all he was a gentle man; warm, humorous, welcoming and generous but also quietly tenacious and strove for excellence in all he did. His passion for his subject rubbed off on his students. Whether those students were in graduate level systematics or the layper- son distinguishing a stamen from a pistil he was equally at home and equally committed to imparting knowledge to both. BC botanists now have an indispensable tool in the form of the Vascular Plants of BC which he authored with Douglas and Meidinger; and for ten years he strolled the streets and parks of Vancouver documenting every tree for his Trees of Vancouver book. This latter work seem to characterize his life in being meticulously accurate while being readable and available to all. His numerous articles on myriad subjects grace journals and magazines on both sides of the boarder. From the rare to the commonplace, from tree to diminutive annual all were fascinating to Gerald and he in turn made them fascinating to us. I'm not sure I can recall a single plant that stumped him for an iden- tification, such was his encyclopedic mind. His tours to the Siskyous, to Greece and Australia, often with David Tarrant were an inspiration for all who traveled with him. And I consider myself so fortunate spending weeks with Gerald botanizing in Northern BC and in California. For years he battled failing health but, as he put it, "I've still got too many things to do". Where he found his strength to keep fighting back is a mystery to us all. Or is it? In the simple act of feeding his goldfish and watering plants in his patio garden Gerald found joy, delight and an excited anticipa- tion for what next may bloom. The world is a poorer place with the loss of Gerald Straley but we are, all of us, richer for having known him. To remember his life in a way most appropriate a celebration will take place at the UBC Botanical Garden on Saturday, January 31st, 1998 at 2 PM. Memorial donations may be made to UBC Botanical Garden, c/o Bruce Macdonald, 6804 Southwest Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4. Wilf Nicholls, Botanical Garden Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NF, Canada A1C 5S7 E-mail: wnicholl@morgan.ucs.mun.ca MORE SAD NEWS FROM THE END OF 1997 Dr. Richard S. Cowan (1921-1997) died 17 November 1997. Dr. Cowan was a botany curator and later the director of the Na- tional Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. He was a co-author (with Dr. Frans Stafleu - see below) of the monumental work "Taxonomic Literature." After his retirement in 1985 he moved to Australia. Prof. dr. Frans A. Stafleu (1921-1997) died on Tuesday, 16 December. He is well-known for his numerous activities in the IAPT (International Association for Plant Taxonomy) and af- filiated organizations, and authorship of many papers. His name will be long associated with the impressive bibliographic series Taxonomic Literature and the journal Taxon. Stephen C. Zoltai (1928-1997), a noted peatland expert, passed away Monday December 15, of cancer. Steve will be remembered for his gentle humour, his kindness, and his excellence in science. INVASIVE PLANTS OF CANADA (IPCAN) PROJECT From: Erich Haber The Invasive Plants of Canada (IPCAN) project was initiated in 1995 with the financial assistance of several federal depart- ments in Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Natural Heritage Canada. Its purpose is the development of an information base on invasive plants and to facilitate informa- tion exchange and increase awareness of the impact of invasive plants on Canadian biodiversity. The IPCAN had its origin in activities begun in the early 1990s by the Habitat Conservation Division of the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) to document the occurrence of invasive plants in natural habitats in Canada (White, Haber and Keddy 1993). This initial publication was followed by other activities such as the development of invasive plant databases and summary of occur- rences of invasive plants and species at risk in National Wildlife Areas and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries (Haber 1995). These various activities were undertaken at a time when interna- tional concern was being expressed over the impact of the spread of invasive aliens. A document of particular interest that was published by the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1993), that summarizes the impact of harmful non-indigenous species in the United States is now accessible on the internet: http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9325_n.html As part of the IPCAN activities, 10 fact sheets have been prepared on invasive plants, a national survey of biologists and plant specialists was conducted in 1996 to determine what species are of greatest concern and a monitoring guide to exotic plants was prepared. Databases of nine exotic plants have also been initiated for computer mapping and analysis and, in par- ticular, to facilitate the development of range maps to show the historic spread of these plants since their introduction. To make these products widely available, an internet site was also established for the IPCAN: http://infoweb.magi.com/~ehaber/ipcan.html In 1997, an Invasive Plants Alert (IPA) program was initiated as part of the IPCAN with the primary aims of promoting local actions, in particular by naturalist clubs, to monitor exotic plants and to undertake projects to control invasive plants. Initial funding for the IPA has been provided by the Biodiver- sity Convention Office, Environment Canada. With the assistance of the Canadian Nature Federation, naturalist clubs across Canada were contacted to solicit their participation in the IPA. To date, naturalist clubs and individuals in seven provinces have responded to a request for participation in the IPA. Club activities, especially those regarding the control or eradica- tion of invasive species, as well as reports of significant findings of newly arrived exotic or invasive plants that are becoming troublesome, are published as information notices in the IPA Bulletin. This bulletin can be accessed through the IPCAN homepage or directly at the following URL: http://infoweb.magi.com/~ehaber/bulletin.html Anyone with information on exotic species that appear to be aggressively spreading into natural areas and, especially if they are potentially a threat to provincially or nationally rare plants, is encouraged to contact the coordinator of the IPCAN. Of particular interest and need is precise site information on such exotic plants or of newly arrived exotics that appear to be spreading rapidly. Information provided by credible sources are entered as sight records into national databases being developed for monitoring purposes. Precise site coordinates (lat/long or UTM with full six and seven digit easting and northing values) are required for recording site locality. The general descrip- tion of the location and extent of occurrence and threat to rare species or local biodiversity should also be provided. If coor- dinates cannot be provided, detailed location data using road map reference points and distances will also be accepted for documentation purposes. The receipt of such data by e-mail post or fax (613-722-6291) would be much appreciated. References Haber, E. 1995. Species at Risk and Invasive Plants of National Wildlife Areas and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries. Unpublished report, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Ottawa K1A 0H3. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment.1993. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States, OTA-F-565 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1993). White, D.J., E. Haber and C. Keddy. 1993. Invasive Plants of Natural Habitats in Canada: An Integrated Review of Wetland and Upland Species and Legislation Governing their Control. Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Canadian Museum of Nature and North American Wetlands Conservation Council (Canada). Dr. Erich Haber, National Botanical Services, 604 Wavell Ave., Ottawa, ON, Canada K2A3A8 Tel: 613-722-5523, Fax: 613-722-6291 COMMON NAME PROJECT From: Roger Whitehead Two British amateur botanists, Andrew N. Gagg and Roger Whitehead, are working on a pair of linked projects to do with plant names. Andrew is collecting the names of the 30,000 or so species of the European flora, in as many European languages and dialects as he can find. So far, he has found few to many names in just a tenth of the 211 languages extant at the last count. He says, "It's all still to do"! Roger's project is to collect old and current names of the British vascular flora, from Britain and its former colonies [before the time of King George III - AC]. He's gathering scien- tific, apothecaries', herbalists' and colloquial names. He's found about 8,000 names to date, for 2,200 species. Andrew and Roger will be glad to exchange information on these topics with other readers. Their e-mail addresses are cm9019@wlv.ac.uk and rgw@office-futures.com, respectively. For more information see http://www.gagg.mcmail.com/Babel.htm ENGLISH NAMES FOR BRITISH BRYOPHYTES From: DAVID LONG originally posted on bryonet-l@mtu.edu Edwards, S.R. English Names for British Bryophytes BBS Special Volume No. 5 Cardiff: British Bryological Sociey Published December 1997 ISBN 0 9507639 6 9; ISSN 0268-8034 A5, 68pages, limp covers. Price (payment in sterling please) United Kingdom & European Union: stlg2.50 post-free. Outside European Union: stlg3.00 including p.& p. Available from: Dr. S.R. Edwards, The Manchester Museum, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. E-mail: sean.edwards@man.ac.uk; web: http://www.man.ac.uk/museum/ Phone: +44 (0)161-275-2671/2; fax: +44 (0)161-275-2676 This is the first comprehensive catalogue of `Common Names' of bryophytes of Britain and Ireland, together with some English names for non-British taxa, compiled by Dr Sean Edwards of the Manchester Museum. The detailed historical review demonstrates the long history of some English names back to J.J. Dillenius in 1742, and some even to Gerard's Herball (1597). However, for many species, names have had to be newly coined, and this has been undertaken using defined guidelines and prin- ciples. For many taxa more than one published name was traced (it is remarkable how many English names actually appear in the literature: 4,865 distinct names with 7,680 references to them from 114 sources) and for these a `preferred name' is given in bold, followed by synonyms. This is a well-sourced and meticulously cross-referenced, scien- tific treatment of a `popular' subject which can only be very good for publicising and popularising bryophytes. The catalogue is indexed both by botanical name and English name. Some names will no doubt be familiar to bryologists, such as Bog-moss (Sphagnum), Ostrich-plume Feather-moss (Ptilium crista-castren- sis) and Wall Screw-moss (Tortula muralis), but many will be un- familiar and thought-provoking, such as Two-horned Pincer-wort (Cephalozia bicuspidata), Thick-set Earwort (Scapania compacta), Mouget's Yoke-moss (Amphidium mougeotii) and Potato Bryum (Bryum bornholmense). A very fine publication and well worth the modest cost. NATIVE PLANT SALVAGE PROJECT ON WEB From: Bob Simmons , originally posted on pacific-biosnet@listproc.wsu.edu A new guide entitled "Grow Your Own Native Landscape - A Guide to Identifying, Propagating, and Landscaping with Western Washington Native Plants" is now available on line at the Native Plant Salvage Project web site at... http://gardening.wsu.edu/text/nwnative.htm The manual provides information about plant identification (including graphics); obtaining plants through responsible salvaging, propagation and purchasing; and non-native invasive species. The online manual was developed by The Native Plant Salvage Project - (WSU Cooperative Extension - Thurston County). Robert Simmons, Regional Water Quality Education Program WSU Cooperative Extension - Mason County, N11840 Hwy 101 Shelton, WA 98584 Phone: (360) 427-9670 ext. 396, Fax 427-7264 E-mail: simmons@wsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions, subscriptions, etc.: aceska@victoria.tc.ca BEN is archived at http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ ________________________________________________________________ From london@sunsite.unc.edu Wed Jan 14 12:39:36 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id MAA23533 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:39:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA18788 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:38:27 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:38:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. 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Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE for BIODYNAMIC resources: http://www.biodynamics.com This list is archived at: http://csf.colorado.edu/biodynamics/ Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L. biodynamics@biodynamics.com From debate@ballistic.com Wed Jan 14 16:26:52 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.gigabit-ethernet.org [152.2.254.82]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id QAA03965 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:26:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.ballistic.com (root@mail.ballistic.com [208.211.146.4]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA03808 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:25:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from Default (tpm3-208.ballistic.com [208.211.146.208]) by mail.ballistic.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA19388 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:19:51 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801142119.PAA19388@mail.ballistic.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 98 15:33:56 -0800 From: Pam Lisner Organization: Robert E. Lee High School Debate Team X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: (no subject) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 90 I was wondering if anyone could send me information concerning Industrial Hemp and exactly how many farmers would grow Hemp for renewable energy purposes. Also information on how many states actually support hemp. Any and all information will be much appreciated. Thank you. From llondon@bellsouth.net Fri Jan 16 22:44:31 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA17128 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:44:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA15439 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:43:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from emelios (host-207-53-8-90.rdu.bellsouth.net [207.53.8.90]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA25609 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:43:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34C0E04F.4E36@bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:46:07 -0500 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Organization: Dragonfly Market Gardens -=+=- InterGarden X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Michael's Recommended Reading List Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------48DE325F2934" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 91 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------48DE325F2934 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/reading.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Support your local organic market farmer, buy products with Sustainably Grown, Natural, Ecological or Biointensive labelling http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/vfm/ VIRTUAL FARMERS' MARKET http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------48DE325F2934 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="reading.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="reading.html" Content-Base: "http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/reading. html" Michael's Recommended Reading List

Books on Sustainable Design

Many of these books were purchased collectively by the staff and interns at Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute while I worked there in late 1995 and early 1996. Since then I've occasionally added new titles.

Many other excellent titles can be found at Green Books, Devon, UK.

  • Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena Norberg-Hodge. Sierra Club Books, 1991.
  • A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Paul W. Hirt. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
  • Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants. Stephen Facciola. Kampong Press, 1990.
  • Ecological Design. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. Island Press, 1996.
  • Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement. Sarah Rossbach. Penguin Arkana, 1983.
  • The Findhorn Garden. Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.. The Findhorn Community. HarperPerennial, 1975.
  • Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History. William Woys Weaver. Henry Holt, 1997.
  • How Buildings Learn. What Happens After They're Built. Stewart Brand. Penguin Books, 1994.
  • How to Grow More Vegetables. 5th edition. John Jeavons. Ten Speed Press, 1995.
  • The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. Jack R. Harlan. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. Blaine Harden. W.W. Norton and Co., 1996.
  • Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure. Kenny Ausubel. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
  • Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Biodiversity. Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney. University of Arizona Press, 1990.
  • Shelter. Shelter Publications, 1973.
  • Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa. Edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin. Earthscan Publications, 1996.
  • Thermal Delight in Architecture. Lisa Heschong. MIT Press, 1979.

Last updated July, 1997.
CSF's main permaculture page --------------48DE325F2934-- From john_ellis11@yahoo.com Mon Jan 19 16:20:07 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu ([152.2.254.83] (may be forged)) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id QAA17107 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:20:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA26662 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:18:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980119211827.12898.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [207.63.37.35] by send1a; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:18:27 PST Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:18:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Ellis Subject: Aquaculture To: Permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 92 Hi, My name is John Ellis, a Junior at Cuba High School in Illinois. I got your address off the internet and I am wondering if you could help me out a little bit. I am the FFA aquaculture manager for our school and I am going in front of a our board and need more info for my speech. I was just wondering if you could give me some common knowledge on an aquaculture room. If you could send as soon as possible. thank you very much. sincerly, JOHN ELLIS CUBA FFA _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From london@sunsite.unc.edu Wed Jan 21 23:52:12 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id XAA01051 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:52:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA10626 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:50:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:50:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Cal Poly Permaculture/Ecofarm Conference (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by luna.oit.unc.edu id XAA01051 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 93 http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:49:07 PST From: Akiva Werbalowsky Reply-To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Cal Poly Permaculture/Ecofarm Conference Howdy folks. I'm off to the Eco-Farm Conference tomorrow and wanted to share some info about happenings at Cal Poly. If you'll be at the conference, please say hello to me at the sessions on bioregional food systems I facillitate on Weds. and Fri. afternoons. Don't forget the seed and scion exchange. Clear paths, akiva PS. I thinkk the EcoFarm Website is www.csa-efc.org ****************************** UNIVERSITY PERMACULTURE TRAINING Cal Poly Permaculture is dedicated to experiential “learn-by-doing” education in support of personal and bioregional wellness. Programs provide continuing education credits and are community-based, intergenerational collaborations with the Central Coast Permaculture Guild. They meet the needs of natural resource professionals, farmers, environmental and community activists, gardeners, students, and anyone seeking practical skills and understanding to enhance ecological health and diversity. We welcome and encourage your participation. ************************************************************* March 28: OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION/Solar Music Festival at the Cal Poly Permaculture Center and Student CCOF Organic Farm Participatory music, dance, fire circle, camp-out, local food and culture March 29: CALIFORNIA PERMACULTURE SYMPOSIUM All day introduction to Permaculture with top permaculture educators from throughout the West. Opening session for certificate program. Sundays 9am-3pm through June 7: (described on back) PERMACULTURE TRAINING PROGRAM June 21-July 4: Two Week Residential SUMMER SOLSTICE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE featuring Larry Santoyo and senior instructors from throughout the West A limited number of work exchange opportunities are currently available. ************************************************************* Please contact: awerbalo@calpoly.edu (805) 756-5086 Akiva Werbalowsky, Ecological Agriculture Program Manager Cal Poly State University Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering Dept. San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Certificate Program in Permaculture and Ecological Design Permaculture is a practical design process modeled on balanced ecosystems. It is holistic in both ethic and function, enhancing air, water, food, biodiversity, and community health. Permaculture is rooted in stewardship and efficient use of local resource ecology rather than reliance and overconsumption of costly imported resources. This 10-week series of experiential seminars meets Sundays from 9am-3pm at Cal Poly's Permaculture Center and Organic Farm. The series benefits all people interested in sustainable living practices, and includes practical training for gardeners, land managers, farmers, architects, planners, community service volunteers, environmental educators, and students. If you’re interested in clean air, water, healthy food and community, this course is for you. Sessions include presentations, training, and "learn-by-doing" collaboration with permaculture designers, Cal Poly professors, landscape professionals, and community leaders dedicated to restorative ecological practices. An information packet with more detailed scheduling will be sent upon request. Examples of topics covered: Soil building, water harvesting, solar technologies, patterns in nature, holistic management, ecological food systems, food forestry, straw bale construction, chicken “tractors”, worm ranching, and community design. Also included are field trips to permaculture sites of interest. Participants can register for single sessions, or the whole series which includes an accredited Certificate of Completion and 5 continuing education units (CEUs). We will assist in accomodations for out of town participants. Certification qualifies trainees for work-exchange privileges for the two-week residential Permaculture Design Course beginning Summer Solstice. Instructors: Larry Santoyo, Permaculture West, Senior Permaculture Instructor Akiva Werbalowsky, BA, MA, Permaculture Instructor Julian Kayne, BA, Permaculture Instructor The two week residential Permaculture Design Course begins and ends with celebrations on Summer Solstice (June 20) and July 4. This is a great opportunity to live and learn Permaculture in a temporary village where all meals and services are developed with Permaculture practices in mind. Information is available on request: awerbalo@calpoly.edu (805) 756-5086 Akiva Werbalowsky Ecological Agriculture Program Manager ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From mikef@icon.co.za Thu Jan 22 05:12:44 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu [152.2.254.81]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id FAA03308 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 05:12:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from bmf.icon.co.za (bmf.icon.co.za [196.26.208.21]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id FAA14628 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 05:11:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail2.dial-up.net (mail2.dial-up.net [196.26.208.34]) by bmf.icon.co.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27320 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:11:17 +0200 (GMT) Received: from shawn (hope20.onwe.co.za [196.25.53.170]) by mail2.dial-up.net (8.8.7/8.7.5/ICONfront) with ESMTP id MAA02780 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:10:40 +0200 (GMT) Message-Id: <199801221010.MAA02780@mail2.dial-up.net> Reply-To: From: "Mike" To: Subject: How to subscribe Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:09:37 +0200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 94 Please let me know how to subscribe to this list. I have now thoroughly confused myself with listservs and majordomos and thing. Thanks a lot Shawn From mbourke@iol.ie Tue Jan 27 18:04:48 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (helios.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.3]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id SAA26971 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:04:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.iol.ie (mail2.mail.iol.ie [194.125.2.193]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA24677 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:03:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from default (dialup-010.limerick.iol.ie [194.125.45.10]) by mail.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18094 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:03:16 GMT Message-Id: <199801272303.XAA18094@mail.iol.ie> Reply-To: From: "Martin Bourke" To: Subject: Request Information on Premaculture Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:02:35 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 95 Martin Bourke mbourke@iol.ie. From depfimor@chac.imta.mx Sat Jan 31 14:01:17 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.cearch.org [152.2.254.84]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id OAA27812 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:01:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from chac.imta.mx (root@chac.imta.mx [200.15.21.59]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA05806 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:59:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from by chac.imta.mx via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) id MAA08665; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:58:05 -0800 Message-ID: <34D3907E.7D47@chac.imta.mx> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:58:38 -0800 From: Gastón Romero González Reply-To: depfimor@chac.imta.mx X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: From Mexico... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 96 Dear Mr. or Mrs.: I would like meet : Ian D. Carruthers Agrarian Development Unit School of Rural Economics and Related Studies Can you help me? Kind regards Gastón Romero From london@sunsite.unc.edu Mon Feb 2 22:03:19 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA04200 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:03:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA01793 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:01:50 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:01:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: BIODYNAMIC AG CLASSIFIEDS 2/2/98 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 97 http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:02:59 -0500 From: BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: BIODYNAMIC AG CLASSIFIEDS 2/2/98 WANTED: Acreage to establish a teaching community focussing on Biodynamic Agriculture. Long growing season,pure and plentiful water, and privacy. Northern California, Utah, New Mexico or Arizona. Reply to: Aurora Farm, Box 697, Porthill, Idaho. 83853. (250) 428-4404 SITUATION WANTED: Long time organic grower with experience in BD growing inside and outside greenhouse, livestock experience, niche marketer, high level of technical skills, is seeking long term position as lead farmer for CSA or estate farmer/manager. Most places in the USA or abroad will be considered. Please call Maarten Samsom at (802) 878-0243. AVAILABLE NOW: Biodynamically grown seeds of herbs, flowers and vegetables and Echinacea tincture. Catalog $3. Aurora Farm, Box 697, Porthill, Idaho.83853 (250) 428-4404 =========================================================================== Classified Ads pertaining to ecological agriculture situations vacant or situations wanted, announcements of ecological ag-related events, or organic ag-related materials for sale (such as stock, seeds or amendments) will be listed for free in BIODYNAMICS: Farming and Gardening in the 21st century (the journal of the Biodynamic Association of North America) and via this email list. Ads will be accepted on a first come basis as space allows, with the stipulation that ads placed by members of the BDA will receive priority inclusion, followed by ads which have explicit BD content. Submit ads to biodynamics@biodynamics.com. If you have questions, please contact me directly at the same address: Allan Balliett biodynamics@biodynamics.com. */*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ Opinions expressed through this list, whether by the moderator or by list members, are simply the opinions of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BIODYNAMICS journal or of the BD Association of America. Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE for BIODYNAMIC resources: http://www.biodynamics.com This list is archived at: http://csf.colorado.edu/biodynamics/ Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L. biodynamics@biodynamics.com */*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ For More Information about BIODYNAMICS and a BD Resource Guide, contact: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 (610) 935-7797 * FAX (610) 983-3196 TOLL FREE Order Line: 1-800-516-7797 From london@sunsite.unc.edu Tue Feb 3 22:25:49 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA06145 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:25:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA05821 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:24:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:24:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. 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Books on Sustainable Design

Many of these books were purchased collectively by the staff and interns at Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute while I worked there in late 1995 and early 1996. Since then I've occasionally added new titles.

Many other excellent titles can be found at Green Books, Devon, UK.

  • Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena Norberg-Hodge. Sierra Club Books, 1991.
  • A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Paul W. Hirt. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
  • Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants. Stephen Facciola. Kampong Press, 1990.
  • Ecological Design. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. Island Press, 1996.
  • Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement. Sarah Rossbach. Penguin Arkana, 1983.
  • The Findhorn Garden. Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.. The Findhorn Community. HarperPerennial, 1975.
  • Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History. William Woys Weaver. Henry Holt, 1997.
  • How Buildings Learn. What Happens After They're Built. Stewart Brand. Penguin Books, 1994.
  • How to Grow More Vegetables. 5th edition. John Jeavons. Ten Speed Press, 1995.
  • The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. Jack R. Harlan. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. Blaine Harden. W.W. Norton and Co., 1996.
  • Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure. Kenny Ausubel. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
  • Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Biodiversity. Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney. University of Arizona Press, 1990.
  • Shelter. Shelter Publications, 1973.
  • Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa. Edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin. Earthscan Publications, 1996.
  • Thermal Delight in Architecture. Lisa Heschong. MIT Press, 1979.

Last updated July, 1997.
CSF's main permaculture page --------------58B1100C85A-- From soul@sasquatch.com Thu Feb 5 02:18:14 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu ([152.2.254.83] (may be forged)) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id CAA01341 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 02:18:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from seashell.sasquatch.com (qmailr@seashell.sasquatch.com [165.90.7.18]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id CAA14049 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 02:16:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 18853 invoked from network); 5 Feb 1998 07:16:42 -0000 Received: from hendersons.sasquatch.com (HELO harveyma) (165.90.7.96) by seashell.sasquatch.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 1998 07:16:42 -0000 Message-ID: <34DAB617.55C1@sasquatch.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:04:55 -0800 From: Harvey Reply-To: soul@sasquatch.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: soil kid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 99 Hello. I am interested in gaining more insight on the subject ot permaculture. I am working toward going the UC Davis to further my knowledge in soil because it is my passion. A friend of mine turned me on to permaculture last summer and I have found it most exciting since. Soil is something that I find easy to comprehend and at this point all I have is the drive and passion, but I'll take care of the rest as I move on. You can help me by responding with information that could lead me to people and places that are in the Santa Cruz area. Love, Harvey From 920055@mail.abpat.qld.edu.au Thu Feb 5 23:58:55 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu (www.iupac.org [152.2.254.86]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id XAA02794 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:58:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.abpat.qld.edu.au (abpat.qld.edu.au [203.23.133.130]) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA20584 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:57:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from Future_9_97.abpat.qld.edu.au ([192.168.0.55]) by mail.abpat.qld.edu.au (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA14623; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:11:32 +1000 Message-ID: <34DA895F.3E7@mail.abpat.qld.edu.au> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 14:54:07 +1100 From: Fatboy <920055@mail.abpat.qld.edu.au> Organization: Mc Binnie & Co X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu CC: matt_goodall@onthenet.com.au Subject: assignment Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 100 Could I have some information about the dangers of CCA Pressure Treated wood. I am doing an assignment on it and would like an article or jurnal. Thanks Matt Goodall. From vanyoluc@dream.vol.net.mt Wed Feb 11 07:58:31 1998 Received: from helios.oit.unc.edu ([152.2.254.83] (may be forged)) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id HAA23362 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:58:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from dream.vol.net.mt ([195.22.194.17] (may be forged)) by helios.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA09775 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:56:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802111256.HAA09775@helios.oit.unc.edu> Received: from merlinlt (z7.vol.net.mt) by dream.vol.net.mt with ESMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA222771966; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:59:26 +0100 From: "Vanya Walker Leigh" To: Subject: Permaculture webforum Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:58:19 +0100 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 101 Vanya Walker-Leigh vanya.walker-leigh@usa.net I would like to take part in this forum, being an agricultural economist* with specialised gender issues training. Please link me in! Thanks. *M.Sc. (Agric.Dev) and M.Sc.(Env.Man.) thanks to the Wye College London External Programme. 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From williamevans@home.com Wed Feb 25 23:48:53 1998 Received: from ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id XAA06580 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:48:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from home.com ([24.0.170.104]) by ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA24752 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:46:57 -0800 Message-ID: <34F4F31F.8A9E54EC@home.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:44:16 -0800 From: William Evans Reply-To: williamevans@home.com Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-AtHome0402 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: acacia mangium seed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 104 I'm looking for Acacia mangium seed. will trade for Robinia pseudo-acacia var SShipmast.,,or will purchase if supplier available supposed to be commmon reforestation tree in malaysia? any ideas gracias Bryan Evans williamevans@home.com From london@sunsite.unc.edu Sun Mar 1 23:49:00 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id XAA08737 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:49:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA23324 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:47:03 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:47:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Herbalist Jim Duke's "Green Farmacy" MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 105 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:09:16 -0500 From: BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST To: bd-l@biodynamics.com Subject: Herbalist Jim Duke's "Green Farmacy" MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Please X-Post Dear Sustainable Ag Enthusiast, Jim Duke (AKA James A. Duke), who is billed by Rodale Press as "The World's Greatest Herbalist" (and the normally tight-lipped Mark Blumenthal of HerbalGram has recently concurred with this remarkable description), will return to his roots, as it were, this fall at the Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference (October 2-4, 1998). On Friday, October 2, Mr. Duke will provide two workshops revolving around natural agriculture (or "Green Farmacy" in juxtaposition to his best selling "Green Pharmacy" ) and traditional nutrition. After supper that evening, he will present a keynote address on 'traditional nutrition.' All contacts with Mr. Duke will be rich in nutritional and horticultural information and traditional herbal/plant lore. (If you look at the bibliography of any worthwhile herb books written in the past 25-years, you may be astonished to see how prolific and influential Mr. Duke has been.) After his evening address, Jim (who has the recording "Herbalbum" to his credit) will haul out his aging bass fiddle and be lead thumper in an unrehearsed blue grass volunteer jam. Volunteers already committed: Popular Acres USA speaker Jerry Brunneti of Agri-Dynamics will be playing a jazz-tinged bluegrass accordian(!), and Jim Foltz of Peace in the Valley herbs will be there with his Jerry-tinged acoustic guitar and panpipes. All attendees of the conference are welcome to take part in the jam. If you want to play on Oct 2, let me know as soon as possible so we can start working on the stage. Other workshop leaders at this annual event will include Hugh Courtney of The Josephine Porter Institute of Applied Biodynamics ("The BD Preps"), Hugh Lovel, author of "A Biodynamic Farm" and director of Union Agricultural Institute ("Forces" in Agriculture), Anthroposophic Physician Dr Peter Hinderberger (Rudolf Steiner on Nutrition), Price-Pottenger Newsletter Editor and author ("Nourishing Traditions") Sally Fallon, Reichian investigator and author ("The Orgone Accumulator Handbook") Dr. James DeMeo ("Wilhelm Reich and the Discovery of the Life Force"); Permaculture Institute USA's Scott Pittman; nutritionist and soil scientist Jerry Brunneti of Agri-Dynamics ("Increasing Nutritional Density of Herbs and Crops through heirlooms and soil science") and last, but most definitely not least, author ("Pastured Poultry Profits") and grassroots marketing guru, Joel Salatin ("Making Farming Work for You") This year gourmet-quality biodynamic/organic meals will be prepared by Chef's Collaborative 2000, arranged by Leslie McEachern of New York's "Angelica Kitchen."(A plan is in place to incorporate produce and product donations from attendee's farms and gardens into every meal: if you will be interested in donating biodynamic or organic foodstuffs to the conference tables, please contact the coordinator, information below.) The conference is held on a historic 400 acre organic estate in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley outside of Charles Town, WV, near I-81, not far from I-70. Reasonably priced lodging is available on a first come/first served basis. Camping with showers is available. Trade Show tables are available for a very reasonable fee. Contact Allan Balliett (304) 876-237 FAX (304) 876-9414 email: igg@igg.com for more information. Watch http://www.biodynamics.com for detailed information and maps, etc as October draws nearer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Reminder: JOHN JEAVONS will speak on "Building a Better Sense of Humus" in Shepherdstown at 8:15 March 18. Admission is free. Reservations are encouraged. Contact Allan Balliett for information and reservations. */*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ Opinions expressed through this list, whether by the moderator or by list members, are simply the opinions of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BIODYNAMICS journal or of the BD Association of America. Check out the Biodynamic Association WEB PAGE for BIODYNAMIC resources: http://www.biodynamics.com This list is archived at: http://csf.colorado.edu/biodynamics/ Thank you, Allan Balliett, Moderator, BD-L. biodynamics@biodynamics.com */*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ For More Information about BIODYNAMICS and a BD Resource Guide, contact: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association POB 550, Kimberton, PA 19442 (610) 935-7797 * FAX (610) 983-3196 TOLL FREE Order Line: 1-800-516-7797 From mickgg@suburbia.net Tue Mar 10 19:58:25 1998 Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with SMTP id TAA06101 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:58:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 9531 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1998 00:56:06 -0000 Received: from wolzel.suburbia.net (HELO wingate) (203.4.184.209) by suburbia.net with SMTP; 11 Mar 1998 00:56:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3505EF33.535F@suburbia.net> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:56:03 +1000 From: Michael Gunter Reply-To: mickgg@suburbia.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re-writing history possible? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 106 Your archive site http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/msg00043.html contains a dead link to the Alternative Technology Association. I found your page by searching AltaVista, and am wondering if you could either delete the entry or change it to the new URL: http://www.ata.org.au/ Your help would be appreciated. Regards, Michael Gunter From Lcgoodkind@aol.com Thu Mar 12 03:50:49 1998 Received: from imo14.mx.aol.com (imo14.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.36]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id DAA19778 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:50:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from Lcgoodkind@aol.com by imo14.mx.aol.com (IMOv13.ems) id 6KQGa26753 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:48:06 -0500 (EST) From: Lcgoodkind Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:48:06 EST To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Organic Farm needs help Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 18 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 107 We have started an organic farm on 300 acres of oak forest and former pasture in Ramona California and need help f\in all aspects from seed starting to marketing. Serious inquiries may apply to LCGoodkind@aol.com From tfraser@gladstone.uoregon.edu Tue Mar 31 22:10:02 1998 Received: from gladstone.uoregon.edu (root@gladstone.uoregon.edu [128.223.142.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA03141 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:10:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from default.uoregon.edu (d189-243.uoregon.edu [128.223.189.243]) by gladstone.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA29723 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:07:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980331190523.006ad1f4@gladstone.uoregon.edu> X-Sender: tfraser@gladstone.uoregon.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:05:23 -0800 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu From: Tiffany Fraser Subject: info on tropical permiculture Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 108 dear reader, I need lots of information on tropical permeculture, for a friend of mine. he lives in Costa Rica and would like as much information as you have on this subject. In perticular he would like the different things about the soil and growing organic foods, and keeping animals. Also about managing insects. So if you could please send me some information it would be much appriciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Tiffany Fraser From kylieandphil@meridian.net.nz Wed Apr 1 22:20:32 1998 Received: from ns1.meridian.net.nz (root@ns1.meridian.net.nz [203.98.27.72]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA26805 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:20:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from ptown (port108.meridian.net.nz [203.98.27.85]) by ns1.meridian.net.nz (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA01755 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:17:56 +1200 Message-ID: <004101bd5de5$cf7531a0$551b62cb@ptown> From: "Kylie Sanderson" To: Subject: Request for Info re: sustainable, self-sufficent small farms Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:17:03 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003E_01BD5E4A.63D164E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 109 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BD5E4A.63D164E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello. I am a university student from Auckland New Zealand. I am = gathering information for a research assignment into a design for the = establishment of a self-sufficient small farm based on permaculture and = sustainability principles. I am hoping one day to put this design into = practice, living and working on it. I hope that it will serve as an = example of sustainable agriculture in my country, since we currently = have very few. I would be most grateful if you could send me any = information/diagrams/designs/etc that would be helpful to me in this = venture or if you could refer me to someone who may be able to help. = Thank you for your help, it is needed and much appreciated. =20 ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BD5E4A.63D164E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello. I am a university student = from Auckland=20 New Zealand. I am gathering information for a research assignment into a = design=20 for the establishment of a self-sufficient small farm based on = permaculture and=20 sustainability principles. I am hoping one day to put this design into = practice,=20 living and working on it. I hope that it will serve as an example of = sustainable=20 agriculture in my country, since we currently have very few. I would be = most=20 grateful if you could send me any information/diagrams/designs/etc that = would be=20 helpful to me in this venture or if you could refer me to someone who = may be=20 able to help. Thank you for your help, it is needed and much = appreciated. =20
------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BD5E4A.63D164E0-- From uglyduck@po.pacific.net.sg Fri Apr 3 01:16:13 1998 Received: from soran.pacific.net.sg (soran.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.76]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id BAA23969 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 01:16:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pop2.pacific.net.sg (pop2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.86]) by soran.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id OAA17649 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:09:23 +0800 (SGT) Received: from LOCALNAME (dyn243ppp143.pacific.net.sg [210.24.243.143]) by pop2.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id OAA04332 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:13:42 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <199804030613.OAA04332@pop2.pacific.net.sg> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 98 14:13:00 -0800 From: Chew Kheng Chuan Organization: WordMaker Design Pte Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22KIT (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Compost suggestions Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 110 We are an organic vegetable farm in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. Would like to seek some suggestions and advice on our Compost formula. We could get rice husks, local pea in saw dust compost, chicken dung and added yeast and enzyme. At present we are trying a 800:400:75:5 (respectively) bags ratio mix and producing about 15 tonnes of dry compost prep. From melina@acpub.duke.edu Wed Apr 8 09:37:00 1998 Received: from heinlein.acpub.duke.edu (heinlein.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.9]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id JAA25025 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:37:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Duke (melina.cis.duke.edu [152.3.147.108]) by heinlein.acpub.duke.edu (8.8.5/Duke-4.5.3) with SMTP id JAA20746; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980408083153.0069c99c@mail-me.acpub.duke.edu> X-Sender: melina@mail-me.acpub.duke.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 08:31:53 +0000 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu From: melina Subject: listserve? 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Permaculture FAQ, version 1.3

by Steve Diver


--------------8563DA945A9-- From london@sunsite.unc.edu Fri May 22 01:17:28 1998 Received: from titan.oit.unc.edu (titan.oit.unc.edu [152.2.22.14]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id BAA23833 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 01:17:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (london@localhost) by titan.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA16464 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 01:14:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.oit.unc.edu: london owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 01:14:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." X-Sender: london@titan.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re: Come together (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE; BOUNDARY=------------E7F2BC6079E3BF242479A6CC Content-ID: Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 117 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --------------E7F2BC6079E3BF242479A6CC Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london InterGarden london@sunSITE.unc.edu llondon@bellsouth.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:50:35 -0500 From: Douglas Hinds To: Amy Knutson Cc: sal , organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu, Organic Gardening Discussion List , sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: Come together Your suggestion is a good one but the following point must be stressed: The original consensus of standards put together by the National Organic Standards Board did NOT consider the profound negative effects that compulsory certification as per OFPA would bring. In other words, there are two separated issues, one of which is rooted in OFPA itself (not the rule) and has been largely ignored by the public - that of compulsory certification, which would have literally destroyed the organic movement if OFPA would have taken effect with the Proposed Rule in place, since the Proposed Rule would have made a mockery of the USA's only organic standards - and any export product coming from the US would have paid the price. Even if a decent Rule is enacted, as already stated on other occasions - there are other reasons to let OFPA certification stand on it's own merit as a distinct option, without invalidating the tradition that preceded it (and in fact gave birth to it - OFPA is a patricidal Act), by restricting all use of the word "organic" to OFPA certified products, exclusively. I repeat: Not enough attention has been focused on this issue to insure preventing the grave injustices that will result from OFPA and negate the good that OFPA can bring as a standards bearing piece of legislation, once a true and valid consensus has been reached regarding what is and what isn't organic. It's important that this definition be based on the principles, materials and methods that have always been and should continue to be used, rather than a bureaucratic certification that is inappropriate to a large number of circumstances, as determined by the buyer and seller themselves. I myself began farming in 1968, have NEVER used any synthetic agrochemicals and probably WOULD take advantage of OFPA if a decent standard resulted from it - but only on a voluntary basis, as a matter of principle. If a product I grow is organic, it's organic due the practices used, not because a governmental agency said I could say so because I bothered to have THEM endorse that fact, even though I may in fact SEEK that endorsement, in certain situations and as required by the buyer, not the US government. The US government would NOT be fulfilling a useful role, as OFPA is now written. Let them intermediate in order to establish a consistent (with the organic tradition) minimum national standard, which could well have the force of law - but WITHOUT compulsory certification, which is neither necessary for verification nor appropriate to many situationS and creates undue hardship and expense for countless legitimate organic farmers and consumers of organic products (besides being legally unenforceable - which may have to demonstrated after they fact, if what I'm striving to elucidate is not well assimilated). I sincerely hope that enough other people recognize the truth to what I spelling out and adhere to this cause, so that justice will be done sooner than later. Douglas Hinds Amy Knutson wrote: > Why not take the original consensus of standards put together by the > National Organic Standards Board, change some of the wording and reissue them as a > different certification as you describe? That way, farmers and producers won't be > breaking the law after USDA does their stuff and the rest of us will know which > standard actually has meaning for consumers. > -Amy K. > > On Wed, 20 May 1998, sal wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:53:43 -0700 > > From: sal > > To: organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu, > > organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu, > > Organic Gardening Discussion List , > > Multiple recipients of list OGL , > > sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu > > Subject: Come together > > > > "Not just organic -- community certified" > > > > > > > > The response to the USDA's proposed rules for organic has been loud and > > critical. The government's decision to include among other things genetically > > engineered organisms, sewage sludge, factory farming of livestock, and > > irradiated foods under the organic umbrella ranked farmers and consumers > > alike. It now appears almost certain that the rules will be rewritten, thus > > adding more time and frustration to what has already been a lengthy and > > confusing process. > > > > Some of us who have farmed for years chemical free are convinced that asking > > the USDA to define organic is like trusting the Fox to guard the chicken > > coop. > > Rather than waiting on the government "or anyone else" we are instead > > suggesting a proactive stance. Since last October we have been meeting > > monthly > > to discuss what shape appropriate local response to the debate on organic > > might > > take. Weather third party certified organic or biodynamic or independently > > organic we all agree that are most trusted and recognizable support comes from > > our customers. We also saw eye to eye on matters such as protecting customers > > right to choose, educating the public on the benefits of chemical free > > farming, > > in connecting customers to sources of food as Hallmark of good, safe and > > sustainable agriculture. > > > > Washington cannot address these matters for us, nor can they define the values > > they reflect, since they are spiritual values and depend on a system of > > regulation that exceeds any government's capacity to legislate. Instead, we > > need what we begun to call "community certification." Community certification > > is carried out by individuals who look at each other in the eye at farmers > > markets, in community programs, and produce stance. It is based on honor and > > trust, and no federal program will ever match its integrity. > > > > We recognize the years of combin agricultural experience represented among > > you, > > and we need your participation as we clarify what this new "system" should > > looked like. We are considering a new certification program tentatively > > called > > "community certified" which would not used word organic at all. Please > > join us > > in further discussion. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > An organic growers homepage check out > > > > http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". > > To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command > > "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". > > > > The Growing EDGE > P.O. Box 1027 > 341 S.W. 2nd Street > Corvallis, OR 97333 > Website -- http://www.growingedge.com > > To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". > To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command > "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". --------------E7F2BC6079E3BF242479A6CC Content-Type: TEXT/HTML; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Content-Description: Your suggestion is a good one but the following point must be stressed:  The original consensus of standards put together by the National Organic Standards Board did NOT consider the profound negative effects that compulsory certification as per OFPA would bring.

In other words, there are two separated issues, one of which is rooted in OFPA itself (not the rule) and has been largely ignored by the public - that of compulsory certification, which would have literally destroyed the organic movement if OFPA would have taken effect with the Proposed Rule in place, since the Proposed Rule would have made a mockery of the USA's only organic standards - and any export product coming from the US would have paid the price.

Even if a decent Rule is enacted, as already stated on other occasions - there are other reasons to let OFPA certification stand on it's own merit as a distinct option, without invalidating the tradition that preceded it (and in fact gave birth to it - OFPA is a patricidal Act), by restricting all use of the word "organic" to OFPA certified products, exclusively. 

I repeat: Not enough attention has been focused on this issue to insure preventing the grave injustices that will result from OFPA and negate the good that OFPA can bring as a standards bearing piece of legislation, once a true and valid consensus has been reached regarding what is and what isn't organic.

It's important that this definition be based on the principles, materials and methods that have always been and should continue to be used, rather than a bureaucratic certification that is inappropriate to a large number of circumstances, as determined by the buyer and seller themselves.

I myself began farming in 1968, have NEVER used any  synthetic agrochemicals and probably WOULD take advantage of OFPA if a decent standard resulted from it - but only on a voluntary basis, as a matter of principle.  If a product I grow is organic, it's organic due the practices used, not because a governmental agency said I could say so because I bothered to have THEM endorse that fact, even though I may in fact SEEK that endorsement, in certain situations and as required by the buyer, not the US government.

The US government would NOT be fulfilling a useful role, as OFPA is now written.  Let them intermediate in order to establish a consistent (with the organic tradition) minimum national standard, which could well have the force of law - but WITHOUT compulsory certification, which is neither necessary for verification nor appropriate to many situationS and creates undue hardship and expense for countless legitimate organic farmers and consumers of organic products (besides being legally unenforceable - which may have to demonstrated after they fact, if what I'm striving to elucidate is not well assimilated).

I sincerely hope that enough other people recognize the truth to what I spelling out and adhere to this cause, so that justice will be done sooner than later.

Douglas Hinds
 

Amy Knutson wrote:

Why not take the original consensus of standards put together by the
National Organic Standards Board, change some of the wording and reissue them as a different certification as you describe? That way, farmers and producers won't be breaking the law after USDA does their stuff and the rest of us will know which standard actually has meaning for consumers.
-Amy K.

On Wed, 20 May 1998, sal wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:53:43 -0700
> From: sal <sals@rain.org>
> To: organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu,
>     organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu,
>     Organic Gardening Discussion List <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>,
>     Multiple recipients of list OGL <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>,
>     sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Come together
>
> "Not just organic -- community certified"
>
>
>
> The response to the USDA's proposed rules for organic has been loud and
> critical.  The government's decision to include among other things genetically
> engineered organisms, sewage sludge, factory farming of livestock, and
> irradiated foods under the organic umbrella ranked farmers and consumers
> alike.  It now appears almost certain that the rules will be rewritten, thus
> adding more time and frustration to what has already been a lengthy and
> confusing process.
>
> Some of us who have farmed for years  chemical free are convinced that asking
> the USDA to define organic is like trusting the Fox to guard the chicken
> coop.
> Rather than waiting on the government "or anyone else" we are instead
> suggesting a proactive stance.  Since last October we have been meeting
> monthly
> to discuss what shape appropriate local response to the debate on organic
> might
> take.  Weather third party certified organic or biodynamic or independently
> organic we all agree that are most trusted and recognizable support comes from
> our customers.  We also saw eye to eye on matters such as protecting customers
> right to choose, educating the public on the benefits of chemical free
> farming,
> in connecting customers to sources of food as Hallmark of good, safe and
> sustainable agriculture.
>
> Washington cannot address these matters for us, nor can they define the values
> they reflect, since they are spiritual values and depend on a system of
> regulation that exceeds any government's capacity to legislate.  Instead, we
> need what we begun to call "community certification."  Community certification
> is carried out by individuals who look at each other in the eye at farmers
> markets, in community programs, and produce stance.  It is based on honor and
> trust, and no federal program will ever match its integrity.
>
> We recognize the years of combin agricultural experience represented among
> you,
> and we need your participation as we clarify what this new "system" should
> looked like.  We are considering a new certification program tentatively
> called
> "community certified" which would not used word organic at all.  Please
> join us
> in further discussion.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> An organic growers homepage check out
>
> http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
>
> To Unsubscribe:  Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg".
> To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command
> "subscribe sanet-mg-digest".
>

The Growing EDGE
P.O. Box 1027
341 S.W. 2nd Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
Website -- http://www.growingedge.com

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It contains a synopsis of historical perspectives on the perceived necessity for such an institute coming into existence. Short-term objectives are described. Communications from interested parties are requested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- July 2, 1998. The paperwork is completed for filing with the Washington Secretary of State for the founding of a non-profit corporation under Revised Code of Washington RCW 24.03. This corporation is to be named "Morning Star Institute of Ecological Synergy", and will be a research and teaching establishment. The founders are brothers Lion Kuntz and Stephen Kuntz. Steve is prior founder of a successful wolf conservation and education non-profit corporation, Wolf Haven International. Lion is the developer of the system and principles named "Ecological Synergy(tm). Recommendations for Initial Directors of the Board and/or members of an Advisory Board should be forwarded to email address: LionKuntz@AOL.com. Ecological-Synergy(tm) is defined as a system using a specified collection of techniques and knowledge to foster various lifeforms into functional communities which promote optimal conditions for long-term sustainable human habitation and agricultural productivity. An ecologically synergistic community is composed of microscopic lifeforms, plants, insects, livestock and people. Nothing is taken away by the introduction of Ecological-Synergy(tm) -- one more option has been added. There are multiple reasons why this organization should exist. "Organic" farming as popularized by the Rodale publishing family has tended over decades of evolution to move into directions which have become "phamaceutical quality", which is a standard of purity so extreme that few farmers care to try to qualify. As a consequence, growth of organic certified farming has grown very slowly. Oregon Tilth, for example only certifies about 200 farms after twenty years of operation, or about 10 per year average growth. The recent flap over national FDA "organic" standards demonstrates that the organic label is subject to local variations, and that there is wide divergence in opinions as to what constitutes a reliable safe food supply. There is room in all this diversity for yet another informed opinion. Morning Star Institute of Ecological Synergy (I.E.S.) is created for the purpose of being a repository of knowledge of ecological synergy interactions of lifeforms; to perform research, tests and experiments; teach important principles and techniques; and publish and distribute knowledge in forms easily understood. There is room in America for another voice. Like Rodale Institute, which has an experimental farm, and unlike Oregon Tilth, which has no experimental farm, I.E.S. will have an experimental farm(s) which will test competing theories to produce definitive results. These results will be available to fill the vacuum presently occupied by superstition and unfounded biases. Dividing wealth into two parts, physical and metaphysical (knowledge), I.E.S. is dedicated to multiplying both types. Ecological-Synergy(tm) knowledge and techniques have already proven effective in past tests, but there was not an entity to act as a repository of this knowledge. The non-profit corporate structure provides the vessel to add this knowledge to the permanent planetary metaphysical commonwealth. I.E.S. has additional puroses, including to develop, protect, license, and impliment techniques and related knowledge which safeguard ecological relationships and enhances them. I.E.S. is charged with helping in developing small business owner-operated farms, researching replacements of satisfactory or superior substitutes for known ecology damaging lifestyles and practices, to render obsolete destructive practices and mindsets, to protect species at risk plus their habitat essential conditions, to provide alternative economic incentives to promote biodiversity, and to promote legislative reforms necessary for healthy ecological perpetuation. This is a full plate, and can keep an Institute busy for generations. Morning Star I.E.S. is to be endowed with donations of intellectual property by founder Lion Kuntz, which if developed under I.E.S. charter can provide financial and material security for the early period of the organization's progress. Initial progress will follow opportunities which present themselves, mindful to keep to the stated purposes of the organization. Persons committed to human participation in sustainable communities of lifeforms, protecting endangered species, cultivating reliable safe food supplies and all related subjects are invited to communicate via email. Additional documents in MS Word(tm) format are available, or by facimile transmission by describing your interests to LionKuntz@AOL.com. CC: LionKuntz@Yahoo.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ From Milly@ap.net Fri Jul 10 01:06:06 1998 Received: from mailhost.ap.net (mail.ap.net [205.134.237.20]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id BAA28978; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 01:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vogmudet (D-08.Portal-01.ap.net [207.44.186.9]) by mailhost.ap.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA20284; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:01:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Mildred Martin To: saralein@unity.ncsu.edu, swolf@arnica.csustan.edu, web@arnarb.harvard.edu, dlw@unlinfo.unl.edu, permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu, webmaster@sunsite.unc.edu, govjlc01@asc.edu, adtodd@syr.edu, p-sittler@tamu.edu, majordomo@tardis.union.edu Subject: Reversing Plant Aging Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 120 Keeping Your Flowers and Trees Growing and Blooming Longer When plants age, they stop growing and flowering, and their leaves stop making protein and chlorophyll. Eventually the leaves turn yellow and fall off, and the plants become susceptible to fungal (rust) infections and insect attack. Plant aging or senescence is a biochemical process that is highly susceptible to environmental conditions. It can easily be stopped by plant hormones, either made by the plants themselves or by soil microorganisms. If your roses stop flowering after two months, your plants are either aging prematurely, or they are not receiving enough light. The aging process of plants can be slowed dramatically by gardeners who understand why plants "shut down" biochemically. Plants can grow in a bucket of rocks if they are fed chemical fertilizers that contain water-soluble minerals. Unfortunately for plants, most minerals in the soil are not water-soluble. This means that most plant growth is controlled by soil microorganisms that break down organic matter into simple molecules that the plants can use. Although plants can make their own vitamins and amino acids, they can also take them up from the soil if microorganisms "pre-process" them first. Becoming a successful gardener does not require a degree in botany or horticulture, but it does require some knowledge of plant nutrition and how plants grow in response to their natural environment. This knowledge is freely available, but it is generally "locked up" in the scientific literature in a form that is not readily understandable to the average person. I know all about "science speak". My name is Dr. Stephen Martin and I am Chief Scientist of Wyoming DnaVaccine, LLC. I am responsible for the design and development of vaccines against the HIV, and hepatitis B/C viruses, animal and human herpes viruses, and the TB bacterium (http://www.wyomdnavaccine.com). In an effort to keep sane, I adopted organic gardening as my passion about 6 years ago. Since that time, I have become very knowledgeable about plant nutrition and the physiology of plant cell growth regulation. I intend to share that knowledge, translated into understandable English, with others. I am starting a WEB site in about two months called Milly's Gourmet Organics. Milly is my 76 year-old mother, an avid gardener, and my business partner in this enterprise. The site will include useful information about all commercial and non- commercial fertilizers and how they can or cannot affect plant growth. Of particular interest will be a discussion of "Potting Soil" and why most commercial brands, in and of themselves, provide very few nutrients for plants. The site will also include recipes that I developed for making "bug juice", a non-odorous concoction of soil bacteria and easily obtained household items such as cornstarch, fruit and yeast that will make your plants grow and flower beyond your wildest expectations. If you want to be put on the mailing list, please send your request to milly@ap.net. In the interim, please bear with me. I have an interesting story to tell. In my mother's garden, the soil is 50% clay. When she moved to her present house, the lawn was sparse, and obviously dying. We ripped it up. It wasn't worth saving. We planted roses and numerous other plants, but they never did well. The soil conditions are barely suitable for the growth of even the hardiest of plants. About five years ago, a friend gave me a few pounds of high-grade fish meal for making soups and stocks. On a whim, I put one tablespoon of the meal in one gallon of water and fed it to my mother's sickly rose bushes. The results were apparent within weeks. Milly's roses started growing and budding to an extent that is difficult to believe. The roses now bloom 8 months of the year, the leaves are lush green, and there is very little rust even though my mother lives on the edge of a fog belt. Surprisingly, there have been no aphid infestations since the fish meal was first fed to the roses. I treated her sick apple and pear trees in the same manner. Both trees were sparsely foliated with little fruit, the leaves were yellow and covered with rust, and the fruit was small, spotted with fungus and worm-ridden. My mother was going to have both trees removed. One year later, after applying 4 gallons of the fish meal slurry to the base of the trees, both trees are lush green with foliage and have more fruit that any ten families could possibly use. There is no rust, and the fruit is completely worm-free. A plumb tree that was planted 5 years ago as a small bare root sapling is now over 12 feet tall, and has so many plumbs that the limbs of the tree sag under the weight. The lower limbs touch the ground. It took me awhile to find out why fish meal, per se, is such a good fertilizer at such low concentrations. The answer turned out to be more complicated than I originally thought. First, this fish meal works as a fertilizer because it is actually a human food product. It consists of fresh whole fish that are either too small to be filleted or the wrong species. The fish are processed within 8 hours of harvesting in order to preserve freshness. The rapid cooking process stops the ammonification process, and other natural degradation processes that occur when a fish or animal dies. The intense steam heat stops the enzymatic breakdown of the fish organs and preserves the integrity of the plant growth factors in the meal. These growth factors, and the vitamins that are present in high concentrations in fish organs, are heat stable. The enzymes that break down growth factors into simpler compounds are not. The potency of the fish meal as a fertilizer has nothing to do with its high protein content. If that were true, chicken manure would probably work just as well. It doesn't. Manure does not contain these molecules because they are absorbed out of an animal or bird's food in their digestive tracts. In time, I found that the growth factors were actually precursors or biochemical building blocks for the group of plant hormones called auxins and cytokinins. Auxins control root growth and the elongation (not growth) of individual plant cells. Cytokinins stimulate plant cell growth, the synthesis of protein and chlorophyll, and induce budding and flowering. Cytokinins also stimulate the synthesis of molecules in plant leaves, stems and roots that protect plants from fungal and insect attacks. Auxins and cytokinins work together to stop plant aging or senescense. Plants can make these hormones internally, but the hormones can also be made by a wide diversity of soil bacteria and fungi. When the hormones are secreted into the root zone by microorganisms, the plants will continue to grow and senescence will be postponed until the weather becomes harsh. The fish meal does not contain preformed auxins or cytokinins, but it does contain very high concentrations of molecules that can be rapidly turned into these hormones by soil microorganisms. When I planted Milly's roses, I packed the roots in fresh compost. Fresh compost contains a large number of microorganisms that break down organic matter, but not all organic matter is equally useful as a fertilizer. When fed the fish meal, the microorganisms produced plant growth hormones, and the rest is history. Plant compost does not contain these molecules because growth hormones are unstable and are not stored in plant tissues. They are naturally degraded very soon after they are made. High concentrations of auxins and cytokinins also block the activity of the plant enzymes that make the hormones in the plant cells. This natural feedback prevents plants from growing too vigorously. We can get around this "natural block" by inducing bacteria and fungi to make the auxins and cytokinins for the plants in the soil. After much experimentation, I found that bakers yeast, fed a diet of sugar and fish meal, also makes cytokinins. A recipe for a simple, yet potent "bug juice" fertilizer will be included in the forthcoming Milly's Gourmet Organics WEB site. Milly's Gourmet Organics is a company that presently sells only MaxGro, a 100% Certified Organic Fertilizer, e.g. the fish meal I've been talking about in this message. It is mixed with freshly cooked crab shell waste in order to increase the calcium concentration (very important for plants), and to reduce the cost of the fertilizer. Also, the chitin in the crabshell stimulates soil organisms to secrete enzymes called chitinases. These enzymes degrade chitin, which is a component of nematode and flea egg shells. The presence of chitin in the fertilizer makes it a natural biopesticide that is non-toxic to birds, animals, fish, and plants. This fertilizer is 30% protein, 6% nitrogen, 4% phosphorus, 0.6% potash, and 14% calcium. One pound will make 25 to 100 gallons of a water-based fertilizer slurry. The exact concentration of fish meal needed will depend on the health of your plants. MaxGro is sold in one pound bags for $12.95 (plus $.98 cents sales tax for CA residents) plus $3.00 for shipping by priority mail. Only US orders containing checks or money orders can be accepted until the WEB site is functional in a month or so. MasterCard/Visa and international orders will be accepted when ordering through the WEB site. We are discounting MaxGro now in order to more accurately guage consumer interest. Fish meal is only available seasonally so we must contract in advance with the processing plant. By ordering now, you are helping us more accurately plan for the future. In the future, we will also be selling dried, purified soil bacterial preparations that can be used to supplement the bacteria already in the soil. These bacteria are not genetically engineered, but they are superior in their ability to break down plant proteins, starches, cellulose and pectin in the soil. I've isolated these bugs from some of the finest compost piles on the West Coast. ("You design vaccines for a living and crawl around compost piles for a hobby?"). If you don't have a compost pile-for example if you live in an apartment or condo-you will need to spike the bug juice I described earlier with superior soil bacteria in order to improve the growth of your house or patio plants. As soon as we can afford a $250,000 fermentor, we will prepare the bacterial strains for sale to the public. Orders can be sent to Milly's Organics, 265 Spanish Flag, Sonoma, CA 95476. Email is milly@ap.net. Please make checks out to Milly's and allow 2 weeks after the receipt of your order for delivery. Thanks for your patience and happy gardening. Oh, one more thing. If you ever meet an arrogant, know-it-all person who is totally full of him/hershelf, remind he/she that plants can make all their own vitamins, sugars and amino acids and live on CO2, sunshine and soil minerals. Animals can't. So, in a very real biochemical sense, plants are superior organisms or "beings" to humans-at least some humans. Milly and Steve From error3434@juno.com Mon Jul 13 04:20:23 1998 Received: from UPIMSSMTPSYS06 (upimssmtpsys06.email.msn.com [207.68.152.43]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id EAA27538 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 04:20:23 -0400 (EDT) From: error3434@juno.com Received: from UPIMSSMTPUSR06 - 207.68.143.178 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 01:12:58 -0700 Received: from juno.com - 209.142.3.33 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 01:11:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:03:45 PDT To: , , , , , , , , , Reply-To: error3434@juno.com Errors-To: error3434@juno.com X-URL: http://208.201.47.129/freex.html Subject: free x Message-ID: <074a30911080d78UPIMSSMTPUSR06@email.msn.com> Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 121 Dear Valued Customer, hey if you are over 21 and want to see a nice new free xx page i just put up then come to http://208.201.47.129/freex.html if you do not want to recieve this message just put remove in the subject line and send it back From <@nomina.lu.se:Folke.Gunther@humecol.lu.se> Mon Jul 13 08:37:07 1998 Received: from nomina.lu.se (nomina.lu.se [130.235.132.90]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with SMTP id IAA02784 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:37:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from luetnfs.etn.lu.se by nomina.lu.se with SMTP (5.65/IDA-1.2.8) id AA27790; Mon, 13 Jul 98 14:37:58 +0200 Received: from LUETNFS/SpoolDir by LUETNFS.etn.lu.se (Mercury 1.21); 13 Jul 98 14:37:51 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by LUETNFS (Mercury 1.30); 13 Jul 98 14:37:30 +0100 Received: from tompewter by LUETNFS.etn.lu.se (Mercury 1.30) with ESMTP; 13 Jul 98 14:37:25 +0100 Message-Id: <35A9FE72.5FE8B88D@humecol.lu.se> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:32:50 +0200 From: "Folke =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: pool purification X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by luna.oit.unc.edu id IAA02784 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 122 I am about to construct a biological purification plant for a swimming pool of the type described in Mollison's Designer's Manual p 179-180 (1988 edition). Does any of you have experience of such a purification device, or do you know of something (more) written about it? Please tell me. E-mail: Folke.Gunther@humecol.lu.se Fax: +46 46 14 15 39 Folke Günther ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Folke Günther +46 (0)46/ 14 14 29 el. +46 (0)46/ 222 36 98. URL: http://www.humecol.lu.se/~folke_g/folkegsv.htm This message is written with 100% recycled electrons From pteggin@eng.uct.ac.za Wed Jul 15 06:58:53 1998 Received: from www.eng.uct.ac.za (www.eng.uct.ac.za [137.158.135.175]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id GAA29632 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eng.uct.ac.za (red06.eng.uct.ac.za [137.158.41.106]) by www.eng.uct.ac.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25868 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:55:55 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from pteggin@eng.uct.ac.za) Message-ID: <35AC8AB3.2B8222DE@eng.uct.ac.za> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:55:47 +0200 From: PHILIP GEORGE TEGGIN TGGPHI001 Organization: Faculty of Engineering - University of Cape Town X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re: as much info as pos Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 123 Hi Please send me as much info as possible about permaculture. Especially about starting out. Thanx philip From SAntonaros@aol.com Thu Jul 30 20:49:22 1998 Received: from imo25.mx.aol.com (imo25.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.69]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id UAA06034 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:49:21 -0400 (EDT) From: SAntonaros@aol.com Received: from SAntonaros@aol.com by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id JGBUa07259 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:43:55 +2000 (EDT) Message-ID: <9e64f6b5.35c1134c@aol.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:43:55 EDT To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Information about permaculture farms in Northern Spain Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 84 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 124 Dear Permaculturists, on my search for a Permacultur-farm in Spain, I found you. My husband and I want to found a community in Northern Spain. We are form California and Germany. Recently I finished a Permaculture-Design-Course in Occidental, California. We still live in the U.S., but in October we will travel for a short while to Spain and would like to meet with other permaculturists or organic/biodynamic farmers. Unfortunatly we can't make it down to Malaga this time. But maybe you know farmers or communities in the Northern part of Spain? Do you know any other sources in Spain for information about farming and community-live? If you could send us some information or give us tips where we can go find it, that would be wonderful. Do you know if there are farms in Spain conected with the WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farms)? Thank you for your help Good Luck to you and your project Hope to meet you soon Alexandra and Edward PS: I also send this message to peter@sdaleI.demon.co.uk Our Mailing address is: Alexandra Ries and Edward Ragle 680 Shotwell St. San Francisco, CA U.S.A. From putratan@indosat.net.id Fri Jul 31 07:08:14 1998 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id HAA20888 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:08:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.12.23 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:57:39 +0700 Message-ID: <35C1A343.AB8B3B7F@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:58:11 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 125 ANNOUNCEMENT Medan, June 1, 1998 Dear friends, We would like to inform you that North Sumatra Peasant Union/SPSU have already moved to this new address: 1. Mailing Address: Jl. Karya Jasa 58 Pkl. Masyhur Medan Sumatera Utara – Indonesia 20143 2. Tel./Fax: +6261 762073 3. Email Address: putratan@indosat.net.id Thanks for your cooperation (and also your support for Indonesian People's struggle againts Suharto's regime!) hopefully our communication will be more closer in the future! Muhammad Yunus Nasution Ketua Umum / President Muhammad Harris Putra Sekretaris Umum/General Secretary Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara/SPSU (North Sumatra Peasant Union/NSPU) is the federation of peasant consists of 40 local peasant organizations in North Sumatera Province as its member.SPSU was declared by the peasant of North Sumatera in Parsariran, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatera Province Indonesia on June 3 1994. SPSU was the member of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) at International Level, and member of Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) at National Level. SPSU is founder and member of Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia/FSPI (Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union/FIPU). FSPI or FIPU declared on July 8th 1998 by several peasant organization of Indonesia. SPSU has two main bodies : Peasant Representative Board as the legislative body and The Peasant Executive Body. Both of them are elected by Congress directly. In order to implement its program SPSU will set up the Special Task Force and recruit the Consulates in local, regional, national, and international level. Special task force and Consulates are the supporting system of The Peasant Executive body consists of everyone and every institutions who concern to the Agrarian Reform, Sustainable Agriculture, Democracy, and Peasant Movement. From putratan@indosat.net.id Fri Jul 31 07:08:25 1998 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id HAA20893 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:08:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.12.23 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:58:15 +0700 Message-ID: <35C1A367.39837E2C@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:58:47 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 126 PRESS RELEASE SUMMARISED FEDERATION of INDONESIAN PEASANTS UNION (FEDERASI SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA) On 8 July 1998, in Kampung Dolok Maraja, Bandar Pulau, Asahan, North Sumatra, representatives from 9 peasants organisations announced the formation of the Federation of Indonesian Peasants Union (FSPI). Background: 1. The authoritarian rule of the New Order regime did not allow for freedom of political expression nor the freedom of association and participation, especially by the people. 2. The New Order regime established a capitalist economic system which encouraged the excessive exploitation of natural resources and the people of Indonesia by monopolies in the hands of a small group and class. Throughout the 32 years of the New Order regime, land has been taken away from the people and turned into industrial areas, golf courses and captial-intensive agrobusinesses. 3. The government deceived the people with its claims of economic success, as is proven by the current economic crisis. Economic development has been pushed right back to beyond 'point zero'. 4. Despite the severity economic crisis, the New Order regime still attempted to rule with its existing authoritarian political format, nothwithstanding that it claimed legitimacy for its rule on the basis of economic development. That this political system is redundant is evidenced not least by the riots and unrest throughout April and May of this year. 5. The economic crisis resulted in the demands for reform and the fall the New Order regime. Nevertheless, reform cannot be attained, until Indonesia's economy is based on the development of the agricultural and farming sector. The development of these sectors includes both economic and political development. In accordance with the above, the foundation of FSPI is a manifestation of the committment and consistency of the struggle by the peasants in Indonesia in general and represents the continuation of the struggle of the peasants of Indonesia throughout this period. FSPI struggle for reform is based on Religious Belief, Solidarity, Independence, Democracy, Non-Violence and Non-Discrimination. FSPI's committment to this struggle will take the form of f a number of programmes concerned with Agrarian and Social and Political Reform. FSPI proposes to: 1. Lobby the government to implement Land Reform policies and to recognize traditional land rights. 2. Promote, implement organic farming practices and the sustainable exploitation of natural resources. 3. Develop farming cooperatives. 4. Promote the freedom of association and to provide a political role to the peasants of Indonesia. The first concrete step taken by FSPI to implement its principles is to assist the peasants of Lampung whose harvest has failed, by calling for the support and solidarity of all Indonesian peasants, particularly in Sumatra, and to send them rice and other produce. Medan 12 July 1998 FEDERASI SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA (FSPI) HENRY SARAGIH Chair RIDWAN A MUNTHE General Secretary DECLARATION OF FORMATION OF THE FEDERASI SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA (FEDERATION of INDONESIAN PEASANTS UNION) Indonesia is an agrarian nation whose economic development should be based on sound agricultural development on which the develoment of the state and its people as a whole should be founded. In reality, the state has implemented a form of development which is not in the interests of or in accordance with the charcteristics of the Indonesian people. We, the peasants of Indonesia have, in an organized and planned way, made every effort to create development practices based on the needs of the people and agricultural conditions of the state. Our struggle has taken shape in the form of peasants organisations and various actions. We the peasants of Indonesia have not ceased in our struggle, although this struggle did not receive the support of the political system of the New Order regime. In order to attain peaceful and beneficial existence for the peasants and the people of Indonesia via agricultural reform and development, We denounce the authoritarian political system which has chained the peasants and denied them their rights to freedom of expression and association. The authoritarian political system has violated the peasants' rights. We reject the capitalistic economic system which has resulted in the theft of peasants lands, destroyed the environment and forced the peasants into a biased and unfair trading system, as well as violating the rights of traditional peoples. We reject a cultural system which is not egalitarian and emancipatory. Besides the violation of the peasants' political and economic rights, the peasants' cultural systems have also been eroded. Peasants have been isolated, left-behind in terms of economic development, experienced social inequality, including inequality in the relationship between gender. A culture based on consumerism, indivisualism and inequality has destroyed their social, moral and ethical foundation. In order to overcome all the problems faced by the peasants of Indonesia, with God's Mercy, we, the peasants of Indonesia, found the FSPI in order to reclaim our right to self-determination and to struggle for a just agrarian society and democratic political system. Dolok Maraja, Asahan, North Sumatra, Indonesia 23.55 WIB 8 July 1998 Signed: 1. Representative of Organisasi Petani Aceh Aceh 2. Representative of Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara (SPSU) 3. Representative of Badan Perjuangan Rakyat Penunggu Indonesia (BPRPI) 4. Representative of Organisasi Petani Sumatera Barat 5. Representative of Organisasi Petani Riau 6. Representative of Organisasi Petani Jambi 7. Representative of Organisasi Petani Bengkulu 8. Representative of Organisasi Petani Sumatera Selatan 9. Representative of Persatuan Insan Tani Lampung (PITL) ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE FEDERASI SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA A. PEASANTS REPRESENTATIVES Head: M. Yunus Nasution dari SPSU (Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara) Members: 1. Afnawi Noeh, dari BPRPI (Badan Perjuangan Rakyat Penunggu Indonesia) Sumatera Utara 2. Abdul Gimin, dari P I I L (persatuan Insan Tani Lampung), Lampung 3. Salbiah, dari utusan organisasi petani Aceh 4. Kusnun Sukardi, utusan organisasi petani Jambi 5. Suharyo Sastrosuwignyo, utusan organisasi petani Riau 6. Henry Dunan, utusan organisasi petani Sumatera Barat 7. Sudirman, utusan organisasi petani Bengkulu 8. Hariadi, utusan organisasi petani Sumatera Selatan B. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1. Head: Henry Saragih, SPSU (Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara) 2. General Secretay: Riduan A Munthe , organisasi petani Aceh REPRESENTATIVES OF PEASANT ORGANISATIONS ATTENDING THE DECLARATION OF THE FEDERASI SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA (FSPI) 1. Agus Syahputra Jl. P. Besar No. 38 Lambung Blang, Bendahara Aceh Timur, Aceh 2. Ridwan A. Munthei Jl. As-Sumatrani No. 3 Darussalam Banda Aceh, Aceh 3. Salbiah Desa Teluk Halban, Bendahara, Aceh Timur, Aceh 4. Andi P. Ritonga Padang Sidempuan, Tapanuli Selatan Sumut 5. Afnawi Noeh Medan, Sumatera Utara 6. Arief Jl. Brigjen Katamso, Sei Mati, Medan Sumatera Utara 7. Adi Purnomo Jl. STM, SukaEka Surya No. 45 Medan Sumatera Utara 8. Anhar Zulkifli Medan, Sumatera Utara 9. A. Damanik Dolok Maraja, Bandar Pulau Asahan, Sumatera Utara 10 Edi Prayitno Jl. Persaudaraan No. 35 Rantau Perapat Labuhan Batu, Sumut 11. Harun Noeh Medan, Sumatera Utara 12 Henry Saragih Jl. Karya Jasa No. 58 Medan, Sumatera Utara 13 Lisda Yani Jl. KH. Mas Mansyur, No. 34C Kisaaran, Sumatera Utara 14 M. Haris Putra Jl. Karya Jasa No. 58 Medan, Sumatera Utara 15 M. Yunus Jl. Karya Jasa No. 58 Medan, Sumatera Utara 16 Nelly Armayanti Jl. KH. Mas Mansyur, No. 34C Kisaaran, Sumatera Utara 17 Suardi Mahmud Jl. Alumunium IV T. Mulia Medan Sumut 18 Sukardi Jl. KH. Mas Mansyur, No. 34C Kisaaran, Sumatera Utara 19. Waris Gang Melayu, Bukit Kijang, Bandar Pulau Sumatera Utara 20. Yusnaini Dewi Jl. Karya Jasa No. 58 Medan Sumut 21. Armen Muhammad Jl. Raya Kapas Panji KM. 3 No. 12, Bukit tinggi Sumatera Barat 22. Hendri Gunan Desa Anduring, 2x11 enam lingkung, Pariaman, Sumbar 23. Ifwardi Jl. Raya Kapas Panji KM. 3 No. 12, Bukit tinggi Sumatera Barat 24. Aryo Laboi Jaya, SKPA, SP. I Bangkinang Riau 25. Kusnun Sukardi Jl. Ks. Pudak, Rt.07 No. 1 Batang hari, Jambi 26. Tony Offe Jl. Empu Gandring No, 50 Jambi 27. Muspani Jl. S. Parman No. 39 Bengkulu 28. Sudirman Tengah Padang, Talang IV. Bengkulu 29. Sapta Lasta Putra Jl. Belitung No. 57/XV Suka Merindu , Bengkulu 30. Wahdan Jl. Meriam Kecepek, desa Tabalagan Talang IV Bengkulu 31 Abu Jufri Hasan Perumahan PU Pengairan, Jl. AR Sugihan 842 Suka Maju Palembang 32. Angkut Desa Bangsai, Pampangan Ogan Komering Ilir, Sumsel 33. JJ. Polong Jl. Seduduk Putih, No. 10 A Palembang, Sumsel 34. Dedi Mawardi BandarLampung 35. Abdul Gimin Bandar Lampung From Marbro@compuserve.com Sun Aug 16 23:16:35 1998 Received: from hil-img-8.compuserve.com (hil-img-8.compuserve.com [149.174.177.138]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id XAA04589 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by hil-img-8.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.12) id XAA27901 for permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:11:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:10:47 -0400 From: "Mark S. Browning" Subject: catalog Sender: "Mark S. Browning" To: "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" Message-ID: <199808162310_MC2-5643-1892@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by luna.oit.unc.edu id XAA04589 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 127 Is it possible to send a catalog? If so, please do so to Mark Browning, 2544 Hobbs, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) 15212. From lornas@istar.ca Thu Aug 20 22:48:34 1998 Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id WAA17038 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:48:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ts2-04.gla.istar.ca ([137.186.20.211] helo=jeff) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with smtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu id 0z9hAj-00035O-00; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:43:26 -0400 Message-ID: <35DBEE3B.A0B@istar.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:36:59 +0000 From: lindajeff Reply-To: lornas@istar.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: volunteer work - please reply using hotmail address at bottom of page Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 128 Hello! We are a South African couple, now in North America, and want to gain experience in organic farming methods and permaculture while here. The general idea we have is to do volunteer work over the next year. We are not choosy about whether we start off working on a farm in Canada or the USA. It is our hope that, having got a break onto the first farm, we'll be able to network better in order to move to other farms. Long-term positions are also very acceptable to us. We are both 31 and have university degrees (education and mechanical engineering). We have recently completed a 2-week permaculture course, which included aspects of eco-villages. The last two years we have been managing a luxury (17-bed) tourist lodge in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, whilst overseeing the management of a backpacker-type camp (70 people) on the same island. Our skills are many and varied and we're not afraid of hard graft. At the moment we are staying with friends in Nova Scotia, Canada and looking for a car to buy. We hope to be mobile by the August 25. We hope you can help us in our quest, either directly or by putting us in contact with someone who could use our help. Thank you very much. Greg Austin & Brenda Gold Email: brengreg@hotmail.com From d.wheeler@uws.edu.au Mon Aug 24 02:50:51 1998 Received: from ariel.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU (ariel.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU [137.154.72.5]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id CAA02604 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d-wheeler.macarthur.uws.edu.au ([137.154.93.24]) by ariel.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA09271 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:33:52 +1100 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:33:52 +1100 Message-Id: <199808240533.QAA09271@ariel.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> X-Sender: aadw@tscc.macarthur.uws.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu From: d.wheeler@uws.edu.au (Denise Wheeler) Subject: permaculture Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 129 I am enrolled in a Master of Design program and I am required to do a case study on a designer - industrial, landscape, fashion, etc. I am trying to justify to my lecturer that Bill Mollison and Permaculture will fit into this category. I am required to look at the design methodology used by the designer and the designer's interaction with other designers. Can you give me any information that will strengthen my argument and convince my lecturer that permaculture design is in fact a valid design topic. Thankyou for your time Kind Regards Denise Wheeler From birch@nettrek.com.au Wed Sep 2 03:30:00 1998 Received: from enterprise.nettrek.com.au (root@enterprise.nettrek.com.au [203.17.236.1]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id DAA09012 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 03:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from birch.nettrek.com.au (dial66.nettrek.com.au [203.38.37.66]) by enterprise.nettrek.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA06099 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:17:41 +0800 From: "The Birch Family" To: Subject: help required Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:15:31 -0400 Message-ID: <01bdd6a6$0e0892c0$422526cb@birch.nettrek.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDD684.86F6F2C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 130 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDD684.86F6F2C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi I am trying to find somewhere to find out how to turn our fibreglass = swimming pool into a permaculture-type lily pond. 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------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDD684.86F6F2C0-- From msb27@csufresno.edu Fri Sep 11 15:31:41 1998 Received: from shadow.csufresno.edu (shadow-fddi.csufresno.edu [129.8.50.110]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id PAA29067 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:31:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lennon.csufresno.edu (lennon.csufresno.edu [129.8.219.106]) by shadow.csufresno.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17401 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 129.8.212.91 (cvip-mod2-ppp33.csufresno.net [129.8.212.91]) by lennon.csufresno.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA14430; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35F98629.5D34@student.csufresno.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:20:57 -0800 From: Lisa & Mike Biskup X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: animals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 131 Im looking for specific info on integrating animals into orchards. Do you have any suggestions? Mike clovis,ca From regner1@centuryinter.net Fri Sep 11 17:40:01 1998 Received: from pop.centuryinter.net (pop.centuryinter.net [209.142.136.253]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id RAA01280 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:40:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from centuryinter.net (ppp101.os.centuryinter.net [207.230.211.243]) by pop.centuryinter.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04231 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35F99621.E3E5E0D8@centuryinter.net> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:29:05 -0500 From: kimberly regner Reply-To: regner1@centuryinter.net Organization: pair o lakes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: MAKE LOTS OF CASH, FAST AND COMPLETELY LEGAL, THIS REALLY WORKS!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 132 MAKE LOTS OF CASH, FAST AND COMPLETELY LEGAL, THIS REALLY WORKS!! THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!! IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO A LETTER FOR IT TO WORK!!!! A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought," Yeah, right, this must be a scam", but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and post the article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $25.00. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, I have spent more than that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it works....also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it as you need it. A cousin of mine did this a few months back, and he is now enjoying life in his brand new Tahoe Sport!! ($30,000+). So it does work!! STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses: #1) Tiffany P.O. Box 3264 Winchester, VA 22604 #2) Holly 1946 N. Heath, Meridian, ID 83642 #3) Mike 615 Ashford Parkway, Dunwoody, GA 30338 #4) Robert 1951 Murdock Road, Belton, SC 29627 #5)Chase 5478 Kuldell Houston, TX 77096 #6)Lexi W7341 Pair O' Lakes Rd, Spooner, WI 54801 STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 6 on the list. STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there are close to 24,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make! ---DIRECTIONS -----HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS------------ Step 1) You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this letter and drag your cursor to the bottom of this document, and select 'copy' from the edit menu. This will copy the entire letter into the computers memory. Step 2) Open a blank "notepad" file under accessories in windows and place your cursor at the top of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This will paste a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list. Step 3) Save your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to do your postings in different sittings, you'll always have this file to go back to. Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for various newsgroups (on-line forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions.) Step 5) Visit these message boards and post this article as a new message by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting paste from the edit menu. Fill in the Subject, this will be the header that everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group, click the post message button. You're done with your first one! Congratulations...THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroupes and post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup! **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** That's it! You will begin reciving money from around the world within days! You may eventually wany to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail you will receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.** Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the actual internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. From voni@tir.com Sat Sep 26 13:05:00 1998 Received: from sun.tir.com (sun.tir.com [205.138.41.6]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id NAA29127 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:05:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from default (port02.mico06.tir.com [209.140.177.3]) by sun.tir.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA00831 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:50:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000101bde96d$7240d340$03b18cd1@default> From: "ACEY" To: Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:48:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 133 My name is Chip , I have developed a totally natural [ organic ] product that increases soil microorganism populations. Plants, grass , and vegetables grown in soils where the product has been added are larger, healthier, and more disease resistant. This product also dramatically increases the mineral content of vegetables . The Product is most effective when used in an organic soil . I am looking for a means of marketing this product world wide. The product is called "NutraSurge"T.M., Patent Pending. I can be reached by ....... Phone 1-248-634-9661, Fax 1-248-634-0917 e-mail voni@tir.com From soulblade@icon.co.za Sat Oct 3 01:41:34 1998 Received: from relay.icon.co.za (relay.icon.co.za [196.26.208.4]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with SMTP id BAA24422 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20872 invoked from network); 3 Oct 1998 05:27:06 -0000 Received: from mail450.icon.co.za (196.26.208.3) by relay.icon.co.za with SMTP; 3 Oct 1998 05:27:06 -0000 Received: from soulblade (a4-jhb-9.dial-up.net [196.26.216.137]) by mail450.icon.co.za (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA16095 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:26:32 +0200 (GMT) Message-ID: <000701bdee8e$1ba35e60$03c81ac4@soulblade> From: "Charles Sterzel" To: Subject: photovoltaic pumps Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:24:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEE9E.DA08DFA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 134 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEE9E.DA08DFA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bill Mollison, Where can I get photovoltaic pumps, as suggested in the = Designer's Manual on page 180 under the heading 'Natural Swimming = Pools'? 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------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEE9E.DA08DFA0-- From azza@bayo-net.com Sun Oct 4 12:59:44 1998 Received: from adour.bayo-net.com ([194.98.149.1] (may be forged)) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id MAA08810 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by adour.bayo-net.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA09377; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 18:45:17 +0200 Received: from anglet.bayo-net.com (194.98.149.231, claiming to be "m.barret") by adour.bayo-net.com with SMTP id smtpda09373; Sun, 04 Oct 1998 18:45:13 MET DST From: "azza" To: "CHICHE !" , Subject: I would be happy to join your forum Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 18:35:52 +0200 Message-ID: <01bdefb5$0dd19540$e79562c2@m.barret> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEFC5.D15A6540" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 135 Message en plusieurs parties et au format MIME. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEFC5.D15A6540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEFC5.D15A6540 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDEFC5.D15A6540-- From info@inquizitive.com Tue Oct 27 07:36:31 1998 Received: from www2.webindia.com (www2.webindia.com [206.86.247.120]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id HAA27748 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 07:36:31 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: info@inquizitive.com Received: from inquizitive.com (Administrators@localhost) by www2.webindia.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA00294 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:41:36 -0800 (Pacific Daylight Time) Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:41:30 -0800 (Pacific Daylight Time) Resent-Message-Id: <199810271241.EAA00294@www2.webindia.com> Message-ID: <3635C2F7.1ECAE061@inquizitive.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:26:24 +0530 From: Narasimhan Santhanam X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Your web site/request for help on S Africa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 136 Hi I was browsing the Net for details about your country when I came across your web site and your contact details. 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Could you please inform me of the right time to graft the avocadoes kind regards, Rakesh From pcopts@bssc.edu.au Thu Nov 26 05:11:37 1998 Received: from terminus.bssc.edu.au (proxy.bssc.edu.au [203.16.225.2]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with SMTP id FAA06560 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 05:11:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [203.16.225.84] (HELO Dial_Up.bssc.edu.au) by terminus.bssc.edu.au (AltaVista Mail V2.0/2.0 BL23 listener) id 0000_006d_365d_28d9_51f0; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:09:29 +1100 Message-ID: <365D270A.30E3@bssc.edu.au> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:01:46 +1100 From: brendan odonoghue Reply-To: pcopts@bssc.edu.au Organization: permaculture options X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Permaculture Options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 141 http://wwww.bssc.edu.au/community/users/odonoghue.b/index.htm Consulting/Design/Education - situated in Central Victoria Australia From putratan@indosat.net.id Fri Nov 27 05:27:25 1998 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id FAA17705 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 05:26:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.2.20 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:26:08 +0700 Message-ID: <365E50FD.26D847A9@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:13:01 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: oashour , oba1 , "obz@mozcom.com" , Ohalim , "oici@oicinternational.org" , omar , omarh , omeish , Oregonia , "opius@gol.grosseto.it" , Organic Consumers Association , "owa@indo.net.id" , owner-sisters , OXFAM-Canada , OXFAM-GB , "oxfam-uki@yogya.wasantara.net.id" , "oxfamcom@igc.apc.org" , P3AEUI , P3M , "p_moonen@bc.sympatico.ca" , Pakisama , Pam Allen , Pang , parveez , "patcox@onr.com" , pathan , Patricia Henry , Patricia Whittier , Paul Nicholson , Paul Sinappan , pbhi , PCRC , pdv , Peggy Ball , Peasant Youth Movement , "peinarsson@nn.inform.dk" , Pekerti , "PELAEZ@REDVAX1.DGSCA.UNAM.MX" , Pelangi , pembaru , Pen New York , "penk@bdg.centrin.net.id" , PERC , "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" , PHILDHRRA , phildhrra , "philip@wri.org" , Pieter Elmas , Pijar Indonesia , PKBI , PLASMA , playfair , Pollard , postbox , "postmast@procam.org.pe" , PPD Yogya , "ppi@qinet.net" , PPSDAK , "prasmussen@igc.apc.org" , prem , "preparata@mi.infn.it" , "press-action@agp.org" , "projects@davidsuzuki.org" , PULVQUIST , pupdog , Pusat Informasi Rakyat , PUSHAM Subject: [Fwd: Conference Statement] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------BB1B68F1A61DE5C2D9810841" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 142 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BB1B68F1A61DE5C2D9810841 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------BB1B68F1A61DE5C2D9810841 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from srv1inet.tba.com.br - 200.202.37.2 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:00:30 +0700 Received: from tba3-101.tba.com.br (tba3-101.tba.com.br [200.252.83.101]) by srv1inet.tba.com.br (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id fa069815 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:56:56 -0300 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981118175622.006b1f6c@pop3.tba.com.br> X-Sender: agora@pop3.tba.com.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [B] Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:56:22 -0200 To: (Lista de =?iso-8859-1?Q?destinat=E1rio?= omitida) From: Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security c/o A Subject: Conference Statement Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-Path: agora@tba.com.br The "International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization" was attended by 100 delegates. It was held at the Development Academy of the Philippines in Tagaytay City, Philippines, November 7-9th, 1998 Conference Statement Approved November 9, 1998 Tagaytay City, Philippines We, as individuals and groups from 31 countries in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America, representing people's movements, networks, organizations, centers, institutes and academe, have come together in the International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization with two objectives: first, to seek a deeper understanding of the global economic crisis and its causes; second, on the basis of our shared views and experiences, to explore and develop alternative strategies and paradigms in confronting globalization. Directly linked to the crisis is globalization - the neoliberal offensive or contemporary conveyance of monopoly capital to maximize the extraction of profit. To this end, globalization uses modern technology (such as robotics and information technology) and the political prescriptions - liberalization, deregulation and privatization - of the triad multilateral institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and World Trade Organization (WTO). Globalization has worsened the effects of the destructive paradigm of "growth and development." Instead of economic prosperity and social stability that it promised for all nations, globalization has brought about economic turmoil, political and social tension, and widespread devastation to the world's peoples and resources. The myth of globalization has thus been fully exposed and debunked. The impacts of the global crisis are all so clearly seen today. The gap between the rich and poor in all nations, industrial and non-industrial alike, and between the rich and poor countries is widening rather than narrowing. Moreover, with the trend towards mergers and acquisitions, increasingly much more wealth - and power - is being concentrated in the hands of fewer monopoly capitalists who control the transnational corporations (TNCs). The systematic assaults on labor is dissipating the working class gains, causing widespread unemployment, job insecurity, loss of benefits, the destruction of trade unions. The massive displacement of workers leads to the rise and further commodification of migrant workers. The peasants' limited gains in agrarian reform are likewise being reversed, resulting in more landlessness, rural unemployment and penury. Exploitation of women labor, especially unpaid labor, in farms and factories is intensified. The crisis causes more women and children to be displaced, commodified and economically and sexually exploited as modern-day slaves. Patriarchy remains a key problem and physical violence on women and children, both inside and outside the home, is prevalent. The indigenous people's struggle against exclusion, for their right to self-determination, recognition of equal rights as citizens and right to ancestral lands or historical domain is rendered more difficult. In many instances their very survival is being threatened by environmental degradation, mainly caused by TNCs, and by the state policies of disguised genocide. Global environmental abuse is being accelerated primarily by globalization. The ill effects include climate change, ozone depletion, air and water pollution, ocean resource depletion and pollution, deforestation, extinction of species and dangerous genetic manipulation. All these problems are arising because of the irrational pursuit of profit by rampaging capitalism. Everywhere globalization is eroding the gains of social movements in all aspects (political, social and cultural). There is a general regression of democracy, as economic impositions by states entail increasing human rights violations, not only of economic, social and cultural rights, but of political and civil rights as well. In the third world, as the majority of the people are marginalized economically, they are also disempowered politically. State power in defense of the people's rights and welfare is increasingly undermined. On the other hand, state power is, more than ever, being used to step up the implementation of the neoliberal prescriptions of globalization, in the form of national legislation, bilateral agreements with IMF and WB, multilateral pacts under the WTO regime, and regional and other arrangements. The very proponents of globalization have acknowledged that the global crisis embroils the entire capitalist system. They likewise admit the inevitability of cyclical crises as inherent in the system. They warn of its recurrence even as they confess failure to find a solution to the current global crisis. Far from nearing its end, the crisis threatens to get even worse. As the liberalization and deregulation drive is being pushed to the maximum - via the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the WTO - the situation can only deteriorate. Inexorably, the crisis has set in motion a growing opposition to globalization among the adversely affected peoples, both organized and unorganized, in all regions of the world. The rising level of popular opposition is manifested in organized as well as spontaneous protest actions, and in various creative, if less dramatic, ways. The International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization is one manifestation of this growing opposition. It is a closing of ranks of diverse movements and initiatives toward more effective resistance to globalization. United in resisting and rejecting globalization, we are determined to develop, through our separate and unified initiatives, effective strategies and paradigms of economic and social development different from the "growth and development" paradigm that has driven peoples to further economic marginalization and political disempowerment. Over the long term, we shall strive to develop alternative paradigms that uphold and safeguard the peoples' interest, rights, welfare and values, ensures their sovereign control of their natural and human resources, guarantees economic democracy, democratic governance, and their right to determine their national destiny. Certainly, we have different ways and means to achieve such paradigms, and we respect each other's independence in pursuing the goal. In the short term, we shall take steps to strengthen the capacities of peoples and communities to defend themselves against the onslaughts of globalization. We shall take recourse, principally, in expanding and strengthening our organizations, sustaining education and pursuing actions of resistance and struggle that have been proven effective, while we explore and develop new ones as conditions may require. Specifically, we call for the following urgent actions: * Expose and oppose the MAI and prevent its negotiation within the WTO by immediately launching sustained national and international campaigns. Work for the withdrawal of the harmful agreements on agriculture and TRIPs from the WTO. * Campaign for the non-payment of foreign loans by nations in crisis. Oppose the signing of new letters of intent with the IMF and reject all onerous loan conditionalities. * Oppose foreign military intervention in the internal affairs of nations as it violates their sovereignty and right to self-determination. * Support the OilWatch declaration against new fossil fuel exploration. We firmly resolve to expand, intensify and sustain worldwide resistance against globalization. Separately and together, we shall consistently wage militant struggles until we defeat this modern scourge. (end) ----------------------------------------------------- The "International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization" was attended by 100 delegates. It was held at the Development Academy of the Philippines in Tagaytay City, Philippines. The conference was followed by a global teach-in called "International Colloquium on Imperialist Globalization and Crisis." This half-day event was held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, and was a rousing success and which was attended by more than 400 participants. Both events were organized by IBON Foundation and BAYAN. IBON Foundation Inc. 3/F SCC Bldg. 4427 Int. Old Sta. Mesa, Manila 1008, Philippines Tel (0063-2) 713-2737 / 713-2729 Fax (0063-2) 716-0108 http://www.info.com.ph/~ibon Margrete Strand Rangnes MAI Project Coordinator Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington DC, 20003 mstrand@citizen.org 202-546 4996, ext. 306 202-547 7392 (fax) To subscribe to our MAI Listserv send an e-mail to mstrand@citizen.org, or= =20 subscribe directly by going to our website, =20 www.tradewatch.org __________________________________________ Ms. Renske van Staveren, Coordinator International Forum on Food & Agriculture (IFA) c/o Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)=09 2105 First Avenue South =09 Minneapolis, MN, USA 55404-2505 =09 ph: 612-870-3423 fax: 612-870-4846 < =09 http://www.iffah.org =09 __________________________________________ "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. =20 When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara *************************************************************** *************************************************************** Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente Secretaria F=F3rum Brasileiro de Seguran=E7a Alimentar e Nutricional Sustent=E1vel c/o Agora - Associacao para Projetos de Combate a Fome SGAN 905 Conjunto B 70790-050. 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NIAMEY, NIGER $ 1024

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------=_NextPart_000_005D_01BE1BCE.2E477340-- From putratan@indosat.net.id Fri Jan 1 01:45:24 1999 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id BAA24092 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:45:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.2.19 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:20:44 +0700 Message-ID: <368C60BC.E84D3005@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:44:28 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peoples Video Network , "peoples@post4.tele.dk" , "peoplesall@aol.com" , PERC , perez , "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" , "permadi@bdg.centrin.net.id" , perpinan , Peter Worsley , pfpress , pga-ge , pgibbs , PHart , "phil@uwtc.washington.edu" , PHILDHRRA , phildhrra , Philip Lyth , "philip@wri.org" , philofhi , "phoulihan@wcel.org" , Pieter Elmas , Pijar Indonesia , "pirac@ypb.or.id" , pirmoffice , Pitres Sombowadile Sombowadile , pj , PKBI , pkrinks , "PKT(E-mail)" , PLASMA , playfair , "plefr@umich.edu" , pobrien , Pollard , "post@mich.demon.nl" , postbox Subject: [Fwd: Change of Phone/Fax Number] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 144 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <368C5B64.D309F2EF@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:21:41 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CARE - Ind , "Carlitas@mbox.vol.it" , Carmela Millado , "cathy@mbox.vol.it" , "catleo@cedar.alberni.net" , "cawg@web.net" , "cawint@caw.ca" , "cburda@uvic.ca" , "ccsi@u.washington.edu" , "cdstudi1@giannutri.caspur.it" , Center for Rural Studies , "cfp@carleton.ca" , "cfuw.ho@sympatico.ca" , "chrf@chrf.ca" , Chris Millado , Christophe Horvath , "ciirlon@gn.apc.org" , Citra Desa Indonesia , "clau.vess@iol.it" , cliff , CLOC-Brasil , clpjkt , "cmap@ap.mic.in" , "codengo@amanet.net" , "comments@fundforpeace.org" , "cornerstone@gn.apc.org" , "covadaterra@alsernet.es" , "cpa@is.phil.gn.apc.org" , CPE , "crocevia@cambio.it" , "CSA@SKYNET.BE" , "csafin@iol.it" , "cusobc@web.net" , "danchurchaid@dca.dk" , "danie@indo.net.id" , dasn , "dbatker@seanet.com" , "de venusabg@bimamail.co" <"de venusabg"@bimamail.co>, "del_sumut@hotmail.com" Subject: Change of Phone/Fax Number Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the Name of Peasant Struggle! Herewith we like to inform you that our phone/fax number has already changed to this new one: +62 61 7862073 We also like to let you know that in Medan City and its environs since January 1st 1999, the telephone number has already been change too. So we suggest you to make a contact to your colleagues in Medan City and ask their new telephone number. You still could make a contact to your coleagues by the old number only for the next 2 months. Thanks for your kindness, Muhammad Harris Putra General Secretary of SPSU/NSPU Jl. Karya Jasa 58 , Pangkalan Masyhur, Medan North Sumatera, Indonesia 20143 Tel/Fax.: +62 61 7862073 Email : putratan@indosat.net.id ------------------------------- Salam Perjuangan, Bersama ini kami sampaikan perobahan nomor telepon SPSU. 1. Nomor telepon/Fax yang lama: 061 - 762073 2. Nomor telepon/fax yang baru ditambah angka 8 sehingga menjadi: 061 - 7862072 Perlu kami beritahukan bahwa saat ini di Medan dan wilayah sekitarnya mulai 1 Januari 1999, telah terjadi perobahan nomor telepon, tetapi setiap wilayah yang berbeda sentral teleponnya maka berbeda pula angka tambahannya, dengan demikian kami harap rekan-rekan di luar Sumatera Utara dapat menghubungi rekan masing-masing yang ada di Medan karena sampai saat ini telepon yang lama masih dapat digunakan selama hanya 2 bulan ke depan. Demikian informasi ini disampaikan semoga bermanfaat.Terima kasih M. Harris Putra Sekretaris Umum SPSU. Jl. Karya Jasa 58 Pangkalan Masyhur Medan, Sumatera Utara 21043 Indonesia Tel/Fax: +62 (061) 7862073 Email : putratan@indosat.net.id ******************************************** Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara/SPSU (North Sumatra Peasant Union/NSPU) is the federation of peasant consists of 65 local peasant organizations in North Sumatera Province as its member.SPSU was declared by the peasant of North Sumatera in Parsariran, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatera Province Indonesia on June 3 1994. SPSU is member of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) at International Level, and member of Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) at National Level. SPSU is founder and member of Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia/FSPI (Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union/FIPU). FSPI or FIPU declared on July 8th 1998 by several peasant organization of Indonesia. SPSU has two main bodies : Peasant Representative Board as the legislative body and The Peasant Executive Body. Both of them are elected by Congress directly. In order to implement its program SPSU will set up the Special Task Force and recruit the Consulates in local, regional, national, and international level. Special task force and Consulates are the supporting system of The Peasant Executive body consists of everyone and every institutions who concern to the Agrarian Reform, Sustainable Agriculture, Democracy, and Peasant Movement. ******************************************** --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002-- From putratan@indosat.net.id Fri Jan 1 02:09:54 1999 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id CAA24207 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 02:09:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.2.19 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:20:30 +0700 Message-ID: <368C60BC.E84D3005@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:44:28 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peoples Video Network , "peoples@post4.tele.dk" , "peoplesall@aol.com" , PERC , perez , "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" , "permadi@bdg.centrin.net.id" , perpinan , Peter Worsley , pfpress , pga-ge , pgibbs , PHart , "phil@uwtc.washington.edu" , PHILDHRRA , phildhrra , Philip Lyth , "philip@wri.org" , philofhi , "phoulihan@wcel.org" , Pieter Elmas , Pijar Indonesia , "pirac@ypb.or.id" , pirmoffice , Pitres Sombowadile Sombowadile , pj , PKBI , pkrinks , "PKT(E-mail)" , PLASMA , playfair , "plefr@umich.edu" , pobrien , Pollard , "post@mich.demon.nl" , postbox Subject: [Fwd: Change of Phone/Fax Number] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 145 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <368C5B64.D309F2EF@indosat.net.id> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:21:41 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CARE - Ind , "Carlitas@mbox.vol.it" , Carmela Millado , "cathy@mbox.vol.it" , "catleo@cedar.alberni.net" , "cawg@web.net" , "cawint@caw.ca" , "cburda@uvic.ca" , "ccsi@u.washington.edu" , "cdstudi1@giannutri.caspur.it" , Center for Rural Studies , "cfp@carleton.ca" , "cfuw.ho@sympatico.ca" , "chrf@chrf.ca" , Chris Millado , Christophe Horvath , "ciirlon@gn.apc.org" , Citra Desa Indonesia , "clau.vess@iol.it" , cliff , CLOC-Brasil , clpjkt , "cmap@ap.mic.in" , "codengo@amanet.net" , "comments@fundforpeace.org" , "cornerstone@gn.apc.org" , "covadaterra@alsernet.es" , "cpa@is.phil.gn.apc.org" , CPE , "crocevia@cambio.it" , "CSA@SKYNET.BE" , "csafin@iol.it" , "cusobc@web.net" , "danchurchaid@dca.dk" , "danie@indo.net.id" , dasn , "dbatker@seanet.com" , "de venusabg@bimamail.co" <"de venusabg"@bimamail.co>, "del_sumut@hotmail.com" Subject: Change of Phone/Fax Number Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the Name of Peasant Struggle! Herewith we like to inform you that our phone/fax number has already changed to this new one: +62 61 7862073 We also like to let you know that in Medan City and its environs since January 1st 1999, the telephone number has already been change too. So we suggest you to make a contact to your colleagues in Medan City and ask their new telephone number. You still could make a contact to your coleagues by the old number only for the next 2 months. Thanks for your kindness, Muhammad Harris Putra General Secretary of SPSU/NSPU Jl. Karya Jasa 58 , Pangkalan Masyhur, Medan North Sumatera, Indonesia 20143 Tel/Fax.: +62 61 7862073 Email : putratan@indosat.net.id ------------------------------- Salam Perjuangan, Bersama ini kami sampaikan perobahan nomor telepon SPSU. 1. Nomor telepon/Fax yang lama: 061 - 762073 2. Nomor telepon/fax yang baru ditambah angka 8 sehingga menjadi: 061 - 7862072 Perlu kami beritahukan bahwa saat ini di Medan dan wilayah sekitarnya mulai 1 Januari 1999, telah terjadi perobahan nomor telepon, tetapi setiap wilayah yang berbeda sentral teleponnya maka berbeda pula angka tambahannya, dengan demikian kami harap rekan-rekan di luar Sumatera Utara dapat menghubungi rekan masing-masing yang ada di Medan karena sampai saat ini telepon yang lama masih dapat digunakan selama hanya 2 bulan ke depan. Demikian informasi ini disampaikan semoga bermanfaat.Terima kasih M. Harris Putra Sekretaris Umum SPSU. Jl. Karya Jasa 58 Pangkalan Masyhur Medan, Sumatera Utara 21043 Indonesia Tel/Fax: +62 (061) 7862073 Email : putratan@indosat.net.id ******************************************** Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara/SPSU (North Sumatra Peasant Union/NSPU) is the federation of peasant consists of 65 local peasant organizations in North Sumatera Province as its member.SPSU was declared by the peasant of North Sumatera in Parsariran, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatera Province Indonesia on June 3 1994. SPSU is member of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) at International Level, and member of Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) at National Level. SPSU is founder and member of Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia/FSPI (Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union/FIPU). FSPI or FIPU declared on July 8th 1998 by several peasant organization of Indonesia. SPSU has two main bodies : Peasant Representative Board as the legislative body and The Peasant Executive Body. Both of them are elected by Congress directly. In order to implement its program SPSU will set up the Special Task Force and recruit the Consulates in local, regional, national, and international level. Special task force and Consulates are the supporting system of The Peasant Executive body consists of everyone and every institutions who concern to the Agrarian Reform, Sustainable Agriculture, Democracy, and Peasant Movement. ******************************************** --------------EED09493DB1C6A90BC76E002-- From vendula.noscakova@csam.com Wed Jan 6 10:56:29 1999 Received: from bas01.csfb.com (bas01.csfb.com [198.240.130.164]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id KAA16880 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:56:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bas01.csfb.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/EXT) id KAA20395 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:52:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown(169.39.5.57) by bas01 via smap (4.0a) id xma019197; Wed, 6 Jan 99 10:51:33 -0500 Received: from lmssmtp1.corpny.csfb.com ([169.37.98.134]) by csfb1.fir.fbc.com. (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21864 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:51:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from slon00330.CSFP.CO.UK (slon00330 [159.156.1.25]) by lmssmtp1.corpny.csfb.com (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA01061 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:51:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by slon00330 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:51:21 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Noscakova, Vendula" To: "'permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu'" Subject: on behalf of my Brother Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:50:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by luna.oit.unc.edu id KAA16880 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 146 Dear, My name is Petr No¹èák (27 years old). I am citizen of the Czech Republic. I wondered if you can possible give me a few informations: I am interested in the permaculture and the ecological agriculture. I would like to know more about your access in that area and I would like to acquired nex experince form foreign countries, since the ecological agriculture is unfortunately at the very beginning in my country. I would be most pleased if I can do some contribution in your charitative activity. If it is not possible, would you please give me some contacts on other organisation where may I get the information or be helpful to them. Thank you very much for your understanding. I do apologize for my English language which is not prefect. Thank you again and have a nice day With best regards Petr No¹èák From putratan@indosat.net.id Sat Jan 9 04:23:35 1999 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id EAA13351 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 04:23:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.12.17 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:25:14 +0700 Message-ID: <36970D75.A2098FA9@indosat.net.id> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:04:05 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pad191@padovanet.it" , Pakisama , "Palomora@laneta.apc.org" , Pam Allen , Pang , panos , panthheat , parc , "part2001@usa.net" , parveez , "patcox@onr.com" , pathan , "patra@stpbhu.stpbh.soft.net" , Patricia Henry , Patricia Whittier , Paul Needham , Paul Nicholson , Paul Sinappan , "Paulo@oram.uem.mz" , Pawlo , "paxaran@antenna.nl" , pbiusa , pbiusa , PBX , pcdf , "PCHANDRA@inf.com" , PCRC , pdv , Peaceworkers , Peasant Youth Movement , "pedupret@arcadis.be" , "peinarsson@nn.inform.dk" , Pekerti , "PELAEZ@REDVAX1.DGSCA.UNAM.MX" , PEN-List , Peoples Video Network , "peoples@post4.tele.dk" , "peoplesall@aol.com" , PERC , "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" , perpinan , Peter Worsley , pfpress , pga-ge , pgibbs , PHart , "phil@uwtc.washington.edu" Subject: happy new year Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 147 From putratan@indosat.net.id Sat Jan 9 08:29:12 1999 Received: from MAIL1 (mail1.indosat.net [202.155.15.21]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id IAA14375 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:29:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from indosat.net.id - 202.155.12.61 by indosat.net.id with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:46:35 +0700 Message-ID: <3697151A.124A932@indosat.net.id> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:36:42 +0700 From: NSPU Organization: Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pad191@padovanet.it" , Pakisama , "Palomora@laneta.apc.org" , Pam Allen , Pang , panos , panthheat , parc , "part2001@usa.net" , parveez , "patcox@onr.com" , pathan , "patra@stpbhu.stpbh.soft.net" , Patricia Henry , Patricia Whittier , Paul Needham , Paul Nicholson , Paul Sinappan , "Paulo@oram.uem.mz" , Pawlo , "paxaran@antenna.nl" , pbiusa , pbiusa , PBX , pcdf , "PCHANDRA@inf.com" , PCRC , pdv , Peaceworkers , Peasant Youth Movement , "pedupret@arcadis.be" , "peinarsson@nn.inform.dk" , Pekerti , "PELAEZ@REDVAX1.DGSCA.UNAM.MX" , PEN-List , Peoples Video Network , "peoples@post4.tele.dk" , "peoplesall@aol.com" , PERC , "permaculture@sunsite.unc.edu" , perpinan , Peter Worsley , pfpress , pga-ge , pgibbs , PHart , "phil@uwtc.washington.edu" Subject: happy new year Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 148 WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 1999. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND SOLIDARITY WHICH HAS HELPED US TO WORK SMOOTHLY IN ACHIEVING OUR GOAL. In the Name of Peasant and International Solidarity, Muhammad Harris Putra General Secretary of SPSU/NSPU Jl. Karya Jasa 58 Pangkalan Masyhur Medan, Sumatera Utara 21043 Indonesia Tel/Fax: +62 (061) 7862073 Email : putratan@indosat.net.id ******************************************** Serikat Petani Sumatera Utara/SPSU (North Sumatra Peasant Union/NSPU) is the federation of peasant consists of 80 local peasant organizations in North Sumatera Province as its member.SPSU was declared by the peasant of North Sumatera in Parsariran, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatera Province Indonesia on June 3 1994. SPSU is member of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) at International Level, and member of Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) at National Level. SPSU is founder and member of Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia/FSPI (Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union/FIPU). FSPI or FIPU declared on July 8th 1998 by several peasant organization of Indonesia. SPSU has two main bodies : Peasant Representative Board as the legislative body and The Peasant Executive Body. Both of them are elected by Congress directly. In order to implement its program SPSU will set up the Special Task Force and recruit the Consulates in local, regional, national, and international level. Special task force and Consulates are the supporting system of The Peasant Executive body consists of everyone and every institutions who concern to the Agrarian Reform, Indegenous People, Sustainable Agriculture, Democracy, and Peasant Movement. ******************************************** From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Jan 14 06:43:40 1999 -0500 Received: from demokritos.cytanet.com.cy (demokritos.cytanet.com.cy [195.14.133.252]) by luna.oit.unc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/rchk1.19) with ESMTP id GAA10887 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:43:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from vmarios.cytanet.com.cy (la-3-01.cytanet.com.cy [195.14.131.121]) by demokritos.cytanet.com.cy (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA31203 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:44:56 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <369DD850.648E@cytanet.com.cy> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:43:12 +0200 From: Marios Vassiliou X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: permaculture@metalab.unc.edu Subject: PhD Hydroponics-Aeroponics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 149 Dear , My name is Marios Vassiliou, I am 27 years old and I come from Cyprus. I have graduated from the American Academy in Larnaca, in 1990 where I studied A levels in accounting, economics, and statistics (these are quite irrelevant to the rest of my studies). I then spent 26 months doing my national service, being a sergeant major. In 1992 I moved on to the collage of agriculture at Oaklands (UK) where I had two years of study obtaining an ND Horticulture with a degree of Merit +. In this institution I have started to take interest into soil less production systems and I have since studied the subject thoroughly. During the years at the collage I have taken on a lot of knowledge into plant production, but my ambition was to study plants from their scientific point of view. I entered the University of Nottingham in 1994, where I have graduated in 1997 obtaining a degree of 2:1 (honours), which is the basic requirement for studying a PhD in most countries of the world. I studied Horticulture, Plant pathology and Plant cell and molecular biology, and carried out my research project in Aeroponics developing a spacing system for plants (lettuce) providing for a higher output per unit area of crop. I wanted to start my PhD then but some health problems involving my mother forced me to remain inactive over the last summer. So I want to get on with it now. I now find it important to give you a brief summary on the research that I am trying to undertake. Development of a hybrid hydroponic and aeroponic system with recycling aquaculture and bacteria filters to achieve maximum crop quality and output in a fairly self-sustained unit. During the last few years a lot of development has been carried out in hydroponic and aeroponic systems to provide for maximum output. Aquaculture wastes in combination with bacteria filters have also been used to sustain fertilization and water purification in such systems. The idea of this project is to develop a model system, which will include all the above components. A 500 m2 glasshouse will be set in Cyprus with all the equipment to provide for optimum climatic conditions to facilitate the AYR growth of a crop (most likely to be lettuce). The choice of lettuce is justified through the fairly short life of the crop and the large amount of literature written on growing this crop in hydroponics and aeroponics. A fish tank will be combined in the system to provide for all or some of the fertilization required by the crop (the fish used will probably be Tilapia). The waste from the fish will be monitored and then passed through a bacteria filter if further breakdown of nutrients is required. The solution of the adjusted fish waste and water will then be carried in the g/h in an 'open' (non-recycling aeroponic fog system). The run off from this system will be topping up the NFT hydroponic tank, which will be a 'closed' system. The same crop will be grown in NFT providing for comparisons between the two systems. Excess water from this system will be purified by a small desalination plant and replaced in the fish tank. Solar power and fresh water will run the whole unit, with external minute inputs of fish food and maybe some fertilizer for the plants. Studies can be carried out on the root and stem morphology and physiology in both crop-growing systems. The overall performance of the crop will be analyzed and assessed in order to evaluate the commercial value of such a system in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. A number of studies can be carried out in the crop such as: 1. The nitrate content of the crops. 2. Solution effects on morphology and physiology. 3. Economically optimum temperatures. 4. Effects of CO2 in roots and shoots. 5. The development and economic evaluation of the fish component. 6. Monitoring the pathogens in the whole system. The system can be used when set, for a number of years as a good experimental tool that will allow for further developments in such mixed systems. I suggest that I carry out an extended literature review on the various components between from the spring of 1999 until the summer of 2000 (for 12-18 months), in your institution. During this time I, with probable sponsorship from my government and your help, will be buying the various components. From the summer of 2000 the system will be up and running and considering the crop life of lettuce (about 8 weeks), will provide for approximately 6-7 crops in a year. The first year will be dedicated into running the system efficiently and a further two years will be used into experimenting into the various components mentioned above. The last few months will be dedicated into completing the thesis. The system will then be available for further research for students from all around the world, since the area around the unit will be developed into an agricultural collage. I would like to know if there are any possibilities to undertake this research in your institution. Thank you for your valuable time. Yours Sincerely, Marios Vassiliou