The expermint CO2 Biocycling

The backyard experiment.

From Composting proceses

Can compost this, the chips can be gasified to run the machine, make charcoal for the garden.

From Composting proceses

Making Charcoal - biochar for the compost

From Reforming Charcoal wood gas stove

Processing growing mix

From Vermiponics

This is also part of this carbon cycle.

From Vermiponics

Smoke burner

From Reforming Charcoal wood gas stove

A new stove, Its A smoke burner,
pyrolysis reduction oxidation.
This is art as well as science.
Design create, observation, tune - next.
A process of learning.
What am I trying to achieve?
Efficient controlled combustion, Charcoal, knowledge.
Heat for cooking and heating.

Arithmetic, Population and Energy

Video parts 1 of 8

Arithmetic, Population and Energy -

a talk by Al Bartlett

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_video1.html

How to Butcher a Chicken

How to butcher a chicken

This internet tutorial tells (and shows) you how to skillfully butcher a chicken in ten easy steps. Your instructor is Herrick Kimball,

http://butcherachicken.blogspot.com/

The Eighth Day, For the children of the world

Earth repair foundation

What is it to live in this life

What is it to live in this life?
Compost, embedded complex systems
I used to ask about this, having grown up in a catholic system.
Science, religion, Christ, football, competition.
A murdered Jesus constantly on display.
One would be condemned to hell for not being mindlessly enslaved to the authority of the unknowable father.
A mind fucking double bind.
The core of slavery. It has harmed so many.
Not the way of the Christ at all.
I left school very confused and questioned this deeply.

The hard Question.
This led to two Questions.
What does life ask of us? What is it about this earth that all living things have in common?
The answer was within the Question, the question it is the key!
-- Life asks us to live in awareness.
-- All living things must take the life of another to live.
-- We are all food to this life process.
This became the basis for my living ethos.
If we are to continue evolving in this paradise we must honour life.
And honor our food.
Care for her and all her creatures.
Eat and be eaten.

YES

http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp

I have grown to a life in a Catholic system.
There are not many Christians about in this church or any church that I know.
The people I know who live and walk in the footsteps of the Christ all call themselves atheists.
Yet there are those who love life and others that are Catholic. Confusing.

The abuse of truth , the violence towards spirit, the rape of love, is endemic in the world religions.This is a slavery to something very wrong. The beast and greed comes to mind.
One thing I am beginning to understand is the life of the Christ.

The followers of Christ removed his body from the cross a few hours ofter his murder.
Yet two thousand years later there are those that still insist he be on the cross and they served in his name. Spiritual slavery is the worst kind of slavery imaginable.It is the condemnation of others to hell in the name of love. This is the rape of love.

Christians and angles serve the life of Christ!
Antichristians and demons serve the murder of Christ!

This is a fair life, our mother is a compassionate one, giving her life to all her children, angels and demons, Christians and antichristians.

It is absolutly nessary that we wake to this now, as it is the root couse of all the troubles on this earth.We will not heal our ways untill we heal our heart.

Harvest the Suburbs

Wood Gass Stove

More pics

This is a small wood gas stove, it pyrolysis the fuel (wood chips) giving heat and leaving charcoal. it holds about 200g chips, boils 1lt water in 7 minutes and burns for about 20 minutes, leaving charcoal for the composting process.
I'm Learning about the carbon cycle and how much energy this culture wastes.
Charcoal added to humanur composting may fix a large amount of carbon into active earth nutrients, might be the secret of Tera preta.
more stoves to follow.
http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/types
http://www.bioenergylists.org/
http://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=vid/ShowVideo&qid=2948

Rose

From Flowers

National Mysticism

Dear Sir
We seem to be in a state of national mysticism, on national pokie booze up binge with absolutely no idea of what is happening around us.
We know fire. why weren’t we prepared for this catastrophe?
How on earth did we get caught with our shoes of and our pants down?
The climate conditions preceding those fires were extreme. There were warnings, warnings from climate departments, NASA, government t agencies. Yet we were totally unprepared. Why?

I live in Mittagong and during the heat wave I noticed how dry the grasses where, the ground was hot very hot, everything on the ground was hot and super dry. Volatiles were evaporating out of the organic mater in the soil and collecting at the boundary layer, the air was hot dry and windy, though the tree canopies looked green and healthy. I have never seen it like this before!
I was thinking if a fire came through this town it would have been fierce. It did not happen here and I am relived for this and the rain, but it did happen elsewhere. The fires were so fierce that no amount of preparation apart from a fire bunker would have done much!

It’s a total copout blaming arsonist; this is a statement of denial. They light fires every year have done so and will continue to do so regardless of the punishments offered. We are not victims of arsonist but victims of something much deeper. Our inability to detect change and cope with it!
What on earth was the government both state and federal doing?
Were they putting out fire warnings, putting fire departments on red alert? Or were they talking the economy up, Offering the nation a consumer pokies booze up fix. A national junkie fix.

We were thinking about our Santa handouts for the economy and business as usual. We were licking the teats of the sacred golden cow, enmeshed in a state of consumer fantasy.

Being mystified and unable to accept or comprehend climate change and its implications.

Following our pretty megalomaniac climate denier leader for a hot fix, so we don’t have to look at our dirty greedy life, nationally we are just like the ice heads down the road shoving there wealth up there arm.

I believe this suggests that we are in full on environmental and climate denial mode. Getting of on consumer products like an addict instead of being in the moment accepting and addressing what is real.

What Mr Rudd is doing giving out a cheep addict consumer fix instead of addressing the real issues is criminal far more criminal than those arsonists. These fires will happen again. The Murray is dying. We are in a drought like we have never seen before. Desertification is setting in south. Adelaide is drying. The Great Barrier Reef is suffering and probably dying.

Mr. Rudd wants to waste our ability to address these issues now and in the future by wasting our wealth on a consumer fix.

These are serious issues that must be addressed now with all our available resources. 5% is lip service when he is supporting big coal, pie in the sky dreaming about carbon fix, corporate profits making on geo-sequestration that has no proof of principle.

The fire crises give us an opportunity to look at this process, to address these issues on a personal community state and national level

Leave the coal in the ground, use the forests instead for energy. Pyrolise the wood, collect the energy for use and burry the resulting charcoal underneath more forests. This is a carbon negative fuel cycle. An efficient way to sequester CO2 while providing a lot of jobs. Otherwise these great resources will be wasted in CO2 to the atmosphere and the nutrients eventually washed into the sea.

Malcolm Turnbull has suggested something like this and it is probably the only cost effective way to get two birds with the one stone.
In the mean time I’m going to join the crowd, get my fix and have a night on the free consumer pokies booze up thanks to Rudd


Cc Malcolm Turnbull, Bob brown, Penny Wong, Alby Schultz, Peter Garrett.

Homegrown Evolution: Our Rocket Stove

Homegrown Evolution: Our Rocket Stove

EUKARIMA SCHOOL Bowral

Eukarima School Bowral Closed due to work of spiritual architects who build sacred temples to their ego.

It’s a great Shame it was a beautiful school, a great environment for learning children.

It had the best monthly markets built up over many years by a committed few.

There were many committed to the growth of the school.

Eukarima had a shadow; it attracted the hunger of the spirit eaters.

The sacred politics of those that build temples to there ego was tearing apart the community that supported the school.
It became one big shit fight, after 20 years the supporting community had enough withdrawing their support. Parents withdrew their children and the school died a very sad death.

leaving the spirit eaters a carcass to fight over.

No more sacred glass corridors.
No more crossing of the road to avoid their sacred shit, those that have been shat upon.

No more worry about who to socialize with.

No more creepy healers breading social disease.
No more vilification of those that don't serve the spirit eaters ego crap.
No more parents taking their children out because of the destructive politics.

No more markets.

No more school.

The temple builders have all but left.
Some made great profit from conning of others to build their temples of greed.

A few remain and yet others still come to do there selfish sacred work.
When will they wake up to what they do?
The locals have.

After this lesson in spiritual selfish politics,

Call yourself authentic you better dame well be.

Tread softly!
All this earth is sacred ground.
It May be, could we look with seeing eyes.
This spot we stand on is a paradise;
Where dead have come to life and lost been found,
Where faith has triumphed, martyrdom been crowned,
Where fools have foiled the wisdom of the wise;
From this same spot the dust of saints may rise,
And the kings prisoners come to light unbound.
O earth earth earth. hear now thy makers words;
"Thy dead thou shall give up, nor hide thy slain"-
Some who went weeping forth shall come again
Rejoicing from the east or from the west
As doves fly to their windows, loves own bird
Contented and desirous to the nest.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Temple of The Sacred Ego - Spirit Eaters

Click - Story about this eagle

This is very sad, if your ego is sanitized it is recommended that you give it a mis.

Temple of the Sacred Ego

Shaman what is this beating of the drum, the dance of the circle, the smudge of the smudge, this ancient fire light with sanitized vision quests. whats this sacred thing you talk about!

Shaman do you take time to learn & relearn the language of the animals?
Have you held an eagle, do you talk with the birds, do you know there language. Could this language be of love and time.. Do you truly understand that we are all brothers or do you own a cat!

Shaman have you spent time with the plants and learnt there way.
Do you know the dance of chemistry, the cycle of the elements.
Do you know how to produce your own food.. This be truly sacred self!

Shaman do you know death, Has a loved one died in your arms.
Have you breathed and pumped life into another and watched him in his eyes and seen him struggle as he dies, only to live again. Have you died yourself!

Shaman have you been in the eye of a storm, danced with lightning on a mountain top, swum in the desert. Have you lived alone for an extended time!

Shaman Do you tend the sick and frail when your spells can’t cure, or do you hide them behind glass walls in the temple of the soul!

Shaman truth need no words. Do you give honour to your words of love and friendship or leave that for others to do. Do you judge another according to their truth or judge to bind in serving the temple of your ego. Do you serve your shaman way or cheaply use this truth!

Shaman when truth is murdered in the temple of the ego of another.
Stop stomp and listen as the ego corridors shatter.

Shaman do you truly hold all this earth as mother sister brother daughter son. Do you attempt to care for her & all her creatures or is human ego dominion all your concerned about!

Immanuel Kant
"An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?"

Plant Grow Unit

Found a double bunk, all the uses it can be put to?
A bath tub will fit.

Parrot

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints
in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make
them all yourself.
Friends, you and me…
You brought another friend…
And then there were 3…
We started our group…
Our circle of friends…
And like that circle…
There is no beginning or end…
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.

Unknown, not Eleanor Roosevelt
Quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt’s grandson David Roosevelt in the book Grandmère: A Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

What chemistry!
That the winds are really not infectious,
That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is
so amorous after me,
That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its
tongues,
That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited
themselves in it,
That all is clean forever and forever,
That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,
That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that
melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once
catching disease.

Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
successions of diseas'd corpses,
It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous
crops,
It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from
them at last.

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

Slow food

This is good to share, to much for me and the birds.
There is a sharing system a que gaes back a few trees.
Jump the que and listen
Help, Bring a container.
Another yummie pie

Vermiponic biorecycling

Vermiponic bio recycling

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: aquaponics hydroponics)

View on slideshare blogger has not updated this.

As time goes by this system is moving from an idea to a reality.
We all need to understand the carbon & nitrogen cycle. A system that we are embedded in. So far we don't do to well.
This may offer some solutions.

Vermiponics

Click to view collection

Walt Whitman introduction to the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

Love the earth and sun and the animals,
Despise riches,
Give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labour to others,
Hate tyrants,
Argue not concerning God,
Have patience and indulgence toward the people,
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with mothers of Families,
Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul;

and your flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

Walt Whitman in the introduction to the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

Shiting in water

Shitting in water
Create a list of animals that shit in water
Create a list of animals that don't shit in water.
Strange how we (humans ) shit in water and then wont drink it
Not very intelligent are we.
Give this a moment thought will you !!!
My dog won’t shit in water; he doesn't need a nuclear plant to power a desalinater
Dogs must be more intelligent than humans

Cob Workshop

http://www.gudhara.org.au/
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/ausearthling/CobWorkshop20081129#
http://www.davidjohnson.id.au/

Beannachtaí an tSéasúir,

May you be blessed with discomfort
at easy answers, half-truths, and
superficial relationships,
so that you may live deep
within your heart.
May you be blessed with anger
at injustice, oppression, and
exploitation of people,
so that you may work
for justice, freedom and peace.
May you be blessed with tears to shed
for those who suffer from pain,
rejection, starvation and war,
so that you may reach out your hand
to comfort them
and to turn their pain into joy.
May you be blessed with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make
a difference in this world,
so that you can do what others
claim cannot be done.
Amen.

Beannachtaí an tSéasúir,
(Blessings of the Season)

Biorecycling flow chart

Vermiponic Diagram 2

View SlideShare document or Upload your own. (tags: vermiponicsbiorecycling)

Video & Pictures

Husband The Earth

The question keeps coming up.
"How can we care for all the children of all the species for all time",
William Donaugh.
My question is, How can we care for this earth and all her creatures?
The answer is simple really.
Care for this earth and all her creatures.
The practice the way is difficult in this day.
I used to use a mantra - I am the earth, when I first started to query what she was about.
What I have noticed is that as I ask this question every day my perceptions are changing.
A lot of what I used to find satisfying important for human life is now just so vile and sickening.
I have become the earth and I feel sick at what we do.
Its strange and sacred, She is always talking silently in us.
If we would only listen we would know what to do.
She loves us so much.
please open your heart and know
its in thy thymus
'-'

carbon negative cooking.

- Click on image to see the collection
Almost. 25l burner, 8l chiminy, 2*4 reformer inside, loaded with wood.
Burns like a furnace.
Not much of a yield, no smoke great for cooking
rice and a stir fry
Burnt for about 60 minutes
I Want a charcoal stream for nutrient buffering in soil and compost
http://www.holon.se/folke/carbon/cooking.shtml
http://www.terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/makingcharcoal

Sacred Food

(Food is sacred,
It is what connects us to this earth.)
I lack artistic computer skills. would a creative person be interested in creating a image from this.

At Home, Vermiponic Permaculture microfarming

Spring is here and I'm behind.
Ive been busy with -
Permaculture class.
Walking A friend through the dark night of the soul, (It is a joy to help in the birth of an adult human,rare these days).
A new and proud owner of 6 lovely gals (one above).
Attempting to craft an aquaponic - vermiponic system.
Worms - chooks - plants - fish, all from food wastes from the local organic grocer.
Is this permaculture

This is a beginnings of an aquaponic - vermiponic system made from salvaged bits.
A chook tractor and worm farm at back of image.
I intend to use the nutrient solution and worms to feed it.
The bath tubs have worm castings as a growing medium.

Vermiponics

Above - link to Pictures of vermiponic experiment in my back yard
http://www.vermiponics.com/
http://ecocard12.angelfire.com/plants.html
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bCV7DABEz20&sdig=1

Tera Preta

Terra preta


The secret of el dorado

Bees CCD & GMO

Dear Friends,

I am rather confused and concerned by the disappearing Bees around the Globe and our responses. Bees are kind of special, a canary in a haystack, a keystone specie. There seems to be a connection between certain insecticides used in almost all horticulture situations, from urban gardens, golf courses to commercial agriculture and GMOs.

Bees don’t do to well in genetically modified crops that express insect toxins. e.g. bt cotton, canola.

The countries using GM crops linked with systemic insecticides are having staggering Bee losses. It is known as CCD colony collapse disorder.

Australia is spared this blight at present. We use these Insecticides but as yet don’t have widespread GM crops expressing insect toxins. This is Changing Quickly.

FSANZ is asking for public submissions on the release of these lethal corporate bio-engendered money spinners.

My dilemma is this. I don’t feel confident or understand the process involved in creating and submitting this information to FSANZ or other authorities. I do feel it is extremely important to do so.

I am asking for a call of solidarity, a call to arms or maybe a whimping plee for help.

Is there anyone interested in gathering collating and creating a submission?

Please contact me if interested in doing something about this.

Regards Phillip

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/newsroom/mediareleases/mediareleases2008/6august2008publicsub3969.cfm

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/standardsdevelopment/documentsforpublicco868.cfm

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/honeyBeeOrganicFarming.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/31/animalwelfare.environment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/12/conservation.wildlife1

http://www.esajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1890%2F03-5271

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/03/HOGIROCUE71.DTL

Permablitz, community sharing

Cob

Let no one be discourage by the thought of how much there is to learn...
For the first steps are steps into a delightful unknown..
The first successes are victories all the happier for being scarcely expected
and with the growing knowledge comes the widening outlook and the comforting sense of an ever increasing gain of critical appreciation.
Each new step becomes a little surer and each new grasp a little firmer,
Till little by little comes the power of intelligent combination.
The nearest thing we can know to the mighty force of creation.

Gertrude Jekyls.

absurdism

Miguel De Unamuno, - "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."

Christian slavery

Shame June 27, 2007

http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/a-new-paternalism-for-aborigin...

http://www.westender.com.au/stories.php?s_id=595

We have dis-empowered these people completely, pushed them onto the rubbish dumps of our cultural refuse.

We have stolen there land, raped there children, sold them into Christian slavery, abused them, murdered them, diluted there spirit with ours (petrol)

We have projected our shadow of hatred on them. and still do

We have treated them worse than dogs and vermin, and still do.

We have taken advantage of them, using them for our political gains

We destroy all other cultures in serving our Christian greed.

Then blame them for there destruction!!

To continually treat others less than human creates less than human others

The only shame is in us who judge without recourse to truth

We call ourselves Christian and demand others accept cultural enslavment.

Lets give ourselves a pat on the back.

* Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.

* Unite humanity with a living new language.

* Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.

* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

* Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

* Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

* Balance personal rights with social duties.

* Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.

* Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

"Those who commit evil acts do not see those acts as evil or even malicious.
They see themselves as justified" -- David Gerrold

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Worm Tower

The original

Atrazine - from silent night to silent spring

From Silent Spring to Silent Night
A talk by Prof. Tyrone Hayes,
Department of Integrative Biology,
University of California Berkeley. Given at Humphrey Institute in
Minneapolis on March 23, 2007. Dr. Hayes is an authority on the
effects of the pesticide atrazine on frogs, and is not popular with
chemical companies for his views and proven research.

Vermiculture - Aquaponics.

A semi closed organic food system created in a minimal space intergrating vermiculture and aquaponics - using organic and Permaculture principles.

The goal is to cycle nutrients solid and liquid through a combined aquaponics and vermiculture system to grow food for the table. Recycle organic food and organic matter. Possibly produce Vermicompost and liquid fertilizer.

Musings
Worms produce nitrogen rich liquid and solid products suitable for growing plants, are a rich protein source.
Fish eat worms and also produce nitrogen.
Plants use nitrogen.
Hydroponic gravel beds act as filters removing particles and nutrients.
I Eat fish plants and worms (sometimes).
What type of fish?
Commercial home size aquaponic systems take about the space of a double garage and are claimed to feed a family of four.

VITAL VERMI-CONVERTER

Then I saw this, I want one
http://www.ourvitalearth.com/vermi-converter.htm

Permaculture

“What permaculture designers are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

We don´t know what will be the details of a truly sustainable future,

but we need options,

we need people experimenting all types of forms

and permaculture designers are one of the crucial groups who are doing this."

Dr David Suzuki

Large Backyard Vermicomposter - Worm Box

Worms

Click image to view videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KKLYiih1U8

Worms in the system

A worm Farm

This is large backyard worm farm

Worms

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: worms vermiposting)

Worm Capsules

Home Worm Organic Digester

http://www.vermiculture.ca/articles/basic_earthworm_biology.htm
http://ausearth.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-on-worms.html#links
Some worm anatomy

Mittagong

A rain in Mittagong

Kangaroo valley - Permaculture workshop

Permaculture Upper Kangaroo Valley 2008-05-11

Clik to View

Jehane Noujaim

Vandana Shiva

A Crude Awakening The Oil Crash

What about a Stone Age Diet
Simple food grown in a simple way, organic permanent agriculture at the back door.
It would seem it's the best option for our health and that of this earth.
If I were to take food from another to live - ethics of my dog and all other animals.
If I were to take food from another to fuel my lifestyle/car - ethics of greed
If I were to make war on another to fuel my economy - ethics of the beast
I cannot justify slavery, Or justify calling myself a Christian.
I drive a car and sometimes walk.
I live in comfort, yet I am impoverished.
I realise this in a sea of madness.

Shareing

Sharing

What is it to share?
We talk of it a lot.
Give great emphasis in teaching our children.
Why have so many of us grown up unable to share!!!
What is so important about status and the BMW?
What is so important about that dollar?
What is so important about your last dollar in a sharing society?

Have we forgotten something in growing up?
How often do we get together to share.
A morning with the neighbour in the garden making a compost heap, then a shared lunch.
The imagination is the limit.
I see a lot of churches being built.

Try it out. Just spend a week offering to share your time energy,
without the expectation of reciprocity.
Ask people to share some of there energy
Spend a week randomly sharing
Vertically as well as horizontally
What is the result.

Earth hour

NASA City lights

Only one hour a year for the earth?
Earth Hour, Saturday March 29th -

Earth hour - the kids across the road knocked down my street sign. It wasn't that dark, the street lights were on, the house lights were on, they didnt have there car lights on.

An interesting night.

http://www.earthhour.org/
http://earthhour.zerofootprint.net/about/calculators