Alchemical Blog
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Thinking Like an Alchemist [3] - Permaculture
Principle]
Permaculture is a new myth / alchemic generator for the sustainability age. As we move into the future our continued survival requires us to seek solutions to the present dilemmas that go beyond best practices and academic theory.Example] The Mythic Mandate online workshop provides attendees with a skill set and mission for utilizing their creative imagination to build poetically resonant tools to transmute their daily experiences into a powerful new map for the future.
Requirements to Participate] This is a free online workshop. Each participant is required to post an offering about permaculture for discussion no later than 2 weeks before 1/27/10. Offerings can include: a poem, a photo, an illustration, a short video, a short story or brief news item pertaining to permaculture that will be posted on PlanetShifter.com Magazine for pre-workshop sharing and reflection.
Link to Full Details and to Sign-Up] http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1766
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Thinking Like An Alchemist [1] - Open Source
Principle] Always think open source DIY over manufactured commercial.
Example] Open Source Ecology and the Global Village Construction Set
Text] a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off-grid "resilient communities." By using
permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and "evolve to freedom."Video]
Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes < Click Here!
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The Knothole Covers The Guild
Volume 65 Issue 3 of SUNY-ESF's Knothole student newspaper publication contains a first hand account of a student who joined us at a Guild activity back in October at 717 Otisco St.
Download the PDF and navigate to Page 7 to read Julia Palmer's story on the
Permaculture Potluck and
Hugelkultur bed building hands-on work share that was great fun."The hands-on project for the day was the building of a Hugelkultur garden and
compost bed. While the word was foreign to me the idea was familiar. Produce no waste! From collected piles of plant waste left on roadsides by people cleaning up their yards for autumn. . .The bed is made en-tirely of any plant material you could get your hands on, including woody debris such as sticks, logs, woodchips, and compost from OCRRA. Together we ripped tape from cardboard boxes to use for
sheet mulch and layered logs, sticks, grass clippings, and fennel stems found along the roadside. The pile was then covered in rich compost."
