Simha's Kolb's Kite - Learning Constitution
Mid-year pesentation - Emergence and Intuition
Emergent-design flow process
Emergent-design flow compared
Zocalo - post peak oil
The Zocalo Permaculture center is focused on energy and transport solutions. We had a meeting on a system they have come up with on a cell-phone based network of ride and errands sharing. This program is called F.A.I.R.E meaning Friends Assisting in Rides and Errands.They presented the program to the Maine Transportation committee (I believe) and it is being implemented. There is a description of FAIRE here. John Archer also gave a small explanation of his new method of creating solar panels see video below.
Zocalo solar panel construction
Tinder Hearth Bakery
Three dimensions of the ripple effect
Explanation of ripple effect diagram
The droplet of OP2 (purple inner circle) hits the surface of the present paradigm and spreads out rippling into four project groups. From these four project groups the ripple expands out into the modalities each project uses to impact the next scale. From these modalities it expands out into how they will impact the next scale. As the ripple continues moving outward the implications of OP2's effects become broader in scale and are harder to track. To see my work on the three dimensions of a ripple effect see 3.1 supporting evidence, left column.
Project photo albums
- See photo albums of each individual micro-project linked in 1.1 Project Discription page (right hand column).
Hugelkulture Yields
This hugelkulture mound's immediate-yield inspired me!
I created this hugelkulture mound using my emergent-design flow. The rotting wood and branches had been collected from this area to start the process of creating a zone 1-2 around the cabin site. The rotting wood was piled in a big heap. I simply re-piled it in a long row moving the minimal amount of wood, part of the original pile was left. I covered the mound with dry leaves and then shoveled the loose loam from either side of the mound onto the wood. I grabbed some black and white beans and lentils from the kitchen sprinkled them on the mound and shoveled a little more loam ontop of them. This is a very shady area so I didn't really expect a yield, it was primarily sown as a green-manure/cover-crop. Today I harvested plenty of fresh young crisp green beans from the mound! Having such an elevated mound made collecting them easy! I only picked lightly down one side of the mound, here is my harvest in 10 minutes. (I would have included this in the core report but my word count is over.)
Kailash Food Forest Video
Multi-purpose hedgerow
I spent several days with Mark Krawczyk working on his land. In the beginning I was helping him install a multi-purpose hedgerow with the main purpose of breaking the noise/visuals of the road frontage on his land. This hedgerow was some 1500 whips of 40 varieties of shrubs and trees. Mark came up with a weed-control method which creates a swale with only the materials on site, sod.
Hard-skills gained in OP2
- Scything and maintaining the scythe (Kailash food forest, Mark Krawczyk, Zocalo, Metta Earth)
- Timber framing (Yestermorrow)
- Building with Hemp (Yestermorrow)
- Anaerobic compost teas (Kailash food forest, NE Permaculture Convergence)
- Mini swales and ponds - dynamic water management (Mark Krawczyk)
- Polycultures (Kailash food forest, Vermont Village building Convergence, NE Permaculture Convergence)
- Root cellaring (Village building convergence)
- Plant identification (Mark krawczyk, Kailash food forest)
- Increasing systems health with edge (Kailash food forest, Mark Krawczyk, NE Permaculture Convergence)
- Hugelkulture mounds (Kailash Food Forest)
- Design Processes (Self-foraging and Gaia University).
Timber framing mortise demo Yestermorrow
Timber framing peg making demo Yestermorrow
Hempcrete cross-pollination
Lime is a key ingredient in the mix for Hempcrete. The instructors who taught the class didn't know the cycle of lime. I didn't off the top of my head either, though I have heard it many times. I looked it up on Google and drew out a poster size image of the life cycle of lime - this is the reference image here Another student and I presented to the class the cycle. I also shared a blog post I had done on hemp awhile back found here. I also shared the photos I had just taken at the convergence of the hempcrete house we visited at the NE Permaculture Convergence seen in the first images on photo album here.
HTML code for Mahara
Digiphon
Page layout is 3 equal columns of equal width. The kolbs kite I created with google Sketchup, took a screen shot with Grab, copied it into Mac Pages, added text, saved it as a PDF by going to File, Print, PDF, save as PDF. All PDF documents were created on Mac Pages and saved as a PDF. The 2 images in the text were edited in Preview and inserted in the text with a boarder of 1 and horizontal and vertical margin of 10. I created the First draft emergent-design flowchart with Mac Pages and took a screen shot with Grab and saved-as a jpg at around 50 kb. I used Soundcloud to host both audio files of Zocalo's F.A.I.R.E program and Mark's sod-swales of Multi-purpose hedgerow. I used iMovie to create the Kailash food forest video, all video is hosted on Youtube and shot with iPhone4, I edited the two timber framing movies and the Tinder hearth movie on Youtube editor. The photos were taken with an iPhone4, the contrast and saturation modified with photoshop app. I emailed them to myself, saved as jpg at around 50kb, uploaded to Mahara. All text was saved in TextEdit as 'plain text' sometimes copy and pasted from Mac Pages (which saves embedded links). I am using html anchor tags for internal links, see HTML for Mahara above.
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