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Steve Hart
On 11/08/2007, at 12:59 AM, pil-pc-oceania- 
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>    1. Re: People (Bruce Zell)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:47:03 +1000
> From: "Bruce Zell" <brucezell at aapt.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] People
> To: "'permacultue discussion list'"
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> Hello All
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> Great idea keep it alive nothing like putting a face to the name.  
> There must
> be a whole lot more out there .
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>
> Cheers
>
> Bruce Zell
>
> Far North Queensland
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>
>   _____
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> From: pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org
> [mailto:pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org] On
> Behalf Of pacific-edge
> Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2007 9:05 PM
> To: pil
> Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] People
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> Some of those who made permaculture:
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> From: "tamara griffiths" <scarletwoman at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] PPP: Bill's second andf final installment
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> Hi all,
>
> Please find Bill's second installment.
> This has been written in the last few weeks, for the purpose of PPP
> formation.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tamara
>
> Energy, Water, and Food
>
> The forms of clean energy:
>
> Wind power
> Wind farms have become fairly common in advanced Countries. In  
> Denmark, one
> large windmill is built after issuing 800 or so shares, the number of
> households that can be provided with power from a village machine.  
> These
> shares, and up to 10m² of solar panels providing hot water and  
> electricity
> are purchased by middle-aged couples to ensure free energy in their
> retirement. Most connect to the grid, and buy or sell energy as  
> they have
> the need, or have surplus energy. They provide for their old age.
>
> Solar Devices
> 	Solar panels as hot water provided to insulated tanks, or as  
> electrical
> generators, are becoming routine fixtures in modern societies; again,
> surplus electricity is sold to the local grid, and surplus heat is  
> ‘dumped’
> into hot water systems.
>
> Geothermal
> Deep drill-holes, sited over areas of volcanic heat or where the  
> earths
> crust is thin, convert water into steam for use in the heating of  
> buildings,
> or in powering steam turbines for electrical production.
>
> The Hydro-electrical devices
> 	From very small to very large, the power of falling water to spin  
> turbines
> has long been harvested, and supplements other energy systems.
>
> But since ancient times, water has been used to compress and store air
> (“isothermally-compressed”). All water that falls carries some air  
> bubbles,
> and these rise much more slowly than the water falls, so that they  
> can be
> carried down and released in large storage rooms or plenums some  
> 200 or more
> metres below ground.
>
> A conical device called a trompe bleeds high levels of air into  
> water, for
> escape and storage at depth in carefully plastered (sealed) rooms.  
> From
> there, small diameter pipes leads compressed air to surface work  
> shops, to
> farm storage tanks, and to households where compressed air operates  
> small
> electric generators, refrigerators and cool rooms and the whole  
> array of
> compressed-air tools (presses, vices, spray applicators, sand- 
> blasters etc.
> etc.)
>
> Given a modest stream and a trompe, or successive trompes, very large
> quantities of compressed air can be stored. In 1930, all cars, trams,
> trains, and cool rooms in Paris and Chicago, were supplied by  
> miners with
> trompes, operated on compressed air. Light motor vehicles with 7 to  
> 10 h.p.
> slide valve steam engines with a working pressure of 40 p.s.i.,  
> could travel
> 100 or more kilometres on 2 cubic feet of air at 1500 p.s.i. held in a
> drawn-steel cylinder below the seat.
>
> The exhaust gas was very cold air, directed to a hamper in the boot  
> for the
> preservation of cold meats, cold drinks, and the like. Unlike  
> electricity,
> compressed air loses little in transport, and until the fossil fuels
> displaced it. It has no poisonous fumes or explosive potential.
>
> As well, the trompes are well developed, and the uses of compressed  
> air
> tools also very sophisticated. Many trompes can be built in one  
> stream, and
> form many reservoirs of compressed air.
>
> Tidal Energies
> The rise and fall of tides, the power tidal current delivers over
> “egg-beater” turbines are all little-developed sources of clean  
> energy. In
> straits running east-west, the tidal flow is constantly to the  
> west, and
> operates around the clock. Sub-sea “egg beaters” will provide constant
> energy for the generation of electricity or for the provision of  
> compressed
> air.
>
>
> Powerful currents sweep by reefs and islands at the west end of  
> straits
> (Bass Strait in Australia is one of many good examples). Only a  
> very little
> of these energies is harvested to date, but “ducks”, and compressed- 
> air
> sausages for wave power are well developed, and it remains to tap  
> the great
> power of confined currents for national energy grids.
>
> Solar Energy
> 	From modest “caravan power” for light and computers to very large  
> static
> arrays of solar collectors on roof areas or as parabolic arrays for  
> steam
> turbine development, solar devices are numerous; widely used, but  
> at a small
> scale of the potential.
>
> Areas of mirrors in steerable arrays one to five km. square are  
> needed to
> supply national grids and state energy systems. We need to break  
> out of the
> small-scale installations that have previously made all clean power
> “uneconomic”.
>
> Clean power is essential for life, and is only uneconomic if money  
> is valued
> above life! Just as every house can harvest enough clean rainwater  
> to supply
> the needs of the occupants, so every roof can collect the energy  
> needed to
> fuel the house and supplement a national grid. It simply remains to  
> make
> water collection and energy collection a compulsory part of  
> architecture; to
> develop climate control in building using the air from earth  
> tunnels to cool
> or heat rooms, and “day-night” fans to heat or cool the fabric of  
> buildings.
>
> In civilised societies, it is already legislated that buildings  
> should never
> be permitted western windows, nor can large unshaded areas of car  
> parks be
> built. Both call for too much summer heat to be offset, needlessly.  
> It is
> past-time to legislate for domestic and urban energy and water  
> storage.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Water Supply
> 	In most countries, 80% of rainfall runs off or evaporates. Thus  
> only 12% is
> available for agriculture or domestic needs. We must legislate for the
> construction of thousand of miles of swales on farms, as large contour
> ditches that fill in every heavy rain (>10mm/day). In 3 to 6 hours,  
> such
> water soaks in, and is immune to evaporation or run-off! This  
> water, over
> years and centuries, feeds tree roots, springs, and valley streams.  
> Swales
> enable forests, and forests are both passive condenses of night  
> air, and
> active cloud generators for rainfall. If we clear the ridges, 40% of
> orographic rain ceases. If we clear the plains, most condensation  
> and clouds
> fail to form. Thus, swales precede forests. Forests precede  
> precipitation.
> Again, clearing is a severely anti social act, and we must  
> legislate for
> forestry, and survival. Every countryman in Australia has, all his  
> life,
> used tank water from his roof. He suffers no adverse health  
> effects, perhaps
> needing iodised salt to prevent goitre. It is long past time that  
> architects
> and builders were required by law to build water self-sufficient  
> houses, and
> energy self-sufficient houses.
>
> All architecture students must learn the techniques of self-sufficient
> buildings.  It remains to allow 12 – 14m² of garden (on roofs, or  
> at ground
> level), and food, water, and energy are provided by buildings!  Such a
> society can last forever, in comfortable and clean surroundings.  
> There is
> absolutely no reason to tolerate the vandalism of forest clearing,  
> let alone
> support it by government subsidy. We face global death by neglect.  
> It is not
> as though we do not have the skills to build to survive, we do!
>
> Or, we could wood-chip our way to death, using present political  
> parties as
> our bell-wethers, or guides to hell.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tamara Griffiths
> 39 Wattle Tree Road
> Bunyip
> Victoria 3815
> 03 5629 5918
> 0407 45 7707
> scarletwoman at hotmail.com
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/boodicusducky/
>
> "Be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
>
> 'The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do
> nothing." Edmund Burke
>
>
>
>
>
>> From: pacific-edge <info at pacific-edge.info>
>> Reply-To: permacultue discussion
>> list<pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
>> To: pil <pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] School & Community Gardens Day @  
>> Apollo Bay
>> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:06:21 +1000
>>
>> Good morning Fern from a fine, sunny, warm, blue-sky Spring-like  
>> morning in
>> Sydney.
>>
>> Just a brief note to let you know your event below will shortly  
>> appear on
>> the website of the community garens network.
>>
>> ...Russ
>>
>> On 7/8/07 10:48 AM, "permaculture at apollobay.org.au"
>> <permaculture at apollobay.org.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Please send this info through your networks:
>>>
>>> SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDENS DAY
>>>
>>> When: 22-08-2007
>>> from: 09:00 to 17:00
>>>
>>> Where: Apollo Bay P-12 College, Penguilly Avenue, Apollo Bay,
>>> Victoria,AUSTRALIA
>>>
>>> With: John Champagne, Phil Gall, Fern Rainbow, Virginia Solomon,  
>>> Eltham
>>> College of Education's Colin Nightingale and Cultivating Community's
>> Andrew
>>> Wood, Heidi Sanghvi & Natasha Van Velzen
>>>
>>> Fee: $80/ $120 (AUS)
>>>
>>> Contact Name: Fern Rainbow
>>> Contact Email: permaculture at apollobay.org.au
>>> Contact Phone: 0425710380
>>>
>>>
>>> Learn about Permaculture design for the school & community  
>>> garden, and
>>> conduct an actual site analysis and design on the day.
>>>
>>> Watch and help out with the Gardenwealth Games demonstration and
>>> participate in Edible
>>> Classroom activities with Cultivating Community¹s Andrew Wood, Heidi
>>> Sanghvi & Natasha Van Velzen.
>>>
>>> Learn about teaching Permaculture in schools with Virginia  
>>> Solomon and
>>> Colin Nightingale (Eltham College of Education).
>>>
>>> Held at Apollo Bay P-12 College, the grade 5¹s and the local  
>>> community
>>> garden group will share with you their exciting plans for a school &
>>> community garden. Others will also share their school & community  
>>> garden
>>> projects happening across Australia.
>>>
>>> Tutors & speakers on the day will include: John Champagne, Phil  
>>> Gall,
>>> Virginia Solomon, Colin Nightingale (Eltham College of Education),
>>> Cultivating Community's Andrew Wood, Heidi Sanghvi & Natasha Van  
>>> Velzen
>> and
>>> more!
>>>
>>> Tutors & speakers on the day:
>>>
>>> VIRGINIA SOLOMON was a member of the Reference Group which  
>>> developed the
>>> Accredited Permaculture Training Courses and has held several other
>>> positions in permaculture circles. She has a background in  
>>> vocational
>>> training, landscape design and permaculture teaching/design as  
>>> well as
>>> training trainers to expand this work. Colin Nightingale will join
>>> Virginia and outline Eltham College of Education's sustainability
>> program
>>> for Year 9 students that has run over the past 3 years and now  
>>> has over
>> 500
>>> graduates of the Certificate I in Permaculture.
>>>
>>> JOHN CHAMPAGNE, permaculture teacher, activist, ABC local radio
>> presenter,
>>> established Brogo Permaculture Gardens over 12 years. It now  
>>> serves as
>> one
>>> of permaculture¹s best examples of cool temperate design. John is
>> founding
>>> member of BEND [www.bend.org.au] and facilitated the design  
>>> process of
>> the
>>> eco-neighbourhood in Bega.
>>>
>>> PHIL GALL has been involved with environmental and sustainability
>> activism
>>> since the 1970s and an early pioneer of the permaculture  
>>> movement. He is
>> a
>>> qualified Architect, Landscape Architect, teacher and permaculture
>>> designer. Phil was fortunate to work with PA Yeomans and has a deep
>>> understanding of the Keyline Planning System and swale  
>>> construction. His
>>> bio is so long its difficult to condense! He currently works in  
>>> the Bega
>>> Valley designing waste water treatment systems, ecological  
>>> sustainable
>>> housing design, whole farm planning and environmental assessment to
>> comply
>>> with council regulations.
>>>
>>> NATASHA VAN VELZEN & HEIDI SANGHVI are members of the Cultivating
>>> Community Edible Classroom Team. They have both been teaching and
>>> consulting in school garden programs for the past 5 years throughout
>>> Melbourne including the very successful 'Kings Patch' @ Kings Park
>> Primary
>>> School and Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Project at  
>>> Collingwood
>>> College. Heidi has just returned from overseas with new  
>>> inspiration to
>>> share and is teaching at Fitzroy Primary School's Multicultural  
>>> Kitchen
>>> Garden. Tash is currently coordinating the Edible Classroom Pilot
>> Program
>>> that works closely with the students and wider school community  
>>> of three
>>> Melbourne schools in designing, constructing and integrating  
>>> their own
>>> Edible Classroom programs.
>>>
>>> ANDREW WOODS is part of Cultivating Community Inc.¹s ³Edible  
>>> Classroom²
>>> team too. He¹s been working in community development, education,
>>> performing arts and permaculture for the last decade, and for
>> Cultivating
>>> community for the last five years. During that time he¹s developed a
>> number
>>> of community garden projects in public housing estates in inner-city
>>> Melbourne, and primary school ³Edible Classrooms² in schools  
>>> across the
>>> city, including the innovative Parkhill Primary School project,  
>>> which
>>> comprises a weekly round of garden classes, a lunchtime Garden  
>>> Club, a
>>> regular community garden market, and monumental cooking!
>>>
>>> FERN RAINBOW is an educator, project manager and natural therapist
>>> specialised in oriental remedial therapies. She has a design  
>>> background,
>>> and acquired her permaculture design certificate in the late 90's. A
>> past
>>> president of Permaculture Melbourne Inc., she founded Otways & Coast
>>> Permaculture Group and the SW Vic. Permaculture Network, and has  
>>> been
>>> living in the Otways & Coast bioregion for the past 6 years.  
>>> Since 2004,
>>> she has organised and run a multitude of community based  
>>> permaculture
>>> workshops & events in the Otways. She has also run her own  
>>> specialist
>>> workshops at various festivals (National Fiddle Festival, Apollo Bay
>> Music
>>> Festival) and at schools & education centres.
>>>
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