Notes for dialog on week 7
Chet said soil is nature’s secret society, Tilling – a lot of work, hard to get out the weeds, warms the soil more. POint out Elizabeths use of lasagna gardening. Worms in a flow through system....
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Wild plants. Botany in a day! Cool! Need to check it out. Alaska Plant Materials Center. Why cultivate native plants, easier to get. you know what is on them, not disturbing the wild lands. The...
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Sepp Holzer’s bone sauce. To keep the “moose” away. It was basically meat drippings well baked. As everyone noted, it smelled like a barbeque grill. I might try out just hanging a grill near a...
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Old sod houses. Building in rural alaska…old houses in southurn style. CCHRC is helping to build a new style of homes. The house is a system so you need to know how to run it. Efficient houses….The...
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I was exited to hear Chet’s opinions on this topic. Chet, I believe you teach about energy efficiency and alternative energy and building in some capacity. Having moved up from the lower 48 into...
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We have to evaluate each animal we add to our system – In terms of it’s needs, it’s products, behaviors and its intrinsic characteristics. i.e. Bill Mollison’s chicken Cindee prefers yields vs needs...
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To change to a permanent culture we are going to have to change some of the systems we are involved in… What are the consequences of changing the system? Several examples of taking out the bad part...
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Larissa - People respond to what they see others doing around them, and change happens in a holon pattern, spreading from the change makers to the rest of the community. Irene - People are going to do...
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Here we go…. Chris Martensen Videos: problems have solutions, predicaments have outcomes plentitude economy Gunter Pauli - discovered we had to use what we have rather than going and getting what we...
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PAtircia – Good communication must be based on sound information (This is hard for me. What tends to happen when I bring topics like this up people come back with alternatives or reason to not do it...
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