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PM'd you VB.

Interview with Joanna Macey by Rob Hopkins from Transition Culture, conducted on the last day of their recent Positive Energy Conference.

Highly recommended reading.

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Sorry for the lack of update folks, been working too hard lately and had no time.

A little satire from Julian Darley at The Post Carbon Institute to begin with:

Grounded aircraft to be...

Yeah, I can fully understand charging in your situation Chris, I was more referring to established places in the Western world.

Thanks for your detailed reply, always interesting to hear what...

Thanks Kathleen.

I posted an article on this subject quite a while back...I wish I could find it in the archives to compare the two and see if there was any differences.

There's been some strange 'anti-profit' views expressed on the topic in the past on the board Sue, but I think you'll find the majority of them came from people who didn't really have much genuine...

Gail Tverberg for The Oil Drum on the economic impacts of less available energy:

The Expected Economic Impact of an Energy Downturn


Another article on a similar topic from Dave Cohen for...

What a great thread, very heartwarming example of sharing and helping each other.

Onya Baz and Derek.

Hope your leg is better soon Len.

It's a very good tenderiser for meat ppp, it contains the enzyme papain which is used in commercial herb company 'meat tenderisers' (this is the single biggest use of papaya in the US apparently),...

In my experience Eric, any smaller fruit just ripen later and most reach normal size for whatever variety you're growing.

That may also explain why some trees you saw had few fruit on them. We...

Australian of the Year 2007, Tim Flannery talks bio char and why we need to move into the renewable age

For anyone interested who missed it, Rosemary Morrow was featured on Radio National's program 'Encounter':



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Good job Murray, well done mate...no glitches so far on my end.

FWIW, one improvement I'm chuffed about is the underlining of links - for anyone with abnormal colour vision they could be hard to...

Very good Peak Oil overview in web, PDF and Powerpoint format by Gail Tverberg at The Oil Drum:




Rob Hopkins from Transition Culture has very kindly made his ‘Energy Descent Pathways:...

No problem at all having that many on it PPP, pawpaws can bear more than that no problem depending on variety. If you have two fruits growing off the same node then it's a good idea to remove one or...

G'day daniel,

The innoculant just comes in a sachet with your seeds (from good suppliers anyway), you mix it with a little water or milk (just enough to moisten the seeds) and add a little ag....

Enter the biogas digester. :D

Greenhouses near the house or separate from your ventilation (windows, doors, vents etc) is no problem daniel, I assumed you meant using the greenhouse to heat your house, when perhaps you meant...

G'day daniel,

It's very difficult to give you an answer on siting your plants appropriately when you haven't included any climate details. Three hours of sun in the tropics or up a mountain is...

Sorry to hear about your plans up north falling through Dave, good luck with the new venture.

Good onya for continuing the detailed solar info mate, I'm sure that will be helpful for a lot of...