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    What is considered as low rainfall?

    Re: What is considered as low rainfall? Actually, while Melbourne's long-term average rainfall is about 750mm, for the last ten years it's been...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Jul 26, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    Can we survive Climate Change

    Re: Can we survive Climate Change We might be more interested if you were talking about something in terms commonly used. Nobody speaks of...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Jul 10, 2008 in forum: The big picture
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    Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fi

    Re: Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fi Not unique at all, almost universal. People first settle the fertile areas....
    Post by: Jim Bob, Jun 29, 2008 in forum: Planting, growing, nurturing Plants
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    Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fi

    Re: Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fi Indeed, in many parts of the US there are laws against having anything but lawn...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Jun 29, 2008 in forum: Planting, growing, nurturing Plants
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    fwd: "Urban Homesteading:Keeping up appearances"

    Re: fwd: "Urban Homesteading:Keeping up appearances" I said, "in effect, if not in law." We have what is legal, and what is really in effect....
    Post by: Jim Bob, Apr 23, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    Permaculture balcony - composting, wormery, Bokashi

    Re: Permaculture balcony - composting, wormery, Bokashi [img]
    Post by: Jim Bob, Apr 2, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    "tarrif" for solar power put into the grid

    Re: "tarrif" for solar power put into the grid Not really that big, only as difficult as balancing your chequebook. And if you can't do that,...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 25, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    "tarrif" for solar power put into the grid

    Re: "tarrif" for solar power put into the grid This was reported some time ago: https://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... 163375.htm...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 23, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    fwd: "Urban Homesteading:Keeping up appearances"

    Anything you post on the internet is in effect, if not in law, public domain. So go for it :) Just link them to my blog for more wisdom and genius.
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 21, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    fwd: "Urban Homesteading:Keeping up appearances"

    Good old USA, where you can carry a firearm into a shop but you can't put your washing out to dry. Madness :)
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 19, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    *sigh* Retreat version II.

    Looks good. Looks like you'll be putting a greenhouse in if you want any vegies.
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 13, 2008 in forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life
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    Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming

    Wow, the trading scheme hasn't even begun, and they're already asking for a handout. Greenhouse gas emissions will not be reduced by...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Mar 11, 2008 in forum: The big picture
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    Cuba imports 70% of its food

    Heinberg definitely overstates his case, don't get me wrong. For one, he fails to mention that the change was bottom-up, and the Castro government...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Feb 26, 2008 in forum: The big picture
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    Cuba imports 70% of its food

    Not so simple. A recent Age article, taken wholesale from the UK Daily Telegraph, claimed Cuba imported 85% of its food, rather than the 70% of...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Feb 24, 2008 in forum: The big picture
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    Best lawn mower,,,Is it Victa ?

    Well, it's not like there's any shortage of clippings and cuttings and so on in most places. Hell, most people pay for someone else to take the...
    Post by: Jim Bob, Feb 23, 2008 in forum: Planting, growing, nurturing Plants
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