PermaKent Permaculture Ideas of J. Kent Hastings

Free-market libertarian (but Obama voter this election), J. Neil Schulman, used his patented retrocausality chronoresonator to record this news item from next week:

http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=JHmzvz.moGf1gxqohLM1PDczNDY1OTg-&referred_by=12794030-fwzem5x

I noticed this cool Stirling engine water pump a long time ago, but never got around to blogging about it. This external combustion motor is heated with a gas burner, but there are solar powered Stirling engines you can look at online, too. Built in 1895, it originally pumped water a hundred feet into the […]

An article about Extensive Garden Roofs on the Associated Construction Publications site describes the acceptance of green roofs in the construction industry for various reasons and the shift from “intensive” to “extensive” garden roofs.
Excerpt:
“. . .thicker and heavier “intensive” garden roofs are giving way to a lighter “extensive” system, which is designed to be more […]

A Living Off The Grid article lists six schools with homesteading courses. The list includes Homesteading Heritage Center for Essential Education (Texas), Apple Family Farm (Indiana), Muller’s Lane Farm (Illinois), The Institute of Urban Homesteading (California), Pioneer School of Homesteading (Michigan), and Self-Reliance Resources (North Carolina).
The schools are reasonably described with web links to each […]

A biodiesel research item about E Coli at Gas 2.0 linked from a front page Digg post led me to another Gas 2.0 story about a landscaper growing 22 acres of jatropha for biodiesel, with the expectation of saving half of the $24,000 per month formerly spent on diesel at the pump.
Looks like my “grow […]

Boing Boing announcement by Mark Frauenfelder of the launch of H+: Humanity Plus, a new online magazine, helmed by veteran editor R.U. Sirius. The first issue is available as a free PDF download.
H+ “. . .covers the scientific, technological, and cultural developments that are challenging
and overcoming human limitations.”
One “mini interview” in the issue, by another […]

The OpenFarmTech.org site has an active community applying the open source ideas from computer technology to off grid homesteading and local farming.
The OpenFarmTech.org folks are as enthusiastic about small scale cheap (and ultimately free) automation like RepRap “Wealth Without Money” ideals as I am, except they are actually deploying RepRap and other doodads applied to […]

This Kurzweil AI article quotes author Richard Dooling’s description of his appearance topics on Coast To Coast AM:
“. . .how a wizard, an atomic physicist, and the Unabomber predicted the Wall Street debacle.”
Kurzweil AI also describes Dooling’s latest book:
“Rapture For the Geeks is a witty, fun, fast-paced, and very readable romp through the latest […]

The founder of O’Naturals, Gary Hirshberg, with five organic fast food restaurants running, is beginning franchise operations. O’Naturals began with his frustration with only junk food available on the run, so his chain serves up speedy organic meals, beyond only sprouts and tofu, and not “just to the Birkenstock crowd.” He plans to take on […]

U.S. News and World Report online edition May 30 story described Crash scenario author, Peter Schiff, as a “Permabear.”
Former Reagan economic adviser Art Laffer, of the “Laffer Curve,” thought the economy was untroubled over two years ago on August 28, 2006 in the embedded CNBC show I noticed at New Mogul. Opposing him was […]

The Culture of Permaculture blog has a couple of cool posts that caught my attention (via Google Alerts). One is a link to the World Food Garden site and the other is a link to the Permaculture: Quiet Revolution video.
[Update: The IPC 8 video seems to have gone missing. Fine. Let’s watch this cool BBC […]

Josh Tickell’s movie, Fields of Fuel, which promotes biodiesel over petroleum based fuel, won the audience prize at Sundance 2008 for the Best Documentary. The cast list includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Larry David, James Gennaro, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Jay Inslee, Jack Johnson, Bud McFarlane, Willie Nelson, Director Josh Tickell, […]

Guest blog post
by Brad Linaweaver
Today the Republican Party does not observe the high standards of McCarthyism. Senator McCarthy had the courage of his accusations. When he believed the State Department was a nest of Communists (an undisputed fact) he went after the State Department. He didn’t do so well when he went after the Army. […]

If you like the bank bailout, you’ll love government food control.
“Codex will go into global effect on December 31, 2009, unless we, the People, take action and avert it.”
This page at Health Freedom USA describes the Codex Alimentarius.
“Because Codex is so heavily influenced by corporate interests, its decisions are, in our opinion, often helpful to […]

Even though I’m a non-voting anarchist crank like Wendy McElroy, I thought I’d help prepare readers for today’s Veep debate with the following documentary. (Houston Chronicle said: “Thursday’s vice-presidential debate has the potential to be a smack-down or a train wreck. Either way, it could be great TV.”)
Why should you suffer ignorance just because of […]