Archive for March, 2010

Free Permaculture Course Videos Online

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Instructor Will Hooker
36 video episodes of classroom instruction (over 40 hours) for an “Introduction to Permaculture” course are online at iTunes U, but are not easy to find. Here’s a direct link to the series, http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ncsu.edu.1365999913, which will launch iTunes.
“Spisblog,” a listener to The Survival Podcast, heard Jack Spirko talking about permaculture and blogged […]

Freedom, Permaculture, Self Reliance, Sun-day | No Comments »

Toxic Cleaning Products: Fear the Future

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Looks like the glass spray I described in “Get Ready To Eat and Wear Glass” is being joined by “hairy surfaces” in the war against consumable toxic cleaning products.
The first description of the invention I read was a Slashdot post, “New “Hairy” Material Is Almost Perfectly Hydrophobic.”
According to the Science Daily article being quoted, “Water […]

Health, Pollution, Self Reliance, Sun-day | 2 Comments »