The Functional Future
3 systems can be used solo or in conjunction with one another: (1) Generator and/or (2) Solar and/or (3) Marine battery with car charging it in emergency. See parent article on prepping priorities. Note that backup power is related to communication (a large priority because you’ll want to find your family in an emergency, learn […]
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Introduction Hunter-gatherers: term defined by William Solas in 1911 in which he also recognizes for the first time this distinctive way of life. Leslie White (location 536), neo-evolutionary thinking: Organize humans on continuum of evolution based on how much control they had over energy flows. Early humans relied on muscle, later humans harnessed fossil fuels
Sun Orbit’s greenhouse technology from Tamara Solar Village.
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Here’s my Thanksgiving toast to our loved ones who suffer: Just as real canaries can save us from poison gas, our cultural canaries can help us know reality and live better. So, long live our cultural canaries. May we pay attention to them, honor them, love them, and help them. In so doing, we honor, love, and help ourselves. By listening to all of who they are, we listen to all of who we are. What better way be whole? What better way to love thy neighbor as thyself? What better way to express gratitude? #thankcanaries
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The word “permaculture” comes from the combination of “permanent” + “agriculture”. Since food is vital for culture, permaculture is also “permanent” + “culture”. It has the potential for solving many existing problems…
What is Permaculture? Read More »
Want to have a conversation with your partner? Don’t write a note on black paper with black ink.
Talk? Only when you have a blank page Read More »
A psychopath is going to the white house. Four lessons to learn and act on.
A Psychopathic President, Staying Awake, and One Planet Thriving Read More »
Stirling engines quietly generate electricity and mechanical energy pollution-free by using oxygen and a temperature differential.
The Energy of Stirling Engines – Notes Read More »
These are all people or projects who have been living experiments in life design and chose to pass their knowledge to us.
Life Design and Life Designers (combined post) Read More »
Barry Schwartz has written a book and given a TED talk on this subject of “Why we work?” He asserts that a small group of people work for meaning and purpose and, perhaps, because the work is important, but that most people work in jobs that give them none of these things. For those people,