Fossil Carbon Free Communities Day

Fossil carbon free communities day
You’re invited to a Tropo (Tweed Richmond Organic Producers’ Organisation) field day at Corndale Butter Factory.

Featuring permaculturist, Tim Winton on the “Big Rollover”.

This field day is intended to help you and your local community to eat your way through the increasingly rapid climate change and resource depletion, especially fossil energy depletion, by planning to establish and diversify your local food supplies.
Together with Organic growers and permaculture designers you can plan how to develop growing systems and areas for a balanced local diet. Consider also your future water supplies, the tools you will need and recycling the nutrients.
Also the film “Community Solutions – How Cuba survived the oil crisis” will be showing and you can view progress on the Climate Change Action Network’s 3m mobile parabolic dish.

Where: Corndale Organic Bushfoods, Corndale Butter Factory, 805 Corndale Rd, Corndale.
When: 10am to until you’re happy, Sat 24th June 2006.
Food: Local Organic menu, tea, coffee, including baby dish’s solar Organic espresso….
Cost: Except for buying food the event is free, sponsored by Corndale Organic bushfoods & Tropo
Contact: Alan Roberts email alan_roberts@ozemail.com.au ph: 02 666 35 224
Everybody is welcome.

Taken from http://culturechange.org/ .. the article can be view there at http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=1


Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America

Written by Alice Friedemann
Released April 10, 2007

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic ethanol and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and are a Threat to America’s National Security

 Part 1. The Dirt on Dirt.
 Part 2. The Poop on Ethanol: Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI)
 Part 3. Biofuel is a Grim Reaper.
 Part 4. Biodiesel: Can we eat enough French Fries?
 Part 5. If we can’t drink and drive, then burn baby burn. - Energy Crop Combustion
 Part 6. The problems with Cellulosic Ethanol could drive you to drink.
 Part 7. Where do we go from here?
 Appendix
 Department of Energy's Biofuel Roadmap Barriers
 References

Article by Alan Roberts

Satellite instruments, pointing directly at the sun, measure the intensity of the sunlight above the atmosphere as 1370W/m². This is called solar insolation. In combination the earth's clouds, aerosols, atmosphere and surface reflect an average 31% of this sunlight, leaving 69% to be absorbed.

I have time. skill. money to have a go at setting up a household A/C unit. -- wholly based on solar.

I'd like input from your library on anything germain to that purpose. Ditto for input from anyone ewho knows the score on the project.

Can you help?

Laurie S

This is more like the future I have been promised.

What can I say

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/10/hondas_more_pow.html

The latest investor in green energy - the CIA

Within hours, solar and wind energy units can be up and running in war or disaster zones.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1018/p02s01-sten.html

The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate pact (the Kyoto opponents), scheduled to take place in November in Australia, has been postponed.

Read the BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4311310.stm

Who were all those experts who signed the Leipzig Declaration?

After an informative Climate Change refugee seminar put on by Friends of the Earth, I wrote to our federal politicians to find out what they were doing or intending to do about climate change and those displaced by climate change.

The Australian Medical Association and the Australian Conservation Foundation have released a report on Climate change and health

ACF page
http://www.acfonline.org.au/news.asp?news_id=565
full report
http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_AMA_ACF_Full_Report.pdf
summary
http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_AMA_ACF_report_briefer.pdf