The Greenman Project

Sweet Christmas!

Dec

2010

So my sweet angel of a wife Erin gave me a subscription to Permaculture, a UK based permaculture magazine. I love it! In it there is an eye opening article on dog food. The author speaks of giving his dog rabbit from his farm and stomachs from a local butcher. This is because the poor ...

Greening the dessert 1

Dec

2010

This video is so inspiring. I’ve been following Geoff Lawton for a while now and he’s got the right ideas. He runs the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Look at this video and dig around a bit. Related posts: Intro to Permaculture Design DVD The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann

Very rare lunar eclipse tonight!

Dec

2010

Today at 10:33 pm PMT, we get the first full lunar eclipse on the day of the northern winter solstice in 400 years. Say that ten times fast. To give you some perspective on how long ago that was look here. Not only that, but it’s only the second one since year 1. Sadly we ...

Rain Water Collection

Dec

2010

Being that it’s raining like it’s monsoon season here in LA, I thought I’d post some info and resources on rain water collection. So as you hear that rain falling, think of all it could be doing for us… The basic principle uses rain gutters to re-purpose rainwater that would otherwise run down the street ...

Eden Dale is the place to be 3

Dec

2010

I believe that here are no coincidences. So as you might have read, I went to a Transition meeting a little while back. I signed up to their news letter, but being as they are kinda far I asked for more local contacts. Lo and behold they send me the info of a an ...

Paradise found 1

Dec

2010

Well almost. We checked out some land today. It was 120 acres in the LA area. Nice and close to all our awesome friends and family, but just out of the way enough to not be in the city. It had some oaks and a lot of sage all over. There were two building sites, ...

The cutest thing ever!

Dec

2010

Do try this at home 2

Dec

2010

I used to not have to shave. Sadly my current cash cow of a job requires me to be “Clean Cut”. No more lumberjack look alike contests for me. So in my do it your own way fashion I went and got me a straight razor to shave with. I must say that the ...

Great Radio

Dec

2010

This page has some great talks. I particularly enjoyed this one. It has three guests. The first is Penny Livingston Stark, she is the founder of RDI. A permaculture school in Bolinas California (Erin took me there for my birthday a couple of years ago. Great place to visit). She talks about the origins ...

Easy “yogurt”

Dec

2010

This is the long story…I heard of Erik Knutzen about two years ago. He did a talk at a local gathering promoting his new (at the time) book. He spoke of water harvesting, brewing spirits, gardening, etc. Needles to say he had my full attention. I bought this book that same night. I gobbled ...