Permaculture Blog

This one speaks to my heart and also because of the excellent description of the black smokers which are the home of many hyperthermophile systems like the ones that I worked on. https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_degruy_hooked_by_octopus http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

Paul Stamets
Bob http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

This is one of the best descriptions of bees, colony collapse disorder, and what we can DO, that I have seen in a long time.
https://www.ted.com/playlists/5/insects_are_awesome

Bob
http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Ludwigia+hexapetala Quote Ludwigia hexapetala, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond. End quote Hexapetala, (six petals :-) ) Sigh, this is my problem! Cal-IPC: State of California Aquatic plants http://www.cal-ipc.org/landscaping/dpp/plantpage.php?region=state&type=Aquatic%20plants Quote Invasive! Do Not Plant! Invasive! More/larger photos Uruguayan water-primrose, creeping water-primrose Ludwigia hexapetala, L. uruguayensis, L. peploides Crowds out native plants and reduces water quality. Dense mats slow water movement and create habitat for mosquito larva End quote I have spent almost 10 years trying to acquire native plants to put in ponds. This plant grows extremely well for me. Apparently so well that it’s being characterized as invasive. But native too? You’re telling me that for millions of years it grew in part of California but not in identical ecosystems further to the south??? So that when it grows really well in these systems now it’s designated invasive??? We have damaged and destroyed so much ecosystem we don’t even flippin know what grows where anymore. Secondarily, people with their flipping databases that they can’t ever change to fix. You think if we had a California native plant database and a California invasive plant database that the people would talk to one another and maybe figure it out. Bob310 429 8477 http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

Okay, I’m going to yell at you. Yes you, the reader of this page. Some of you seem to believe that permaculture is simply a cheap, easy way of doing things. I don’t believe that for a second. I don’t believe that permaculture is about liking a post because it has cute pictures of bunnies as opposed to information.

I don’t believe that permaculture is about cute cat YouTube movies. Where the “cute cats” are turned outside to rape and pillage the native birds and lizards. I don’t believe permaculture is simply about asking for someone to hand you information. And I certainly don’t think that the information you asked for should be about the “permaculture” way of killing something. Particularly if killing something uses just another toxin, even “is it is a _green _ toxin”

Is the irony gene amongst people who practice permaculture as completely dead as it is amongst the general population? I like to think that I work for what I believe, do you?

Bob
http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2014-04-pesticide-pushers-spin-the-bee-crisis-to-protect-protect-profits Everybody looking at this Facebook page needs to read this all the way through! The comparison of the pesticide companies and big tobacco is clear and exceptionally well thought out. The description of how they are focused on our children is right out of Big tobacco’s playbook. Bob310 429 8477 http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

Well sort of. It’s not as much that they are learning to share as I am learning to prevent them from getting half the fruit. So I put a slit in a couple of containers can put them around fruit. It did try though didn’t it. laughing Bob http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

I’m getting all these fun emails today! One had the following …. thought you might get a lot out of it: http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/water/bciwaterforwildlife.pdf Thanks for your interest in the small, furry and ecologically essential! Cindy Has lots of great information about generating safe drinking water for our little furry insectivores. http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/aquatic/report-sacramento-delta-no-longer-a-delta.html Well I haven’t posted here in a while but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been active. I have continued to work with wonderful people and permaculture. I saw this article the other day. I have been saying for a while that we have destroyed 97% of our freshwater wetlands. The remaining 3% is the area the article is talking about. Oh my. I am frustrated and literally angry at the water companies desire to sell more water. If water had cost more, and did cost more for the water gluttons of the world primarily the US we could solve our water issues. With the reasonable amount of 50 gallons per person per day as free with no base charge we would not hurt the poor! We could then develop a per capita multiple tier rate system with more than three silly levels that more accurately reflected the use of water over 50 gallons a day . We would not hurt the poorer segments of our society, and we could easily, EASily, EASILY make the water gluttons of the world pay for their water use. Why in the world should I, and all the other non golfers be forced to massively supplement the golf courses? We could ensure that our fat, lazy water companies fixed their infrastructure and we would not be devastating the environment as we are. I sadly believe that we as a society are simply too lazy in some respects. I love high tech, I love rockets, but saving water isn’t as sexy as watching a rocket ship launch. Bob http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com

Well it seems like ages since I posted but part of that time I have been working on a talk to try to give an overview and perspective of Permaculture and Microbiology. The flyer is attached below. And here is a link. http://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoPermaculture/events/206740302/ Bob310 429 8477 http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com