What will we use... Creating this Village from Scratch

Here it is. Day 1 - The start of our Farm Fairy Village demonstration site - Living the Experiment - test modeling.

I don't know what's to become of this, but I know we have a lot to build. We've discussed in general some of the things that need to be developed, most of it appropriate technology that we will need to make our lives work, so I thought I'd share some of the resource links that were sent by Eroc, following our EM (Earth Masters) Bicycle-powered Electric Generator workshop, put on a few weeks ago with Sally Bedford and our Oteshite interns, John and Antoino, who were here for the summer (and are now gone and are dearly missed).

Eric (the name his parents liked better) says... "Below follows several links that relate to our bicycle power workshop and some of the other ideas brought up regarding water and appropriate technology...

First is David Butchers site on pedal power, I personally think he has one of the better designs.
(http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pedgen.html)

And of course the wonderful things happening at CCAT with there great pedal powered innovations is a real inspiration. (http://www.humboldt.edu/%)

The infamous pendulum pump of Veljko Milković. (http://www.veljkomilkovic.com/rucnaPumpaEng.html)

The rope pump (http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=43) we talked about and a page on traditional water pumps (http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Po-Re/Pumps-Traditional.html).

And some sites you should visit cuz theyre awesome...
PESwiki (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page)
Appropedia (http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia)
Demotech (http://www.demotech.org/d-index.php)
and Keelynet (http://www.keelynet.com/) - a great site to keep up on the news of the day.

Dont be shy, follow these pages back and you will come across a great wealth of information that will blow your mind.

Enjoy, Eric

(I really love this signature quote that he uses...)

Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand even when I have gone away from you."
~Pueblo Blessing ~