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Craig Embleton
London Green Fair
We’ll be at the free festival in Regents Park on the 4th and 5th of June. Visit us in the Permaculture zone to find out about eco-affluent convergence. At 6pm on Sunday we’ll be talking about eco-affluence in the Permaculture workshop marquee. There are talks all day with some great subjects including Polly Higgins talking about [...]
LED Lamps and Ecoaffluent Convergence
To help explain this concept consider for example the use of kerosene lamps in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. A friend of ours who is based in Burkina Faso has explained that very poor people can spend up to a dollar a day on kerosene for lighting alone. Kerosene causes terrible respiratory problems in general use [...]
350ppm pyramid illustration
It takes a lot of wood to store enough carbon from carbon dioxide (CO2) to get the atmospheric CO2 down to 350ppm (methodology described in the CO2 Pyramids post). In these illustrations, the smaller pyramid is the same size as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The larger one illustrates the amount of wood [...]
Posted in The Green Frontier Tagged carbon capture and storage, CO2, Great Pyramid of Giza, New York Leave a comment
Population for a reforested Sahara
Population and land area The sahara is 9,000,000 square kilometres or 900,000,000 hectares. The population of the world is predicted to stabilize at 9,000,000,000 by 2050. If the entire world population moved to a transformed sahara the population density would be 10 people per hectare – or 0.1 hectares available per person – see CIA [...]
Reforest Haiti
Haiti could be rebuilt and reforested at the same time, turning it from the poorest nation in the Americas into a tropical paradise. Haiti is a tropical island next to Cuba. With a population of 9,035,536 people and a land mass of 2,775,000 hectares there is 0.31 hectares available per person. The country currently has [...]
Green Frontier!
Welcome to the blog of the Green Frontier website. This area will contain general entries before they are catalogued into toolkit items. The purpose of the blog is to post items of interest and importance, so as to make the available before there have been placed in context with the rest of the information offered [...]
CO2 pyramids
In 2006 in ‘the revenge of gaia’ Lovelock writes that if the world’s annual 27 Giga tonnes (Gt) of CO2 emissions were stored as frozen CO2 at – 80°C it would form a mountain one mile high and twelve miles in circumference. Lovelock uses this as an example of the difficulties of carbon capture and storage [...]
Posted in Blog Tagged carbon capture and storage, CO2, Great Pyramid of Giza, inspiration, Mount Everest, New York Leave a comment
Swale on contour
Swale on Contour Swale on contour (pictured left) between nitrogen fixing trees and date palms at the gently sloping Greening the Desert site in Jordan. The line of trees to the right of the photo marks another swale. Synonyms: banquette, berm and basin Category: Water management Swale on contour is used to control and capture [...]
Posted in Toolkit Tagged berm and basin, earthworks, rainwater harvesting, swale on contour, water management Comments closed
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