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Sep. 7th, 2005 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormWow, so here's an exchange from okcupid.
Mostly people are like, 'duh, permaculture, uh, that's like peyote and shit, right'? So this was awesome.
I'm constantly surprising myself by how much I know on this topic.
You'll likely wanna go to East is East close to Broadway and Macdonald if you do the organic meat thing as your lj suggests, it's a very nice indian-style all-organic restaurant with mindblowing shakes. I haven't been there since they renovated, but I can't imagine the food's changed much.
You should likely hit up the trout lake farmer's market too, just cause it's entertaining. It's Saturday morning, in trout lake park, which is... uh, searchable on google, I guess.
I'm entertained by the Canticle and Eternal Sunshine stuff in your profile. Good choices.
Why do I like permaculture? Mostly because it's realistic and.. um, obvious, I guess, to me? It ties in very strongly with my sense of how the world works. In natural systems, things tie together and build on each other with a great deal of efficiency. It seems at least mildly ridiculous to ignore the lessons those systems can teach us, and to instead reduce everything to its simplest, least efficient components simply because we think we understand what's going on better. That almost seems to be a way of avoiding thinking that there's anything bigger or more complicated than humans out there, which is almost sacriligious as a thought to me, too. ;P
I don't know anything about biomass fuel production. I *do* know that pretty much the single most important thing in an ecosystem is its biomass (which is sort of the buffer for all the changes and cycles occurring, it allows these things to soak up variations without catastrophe) and so if biomass fuel involved destroying large quantities of biomass somehow it'd be iffy. If it involved re-cycling biomass, I can't see why it couldn't be done-- it would just be more complicated, as that biomass in the system is quite important, so you'd need to make up for it being gone somehow.
Wah, this just got long. Anyhow, I'd love to chat more on this. I'm currently sick, or I'd be a little better at thinking of placed to go/things to do. You're going to Wreck Beach, right?
Greenie
=====censoreddude wrote=====
Okay, Permaculture caught my interest..
But first, I'm in Vancouver until Saturday, any suggestions for things to do/see/eat?
So, why do you like permaculture? And do you think it's compatible with biomass fuel production? Since I grew up on a farm in Iowa, I've recently gotten fascinated with the idea of using biomass for providing energy for automobiles and such. There's probably a lot more I could say than I feel like typeing into an okcupid message at the moment. Let me know if you want to hear more.
Later.
Mostly people are like, 'duh, permaculture, uh, that's like peyote and shit, right'? So this was awesome.
I'm constantly surprising myself by how much I know on this topic.
You'll likely wanna go to East is East close to Broadway and Macdonald if you do the organic meat thing as your lj suggests, it's a very nice indian-style all-organic restaurant with mindblowing shakes. I haven't been there since they renovated, but I can't imagine the food's changed much.
You should likely hit up the trout lake farmer's market too, just cause it's entertaining. It's Saturday morning, in trout lake park, which is... uh, searchable on google, I guess.
I'm entertained by the Canticle and Eternal Sunshine stuff in your profile. Good choices.
Why do I like permaculture? Mostly because it's realistic and.. um, obvious, I guess, to me? It ties in very strongly with my sense of how the world works. In natural systems, things tie together and build on each other with a great deal of efficiency. It seems at least mildly ridiculous to ignore the lessons those systems can teach us, and to instead reduce everything to its simplest, least efficient components simply because we think we understand what's going on better. That almost seems to be a way of avoiding thinking that there's anything bigger or more complicated than humans out there, which is almost sacriligious as a thought to me, too. ;P
I don't know anything about biomass fuel production. I *do* know that pretty much the single most important thing in an ecosystem is its biomass (which is sort of the buffer for all the changes and cycles occurring, it allows these things to soak up variations without catastrophe) and so if biomass fuel involved destroying large quantities of biomass somehow it'd be iffy. If it involved re-cycling biomass, I can't see why it couldn't be done-- it would just be more complicated, as that biomass in the system is quite important, so you'd need to make up for it being gone somehow.
Wah, this just got long. Anyhow, I'd love to chat more on this. I'm currently sick, or I'd be a little better at thinking of placed to go/things to do. You're going to Wreck Beach, right?
Greenie
=====censoreddude wrote=====
Okay, Permaculture caught my interest..
But first, I'm in Vancouver until Saturday, any suggestions for things to do/see/eat?
So, why do you like permaculture? And do you think it's compatible with biomass fuel production? Since I grew up on a farm in Iowa, I've recently gotten fascinated with the idea of using biomass for providing energy for automobiles and such. There's probably a lot more I could say than I feel like typeing into an okcupid message at the moment. Let me know if you want to hear more.
Later.
